Lucy Cavendish College Annual Review 2019/20

Annual Review 2019–2020

Contents Welcome from the 9th President SECTION ONE: THE COLLEGE YEAR

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Senior Tutor’s Report

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Development Director’s Report

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Admissions Director’s Report Librarian’s Report Bursar’s Report

Domestic Bursar’s Report

The Garden in Pictures Staff News Other College News SECTION TWO: THE STUDENT YEAR

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Students’ News

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Celebrating Student Achievement

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Students’ Union Report Research Day 2020 SECTION THREE: SPECIAL EVENTS

Visiting speakers

Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize SECTION FOUR: SPORTS AND MUSIC

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Sport News

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Music Report

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Rowing Report

SECTION FIVE: NEWS FROM OUR FELLOWS

Fellows’ News SECTION SIX: NEWS FROM ALUMNAE

Alumnae News In Memoriam

Thank you to our donors

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Welcome

FROM THE PRESIDENT Professor Dame Madeleine Atkins, 9th President of Lucy Cavendish College I do hope that you, your family and friends are keeping well during this difficult and uncertain time.

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ome 18 months has passed since the Fellowship of the College decided that we would change our admissions policy in 2021 to accept men as well as women from the age of 18 years. We also decided that we should aim to grow our student numbers in such a way that the College becomes broadly representative of UK society and also seeks to admit outstanding international students from a diverse range of backgrounds including those from low-income families. We will, of course, continue to admit and support women of mature age, but also now students from other under-represented groups at Cambridge so that they, too, thrive academically and progress to aspirational careers in equal ratios to their more affluent and socially well-connected peers. It’s going to be busy – but exciting!

At graduate level we were delighted this academic year to be in a position to offer ‘matched’ Rowan Williams’ studentships to two MPhil students who come from conflict zones and we are hugely grateful to our donors who have generously established these awards.

In line with our focus at postgraduate level on interdisciplinary learning and research, we welcomed two new Junior Research Fellows to the College community. One is focusing on the complex situation of women and children caught up in camps in North Africa for migrant refugees, and the other is researching the experience of debt and its amelioration in low-income households in three local authority areas in the UK. Our postdoctoral members of the college now number 40 and are bringing great vivacity to our community with regular research seminars, social events, and mentoring schemes.

We have also welcomed this year 13 new Fellows, including our first men, and are delighted with the additional range of expertise they all bring, not least in building up a full complement of Directors of Studies for the subjects that we will be recruiting to, at scale, for the first time in 2021.

And there is a real sense of purpose that we will, at last, be able to admit young women to STEM Triposes where they still remain under-represented.

As we grow our student intake at undergraduate and postgraduate levels from 2021, we will need more community facilities and more student accommodation.

We are therefore embarking on two new estates developments. First, at our Lady Margaret Road site, we are seeking planning permission for a new building that will provide 72 student study bedrooms and a large cafécum-social learning area on the ground floor. The building has been designed to low-carbon, Passivhaus standards which will reduce our carbon footprint and align ourselves with the Cambridge Zero initiative now established across the University. We have been delighted also to be able to work with the charity Leonard Cheshire on the details of the design so as to ensure that the building will be as accessible and inclusive as possible.

The second estates project is not at this stage so far advanced but is focused on establishing a Hub for our graduates and mature-age undergraduates at the University’s Eddington site. (You may remember it as the North West Cambridge site.) This site has also been planned to achieve low carbon emissions. Here, we are working with the University on a range of design options.

The plan under consideration is that the University would build the Hub which we would then occupy as tenants.

So we have a rather full programme of actions ahead of us but are greatly encouraged by the significant support we are receiving from the Vice-Chancellor himself, and from other colleges, for our renewed mission and growth.

And also from so many of you, our alumnae and friends, who are providing much-needed advice based on your own experiences, and demonstrating your commitment to that renewed vision through new donations and legacies.

These will mean that many more outstanding students from under-represented groups with great academic and leadership potential will now get the opportunity to come to Cambridge and benefit from its world-leading education. You remain indispensable to our future and we thank you all for your on-going and considerable support.

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Section 1

THE COLLEGE YEAR

Senior Tutor’s Report REPORT BY DR JANE GREATOREX

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he past academic year has been a whirlwind of new initiatives, new staff and of course, we had to adapt to incredibly difficult circumstances. The educational and support focus was around preparing the College for the 2021 intake whilst improving and maintaining the teaching and welfare support for the current cohort of students. Much has been achieved and learnt despite all.

Before the start of term, we successfully ran our first ever, fully inclusive, Bridging Week for all our first-year undergraduate students. It aimed to help attendees settle into student and college life from both a social and academic perspective and familiarise themselves with their surroundings. The concept has been expanded and adapted due to Covid-19 but also with improvements for 2021 in mind.

Following last year’s success, we chose a new theme for this academic year, Connections on which we based a few of our talks preceding Formal Hall in the first term. We held a Connections event, in partnership with AstraZeneca, a unique project that brought together scientists, poets, school children, students and the general public in a one-off inter-disciplinary event. Scientist-poet pairs presented their own poems and the scientific research the poems were based on. Unfortunately, we could not carry on in-person seminars and talks, so we launched our #LucyinLockdown talks series, featuring several members of the Lucy Community (including me).

We launched a termly series of academic skills sessions for undergraduates and postgraduates, designed to provide skills and techniques to perform really well academically. The well received programme was in person in the first half of the year went on-line during lockdown and the summer. Recording the sessions means that students can access events anytime and from anywhere - particularly useful where students are in different time zones.

Optimise your Future is a message that College started promoting and a continued interaction with both the central careers service and our own initiatives and will be again in place next academic year. We piloted Catalyst events, managing, despite the disruptions, to run two face-to-face sessions in Michaelmas and Lent Terms.

These were events with panels of Alumnae and Fellows who spoke about alternative and different ways of using the participants’ skills set and degree.

Make your Impact is our programme aimed at encouraging enterprise and an enterprising approach to studies amongst the student body. Planning was carried out over the course of 2019-20 and student engagement will start as part of new undergraduate on-boarding in September 2020.

A major goal since College first started on the path of expansion and widening participation, has been to develop the teaching staff both in terms of their own training and development. The teaching staff have also expanded as the number of students has risen. The pandemic brought with it major, rapid changes so we have all had to learn new ways of teaching. Thanks must go to IT for enabling us to teach in a virtual environment and thanks must also go to the Assistant Senior Tutor who used her experience to deliver additional and valuable teaching of the same.

Despite the circumstances, all our students sitting exams, completing assessments, or uploading dissertations, were able to do so. Remarkable. A big thank you goes to the Tutorial team who, with all additional stress that the pandemic brought on top of exams, carried on and did a brilliant job. I would also like to thank the Library, Admissions and Tutorial who kept going and made sure that we supported, graduated and admitted our students.

Welfare in College continues to play a major role in supporting students. In 2019-20, all the existing provision continued, including the free yoga, core strength training and all the events organised by the Library and Tutorial Teams. Due to lockdown the latter was virtual and well received. Counselling continued in College with in-house provision two days a week, supporting the main University services. During lockdown (and on-going) this became virtual and was able to reach students wherever they were around the world. Our College Nurse also continued her visits to College during all terms.

To conclude, the academic year 2019-20 turned out to be one of extraordinary circumstances. The pandemic has not finished and will continue to affect all our lives for some time to come. I would like to thank all College staff for their hard work in supporting our students this year.

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Admissions Director’s report REPORT BY DR MARK KING

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was delighted to be appointed in March as the College’s new Admissions Director and am very excited to be taking over the role as the College embarks upon this new phase in its life. I think it’s fair to say I couldn’t have anticipated when I started how much the next few months would then be dominated by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the implications this would have for Higher Education admissions across the UK, but I’m proud of how we have responded as a College and the successes we have enjoyed in the face of this adversity. We ran an entirely virtual admissions round in March, which puts us in good stead for our first round as a standard-age College this autumn, and have adapted our outreach provision to focus on online events for the foreseeable future. We have also worked more closely than ever with our offer-holders, both undergraduate and postgraduate, to support them through these difficult times such that they will hopefully be able to take up their places here this autumn.

As we look to the future, we have worked to develop our new admissions policy and an accompanying outreach and recruitment strategy that will allow us to achieve the goals of our transition. Lucy Cavendish has now committed publicly to the ambitious target of becoming the first Cambridge College to admit a majority of its students from underrepresented or disadvantaged backgrounds, and our message has been very well received by the students and teachers with whom we have worked this year. Our new programme of outreach and recruitment events will combine in-person events (when permitted again!) such as subject experience days, visits from schools and colleges and our first ever STEM residential with a broader package of online support, including bespoke webinars for our partner schools, subject enrichment material and admissions advice resources. Beyond this, every student who attends one of these events will be given the chance to enrol on our digital ongoing engagement programme, which will be designed to maintain their connection with the College and to support them to apply to us.

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The organisation and implementation of this programme will fall largely to our new Outreach Officer, Caitlin Law, who joined our team in October as part of a wider restructuring that is intended to support our transition to standard-age admissions and our new focus on underrepresented students. Caitlin is a former teacher with a longstanding commitment to widening participation in Higher Education and her input has been crucial to the development of our new initiatives.

Elsewhere within the team, Lucy Bunker has moved to Undergraduate Admissions Officer, whilst Gaby Jones is now Admissions Officer for Postgraduate Applications and the Graduate Course in Medicine.

As our mission changes to reflect the reality of Higher Education admissions in the twenty-first century, working with mature students will remain an important part of our remit. Such students remain significantly underrepresented at Cambridge and we fully intend to continue to support, recruit and admit mature applicants to the University and to continue the collaborative mature outreach work that we pioneered over the last few years.

Both this work and our new outreach activities are enabled by the generous donations we have received from alumnae and other benefactors and we are especially grateful for such support during these challenging times.

Development Director’s report REPORT BY JO RYAN

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t has been an extraordinary year defined by the effects of COVID-19. The intense disruption caused to all aspects of our lives has been challenging but I hope that throughout you and those close to you have stayed safe and well.

Highlights of College life before March included the most well attended alumnae reunion dinner to date, the Connections event in partnership with AstraZeneca which brought together eight scientist-poet pairs in a unique interdisciplinary project and regional alumnae events in Oxford and Manchester.

Although for the last few months Development Office staff have not been physically in College, we have tried to maintain a ‘business as usual’ approach whilst also looking to the future. It was important to adapt quickly to reach out to as many members of the Lucy community as possible whether living in Cambridge or half way around the world. Lucy in Lockdown has proved to be the perfect medium to do this and I warmly encourage you to watch any talks you have missed on the Lucy YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/ UCgPMUNu3iiZEU13Zo3nR86w. Please sign up for our future talks via the website: www.lucy.cam.ac.uk.

Several Meet the President events have also taken place with alumnae and friends participating via Zoom from all corners of the globe for these virtual get-togethers. We will be adding more events and virtual reunions to the programme over the coming months and we would love to have your ideas on content, speakers etc. so please do get in touch.

Fundraising will be instrumental to the success of our ambitions for the future. Building on the vision of our Founders, from 2021 we will grow at scale and admit the majority of our students from disadvantaged backgrounds or under-represented groups. Fundraising will ensure Lucy’s long-term financial sustainability, attract the brightest minds - irrespective of background - and build state-of-the-art facilities creating the optimum environment for learning, research, collaboration and recreation.

We are fortunate to have an engaged and committed Campaign Foundation Board who provide advice and guidance on all fundraising activities. Derek Laud, a pioneer of wider access to Oxbridge, is an expert Chair.

Alec Russell (Editor, FT Weekend), Christopher Whitney (Director, Principal Gifts at the University’s Development Office), Freddy McGraw (J. Stern & Co.) and a very familiar name to most of you, former Lucy President, Baroness Perry of Southwark join him. They all give generously of their time and talents and the President and I are extremely grateful for their expertise and support. And we are delighted that the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Stephen Toope, continues to advocate on our behalf.

COVID aside, this is an exciting time for our College - but we recognise and appreciate that the future to which we aspire is only possible because of the support and encouragement of all the members of our community.

Whether you are an alumna, a volunteer, a member of staff, a Fellow, a donor, an Associate or a student - on behalf of all of the Development team, I offer my heartfelt thanks.

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The gardens in winter 2019

Librarian’s Report REPORT BY SUZANNE TONKIN

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his really has been a year like no other, but the academic year did at least start as it usually does with the welcome extended to our new students. The Library participated in the College’s pioneering Bridging Week for new undergraduates, which allowed us to deliver our tours and introduce our new students to the Library’s services earlier than usual, helping them to get off to a flying start.

The Library organises the College’s Academic Skills programme in collaboration with the Tutorial Office, and this year the programme expanded to include an increased number and wider range of events. The timetable was tied much more closely to the academic year and one benefit of this was that sessions on presentation skills, poster design and data presentation could be timed to support the College Research Day in Lent. We now have a solid foundation on which to base the skills offering for the coming year and although many of the sessions will be delivered online, this will have the advantage of allowing more students to access the resources at a time that suits them.

Work with Libraries@Cambridge to further develop our i-Discover catalogue continued this year and our students now benefit from the automatic renewal of their Lucy Library books – remembering due dates and manually logging on to renew are, happily, now a thing of the past.

Of course, the unprecedented effects of the pandemic have been this year’s overriding concern and In common with the rest of College, we have worked to support our students in the continuation of their studies, wherever they may be in the world. We collaborated with Library colleagues across Cambridge to deal with the books that students had to return quickly at the point of lockdown, in many cases to the “wrong” library. As a result, over the summer we crated up and redistributed almost 500 books to their home libraries, thus saving students the stress of having to visit multiple sites before their journeys home. Our book retrieval service also helped to support students when e-books of particular titles were not available. We were ably helped with this by the President

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who acted on our calls for help when Library staff were not on site, for which we are extremely grateful. We also offered a remote enquiry service and liaised with our E-books@Cambridge colleagues at the UL to request and recommend new electronic titles on behalf of our students. Planning for the new academic year has seen much of our start of year support moving online, but as I write, we are at the advanced stages of planning for our re-opening to readers in September. It will be a welcome sight to have our students working in the Library again and our aim is for Library space to be as welcoming as it always has been.

As ever, thanks should go to our Assistant Librarian Amanda Hawkes and Library Assistant Gill Saxon for their hard work over the course of the year and thanks too to all our donors – we are incredibly grateful for your support and good wishes.

Bursar’s Report

BY LESLEY THOMPSON

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wrote last year about the constancy of change in the College - little did I know just how radically change would affect all our lives this year, wherever we are in the world, as the COVID pandemic has brought challenges to us all. From the College perspective, it has been wonderful to see how our dedicated staff teams in every area have quickly adapted to the new circumstances and are continuing to work, for the benefit of our students, with such dedication to carry out their roles, whether in College or working from home.

As is to be expected, the pandemic has had an impact upon the financial position of the College. In March, the University and colleges agreed to encourage students to return home wherever possible and informed students that all tuition and assessment in Easter term would be delivered virtually by digital means. There was subsequent agreement across the collegiate University that students would not be charged rent for Easter term.

This led to a loss of income for the College of about £400k.

Unfortunately, as we rent some of the accommodation that we provide, we still had to pay rent to the landlords; fortunately, we were able to agree deferrals of payments until our cashflow was stronger. In addition to this, the College lost some conference income in 2019/20. However, as our financial year runs from 1 July to 30 June, a much larger loss of income will occur in 2020/21 (estimated £600k) as most of the conference activity usually takes place from July to September. Although the College’s investment portfolio fell by about 18% in March it had already rebounded by June to nearer its value at the end of the previous year. Two positive factors in the College weathering these financial challenges have been (i) the Government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, allowing us to retain all of our permanent staff; and (ii) intercollegiate support in the form of the Colleges’ Fund whereby the better endowed colleges support the lesser endowed colleges. Usually, grants from this Fund are required to be added to the endowments of the recipient colleges, but this year approval was given for them to be used to cover operational expenditure. Overall, these factors helped the College to manage this difficult period.

Despite these uncertainties and challenges, we have pressed ahead with our ambitious development plans, not least as we believe that these will support the College’s long term financial sustainability. During the year, we have undertaken detailed financial modelling, incorporating the impact of COVID, to support our plans. We were pleased that the University has agreed in principle to offer the College a long term loan of around £15m in support of our developments, particularly our planned new building on site which will provide new student accommodation and a café for the whole College community. Environmental sustainability is also important in all our activities and this new building will be built to the Passivhaus standard. We hope that the new building will be open in time for the start of the academic year in 2022.

Our commitment to seeing through our development plans whilst at the same time also seeking to ensure that the College is providing as safe an environment as possible for its students and staff in light of COVID is financially challenging. We are expecting that a similar relaxation of the rules to allow the Colleges’ Fund grant to be used operationally will again help to smooth the path in 2020/21 but we are also all the more grateful to all who so generously support the College in whatever way – every donation makes a real difference. 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: www.lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk/about-us/reports-accounts/

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Domestic Bursar’s Report

BY CHRISTINE HOUGHTON

It has been another busy and productive year at Lucy Cavendish.

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he catering team have worked hard to entice students and College members to dine in Hall, and at Nautilus Café/Bar. The addition of a Barista coffee machine has added to its popularity. The students have organised a number of events in the Nautilus, including our renowned ‘bops’. We are committed to being as sustainable as possible, and have been focusing particularly on vegetarian and vegan meals. Formal Halls in Michaelmas were very well attended.

Due to Covid all Formal and served meals stopped in March 2020. We did continue to provide a catering service offering a takeaway lunch service for our students staying in college and they also had the ability to order meals for evening and weekends.

As well as catering provision, the Domestic Bursary is responsible for co-ordinating a lively programme of conferences, summer schools and events, plus refurbishment projects and general maintenance during the summer of 2019. Some of our clients have been with us for over a decade – this repeat business is testament to the excellent relationships we have fostered with a number of organisers and companies. We are also always looking for potential new business relationships and this year we welcomed some new clients to our portfolio.

Sadly, Covid had a grave impact on conference business.

The team worked hard to keep in touch with our clients, but all events had to be cancelled from March 2020 onwards. We continue to encourage them to move their booking or event to 2021.

During the summer of 2019, we undertook a number of refurbishment projects including: • Refurbished 13 kitchens in Oldham Hall. The sets all have stylish, new, contemporary kitchens • Refurbished balconies in De Brye, Bertram and Marshall House • Along with Blenheim Court residents we organised a replacement roof on the building shared by six flats • Created a larger office on the ground floor of College House, by knocking a small office and storeroom into one • Completed new tiling on the floor in the entrance of the Porters’ Lodge.

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Paris Tague joined College in June 2019 to work with the Domestic Bursary team, the Bursar and HR Manager. As well as dealing with conference enquiries coming in from MEET Cambridge and helping with all event bookings internal and external she and Katie Clarke have been very involved in dealing with all aspects of accommodation a large task. They have both worked hard at populating modules to create an event and booking system and we look forward to using it fully in the near future. I could not have better support.

On 5th February 2020 I was delighted to attend a drinks party in College to mark my 30 years as Domestic Bursar.

The guests included current Fellows, staff and SU, retired Fellows and staff, colleagues from other colleges and the University, contractors, conference organisers and family.

It was so nice to see so many people from the many parts of my college life.

I was very touched by the lovely address by the President.

I also have to thank Katie for the rolling picture gallery, catering and the beautiful cake.

I feel very privileged to have been part of the ongoing growth of this wonderful, inspiring college. I remember so fondly students throughout the decades from the day they arrive to the day they graduate. I have been part of the expansion of our estate when I started in 1990, when

there were around 50 study/bedrooms and a dining hall that held 50. We now look after around 300 units of accommodation and have a wonderful dining hall that can host Formal Dinners for 150, as well as our recent Nautilus Café/Bar. When I started in 1990 we had very few conference bookings and before COVID hit us we were turning over almost 800 k a year and had built up a very loyal following with many groups coming back year on year.

I have worked with some lovely people over the years.

Too many to mention. They made my job possible. Their dedication and loyalty never ceases to amaze me.

Time and things do not stay still at Lucy Cav and I so look forward to the next chapters. I’d like to thank everyone that has made this job so interesting and exciting, and always such a delight. They do say ‘time passes quickly when you’re having fun’ and that is certainly the case here.

Covid has had an impact on all our teams. Our students have had great support from all departments in College.

From March Deborah and her team in Housekeeping and Martin and his team in Catering have continued to provide services to all. We will continue to provide the very best service we can to all College members as we adapt to the ‘new normal’ and aim to keep everyone well fed whilst minimizing the risks to all.

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Staff News

REPORT BY ALISON BURMBY, HR MANAGER

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o support the ongoing changes to the College, Human Resources continued to provide Project Management training, along with Presentation Skills, Unconscious Bias and Health & Safety training. A session on the use of Hearing Loops was provided for the conferencing team to ensure that we can fully support delegates with hearing aids.

• Ben Griffin joins as IT Support Officer servicing both Lucy Cavendish College and Murray Edwards College • Flavia Bartoletti initially joined as Administrative and Events Assistant and has since been promoted to Communications and Marketing Officer • Shelley Gregory-Jones joined the Development team as a part-time Trusts and Foundations Officer

The College introduced e-days, an online holiday and absence management system to streamline the booking and recording process.

DEPARTURES:

ARRIVALS: • Caitlin Law joined as Schools Liaison Officer to help promote the College to potential undergraduate and graduate applicants • As Section Chef, Mark Gashi joined us from Newnham College to strengthen the Catering Team • Niamh Mulcahy, with the support of the Allerdale Investment Partnership, joined as Research Fellow and Lorena Gazzotti as Alice Tong Sze Research Fellow • Marifino De Almeida, Jude Arnold and Elena Gemaledin joined Housekeeping to maintain our high standards across the College • As Secretary to Senior Tutor, Sammy Peters provides administrative support to Senior Tutor • Ella Barrett has joined as Administrator to help support the Development Team • Dr Mark King joins as Admissions Director from Christ’s College. Mark studied at the University of Cambridge and previously taught History

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• Victoria Harvey left as Admissions Director • Michael Mantell left as Chef after 17 years at the College • Richard Saunders left as Domestic Porter/Housekeeping Assistant • Catherine Quinn, Alumnae and Events Officer and Callie Vandewiele, Fundraising Officer left the Development Team • Tim Arnold left as Head of Communications and Marketing • Emma Westoby, Diary Secretary, left the Tutorial Team

CHANGES: • Lucy Bunker was promoted to Undergraduate Admissions Officer • Gaby Jones changed positon and is now Postgraduate and CGCM Admissions officer • Elaine Hendrie is supporting the Tutorial and Bursary Teams in her new role as Student Finance Coordinator

Other College News Green Impact Award The Lucy Cavendish College community is proud to celebrate its Gold Award for the 2019/2020 Green Impact year, for the second year in a row! Established by the NUS, Green Impact is an award-winning behaviour change programme which empowers participants to make improvements to sustainability. A bespoke workbook provides a structured framework for taking action.

Auditors for the Green Impact Awards praised our commitment to making the College greener: “Overall we are very impressed by how much Lucy Cavendish has done to promote sustainability and environmentally friendly practices among both staff and students this year.”

Lucy Cavendish renews its ANUK ‘assured accommodation’ accreditation Lucy Cavendish’s accommodation is regulated through a scheme run by Accreditation Network UK (ANUK). Lucy Cavendish College was inspected as part of a peer-topeer system which ensures the College adheres to all the principles of the Code.

The Lead Verifier said: “The amount of information provided before the inspection was impressive and enabled the visit itself to be extremely thorough. Lucy Cavendish is in very safe hands with your staff, policies, procedures and implementation. I was also very impressed with the amount of information you provide to your student body and will be taking some of these ideas and sharing with others as ‘best practice’. You should be incredibly proud of all the work you and your team have done.”

Lucy Cavendish College is delighted to announce that three US Gates Scholars will be joining the Community Gates Cambridge offers 80 full-cost scholarships to outstanding applicants from countries outside the UK to pursue a full-time postgraduate degree in any subject available at the University of Cambridge. Joining us this academic year are three outstanding scholars. Yesenia Brambila (PhD Classics): She hopes to not only further our understanding of festivals and their ties to the community in the ancient world but also to learn how to take this understanding and apply it to strengthening the ties between communities today. Morgan Healy (PhD Education): Morgan plans to address these issues by designing a play-based parenting intervention that helps young children develop key higher cognitive capacities, called executive functions. Christina Meister (MPhil Conservation Leadership): Christina looks forward to working with others to protect people and wildlife throughout the world.

New post-doctoral Research Associates This year we welcomed 10 new Research Associates, following a competitive application process, who embrace in their research the College vision of tackling the complex global challenges facing us in the 21st Century, both within and outside academia.

Our new post-doctoral Research Associates are: Stephanie Brown (Dept of Psychiatry), Laura Fachal (Wellcome Sanger Institute), Amir Jassim (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute), Katharina Kessler (Dept. of Veterinary Medicine), Simon Larmour (Institute of Criminology), Mary Murphy (Faculty of Education), Isabel Nimmo (Department of Biochemistry), Célia Raimondi (Babraham Institute), Amelia Soderholm (Dept of Medicine), Zhong-Nan Wang (Dept of Engineering).

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It allowed students to familiarise themselves with their surroundings, visit departments and experience their first Formal Hall. They also got to meet their Tutors, their Directors of Studies and Supervisors. They were given a subject specific piece of work to produce for, or discuss at, a mini supervision (in-college small group teaching session). The College put together a short programme of academic skills workshops and induction sessions to help prepare students for the coming Term. These carried on throughout the year and students were able to access them as and when they needed them.

Success for our second residential Creative Writing Course The Lucy Cavendish College Creative Writing Course, open to all prose writers, regardless of experience or gender, is the perfect opportunity for writers to boost their creativity, confidence, and writing skills. Writers spent the week learning from published authors, fellow writers and industry experts, in a relaxed and inspiring atmosphere.

Each day featured a writing workshop, a talk by an author, editor or agent, and free time for writing – guiding writers towards publishing success. Writers received feedback on their work in group sessions and in one-to-ones with experts. The residential option included ensuite accommodation and food, including a three-course dinner and drinks reception on Saturday evening. The course this year was led by writer and teacher Miranda Doyle, and Jo Browning Wroe, a writer and Creative Writing Supervisor at Lucy Cavendish College. Guest speakers include authors Catherine Chanter (The Well, The Half Sister), Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott (Swan Song), Frances Maynard (The Seven Imperfect Rules of Elvira Carr) and Sara Collins (The Confessions of Frannie Langton, coming soon), as well as Nelle Andrew, literary agent at PFD, and Gillian Stern, editor and ghost writer.

Lucy Cavendish College successfully launched its first ever, fully-inclusive, Bridging Week The concept of the College’s unique Bridging Week was introduced to support and bring together all of its first year undergraduate students and aimed to help attendees settle into student and college life from both a social and academic perspective; a structured, comprehensive and diverse induction process.

Before the fun and chaos of Freshers’ Week, the Bridging Week, where food and accommodation was paid for by College, welcomed all students, regardless of background, to experience collegiate and university life at Cambridge.

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There was a strong emphasis on socialising, so the new arrivals could meet their whole year group in College and start making friends. It also gave them the opportunity to build a support network. Matriculation took place during the Bridging Week, achieving another milestone before the beginning of term.

Vice-Chancellor announces the Harding Challenge: doubling the impact of donations The Vice-Chancellor Professor Stephen Toope announced the Harding Challenge, made possible by the £100 million gift to the University from David and Claudia Harding earlier this year. This Challenge is an opportunity to enhance the impact of your generosity and multiply the power of your donation. Your donation to College student support will benefit not only students at Lucy Cavendish College but also undergraduates in greatest need across Cambridge, enabling us to do more for them than ever before. It will in turn inspire others. Gifts of any size up to £100,000 qualify — every pound makes a difference.

News from Fellow-Commoners, Honorary and Emeritus Fellows Lucy welcomes new Emeritus Fellow Dr David Carter The Governing Body appointed Dr David Carter to an Emeritus Fellowship on 9 October 2019. Dr Carter is the previous Bursar of Lucy Cavendish and a continuing supporter of the College. David is the first male to become a Fellow at Lucy following the wide ranging changes now under way in the College. He has thanked the President and the College community for what he described as a ‘signal honour’ and for the trust shown in him. He expressed his “surprise and delight at the appointment”.

Fellow-Commoner Professor Mary James awarded a BERA lifetime achievement Professor Mary James received one of the three BERA (The British Educational Research Association) lifetime achievement awards ‘For her outstanding contribution to educational research and its application for the improvement of practice and public benefit’. The award, given to her at the 2019 annual conference in Manchester, is named the ‘John Nisbet Fellowship’, after the first President.

BERA is a membership association and learned society committed to advancing research quality, building research capacity and fostering research engagement.

It aims to inform the development of policy and practice by promoting the best quality evidence produced by educational research.

Mary James retired in 2014 from her positions as Professor and Associate Director of Research at the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education. During her career she directed the ESRC ‘Learning How to Learn’ project, within the Teaching and Learning Research Programme (TLRP), of which she was Deputy Director; she was President of the British Educational Research Association and a member of the Expert Panel appointed by the UK Coalition Government to assist the review the National Curriculum in England. She has been an adviser to the Hong Kong Education Bureau and to the NordForsk ‘Education for Tomorrow’ programme. She was a member of the UK Assessment Reform Group and a non-executive director of Bell Educational Services. She has published more than 100 books, chapters and articles and in 2013 her selected works were published by Routledge.

Professor Anna Sapir Abulafia elected to a Fellowship of the British Academy We are delighted that our Emeritus Fellow, Professor Anna Sapir Abulafia, has been elected to a Fellowship of the British Academy. This is a singular honour and demonstrates the extremely high regard in which Anna and her academic work are held by her peers. We congratulate her warmly.

Anna was a Fellow at Lucy Cavendish College from 1987 to 2015 when she moved to Oxford University to take up the Chair of the Study of the Abrahamic Religions. While at Lucy, Anna held several key positions including Research Fellow, College Librarian, College Lecturer and Director of Studies in History, Tutor for Graduate Students, Senior Tutor and Vice-President.

Professor Janet Todd publishes new novel Early 2019 saw the publication of former Lucy Cavendish President Janet Todd ‘Don’t You Know There’s a War On?’ The protagonist of her story is Joan, a widow, an outsider in post-Second-World War England, bereft of its empire and global status. She lives with her only daughter, Maud, angrily conforming to a culture she feels has left her behind. When Maud is threatened, Joan begins a diary to make sense of her alienated past, before and during the War. Giving rein to a loathing for the society that has thwarted her aspirations, she is merciless, her writing often sublimely funny; but Joan has a secret, never confided, which binds Maud to her. As Joan chronicles her life, her observations reveal psychological dramas, which, once uncovered, lead to a shocking conclusion.

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THE STUDENT YEAR

News from our students

Nicola Filzmoser wins 10K Cambridge University Entrepreneurs prize with ‘Happyr Health’ MSt student Nicola Filzmoser (Entrepreneurship in Healthcare Innovation at Judge Business School) in partnership with Cornelius Palm, won the Cambridge University Entrepreneurs (CUE) 10k Challenge for ‘Happyr Health’ which aims to help children with migraines. Happyr Health offers cognitive behavioural therapy to children with migraines via mobile games. They hope this will help to make growing up more playful than painful. It uses technology, initially an app, which delivers supporting and coping strategies for the child and its family in the format of games and stories.

Rebecka Nordenlöw’s poem is published in The Mays Anthology Rebecka was delighted to share the news that one of her poems was published in the 28th edition of The Mays.

Since 1992, The Mays has published an annual selection of the best and most exciting new writing and artwork from current students at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford. It is widely recognised and respected as one of the most notable student-produced anthologies, reaching every major literary agent each year, and making an appearance in bookstores across the country. Rebecka is a third-year English student and received the Madeleine Jörgensen Prize for First Class Results in Tripos in her second year.

Medical students graduate early and join the fight against Coronavirus The newest cohort of junior doctors joining the NHS and the frontline of the fight against coronavirus include 8 successful medical graduates from Lucy Cavendish College. Following guidance from the General Medical Council, permission was granted for the graduation dates of University of Cambridge medical students to be brought forward. This allowed many of our graduates to support the NHS as interim Foundation Year doctors, working in supported and supervised environments. Several Lucy Cavendish College medical students have commendably stepped into hands-on caring positions in nursing homes. Other medical students have taken on administrative and supportive roles in general practitioner surgeries and their dispensaries. Another body to benefit from LCC student involvement has been Cambridge Student Community Action.

Specific involvement with their “Anxiety Slayers” project has been well received, a project which involves interacting with vulnerable children during the pandemic.

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Karen Thomas awarded prestigious scholarship

Anastasia Georgiou wins Gladstone Travel Prize

PhD student Karen Thomas has been awarded the prestigious Healthcare Leadership Academy (HLA) scholarship. The HLA works with healthcare students and early-stage professionals to develop healthcare leaders of the future. Karen (PhD, Public Health and Primary Care) will be working on a project to showcase healthcare professional leaders who have made important and innovative changes to improve clinical practice. If more newly qualified allied healthcare professionals thought that being a leader and change-maker in their field was achievable at an early stage, she believes they would be equipped to shift the trajectory of what is viewed as a successful allied healthcare career path. She will be joining the talented cohort of 2020-2021 HLA scholars and undergoing her leadership training in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Anastasia is a student of graduate medicine at Lucy Cavendish. She always considered studying medicine but never felt certain until she was a bit older and had more experience. She originally studied Law at Oxford and during her time there became very interested in medical law and ethics, as well as in clinical practice.

The application process involved submission of a detailed itinerary and budget, followed by a panel interview in London. The grant is given on the condition that applicants write a post-trip report of their experience explaining the route and what they learn along the way. Anastasia’s application was titled ‘Learn to Cook like an Italian’ and included detailed plans to visit olive oil-producing factories in Liguria, vineyards in Tuscany and pizzerias in Rome.

Elisabeth Gill wins first prize in the Department of Engineering’s photography competition Our Phd student Elisabeth Gill (Research group: Biomechanics) won the First Prize for ‘Suspending Patterns’, her macro photo of complex fibrous architectures that can be designed with an electrospinning and 3D printing method. She developed the method for her PhD. 3D-printed support pillars and applied voltage are used to pattern suspended gelatin microfibres with a technique called low-voltage electrospinning patterning. Also, Our Postdoc, Dr Zhong-Nan Wang (Research Associate in Computational Fluid Dynamics) won the third prize with ‘Turbulence and Sound’. This flow-acoustic simulation shows the noise generated from a turbulent jet interacting with a surface. The coloured isosurfaces show the turbulent structures and the background grey-scale contour shows the acoustic waves. The Photography Competition at the Department of Engineering is sponsored by ZEISS (Scanning electron microscopy division) and celebrated its 16th year in 2019. Entries are required to be eye-catching images and videos that relate to research or teaching in the Department or engineers out in the field.

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Jessica Henry presents research at the European College for Neuropsychopharmacology’s Conference

Clarissa Hjalmarsson publishes a paper in African Studies Review Clarissa is a graduate medic (CGCM) with a previous degree in Arabic & History from SOAS University of London.

She joined the Lucy Cavendish family in 2017. Other than as a committed medical student, she describes herself as a feminist and a runner. Her publication titled ‘Healthcare of the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front and its Politicization, 1970-91: Treating the Body Politic’ explores the health service provided by the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front (EPLF) during the Eritrean Liberation War, and its political dimensions and implications.

At the European College for Neuropsychopharmacology’s (ECNP) 2019 conference in Copenhagen, Jessica presented research she’d conducted with Dr Karen Ersche at Cambridge University’s Department of Psychiatry. Their project was based on previous research findings that patients with alcohol and cannabis dependency show reduced sensitivity to tasks involving reward gain and loss avoidance. This has implications for treatment, as many rehabilitation programmes will give or withdraw privileges depending on compliance. Extensive research demonstrating this is an ineffective treatment strategy for patients with dependency highlights our need for novel approaches. Her project was interested to see if this ‘altered gain/loss sensitivity’ presented itself early in disease processes. Jessica is a third-year graduate entry medical student. She previously studied Biomedical Sciences and she has got a strong interest in neuroscience and mental health.

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Students’ Union Report

BY ROSALYN FRANCES

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t is fair to say that this year has been an eventful one for the Lucy Cavendish Students’ Union. The enthusiasm and dedication of the fantastic President and Vice-President Dana Flaherty and Jana Sadovska have certainly paid off, not least with regards to the large and committed SU they inspired and led. This year’s union was notable in that nearly all positions were filled, and a number of new positions were also added. We are grateful to the tremendous student union committee for all their hard work this year.

Michaelmas term began with an exciting programme of Fresher’s Week events, following on from the Bridging Week run for the first time this year by the College. The events were diverse, including ‘freshers’ speed-dating’ to the enticingly named ‘meet the guinea-pigs’. Opportunities were also available to have professional headshots taken for academic profiles. Continuing the legacy of exPresident Ida Svenonius, first years were welcomed into the College with a top secret initiation ceremony, devised to encourage pride and a sense of belonging in the incoming students.

As the incoming committee were inducted, the term continued to be high energy. Dana encouraged each and every committee member to take an active role in generating activities for the termly programme. These ranged from socials like ‘Afro-beats and Plantain chips’, organised by the fantastic BME officer Miriam, to an event discussing ‘Routes to Cambridge’ coordinated by our wonderful Access rep Akpomena. The ever popular grad talks, organised by Graduate Officer Sabine, also returned, and the student body was treated to many an academic research delight. Our Green Officer Rosa was also very engaged, dreaming up popular green film nights, including David Attenborough screenings. Rosa was persistent in encouraging students to take part in the student switch off challenge, a termly inter-collegiate environmental competition. Subsequently the college was victorious, winning a fabulous booty of 50 tubs of Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream to share.

This year also saw the strengthening of international lunches on Thursdays, organised by proactive International Officer Vega, who also created bi-weekly movie nights. Whilst LGBT Officer Hanine coordinated regular film nights and reading groups. A successful interfaith event entitled ‘Three Faiths, One God’ was held

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by Rahma, our Faith Officer – in which students from Abrahamic faith backgrounds gathered to discuss their experiences, both shared and differing. Social events certainly did not disappoint as we were also graced with a fabulous Halloween bop based on the celebrated Tim Burton movie ‘The Nightmare before Christmas’.

The second term brought more action and excitement, including one of Lucy Cav’s famous ceilidhs, a favourite of President Dana. This is also the term in which students ethical exploits were most pronounced – a cascade of events were arranged for Pink Week, the University-wide campaign week for breast cancer awareness. Green Week brought further colour to our calendar, as Rosa arranged more screenings, discussions and actions to generate greater climate awareness.

For Chinese New Year, Koh our Food and Accommodation Officer held a celebratory evening at College, replete with traditional snacks. Her tireless work in communications regarding student rents, food options at Formals and graduate accommodation is a massive contribution for which we are most grateful. Whilst a panel event for eating disorders awareness week, was held by our Welfare Officer Lim Eng and I, in which speakers from across the Cambridge community came to the College to challenge common myths.

It is important to note the hard work that was put in by Dana and Jana in this term into reforming the student union structure and constitution. The President and VicePresident devised a new decentralised plan, reducing pressure on the President, and creating working groups for pertinent areas including welfare, administration and events. This will hopefully improve the efficiency of the union going forward, and we are so grateful to Dana for taking this initiative in her busy final year of university. As Lent term concluded, the students handed over to Jana as the new Student Union President, Rosie as her capable Vice-President, and a new executive committee.

Whilst the year did not end as we had hoped, and we were not able to congregate as we might have wished in Easter term, I for one am confident that brighter things are in the pipeline. Lucy Cavendish students and union members, you have truly excelled yourselves and you should all be immensely proud of your achievements this year.

Celebrating Student Achievement

Bursaries, awards and prizes to celebrate student achievements and the generosity of the donors who support them.

“These prizes are a great opportunity for us to celebrate all the hard work that takes place over the year.

We are incredibly proud of the academic achievements of our students, and also very grateful for the generosity of our alumnae and supporters who make it possible for us to reward them every year.”

- College President Madeleine Atkins

Berti Sapir Medical Prize for the student with the best results in Clinical Stage Three (Final year) Sophie Howarth Mallory Owen Emma Reid Gyll Moore Prize for a Student Gaining a First Class Degree, preferably in Arts or Humanities Helena Edmondson – 1st in Linguistics, Part IIB Jackie Ashley Prize for best results in Politics Rebecka Loodus– 1st in Human, Social & Political Science, Part IIB Kate Bertram Prize(s) for First Class Results in non-Tripos exams Siena Anstis – 1st in LLM Examination Tülay Çalışkan – 1st in LLM Examination Emma Ffrench-Mullen – 1st in LLM Examination Sarah Glynn – 1st in Master of Corporate Law Anna-Mariya Spasova – 1st in LLM Examination Duzhiyun Zheng – 1st in LLM Examination Madeleine Jörgensen Prize for First Class Results in Tripos Shameera Nair Lin – 1st in English, Part II Rebecka Nordenlöw – 1st in English, Part II Emily Spencer – 1st in Bachelor of Theology for Ministry Margaret Spufford Memorial Prize Delayed until Michaelmas when all MPhil results will be known.

Marie Lawrence Prize(s) for First Class Results in Tripos Devon Airey – 1st in Law, Part II Sofia Therese Akerhielm – 1st in Law, Part II Kimberley Alexander – 1st in Natural Sciences, Part III Jiping Mo – 1st in Psychological & Behavioural Sciences, Part II Corlijn Reijgwart – 1st in Law, Part II

Professor John Thoday Prize Virginia Alessandrini Olivia Knutson Alumnae Association Prize for Contribution to the Arts Alice Dearle Annabelle Dixon Prize for the student who has made the most of her time at Lucy Cavendish Sabine Matysik Shameera Nair Lin Dame Veronica Sutherland College Prize(s) for Rowing Blues Anouschka Fenley – Honorary Full Blue in Rowing Senior Tutor’s Prize(s) for Sporting Blues Lauren Archibald – Half Blue for Ice Hockey Emma Bass – Half Blue for Basketball Connie Buettner – Honorary Full Blue for Football Claire Collins – Full Blue for Performance Swimming Helene Greenwood – Half Blue for Cross Country Lenka Janik Blaskova – Half Blue in Volleyball Eleonore Poli – Half Blue for Handball Simrat Sodhi – Half Blue for Ice Hockey Emmeline Pankhurst Prize for Contribution to College Life Maria Fihl Dana Flaherty Myson College Exhibition for Personal Achievement Natalie Abbott Mozan Badruldeen Abdulgadir Rosemary Harker Yuxin Ma

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Lucy Cavendish College Research Day 2020 Free and open to all the College Research Day, on 17 March 2020, presented an opportunity for research ideas or outcomes to reach a wider audience; the afternoon started with a poster session. A short Q&A session after each talk enabled participants to dig deeper into specific areas of interest.

Speakers Julia Hayes, Education: Educating children with disabilities in Colombia: Is the ‘Escuela Nueva’ model a local solution?

Abigail Salamone, Education: A Wider Lens: Using ‘Photovoice’ to understand student experiences in Varanasi, India Clarisse Beurrier, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology: Cell-based meat: Advances towards environmentally-friendly, scalable and cost-effective manufacturing strategies Eleonore Poli, Materials and Metallurgy: Investigation of failure mechanisms in turbine blade coatings Alice Dearle, Electrical Engineering/Physics: Anisotropic growth of hybrid perovskite crystals for application as photo/ x-ray detectors Mary Sharpe, Visiting Scholar: What is love - biology, culture, spirit?

Emma Hopkins, Land Economy: An Analysis of the South China Sea Dispute Lauren Lee, Medicine: Excess HIF-1 activity causes pathogenic necrosis of mycobacterium-infected macrophages

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Matilde Duarte, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute: Novel models and therapeutics for choroid plexus carcinoma Dr Jessica Taylor, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute: Precision Cancer Medicine for Medulloblastoma Blanche Gonzales de Linares, Theoretical and Applied Linguistics: An analysis of scalar items under memory load using an inference task Emma Perry, Earth Sciences: Dissolution of mixed oxide fuels Dr Stephanie Brown, Psychiatry: Diffusion structural network metrics as a predictor for Alzheimer’s Disease diagnosis in Downs Syndrome Sabrina Jamil, Centre for Gender Studies, POLIS: South Asian Muslim women’s experiences in British Politics Tessa Morgan, Public Health and Primary Care: Do older caregiving spouses identify as carers?

The presentations were illustrated on the day by one of the speakers, Julia Hayes, 3rd year PhD whose research focuses on Colombian children with disabilities. She combines her passion for art with academic research.

Prizes Best poster: Sophie Scott, “Revitalising the Wapato: Indigenous EcoCultural Restoration among Katzie First Nations, British Columbia, Canada.”

Best talks: Alice Dearle, “Anisotropic growth of hybrid perovskite crystals for application as photo/x-ray detectors” Blanche Gonzales de Linares, “An analysis of scalar items under memory load using an inference task” Emma Perry, “Dissolution of mixed oxide fuels”?”

Four diverse topics from the day, from Cancer Research to environmentally friendly, scalable and cost-effective manufacturing strategies, have been distilled into in our Research Day 2020 Podcast. Speakers are Matile Duarte, Clarisse Beurrier, Dr Stephanie Brown and Mary Sharpe.

Our thanks to Fellow-Commoner Boni Sones OBE for producing it.

The podcasts can be found on our website.

“Many thanks to everyone who came to the research day yesterday, and to everyone who presented. We had a fantastic line up of posters and talks, covering a wide range of research from right across the College.”

- Organiser Sarah Morgan

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SPECIAL EVENTS

Visiting Speakers We welcomed an impressive programme of visiting speakers who hosted talks almost every Thursday evening during term time on a diverse range of subjects.

Sadly, as lockdown started, we could not continue to get together in person, but we hosted a number of successful online talks for the series #LucyinLockdown.

Many students, alumnae and friends attended and continue to do so on a regular basis. We are always delighted to welcome back our friends and supporters. The talks, both in person and online, continue to be 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.

Formal Hall Halloween Formal Hall – 31 October. Dr Christopher Smith, British consultant virologist and lecturer based at Cambridge University, talked about his flagship weekly science show ‘the Naked Scientist’.

Burns Night and History, Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, Music and Theology Formal - 23 January. Dr Heather Thompson discussed why American mass incarceration matters in the UK.

Medicine and Veterinary Medicine Formal - 7 November. Renowned virologist Professor Ian Goodfellow delivered a talk on the academic theme ‘Connections’ titled ‘Capacity Building and Public Engagement in Post-Ebola Sierra Leone’.

English Formal - 20 Feb. Our Library hosted a display of rare books from the college collection curated by Lucy Alumna Gillian Saxon. Hollie Wells led an informal Q&A on rare books and archives’ work.

College Community Formal Hall - 14 November. Dinner was followed by the AstraZeneca Speed Mentoring event. Sabine Jaccaud, Director of Cambridge Corporate Affairs at AstraZeneca, talked about the student programmes they offer.

Law and Criminology Formal – 27 February. Alumna and Lawyer Busola Johnson discussed what happens when the rule of law crumbles.

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#LucyInLockdown 6 May: Interactive Q&A with David Ault, internationally acclaimed voice actor and narrator.

13 May: Discussion about ‘The race of illegality in the face of pervasive border control’ with Dr Lorena Gazzotti, Lucy alumna and Alice Tong Sze Research Fellow.

1 July: Lucy’s Alice Tong Sze Research Fellow and Economic Sociologist, Dr Niamh Mulcahy on ‘Investment into the community: local authorities and the financialisation of welfare provision’.

15 July: Professor Vicky Ann Cremona on ‘Murder, corruption and political activism’ in Malta

20 May: College Fellow, The Reverend Canon Adrian Daffern, offered his wisdom and insight as we all find our ‘new normal’.

22 July: Dr Corinne Duhig explained how human remains can tell the life stories of the deceased.

03 June: Dr Karen Stroobants MRSC, Science Policy Unit Lead at Royal Society of Chemistry shared some insights on how to decide whether to stay in science, or go, what to think about when you decide to change tracks, and what a career in science policy can offer you if that’s a direction you’d be considering.

24 July: During the pandemic and lockdown in particular, every nation has had to put restrictions on the rights we usually take for granted. Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, Honorary Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, talked about the way in which the rule of law has suffered in this period.

10 June: An evening of interdisciplinarity, between poetry and engineering. Dr Zhong-Nan Wang gave us an example of using supercomputers to reduce fluid noise of aircrafts. Dr Mary Murphy read a story she wrote through poetry called Dying of Love, Voices of the Unrequited.

29 July: Dr Maria Colzani and Dr Maria Rosa Pozzi on the effects of the Covid infection on cardiovascular biology, and a first-hand experience of treating Covid patients in Milan.

17 June: Dr Jane Greatorex helped us understand about the viruses that cause pandemics, in particular SARS-COV2. She covered the virus structure, life cycle, its pathogenesis, how it’s transmitted and why we take the mitigations we do.

Due to the increasing popularity of these talks, the series will continue in Michaelmas Term 2020 as #LiveFromLucy. We hope you will join us online and we are looking forward to seeing you all again at Formal Hall.

Anna Bidder Research Evenings 6 November: Dr Mary Brazelton discussed mass vaccination, citizens’ bodies and state power in modern China.

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4 March: Volcanologist Dr Emma Liu, former Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, talked about drone-based measurements at active volcanoes.

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The Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize

WINNER: Aoife Fitzpatrick

The College enjoyed its second biggest year for the annual Fiction Prize, with over 400 entries. The winner for 2020, Aoife Fitzpatrick, with her book An Arrangement in Grey and Black was announced during an online awards ceremony on October 29, following the announcement in September that six authors had been shortlisted for the prize.

Aoife Fitzpatrick is a native of Dublin, Ireland. Her short stories have been published in Southword literary journal, Books Ireland magazine, and by the Welsh independent publisher, Cinnamon Press. Winner of the inaugural Books Ireland short-story award, her work has also been recognised by the Séan O’Faoláin Prize, the Elizabeth Jolley Prize and by the Writing.ie Short Story of the Year award. She read English Studies at Trinity College, Dublin, and graduated the MFA in Creative Writing at University College Dublin, with distinction, in 2019. The Arts Council of Ireland has supported her shortlisted novel, An Arrangement in Grey & Black, with a literature bursary for 2020.

Tim Bates, Head of the Books Department and literary agent sponsor at PFD, commented on this year’s winner: “Aoife Fitzgerald is a worthy winner from an unusually strong shortlist. Her An Arrangement in Grey and Black is a stunning and sophisticated historical novel, based on a true story of a murder trial in nineteenth century West Virginia, and the only time the testimony of a ghost has been allowed in a US courtroom. It’s a brilliant piece of historical re-creation.”

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College President, Madeleine Atkins said: “Many congratulations to Aoife for this outstanding success. We are delighted to help new authors on their journey to publication and can’t wait to see copies of her novel in bookshops and the Lucy Cavendish Library in the future!”

Ten entries were free of charge thanks to the generous support of donors including Frances Perkins (writing as Frances Maynard, shortlisted in 2016), to support low income writers otherwise unable to afford entry fees.

The 2020 judging panel welcomed Jackie Ashley, political journalist, broadcaster and Honorary Fellow of the College (after leaving the College as its eight President). New to the panel was Clio Cornish (Editorial Director for Michael Joseph, Penguin Random House). Returning to the panel was literary agent Nelle Andrew, editor and ghostwriter Gillian Stern, Emeritus Fellow Dr Lindsey Traub and poet, crime writer and Honorary Fellow, Sophie Hannah.

Journalist and author Allison Pearson chaired the panel.

Another newcomer to the judging panel this year was Tim Bates, from literary agent sponsor PFD. Now in its tenth year, the Fiction Prize has developed a formidable reputation for uncovering new talent and draws significant interest from the publishing industry. It has been a catalyst for numerous literary careers.

Over the past nine years, the Fiction Prize has gained a prestigious reputation for uncovering new talent, with regular interest from the publishing industry. Since its foundation in 2010, the Prize has been a starting point in numerous entrants’ success stories. Gail Honeyman (2014 Shortlist) has topped the fiction charts with her novel Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine (published 2017) with accolades including the British Book Awards Book of the Year 2018, Waterstones Fiction Book of the Month for February 2018 and the 2017 Costa Book Awards First Novel Award. Catherine Chanter (winner 2013) became a published author with The Well, long listed for the CWA John Creasy (New Blood) Dagger 2015. It is published in the UK by Canongate and has been translated into twelve languages. Catherine has now published a second novel, The Half Sister. Frances Maynard (2016 shortlist) published

The Seven Imperfect Rules of Elvira Carr. It was also shortlisted for the 2016 Mslexia First Novel Competition, the McKitterick Prize Author Awards in 2018, and the 2014 Good Housekeeping First Novel Award. In 2019 she published Maggsie McNaughton’s Second Chance. Emily Midorikawa (2015 Winner) and Emma Claire Sweeney published A Secret Sisterhood to wide acclaim. Lesley Sanderson’s The Orchid Girls (2017 shortlist) was published in 2018 and has received widespread acclaim. Lesley has since published The Woman at 46 Heath Street and The Leaving Party, that was published at the end of January 2020 and is already highly anticipated. Sara Collins’ debut, The Confessions of Frannie Langton, is proving to be a lead title in the UK and the US and won the 2019 Costa first novel award.

Laura Marshall’s Friend Request was published in 2017 and named a Sunday Times Top 10 List bestseller, and a number one eBook bestseller; it was shortlisted for the Bath Novel Award. Laura has since published another acclaimed crime thriller, Three Little Lies, and is currently working on her third novel. Claire Askew (2016 winner) All the Hidden Truths was named The Times’ September Book of the Month; Claire’s follow-up novel, What You Pay For, was published in 2019 and shortlisted for McIlvanney and CWA Awards. She is currently working on a second full-length poetry collection, and a third novel. Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott Swan Song was published by Penguin Random House/Hutchinson in 2018 and has since won many accolades including winning the 2015 Bridport Prize and being named one of The Times’ Books of the Year 2018. It was longlisted for the Women’s Prize in 2019 and the rights have been sold for television to Balloon Entertainment (Skins, Clique), with Kelleigh adapting the novel as a limited series.

The 2020 Shortlist: Bibi Berki – The Watch Emma Barlow – Message Received Aoife Fitzpatrick – An Arrangement in Grey and Black Francesca Steele – The Group Susan Stokes-Chapman – Pandora Laure Van Rensburg – Eden Lost Find out more at www.fictionprize.co.uk

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SPORTS SPORTS AND AND MUSIC MUSIC

Sport News

Basketball

Football

Emma Bass, MPhil Sociology of Media and Culture, played for the Blues, the University Basketball Women’s First team, as one of the Guards. The CUWBbC Blues started their season well with a home win against Bedfordshire in November. They finished 1st and undefeated in the BUCS Midlands 2B League and won the silver medal in the Midlands Conference Cup in March. At the end of Easter Term, Emma was awarded the Half Blue for Basketball, Senior Tutor’s Prize for Sporting Blues

Connie Buettner, PhD student is part of the Cambrdge University Football Team who proudly won their league (BUCS 2a Midlands League) in March 2020. The Blues train three times a week which includes a football-specific strength and conditioning session. This is Connie’s third year on the team and is sure to be a highlight of her athletic career - she was awarded an Honorary Full Blue for Football, one of the Senior Tutor’s Prizes for Sporting Blues.

Hockey In March 2020, Lucians Simrat Sodhi and Lauren Archibald together with the other members of the Cambridge University Women’s Ice Hockey Team competed in their 2020 Varsity match and won 3-1. This is the third year in a row the Women’s Blues have won the cup and they continue to improve. Simrat and Lauren would once again like to thank Dr. Lindsay Traub for her generosity, which made it possible for them to compete.

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Dancesport

Netball

Marta Tomaselli, PhD Plant Sciences, has been part of the Cambridge University Dancesport Team (CUDT) for the entire duration of her time in Cambridge and she has been a member of First Team since 2017. The Cambridge University Dancesport Team is a competitive team where members compete in the 10 dances grouped under the Ballroom and Latin American styles, i.e. Waltz, Tango, Viennese Waltz, Foxtrot and Quickstep for Ballroom, and Samba, Cha-Cha-Cha, Rumba, Paso Doble and Jive for Latin American. In the 2019-20 season, together with two other team couples, Marta and her dancing partner were invited to represent Cambridge at the Chinese Ball in Vienna, and they reached the semi-final as an individual couple in the Intermediate Category at National in Blackpool. Marta says joining CUDT has been a great escape from the stress of her degree and helped her make incredible friends.

Our Grad Med student Sarah Godlee and the Cambridge Blues team played in the Netball Varsity. The annual Battle of the Blues took place in Oxford. The Varsity Match against Oxford in Lent Term is the highlight of the season and the Club always train hard to secure wins for all three teams.

There was a great atmosphere with loads of supporters from both sides, including many CULNC Alumnae. Despite the Oxford team being in the league above us, the match was tightly contested with Oxford leading by only two goals at half-time. In the third quarter, however, Oxford began to pull away and ultimately won the match 47-34.

The Blues have had a highly successful and incredibly fun season. It took the Blues a few matches for things to click into place, but once they did the Blues just became better and better. Sarah played an important part in the CULNC success.

Prizes Dame Veronica Sutherland College Prize(s) for Rowing Blues

Duathlon

Anouschka Fenley – Honorary Full Blue in Rowing

MPhil student Lucy Havard was first female in the Varsity Duathlon in February 2020. The Cambridge women absolutely dominated achieving the first seven female places in the race. She previously competed and won in the Cuppers Duathlon, organised by the Cambridge University Triathlon Club in November 2019. The Duathlon started from the Wilberforce Road race track. The race consisted of a 3.2km run around the West Cambridge site, a 10km cycle, and another 3.2km run. An amazing year for Lucy who also came 22/226 in the women’s field at BUCS, which is the best result a Cambridge athlete has ever seen, and is within the top 10% of competitors.

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Lauren Archibald – Half Blue for Ice Hockey Emma Bass – Half Blue for Basketball

Connie Buettner – Honorary Full Blue for Football

Claire Collins – Full Blue for Performance Swimming Helene Greenwood – Half Blue for Cross Country Lenka Janik Blaskova – Half Blue in Volleyball Eleonore Poli – Half Blue for Handball

Simrat Sodhi – Half Blue for Ice Hockey

Rowing Report

Lucy Cavendish College takes part in Virtual May Bumps 2020 In light of the pandemic, the Cambridge rowing community planned Virtual Bumps for June 2020.

Lucy Cavendish College entered 2 boats (18 students) from the boat club itself and had 1 combined boat of 7 alumnae and 2 members of staff running in their own boat category.

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t was a run instead of a row, with each team member (8 plus a cox, of course) running an 800m sprint as fast as possible. Times had to be entered to give an overall boat time, and bumps/row overs etc. were awarded based on these. As with bumps this was once a day over 4 days. On the final day, there was also a circuit competition; max reps of 4 circuit exercises, 2 minutes each plus a surprise finisher. Any proceeds, from fines or donations, were given to East Anglia Children’s Hospice (EACH), who launched an emergency appeal for the approximately £1.8 million lost during the first three months of the pandemic. Almost 100 crews participated and ran 700km every day. Throughout the event nearly £6,000 was raised for East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices and the Cambridge Covid-19 Fund.

Highlights of the race included 2 of our students being successful in the photo competition: Marta Mitrofanovaite with a photo of her in a paddling pool post run and Aurelie Deshons lining up to run against her tortoise!

LCCBC co-captains Hattie Wills and Bridget Larman shared the final results: “W1 put up a great fight and nearly made the row over but were caught at the last minute by Lady Margaret.

W2 continued their run of success and bumped Newnham W3 at the plough.

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1. Rebecka, LCCBC President, is a 3rd year English (BA) student who learnt to row with Lucy, and this is her second year on the committee. “I like everything Nature.

The outdoor aspect of rowing is partly what attracted me. I like that rowing is so physically demanding and the perfectionist in me derives a lot of satisfaction from refining the one movement”.

5. Alumna Abbey (MPhil, Public Health) is an ex-Lucian

2 & 3. Bridget (PhD in Medicine) and Hattie (Graduate Medical Course) both learned to row with LCCBC last year and have been busy this term teaching the novices everything they know. “We have loved being LBCs this term! It’s been fantastic to watch the novices go from their first nervous outing to competing as a team in races. We are so proud of how well they have done and can’t wait to row with them next term.”

6. Hannah has been coaching LCCBC since 2008, and is Head Coach of the club, after learning to row in Cornwall and coming to Cambridge as a student at St Edmunds College. “I’ve been amazed by how the club has grown and what has been achieved with so much help and support from the college and alumnae over the years. It’s such a friendly club to be part of and I love my time by the river, seeing crews progress and grow together over the term and year.”

4. Yining (PhD in Engineering) is the LCCBC treasurer and secretary – the role involves everything from finances to kit ordering. “I learnt to row with LCCBC and more importantly met new friends with ‘boatie love’, who make the early freezing mornings worth it. The LCCBC experience makes me feel lucky to be in this Lucian family”

rower who still helps out with coaching, contributing to both the May bumps blades last year and the Queen’s Ergs win in October! “LCCBC was the place I learnt to row, and from there I’ve gained so many more skills and friendships. I’m happy to be able to share that with others by coaching!”

News and Results -Lea Baltussen, Anouschka Fenley and Gloria Jansen are the three Lucy Cavendish College students that are now part of the 2020 CUWBC squad.

-Ten crews represented Cambridge University Women’s Boat Club and Cambridge University Lightweight Rowing Club at the Fours Head of the River Race in London in midNovember, including two of our Lucians, Lea Balthussen and Gloria Jansen.

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-Emma Sprints was the first novice water race of the year and Lucy did fantastically well. Both crews won their first races, then lost their second to Churchill, who went on to win both divisions. The best part of the race had to be their costumes, in particular our Bloom of Jellyfish.

-Both the novice crews (NW1 and NW2) won their respective division in the Queen’s Ergs in early November.

Music Report Carols around the Tree

In December we held our annual family-friendly programme of music and readings around the Christmas tree in Warburton Hall. Musical entertainment was provided by Cavendish Chorale and alumna Noémie Johns (Medical & Veterinary Sciences, 2013). The audience joined in with renditions of Ding Dong Merrily on High, Hark the Herald Angels Sing, Little Donkey and We Wish You A Merry Christmas. We could enjoy a special performance of Jingle Bells led by our younger guests.

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Festive readings were provided Dr Henriette Hendriks, Vice-President, Lauren Magilton (English, 2012), Dr Penny Granger (English, 1998), Kate McCombe (History, 2011), Karen Stephenson (English, 1995), Professor Jill Jameson (English, 1980). Another very special guest was, of course, Santa Claus.

The Catering Team and our Development Office supported the event.

By Alice Dearle (PhD Candidate in Nanoscience)

Cavendish Chorale is a friendly non-auditioned choir for upper voices that welcomes students from all colleges, with the majority belonging to Lucy Cavendish.

A particular favourite was a collection of folk songs arranged by our director Chloë Allison including Loch Lomond and O’ Shenandoah.

This year we undertook a significant drive for new recruits from Lucy Cavendish and beyond, as sadly (for us) many of our most consistent members from the previous years had happily graduated and moved on to new pastures.

We were delighted that our efforts were rewarded and the choir this year had a number of approximately 15, allowing us to produce a lovely sound in the music pavilion.

Regrettably, Cambridge life as we knew it came to an abrupt end before Easter term due to the ongoing global pandemic. We were unable to meet and sing over Easter term, which was due to be Chloë’s last term with Cavendish Chorale. She has directed the choir since 2016 and it is fiercely clear that working with a non-auditioning choir (open to all regardless of experience) takes a very special talent. We are so lucky to have had Chloë, she is endlessly patient, hugely skilled and very good fun. We look forward to seeing what she does next!

Looking to the future, we hope that Cavendish Chorale can once again take place and find a new director as soon as it is safe and enjoyable to do so.

In Michaelmas, our repertoire always looks towards the festive season and includes secular and sacred pieces.

This year the favourites included Nativity Carol and Deck the Halls. It was lovely to share our work with friends and family at our own concert, and we also very much enjoyed leading Carols Around the Tree for the college on a brisk winter afternoon.

During Lent term, free from festive obligations we enjoyed preparing a diverse repertoire for our Spring Concert. We enjoyed a lovely description of the English countryside within Linden Lea, and expanded our horizons to include body percussion to accompany White Winter Hymnal.

“I look forward to singing with Cavendish Chorale every week of term time! It allows me to completely relax and not think about work for a couple of hours every week and has definitely been one of my most memorable experiences of studying at Cambridge within Lucy Cavendish College. The girls are all so much fun and we have a great time singing together” – Lizzie Good ANNUAL REVIEW 2019/2020

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The Lucy Cavendish Singers 2019/20 The Singers had a fantastic year, starting in September 2019 with a 25th Anniversary Gala Dinner in King’s Great Hall for 350 conference delegates – our fourth engagement for this organisation. In honour of the occasion we exchanged our usual performing black for ball gowns and jewels for the after-dinner set.

Ely Cathedral Lady Chapel is a magnificent place to sing and in October we gave our third lunchtime concert there, The Far Horizon, attracting a record audience and raising a record retiring collection for Cathedral Music.

“Yet another excellent concert...the balance and control was impressive...A challenging and varied programme.” Ely 2019 Tickets sold out in advance for A Winter Cabaret at Storey’s Field Centre, Eddington on 1st December. Guests were seated at tables, mulled wine to hand. It was great fun planning a cabaret evening where we could finally perform those spicy songs I haven’t been able to fit into other concert programmes.

On 10th December we had the honour once again of providing the choral music for the University Staff Lessons & Carols at Great St Mary’s Church. This event is a favourite in the Singers’ calendar, not least because the sopranos have been waiting all year to sing those descants!

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By Katharina Megli (History 1991) We were delighted to sing one more concert at Emmanuel United Reformed Church in early March before it closed for refurbishment. The programme Moving On included torch songs, close harmony, country and classical pieces.

Our spring and summer performances would have included a Promenade Concert at the Fitzwilliam Museum in May, a Coffee Concert at Stapleford Granary in June and a private dinner entertainment at Corpus Christi in July. Instead, we found ourselves taking on the interesting challenge of running rehearsals online via Zoom using a variety of techniques to learn new music for next year.

It was wonderful to keep in touch each week and we certainly plan to be ready once public performances resume.

Throughout the year we have continued to add new video recordings to our YouTube channel – which has now recorded nearly 8,000 plays. www.lucycavendishsingers.org.uk/youtube-channel www.lucycavendishsingers.org.uk

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NEWS FROM OUR FELLOWS

Lucy Cavendish welcomes new members to the Fellowship

Dr Astrid Gall publishes in Virus Evolution on recombination in HIV

Following the recent Governing Body meeting on 4 December 2019, Lucy Cavendish College was delighted to announce key appointments to its Fellowship. The new Fellows are strongly committed to the new direction of the College and its exciting plans to change its admissions criteria to include men and women from the standard university age. The new admissions policy reflects a clear commitment to widening participation and will come into effect from October 2021. The new Fellows will further address the College’s academic and skills needs, and pave the way for closer collaborations and stronger networking with specific entities in the University. As well as strengthening the College’s teaching, the Fellows will take up vital committee roles, drive fund-raising initiatives and contribute to the optimisation of the two co-curriculum strands (academic skills and employability). The new cohort also brings with them their strong links with enterprise and social innovation within the eco-system in Cambridge.

Astrid’s paper is titled ‘Pervasive and non-random recombination in near full-length HIV genomes from Uganda’. Recombination is an important feature of HIV evolution, occurring both within and between the major branches of diversity (subtypes). The Ugandan epidemic is primarily composed of two subtypes, A1 and D, that have been co-circulating for 50 years, frequently recombining in dually infected patients. In this paper the team investigate the frequency of recombinants in this population and the location of breakpoints along the genome.

Dr Isobel Maddison publishes in the Cambridge Companion to British Literature of 1930s Lucy Cavendish Fellow and English Director of studies Dr Isobel Maddison published a chapter titled ‘The Popular and the Middlebrow’ in the Cambridge Companion to British Literature of 1930s. This book offers the reader an incisive survey covering the decade’s literature and its status in critical debates. Across the chapters, sustained attention is given to writers of growing scholarly interest, to pivotal authors of the period, such as Auden, Orwell, and Woolf, to the development of key literary forms and themes, and to the relationship between this literature and the decade’s pressing social and political contexts.

Through this, the reader will gain new insight into 1930s literary history, and an understanding of many of the critical debates that have marked the study of this unique literary era.

Professor Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger receives the Weeramantry International Justice Award Marie-Claire received the 2020 International Justice Award for her outstanding legal scholarship and teaching, and for her leadership of international foundations, councils and networks including the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL), the Climate Law and Governance Initiative with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and the Biodiversity Law and Governance Initiative with the Convention on Biological Diversity and UN-Environment.

The award recognises Prof. Cordonier Segger for her efforts to advance justice, human rights, protection of nature and the interests of future generations.

Dr Neil Stott promoted at Cambridge Judge Business School The Judge Business School recently announced that Dr Neil Stott has been promoted to Faculty (Professor level) in Management Practice, at Cambridge Judge Business School. Neil has also been appointed Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Business Administration, Memorial University of Newfoundland. He will continue to be co-director of the Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation, the Programme Director for the MSt in Social Innovation and is a Fellow and Director of Studies in Management Studies at Lucy Cavendish College.

Neil said: “It is amazing to be recognised for my practice, teaching and scholarship in social innovation.

I hope to contribute further to Lucy Cavendish’s role in making social change and kindle the social innovation spark in our students.”

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Dr Anna Git publishes in Scientific Reports Dr Anna Git is the Director of Studies for Biological Science and SRA group leader at the Department of Biochemistry, as well as Visiting Scientist at CRUK Cambridge Institute.

Anna’s paper ‘Enzyme- and gene-specific biases in reverse transcription of RNA raise concerns for evaluating gene expressions’ is published in Scientific Reports and it challenges basic assumptions about accurately measuring concentrations of RNA.

Dr Anne-Laura Van Harmelen accepted full Professorship at Leiden University Dr Anne-Laura van Harmelen was appointed as Professor of Brain, Security and Resilience at the Institute of Education and Child Studies, Leiden University, Netherlands, with effect from 1 September 2020. She will focus on the brain in relation to the development of transgressive behaviour and its prevention and treatment.

Dr Matthew Sparkes wins Dame Anne Warburton Award

Dr Jackie Brearley appointed Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Education

Established to fund research, the award memorialises Dame Anne Warburton, former President of Lucy Cavendish College. Matthew won the award for his work researching the intersections between social class(ification), consumption, debt-based finance, and political economy.

College Fellow and Director of Studies for Veterinary Medicine, Dr Jackie Brearley was appointed Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Education, in October 2019. As a result she has resigned from her Senior Lectureship in Veterinary Anaesthesia in which, for the past 4 years, she has been tasked with developing the clinical skills centre at the Cambridge Veterinary School. This new appointment gives a name to this role but also extends it to cover all the clinical skills facilities at the Vet School.

He comments: “I have been very fortunate to receive the Dame Anne Warburton funding to support my current research project, which aims to examine how credit scoring systems in the UK have class-like effects on people’s life chances. Since receiving the award, I have read about Dame Anne Warburton’s life and work, and was humbled by her extensive work in the public sector and for the College. Becoming aware of this has created a strong desire to utilise these funds in a way that honours her work and values.”

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Ed Bullmore and team publish new paper on mental health and the impact of Covid-19 Prof Ed Bullmore, head of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge and Fellow at Lucy Cavendish College co-authored the paper ‘Multidisciplinary research priorities for the COVID-19 pandemic: a call for action for mental health science’, published by Lancet Psychiatry.

The paper identifies the urgent need for research into the impact of Covid-19 on mental health in order to minimise and manage the substantial, immediate and potentially long-term effects.

News from Research Fellows Dr Sarah Morgan promoted to Senior Research Associate at the Department of Psychiatry “My research focuses on two main themes. The first is using MRI brain images to better diagnose and understand schizophrenia. To do this I work as part of an EU-funded project called PSYSCAN. We recently published some initial results from the project showing a pattern of structural brain differences between patients with schizophrenia and healthy volunteers, which were remarkably reproducible across three independent datasets. We then related these structural brain differences to gene expression data, to uncover a cluster of genes which we believe merit further attention as potential anti-psychotic drug targets. The next step is to extend this research to new data from the PSYSCAN project, which includes brain images from over 500 subjects who either have early stage psychotic disorders or are at clinical high risk of developing them. I also lead a project using speech from patients with psychotic disorders to predict their disease progression, funded by The Alan Turing Institute ‘Towards incoherent speech as a predictor of psychosis risk.”

New GB Fellows

Departing Fellows

Dr Patricia Alireza Dr Jurgen Becque Jenny Blakesley Prof Ed Bullmore Professor Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger The Reverend Canon Adrian Daffern Dr Elizabeth Fistein Mr Christopher Fowell Dr Emily Gordon Derek Jones Dr Katie Keller Dr Mark King Dr Howard P Nelson Dr Matthew Sparkes Dr Neil Stott Dr Deborah Talmi

Dr Victoria Harvey Dr Anne-Laura van Harmelen Dr Arathi Sriprakash

New Emeritus Fellows Dr David Carter CVO Sarah Gull

Dr Lorena Gazzotti awarded grant from the Royal Geographical Society Dr Lorena Gazzotti is a Lucy Cavendish Alice Tong Sze Research Fellow, based at CRASSH during the period of her Fellowship. Earlier in the year Lorena was awarded £3000 from the Society for Libyan Studies as a pilot grant.

Following the successful pilot, Lorena has received a further £3000 grant from the Royal Geographical Society and says: “I am extremely grateful for the grant awarded by the Jasmin Leila Award and Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). When I applied for this grant, the scenario that we are experiencing now was beyond unimaginable. The complete closure of borders and the implementation of lockdown measures around the world have questioned the way states have been providing care for the vulnerable, including unaccompanied and separated children, and how this impacts society at large. When travel bans will be lifted and research conditions will be safe again, social scientists will have the duty to record and interpret the new world that will unfold from the COVID19 crisis, and I will be happy to contribute my bit in the effort”.

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NEWS FROM OUR ALUMNAE

Tamara Micner premiered her first solo piece that brings to life the true stories of two Holocaust survivors and one of their descendants Tamara (Modern Languages, 2011) saw her first solo piece Holocaust Brunch premiered at the arts depot in North Finchley in Autumn 2019. After the premier in London, Tamara took the play to Vancouver, where the characters in the play lived and where Tamara herself was born and raised. English audiences had the opportunity to see the play in January at The Place Theatre in Bedford. An original aspect of the show is that bagels were served during the performance – hence the ‘brunch’ of the title. Her story, which Tamara calls ‘a dark comedy’, concerns Isaac and Bluma Tischler, the Jewish grandparents of a close friend, who left a memoir and oral history detailing their lives in pre-war Poland and their subsequent journey through post-war Germany to Canada.

Marga Jann published the first story in her spy thriller trilogy Marga (Visiting Scholar at Lucy in 2013-14) has written a spy story The Architect: Four Countries Four Faces, released in September by Arrow Gate Publishing. Against a backdrop of international intrigue and intense spiritual warfare, architect Marga Jann takes us on a gripping journey through a quartet of academic assignments - with much more at stake than her professorial mission. Based at Cambridge, she unwittingly finds herself embroiled in a dangerous and diplomatically-sensitive battle between MI6/CIA operatives and Saudi Intelligence. The narrative takes place, in part, at Wolfson and Lucy Cavendish (and starts at the Porters’ Lodge). There will be two more books to follow.

Elizabeth Lowe launched her ‘no nasties’ e-commerce store College alumna, Elizabeth Lowe (Pharmacology, 2010) founded Naked Company, an e-commerce store that specialises in everyday cosmetics without nasty ingredients. After her studies, Elizabeth worked for several years in the pharmaceutical R&D sector. She became interested in the composition of everyday cosmetics and became particularly concerned about the ingredients and excessive packaging of toothpaste. The heart of our ethos is to “Take the Nasties Out” and to reduce packaging waste. So far, her company has launched a healthier, ecofriendly alternative to toothpaste, Dental Crush toothpaste tablets. The response to the launch has been exceptionally positive. The website launched in September 2019 and her ‘Naked Company’ is now stocking their products in stores in Ireland.

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Usha Akella curated a display of 24 poems by 24 South Asian Diaspora poets Usha (Creative Writing Mst. 2019), co-director of Matwaala Southern Asian Poets Festival and Poetry editor of Lucy Writers, has created a wall of 24 poems by 24 South Asian Diaspora poets at the Irving Museum and Archives (Dallas, TX) in collaboration with ThinkIndia Foundation for Smithsonian’s Beyond Bollywood Project. Usha Akella and Pramila Venkateswaran (co-director of Matwaala) curated the poems from poets across the USA. The wall is a beautiful testimony to Usha’s excellent work and communal vision. Usha Akella launched the first South Asian Poetry Festival in the US in 2015. The goal is to increase the visibility of the diaspora poets in the country.

She conceived the poetry wall to reflect the immense talent in the community and perhaps, this is the first time such a display has happened in any museum.

Jaskiran Bedi’s PhD thesis published as a monograph Jaskiran (Development Studies, 2012) saw her PhD thesis being published as a monograph by Routledge (Taylor and Francis Group) this summer. The book is titled English Language in India: A Dichotomy between Economic Growth and Inclusive Growth. It examines the relationship between the English language and growth – economic and inclusive – in India. It explores why English continues to be the language of aspiration long after Independence.

With the second largest English-speaking population in the world today, India is testimonial to how a linguistic legacy continues to cast a long shadow on its contemporary discourse in the economic arena.

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Gabriela Frost shortlisted for the BBC Student Journalism Award Gabriela Frost (European, Latin American & Comparative Literatures & Cultures, 2018) has been shortlisted for the prestigious BBC Radio 4 Today Programme Student Journalism Awards, under the category of ‘Criticism’.

This is the second year the Today Programme has held the competition, which looks to recognise the best journalism written by students in universities across the UK. Categories range from Student Journalist of the Year to Student Programme of the Year, usually with no more than five to three applicants shortlisted for each one. The Today Programme attracts a high intake of entries every year, with the Student Critic of the Year being one of the most applied for categories in the whole competition. Gabriela has done exceedingly well to be shortlisted in a year where the judges have been ‘hugely impressed by the high quality and variety of the entries received’. Gabriela is one of three applicants shortlisted for the Student Critic of the Year 2019 award.

Dr Yang Yang donated 1500 disposable medical use face masks in the battle against Coronavirus Yang Yang, (Education, 2007), generously donated 1500 disposable medical use face masks to help students in the battle against Coronavirus. This kind gesture came at a difficult time for many of the College’s students who were unable to leave after the University’s closure. Although a mask isn’t a guarantee you won’t get or transmit a virus, they are effective at stopping droplets, which is the main way coronavirus is transmitted. So for the students living in College, wearing a mask will reduce the chance of the disease being passed on. Support staff around College will also be protected and will make use of the masks themselves should they have to enter College buildings.

Sun-Hee Park founded EALO, the East Asian Lawyers Organisation Sun-Hee (Law, 1993) founded the organisation to raise awareness about the lack of East Asians moving to senior positions, to contribute to changing the current reality and to provide them with a platform or safe space. The legal profession should reflect the society that it serves.

Some diversity indicators can be hidden, but race is not one of them. Diversity and inclusion are topical in most organisations, not only because it is the right thing do, but because there is mounting evidence that having a diverse workforce translates to better staff engagement, happier clients and higher profits. EALO is open to anyone in the legal profession who identifies as East Asian, whether they are lawyers, support staff or students. Allies and sponsors within and outside the legal sector are also welcome.

Dr Jenny Hall published on innovation and tradition in the Kyoto textile industry

Prof Dr Norfilza Mohd Mokhtar promoted to leading role for the National University of Malaysia Norfilza (PhD Clinical Medicine, 2001) has been promoted to Leader of Cluster for Health and Advanced Medicine for Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (also known as the National University of Malaysia) starting 1st May 2020 until 30 April 2023. Her role is to lead one of the five niche clusters for the University. Her cluster covers 4 faculties (Medicine, Health Sciences, Dentistry and Pharmacy) and a single research institute, where there are some overlapping researchers from other faculties such as Faculty of Technology Sciences. Norfilza’s main role is to identify talents and translate the research to the community and to encourage interdisciplinary research to produce high quality outcomes. She has been chosen among hundreds of lecturers in the health and medicine fraternity.

Norfilza comments:“I dedicate my ability to communicate and interact with different levels of researchers to my experience at Lucy Cavendish College. At the time I was there the activities handled by the College encouraged people from different backgrounds to treat each other equally and respect each other. I treasure all the experiences I had in Cambridge.”

Jenny Hall (Archaeology and Anthropology, 1994) published in February her book titled ‘Japan beyond the Kimono’ through Bloomsbury Academic. In the ancient city of Kyoto, contemporary artisans and designers are using heritage techniques and traditional clothing aesthetics to reinvent wafuku (Japanese clothing, including kimono) for modern life. Japan Beyond the Kimono explores these shifts through case studies, highlighting developments in the Kyoto fashion industry such as its integration of digital weaving and printing techniques and the influence of social media on fashion distribution systems.

Ruby Pillai won a start-up competition with eco-friendly tech start-up iWarranty Ruby (MSt in Entrepreneurship, 2018) is a rising star and entrepreneur. She won €150,000 at the 9th edition of Fit4Start with her eco-friendly tech start-up iWarranty.

The idea behind it is for users to keep all warranties in their smartphones, in the hope retailers will be on board to help address the problem of e-product waste.

Fit4Start is Luxembourg’s leading start-up acceleration programme and also one of the main start-up events of the year in the Grand Duchy. Ruby has also started the Accelerate Cambridge programme run by the Judge Business School, which is a three-month programme combining entrepreneurship training, regular coaching and mentoring.

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New short story by award-winning writer Annabel Banks Alumna Annabel Banks’ short story ‘Exercises in Control’ was published in January 2020 by Influxpress. Annabel is an award-winning writer of poetry and prose. Her work can be found in such places as The Manchester Review, Litro, The Stockholm Review, Under the Radar and 3:AM, and was included in Eyewear’s Best New British & Irish Poets 2016. Her writing has received multiple nominations for the Pushcart Prize, with further nominations for the Queen’s Ferry Press Best Short Fictions, Blazevox’s Bettering American Poetry, Best News Poets [US] and the Derringer Awards and was longlisted for the Royal Academy/Pindrop Short Story Award. In 2019, her debut poetry collection, DTR (Broken Sleep) was nominated for the Forward Prize in two categories.

New poster displays in Warburton Hall feature alumnae who are making a positive impact on society.

Hollie Wells (English, 2016)

Oyindamola Johnson (Master of Law, 2018)

Hollie graduated with a Starred First,

Oyin released her debut album - From

Editor of student magazine The Cavendish

Johnson’. She is a spoken word poet,

coming top of the English Tripos for 2019. As Chronicle, Hollie launched the Cavendish Chronicle Creative Prize to celebrate the

A Different Cloth last year as ‘Ms Eva

musician, actress and dancer. Passionate about social reform, education and

best poetry, short fiction and visual art the College community

equality, Oyin intends to continue her practice as a dual-

College and the University in their outreach work, and was

establishing a performing arts school for children.

has to offer. She has supported the Admissions teams in

involved in our highly successful telephone campaign to raise funds for student support.

Bonnie Samuyiwa (English, 2017) Bonnie has completed an internship

with the Cabinet Office, and has been

shortlisted for the ‘Government, Politics and the Public Sector Award’ in the

Student Social Mobility Awards. Bonnie

was recognised as one of the UK’s Top 100 most outstanding undergraduate students from an African/Afro-Caribbean

background, and she was invited to a reception at 10 Downing Street. In January 2019, she was made an Associate Fellow

of the Royal Commonwealth Society. She hopes to pursue a career in international relations.

Karen Thomas

(PhD Public Health and Primary Care, 2017) Karen is a Chartered Physiotherapist. Her PhD research focuses on the treatment

of Post-Stroke Fatigue in the community.

She won an award for Best Abstract (co-

presented with fellow Lucian, Chloe Gamlin) at the NMAHP

conference, and this research was published in the British

Medical Journal. As Lower Boat Captain for the Lucy Cavendish Boat Club, she contributed to W2’s success in gaining the first set of Lucy Cavendish blades in May Bumps. She was on two

winning Varsity teams in 2019; the Cambridge University Yacht Club and the Cambridge University Sailing Club. Karen is also Chair of the British Universities Sailing Association.

qualified lawyer making an impact in technology law and

Holly Elgood-Curtis

(MPhil American History, 2018) Holly raised over £1,000 for local breast

cancer charities by organising a special Formal Hall during Cambridge Pink

Week. She was the Welfare Officer for our

Students’ Union and also worked for The Times on their Top

Graduate Employers guide. Next year, Holly will join the NHS Graduate Training Scheme.

Emma Sims (HSPS, 2017) Emma was Co-President of our Students’ Union in 2018-19. She played on the Lucy

Cavendish and Hughes Netball Team and she wrote for the student magazine, The

Cavendish Chronicle. She was a member

of the Clare Politics Society and the Cambridge University

International Development Society. She was also involved

with Womcam (the Women’s Campaign). She was the Jackie

Ashley Prize for Best Results in Politics in 2018. Emma is working

in publishing and freelance journalism, and will soon start on a consultancy graduate scheme.

Emma Hopkins (Land Economy, 2017) Emma was Co-President of our Students’ Union for 2018-19 and is the College

Representative for the Foodbank Society and the Islamic Society. During the

summer, she is volunteering with Strive

Recruitment to facilitate social mobility within the legal

profession, before starting a training contract with Herbert Smith Freehills. She was recently awarded the Emmeline Pankhurst Prize for contribution to College life.

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In Memoriam 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.

Caron Freeborn (right) with her Connections partner Cecilia Wong in 2019

Sandra (“Alex”) Saville (English, 1990) (22/3/39-29/9/19) Alex was born in Gravesend, attending Walthamstow Hall in Sevenoaks gaining A levels in English, French and History in 1957. As was customary at the time she went on to secretarial college working in London through the 1960s.

She held 3 glamourous secretarial positions including secretary to MP Reginald Maudling and then Robert Runcie.

In 1969 Alex married Reverend Jeremy Saville (son of the children’s author Malcolm Saville) and settled into parish life and motherhood. 20 years later when Jeremy became Rector of Ashdon and Hadstock, Alex decided to apply to Cambridge (Due to its proximity and being able to live at home). Lucy Cavendish was recommended as the college most open to mature students. Following an interview in November 1989 she was given a conditional offer on the basis of gaining a B in English A level in 6 months. This she did and spent 3 very happy years at Lucy Cavendish particularly loving her work on Oscar Wilde and Iris Murdoch. Despite people asking Alex what she was going to do with her degree she was never tempted by a career (her sole aim being for education’s sake and to fulfil her intellectual potential) . However Alex then went on to start and lead Shakespeare, Poetry and Reading groups for the next 30 years up to her death, inspiring dozens of people who like her had not had the chance to study Literature.

Alex was a natural teacher and saw the potential in people from all backgrounds.

Caron Freeborn (English, 1992) written by alumna Lizzie Speller (Classics, 1992) (16/01/1966-26/04/2020) This is an obituary that I never imagined writing. I still feel that Caron could be hovering over me, rolling her eyes at my punctuation.

We met when we both came up to Lucy Cavendish in 1992 where she read English. I was scared of her and she was wary of me. She was urban to the bone and claimed that all countryside was prowling ground for axe-murderers.

Her father had drunk in the notorious Blind Beggar in the East End of London and she had two dogs, her beloved Auch and Blake. I was fifteen years older, the mother of three and came from the Cotswolds. She smoked liquorice roll-ups. I liked Fruit ‘n Nut bars.

Yet transformation is at the heart of what Cambridge and Lucy Cavendish make possible. In one term superficial difference became irrelevant in face of a shared love of books, argument; a passion for politics, feminism and Country and Western. We wrote a novel together and ran an extended riff on life for twenty-seven years.

In that time Caron became so many things to so many people but passion drove her, always. When she arrived at Lucy she was still in the shadow of agoraphobia and we would walk to lectures together. She was phobic about dentists and had agonising tooth problems. But she was dogged and brave: she never missed a lecture, she vomited every time she had a dental appointment, but she had the work done. She started going to the theatre if promised a seat near the back and by the aisle. She decided to join my Ancient Greek supervisions, which usually ended with our supervisor and us in hysterics.

Eventually we set off to France, her first trip abroad, with Caron’s hugely tolerant partner, Chris.

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Caron was clever, intellectually challenging and unique.

Her knowledge and love of Shakespeare and of Rhetoric was daunting. Her brilliant dissertation on Lady Mary Wroth (aptly called ‘A Constellation of Female Friendship’) was all her original research on micro-fiche. I still have a copy.

She won the BT Scholarship in 1994. The then President, Dame Anne Warburton, saw her stellar potential and remained in touch with her for years. She took her to meetings as speaker, including addressing an audience of 500 Women’s Institute members, she introduced her to Queen Margrethe of Denmark (they smoked together).

Caron never looked back. Some years on Caron and Chris had two sons, Jude and Gabe. Gone were the roll-ups, in came fitness and, eventually, serious running. She learned to cook.

She taught Tragedy at Queen’s as well as in college. She wrote and sold a novel, and then two more. She got a Doctorate. She said she would never write poetry but then did. She said she would only write sonnets but didn’t. She wrote witty, gritty accounts of being a woman, being a bad woman, of sexuality and compromise, of pretence, poverty and survival.

Way back at the start we’d had a game of choosing each other’s most and least promising alternative careers. I said she’d be a Music Hall Star (least likely: an organic gardener). That joke was inspired. Once she started teaching at Anglia Ruskin Caron brought poetry not just to students or the university but into the wider city and then beyond it. She was an amazing, compelling, performance poet; audiences loved her witty yet serious, sometimes shocking, delivery and, possibly, her body-as-text-tattoos.

Generous and determined, she encouraged others: students’ anyone who wrote, to be courageous and bring their works to open mic evenings.

But there were other important aspects to her life: she was always involved in the experience and educational outreach in autism and she became a deeply involved member of her local church.

Her premature loss, so soon after a diagnosis of cervical cancer, was very sudden. It left Chris, the boys, her mother and her friends, and all those in these worlds she’d invigorated, stunned and unbelieving.

Caron was a life-force, the least likely to be dead person I’ve ever known. But what she started will run on in the ideas, initiatives and creativity of others. She was changed

by Cambridge and she, in turn, changed it.

Her interest in stars began early in childhood and was fundamental to her career. She was educated at UCL (BA 1939, PhD 1943) and worked for a while at the University of London Observatory. In the 1960s and 70s she worked on galaxy rotation curves and quasars and discovered the most distant astronomical object known at that time. In the 1980s and 90s she helped develop and utilise the Faint Objects Spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope.

She was also known for her opposition to discrimination against women, which she had encountered in her career.

She held many important posts both in Britain and America. Among these was Director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory 1973-5, President of the American Astronomical Society 1976-78, President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 1983.

Professor Eleanor Margaret Burbidge, written

by Emeritus Fellow Dr Jane M. Renfrew (12/08/1919-05/04/2020) Professor Burbidge was made an Honorary Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College in 1971. She was a very distinguished astronomer and she established that the earth’s chemical elements were formed inside stars. She was the principal author of the watershed paper ‘Synthesis of the Elements in the Stars’ in Reviews of Modern Physics (1957).

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She worked at the Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago, the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, the California Institute of Technology, and at the University of California at San Diego. From 1979-1988 she was the first Director of the Centre for Astronomy and Space Sciences at UC San Diego.

Eleanor Margaret Peachy was born in Davenport, Stockport, UK. In 1948 she married Geoffrey Burbage, a theoretical physicist, later a theoretical astrophysicist, whom she met at UCL. He died in 2010. Margaret died at the age of 100, in San Francisco, in April 2020, after suffering a fall. She is survived by her daughter Sarah and a grandson.

September. Guernsey, he said he would put me in for the ‘O’ level, and I would do part time studies to take 3 more the following July. So I studied Maths, history and English Literature. July arrived and I passed all my exams, getting grade 1 for English and Maths and passed History. With these results I started teacher training in September 1968.

The next three years were busy. I would get everyone to bed by about 8pm and then settle down to do my reading and assignments for 2 hours every night. There were long holidays from college, but still given a load of reading to be done.

Sylvia Le Mottée - née Craig (Education, 1971) (17/10/1929-20/10/2019) Sylvia was born in Urmston, the youngest of 4 children of Archibald Craig and Edith Craig.

In September 1935 she started school at St Clements (primary) in Urmston and progressed quickly as by Christmas she was moved from the first class to the second class. Later Sylvia won the Vicars prize. Although not initially in the scholarship class, she requested to enter the scholarship exams and, in July of 1941, passed. Later she passed her School Certificate, got a job at Lewis’s Manchester, then for E. Griffiths Hughes.

She married John Le Mottée on 21st July 1951. During the years 1951-1955 they lived in Guernsey. Michael was born on the 4th of April 1955.

In September 1956 they moved to the L.S.A. Land Settlement Association Fen Drayton, a new life learning about farming and market gardening.

Andrew was born 22nd August 1957, Gillian was born on 1st January 1959. Due to family and jobs, they moved to Ware Hertfordshire. Phillip was born in Hertford on 8th May 1962. They moved again to the L.S.A. at Gt Abington in 1963.

Robert Craig was born 7th April 1965.

“Christmas time 1966, I received a card from old school friend, she told me she was training to be a Domestic Science teacher. I mentioned to John ‘If she can do that, so can I’. With Johns encouragement I investigated and discovered it was, at the time, impractical but was suggested to try for Primary teaching at Saffron Walden College. I did so and I already had enough qualifications with my School Certificate, I was out of practice at writing essays. I took some ‘O’ levels the following year at Young St Further Education College. This was in Summer 1967. The head suggested I write a short essay there and then to see if I could sit English Language with the resit people in

At college it was coming up for the finals in 1971. I learned that Cambridge University had just started the Bachelor of Education degree. So I discussed it with John and he said have a go – so I went to Miss Collings for her to put my name forward. She asked me how I was going to cope I said I had shown I could manage by never missing lectures here! So she said I had to get high enough grades but she would put my name forward. I managed

the grades and went for an interview at Lucy Cavendish College which was a Mature Women’s College. I was quite fearful as to what the interview would be like. It turned out to be almost like an afternoon tea and chat session with two of the college Dons. Both middle aged women, who were, it seemed, more interested in me as a person than an academic. I came away with the feeling that the old saying was right. If you get into Cambridge and were able to spell your name right you would pass! So I got a grant from the government for the extra year at University. There were 5 new B’Ed people in my year, all doing different main courses. I was the only one doing Sociology. But we all met up for the Education lectures. It was a totally different type of teaching and learning. You had to discipline yourself, they would lead but it was up to you to learn.”

Over this time period they moved house to Balsham and back to Gt. Abington.

The teaching positions held were at Chalkstone Middle school in Haverhill, first as a mainstream teacher and then went on to train to teach special needs children in what were termed remedial education classes. This maintained her passion for teaching as it gave a degree of freedom on approach to teaching where methods were adapted on a case by case way to get the best out of the children.

She was a highly respected member of staff, and wellliked by pupils.

Sylvia maintained contact with the college regularly attending the summer garden parties and various college dinners throughout her teaching years.

They finally moved to the youngest sons, Bob’s, in Kentford Suffolk in 2016 where they celebrated 65th year of marriage and then John passed on 29th July 2016.

Sylvia passed on 20th October 2019.

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