Annual Review 2018 by Lucy Cavendish College

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ANNUAL REVIEW 2017/2018

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Welcome from the President

Contents

Jackie Ashley, 8th President of Lucy Cavendish College (September 2015 to July 2018) Welcome from the 8th President

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Introducing the 9th President

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Our mission and values

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At the end of July this year farewells were said, some tears were shed, and I find myself at the beginning of Michaelmas 2018 in the strange role of ‘Former President’ of Lucy Cavendish. I look back on my time as President with great pride and with deep affection for many, many Fellows, staff and students and know that I have made some lifelong friends.

SECTION ONE: THE COLLEGE YEAR Senior Tutor’s Report

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Admission Director’s Report

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Domestic Bursar’s report

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Bursar’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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My last year at Lucy Cavendish was perhaps the best of all, with excellent academic results, sporting success and a wide variety of events involving gratifyingly large numbers of students and Fellows. In particular I look back with pleasure on the evening with Edwina Dunn, one of our Honorary Fellows, exploring her ‘Female Lead’ project, on an evening sponsored by Aviva looking at why more women aren’t joining the world of technology, and on the illuminating talk by Research Fellow Dr Kameri Christy and College Associate, Dr Sarada Chatterjee about domestic violence and how it can be combated. Other fabulous speakers this year have included Dr Helen Pankhurst talking about her illustrious family, Dr Janet Todd entertaining us all with stories of Aphra Benn, and the Scottish comedian/political journalist Ayesha Hazarika who led our Burns Night celebrations. In London, the actress Emma Thompson devoted an evening to us at the Ivy Club and the Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow MP, joined us for a talk at the Athenaeum, both events made possible by the generosity of two of our alumnae.

SECTION TWO: THE STUDENT YEAR Students’ News

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College Research Day

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Graduations

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SECTION THREE: SPECIAL EVENTS Events and Speakers

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Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize

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SECTION FOUR: SPORTS AND MUSIC Rowing News

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Other Sports

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Music Report

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During the year, Governing Body finalised and started working on our new Strategic Plan. We have also seen new green initiatives from our student team, and to my initial consternation a new focus on vegetarian meals. I can now report that I am quite happy with a meat free lunch and will usually choose it in preference to meat, so there’s one convert.

SECTION FIVE: NEWS FROM OUR FELLOWS Fellows’ News

Page 40 The academic year began with a very sad loss: in October we hosted the post-funeral reception for our much loved Senior Tutor, Dr Leigh Stoeber, who succumbed to breast cancer last summer. Her husband Kai, and her two sons remain close friends of the College and several of Leigh’s initiatives have been brilliantly followed through by our incoming Senior Tutor, Dr Jane Greatorex.

SECTION SIX: NEWS FROM ALUMNAE Alumnae News

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In Memoriam

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SECTION SEVEN: DONORS Thank you to donors

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Other notable events have included the appointment of one of our Fellows, Dr Karen Ottewell as Junior Proctor, a successful law networking event in London and the delivery of several racks of “interview clothes” to be used by students looking for their post-graduation jobs, thanks to our supporter, Kim Winser OBE.

Our annual garden party was a delight as ever and saw many alumnae returning to join in the strawberries and cream and Lucy Cavendish cava. It was followed the next day by our brilliant Bumps party, courtesy of Caroline Stenner and Ray Smith, giving us the best view of the races in Cambridge. All too quickly it was time for my Farewell dinner, where we partied until the small hours and shared many happy memories. It only remains for me to wish my successor, Professor Madeleine Atkins, a very fair wind as she embarks on her Lucy journey. I will be back, to see my portrait unveiled (despite my best efforts to escape from being painted) and to be made an Honorary Fellow. One thing is certain: I may have left Lucy but I will always cherish the College and do my very best to support it.

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THE COLLEGE YEAR

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Introducing the ninth President of Lucy Cavendish College, Professor Madeleine Atkins CBE, FAcSS

The Cambridge College for women making a positive impact

WE ARE DELIGHTED TO WELCOME PROFESSOR MADELEINE ATKINS CBE, FACSS AS OUR NINTH PRESIDENT.

THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE COLLEGE SPENT TIME DURING THE YEAR REVIEWING OUR MISSION AND VALUES.

Lucy Cavendish College:

Professor Madeleine Atkins

The seven-year appointment will allow Professor Atkins to lead the College in its mission to provide an excellent academic education within the University of Cambridge to talented women over 21 at a time of life that suits them, and to promote and support academically excellent women in their research. Professor Atkins’ background includes reading Law and History as an undergraduate at Cambridge University (Girton College), teaching in a large comprehensive school in Huntingdon, and completing a PhD and post-doctoral research contracts at the University of Nottingham. Following various senior positions at Newcastle University, including Pro-Vice-Chancellor, she was Vice-Chancellor of Coventry University between 2004 and 2013. She then joined the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) as its Chief Executive in January 2014 retaining that post until March 2018.

Professor Atkins said:

When the College was founded in 1965, women at the University of Cambridge were not allowed to hold fellowships in the male Colleges. Without a fellowship, women were excluded from a role in governing Colleges and the intellectual stimulus and support provided for fellows of a College. The College was set up to allow women to thrive in their academic work and to take on more senior roles to further their careers.

I am honoured to have been elected as the next President of Lucy Cavendish College and delighted to be joining its vibrant intellectual community of mature students, Fellows and staff. The College has a unique mission to fulfil – as important today as it was at its founding. I look forward to helping Lucy Cavendish build further on its success in achieving this mission.

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Although the University has changed now, and women have many more opportunities than before, we believe that equality has not yet been achieved. We live in a world where women earn 23% less than men, and hold only 12% of seats on corporate boards, and in a country where only 29% of MPs, and only 35% of legislators, senior managers and officials are women. In reviewing our mission, we concluded that our work has never been needed more. We look forward to working in collaboration with our many friends, colleagues and associates to continue to champion women’s education and gender equality.

OUR VALUES These are the values that we expect our staff, students and Fellows to live by: Collaborative - we are supportive with a friendly, engaging approach Inclusive - we act with humanity, and are committed to equality and diversity with respect for the dignity of all Ethical - we act with integrity and are open and accountable Rigorous - we are committed to the highest academic and professional standards Enabling - we look for potential and provide opportunities for a positive impact on the world Dynamic - we work with energy, enthusiasm, innovation and positivity Confident - we are ambitious and resilient

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Senior Tutor’s report

Admissions report

Report by Dr Jane Greatorex

Report by Admissions Director, Dr Victoria Harvey

My first academic year as Senior Tutor began with a whirlwind of meetings and getting to properly know the College staff and Fellows. Although I started teaching (Biology of Disease) at Lucy Cavendish in 2002, and became a Fellow in 2003 and a tutor in 2004, as well as being Director of Studies for both pre-clinical medicine and veterinary medicine, prior to this year I had been based at Addenbrooke’s, and hadn’t had a real chance to interact with everyone. Induction was our first major event, and I am grateful to the Assistant Senior Tutor, Dr Annette Mahon, and the Tutorial and Admissions teams for making it such a success. Events initially conspired against us, and the main power supply failed. A cold buffet lunch by candlelight set the scene, and the Library, with its separate power supply, provided a venue. As an introduction to supervisions, we had a short talk about women mountaineers, then split into small groups to discuss key points. For dinner we walked to Churchill College. Saturday saw the arrival of all the graduates, a record number, and we rounded off with an evening of International Mocktails and Cocktails to celebrate the diverse and cosmopolitan nature of College life. We had the bittersweet honour of hosting the reception and celebration of Dr Leigh Stoeber’s life after her funeral on 6th October. Leigh, my predecessor as Senior Tutor, was much loved and there were many beautiful poems, photographs and tributes to her. The officers of the Students’ Union had a highly successful year, organising a series of popular bops, a Ceilidh, ‘Lucy 101’ workshops, and a garden party. It was a delight to work with them and I am looking forward to working with Emma Simms and Emma Hopkins (the new joint Presidents of the SU) and their team. One of my focuses as incoming Senior Tutor was to continue to build our welfare and wellbeing support. We have an expanding team of tutors and are continuing with the in-house College

Counsellor. Another addition is our parish vicar, the Rev Dr Janet Bunker. Students are now provided with free weekly yoga and mindfulness classes. For the wellbeing of all College members, we worked with St Edmund’s to open the gates between our gardens during daylight hours: we hope to include more of the neighbouring colleges next year. I cannot talk about wellbeing without mentioning the guinea pigs. From day one, students asked if we could have a College cat. With the busy roads in mind, I decided on something more practical and, in spring 2018, four female guinea pigs joined the College community. The guinea pigs live in a bespoke cage and run close to the Library and are looked after by the students. Universally loved by students, Fellows and staff, they’ve received press attention, notably a piece in the Guardian by our Former President, Jackie Ashley. Academically we continue to punch above our weight. Year on year the overall percentage of 2.1s and first-class degrees has continued to increase: last year (widely considered to be our best in a long time) we achieved 88%; this year it was 92%. Our students have won awards, published journal articles and book chapters, written plays, designed sets, sat on international committees, and represented their College, University and nations in sport. We continue to seek out top female academics to expand and support our intellectual community. We have recruited four new Bye Fellows in Medicine, English Literature, Sociology and Land Economy, and appointed a new Admissions Director, a new Librarian and two new CGCM tutors. The weekly graduate talks have been well attended and the Research Day was hugely successful. There is much to look forward to in 2018–19. We’ll continue to focus on more events for graduates, a bigger and better Research Day, a themed series of talks, cross-discipline events, and workshops focusing on life skills and careers. I hope to meet as many College members, past and present, as possible and invite you to continue to be involved in the vibrant intellectual community that is Lucy Cavendish College.

It has been an exciting year on a number of fronts, and I am delighted to report that in May I was offered a three-year post as Admissions Director. I can now address the challenge of medium and long term recruitment and outreach strategies – an inspiring challenge! It has also been exceptionally rewarding to see through the first year of students following my own first admissions round in the job. As an Undergraduate Tutor and Director of Studies for Modern and Medieval Languages, my responsibility for students by no means ends when their files are transferred to the Tutorial Office! This year I was struck particularly by the fact that students arrive in College from a very diverse range of backgrounds and experiences; however, this variety in no way dictates the nature of the challenges they each face during their first year in Cambridge nor the level of performance they achieve. One of the advantages of working with over 21s is that a little life experience arms students with resilience and coping strategies that may not be in place to the same extent with school leavers.

ADMISSIONS ROUND 2017-18 We have made another good number of offers to high-achieving students from a mixed range of backgrounds again this year. Access courses continue to provide good preparation for students wishing to study Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences and our Outreach and Recruitment Officers have made a sustained effort to forge effective links, particularly with local FE providers. Science subjects still face additional challenges for admissions; however, we have a good cohort of Vets and Medics starting alongside a Computer Scientist and a Natural Scientist in October. These science undergraduates will benefit from excellent links with our numerous graduate scientists and Fellows in the various disciplines, a significant advantage of our non-hierarchical College. Postgraduate numbers have remained high after our record breaking year in 2017. We have forged excellent links with the Judge Business School and the Institute of Continuing Education and I am pleased to report that a high number of offers have been made to Master of Studies applicants at both of these partner institutions. Part-time MSt students tend to be further into their career than standard students and often come to us with a professional background, which adds greatly to our College community. Popular subjects for MSt students include Creative Writing and Entrepreneurship, both of which speak to strong themes already in place at Lucy.

impression of Lucy that candidates often choose the College for this reason alone. I am also grateful to Gaby for the support she has offered organising my trips and with the considerable time and care she gives to each Outreach Officer, ensuring they are well prepared and offering accurate information to potential candidates. I have undertaken several international recruitment trips this year, to China (with Jo Ryan), to the Netherlands and Copenhagen, and to the East Coast of the USA. Meetings with key personnel in Further Education colleges in these countries gave us a thorough insight into the challenges faced by students applying to Cambridge as visiting students or postgraduates; we then started discussing solutions and forging closer links. We were delighted to welcome Leona Awoyele as Outreach Officer this year, and she made real headway on a number of projects and visited many FE Colleges locally and further afield. After exams in June, Leona and I invited photographer Layton Thompson here to meet students and take a new stock of photos to freshen up our website, social media and promotional material.

OUTREACH AND RECRUITMENT Gaby Jones has worked her usual magic with the Admissions Clinics, Open Days and with the numerous enquiries she receives on a daily basis. The sheer quantity and diverse nature of these enquiries is astonishing and we are very lucky to have such a knowledgeable and experienced hand to deal with them! It is reassuring to hear that the speed and thoroughness of Gaby’s response to these enquiries gives such a favourable first

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Leona (pictured above on the left) has moved to the Department of Sociology but will keep in close contact with the College. Our newest ORO, Amanda Phillips, will be starting a part-time PhD in Education this October so is well placed to reinforce our links with this popular department. Amanda brings a wealth of experience to Lucy Cavendish and Gaby and I are very pleased to welcome her to the team.

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Domestic Bursar’s report

Bursar’s report

Report by Christine Houghton

Report by Lesley Thompson

After Graduation in June 2017, we went straight into 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. We are also always looking for potential new business relationships and welcomed some good new clients to our portfolio. The income from this business has increased significantly over the years and I am very proud of the contribution it makes to the College. We are always looking to enhance students’ time at the College by upgrading and adding new facilities and this income really helps. During the summer of 2017, we undertook a number of refurbishment projects: n Refurbished eight bathrooms in Oldham Hall, taking out baths and turning the rooms into modern bathrooms with standalone showers.

n Transformed the Gym, extending into changing room space to accommodate new equipment; eight ergs and a squat rack area for weights and core work. This facility is used by many members of the College including our Boat Club and it means we can hold exercise classes including yoga.

n Replaced radiators in 15 rooms in De Brye, where they were under window seats and very hard to access. The new ones are tall and fitted to the wall, so they are easier to control. n Decorated 12 bedrooms, plus the kitchens, hallway and stairways in Warburton Hall.

n Installed a new patio and shower in 137 Chesterton Road.

n Started roof works to one section of the library and completed the roof replacement on Oldham Hall.

n In January 2018, we replaced the water heating system in De Brye.

In addition, our maintenance team John and Andres carried out a number of smaller projects and items from the Annual Maintenance Inspection in order to keep our estate running well. We are still experimenting with our breakfast and morning service and ran a ‘pop up’ facility in Oldham Hall during Easter Vacation. We saw the numbers of customers increasing and received very good feedback. Watch this space for news in Michaelmas 2018… My Assistant, Katie McNally has been very involved in working with the new accommodation system and she is helping to project manage the creation of event and booking modules. I could not have better support. It has been another very busy and productive year and my thanks go to the teams that help make it all happen, without whose support and help the many facets of ‘domestic bursary’ would not be so successful without: Catering, Housekeeping, Gardeners, Maintenance, Porters and IT. In addition to the many positive things that happened during the year, it was with great sadness that we said goodbye to our President, Jackie Ashley. She did so much for the College in her years here and brought the College name and its work to so many people (I have the ‘selfies’ to prove it!). It has been a wonderful three years and all my staff have felt very valued and appreciated. We will miss her good humour, laughter and straight-forwardness. Thank you Jackie. Finally, do please remember that we host celebratory events, conferences and business meetings across the year, so get in touch if you are looking for a venue for a family event, conference, meeting, or a special dinner.

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Incredibly for me, this is the eighth time I have sat down to write the Bursar’s report for the Annual Review. I must be having some sort of fun as time has definitely flown! It’s always a helpful moment to pause and reflect on the past year. In many ways, the nature of a Cambridge college is that the annual pattern repeats: the excitement of the new academic year in Michaelmas, a middle period in Lent and then the stresses and joys of Easter term with exams and all kinds of parties and celebrations, followed by the Long Vacation/research period when the College suddenly fills with conference guests and language school visitors. But things also change. Sometimes this is in response to external requirements and pressures; for example this year we, along with all other organisations, had to ensure that our data handling policies and procedures meet the new requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation, which came into force in May. They also change because we are constantly looking to improve our systems, processes, services and facilities; for example this year we have developed the infrastructure to make our IT systems more resilient as so much now depends on them. All improvements take hard work and imagination. We are fortunate to have a dedicated team of staff, working with great commitment in their respective roles, and I want to acknowledge and thank them here. Additionally, things change as we seek to move the College forward strategically and secure its long term financial sustainability. During the year, the Governing Body approved a new strategic plan focusing on themes of academic performance and recruitment, community, partnerships and fundraising. Underpinning all of this is an imperative to build the College’s financial position to be able to provide better services and facilities both for our current students and for generations to come.

As I have explained before, 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. We are steadily growing our endowment (about £12m on 30 June 2018) but it is still tiny compared with most other colleges. 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 2018 we received a very welcome £844k from this fund. We are also particularly grateful to those supporters who donate funds to boost the endowment. As ever, thanks are due to all who so generously support the College in whatever way – every donation makes a real difference. Rest assured that we work hard to manage the College’s resources efficiently, care for all our assets and investments and also to generate income for the College, particularly through conferences and partnerships. If you wish to know more about the College finances I am very happy to answer questions and the accounts, including the Trustees Annual Report, are available on the College website: https://www.lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk/about-us/freedom-ofinformation/reports-accounts/ Finally, to return to the theme of change, last year we lost our former Senior Tutor, Dr Leigh Stoeber, who died tragically in September 2017. And we have more recently said ‘au revoir’ to our eighth President, Jackie Ashley, who will continue to be engaged with the College as an Honorary Fellow. Having worked as a close colleague with both, I would like to pay tribute to them for all their hard work on behalf of the College and for the fun that was had in the doing of it.

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Development Director’s report

Your Library Loves You Report by College Librarian, Suzanne Tonkin

Report by Development Director, Jo Ryan

We are developing partnerships with organisations who share our commitment to women’s education and equality. A collaboration with Aviva led to the Women in Tech conference, at which a panel of influential speakers debated the research findings of Lucy alumna Dr Stella Lempidaki. Seven Lucy students had the opportunity to work-shadow a team of IT executives at Aviva’s head office, and a women in science and leadership mentoring collaboration has also been established with AstraZeneca. The inaugural student Enterprise Competition, generously sponsored by Santander, was won by Sioned Davies, who was awarded first prize of £750 for ‘Tessellate’, an online legal platform connecting lawyers and clients. We are thrilled that she and her business partner have been accepted for Judge Business School’s prestigious Accelerator programme. Next year’s competition will feature a selection of beautiful clothes donated by Kim Winser, Founder of Winser of London. It’s been a busy and rewarding year for the Development team with a packed programme of events, visits with alumnae and friends, and generating additional funds for the College. A year of stimulating talks opened with our Alumnae Dinner, when former Home Secretary Charles Clarke reflected on the complexities of the political world. Other speakers this year have included Lord Bilimoria of Chelsea CBE, DL, who shared the secrets of successful businesses; Roz Savage MBE, the first woman to row solo across three oceans; and Dave Coplin, Founder of The Envisioners, who spoke enthusiastically about technology and modern society. On the centenary of votes for some women, we were privileged to welcome Dr Helen Pankhurst, who led a thought-provoking discussion on the changes in women’s lives and feminism since 1918. We also enjoyed insightful and motivating talks from our Honorary Fellows: Sarah Sands, Editor of the Radio 4 Today Programme; Edwina Dunn, entrepreneur and co-founder of dunnhumby; and Dame Stella Rimington DCB, who shared a few MI5 secrets at the Anna Bidder Society Lunch. We returned to politics at the re-launched Lucy in London lecture series, when John Bercow, Speaker of the House of Commons, entertained with amusing anecdotes, before candidly answering questions from the floor. Lucy Cavendish’s Alumnae Association ran a full schedule of events and we are grateful to the Committee for all their hard work. In 2017 we celebrated the 20th anniversary of the College being awarded its Royal Charter. We were honoured that former President Baroness Perry of Southwark joined us, while the Lucy Cavendish Singers delighted guests with a jubilant performance.

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This year I have been very fortunate to visit alumnae in Hong Kong and mainland China. Our thanks to everyone who made our visit so memorable, especially Dr Michelle Chen who kindly hosted drinks receptions in Hong Kong. Michelle also hosted a second Lucy lawyers networking drinks in London. Admissions Director Dr Victoria Harvey and I had a fantastic time meeting our dynamic and talented alumnae in Shanghai and Beijing. We’d like to thank Dr Yang Yang for her generosity and great kindness. It seems that wherever you are in the world, the ‘Lucy effect’ is evident! We wished a sad farewell to our wonderful eighth President, Jackie Ashley, at the end of the Easter term. Jackie enriched the College in many ways and will be greatly missed, and so we are delighted that she is to be awarded an Honorary Fellowship. This autumn we look forward to celebrating the arrival of our new President, Professor Madeleine Atkins CBE, and introducing her to members of the Lucy community both in the UK and further afield. This will be an exciting new chapter in the College’s history. At a time when the needs of our students and the financial challenges we face as a College are great, we are immensely grateful to the many donors who generously lend us their support. Every donation makes a real difference and is very much appreciated. Tom, Gemma and I would also like to thank our alumnae and friends for all their warmth and encouragement; please keep in touch and let us know if you are planning to visit Cambridge – we’d love to welcome you back to Lucy.

The last year has been a busy one in the Library, not least because we have an almost entirely new Library team. I joined the College as Librarian in October and was greeted by Jo and Gill who offered me the same warm welcome that they offer everyone who visits the library. We were very sorry to wave goodbye to Jo in April, but Amanda Hawkes joined us as Assistant Librarian soon afterwards and has been busily settling in over the summer. We ran another successful Art and Photography Competition over Easter with some wonderful entries from students, staff, Fellows and alumnae interpreting the theme of “Empowerment”. The judging panel were again impressed by the artistic talent shown by College members in a wide range of media including painting, photography, collage, pastels and digital media. All entries were displayed in the Library foyer and were on show until after the college garden party in June. Visitors to the Library can still see the winning entries, which will be on display until June 2019.

Library’s new Wellbeing Collection – a joint initiative with the SU’s Library and IT Officer. Library staff provided home-made heartshaped cakes and biscuits as an extra treat to round off the week and to celebrate the announcement of the Art and Photography Competition prize winners.

Elevenses and threeses have gone from strength to strength this year and as part of our efforts to consolidate this support, we held a Your Library Loves You event in May. Library staff offered users extra enticements to take breaks during what is the busiest and most stressful time of the year by organising several events including origami, book blind dates and the official launch of the

In January we completed the long-anticipated migration to a new library system, which has allowed our book and journal catalogue and our loan systems to be fully integrated with those of other College and departmental libraries. This has simplified using the Library as our users now only have to use one system to find, borrow and renew materials.

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A year in our gardens Report by Head Gardener, Vince Lucas

September work included cutting down the perennial plants and starting to clear the beds. We took out the cosmos and cut down the irises. The echinaceas and asters were still flowering, and heleniums still flowered on the mound. The days got shorter and our thoughts turned to putting the gardens to bed for the winter. October was dominated by leaves, and we spent days filling our wheelbarrows! We worked to clear the large plants and tidy the beds, and we started composting. For the first time, we planted camassia bulbs in the wildflower area. We planted crocus bulbs as the same time, covered in chilli powder to warn off our friendly squirrels.

nicotiana, dahlias and sunflowers. Becky did a wonderful job planting in the herb garden. She grew dill, pot marigold, corncockle, centaury and flax amongst others. June brings many visitors to the gardens and they see the final results with everything planted in its final place. We watered a lot this year, even watering established plants that don’t normally need it like hydrangeas, viburnum, roses and clematis. We would usually use rain water, but after 6 weeks with no rain we had to turn the sprinklers on.

It’s fulfilling for us to see everyone out enjoying the November tasks included dividing plants such as irises and sibirica. Moss grows quickly in our clay-rich soil, so we also scarified (using a machine to take the moss out of the grass). We started planting bulbs: daffodils, tulips and then crocuses. We planted 1200 tulip bulbs including new Apricot Beauty, which worked especially well in beds planted amongst the forget-me-nots. December was a good month to clean up our greenhouse and sheds. We continued pruning and weeding and made a start with the mulching. We used thick layers of compost on the beds to keep them healthy. January was wet and cold. We finished the mulching and continued tidying and composting.

gardens in the summer. That’s why we do it, to give pleasure to the College community. July meant pruning the hedge on the main road and the shrubs and evergreens. We cut down the wildflower meadow and deadheaded the geraniums, cosmos and roses. We fed the pots with organic liquid seaweed and continued to water the plants, as the heat and drought took their toll. August jobs included deadheading and pruning. The guinea pigs and summer school football games were hard on the lawns, but when we see the pleasure that they give then we can’t really complain!

February brought with it the first few little bulbs, although they were quickly covered in deep snow which continued throughout the month. March brought snow again, holding back the growth of some of the bulbs. We weeded and sowed seeds in the greenhouse. The winter lasted a long time, and seemed to turn straight into summer without much spring in between. April was spent sowing seeds in the greenhouse, weeding and trimming. The forsythias flowered and the bulbs dominated the beds and the pots. After flowering, we deadheaded the tulips and daffodils but let the crocuses seed.

My favourite month is May, when everything is pristine and new with the promise of so much to come. You can feel the sun on your back and you know that warmer weather is on the way. May was spent transferring seedlings into the cold frame, and then outside. We grew cosmos, salvias, foxgloves, cerinthe,

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STAFF NEWS Report by Alison Burmby, HR Manager

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The Porters’ Lodge became a 24-hour service with the support of Night Porters, Anthony Silgrim and Vladmir Jurik. We are pleased to be able to offer this round the clock cover and it has proved to be invaluable in dealing with various issues already. Gemma Coombs (née Beevers), who some of you may recall worked in our Domestic Bursary team, has re-joined the College after a period away from Cambridge. She now works in the Development office as our Development Assistant. We are delighted to welcome her back to the College. Suzanne Tonkin joined as Librarian after 20 years at UCL. She brings with her a wealth of experience and we are delighted she has joined the team.

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Annette Caine joined the garden team as an Apprentice via the the Work and Retrain as a Gardener Scheme (WRAGS). We have had previous Apprenticeships through the scheme, which have proved very successful. Hayley Welch (Executive Assistant – President’s Office) joined the College in January after a long period working at Cambridge Regional College. She works closely with Development at College events and is responsible for College merchandise. Georgina Howarth has been supporting the Hall team since January as Deputy Hall Manager

DEPARTURES • Here at Lucy Cavendish College, we want to identify how we can develop the capacity and capability within our staff to deliver the goals we have set for the College, to live our values and to support each other in contributing individually and collectively to the best of our ability. This is achieved by developing and delivering effective recruitment strategies, improving technical and personal skills whilst supporting employee engagement, career development, reward and recognition and promoting equality, diversity and inclusion.

We have run various initiatives over the year to support the wellbeing of our staff and Fellows including mindfulness training, mental health awareness training and participation in the ‘Move more, sit less’ campaign. We also arranged in-house massage treatments and renewed our health cashback plan, popular with many employees. We were delighted to welcome Jon Torrens, Communications Coach, to one staff meeting last year. Jon, who learnt his skills from years of stand-up comedy and designing and pitching video games, explored effective techniques with a fun approach and staff commented on how helpful it had been. We aim to bring more guest speakers to staff meetings over the next year. We have also run various in-house training courses covering key compliance areas such as health and safety, data protection, cyber awareness and ‘Prevent’ anti-terrorism training, in addition to a session on motivation techniques. We will continue to promote training and development for all employees.

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Amanda Hawkes joined the Library as Deputy Librarian after some time working in various faculty libraries. We are delighted she has chosen to work with us for the next step in her career. Bruno Crispino, Beatriz Crispino, Richard Saunders and Summer Creedy have all joined our Housekeeping team. Amanda Phillips is supporting the Admissions and Outreach teams on a temporary basis as Outreach Recruitment Officer. Amanda is working part-time while she completes her postgraduate qualification in Cambridge.

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Jo Harcus left the Library team to join a faculty library as Librarian.

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Greta Bacsa, Angel Aldaria, Brittany Hazelwood and Amy Baldry left the Housekeeping Team.

Amy Williams was promoted to Housekeeping Supervisor in June Joanna Trzeciak moved from Housekeeping to the Hall team as Deputy Hall Manager.

Helen Kirkby (Executive Assistant to the President) left the College to join Cambridge Trust.

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Carol Peresson - AAT, Level 4 Diploma in Accounting

We are pleased to announce the following staff members have completed apprenticeship programmes:

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during her gap year. She starts her Biomedical Science degree in the autumn.

Phoebe Douglas strengthens our Hall team as Till Operator in the evenings and at weekends.

Deborah Curran-Millar - Level 4, Certificate and Diploma in Leadership and Management Sally Harding and Scarlet Wang – Management - Level 3

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Katie McNally – Business Administration – Level 3 Kinga Ducsai, Kam Leung and Joanna Trzeciak – Cleaning and Support Services – Level 2

The apprenticeship programme involved a lot of hard work, effort and commitment, so we are very pleased with this achievement. Congratulations to you all.

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Santander Student Enterprise New Post-doctoral competition winners Research Associates

College News To celebrate the Year of Mathematical Biology, Lucy Cavendish and Newnham Colleges teamed up with the Faculty of Mathematics to run a competition called ‘She Does Biomaths’. Competition organiser, Dr Orsola Rath Spivack, Director of Studies in Mathematics at Lucy Cavendish, said that the aim was to encourage more girls and women into mathematics and related subjects, and to demonstrate that mathematics is a creative subject, crucial to the advancement of the medical and biological sciences. The competition was open to girls studying GCSE at UK state schools, and female mature students (aged over 20) studying A-levels in the UK. Participants chose one of two projects, which were based on patterns in nature related to the Fibonacci sequence, and on mathematical models of the spread of infectious diseases. The winning entries received £100 prize money and an invitation to visit the Colleges and the Faculty of Mathematics.

Science and leadership mentoring collaboration with AstraZeneca

Dr Dilrini De Silva awarded Borysiewicz Biomedical Sciences Fellowship

Lucy Cavendish students are benefiting from a new science and leadership mentoring partnership with AstraZeneca, whose employees are mentoring students at the College, supporting their scientific projects as well as career and personal development. The mentors provide advice and insights on career and work placement opportunities in the life sciences sector generally, and in the biopharmaceutical industry specifically, including across AstraZeneca’s global hub in Cambridge. The programme features speed mentoring events, group and individual mentoring, and a lecture series promoting Women in Science and Leadership. The aim of the partnership is to tackle the barriers which prevent women from embarking on careers in science, as well as to give mentors valuable leadership experience.

Dr Dilrini De Silva, a Research Associate in Bioinformatics at Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Institute and a Post-doctoral Research Associate at Lucy Cavendish College, has been awarded one of the prestigious Borysiewicz Biomedical Sciences Fellowships.The programme has been developed in honour of ex-Vice-Chancellor of the University, Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, a pioneer in the biomedical sciences. The aim of the Borysiewicz Fellowships is to take outstanding Cambridge postdocs and develop them into motivated, strategic future leaders ready to pursue a range of global questions and problems. Dilrini, originally from Sri Lanka, wishes to use this opportunity to improve access to genomic technologies to drive better patient outcomes for developing world cancers. She said that the Fellowship“brings the ﬂexibility of pursuing a nonacademic venture while delivering great social impact”.

Dr Saradamoyee Chatterjee launches Reading Club In the Easter Term of 2018, College Associate Dr Saradamoyee Chatterjee organised a reading group in College. The book selected for reading was Sex, Culture and Justice: The limits of choice by Dr Clare Chambers. The group provided an opportunity for graduate students to engage in active academic discussions on gender related topics. In addition to Lucy Cavendish, there were also participants from other colleges including Clare Hall, Newnham and St Edmund’s. The group was inter-disciplinary and the participants were from different departments such as Sociology, Social Work, Education, Development and Politics. In the concluding session, the author of the book (a Fellow at Jesus College) was invited, resulting in a lively last discussion.

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Lucy Cavendish and St Edmund’s open their gates Lucy Cavendish and St Edmund’s Colleges have decided to allow free access between the two gardens for their College communities. The wrought iron gate at the end of our drive, which separates us from the grounds of St Edmund’s College, is open during daylight hours every day. Students can now explore St Edmund’s large and beautiful gardens, as well as taking time out to admire and reflect on Lucy Cavendish’s own lovely gardens and sculptures.

The winners of the Santander Student Enterprise competition were announced at a Student Achievement Formal Hall in February. Sioned Davies won the first prize of £750 for her idea, ‘Tessellate’, a legal service that operates solely online, aimed at small business owners who need to access high-quality legal support but have limited funds. Second place went to Suzanne Girault and Genevieve Riccoboni, who won £500, and third place went to Laura McClintock, who was awarded £250.

Lucy Cavendish has welcomed a further nine new Post-doctoral Research Associates to its community. These associates are actively engaged in research within the University (or one of its affiliated institutions) and were selected following a competitive application process. Postdoctoral Research Associates play an important role at the College. They are encouraged to attend academic and social events and to participate in the subject communities across the College.

The winning entry can be watched at: https://youtu.be/BwnZPV1iXAk

Our new Post-doctoral Research Associates are Mekdes Mariam Debela (Biochemistry), Susan Giorgi-Coll (Neurosciences), Aishwarya Jacob (Biochemistry), Letitia Koch Lerner (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology), Lisa Nicholas (Metabolic Research Laboratories), Dirini De Silva (Bioinformatics at Cancer Research UK), Gydra Sindre (Political Science), Stephanie Swarbreck (Clinical Medicine), and Rowan Whittle (Paleobiology at British Antarctic Survey).

Sioned said: ‘We were so shocked and happy to win! The idea came about when my colleague Zack and I were at UCL. We have worked to reﬁne the idea and are now going to use the money to make sure we meet the regulatory requirements and in developing the backend of the platform before launching it later this year.’

Lucy Cavendish welcomes New role at Sustrans for four Gates Cambridge Scholars Lynne Berry OBE At the start of this academic year, the College was delighted to welcome four Gates Cambridge Scholars. The Scholarship aims to select applicants who are academically outstanding and are likely to be transformative leaders across all fields of endeavour. PhD scholar Erica Cao joined Lucy Cavendish to study music. MPhil scholar Sarita Deshpande will join us from the Unites States to study Medical Science at the Department of Clinical Neurosciences. Sandile Mtetwa started a PhD in Chemistry and Noor Shahzad came from Pakistan to study a PhD in History.

Lucy Cavendish Fellow-Commoner Lynne Berry OBE has joined sustainable transport charity Sustrans as Chair of the Board of Trustees. Lynne has a wealth of experience in the charity sector, and is also an Honorary Fellow at Cardiff University and a Professor at Cass Business School in London. She was awarded the Daniel Phelan Award for Outstanding Achievement at the Charity Awards 2017, held by the publication Civil Society.

Bill Gates, co-chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said: Lynne said: “Gates Cambridge Scholars come from all over the world, but they have some important things in common: great leadership potential, a commitment to improving the lives of others and an unparalleled passion for learning. Melinda and I are pleased to welcome the class of 2017. We have no doubt they will have an incredible impact on topics of global importance.”

“I’ve been impressed by Sustrans’ work to make it easier for people to walk and cycle and by its new strategy. I’ve been particularly impressed by Sustrans’ commitment to measuring and evaluating its impact. There’s still lots to do but it’s great to see that resolve.”

Guinea pigs offered places at Lucy Cavendish In April 2018, the College adopted four guinea pigs to be cared for by the students, who named them Emmeline Squeakhurst, Virguinea Woolf, Oreo and Ruth Bader Guineasburg. This is not the first time that Lucy Cavendish has owned guinea pigs. In 1972, they were used to maintain the garden under founding Fellow and first Garden Steward, Marion Clegg. The society newsletter at the time reported that “the front garden now looks less forlorn and the front jungle has now been cleared”. This time, the guinea pigs are expected to contribute more to student well-being than to gardening duties: numerous studies have shown the benefits of pet ownership, including stress-relief. The new pets found a fan base in the national media, and were discussed by The BBC, The Guardian and The Telegraph amongst others.

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News from our Students Students’ Union Report The Students’ Union underwent something of a shake-up in Easter Term 2018, inducting its first ever Co-Presidents – a feat which allows its leaders to co-operate on the demands of the role, as well as collaborating on a host of new and ambitious projects.

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Students at Lucy Cavendish won 100 tubs of ice-cream in a competition run by the National Union of Students (NUS) as part of the Student Switch Off, a not-for-profit campaign that encourages students to save energy when living in University and College accommodation. The Lucy Cavendish Students’ Union encouraged the highest percentage of their students to complete the climate change quiz and won a delivery of 100 tubs of Ben & Jerry’s ice-cream as a prize. Students’ Union Green Officer Annika Brouwer was behind the campaign here in College. She said:

Easter – or “exam term”, as it is more ominously known – kicked off with aplomb; heads were down in anticipation of the formidable but ultimately rewarding period of deadlines and exams. Popular welfare initiatives were sustained, from wellbeing and yoga to the much-loved “chocolate drop” scheme – a timely reminder that sometimes the smallest gestures (a handful of Quality Street and an encouraging note deposited in a pigeonhole) can mean the most. In the capable hands of Societies and Sports Officer Linnea, the SU continued its development of the gym, purchasing a number of new pieces of equipment including boxing gloves and pads, a jumping rope and resistance bands. Post-exam celebrations were certainly not overlooked; Ents Officers of past and present collaborated on a resplendent Midsömmar Night's Dream “Super Bop”, a homage to Lucy’s Swedish community. The evening was a dazzling success, complete with an ice-cream van, candyfloss vendors and innumerable reams of fairy lights, flora and fauna for decoration. A generous sponsorship from Koppaberg also allowed the SU to make a charitable donation to Cambridge Women’s Aid. The SU is currently squirreling away on a host of exciting endeavours, including an alumnae mentorship scheme, which intends to partner current students with former Lucians in relevant industries, as well as bolstering representation for student parents in the College. We’re excited for the coming term(s), and can’t wait to see what new representation and opportunities the Michaelmas elections bring! Here’s to another spectacular year.

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Lucy Cavendish students win ice-cream and NUS Gold Award

English PhD student Jen Aggleton has published several articles this year.

Breaking the Silence – Cambridge speaks out against sexual misconduct In October, the University of Cambridge launched a campaign to promote zero tolerance of sexual misconduct. Called ‘Breaking the Silence’, the campaign highlights prevention, support and reporting for those who’ve been affected by sexual misconduct. The aim is to provide a safe space to enable people to speak up, to give information about who to talk to and where to go, to combat the feelings of shame and guilt that so often accompany experiences of sexual violence, to tackle misconceptions about what harassment actually means, and to “address culture as well as conduct”. Our Students’ Union Officer, Alexandra Alridge supported the campaign here with posters and a blog. All resources are available via www.breakingthesilence.cam.ac.uk

I am so proud of the Lucy women for coming together and being so committed to being climate change ambassadors. I only hope that the ice-cream is a taste of things to come for Lucy Cavendish’s sustainability journey The students went on to win a Gold Award from the NUS for their efforts across the year to support the campaign.

Instagram account taken over by students In November, Lucy Cavendish students hijacked our official Instagram account to show potential students what life at the College is really like. Every few days for the rest of Michaelmas Term, and into Lent Term, the account was passed to a different student. Posts included photos of the Christmas decorations, piles of books from the students’ reading lists, College events, the gardens, and the many diverse aspects of daily life at the College. Contributors included Graduate SU Representative Lu Liu (pictured) first-year English student Shameera Nair Lin, part-time Master’s in Education student Caroline Vinall, and PhD Medic Vivian Sze-To. Find us on Instagram @Lucycavendishcollege.

The Cavendish Chronicle launches creative competition and subscription service When second year English undergraduate Hollie Wells took over as Editor of the College magazine, the Cavendish Chronicle, her primary focus was to celebrate the diverse array of voices within the College community, and to tell the stories of the Lucy women who are achieving incredible things in their respective fields. She wanted to create a magazine that was unabashedly, unapologetically and stridently feminist, but also one that was inclusive and accessible to the whole of the Lucy community, both within and outside the college grounds. The Chronicle’s new website, run by MPhil student and digital editor Laura McClintock, was set up to showcase some of the magazine’s content and to encourage Lucy’s international alumnae and far-flung friends to subscribe to the magazine and keep up with College life. In an attempt to get everyone creating, regardless of subject and medium, the magazine also launched its first-ever creative prize. The standard of entries was impressive, and first prize was awarded to Graduate Medic Mallory Owen for her short story Fugue.

Her work includes ‘Defining Digital Comics: A British Library Perspective’ in Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, ‘Where are the children in children’s collections? An exploration of ethical principles and practical concerns surrounding children’s participation in collection development’ in New Review of Children’s Literature and Librarianship and ‘Collecting and Preserving Digital Comics’, a report for The British Library.’ She has spoken on ‘Intergenerational solidarity as a research approach: working with children as active participants in children’s literature research’ at the Intergenerational Solidarity in Children’s Literature symposium at the University of Cambridge. She was invited to give guest lectures at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences and MA Library Science, City University of London.

Charlotte Cornell and Tilda Bowden shortlisted for Louis de Bernières Prize Two Lucy Cavendish students on the MSt Creative Writing course at the Institute of Continuing Education (ICE), Charlotte Cornell and Tilda Bowden, reached the shortlist of the 2017 Louis de Bernières Prize for short fiction. This is the third year that de Bernières has run the prize, which has a value of £250, to be taken in books or as a fee reduction at ICE. In third place was Sorry, I Actually Never Actually Got There by Tilda Bowden.

De Bernières commented:“The quality of the writing was very good indeed… and the conceit of the whole thing was clever and appealing.” Of the second prize, One For Sorrow by Charlotte Cornell, he said: “I enjoyed the snippets of Welsh and the banal nurse, and at the end was the magpie pay-oﬀ, which was a bit of a stunner that really made me think.”

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Dilar Dirik published on gender PhD student, Dilar Dirik is from northern Kurdistan (Turkey). She is an activist of the Kurdish women’s movement and writes on the Kurdish freedom struggle for an international audience. Last year she presented her work at our Research Day and this year she published an article called ‘Gendering the Nation: Intersections of Nation, Gender and Sexuality’ in Gendering Nationalism: Intersections of Nation, Gender and Sexuality.

Chloe Gamlin wins Norah Schuster Prize from the Royal Society of Medicine Chloe Gamlin, President of the Lucy Cavendish Medical Society, won the prestigious Norah Schuster Prize from the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) for an essay entitled “Oh, my sin is the cause of it”: Age, gender and religion in early modern childhood illness.

Elisabeth Gill wins second prize in engineering photography competition Lucy Cavendish PhD student Elisabeth Gill won second prize in the annual photography competition held by the Department of Engineering, for her striking image of micro-scale fibres drawn from a viscous gelatin solution across a 3D printed PLA (Polylactic Acid) support structure – the sparkly material you can see along the top of the image. The goal of Elisabeth’s work is to integrate an opensource 3D printing platform and a low voltage electrospinning technique to create high resolution, 3D biomaterial fibre ‘architectures’ to act as part of a tissue scaffold for 3D cell culture. Elisabeth said:

The sample that is pictured is actually an example of

that are as small as possible. That sample is a beautiful mess! When I took this microscope photo I was going through a period of PhD doldrums. Despite this sample being a disaster I couldn’t help smiling at how otherworldly it looked under the microscope. I’ve since figured out what I had been paper I have written on the method.

She said:

Julia Hayes is an independent education consultant who supports organisations to meet the needs of disabled children around the world, and she is here studying for an MPhil in Education, Globalisation and International Development.

childhood illness was a special affair in which genderbased ideas were largely suspended – at least until puberty, when the womb ruled once again.

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This year she also presented at the 25th Anniversary of the Gender and Development Journal Conference with the Development Studies Association on ‘Towards a Contextual Research Ethics: Anonymity and Confidentiality in Cross-Cultural Research’. This presentation was borne out of ethical issues that arose during her PhD research and questioned the assumption that anonymity is always desirable. She has also published an article called ‘Microfinance for the marginalized: the Impact of the Rojiroti Approach in India,’ in Enterprise Development and Microﬁnance. This article examined the features of Rojiroti that lead to it serving women who are significantly poorer and more marginalised than those typically served by microfinance in India. The paper analysed the impact of Rojiroti microfinance on livelihoods, considering changes in assets, children’s education and domestic violence, among other indicators.

What I was aiming for was fibres of uniform size and spacing

The prize is awarded annually for the best essay or essays submitted on any subject related to the history of medicine, including medical science. Chloe presented her work at a ceremony in April, and received a book token and a year’s membership of the RSM. Her entry was based on her research on the impact of age and gender on the perceptions and treatment of illness in early modern England.

practices and social expectations present in wider society,

Attendees of the College Research day (see page 24) had the pleasure of hearing PhD student Rebecca Gordon talk about her work.

the technique I’ve been developing gone hilariously wrong!

doing wrong, fixed the problem and am soon submitting a

In contrast to the highly gendered childrearing

Rebecca Gordon published on the impact of Rojiroti microfinance

Julia Hayes wins prizes from Alumnae Association and ESRC

She has won two prizes this year, one from our Alumnae Association for her research and one from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), for winning a poster competition. Read more about Julia on our website, where she wrote a blog last year.

Isabelle Higgins awarded Winifred Georgina Holgate Pollard Memorial Prize Undergraduate Isabelle Higgins was awarded the prestigious Winifred Georgina Holgate Pollard Memorial Prize for achieving “most outstanding results” in her first-year HSPS Tripos exams. The Prize Fund was established in 2016, after the University received a £1.4 million bequest from an alumnus. Prior to coming to Lucy Cavendish, Isabelle travelled abroad and worked as a trainee and acting Project Manager for Oxfam. She has been a youth worker, and an International Citizen Service volunteer in India, and spent the summer vacation in the USA as part of the Fulbright Awards Programme.

Halimatou Hima Moussa Dioula named Next Einstein Forum ambassador for Niger Republic Halimatou Hima Moussa Dioula (PhD Developmental Studies, 2015), the first woman from Niger to have attended both Harvard and Cambridge Universities, has been named Next Einstein Forum (NEF) ambassador for her country, the Niger Republic, 2017–19.

Halimatou pictured in the centre. The NEF is a platform that connects science, society and policy in Africa and the rest of the world, and the ambassadors are young science and technology champions, one from each African country, who drive the NEF’s local public engagement activities while growing their own careers. Halimatou described the NEF global gathering as “beyond inspirational” As the co-founder of iHaske Afrika, she plans to organise the first NEF Africa Science Week in Niger, aiming to “cultivate curiosity, cement foundations for transformative research, and connect talented scientists and researchers”. During the academic year 2017–18, Halimatou presented papers at conferences around the globe, including a paper entitled ‘The Language of Capability: The Effects of Schooling in Local Languages on Capabilities Expansion’ at the Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA) conference in South Africa. She and three Cambridge colleagues also presented at the African Studies Association in Africa (ASAA) conference in Accra, Ghana in October, under the title ‘Challenging, Deconstructing and Reimagining Educational Systems: cases from Ghana, Niger, Nigeria and South Africa’. In November, Halimatou was honoured to be invited to speak at the African Studies Association (ASA) annual conference in Chicago. She was asked to chair a panel on ‘The Language of Education: The Dynamics of Local and Colonial Language Use in Educational Institutions’, and was later invited to submit her paper, entitled ‘Ilimi Haske: The Effects of Schooling in Local Languages on Capabilities Expansion’, for consideration for the best graduate student paper.

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Shoko Hirosue talks to CAM about volunteering The May edition of Cambridge Alumni Magazine included an article about Cambridge Student Community Action (SCA), featuring fourth-year medic Shoko Hirosue. SCA has two main aims: to benefit vulnerable members of the local Cambridge community, and to encourage students to try new things or develop existing skills. Student volunteers have a voice in how the organisation is run via the student steering committee, and there are numerous projects to choose from: everything from entertaining older people with a traditional sing-along to buddying up with a teen who has mental health problems. As a volunteer for SCA’s Homework Help project, Shoko was matched with a student who needed assistance with GCSE maths. She said:

I really enjoy contributing to the community and

Rabia Nasimi continues refugee charity work Sociology student Rabia Nasimi came to the UK as a refugee when she was five, after fleeing the war in Afghanistan. Now studying at Lucy Cavendish for a PhD, she is continuing her family’s charity work to support refugee integration in the UK. Rabia’s family founded a charity called the ACAA (Afghanistan and Central Asian Association) in 2001 to support refugee integration in the UK through services such as ESOL, supplementary school, mentoring, advice and events. In her role at the ACAA, Rabia has supported and mentored many volunteers, all of whom are now working in the government and the charity sector. While in Cambridge, she is working to grow support and raise awareness of refugees by organising fundraising events. She also uses her role as BAME Editor for the College magazine, the Cavendish Chronicle, as a platform to share stories and amplify voices.

Mary Ononokpono wins African short story competition Lucy Cavendish graduate student Mary Ononokpono won a writing competition for her short story ‘Firewater’, which was published in an anthology called The Short Story is Dead, Long Live the Short Story!.

College Prizes awarded in special Formal Hall Donors, student, Fellows, alumnae and staff gathered on Thursday 9 February 2018 to celebrate student achievements and the generosity of the donors who support them through College Prizes.

The anthology provides a testing ground for emerging African writing. Sixteen short stories were selected from writers who claim some part of Africa as home. Mary was born in Calabar, Southern Nigeria and has lived in England since she was seven months old. Firewater draws upon work first started on a “life-altering” return visit to Nigeria in 2012, and reimagines the transatlantic era from unusual and different perspectives. The judges said:

With the opening line – ‘I was born beneath the ocean waves, or so that’s what they tell me’ – Mary Ononokpono’s Firewater draws us into a world where the line between real and ethereal is immaterial … The author succeeds in painting a world so wondrous that we get lost in it following

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this girl who has no name.

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teaching is important in your medical career, as well: junior doctors need teaching so this skill is very applicable to my future career.

Jessica Lim nominated for Pollard Prize and participates in Bach-a-thon Karen Thomas wins Best Abstract Prize for work on Post-Stroke Fatigue PhD medic Karen Thomas presented her research at various conferences over the year, including presenting on ‘Community Stroke Care: Patient need and selfmanagement from a research perspective’ at the Neurological Practice Annual Conference 2017. She also presented at the Annual Cambridge NMAHP Research Conference, where she won the award of Best Abstract for her study on ‘Post-Stroke Fatigue: Insights of stroke survivors and their carers from an online forum’.

Jessica Lim has spoken at two conferences this year; firstly on ‘Education in the Long Eighteenth Century’ at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London where she was nominated for the Pollard Prize, which is awarded for the best paper presented by a postgraduate/early careers researcher at an Institute of Historical Research seminar. Secondly, she presented at the David Nichol Smith Seminar XVI, at the Australian and New Zealand Society of Eighteenth Century Studies. She published a paper ‘An Unsettled Account: Anna Letitia

Madeleine Jörgensen Prize for First Class Results in Tripos Alice Carlill* (English), Caitlin Harris* (English), Joelle Ng (Land Economy), Kimberley Searle* (English) Marie Lawrence Prize(s) for First Class Results in Tripos Sofia Akerhielm (Law), Madeline Chan* (Law), Chloe Gamlin* (Natural Sciences), Yike Gao* (Economics), Isabelle Higgins (Human, Social & Political Sciences), Aphiwan King* (Law), Linnea Lagerqvist (Human, Social & Political Sciences), Jodie Manners* (Human, Social & Political Sciences), Meredith Phillips (Law), Adela Ryle* (Human, Social & Political Sciences), Harriet Rhodes (Medical & Veterinary Sciences), Ida Svenonius (Human, Social & Political Sciences), Josefina Weinerova (Psychological & Behavioural Sciences), Melissa Wilson (Law) The Simms Prize for best results in Education Joy Giannaros, Chelsea Ljutic

Barbauld’s letters to Lydia Rickard’ in Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature. In addition to her studies, she participated in an allfemale organist 24-hour Bach-a-thon which was covered live by ITV.

The Berti Sapir Medical Prize for the student with the best results in Clinical Stage Three (Final year) Amy Whitehouse

Kate Bertram Prize(s) for First Class Results in non-Tripos exams Mariam Arutyunyan (Economic Research), Katie Barton (Creative Writing), Marta Beneda (Social & Developmental Psychology), Connie Bloomfield (Comparative European Literatures & Cultures), Ge Cheng (Mathematics), Lea Christopher* (LLM), Charlotte Dugdale (Creative Writing), Anais Le Moing (Economics), Eva Milne* (LLM), Eva Politou (Mathematics), Maria Sisak (Mathematics), Rui Zhang (Advanced Computer Science) The Alumnae Association Prize for Contribution to the Arts Jennifer Lo*, Molly Yarn The Alumnae Association Prize for Graduate Excellence Julia Hayes (Education) The Annabelle Dixon Prize for the student who has made the most of her time at Lucy Cavendish April Bowman The Emmeline Pankhurst Prize for Contribution to College Life Jessica Lim, Cherish Watton*

The Myson College Exhibition for Personal Achievement Chloe Gamlin* (Medicine), Emma Walter* Dame Veronica Sutherland College Prize(s) for Sporting Blues Esther Delignat-Lavaud-Rodriguez (Fencing), Lara Gibson (Rugby), Myriam Goudet (Rowing), Ollie Linnea Gradin (Football), Olivia Jamrog (Rowing), Alice Middleton (Rugby), Melissa Wilson (Rowing) Gyll Moore Prize for a Student Gaining a First Class Degree, preferably in Arts or Humanities Cherish Watton* (History) The Florence Staniforth Prize for Excellence in Creative Writing Charlotte Fiehn (English) The Margaret Spufford Memorial Prize Anne Sauviat (Sociology) Janet Todd Prize for Academic Excellence Eleanor Powers (Public Health) Mary Wollstonecraft Prize Ainul Hanafiah (PhD Medicine)

* Graduands who were awarded their prize in June 2017

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College Research Day: from arts education in Tanzania to edible caterpillars in Burkina Faso OUR ANNUAL GRADUATE RESEARCH DAY WAS EXPANDED THIS YEAR TO INCLUDE MORE LEVELS OF EXPERIENCE, FROM UNDERGRADUATES THROUGH TO PHD STUDENTS AND ASSOCIATE RESEARCHERS. THE SUBJECTS WERE ALSO FAR RANGING AND INCLUDED REPRESENTATIVES FROM MANY DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS. ALSO NEW THIS YEAR WAS THE AWARDING OF TWO PRIZES FOR PRESENTATIONS. THE FIRST WINNER WAS PHD STUDENT ELISABETH LIDDLE, WHO SPOKE ABOUT ‘THE STATE OF HANDPUMP-BOREHOLES IN RURAL UGANDA: REALITIES, CHALLENGES, AND THE WAY FORWARD’, AND THE SECOND WINNER WAS UNDERGRADUATE CLARISSA HJALMARSSON, WHO SPOKE ABOUT ‘TREATING THE BODY POLITIC: HEALTHCARE OF THE ERITREAN PEOPLE’S LIBERATION FRONT AND ITS POLITICISATION, 1970-91’.

Rebecca Gordon (PhD, Education) gave a presentation entitled ‘Exploring the mechanisms through which Rojiroti microfinance provision impacts on the lives of its female clients and their daughters’ education in rural India’. In spite of increased access to education for girls worldwide, those in rural and socio-economically marginalised communities still face barriers to enrolment. Delivering microfinance to women may reorganise familial gender relations, and loans might be used for educating children. However, studies examining the link between microfinance and education have found inconclusive impacts on children’s education. This research aims to assess the impact of Rojiroti Microfinance, which operates in Bihar, India, examining its effect on female empowerment and on their daughters’ education. Existing panel data will be analysed, alongside data mapping trajectories of loans borrowed for girls’ education. One-on-one interviews and focus groups will ascertain, if there has been an impact on girls’ education, what unique factors of Rojiroti have enabled this impact.

Elisabeth Liddle (PhD, Centre for Sustainable Development, Department of Engineering) presented ‘The state of handpumpboreholes in rural Uganda: Realities, challenges, and the way forward’. Access to an improved water source has steadily increased in rural Uganda over the past decade. Concerns have been raised, however, over whether these sources are

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providing safe and adequate quantities of water. Recent findings indicate that 45% of rural handpump-boreholes in Uganda are not working. Previous studies have found the reasons for their failure to be: a) the quality of work conducted during siting and drilling/installation and/or b) the extent, quality, and oversight of operations and maintenance post-construction. This research seeks to understand the siting and drilling/installation process in Uganda, and to identify factors that may be affecting the quality of this work. Qualitative data from 80 interviews highlights a number of key concerns within the siting and drilling/installation process. Elisabeth’s presentation explored these concerns, and explained the steps that need to be taken if these poor practices are to be abandoned.

Genevieve Riccoboni (MPhil, History) talked about ‘Outsourced Labour, “Rising” Modernity – the Origins of the Services Outsourcing Industry in India (1980–2001)’. Several million people are employed in the information technology, business and knowledge process outsourcing industries in India, contributing to substantial GDP and urban growth. Although outsourcing has been extensively studied within the fields of business, economics, and anthropology, the historical literature lacks explanations for how it emerged and prospered. This research places the IT and business process outsourcing industries in the historical context of postindependence Indian macroeconomic and business policy, and preliminarily suggests that outsourcing’s development and growth coincided with significant policy shifts towards economic liberalisation and more business-friendly attitudes in India, with significant effects on labour patterns and urban development. However, it also argues that outsourcing is not merely a ‘new’

phenomenon, but must be understood within the context of global corporate hierarchies and prior structural conditions within the Indian economy.

Dr Stéphanie Swarbreck (Research Associate, Plant Sciences) presented her topic, ‘Can we select for wheat varieties that can tolerate or suppress weeds?’. Plants seldom grow alone; rather, they grow alongside and interact with their neighbours. These interactions can be beneficial, neutral or detrimental. In agro-ecosystems, weeds negatively affect plant performance, leading to severe yield decrease. One species of weed called blackgrass (Alopecurus myosuroides Huds.) is particularly problematic in the UK, as it has developed resistance to many herbicides. Through a detailed analysis of the root system architecture of wheat plants grown in the presence of blackgrass, Stéphanie’s research shows that the wheat lateral roots (important for nutrient uptake) are shorter in the presence of a neighbour only under nutrient-replete conditions. In addition, there is genetic variability in root response to the presence of blackgrass. This suggests that it is possible to exploit genetic differences in wheat varieties to select and breed new varieties with increased tolerance to the presence of blackgrass.

Yun Chiang (fourth-year, HSPS) gave a presentation on ‘A song of fire and water: preservation pathways of organics at Must Farm’. Recent studies have postulated that organic preservation is mainly a biological process. Microbial activity is inhibited in waterlogged, arid, or other extreme conditions. Such focus underestimates the dynamic interplay between mechanical, chemical, biological mechanisms, and time. One clear example comes from the Late Bronze Age site of Must Farm (c. 800 cal BC), Cambridgeshire, where organic remains including bobbins, textiles and wooden artefacts have been discovered. It has been assumed that waterlogging determines the presence of organic remains; however, the preliminary results of soil micromorphological analysis suggest that there have been wet/dry episodes over time. This presentation focused on the combined use of experimental archaeology, archaeobotanical macrofossil analysis, and micromorphological thin section techniques, and how they can shed light on the preservation pathways of organics. Yun concluded that charring, silty clay matrix, and gradual hydrological changes are key factors in determining organic preservation at Must Farm. These results have applications in terms of conservation and policy planning – the policy of in situ preservation may require reconsideration, as archaeological remains are susceptible to changing hydrological states.

Claire Moll (PhD, Social Anthropology) presented ‘Language and Values of Time in Rural El Salvador’. When studying values of time, one must pay attention to how one’s interlocutors express ideas related to such values through the use of specific words and narratives. Using examples from her field site in La Libertad, El Salvador, Claire demonstrated through employing Bear’s analytical tool of time-maps that Evangelicals who interact readily and often with an active organisation in the greater Salvadoran social movement live within the boundaries of several chronotopes. Her presentation explored existing literature on time and language, alongside particular ethnographic examples in Latin America. Returning to her own field site, she proposed that by paying attention to the use of the key phrase ‘seguir adelante’, she could begin to understand the negotiated valuation of time that occurs in the lived experience of Evangelical Christians in rural El Salvador.

Dr Marta Costa (Research Associate, Zoology) talked about ‘Connectomics in the fly: building a map of the brain in 3D’. The major goal of neuroscience research is to be able to explain behaviour, and what circuits and neurons are involved. Technical advances have made it possible to reconstruct every neuron and to identify its connections to others in small brain volumes, giving rise to the field of connectomics. Marta’s work leverages these techniques, using the adult fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, as a model, in a whole-brain reconstruction using an electron microscopy volume. The adult Drosophila brain is capable of generating complex behaviours. Marta and her colleagues are reconstructing the olfactory circuits, whose structure parallels mammalian ones, in order to understand how innate and learned olfactory behaviour is generated and controlled. Insights so far show that there are many instances of regulatory feedback in these networks, and that the number of distinct neuron types involved is much higher than previously thought.

Bethany Haworth (MPhil, Judge Business School) gave a talk on ‘Class work’ as legitimacy work: Cross class interactions in entrepreneurship. Drawing on interviews with pub landlords in Rochdale, Bethany’s research considers the ways in which small entrepreneurial ventures in working class contexts attempt to overcome the perceived issues presented by their social class, by presenting themselves as legitimate (defined

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by Suchman as ‘desirable, proper, or appropriate within some socially constructed system of norms, values, beliefs and definitions’). Bethany’s work considers individuals’ capacity to frame or symbolically manage their behaviour and characteristics as a sort of class work undertaken to present themselves as legitimate. She explained that to date, class work has been considered as a theoretical construct, without reference to legitimacy, and social class remains largely unexamined by business school academics. As such, her research aims to develop a framework within which to understand more about working class entrepreneurship.

Sioned Cox (third-year, HSPS) spoke about ‘Edible caterpillars in Burkina Faso and their contribution to nutritional adequacy’. For her finalyear dissertation project in undergraduate Biological Anthropology, Sioned spent three months in Burkina Faso, West Africa, conducting dietary interviews with women in rural villages. There is a tradition of eating caterpillars in the region, and she was keen to test the topical idea that sustainable insects may provide a nutritious alternative food resource. Sioned used multiple pass, twenty-four hour recall dietary surveys to gather data on sixteen women’s daily nutritional intake over four days: two days during caterpillar season and two days outside. She is currently analysing her data to investigate how caterpillars contribute towards nutritional adequacy, and how this might vary according to food insecurity status, ethnicity, and by season.

Myriam Goudet (PhD, Plant Sciences) presented ‘Evolutionary history and role of the small subunit of RuBisCO in green algae’. Plants and algae are photosynthetic organisms: they convert carbon dioxide into energy-rich molecules, allowing them to grow. This process is performed by an enzyme called RuBisCO, which is formed by eight large subunits and eight small subunits. RuBisCO is a slow, inefficient enzyme, and photosynthetic organisms invest a lot in its production, making it the most abundant enzyme on Earth. However, the small subunit is a very variable feature. Its structure, for example, varies from algae to plants. These differences influence the enzyme’s efficiency. Myriam explained that, after analyses, she noticed that within green algae the small subunit was also showing structural variations. It appeared that the group of algae, which colonised lands 450 million years ago, exhibits the same small subunit as land plants. The aim of her PhD is to characterise and investigate the evolutionary history of the small subunit, which should give more insight into the origin of plants.

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Lu Liu (PhD, Criminology) gave a presentation on ‘Understanding the Special Weapon and Tactics (SWAT) Police in China’. SWAT police are charged with the most dangerous missions and entrusted with the most destructive weapons, and are usually called in to provide tactical support where the situation can no longer be handled by ordinary law enforcement. SWAT teams have only formally been a feature of policing in China since 2005, in the face of the increasing challenge of terrorist attacks, violent crimes and social unrest. In six years, the presence of SWAT police expanded from zero to more than 900 teams all over China, with more than 48,000 officers. However, we know little about this subgroup of Chinese police. Based on three weeks of ethnographic observations and 22 interviews, this study attempts to depict the basic landscape of the profession by exploring three very basic questions: who are the SWAT team officers; what is the nature of their work; and what do they think of their work, in particular, their use of force?

Lorena Gazzotti (MPhil, Development Studies) presented ‘Who governs migrants’ welfare in Morocco? Discharge, delegation and normativity in migration governance’. Migration scholars have apprehended the implication of NGOs, International Organisations (IOs) and donors in the implementation of migration-related projects in sending and transit countries as an expression of the externalisation of European migration policy and of the diffusion of the paradigm of migration management. This doesn’t explain, however, how these interventions contribute to the consolidation of complex forms of governance of migrants’ welfare in sending and transit countries, or contextualise it within discussions about the neoliberalisation and welfare provision in the Global South. Drawing on over 100 interviews with donors’ representatives, NGOs and IOs officers and Moroccan civil servants, this paper fills this gap. Providing for the costs of migrants’ welfare is a battlefield negotiated by actors with different funding capacities and political agendas. Building on literature on state privatisation and the governance of marginality, the paper argues that the precarious and always tentative arrangement between the state, civil society and donors replicates many of the features which characterise the neoliberal government of the social in Mohammed VI’s Morocco.

Clarissa Hjalmarsson (first-year, Graduate Medical Course) talked about ‘Treating the Body Politic: Healthcare of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front and its Politicisation, 1970–91’. Using published research, contemporary reportage and interview material, Clarissa provided an overview of the health service offered by the EPLF during the liberation war, exploring its political dimensions and implications. The EPLF organised sophisticated civilian, military and hospital care, and integrated healthcare and health education with life in the EPLF. Relationships developed through the provision of healthcare were used to incorporate population groups into the EPLF project, inculcate EPLF ideology, and transform the national community. However, the politicisation of healthcare allowed it to become an instrument of control, and the service contributed to homogenising political views and suppressing dissent. The healthcare system remains a powerful symbol of the party’s social and political tenacity to the present day.

Dr Susan Giorgi-Coll (Research Associate, Clinical Neurosciences) gave a presentation called ‘Developing a rapid point-of-care test for diagnosing infection’. There exists a need for a rapid, low-cost and easyto-use point-of-care clinical test for diagnostic measurement of inflammation, by analysing patients’ body fluids. The aim of this project was to develop a proof-ofconcept version of a novel bedside test for the detection of interleukin-6 (IL-6), an important inflammatory molecule produced by the immune system. Increasing IL-6 can indicate development or advancement of an infection through pathological inflammation, and early detection can facilitate timely clinical intervention. The developed test design uses coated gold nanoparticles designed to bind specifically to IL-6. Tests of this nature offer significant advantages in terms of sensitivity, reliability, cost, and easy storage without refrigeration. The test is simple and quick to perform, without the need for sample pre-treatment, making it useful in a wide range of clinical settings.

Alexandra Dreier (MPhil, Education) presented ‘Potential strategies for decolonisation through arts education in the Tanzanian context’. Having researched Tanzania’s colonial legacy, and its relationship to Development, Alexandra developed ‘Jambo Sanaa’, an art educational project at a primary school in Tanzania. Further scrutiny of the meaning of decolonialisation led her to rethink and amend the project. She used Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti’s HEADSUP checklist to critically engage in preventing a hegemonic, ethnocentric, Salvationist, ahistorical, depoliticised, paternalised and ‘uncomplicated solution’ approach to ‘Jambo Sanaa’. She concluded that one of the project’s main goals should be ‘healing’. This means overcoming white fragility in the Global North, as well as using arts education in Tanzania as a form of escapism, psychotherapy or community activism. Her work draws attention to the fact that the process of decolonialisation (of the mind) is not over in the Global South and could be advanced through arts education.

Dr Annette Mahon, Assistant Senior Tutor (Graduates) said:

We all enjoyed a varied afternoon hearing from our students and associates about their fascinating research. The standard of research and of the presentations was very high, and we hope that all the participants will keep us updated on their next steps. Thanks to all the presenters and to graduate student Lu Liu and Research Associate Dr Sarah Morgan for organising a very successful event.

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Celebrating Graduations By Dr Annette Mahon, Assistant Senior Tutor (Graduates) GRADUATION IS SUCH A WONDERFUL OCCASION AND THE CULMINATION OF MANY YEARS OF WORK. ITâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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. ALL OF US AT LUCY CAVENDISH WISH OUR NEWEST GRADUATES EVERY SUCCESS FOR THE FUTURE.

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Events and guest speakers WE HAVE HAD AN IMPRESSIVE PROGRAMME OF VISITING SPEAKERS THIS YEAR, HOSTING TALKS ALMOST EVERY THURSDAY EVENING DURING TERM TIME ON SUBJECTS AS DIVERSE AS THE SILK TRADE ACROSS THE AGES, PEOPLE TRAFFICKING, THE PRISON SERVICE, FASHION RETAIL AND PROMOTING FEMALE ROLE MODELS.

Dr Helen Pankhurst – great-granddaughter of suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst and leading women’s rights campaigner – joined us to celebrate the 100th anniversary of women getting the vote.

Head of Sustainability for Swiss Blockchain Fintech company ‘Lykke Corp’, Inge Relph spoke about women's global networks and opportunities for women in business today.

Honorary Fellow, Edwina Dunn spoke about ‘The Female Lead’, a non-profit organisation dedicated to offering positive role models and giving women a platform to share their inspirational stories.

Roz Savage, the first (and so far only) woman to row solo across the world’s ‘Big Three’ oceans: Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian.

Kim Winser OBE talked about her career in fashion and her latest range for Winser London, an event which will lead to exciting future collaborations…

Lucy Cavendish Associate, Mary Sharpe discussed her work as Head of the Reward Foundation on the impacts of internet pornography on the adolescent brain.

Research Fellow, Dr Kameri Christy and College Associate, Dr Sarada Chatterjee gave a fascinating talk to a packed room on domestic violence and human trafficking.

Many of our students and alumnae attend these talks regularly, and we are always delighted to welcome back our friends and supporters. The talks are open to the general public too, and are sometimes booked up quickly by groups from the University Departments who come to hear from experts and famous names in their fields. Thank you to all of our speakers this year!

Lord Bilimoria on ‘Coming up with an idea at Cambridge, creating a household name, and growing a global brand from scratch’.

Sixth College President, Professor Jan Todd, on the launch of her book on Aphra Behn. Dr Silvia Vignoli on nature’s most vivid colours, ‘Cellulose Photonics: from nature to applications’.

Fifth College President, Lady Pauline Perry on the history of the College to celebrate the anniversary of its Royal Charter.

Claire Wiggins talked about her career, from social worker to Deputy Director for women and victims for Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service.

Anna Bidder Research Evenings The Anna Bidder Research Evening give early career academics an opportunity to share their current research with the College and University community. Thanks to our speakers for their fascinating talks:

New Honorary Fellow, Sarah Sands, on her role as Editor of the Radio 4 Today Programme.

Comedienne and political commentator, Ayesha Hazarika, gave a witty talk about the state of politics.

Kathryn Jones, Senior Curator of Decorative Arts at the Royal Collection Trust, on the amazing treasures in the Royal Collection. Dr Karoline Kuchenbaecker on the lack of diversity in the study of genetics.

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Dr Kate Williams on “Emerging cultures of evaluation”.

Dr Shona Wilson on “This wormy world”, humans and their parasites.

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A year of bestsellers for the 2018 Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize THE LUCY CAVENDISH FICTION PRIZE COLLECTION OF BESTSELLERS CONTINUES TO GROW AND WE LOVE SPOTTING THEM ON BOOKSHELVES AROUND THE WORLD AND IN OUR OWN LIBRARY! THIS YEAR SAW ENORMOUS SUCCESS FOR PREVIOUS ENTRANTS GAIL HONEYMAN (ELEANOR OLIPHANT IS COMPLETELy FINE), LAURA MARSHALL (FRIEND REqUEST AND THREE LITTLE LIES), FRANCES MAYNARD (THE SEVEN IMPERFECT RULES OF ELVIRA CARR) AND KELLEIGH GREENBERG-JEPHCOTT (SWAN SONG).

Several of our judges and previous entrants including Nelle Andrews, Gillian Stern, Laura Marshall and Kelleigh GreenbergJephcott came back to speak to writers in September at our inaugural residential Lucy Cavendish Creative Writing Course (look out for this again next year: 28 September to 3 October 2019). This year our judges named Deepa Anappara as the winner of the eighth Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize, with her novel Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line. Deepa Anappara is currently doing a PhD in Creative-Critical Writing at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. She has a Masters in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) from UEA and previously worked as a journalist and editor in India. Her short fiction has won the Dastaan Award, the Asian Writer Short Story Prize, the second prize in the Bristol Short Story awards and the third prize in the Asham awards. Her reports on education and human rights, published in newspapers and magazines in India, have won the Developing Asia Journalism awards, Every Human has Rights Media awards, and the Prabha Dutt Fellowship in Journalism. Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line won the Bridport/ Peggy Chapman-Andrews Award for First Novel in 2017 and the Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers Award in 2018.

Nicci Gerrard, journalist Eleanor Mills, editor Gina Dawson and literary agent Marilia Savvides from sponsor Peters Fraser & Dunlop. Returning judges include Dr Ian Patterson, a poet, translator, writer and Fellow in English at Queens’ College, editor and ghost-writer Gillian Stern and Lucy Cavendish College Fellow Dr Lindsey Traub.

Head Judge Allison Pearson with the winner Deepa Anappara.

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College President Jackie Ashley said:

The 2019 Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize is now open. For the first time, we are able to offer free entries (thanks to sponsors including Frances Perkins, writing as Frances Maynard). We are also running a Lucy Cavendish Student Fiction Prize alongside the main competition, which will allow our students a chance to meet the great and good of the publishing industry. The deadline for entries to both prizes is Friday 8 February 2019.

Many congratulations to Deepa for her wonderful entry. We are delighted to support her and can’t wait to read the published

Chair of the judging panel, Allison Pearson commented on this year’s winner:

novel in full!

Deepa Anappara, the winner of the 2018 Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize, is a dazzling new voice in fiction. Her novel Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line plunges us into the life of an Indian street child with astonishing immediacy, pathos, humour and breathless energy. The judges were unanimous in their praise and delight. Anappara has complete command of her fictional world, raising profound

A total of 389 entries were received, which were whittled down to the shortlist of six by a judging panel chaired by journalist and author Allison Pearson. The 2018 judging panel welcomed author

issues about poverty with the deftest and most beguiling of touches Judges left to right: Gina Dawson, Marilia Savvides, Allison Pearson, Gillian Stern and Dr Ian Patterson.

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Our 2018 Shortlisted writers left to right: Lauren Van Shaik, Deepa Anappara, Angela Dove, Victoria Richards, Poppy SebagMontefiore and Carol Farrelly.

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A year of change we’re back and we’re ready to go! By Boat Club President, April Bowman

Our Blues Rowers set the pace again

THIS YEAR MARKED THE RETURN OF LUCY CAVENDISH COLLEGE BOAT CLUB (LCCBC) AS AN INDEPENDENT CLUB ON THE RIVER CAM, WITH THE SQUAD STANDING STRONG ON THEIR OWN, AFTER A 16-YEAR-LONG PARTNERSHIP Our College is proud to have three rowers in crews at Cambridge University Women’s Boat Club (CUWBC): Myriam GoudetBoukhatmi, Olivia Jamrog and Melissa Wilson. We are even more proud that in addition to their elite rowing, they continue to row alongside LCCBC, providing coaching and support throughout the year.

WITH HUGHES HALL. In 2017, it was determined that both colleges had adequate numbers to run their own clubs and a mutual decision was made for each to row separately. A lot of change has come as a result - new gym, logo, colours, kit - but the enthusiasm and spirit remains the same. We started the year with 14 returning seniors and 30 novices. We maintained our rigorous in-term training and racing schedule, ensuring the novices built solid foundations while the seniors improved technique and fitness.

We were proud to cheer on Myriam Goudet-Boukhatmi as Captain of Cambridge University’s Blue Boat in March 2018. We watched as the all-female crew powered past the finishing post in 19 minutes and 10 seconds. Myriam was one of three rowers in the crew who also rowed in the victorious 2017 race.

We succeeded for the first time as an independent club in entering two crews in the Women’s Head of the River Race on the Thames, in London, an achievement that speaks to the wide participation in the sport at Lucy Cavendish. About 10% of the College (students and Fellows!) are engaged, with many not having done any sports before.

Melissa Wilson competed at her highest level yet this year, when she was selected for the World Rowing Championships. She made it to the final race of the Women’s Pairs, together with fellow CUWBC rower Holly Hill and they came 4th, a huge success.

The May Bumps were another great achievement for the club. W1 went up two places in Division 2 and will be starting next year at position 6, coming closer to Division 1. W2 rowed over at the bottom of Division 3, getting our second boat up two places. I am incredibly proud of the team this year! We launched a fundraising appeal last year to invest in vital equipment including a refurbished gym, new club kit, a cox box, storage and most importantly a new boat and set of blades. We were delighted to reach that target within a year, thanks to a huge response from fans and supporters. The appeal was launched for £26,215 in October 2017 and hit its target in August 2018. We hope to name our new boat before racing it for the first time at the Women’s Head of the River Race on the Thames, in London next spring. Most of the 38 individual donations were made by friends, family and current supporters. However, one large gift towards the new boat came from a generous anonymous overseas donor.

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On behalf of the club, I’d like to say a huge thank you to all our donors. This funding makes a real difference to the club as we plan our growth in the future and bring this amazing sport to future Lucy women. The club plans to build on this initial fundraising success during the next academic year by launching a 40th anniversary campaign for £40,000, ensuring rowers in the next 40 years can continue to experience the very best that rowing at Lucy Cavendish has to offer. The campaign is still ongoing at https://www.goldengiving.com/fundraising-team/LCCBoatClub

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Sports Football Lucy Cavendish’s footballers had a fantastic season. In October, undergraduate Linnea Gradin was promoted to Vice-Captain of the women’s team at Cambridge University Association Football Club (CUAFC), and fellow Lucian and graduate student, Connie Buettner joined her on the first team (‘the Blues’). Connie and Linnea also played for the combined Cavendish/Christ’s/Churchill football team, which won the Cambridge University Association Football League (CUAFL) plate finals in March, scoring 8:1 in their final match. Team co-Captain Josefina Weinerova said “it was a well-deserved victory after a great season!”. Lucy Cavendish provides the highest numbers of players to the combined team. Merging with other Colleges means the players have the opportunity to mix with new people and to share resources.

Karate Iulia-Maria Comsa had a fulfilling second year of training with Cambridge University Karate Club. She was part of the winning Varsity team (Cambridge beating Oxford for the twelfth consecutive year) and has won five gold medals for individual performances, one silver medal with the University team, two ‘best overall performance’ (which was joint) in competitions, and an award from Lucy Cavendish – the Dame Veronica Sutherland College Prize. For these results, she has been selected for a Discretionary Full Blue.

Netball Graduate medic Sarah Godlee played in the Blues team for the Cambridge University Netball Club and in January had a nailbiting trip to Oxford for a double BUCS showdown – both the Blues and Jays (seconds) games were scheduled on the same day, just weeks before the big Varsity game. Having watched the second team in a gripping game that unfortunately saw them lose by just one goal, the Blues were determined not to let Oxford have their way again. Despite the nerves and the screaming home crowd, Cambridge were unfazed and managed to keep the upper hand throughout, winning by two goals in the end: 44-42. The Varsity game ended well for the Blues as well, beating Oxford 47-41.

Rugby Two consecutive captains of the Cambridge University Women’s Rugby Team, Lara Gibson and Alice Middleton, made our College proud when they beat Oxford at the annual Varsity match in December 2017 at Twickenham, with a score of 24-0 to Cambridge. Their success was followed by a win from the Cambridge men’s team, making a double victory! After combining beautifully for a try, the two Lucy players attributed their impressive performance to their College friendship.

Sailing PhD student Karen Thomas had a very successful year on the water. She sailed for the Cambridge University Cruising Club (CUCrC) and competed in the Varsity match at Weymouth, where both the mixed and ladies teams won almost every race. She also competed in the 2018 Wilson Trophy, and won the position of the top university team by 7 places, the 10th Brits and only one win away from finals and finishing the qualifying series in 6th. Karen has been selected to coach the Team GB sailing team in Abu Dhabi at the Special Olympics World Games next year, and we can’t wait to see how many medals she will collect. Karen has motivated other students at the College to give sailing a go and she led a successful Lucy Cavendish team at the Cuppers for the first time. They came 2nd in both of divisions (3 & 4) which she described as “pretty impressive given that I was the only sailor.”

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Our year in music

Lucy Cavendish Singers 2017-18 By Katharina Megli (History, 1991)

Cambridge University Steel Pan Society provides our Thursday soundtrack Thursday evening visitors to the College will be familiar with the joyful music practised weekly by the Cambridge University Steel Pan Society in our Music and Meditation pavilion. They have performed for us many times over the years, including at our most recent garden party. Other highlights included running a workshop with students from the North Cambridge Academy and busking in Cambridge Market Square to raise money for the Cambridge Rape Crisis Centre and the Cambridge City Foodbank.

Piano recital by Gülsin Onay

HOW DOES ONE SELECT HIGHLIGHTS FROM A YEAR OF RECORD AUDIENCE NUMBERS, A NEWLY COMMISSIONED

Lucy Cavendish Associate and international concert pianist, Gülsin Onay gave a free lunchtime performance in December 2017 to an enraptured audience of Fellows, students and staff. She performed pieces by Beethoven, Chopin, Saygun and Franck. We may have provided her smallest concert venue this year; others included the West Road Concert Hall, the City Chambers of Glasgow, the Süreyya Opera House at the 46th Istanbul Music Festival, the Vila-Seca Piano Festival in Barcelona and the Bodrum Music Festival, where she received an Honorary Medal on the opening night.

PIECE TO MARK OUR 10TH ANNIVERSARY, EXCITING NEW CONCERT VENUES AND A VERY SPECIAL LUCY CAVENDISH COLLEGE CELEBRATION?

Cavendish Chorale By Cherish Watton (History, 2014) CAVENDISH CHORALE CONTINUES TO FLOURISH, WELCOMING MANY NEW MEMBERS, AND ALMOST DOUBLING IN SIZE THIS YEAR. WE ARE A NON-AUDITIONED STUDENT CHOIR MADE UP OF STUDENTS AT LUCY CAVENDISH AND OTHER COLLEGES. Under the talented leadership of choir director Chloë Allison, the Chorale has enjoyed a varied programme: we sang traditional carols and Christmas pop songs for the annual Christmas Carols Around The Tree, as well as singing before one of the Christmas

Formals; performed a concert before Formal Hall in Lent, which included ‘You Raise Me Up’, ‘Let No Man Steal Your Thyme’, and Billy Joel’s ‘And So It Goes’; and appropriately sang ‘Here Comes The Sun’ under blue skies for the College’s annual garden party. Our ‘Sister Act’ medley went down a treat! We also joined forces with the Chorus on the Hill to perform John Rutter’s ‘The Reluctant Dragon’, and enjoyed accompanying talented soloists as well as string players from the Orchestra on the Hill. Nazeda Volkova became President, Nicole Torelli continued as Secretary, and Cherish Watton as Treasurer.

Choir member, Lindsay Malone said:

The Cavendish Chorale has been a highlight of my week. As someone who’s never had the opportunity to sing in a group before, being part of a relaxed, informal choir has been amazing. I found myself really looking forward to rehearsals. We performed in concerts, including with an orchestra, which was an exciting new experience for me. If you like to sing, I’d absolutely recommend it: the Chorale is a great chance to improve one’s confidence, to meet some new friends, and to have fun!

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For sheer beauty, I’d choose the surroundings of the Lady Chapel in Ely Cathedral where we performed as part of the lunchtime concert series. For a completely unique event, our concert in aid of the charity Send a Cow in the long barn at Childerley Hall on a gorgeous May day: gardens open, cattle in the surrounding fields and tea and cake outside. For dramatic music, it would have to be Emmanuel United Reformed Church in March where we brought the house down with Mascagni’s Easter Hymn and gave the world premiere of the stunning women’s voice setting of Unleash the Beauty, commissioned by the Singers from composer Alexander Campkin. Then there was the very proud occasion when we helped celebrate 20 years of Royal Charter at Lucy Cavendish College with a pre-dinner concert in the library foyer.

Our 10th Anniversary year continues in Michaelmas Term with the release of our second CD entitled Walk in Good Company, an October concert in the Lady Chapel at Ely Cathedral and, in November, a reception in the Oxford and Cambridge Club, Pall Mall to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the awarding of degrees to women at Cambridge. For next season’s concert schedule go to: http://www.lucycavendishsingers.org.uk/

Student musicians celebrate with a concert A group of students gathered to perform an eclectic mix of music from classical to folk, to celebrate the end of the academic year in June 2018. It was a real treat to hear works from Briccialdi, Finzi, Brahms, Poulenc and a few even written by the performers themselves! Many thanks to Laura Erel (piano), Rosie Frances (soprano), Chloë Gamlin (flute), Noémie Johns (mezzo-soprano), Harriet Rhodes (violin), Emily Slade (voice and guitar) and Vivian Sze-To (piano).

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Fellows’ News Dr Jackie Brearley runs marathon for CamVet School

New Fellows Dr Mary Brazelton Dr Kate Daniels Dr Marissa Quie Dr Amber Ruigrok Ms Jo Ryan Ms Helen Wain

Dr Jackie Brearley is the Director of Studies for Clinical Veterinary Medicine and academic lead for the Clinical Skills Centre. She celebrated her 60th birthday this year by running the Virgin London Marathon and exceeded her fundraising target to raise money for the Cambridge Veterinary School Trust (CamVet). She also gave an interview to Vet Record about her career and the issue of professional burnout. Dr Brearley was awarded a Pilkington Prize in 2017 for her excellent teaching.

New Research Fellows Dr Sarah Morgan Dr Emma Liu

Welcome to new Honorary Fellow, Sarah Sands Departing Fellows Dr Susan Jackson Dr Helen Taylor Dr Rumiana Yotova

Departing Research Fellows

Lucy Cavendish College was delighted to announce the election of Sarah Sands as an Honorary Fellow in November 2017. Sarah Sands is the Editor of Radio 4’s flagship news and current affairs show, the Today Programme. She trained on The Sevenoaks Courier as a news reporter, before moving to the Evening Standard – initially as Editor of the Londoner’s Diary – and took further posts as Features Editor and Associate Editor. She joined the Daily Telegraph in 1996 as Deputy Editor to assume responsibility later for the Saturday edition. Sarah was appointed the first female Editor of The Sunday Telegraph in 2005. In 2006 she worked as Consultant Editor on the Daily Mail and in 2008 became Editor-in-Chief of the UK edition of Reader’s Digest. She was appointed Deputy Editor of the London Evening Standard in 2009 and was its Editor from 2012-2017.

Dr Jenny Shepherd Dr Yvonne Zivkovic

I’m extremely honoured to join Lucy Cavendish as an Honorary Fellow, because it’s a place that celebrates perpetual learning. As someone who’s had quite a chequered career, I like the idea that there should always be a second chance. Sarah Sands

Professor Ruth Cameron awarded IoM3 Griffith Medal Professor Ruth Cameron has been awarded the Griffith Medal and Prize by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IoM3). The Institute described her work in the materials science of regenerative medicine and pharmaceutical delivery as “truly outstanding”. Professor Cameron, who was awarded the UK Society for Biomaterials President's Prize in 2017, has published an exceptional body of work in the field of ice templating technologies for regenerative medicine. She was a Founder Board Member and later Director of Cambridge’s £10M Pfizer Institute for Pharmaceutical Materials Science.

This award is a fantastic honour and done by the members of my research group. The advances we are making in the Cambridge Centre for Medical Materials have the power to change lives and we are very grateful for this prestigious recognition of the work’s importance.

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Dr Isabel Clare has been appointed a Tutor and has served, with Dr Amber Ruigrok, as Acting Director of Studies in Psychological & Behavioural Sciences. She has also just been appointed to a panel convened by the national organisation, Skills for Care, to work with stakeholders to produce guidance for social care-givers supporting people with learning (intellectual disabilities) and/or autism and additional mental health needs. She received a grant of £41,000 from Strategic Research Funding, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust for a research programme on the use of transcutaneous nerve stimulation technology to decrease the aggressive behaviour problems associated with neurodevelopmental disabilities (learning disabilities and/or autism) or acquired brain injury (PI with Professor A.J. Holland). She has published collaborative articles in several reviews over the year: ‘Understanding self-reported difficulties in decision-making by people with autism spectrum disorders’ in Autism, ‘Prognostic models for identifying adults with intellectual disabilities and mealtime support needs who are at greatest risk of respiratory infection and emergency hospitalisation’ in J. Intellectual Disability Research and ‘The use of anti-psychotic and other psychotropic medication in a specialist community service for adults with learning disabilities’ in Tizard Learning Disability Review.

Dr Astrid Gall

is testament to innovative research being

Dr Isabel Clare appointed as College Tutor

Dr Astrid Gall published seven collaborative papers: ‘Role for virusspecific cytotoxic T lymphocytes in paediatric HIV cure strategies following widespread early escape’ in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, ‘Ensembl 2018’ in Nucleic Acids Research, ‘Genome-wide

evolutionary dynamics of influenza B virus on a global scale’ in PLOS Pathogens, ‘PHYLOSCANNER: Inferring Transmission from Within- and Between-Host Pathogen Genetic Diversity’ in Molecular Biology and Evolution, ‘The evolution of subtype B HIV-1 tat in the Netherlands during 1985-2012’ in Virus Research, ‘Rapid HIV Disease Progression following Superinfection in an HLA-B*27:05/B*57:01-positive Transmission Recipient’ in Retrovirology, and ‘Easy and Accurate Reconstruction of Whole HIV Genomes from Short-Read Sequence Data with shiver’ in Virus Evolution. Furthermore, she published a collaborative book chapter called ‘Workup of Human Blood Samples for Deep Sequencing of HIV-1 Genomes’ in Viral Metagenomics, Methods in Molecular Biology. As Outreach Officer at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory at the European Bioinformatics Institute, Astrid delivered many training events over the year. These were hosted by universities and research institutes locally in Cambridge, in the rest of the UK, Austria, The Netherlands, the Czech Republic and USA. She also taught a workshop at the 16th Annual Meeting of the Complex Trait Community in Glasgow.

Dr Sarah Gull wins Lifetime Achievement of Excellence Award In May, Dr Sarah Gull was presented with a Lifetime Achievement of Excellence Award by the West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds, where she worked as a consultant for 25 years. The hospital is part of the Clinical School, and is the base hospital for Lucy Cavendish students on the Cambridge Graduate Course in Medicine (CGCM). This year it was awarded “Outstanding” by the CQC, making it the highest ranking hospital in East Anglia and the Midlands. The hospital publication Shining Lights described Sarah, who retired in March as a consultant, as “kind, humble and always willing to help … a true inspiration”, and praised the “profound impact” of her work on the delivery of women’s health services.

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I am delighted to win the award, it is a great honour and I will display my glass plaque with pride! The tragic thing is that when I went along to the Awards Ceremony I had to leave early as there were 20 students waiting at Lucy Cavendish College for a teaching session. Such are life’s priorities… Dr Sarah Gull

Dr Anne-Laura van Harmelen awarded grant for suicide prevention research Dr Anne-Laura van Harmelen was awarded a grant of £550,000 by mental health charity MQ to research suicide prevention amongst young people. Suicide is the second leading cause of death among 15–29 year-olds globally. More young people die by suicide than from cancer, cardiovascular diseases, AIDS, birth defects, respiratory infections and diseases, and interpersonal violence. However, little is known about factors that make youth vulnerable to suicide. Anne-Laura’s research project, called ‘Help Overcome and Prevent the Emergence of Suicide’ (HOPES), aims to develop a model to predict who is at risk of suicide by analysing data on suicidal behaviour and traits in young people from across the world to identify specific, universal riskfactors. The project is expected to lead to improvements in clinical care and suicide prevention. She also co-authored a position paper in Nature Human Behaviour and a paper in JCP. She developed an online course about mental health for youth for Future Learn, part of The Open University. She gave a keynote talk at the Surrey symposium for safeguarding children and was also a guest at the BBC Tomorrows’ World live show at the beginning of the year.

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Dr Henriette Hendricks returns to new research project Dr Henriette Hendricks was the first Head of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics from 2011-2015, during which she was also the College Praelector and served on the College Council. She will return in Michaelmas 2018 after two one-year sabbaticals and will immediately start work on a new research project in Linguistics. Together with Professor Zoe Kourtzi, Dr Vicky Leong (a former Lucy Cavendish Sutasoma Research Fellow) and Dr John Williams, she has just been awarded a small grant from the Language Sciences Incubator Fund (a fund encouraging inter-disciplinary research in the language sciences). The project is entitled ‘Learning a language at your brain's pace’ and it investigates the possibility that (language) learning may be improved if the learning material is presented to the learner at a speed in sync with their individual brain activity.

Hanadi Jabado named in top 25 most influential business people 2017 In October 2017, Hanadi Jabado was named by Cambridge News as one of the top 25 most influential business people in Cambridge. Leading figures from the business community were honoured at a drinks reception held by the paper and hosted by Ceri Gould, editor-in-chief for the South East and Cambridge area at news publisher Reach PLC. 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 scaleups, 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.

Dr Isobel Maddison continues to support literature and the Elizabeth von Arnim Society The Elizabeth von Arnim Society, of which Dr Maddison is President, continues to grow apace. The society is planning a range of initiatives, but a key aim is to raise the profile of this skilled comic novelist. To this end, Lucy Cavendish hosted a oneday event in July to discuss von Arnim’s work. The society was delighted to welcome Alison Hennegan who gave the keynote lecture, entitled ‘Elizabeth von Arnim: Not a Feminist but...’, which offered new and inspiring ways to think about von Arnim’s writing. A panel discussion chaired by Dr Maddison followed, before Dr Juliane Romhild gave a fascinating insight into a recently discovered archive of von Arnim’s letters. The event was attended by scholars from Australia and the US, as well as members of von Arnim’s family. Others came along simply because they love von Arnim’s novels. The society’s steering group has exciting plans for the future. Another conference will take place in 2019 in Toulon, and plans are afoot for a walking tour of Rugen the following year to trace the pathways outlined in von Arnim’s book, The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rugen. Dr Maddison is currently editing Volume 11 of the Katherine Mansﬁeld year Book, to be published in 2019, which features the writing of von Arnim and her cousin, Katherine Mansfield. Literature continues to feature frequently in the College calendar. Lucy Cavendish

now works collaboratively with Literature Cambridge on a series of free, termly talks on Virginia Woolf and her contemporaries, which attract a cross-section of people from Cambridge and beyond. In January, the College welcomed Professor David Trotter, who spoke on Katherine Mansfield, while Professor Frances Spalding presented an illustrated talk on Virginia Woolf in Words and Pictures. The Easter Term was particularly busy for Dr Maddison in her role as Vice President, as Lucy Cavendish began the search for its ninth President. Everyone was very disappointed that Jackie Ashley was stepping down, but the College worked together swiftly and attracted a large field of well-qualified applicants, before Governing Body elected Professor Madeleine Atkins CBE FcSS in June.

Dr Eileen Nugent wins CUSU Award 2018 Tutor Dr Eileen Nugent has won a Cambridge University Students’ Union Award in the category of Supporting Students (NonAcademic). CUSU received 591 nominations from students who wanted to recognise the hard work that staff put in at Cambridge and the difference they make to students’ experiences. The awards celebrate those who teach, those who support teaching and learning, and those who provide pastoral and other support to students. The winners were announced at an awards ceremony in May. Dr Nugent, who is an Early Career Lecturer in biophysics at the Cavendish Laboratory and a Tutor at Lucy Cavendish, was nominated for the award by her tutee, PhD student Gracelin Baskaran, who said: “She was wonderful and made my life inﬁnitely easier.” Dr Nugent said that she felt honoured to have been given the award, remarking that “Too often the pursuit of academic excellence collides with the challenges that life sends our way and it’s not easy to ﬁnd time for anything else.”

Dr Karen Ottewell presented as first ever Proctor for Lucy Cavendish Lucy Cavendish College presented Dr Karen Ottewell as its first ever Proctor for the academic year 2018–19. She is only the thirteenth woman to hold the office at the University, as it was restricted to men until the 1970s. Karen is also a Tutor and Senior Treasurer of the Boat Club at Lucy Cavendish. She is Director of Academic Development and Training for International Students at the Cambridge University Language Centre and was awarded a Pilkington Prize for excellent teaching in 2016. Proctors are responsible for ensuring good order and discipline in the University, including overseeing examinations, serving on a number of University bodies, committees, and boards, attending discussions of University business at meetings of the Regent House, and administering the registration of University Societies. Their presence is essential at Congregations of the Regent House, the University’s governing body, for the conferring of degrees.

Dr Orsola Rath Spivack launches Biomaths competition Director of Studies in Mathematics at Lucy Cavendish College, Dr Orsola Rath Spivack has launched a new competition called ‘She Does Biomaths’ to encourage more girls and women into mathematics and related subjects (see College News, page 16).The competition is in addition to her work as Faculty Admissions Officer in the Maths Faculty. Working hard on innovation for widening participation and trying to attract more women in Mathematics, Orsola has continued to build on her research. In May she presented the work of her PhD student Yujun Qiao, ‘A New Adaptive Multiplicative Regularization’ at the International

Conference “Inverse Problems: Modeling and Simulation” in Malta. Her new publications this past academic year are entitled ‘Efficient boundary integral solution for acoustic wave scattering by irregular surfaces’, ‘Recovery of rough surface in ducting medium from grazing angle scattered wave’ and ‘Rough surface reconstruction from phaseless single frequency data at grazing angles’.

Dr Amber Ruigrok becomes Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy Dr Amber Ruigrok is now an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy after successfully completing the Cambridge Teaching Associate Programme. She spoke on Autism at the Cambridge Science Festival in March. She also presented on ‘What does the brain tell us about Autism?’ at the National Autism Congress in The Netherlands in March and presented on ‘Cognitive Emotion Regulation in Autism’ at the 30th Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar.

Dr Shona Wilson presents work on parasites Dr Shona Wilson hosted a two day meeting at Cambridge-Africa, Department of Pathology in October 2017 to discuss severe pathology due to the parasitic worm Schistosoma mansoni (Bilharzia) in Uganda. The meeting was attended by individuals from Uganda Ministry of Health, Makerere University (Kampala), Uganda Virus Research Institute, Royal Veterinary College and Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. The meeting was funded by a grant awarded by the Wellcome Trust Cambridge Centre for Global Health Research. She also presented her research to the College community at a talk in November called ‘This wormy world – humans and their parasites’.

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Dr Rumiana Yotova organises new Law Competition Dr Rumiana Yotova spoke at the CRASSH Fellows Work in Progress Seminar Series in February. When she was on sabbatical leave, she also organised the first Lucy Moot Court Competition, kindly sponsored by Old Square Chambers, a leading set of Barrister Chambers in London and Bristol. Melissa Wilson and YC Ng won the competition. They pleaded on issues of employment, non-discrimination and human rights law before HE Judge Eady from the Employment Appeal Tribunal. YC Ng won the Best Speaker award.

Jill Jameson and Marie Nedregotten Sørbø

Alumna Professor Jill Jameson returns as Visiting Fellow Back left to right: students Melissa Wilson, YC Ng, Alice Pilkington and Esther Marmulla. From left to right: HE Judge Eady, Jane McNeill QC.

News from Research Fellows Dr Emma Liu wins L’OréalUNESCO Women in Science Fellowship Research Fellow Dr Emma Liu has won a L’Oréal-UNESCO Women in Science Fellowship. The award honours the contributions women make in the scientific field based on the belief that “the world needs science, and science needs women”. It aims to encourage more young women to enter the profession and to assist them once their careers are in progress. Emma works at the forefront of volcanology; in conjunction with colleagues in Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Bristol, Emma is developing cutting-edge drone technology which will enable scientists to measure the gases and metals released by eruptions from previously inaccessible volcanoes. Her research has been published in several high impact journals, including Nature Geoscience and Bulletin of Volcanology.

I am delighted and honoured to win the award, both as acknowledgement of the work carried out already by me and my colleagues and because it will help me to continue advancing my research. The L’Oréal-UNESCO Fellowships are a wonderful celebration of women in science, and I hope to be able to inspire a future generation of female scientists in the same way I have been inspired by others.

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Dr Sarah Morgan presents to Institute of Physics Henslow Research Fellow, Dr Sarah Morgan published a review article on ‘A network neuroscience approach to typical and atypical brain development’ in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. She also published a research article entitled ‘Low dimensional morphospace of topological motifs in human fMRI brain networks’ in Network Neuroscience. She was honoured to be a finalist for the Institute of Physics’ Jocelyn Bell Burnell medal, and was invited to give a talk on her research at the Institute in London.

Dr Yvonne Zivkovic awarded Dame Anne Warburton Award Alice Tong Sze Research Fellow, Dr Yvonne Zivkovic, was given the annual Dame Anne Warburton Award to help support her research trip to the annual meeting of the German Studies Association in Pittsburgh, USA as a commentator and presenter. She co-hosted a literature event at Magdalene College in February and presented on ‘The Question of Intangible Heritage in German Migrant Writing’ as part of the Heritage Research Seminar at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. She also published a book chapter in The question of Space. Interrogating the Spatial Turn Between Disciplines (eds. Marijn Nieuwenhuis and David Crouch), about the African-American feminist critic and writer, bell hooks called ‘bell hooks’s Affective Politics of Space and Belonging’. The Lucy Cavendish Boat Club was pleased to welcome Yvonne to the W2 crew this year, and she helped them ‘Bump up’ to division two in May (see Rowing News).

Dr Kameri Christy shares work on domestic abuse Dr Kameri Christy joined the College for a year from the University of Arkansas to conduct research into domestic abuse against women. She conducted qualitative interviews with service providers and service users regarding experiences with the helping process, challenges to the helping process, resources available for women experiencing partner abuse, experiences of financial abuse, and recommendations to better assist women experiencing partner abuse. During her time here, she volunteered with the Women’s Rights Subgroup of Amnesty International and was invited to give a talk on Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) in the UK and US. She also gave a fascinating talk on ‘Coerced Consent’ at the College, in collaboration with College Associate Dr Sarada Chatterjee. She was awarded funding by the Research Grant Council (RGC) of Hong Kong and continued as Research Proposal Reviewer and Consulting Editor for Health & Social Work journal and as Reviewer for Advances in Social Work.

Professor Jill Jameson holds the role of Professor of Education and Chair/Director of the Centre for Leadership and Enterprise at the University of Greenwich. She read English at Lucy Cavendish in the 1980s and lived in a room in College House, now the Domestic Bursar’s office. Professor Jameson returned during the Lent Term as a Visiting Fellow and will now continue her links with Cambridge after being invited to become an Associate Member and Current Collaborator of the Cambridge Educational Dialogue Research Group (CEDiR) at the Faculty of Education for the next two years. During her time with us, she had numerous articles accepted for publication including ‘Critical Corridor Talk’: Just Gossip or Stoic Resistance? Unrecognised Informal Higher Education Leadership published in Higher Education quarterly and ‘Living Discourse’: Critical Pedagogic Coaching for Active Student Learning in Educational Technology in Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on e- Learning (ICEL), by Cape Peninsula University of Technology.

Professor Marie Nedregotten Sørbø publishes on Jane Austen Professor Marie Nedregotten Sørbø is Professor of English Literature at Volda University College, Norway. She joined us for Lent and Easter Terms 2018 as a Visiting Fellow, to enable her to collaborate on ongoing and planned research in women’s writing of the long nineteenth-century and to work on an application for an EU Horizon 2020 project in this field. In the past year she published a book called Jane Austen Speaks Norwegian: The Challenges of Literary Translation (Brill, 2018). She also published the articles, ‘Elusive Women Authors in Norwegian NineteenthCentury Reading Societies’ in NORA, 2017 and ‘Travelling Books: When Dorothe Engelbretsdatter went to America’ in the European Journal of Scandinavian Studies, 2017. She spoke at several conferences including ‘Teaching Women Writers’ in Ljubljana in November 2017, the DARIAH-EU Annual Event in Paris, May 2018, at the ’ Women’s Studies Group 1558-1837’ annual workshop in London in May 2018 and at ‘Cultural Encounters’ in Edinburgh in June 2018. We are delighted that she too, will continue her association with the College as an Associate.

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News from our Alumnae Sarah Tandy named by Guardian Music as one of the top 40 artists to watch for in 2018

Cherish Watton awarded RHS Undergraduate Public History Prize

Since returning to London after her time at Lucy Cavendish, Sarah Tandy (English, 2014) has become deeply involved with London’s jazz scene. She is currently a member of the house band at Ronnie Scotts on a Thursday night and has performed twice at the Ronnie Scotts International Piano Trio Festival with her Sarah Tandy Trio. She has also performed at the Berlin Jazz Festival, Jazz Timisoara in Romania and Love Supreme Festival, as well as touring Europe with the hiphop artist Akua Naru. She is due to perform solo at the Purcell Room this year as part of the London Jazz Festival. She has also been commissioned by the Performing Rights Society to compose a piece for their New Music Biennial, due to be performed at the South Bank in July next year, and broadcast on BBC Radio 3 (making a bit of use of her English degree, she has decided to base the piece on the poetry of Langston Hughes!). At the start of this year Sarah was identified by Guardian Music as one of the top 40 artists to watch for 2018. Her debut album is due for release in early 2019 on the Jazz Refreshed label.

Alumna Cherish Watton (History, 2014) has been awarded the first Royal Historical Society Undergraduate Public History Prize for her work on the Women’s Land Army and Women’s Timber Corps, carried out while studying at Lucy Cavendish College.

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

Madeleine Kasson serves up a taste of Shakespeare

In June, producer and actress Madeleine Kasson gave audiences a figurative and literal taste of Shakespeare, presenting tasty tidbits of seven plays, and serving them up alongside a seven-course tasting menu, inspired by the scenes themselves. Her immersive, female-led production, A Taste of Shakespeare, focused on some of Shakespeare’s strongest and best female roles – Titania, Katherine of Aragon, Kate – as well as using cross-gender casting. The cast included London Chicks favourite Emma Manton, as well as fellow RSC veterans Chris Nayak, Gabrielle Brooks, and Ross Waiton. It was directed by Jane Moriarty. The whole show revolved around food: the scenes all included food references, and the chef devised a full menu that incorporated each of these references. Even the venue was a nod to Shakespearean history. The Crypt at St Etheldreda’s Church in central London is medieval and has been a Catholic church since 1250. Henry VIII ate there in 1531, and in 1623 a congregation of Catholics were secretly buried there after they died tragically in Shakespeare’s own Blackfriars Gatehouse. Madeleine sometimes lets us know about Lucy Cavendish discounts, so do look out for special alumnae offers!

We didn’t go into this project thinking ‘Girl Power!’ We’re just doing what we love and being who we are: women making Shakespeare as good as it can be.

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Anna Lappala hits the headlines with research on Zika and Ebola viruses Anna Lappala is a researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory studying statistical physics and biophysics. Her work on the Ebola and Zika viruses attracted public attention this year, as it represents an essential step towards vaccine and therapeutic medicine development. Although the viruses that cause Ebola and Zika are very different, they share a strong similarity in how they first infiltrate a host’s cells. Anna and the team at Los Alamos used computer modelling to visually document the molecular calisthenics involved in invading a cell. Both viruses use a surface protein to initiate a process called ‘membrane fusion,’ which allows the viral entry into the host cell. Before membrane fusion starts, the two proteins (Ebola glycoprotein and Zika envelope) go through large conformational changes, taking on the physical shape that will allow them to fuse with the cell and begin the infection. The team modelled the structures of the two proteins in the fusion-initiation state, and used the structures to explain how four different antibodies in our bodies can fight the infection and block the viral entry, based on how they bind to the two proteins. Having modelled both the invasive protein structures and the antibodies fighting off the infection, the researchers were able to see that the antibodies take a multilevel approach to the battle they wage. Anna is confident that this modelling approach will be useful in the prediction and assessment of antibody binding to the viral proteins – an area of vast interest for its medical applications.

Selina Mills donates photo of Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan Alumna, journalist and disability campaigner Selina Mills (MPhil,1997) has donated a photo of two inspirational women, Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan to the College. The picture is now hanging in the President’s Office. Helen Adams Keller (27 June 1880 – 1 June 1968) was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deaf-blind person to earn a BA degree. Annie Sullivan was her teacher and lifelong companion, who helped Keller to overcome the many obstacles in her path to education despite herself being blind. Selina said:

Sarah said: I think it’s important to have mentors

Cherish said:

I am honoured and delighted to receive this award and I hope it highlights

(dead or alive!) and I hope that this photo will remind Lucy students that education is

The prize is supported by the Institute for Historical Research and the Historical Association, and it recognises work by undergraduate students that interprets and explores the past in a creative and innovative way. Cherish was awarded the prize for her essay on ‘Democratic and Critical Commemoration of the Women’s Land Army in Twentieth-Century Britain’. This charted the history of the website, www.womenslandarmy.co.uk from its birth as an Extended Project Qualification at Dereham Sixth Form College, to now being the national online hub for information on the WLA in the First and Second World War, alongside the Women’s Timber Corps.

It’s a really exciting time for music at

essential and achievable, regardless of

the moment, as the scene is so vibrant and

disability. Helen Keller attended Harvard

diverse. Whilst my own background is in

(Radcliffe) at a time when women were not

traditional jazz, my engagement with the

accepted easily into higher education. The

scene has brought me a much deeper

fact that she was blind, deaf and mute, did

understanding of many other styles of

not curtail her desire to live life fully and

music including afrobeat, reggae, hiphop

with passion – something Lucy Cavendish

and grime

the valuable part which undergraduates can play in offering critical, accessible, and engaging histories to a range of audiences both online and in person. I have striven to place public outreach, whether online, on air, or in person, at the heart of my work as an undergraduate at Lucy Cavendish and now as an MPhil student at Churchill College.

helped instil in me

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IN MEMORIAM

In memoriam

Ernest Hecht OBE | 21 September 1929 – 13 February 2018 By Baroness Pauline Perry

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

Through the Ernest Hecht Foundation, Ernest Hecht was a generous donor and a good friend to Lucy Cavendish and always delighted in his association with the College.

Queenie May Davies | 24 May 1929 – 3 August 2017

independent publishing houses in Britain, and he remained in charge of it, with a small staff only, to his death in February this year. His list was famously eclectic, including world best-sellers like Arthur Hailey’s blockbusters or Erich von Daniken’s ‘Chariot of the Gods’ ; books from Nobel prize Winners like Knut Hamsun and Pablo Neruda all rubbing shoulders with PG Wodehouse and Che Guevara as well as cheeky books like ‘Knickers; an intimate appraisal’. He cared about books above all else - believing that even books which would never make a profit should sometimes be on his list if they were what he called ‘worthy’.

By Natasha Squire One always felt cheered by May’s very presence. Coming up to the first floor of College House, I often picture her sitting at her old typewriter by the window of the tiny Tutorial Office, turning to give me a glowing smile and warm greeting. May was an extraordinary person. She was very private, yet ready to communicate about her family, her life outside the College, her ideas and concerns. When she joined Lucy Cavendish, she was single-handedly bringing up her three children, Sally, Susan and Simon. She would often talk about what they were doing, and how much comfort they gave her. Although May was very frail and slim in appearance, she conveyed a sense of firmness and inner strength. She managed to look elegant even when she felt unwell, and a strong sense of duty impelled her to be at work. She really enjoyed working for us all in College. She looked after three Tutors, Directors of Studies, committees relating to student matters, minutes, the telephone (which rang incessantly), and students coming in for a kind word, or with a problem. We had no computers then, of course, no electronic equipment, just one old “banger”, and yet documents appeared on time, without any panic or delay. She and I often jokingly competed with each other as to who would be last to leave, until eventually we would leave together, firmly locking the door behind us (no kindly Porters in those days). May generated a deep sense of trust. She kept safe many secrets. There was a charming twinkle in her eyes, and a sense of fun. She found solace in her faith and after she retired, did plenty of work for her church, giving generously of her time, interpersonal skills, and efficiency. She had a little house not far from Cambridge and it was a joy to meet her unexpectedly in town.

Ernest Hecht OBE with Baroness Perry His was a remarkable life. Born in 1929 in Moravia, Czechoslovakia, he came to England as a young ‘Kindertransport’ refugee just before World War 2. Both his parents were eventually able to be with him and the family settled in London - the city which Ernest loved all his life. He hated the countryside! A graduate in Economics from Hull, Ernest took to the publishing business with passion. In 1951 he founded Souvenir Press in the back bedroom of his parents’ home and with a loan of £250 from his father. The company became one of the most successful

Ernest was, though, more than a publisher. He produced concerts and presented many theatrical productions, earning the lifelong friendship of many top performers of the stage. The lunch to celebrate his OBE was a joyously unforgettable occasion when his self-appointed ‘fan club’ assembled to congratulate and thank him for just being our unique and special friend. The College is immensely grateful to him for the gifts from his Charitable Foundation. Founded to ‘make a difference’ in the lives of the disadvantaged, as well as promoting the arts and education, its reach was inspiring. He was proud of his association with the College and loved to meet and hear about the lives of those fortunate students who received awards from his Foundation. Warm, clever and loyal, Ernest Hecht will be remembered with huge affection by all those of us lucky enough to have been his friends.

She was given full privileges of the Combination Room and was happy and delighted to receive them at the end of a career which left a trail of quiet joy, success and warmth. A great lady, beloved mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, and sadly missed by all who were privileged to know her.

Moira Lavery-Callaghan | 16 February 1937 – 9 February 2018 by Marie Howes (Sillitto)

Elizabeth Parker (née Burney) | Died 27 April 2018 By Professor W.R. Cornish and Jillinda Tiley Elizabeth (Liz) spent her whole life researching, and her first permanent job after Lady Margaret Hall – where she read History, and completed a postgraduate qualification in Legal History, on the Norman French – was in the Intelligence Unit of The Economist. There she met her husband, Alan, and they came to live in Stockwell where their two sons were born. Later, Alan worked with an oil company and later still, was appointed Bursar of Christ’s College. Liz then joined the Law Faculty, working in the Department of Criminology, and added to her already impressive list of books and articles, all concerned with different aspects of society. Much of her

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research was on specific projects for the Home Office. She had been Chairman of the Lady Margaret Hall Settlement, and wrote on social housing, Brixton youth street crime, ASBOs, and also on magistrates, besides other pertinent matters. Liz had no personal College affiliation, and was delighted to become a member of the Lucy Cavendish Combination Room, attending many dinners and other social events. Criminology as part of the Law Tripos was not in great demand at the time, partly because of the professional demands on Law students, but Liz was happy to supervise the occasional student who

opted for it. Her experience and gentle encouragement was invaluable. She enjoyed travelling, particularly in Spain with her husband. Sadly, Alan died rather rapidly of pancreatic cancer. Two years later Liz’s older son also died, of lung cancer, leaving a widow and two sons, now in their teens. After her retirement she took classes at the U3A and went on exceptionally interesting holidays, always satisfying her great interest in so many subjects. She is survived by her younger son (who was at Magdalene) and his and his brother’s families. At her request, she had a woodland burial.

We were sad to learn of Moira’s death earlier this year. Moira was very loyal to the College, where she had studied Law in the early 1980s. She was a benefactor, supported College events and served on several committees, all with great enthusiasm. In 2005 she was Treasurer of the Lucy Alumnae Association. I first met Moira when we came on the same day for interview at Lucy Cavendish nearly four decades ago: two not-soyoung, nervous, prospective students. She talked about her North-Eastern roots and referred to St Bede as ‘local lad made good’, I remember. What stayed with me through the years that I knew her was her sense of commitment. First and foremost to her

family: to her sons, Patrick and Nick, but most of all to her beloved grandson, ‘our Simon’ as she referred to him; then to her friends, and to the College. Her commitment and her dry sense of humour stood out. Though our paths went in different directions after we graduated, we managed to remain in contact, sometimes by chance, sometimes by design. Latterly I was amused by her description of her U3A maths class: she called it ‘Elephants and Teapots’, because, she said, ‘Who would come to it if I just called it “Maths” or “Numbers?”’. She also led much-appreciated U3A classes in Northumbrian Celtic church history and culture, in which she had a continued interest.

A colourful character, she was indefatigable, loyal, funny, witty and wise. She will be - is greatly missed by those who knew her.

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Dr Valerie Christine Joysey (nee Jesseman) | 19 June 1929 – 24 August 2017 By Dr Clare B Morgan and Dr Jane M Renfrew

We were deeply saddened when Valerie Joysey, one of the College’s Founding Fellows, died on 24 August 2017, aged 89. Her extensive scientific research was mainly in the field of Immunology and Physical Anthropology. She was particularly renowned for the part she played in setting up and running the Tissue Typing Laboratory at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in collaboration with Professor Roy Calne and the organ transplant team.

occasionally, particularly as she had been appointed as Principle Scientific Officer in Tissue Typing at Addenbrooke’s in 1974, and as an Associate Lecturer in the Department of Pathology in 1977. Her work on leucocyte antigens in humans and animals often took her to different countries, including the USA, Europe and Malaysia, either to carry out practical work or to take part in conferences or workshops. In 1978 she spent 7 weeks in Malaysia obtaining blood samples of leprosy patients to study human leucocyte antigens in susceptibility to leprosy, with support from the World Health Organisation. Then similarly in 1979 she went there to obtain blood samples of families, some of whom had leprosy, to study inheritance of disease susceptibility.

After graduating with a BSc in Zoology in London Valerie taught biology in a school for two years. In 1952 she came to Cambridge and became a member of Newnham College while working as Research Assistant to Dr R.R.A. Coombs in the Department of Pathology doing research on pig and rabbit blood groups. She was awarded a PhD in 1957 for a thesis on red cell antigens in the rabbit. She then spent several years caring for her young children under school age but continued to do some teaching in Zoology for various colleges. During this period she joined the Dining Group of women who did not have College Fellowships, and when they were planning to start a new college she was involved with preparing a possible constitution. In 1965 she became a Fellow of the Lucy Cavendish Collegiate Society and was a member of their Governing Body. At this time there were no undergraduates, only postgraduate researchers and a few graduate students. One of their roles was to help women academics to return to professional life after having a break in their careers, as was the case with Valerie. In 1966 she joined United Cambridge Hospitals to investigate tissue typing, while also continuing with her immunological research in the University Department of Pathology. In 1967-70 she set up the Tissue Typing Laboratory, working in collaboration with Professor Roy Calne and Consultant Nephrologist Dr David Evans, and then became responsible for running the service in Addenbrooke’s. In 1973, with her ever increasing research work and her responsibilities at Addenbrooke’s, Valerie understandably decided to resign from the College’s Governing Body in order to allow her more time to concentrate on her scientific work. She subsequently became an Honorary Member of the Combination Room for her lifetime. Over a period of years she only came into the College

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On some of these occasions she was accompanied by her husband, Dr Kenneth Joysey, who was Director of the Cambridge Museum of Zoology for 25 years, and by their daughters, Anita and Heather, and they had great adventures together. He and Valerie had very similar interests, and from 1970 Ken became involved in the study of molecular evolution. This resulted in conversations about proteins being a normal part of domestic life. They both had wide interests in science, and love of nature and all forms of wildlife, and these were passed on enthusiastically to their children and grandchildren. Valerie became recognised internationally as an expert in her field, publishing over 50 papers and receiving many invitations to lecture and write reviews on the subject. She seemed to be forever active in many spheres, a very feisty and forthright individual, always cheerful yet stoical in times of adversity. She never let the grass grow under her feet, and so no wonder she didn’t have time to come into the College very often! However, she maintained an interest in its progress and said how much she valued the association. After she retired in 1994 and Ken died in 2012, she was able to attend College events more frequently and it was a pleasure to see her again. When the College received its Royal Charter in 1997 and became a full College within the University, Prince Philip, our College Visitor, came to celebrate with us and unveiled a commemorative plaque. Valerie was present on this occasion and was presented to him as one of our distinguished Founding Fellows. This was a memorable and rewarding occasion for her, as also for the many members of the College who had worked over the years to raise the profile of the College. After retiring she continued her interest and joy in nature. In 2017 she enjoyed a few days at a wildlife hotel in Scotland before becoming ill and having to return home, where she later passed away on 24th August.

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