Lucy Cavendish College Annual Review 2020/21 by Lucy Cavendish College

Annual Review 2020–2021

Welcome

Contents 1

FROM THE PRESIDENT

Senior Tutor’s Report

Professor Dame Madeleine Atkins, 9th President of Lucy Cavendish College

Development Director’s Report

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

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

Domestic Bursar’s Report Lucy’s New Passivhaus Development Staff News Other College News SECTION TWO: THE STUDENT YEAR

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Students’ News

Celebrating Student Achievement

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

Visiting speakers

Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize SECTION FOUR: SPORTS AND MUSIC

Sport News

Music Report

Fellows’ News

Rowing Report

SECTION FIVE: NEWS FROM OUR FELLOWS

SECTION SIX: NEWS FROM ALUMNI

Alumni News In Memoriam

Thank you to our donors

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Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge CB3 0BU Tel. +44 (0)1223 332190 www.lucy.cam.ac.uk | development@lucy.cam.ac.uk  @LucyCavColl  @LucyCavCollege  @lucycavendishcollege Design: Dan Gould Design: www.dangould.co.uk Front cover image by RH Partnership Architects: Lucy’s new Passivhaus student accommodation from the library lawn

Dear Alumni, Friends and Supporters, I do hope that you, your family and friends are keeping well during these ongoing difficult and uncertain times. Two years have passed since the Fellowship of the College decided that we would change our admissions policy to accept men as well as women from the age of 18 years, and we are now getting ready for this new intake in October at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. 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 by 2025, as well as seeking to admit outstanding international students from a diverse range of backgrounds, including those from low-income families. We are meeting the milestones for both of these ambitions. As we grow our student intake, it follows that we need more community facilities and more student accommodation. The first phase of the building works to create 72 student study bedrooms and a large cafe-plussocial learning space on the ground floor has started and is on track for completion in October 2022, despite facing challenges such as finding Great Crested Newts, and Roman skeletons and artefacts! As well as this building work, we are rethinking the way that our first-class library building is used. We have plans to augment available resources and encourage increased usage – this includes a highly configurable room for collaborative working, a new area for video conferencing, redesigning the foyer as a careers and enterprise area, and a workspace to support the use of the special collection for teaching and study. Further phases of the estates project, which include ideas for a new, digitally enhanced, sustainable and innovative 21st Century project hub and a graduate base at the University’s Eddington site, are still at the outline masterplan stage. This year, for the first time, we have welcomed a mixed gender fellowship and are delighted with the additional range of expertise that our new Fellows have brought to the College.

As I write, the outreach events for undergraduates who want to begin their courses in 2022 are starting and the Admissions Team is, as always, doing an excellent job in keeping our cohort for 2021 entry engaged and motivated to get their grades in spite of the difficulties caused by Covid. We all now feel more confident than this time last year in making virtual Zoom/Teams events and interviews work well for recruitment purposes, and we will take the good practice we have developed over the last twelve months forward with some new features added. It has been wonderful to connect virtually with so many of you all over the world, and across many different time zones, during the ‘Meet the President’ sessions. These have opened up many more opportunities to connect with our alumni and supporters, and will definitely be something that we will continue into the future. An amazing Giving Week during October 2020 resulted in donations totalling over £164,000, which in turn unlocked another £60,000 towards a special fund for undergraduate financial support across Cambridge via the Harding Challenge. The Foundation Board is continuing to implement its fundraising plans, and on the assumption that travel and visits will be allowed from late July, we are drawing up a prioritised list of meetings with potential donors and scoping international visits to the US and possibly China for 2022. We have also set up a Sub-Committee of the Foundation Board which will focus on friend and fundraising in North America, identifying potential major donors through their wider networks. So there are exciting times ahead, and as always we are extremely grateful for the support we continue to receive from the Vice-Chancellor, other colleges and so many of you: our alumni, friends, and legators. Without your support we would not be able to continue on our mission to ensure that many more outstanding students from under-represented groups get the opportunity to come to Cambridge and benefit from its world-leading education.

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Senior Tutor’s Report BY DR JANE GREATOREX

he past academic year has continued to throw up both unplanned challenges and unforeseen triumphs. The original plan for 2020-21 was to complete planning for the Academic and Wellbeing frameworks, whilst building capacity for the increase in students. In addition, the Careers and Enterprise programs were to finally take shape. As part of those plan, the Library was to become the centre for teaching, careers and enterprise activities. As in the previous year, however, plans were one again

over-shadowed by the on-going coronavirus pandemic. In addition to managing the day-to-day business and the College transition, the pandemic led to new policies and procedures, comprehensive plans around supporting students during lockdowns and self-isolation and adapting to new ways of teaching. The students are to be congratulated for the remarkable stoicism they showed in the face of repeated lockdowns and disruption.

Section 1

THE COLLEGE YEAR

Because of the lack of A level examinations, in Michaelmas Term 2020, Cambridge ended up taking in an increase of students and the College responded by moving forward a year its plan to admit students of all ages. Consequently, our freshers cohort included thirty 18 year olds. We had planned an enhanced on-boarding program for our incoming students. This consisted of meeting the students (virtually) immediately after their offer confirmations and engaging with them weekly until either our Bridging program in the case of undergraduates, or the Induction weekend before the start of Term for post-graduates. This proved highly successful and feedback from students indicated just how much this helped prepare them for arrival. In addition to understanding how their education was going to be administered, there was a feeling that they had already ‘met’ key members of staff and Fellows, so were able to approach them more easily once they arrived in person. Our Academic Skills program was established fully and developed over the course of the 2019-20 academic year. It is now one of the largest such programs in the collegiate university. Moving online increased engagement and the challenges of different time zones meant that recording of sessions made sense in terms of accessibility. A key part of the program, we remained in the Royal Literary Fund

Fellowship scheme in 2020-21 but this time had our own Fellow instead of sharing with another college. Provision was virtual during Covid but it is hoped it will return to face-to-face in 2022. Our librarian, Suzanne Tonkin, now holds the role of overseeing the Academic Skills program, supported by administrative staff from the Student Office. The careers program had a major shakeup and revamp. Successful components such as Catalyst (“inspiring you to think differently about your future”) and Katie Heath’s (Bye Fellow in Careers) 1:1 sessions remain into the current year, as well as linking into the University’s “Handshake” scheme. Planning for the Enterprise program was completed and this program started by feeding into the on-boarding of students for 2021-22. Welfare in College continues to play a major role in supporting students in their studies and their lives. In 201920, all the existing wellbeing provision continued, including activities like the free yoga, core strength training, all the events organised by the library and the tutorial organised support during what became the Assessment period. Due to lockdown the latter was virtual and well received. It went on to form the basis of a larger virtual support package for all in lockdown, wherever they were. 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. Exam results were once more difficult to compare to prepandemic results. Apart from our relatively small (preexpansion) number of finalists, most other results were formed from assessment. This is frustrating for students and their teaching staff alike and we look to and hope for a return to in-person examinations in 2022. Lastly, a huge thanks is due to all who have supported our students in what has been a very difficult year. Despite everything, medical students passed their degrees and once again headed out, early, to help on the front line, rowers managed to stay fit enough to take part in and triumph in a slightly surreal boat race and everyone prevailed.

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Admissions Director’s report

Development Director’s report

BY DR MARK KING

fter another year dominated by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, I am delighted to write in hopeful anticipation of more normal times at the beginning of our first year as a standard-age (18+), co-ed College. We have now completed our first admissions round under our new admissions policy and, as I write, our incoming students are preparing to arrive

for our Undergraduate Bridging course in a few weeks. Without doubt there have been challenges along the way: from a fully online admissions round in the autumn, to the difficulties of managing a global group of offerholders whilst negotiating an ever-changing landscape of examination results, travel restrictions and quarantine policies. However, with the final numbers now confirmed, it is clear that the round has been a great success. We will admit 132 undergraduates this autumn, of whom around 60% - a clear majority – come from backgrounds that are either disadvantaged, or are underrepresented at Cambridge, achieving one of the goals to which we aspired when we first embarked upon our transition. Furthermore, the College is likely to have one of the most, if not the most, socioeconomically diverse intakes in Cambridge, with around 83% of our UK students coming from maintained sector schools, over 40% from the least advantaged backgrounds, and around one in four being part of the first generation of their families to attend university. Crucially, these figures have not come at the expense of the academic standards that are so important for success at Cambridge. Indeed, around 73% of our A-level offer-holders achieved three A*s or higher in their exams, so their academic credentials are beyond dispute. Within the team, there have been more changes, too. After a very busy year, Lucy Bunker leaves us for a role at the Clinical School of Medicine: she departs with our sincere gratitude for a job well done and very best wishes for her future. Caitlin Law has therefore made the step up to Undergraduate Admissions and Outreach Officer and Hayley Hilson has been recruited as our new

Outreach Officer. Hayley joins us after a first class degree in Linguistics at Homerton College and we are very much looking forward to working with her.

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BY JO RYAN

uring another year of uncertainty, the incredible support of the Lucy community has been wonderful, enabling us to remain fully focused on our mission. I would like to extend my thanks to you all for your continued interest, involvement and generosity in so many ways.

Amongst the projects Hayley will be managing are two exceptional initiatives. The first is an academic mentoring and tuition programme for offer-holders from disadvantaged backgrounds, which is run in partnership with the charity Causeway Education. 29 students were enrolled on this programme this year and we are delighted to announce that 85% of them went on to meet the conditions of their offer. The second is a new outreach programme of academic enrichment for students from

underrepresented backgrounds. This began at the end of July with an intensive six-week online summer school for Year 11 students. It will now continue throughout the forthcoming academic year with further classes to build key knowledge and skills, before culminating in an admissions-focussed follow-up summer school next August. Designed in collaboration with our partner schools, this will be our flagship initiative going forwards as we seek to support talented students to bridge the educational gap exacerbated by the pandemic. Such activities are only possible because of the generous donations we have received from alumni and other benefactors and we are especially grateful for this support during these challenging times.

2020-21 was an exciting year. Along with colleagues in other departments, our focus was on supporting preparations for our first mixed cohort of standard age students - our most diverse intake ever. The year began with much to celebrate, as the global College community gathered during LucyGives Giving Week 2020, raising funds to: • improve students’ first year experience through our Bridging Week and Student Lived Experience Research programmes; • expand Library collections in step with our growing student body; • provide 9 new Master’s studentships for students on interdisciplinary courses who demonstrate an appetite to make a positive impact on the world; • and to create a fund to ensure no student is prevented from making the most of the co- and extra-curricular opportunities that Cambridge has to offer. With your help, the Giving Week raised more than double our target figure, receiving £164,681 from 320 supporters - our heartfelt thanks to everyone who contributed financially or volunteered their time to help achieve such tremendous results. Philanthropy has also enabled us to pilot some innovative new projects, helping to support students at every stage of their journeys into Higher Education. ‘Get Set for Lucy Cavendish: the Blakey Mentoring Programme’ offered free academic tutoring to 27 Year 13 offer-holders from underserved communities in a range of subjects, as they worked to achieve their required grades. We have secured funding to run the programme again and to extend its reach so that even more offer-holders are supported in taking up their Cambridge places in October 2022.

A new postal ‘lending library’ was established to support already disadvantaged offer-holders who had additionally found themselves on the wrong side of the digital divide during the pandemic. The “hard copy only” library helps to make up for lost learning during the lockdowns by offering A-Level exam support materials as well as pre-course and first year reading texts. Our new colleague, Rachael Burcher is leading on the brand new STEM and Enterprise Programme. Rachael, who is being supported by AstraZeneca, is building strong, mutually beneficial relationships between the students and the local life science community, and raising funds to assist the new cohort of undergraduate STEM students. Meanwhile, alumna Lili Schwoerer is the principal academic lead on a one-year, innovative Student Lived Experience Research project. Lili’s work will enable us to better understand the day-to-day experiences of firstyear students at Lucy who come from backgrounds that are currently under-represented at the University. The students will be paid co-researchers, working on data collection and analysis alongside Lili, and their findings will help us to implement systematic solutions to the problems students like them may face. We look forward to sharing the outcomes of both of these initiatives with you in the coming months. Our Foundation Board continues to provide strategic advice and guidance on all aspects of fundraising and we are indebted to them for the time and energy they volunteer. We have established a sub-committee of the Board, based in North America. Members (who include Lucy alumna Disha Patel) are all well-networked leaders in their fields with a proven interest in the higher education sector. They are committed supporters of the College’s mission to widen access and to increase the proportion of outstanding international students from low-income backgrounds. They particularly wish to support those who will take postgraduate programmes related to the Sustainable Development Goals as defined by the United Nations.

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The pandemic necessitated finding new and creative ways to connect with our alumni and friends and we have enjoyed meeting more of the Lucy community than ever before via Zoom, and hearing your individual stories. Our virtual Meet the President events have proved extremely popular and more are planned in the coming months wherever you are in the world, you will have an opportunity to hear first-hand what is happening at Lucy now and the plans for the future. Live from Lucy talks continue to be enlightening, stimulating and inspiring – please visit the website for the forthcoming programme. Our careers-focused virtual events for students and alumni who work in architecture, finance and law were well received and we are planning more events of this nature over the next 12 months. Please do get in touch if you have any suggestions as to topics or speakers. Recordings of previous online talks and lectures are available to view on demand via the College website: https://www.lucy.cam.ac.uk/events?tab=past-event-list The first virtual Celebration of Lucy’s Benefactors and Legators took place in March and this event is now a regular fixture in the College calendar. The programme included talks from the President, the Lucy Development team, architect Kevin Myers from RHP on the Estates Development Plans, alumna and Shadow Minister for Mental Health Dr Rosena Allin-Khan MP, and alumna Cherish Watton. The event concluded with an uplifting performance by the Lucy Cavendish Singers. On behalf of all my colleagues in the Development Office, thank you for your support and friendship. We hope it will not be too long before we can welcome you to College again, but in the meantime we will continue to stay in touch and share news via online events, the e-newsletter, publications such as this and on the website and social media channels. We love hearing from you so please do get in touch!

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Librarian’s Report

Bursar’s Report

BY SUZANNE TONKIN

his has been another busy year for us in the Library with enhancements of the Library’s space and book stock. The College’s Giving Week in October saw many donors supporting the expansion of the Library’s collections in preparation for our expanded cohort in 2020-2021 and 2021-2022. Our work each summer always involves checking reading lists and updating the book collections, but this year we bought many additional titles. We also upgraded the subject, study skills and careers collections and greatly expanded the availability of textbooks in preparation for the arrival of our new students.

rom the bursarial view point this has not been a quiet year! We are in the midst of our major development plans whilst still dealing with the impact of COVID - so the financial and other resource challenges are very apparent. Once again, we have needed to adapt services and facilities in supporting our students, whether they were in Cambridge or elsewhere in the world. It has been wonderful to see how our dedicated staff teams have continued to show such commitment and flexibility. This has been true for those reliably turning up to frontfacing roles in College, trusting that the College and its community will do the right thing to keep them and each other safe, and also from those still working from home over a year later - having packed up their things in March 2020, not anticipating for a moment that their kitchen table would become their desk for quite so long…

A donation also underpinned the early support we were able to give to several of our undergraduate offer-holders through the establishment of an introductory collection of books which we then posted out to students over the summer. Feedback on this new service has been very positive with one student stating “As someone who wouldn’t have easily had the funds to buy these books, I would like to express how much I appreciate this!” We are incredibly grateful for the work of the Development Office and the support of so many generous donors, who have made such a difference to the Library’s collections. The summer also saw a refurbishment and upgrade of some of the Library’s study spaces, most notably in the basement rooms, where a new Careers and Enterprise Hub has been created to support collaborative work. A state of the art video-conferencing system, screensharing software, a visualiser and a large whiteboard are now available in a much lighter and brighter space. Other facilities include large write-on tables and as I write we are awaiting delivery of a “Zoom booth” – soundproofed space to allow students to conduct Zoom calls privately. We have also brought together the Library’s skills equipment to form a coherent practical skills collection, with support for disciplines that involve hands-on teaching. The collection holds such varied items as a cutting mat and light box for Architecture students, molecular model kits for Natural Sciences students, and even a kit to help our Medics and Vets practise their handwashing.

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BY LESLEY THOMPSON

The academic skills programme – MAP: Maximise your Academic Potential – has gone from strength to strength with our largest programme yet of skills sessions to support our students at whatever stage in their studies they may be. All our sessions this year moved to Zoom or Teams, which not only had the advantage of allowing our students to attend wherever in the world they were based, but also removed the cap on numbers so there was space for everyone. We were particularly pleased to be able to include broader “lifeskills” sessions as part of the timetable this year and workshops on mindfulness, resilience and managing stress were particularly well received. As ever, grateful thanks go to our sterling Library Team of Assistant Librarian Amanda Hawkes and Library Assistant Gill Saxon, whose hard work ensure the Library supports our students in their work and remains the friendly and welcoming space that it has always been.

Naturally, the College has suffered further financial losses as a result of the pandemic with reductions and refunds to students of rent and of catering charges for those not in Cambridge and reflecting reduced provision as a result of COVID safety requirements. These have cost the College around £500K. Unfortunately, as we rent some of the accommodation that we provide, we have still had to pay rent on those properties whether students were in occupation or not. Also, as predicted, in 2021 we have had almost no conference income in our normal busy period of July to September, leading to a further loss of income of around £700k. However, a range of positive factors has meant that the overall financial position of the College has been supported. Firstly, given the reduction in operations, we continued to claim support from the Government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, allowing us to retain all of our permanent staff; and, secondly, we have again had intercollegiate support (around £1 million in 2020/21) in the form of the Colleges’ Fund whereby the better endowed colleges support the lesser endowed colleges. Although grants from this Fund are usually required to be added to the endowments of the recipient colleges, once again this year approval was given for them to be

used to cover operational expenditure. Finally, having suffered a dramatic fall when COVID first hit, the stock market bounced back quite quickly and has continued to hold up such that the value of the College’s investment portfolio at the year-end has meant that the College is in an overall better financial position at 20 June 2021 than at the previous year end. Throughout this whole period, we have continued to develop the College’s exciting plans for its future. Having scrutinised our business case and financial modelling, the University confirmed its 30 year loan facility of £16m to the College and construction of the Phase 1 building, built to Passivhaus standards, began on site in early 2021. Although it was sad to see Barrmore disappear, it has been very exciting to view the emerging new building – currently on budget and on programme, so we expect to be able to’ take delivery’ next August 2022. We have also taken on more rented accommodation for our growing student body and are currently working closely with the University on possibilities for a longer term solution at Eddington. We have pressed ahead with our ambitious growth and development plans as we believe that these will support the College’s long term financial sustainability - but doing this at a time when the College’s operational finances continue to be affected by the impact of the pandemic is challenging. We are very thankful that the Colleges’ Fund grant in 2021/22 will again be allowed to be used operationally 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: https://www.lucy.cam.ac.uk/reports-accounts 2020/21 accounts will be uploaded once approved

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Domestic Bursar’s Report BY CHRISTINE HOUGHTON What a year?

ittle did we know in March 2020 when Covid-19 entered our lives that it would still have such an effect 18 months later. We quickly responded to national restrictions imposed on all of us in order to limit the spread of this horrible virus. I participated in our College weekly Covid-19 working group which meets to look at University and national information on all Covid related issues. We then discussed what we needed to do to support our students, both those in College and everyone at home. We were very grateful to students on the group who let us know how students were feeling so we could discuss any concerns and respond to them. Those that could work from home were asked to do so and a new way of working was established. Zoom and Teams meetings became the norm. The majority of staff in departments I oversee, other than Katie and Paris, were unable to work from home due to the nature of work they do. It’s great thanks to all of them that we were able to keep housekeeping services including enhanced cleaning 7 days a week, catering and maintenance going. We set up ‘complex’ work bubbles providing resilience to ensure we were able to limit disruption to our services if someone was to become ill. A huge amount of work went into producing protocols and guidance in an ever-changing environment. Colleagues in other Colleges have always been a great source of support and always welcome was our Teams group where there was always someone willing to give advice or share documentation or ways to do things.

Summer 2020 was very busy and seemed to go in a flash even without conferences. We welcomed many students back to accommodation to start Michaelmas Term and supported those who needed to arrive early to quarantine. The catering department did a sterling job organising food packs to be brought to over 70 international students in quarantine. Areas were marked out to comply with social distancing in Warburton Hall, Nautilus, seminar rooms and the Library and one-way systems put in place. Risk assessments were completed and continually reviewed to ensure compliance.

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We had hoped after Christmas we would be back to some sort of normality but it was back into lockdown and we again supported the Tutorial team in looking after our many students in accommodation. By Easter term we were able to host ten small Formal Halls under guidelines. Taking into account social distancing and providing table service for all parts of the meal, we were able to give students a special meal. This was much appreciated by all who attended. Easter term is also when exams take place. Due to Covid, students would take these in their rooms and we worked to make sure that they had a quiet space to sit exams and study. We did manage to have simple Graduation celebrations at the beginning of July and mid-July to applaud our students who graduated. A real achievement in a difficult and challenging year to graduate either in person or in absentia. We are proud of them all. Although it was a difficult year many of you know I like to

find the ‘silver lining’ and I found that in the planning and start of the new building project. I thoroughly enjoyed my involvement in this project from many meetings with various building and design teams to discuss everything from landscape, paths, plumbing, ensuite pods, light fittings, bedroom design/ layouts, kitchens, café, to small details of …..where should the mirrors go, where do I hang my dressing gown, put my shampoo, make a coffee, cook a meal, get in out of a building , change a lightbulb, get a croque monsieur and many, many other things. We thank all our students and others who give great feedback to help with the design. I sent my first weekly Newsletter out to College members on 29 January and that marked the start of the project for me. Site hoardings erected and Barrmore was cleared for demolition which started in March 2021 and was completed by beginning of April. Of course all was not without some drama. From the discovery of Great Crested Newt when the pond was drained causing delay and a great deal of money to findings by archeologists of a Roman road, skeletons and other artefacts. All very exciting stuff. We arranged a trip on site for some of our historians which they thoroughly enjoyed. The Music and Meditation Pavilion was dismantled piece by piece from the corner of Barrmore lawn and then reerected in the corner of Strathaird. A complex job carried out superbly by SDC. I am very pleased how it looks in its new location and had the honour of cutting the ribbon at the ‘opening ceremony’ on Monday 26 July. We arranged the building programme so that the builders SDC stopped all noisy work during the main exam period. They had cleared the build site as much as possible and

erected site offices in the grounds of Marshall House. SDC started in earnest on 21 June and it has been a hive of activity ever since. We have watched with great fascination the site foundations building up. I have enjoyed frequent ‘balcony tutorials’ with the SDC site manager. We meet on the balcony of Warburton Hall where you get a good view of the site and he has talked me through the engineering procedures, what the various vehicles were doing and what to expect during the next stages. I am learning lots about engineering and what constitutes the process of building a Passivhaus standard block. As we come to the end of August the first concrete pour to produce the foundation slab for everything to build up from is almost complete. We look forward to watching the next stages as the building rises from the ground. This is a very exciting project for College and it will enhance facilities for our students. As well as the new build we have carried out some other smaller projects in College: • Refurbished St Peters Street • New shower room, lower ground floor Albion Yard • New tiled floors laid in Dr Byre and Bertram and some other works to bedrooms and kitchens • Fire suppression unit fitted over stove area in main kitchen, Warburton Hall • All table tops in dining hall refurbished • Refurbishment to Barbra Dyer Room and Library Lounge in the library • Health and safety checks were carried out including • Water monitoring and legionella testing • 5 year EICR Inspection all College properties except Histon Road which is due again in 2024 • DB/Consumer Unit update 88 Chesterton Road • Heating and Plumbing works to various buildings • External advisor carried out detailed Fire Risk Assessments to all College buildings Our maintenance and housekeeping teams have also taken the opportunity when rooms are empty to carry out repairs and decoration. Every year there is something out of the ordinary. This year it was a large bee colony who took up residence in a roof space and we were only alerted to it when honey started dripping from the ceiling of an unused room. The people were called in and the swarm taken away successfully to a new home. I think everyone in College has worked so hard and been so loyal and supportive over this past year. I feel so lucky to be part of such a wonderful community. Another new chapter in College is happening this October. We all look forward to welcoming our new cohort of students along with welcoming back returners. May 21/22 be a good year.

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Lucy’s new Passivhaus development The College’s eco-friendly, accessible and future-proof building will house its growing and diverse student community.

reparatory work started towards the end of January 2021 on Lucy’s new development. It will provide much-needed facilities for the growing College community and support its ambitious widening participation and interdisciplinary agendas. The new building will house the increase in numbers of undergraduate students with exceptional potential from under-represented groups and of postgraduates studying and researching major inter-disciplinary issues facing humankind and the planet. The building has been designed to facilitate integration across our increasingly diverse student body and foster an engaged, inclusive and welcoming community. It will be the ideal environment for students to make personal friends and professional networks outside their subject area that will last for years to come. With expert consultancy from the Leonard Cheshire charity, the building will also be co-accessible, attractive to a broad spectrum of different cognitive and learning styles, and future-proofed for the fast-evolving international standards in personal, transformational, assistive technologies. Excellent wireless connectivity will be available throughout. The building is being designed and delivered as a Passivhaus scheme, which means low energy in use and high comfort. The design energy targets are in line with those used in industry carbon-zero frameworks from the RIBA (Royal Institution of British Architects), LETI (London Energy Transformation Initiative), and the UKGBC (UK Green Building Council). The design eliminates the use of fossil fuels by utilising Air Source Heat Pump technology to provide space heating and hot water. Low embodied carbon materials, such as CLT (Cross Laminated Timber) for the primary structure and low embodied carbon cement replacements in the concrete elements, help to reduce the embodied carbon within the building. Water consumption is reduced through specification of highly water efficient sanitary ware and

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appliances. The landscape integrated drainage strategy will help to reduce and control water run-off whilst providing irrigation to landscaping. Building consultancy Bidwells prepared a careful plan and timetable that will minimise the impact to the College community, and access to the library and other facilities will be maintained throughout the works. Building work started on 21 June and facilities will be ready and open for students by the start of the October term 2022. The building will provide 72 modern, en-suite studybedrooms clustered in different combinations with a variety of environments for social interaction and selfcatering purposes. Four bedrooms will be fully accessible with carer accommodation alongside. The ground floor will act as a hub of differentiated informal learning spaces and will contain a large café/bar. The surrounding grounds are to be re-landscaped to create outdoor spaces at different scales including those suitable for events and performances, a sensory garden, and an intimate new courtyard for quiet relaxation or individual study. Wellbeing has been an important design principle – all study bedrooms, for example, have views of the gardens – and students have been involved in design workshops using head-up displays to simulate the size, layout, and facilities of the study-bedrooms and informal social areas. The new building is as much an interactive learning space as a living space. Its IT infrastructure provides a platform for new forms of digitally-enhanced learning for individual and small group use; these have demonstrated their potential during COVID and are likely to remain and develop post-pandemic. All preliminary design steps for this building, to Passivhaus standards, have been completed successfully, following positive engagement with the Planning Authority. Planning consent was achieved on December 10 2020. In July 2021 The Wolfson Foundation awarded Lucy Cavendish College up to £200,000 towards the cost of the new accommodation and learning spaces.

About the Wolfson Foundation The Wolfson Foundation is an independent charity with a focus on research and education. Its aim is to support civil society by investing in excellent projects in science, health, heritage, humanities and the arts. Since it was established in 1955, some £1 billion (£2 billion in real terms) has been awarded to more than 14,000 projects throughout the UK, all on the basis of expert review.

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Lucy looks forward to welcoming Cambridge Foundation Year students in 2022

REPORT BY ALISON BURMBY, HR MANAGER

ollowing the success of implementing the online holiday system, the College has introduced a new training platform called iHasco for all staff and stipendiary Fellows. The system contains a wealth of topics with over 120 courses available ranging from Health and Safety Courses and HR courses to Equality and Diversity and Business Compliance modules. The College has also continued to provide in-house training for staff with sessions on Data Protection Awareness, Improving Race Inclusion and Wellness & Motivation. The staff team has as ever shown their positive, can do ‘Lucy’ response to the Pandemic. On site teams worked tirelessly, continuing to provide an excellent service for students, and responded incredibly well to the new ways of working, sometimes with full PPE and often in bubbles or alone. Similarly our office based staff quickly adjusted to working remotely transitioning to this new way of working with ease and professionalism. We were grateful for the additional government support provided by the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (or “furlough”) which enabled us to protect employment for our staff as we look ahead to the future. The College is incredibly thankful to each and every member of the team who contributes in such positive ways to the running of the College. We are grateful to you all.

ARRIVALS: • As Executive Assistant, Natasha Stokes provides administrative support to both the President and Development Director • Dr Rihad Khalid, with support from the Isaac Newton Trust, joined as Research Fellow • Dr Alex Freer joins as Director of Studies and College Teaching Officer in English from Trinity College, Cambridge. Alex studied his PhD at the University of Cambridge • Dr Elizabeth Fistein and Dr Howard Nelson both join our Tutorial Team

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• Working to deliver a high quality, Life Sciences and Technology Programme in collaboration with participating local companies, Rachael Burcher joins as Science & Technology Careers and Enterprise Programme Coordinator • Lili Schwoerer joins the College as Research Project Coordinator for the Student Lived Experience Project. • Hayley Hilson joins the Admissions Team as Outreach Officer • Poorna Mysoor joins as Director of Studies and College Teaching Officer in Law. Poorna has significant experience working as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Law Faculty in the University of Oxford and is also a Tutor in Land Law at Queen’s College, Oxford.

DEPARTURES: • Hayley Welch, Executive Assistant, left the President’s Office • Isobel Maddison has left her role as College Teaching Office in English after 13 years in the post. She remains an Emeritus Fellow. • Summer Creedy, Amy Williams and Matthew Everett left the Housekeeping Team, while Bibiana Balogh’s maternity cover came to an end. Nazare Neves has retired and we wish her the very best in her retirement. • Neil Knight left his role at the Porters’ Lodge after 7 years at the College • Kitchen Porter, Marcin Krzak, left the Catering Team to work on his own business • Lucy Bunker, Undergraduate Admissions Officer left the Admissions Team.

CHANGES: • Jude Arnold and Alicia McGonigle were promoted to Housekeeping Supervisors and Shaun Bestwick as Domestic Porter Supervisor • Development Coordinator, Ella Barrett, was made a permanent member of staff • Carol Peresson changed position and is now Student Finance Accountant (Undergraduate) • Caitlin Law has been promoted to Undergraduate Admissions and Outreach Officer

Lucy Cavendish College is delighted to be among the first Colleges to host students for the Cambridge Foundation Year, an innovative new programme offering talented students from backgrounds of educational and social disadvantage a new route to undergraduate study. The Foundation Year initiative fits perfectly with the College’s historic and future mission and purpose, supporting under-represented and underserved students and those that have suffered significant disruption in their educational journeys. The one-year course will prepare students for further learning and offer them the chance to progress straight to an undergraduate degree at

Cambridge. It is completely free for students to attend; a cornerstone £5 million gift from philanthropists Christina and Peter Dawson will fund the launch of the programme and provide full one-year scholarships for all students who are accepted, covering both maintenance and tuition costs.

US Scholar-elect Christina Meister joins Lucy Cavendish as part of the 2021 Gates Cambridge Class Christina (MPhil in Conservation Leadership) first became interested in the intersection between social and environmental justice while working as an AmeriCorps volunteer for the Ocean State Environmental Education Collaborative. At AmeriCorps, she was responsible for teaching environmental science to young people in hospitals, in assisted living facilities, and on after school programs. Her experience working with underserved groups taught her the importance of community-based conservation and inspired her to study environmental science at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. Today, Christina leads outreach initiatives that help protect human rights and endangered species on a global level. She is particularly passionate about ensuring the health and safety of indigenous communities while working with others to end the illegal wildlife trade.

A Roman metal vessel

Archaeological excavations undertaken at Lucy Cavendish College, ahead of the construction of its new student accommodation development, revealed Roman artefacts Archaeological excavations were undertaken in May at the College, ahead of the construction of its new ‘Passivhaus’ student accommodation development. Works have been producing some interesting results. Lucy Cavendish is located just outside the Roman town in Cambridge - an area that was known to have potential for Roman remains following archaeological investigations undertaken many years ago. Findings during this excavation included cooking pits, human remains and a considerable amount of pottery fragments as well as a variety of coins. The line of a Roman road had also been recorded at the eastern end of the College site. Because of this potential for Roman remains, an archaeological desk-based assessment alongside archaeological evaluation trenching was undertaken to support the planning application for the new student accommodation.

Lucy Cavendish College commits to divestment from fossil fuel companies Lucy Cavendish’s sustainable environmental commitment now extends to its investments, building plans, campus campaigns and study programmes. Environmental sustainability issues have been regularly discussed in the College, and at the Governing Body on 7 October 2020 it was unanimously decided that the College should divest from its direct holdings in fossil fuel companies and instead invest in ‘green funds’ or green technology companies. Over the next year the College will explore how best to continue to address environmental sustainability in all its investments.

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Lucy’s Creative Writing Course proves a success online and was highly praised by the aspiring writers who attended On 26 and 27 September 2020, an enthusiastic group of aspiring writers joined course leaders Miranda Doyle, a writer and teacher, and Jo Browning Wroe, a writer and Creative Writing Supervisor at Lucy Cavendish College, to devote a weekend to improving their creative writing skills. The college was pleased to be able to support two low-income writers with free places this year. The writers attended two live workshops, listened to talks from industry experts and successful authors, and were able to ask questions. They also benefited from a oneto-one feedback session on their own writing which was submitted beforehand.

Lawyers’ networking event demonstrates strength of Lucy community and ongoing graduate support On Thursday 24 June, Lucy Law students had the chance to network with alumni and friends who have experience in the legal profession. The event provided an excellent opportunity for alumni to share their insights into navigating the early stages of a career in law. Hosted by Law Directors of Studies, Professor Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger and Emily Gordon, and organised by Lucy’s Development team, the event also presented a great opportunity for Lucy’s global community to celebrate the end of the academic year together. The alumni panelists talked about legal careers at times of economic uncertainty. Panellists: • Ifeoma Taiwo (Lawyer for the UK Government Legal Department). • Myfanwy Probyn (Researcher and administrator of the UK All-Party Parliamentary Group on Population, Development and Reproductive Health). • Andrea Trozzo (Articling Student at Dolden Wallace Folick LLP). • Alice Hubbard (Student member of Middle Temple currently undertaking the BPTC at the Inns of Court College of Advocacy). • Corlijn Reijgwart (LLM student and intern at Covington & Burling).

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Three members of the College community announced winners at the Women in Innovation awards 2021/22 Alumni Nicola Filzmoser and Ruby Pillai and Postdoc Dr Dilrini De Silva were among the 40 winners of the Innovate UK and KTN 2021 Women in innovation award who were announced on Monday 8 March to mark International Women’s Day. Nicola Filzmoser (MSt Entrepreneurship) founded Happyr Health in 2019 with her partner Cornelius Palm. Together they discovered that as many as one in four children worldwide suffer chronic pain and their mission is to improve the lives of children and young people who go through challenges. Dr Dilrini De Silva (Borysiewicz Biomedical Sciences Fellow and Research Associate in Bioinformatics at Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Institute) is looking to make a global health impact by improving treatment options for ethnic minority populations with her pre-seed biotech start-up Jāna Bio, founded alongside postdoctoral associates at the University of Cambridge. Dr Ruby Pillai (MSt in Entrepreneurship) founded her tech start-up iWarranty in 2019 with a mission to reduce electronic waste by encouraging consumers to repair and reuse rather than replace items.

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News from our students

THE STUDENT YEAR

Lucy graduate medical student Nadia Capatina receives Santander Universities Award as College support towards her research Nadia, a second-year student when she received the award, is on the Cambridge Graduate Medical Course, training to be a medical practitioner. She received the award as College support towards her research project that involves experimental studies in the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Maria Fihl, Theology, Religion & Philosophy of Religion 2018, wins the Emmeline Pankhurst Prize 2020 Maria has been awarded the prize for her significant contribution to college life. During Maria’s time at Lucy she prepared for the priesthood at Westcott House and was on ‘attachment’ at Kings College Chapel as part of her training. This, amongst a host of other things, included preparing and giving sermons in a Chapel which carries so much history and is so well known worldwide.

Carina Mouritsen Luxhøj, Lucy Cavendish medical student, wins national student prize Carina (MB BChir, Medicine & Surgery) won the Institute of Anatomy’s Student Dissection Prize 2020. The IAS (Institute of Anatomy) Student Dissection Prize is an annual national competition for students. The Prize requires you to produce an anatomical dissection that will be judged by a panel of experienced anatomists. The dissection is judged against published criteria, technical and intellectual complexity and usefulness as a teaching aid. Carina did this work over five or more weeks during the summer following her first year.

Jessica Derwent wins prestigious Lord Brougham Scholarship Jessica is an Affiliate Law student at Lucy Cavendish

College and she hopes to pursue a career at the Bar after graduating. Jessica received the award in July 2020. The law scholarship was officially announced in December 2020 with the Inns of Court publishing their scholars list in the Times. It’s called the Lord Brougham Scholarship, which is one of The Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn GDL scholarships for non-law graduates. Jessica was eligible to apply as a non-law graduate student while studying English at Durham University. Lincoln’s Inn has helped fund her law degree at Cambridge.

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Students’ Union Report

BY C SMART (STUDENT UNION PRESIDENT)

Lucy PhD (Education) Julia Hayes wins the Cambridge Creative Partnership 2021 competition to fund an animation of her research Julia’s research focuses on Colombian children with disabilities. Julia put her career as an International Inclusive Education Consultant on hold to research the education of children with disabilities in rural Colombian schools which use the successful ‘Escuela Nueva’ model of education. Passionate about finding ways to communicate research in ways that are accessible, Julia won a competition, run by Cambridge Creative Partnerships, to fund an animation of her research. The 1-minute animation was launched at the Cambridge Festival and talks about Julia’s PhD research and shares the views of teachers on how they address the needs of children with disabilities in rural areas.

Lucy student Mary Johnson wins the 2021 Florence Staniforth Student Fiction Prize with ‘Last House’ Mary’s entry for the Florence Staniforth Prize is “about a house, and a bog, and two women, and some thinly veiled existential angst. There are fossils and lots of dead things. I am always, permanently, without fail, terrible at explaining what my stories are about, but if you’ve ever wandered through an empty field and suddenly realized how old the world is, and maybe it’s made you feel strange or lonely or calm in ways you can’t describe …. then sorry, no, I’m still not certain what the story is about. Mud, maybe?” Mary offers her most heartfelt thanks to the judges, administrators, and everyone behind the Prize at Lucy Cavendish College. She thanks the College for providing a space for creatives to grow.

Lucy Cavendish PhD Student won the Best Paper Award at the 37th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC) Mahendrini Ariyachandra (PhD Engineering) coauthored the award-winning Railway Digital Twins conference paper titled “Digital Twinning of Railway Overhead Line Equipment from Airborne LiDAR Data” that received the Best Paper Award (best out of 221 papers) at the 37th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction in 2020. The research presented in this paper used a novel modeldriven approach that exploits the highly regulated and standardised nature of railways to detect and reconstruct the geometric digital twins of Overhead Line Equipment in railways.

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e started the year in good stead. It was College’s every intent to make the very best of the current state of affairs, come what may, and so we commenced the year in high spirits with the customary matriculation dinner – albeit socially distanced. The then SU President Jana Hochel kicked off the year with virtual historical walks and yoga, and punting, swiftly followed by SU elections. During Michaelmas, the incoming Committee were inducted, and so commenced Covid compliant SU events, which included socially distanced pumpkin carving and a pumpkin scavenger hunt, a number of soul food events by Tina Piada Koala, virtual baking, and a Diwali festival of light celebrations by Ankita Kaur Nagpal. Our Access Officer, Julia Lawrence, worked together with the development office on mentoring schemes for the underrepresented and our BME Officer Miriam Dzah, hosted anti-racism and equality workshops and the Revo-Lucians book club. Lent term saw government restrictions implemented which to a larger degree precluded the return of university students. The SU pushed on by attempting to engage with the student body through virtual tea organised by myself and Ankita Kaur Nagpal, and several pick-meups to include bubble tea kits, DIY pizza kits by Catarina Roque and Alice in Wonderland themed English tea kits by myself. The Welfare Team kick started College family and Linda Arroyo assisted with Head Space to help student wellbeing. The then SU President Jana Hochel organised French lessons with Edith Esch, and our Graduate Officers Shuwen Deng and Alyssa Knisley organised regular grad and PhD students research talks. Easter Term ushered in a new Executive Committee. I was voted as SU President and Yoonseong Choi became the new SU Vice President. The changing of the guards welcomed new and pertinent changes. With the assistance of our SU, a college-wide survey was distributed, along with an open letter by Clara Billcliff, our acting Secretary and Food and Accommodation

Officer; the SU’s aims were to better understand students’ concerns around accommodation, room ballots and MMC charge. Additionally, a Town Hall meeting was organised to discuss concerns with Senior Tutor, Bursar and Domestic Bursar and the student body. The SU also attended a Council meeting with College President Madeleine Atkins, to raise students’ concerns and discuss survey responses. We were able to successfully secure £63,000+ in MMC refund for the Easter Term, and work with College to implement changes to its MMC policy – which included the option to pay no MMC charge. Our SU Women’s Officer Astrid Broden, the Feminist Society and I hosted a conference to celebrate the end of Lucy being an all-women’s college and was joined by esteemed guests which included Amanda Pinto – The 2020 Chair of the Bar Council of England and Wales, Nadine Drummond – Former Lucian, Former Journalist for the CNN and Aljazeera News and UN Media Specialist, along with Lucians Cherish Watton and Georgia Fern. During the Easter Term the SU also had continued microfunding organised by Tiffany Lau our SU Treasurer and Yoonseong Choi. We also celebrated Pride month, with Pride cupcakes and ice-cream. Our BME Officer Miriam Dzah organised a plantain chips picnic, and our Grad Rep helped to organise English afternoon tea for both undergraduates and graduates. A number of summer events were organised by our Summer Events Officer Amelia Jabry, to include outdoor yoga, movie screening of Cruella and cocktail making sessions. Unquestionably, the SU has worked exceptionally hard, during what was an exceptionally difficult year, to make Lucy Cavendish our home away from home. We plan to continue in a similar narrative and intend to implement a number of changes in the coming year, to include working to build bonds within our College, changes to SU stash, a number of wonderful and diverse events and workshops, and further changes to College’s and SU’s policies. We also wish to create a bigger, better and more efficient SU, to meet the needs of our new student body.

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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 alumni 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) Lindsay Malone Gyll Moore Prize for a Student Gaining a First Class Degree, preferably in Arts or Humanities Hephzibah Hermione Colquhoun - First Class Results with Distinction in Human, Social & Political Sciences Tripos Part I Jackie Ashley Prize for best results in Politics Miriam Dzah - First Class Results in Human, Social & Political Sciences Tripos, Part IIA: Politics & Sociology Kate Bertram Prize(s) for First Class Results in non-Tripos exams Fabiana Piccoli Araujo Santos - First Class Results in LLM Examination; Muyang Lyu - First Class Results in Master of Corporate Law; Ran Zhang - First Class Results in Master of Corporate Law Elise Bayraktar - Pass with Merit in Master of Advanced Study Degree in Mathematics; Xinyi Liu Pass with Merit in Master of Advanced Study Degree in Mathematics; Camilla Tacconis - Pass with Merit in Master of Advanced Study Degree in Physics Madeleine Jörgensen Prize for First Class Results in Tripos Katie Wright – 1st in English, Part IA; Zara Neill – 1st in English, Part I Margaret Spufford Memorial Prize Delayed until Michaelmas when all MPhil results will be known. Marie Lawrence Prize(s) for First Class Results in Tripos Astrid Broden - First Class Results with Distinction in Human, Social & Political Sciences Tripos Part I; Abiola Ogbara - First Class Results in Human, Social & Political Sciences Tripos Part I; Larissa d’Arenberg - First Class Results in Human,

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Social & Political Sciences Tripos Part I; Ashling Williams First Class Results in Human, Social and Political Sciences Tripos, Part IIA: Politics and Sociology; Imani Thompson First Class Results in Human, Social and Political Sciences Tripos, Part IIA: Sociology; Clemency Neville - First Class Results in Law Tripos, Part IB; Karolien Celie - First Class Results in Law Tripos, Part II; Meredith Phillips - First Class Results in Law Tripos, Part II; Hoi Ning Kelly Yu - First Class Results in Law Tripos, Part II Simms Prize for a student with First Class results in Education Natalia Abbott Alumni Association Prize for Contribution to the Arts Anna-Theresa Muent Annabelle Dixon Prize for the student who has made the most of her time at Lucy Cavendish Natalie Abbott; Harriet Rhodes Dame Veronica Sutherland College Prize(s) for Rowing Blues TBA Senior Tutor’s Prize(s) for Sporting Blues TBA Emmeline Pankhurst Prize for Contribution to College Life Jana Hochel; Shuwen (Joey) Deng Mary Wollstonecraft Prize Athina Aruldass - PhD which touches on mental health issues Myson College Exhibition for Personal Achievement Joanna Martino-Boulton; Joanna Symonowicz

Lucy Cavendish College Research Day 2020 Free and open to all, the College Research Day on 20 May 2021 presented an opportunity for research ideas or outcomes to reach a wider audience; a short Q&A session after each talk enabled participants to dig deeper into specific areas of interest. Each participant was given a 15-minute slot (10-minute presentation + 5-minute Q&A).

Speakers Eleonore Poli: PhD Student in Materials and Metallurgy: ‘Cracks in aggressive environments: when and how will a turbine lose its protection?’

Célestine Robert, MPhil Student in Criminological Research: ‘Describing the “audition” in the French National Police: a Pilot Study.’

Preeya Jumnongbut, MPhil Student in Criminology: ‘The Lived Experiences of Incarcerated Pregnant Women and Mothers of Babies: A Comparative Study of Mother and Baby Units (MBUs) in England and Wales and Thailand’

Lauren Lee, PhD Student in Medicine: ‘Chronic activation of the HIF-1 pathway confers susceptibility to mycobacterial infection.’

Sampurna Mukherjee, PhD Student in Computational Biology: ‘What does a computational biologist talk about when she talks about solid organ transplantation?’ Rihab Khalid, Postdoc in Architecture, lsaac Newton Trust Research Fellow: ‘Why bring gender into energy policy? Gender equity and energy access in Pakistan.’

Amberley Stephens, Postdoc in Molecular Neuroscience: ‘The role of water in protein misfolding.’ Monique Johnson, PhD Student in Pathology: ‘Is PI3K the missing checkpoint kinase underpinning resistance in Malaria?’ You can listen, watch and read about a few diverse topics from the day on our website on the College Research Day 2021 past event webpage: https://www.lucy.cam.ac.uk/ events?tab=past-event-list ANNUAL REVIEW 2020/2021

Photo competition

Two winners were chosen and several commended in the College’s photo competition

ucy Cavendish students took part in a photography competition in Michaelmas Term, where they had the opportunity to enter their photos into two categories - Autumn in Cambridge and Change.

Dr Jane Goodall, Lecturer, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and Lucy Fellow, was one of the judges for the competition and fed back that the photos were absolutely outstanding, and the range of creativeness and skill shown by the photographers made the job of judging extremely difficult. Deciding between an incredible 71 entries, Autumn Happiness by Matilde Azeiteiro de Almeida Duarte was chosen as the winner in the category Autumn in Cambridge, and The changes of life: Face mask also needs sunshine, from Lucy Cavendish library by Fang Deng in the category Change.

Autumn in Cambridge Winner:

Autumn Happiness, Matilde Azeiteiro de Almeida Duarte

Highly Commended:

Don’t leaf me this way, Emma Perry Castle Street, Miriam Dzah Breeze Time, Xueqing Lai

Commended:

mind BLOWN, Michelle Miniter Morning Rays of Trinity, Linda Arroyo Frosty Mornings by the River Cam, Marta Mitrofanovaite Jane commented on the winner for Autumn

in Cambridge: “The photographer uses a bold

composition, with beautiful colour, and conveying the joy of autumn though the subject holding the

leaf to the camera. The image shows that it is the

season of leaves falling, soft light and rich colour, but yet this image is saying more than that, the student is softly focussed and the smile half revealed. Is the photographer providing an allegorical meaning

to the photograph, symbolising hope, yet guarded optimism about the future?”

Change Winner:

The changes of life: Face mask also needs sunshine, from Lucy Cavendish library, Fang Deng

Highly Commended:

Metamorphosis in Green, Olivia Knutson Fleeting, Huang Yueyi

Commended:

Change Starts in the Heart, Xiaoling Wu Jane described the winner for ‘Change’: “A bold

image, with strong lines and structure, with gorgeous dark and sultry colours. The strong architectural

form contrasts with the flimsy nature of the mask,

cast aside while the student focuses on their work.

Despite the darkness, the light is streaming through the window, suggesting that for this instant, the

student sees and feels the light and radiance of the sunshine. A beautiful image and strong narrative made this a winner for ‘Change’.”

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Visiting Speakers #LivefromLucy

Ella Barrett, Development Coordinator

In my role as Development Coordinator, it is my responsibility to coordinate events. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, all of our events have been virtual.

We have found that our varied schedule has achieved this, and due to its continued success and popularity with those in the Lucy community, Live from Lucy will continue into 2022.

To continue engagement with the Lucy community during this time, the Development team created ‘Live from Lucy’ – a talk series in which we invite speakers to discuss a topic of their choice, which may be their research or their career. The aim of these talks is to provoke interdisciplinary thought and have attendees learn something new.

Thank you to everyone who has sourced a speaker for this series and to those who have given a Live from Lucy talk. Live from Lucy takes place on Wednesdays via Zoom.

Speakers

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SPECIAL EVENTS

09 Sept 2020: Lucy Postdoc Dr Aishwarya Jacob on the challenges and key findings of her career from cancerrelated research to Cardiovascular Biology.

25 Nov 2020: Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Director of Research, Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Trevor Robbins gave us a glimpse into how the brain works.

14 Oct 2020: Lucy Law DoS and Fellow Professor Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger discussed why Law must work to foster and not frustrate post-pandemic recovery.

13 Jan 2021: Public lawyer Dr Gabriella La Foy discussed legal aspects of the South African government response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

28 Oct 2020: Alumna and author Dr Suzanne Doyle-Morris talked about her latest book, ‘The Con Job’.

20 Jan 2021: Lucy DoS and Fellow Dr Elizabeth Fistein talked about ethical decision making during the Covid pandemic.

4 Nov 2020: Innovation and Entrepreneurship expert Dr Gladius Kulothungan on how businesses can help us achieve widespread development.

3 Feb 2021: Interdisciplinary researcher and College Research Fellow Dr Rihab Khalid discussed energy demands in Pakistan. This talk was also part of Lucy Cavendish’s Anna Bidder Series.

18 Nov 2020: Lucy Postdoc Dr Laura Fachal discussed how genetic variants contribute to the development of common diseases.

10 Feb 2021: Harriet Kelsall, founder and Chair of bespoke jewellery business, on her experiences with dyslexia and its advantages.

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17 Feb 2021: Neuro-oncologist, College Bye-Fellow, Dr Soma Sengupta discussed leveraging a neurotransmitter receptor in cancers, with a historical slant.

10 March 2021: Lucy Postdoc Dr Emma Wilson, Department of Neuroscience, Dementia Research Institute, on ERmitochondria contact sites.

24 March 2021: Ian Peacock on how attitudes towards bankers have changed. Ian is Chairman of The Hosing Finance Corps. and author of “Bankers: From Pillars to Pariahs”.

7 April 2021: Lucy Fellow Dr Neil Stott, Faculty Professor in Management Practice, director of the Master of Studies in Social Innovation Programme and Co-Director of the Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation, discussed how organisations, educators and social innovation activists have reacted to the COVID-19 pandemic. This talk was also part of Lucy Cavendish’s Anna Bidder Series.

Connections Science, poetry and the pandemic. 5 scientists joined 5 poets and worked together to create a poem that reflects their research during the pandemic. Their work reflected on how people adapted and how it affected their work and wellbeing. The pairs presented their poems and research at a virtual event on 28 November 2020. After the presentations participants had the opportunity to ask questions about the pairs’ work and the process of their unique collaboration.

Pairs: Richard Berengarten and Professor Cecilia Wong Joanne Limburg and Dr Stephen Montgomery Clare Crossman and Dr Nicola Rose Khairani Barokka and Professor Peter Jones Dr Annabel Banks and Dr Clemence Bernard

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21 April 2021: Lucy Postdoc Dr Cristina Rodriguez Rivero, Dept. of Engineering, talked about the dynamics and beauty of fluids.

5 May 2021: Lucy Postdoc in the Gilbertson Lab at CRUK Cambridge Institute Dr Jessica Taylor on reducing treatmentrelated toxicity for children with brain cancer.

2 June 2021: Lucy alumna and first undergraduate Dr Eva Simmons discussed Muslim heroines in literature.

16 June 2021: Futurist-in-Residence at the

Entrepreneurship Centre at the Judge Business School Richard Watson on why the future is not beyond our control.

30 June 2021: Molecular biologist and Lucy Cavendish postdoc researcher in the Casanuva Laboratory at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge, Dr Laetitia Chauve discussed how microscopic worms are helping us to understand the process of ageing.

COVID-19 One Year On As part of our “Connections” series and the 2021 Cambridge Festival, we held a fascinating virtual talk featuring experts discussing COVID-19.

Speakers Dr Jane Greatorex chaired the panel. She is a virologist and Lucy Cavendish College’s Senior Tutor and Director of Studies in Pre-Clinical Veterinary Medicine. She has had a long career in academic and clinical science, specializing in the blood borne viruses. Dr David Matthews has been a molecular virologist for 30 years working mainly on respiratory viruses such as respiratory syncytial virus, adenovirus, Hendra virus, MERS-CoV and now SARS-CoV-2. He also worked on the 2013-2015 Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa as part of the European Mobile Laboratories response. Dr Derren Ready’s research has focused on the isolation, identification and characterisation of pathogenic and non-pathogenic bacteria and viruses in patients during health and disease phases, the use of traditional and novel antimicrobial agents, bacterial biofilms, detection of antimicrobial resistance and public health. Dr Nicola Rose heads the Virology division in a public health institute. The Division deals with all matters related to viruses and their related biological medicinal products. The scientists have broad expertise covering four major areas: emerging/pre-pandemic viruses, influenza, polio, and vaccines for viral diseases. Dr Giles Yeo is a programme leader at the MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit in Cambridge and his research currently focuses on the influence of genes on feeding behaviour and body weight. Giles is also a broadcaster and author, presenting science documentaries for the BBC’s ‘Horizon’ and ‘Trust Me I Am a Doctor’. Professor Paul Digard is a virologist whose career started at Cambridge University, with a PhD on influenza virus. He holds the Chair of Virology at the Roslin Institute and is the Head of the Infection & Immunity Division. His laboratory is interested in the molecular and cellular biology of how influenza virus replicates. Paula Cannon, is a Distinguished Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology in the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. Her research focuses on the use of gene editing technologies such as CRISPR/Cas9 to modify genes in blood cells, with the goal of developing novel treatments for HIV. Professor Julian Hiscox is Chair in Infection and Global Health at the University of Liverpool where he is Deputy Executive Dean in the Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences. He is an adjunct professor at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research Infectious Diseases Laboratories (A*STAR ID Labs). Professor Ian Goodfellow is a Wellcome Senior Fellow, Professor of Virology and deputy head of the Department of Pathology at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on the mechanisms of RNA virus replication and pathogenesis as well as the identification of control measures for the prevention or treatment of infections.

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Details of upcoming events and recordings of our past events are available on demand at www.lucy.cam.ac.uk/events.

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The Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize WINNER: Megan Davies

Megan Davis has won the 2021 Lucy Cavendish College Fiction Prize with her novel The Messenger. 2021 was the biggest year yet for the Prize, which received an incredible total of over 750 entries. Six were shortlisted by a panel chaired by political journalist, broadcaster, Former College President and Honorary Fellow of the College, Jackie Ashley. New to the judging panel was Ansa Khan Khattak, Commissioning Editor at Picador, and Dr Isobel Maddison, Fellow Emerita of Lucy Cavendish College where she was College Lecturer and Director of Studies in English. Returning to the panel were editor and ghostwriter Gillian Stern, Emeritus Fellow Lindsey Traub. and poet, crime writer and Honorary Fellow of the College Sophie Hannah. Returning to the panel was also Tim Bates, Head of Books at our valued literary sponsor Peter Fraser and Dunlop. Megan Davis, the winner, is a lawyer in the field of whitecollar crime, and is an associate at the pressure group Spotlight on Corruption. She has also worked in the film industry where her credits include The Constant Gardener, Atonement, Eastern Promises, and the Bourne films. Megan grew up in mining towns in Australia and South-East Asia, and has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. Her novel The Messenger won the Bridport/ Peggy Chapman-Andrews First Novel Award in 2018. As well as writing, Megan’s hobbies include boxing and philosophy. Tim Bates comments on this year’s winner: “This year’s shortlist was of a uniformly high quality and it was incredibly hard to choose a winner. But Megan Davis’s The Messenger stood out for its style and confidence, and its compelling portrait of family relations. It is a gripping and cool literary thriller that cleverly manages to be both a why- and who-dunnit.”

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College President, Dame Madeleine Atkins said: “Many congratulations to Megan 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!” Many shortlisted authors in previous years have been offered agency representation and have gone on to be published. Gail Honeyman (2014 shortlist) has topped the fiction charts with her novel Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine (published 2017) a deft observation of everyday life. Catherine Chanter (2013 winner) became a published author with her feminist, post-apocalyptic The Well which has now been published in the UK by Canongate and 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, a funny, heart-warming and awardwinning piece of fiction. She went on to publish Maggsie McNaughton’s Second Chance in 2019. Emily Midorikawa (2015 winner) and Emma Claire Sweeney published A Secret Sisterhood to wide acclaim. Lesley Sanderson published her gripping thriller The Orchid Girls (2017 shortlist) in 2018 and has since published The Woman at 46 Heath Street, The Leaving Party and I Know You Lied.

Sara Collins’ debut, The Confessions of Frannie Langton, (2016 shortlist) a gothic romance, was published in 2019 in the UK and US. It won the 2019 Costa First Novel Award, has been sold for translation into more than fourteen languages, and has been optioned for television. Laura Marshall’s psychological thriller Friend Request (2016 shortlist) was published in 2017 and has gone on to receive numerous awards. Laura has since published another acclaimed crime thriller, Three Little Lies, and is currently working on her third novel. Claire Askew published her crime debut All the Hidden Truths (2016 winner) and has now also written and published What You Pay For and Cover Your Tracks. Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott’s dazzling debut Swan Song (2016 shortlist) was published by Penguin Random House/Hutchinson in 2018 and among many accolades was longlisted for the Women’s Prize For Fiction in 2019. The rights have been sold for television to Balloon

Entertainment (Skins, Clique), with Kelleigh adapting the novel as a limited series. Louise Hare debut novel This Lovely City (shortlisted in 2017) was published by HQ in February 2020. Nicola Garrard’s 29 Locks (shortlisted 2019) a gritty coming-of-age novel that tells the story of 15-year-old Donny, an ex-gang member from Hackney, will be published by HopeRoad in September 2021. Emma Hughes first novel No Such Thing as Perfect (shortlisted 2019) will be published by Century in August 2021 and her second novel will be out in summer 2022. Susan Stokes Chapman’s Pandora (shortlisted 2020) will be published by Harvill Secker in 2022.

The 2020 Shortlist: Girls Like Us - Julie Bull The Anatomist’s Wife - Charlotte Wightwick The Mirador - Sally Skinner Nobody’s Wife - Elena Casas The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye - Briony Cameron The Messenger - Megan Davis We are delighted to announce that after undergoing a tendering process, the sponsor of the 2021/22 Fiction prize will continue to be Peter Fraser and Dunlop, one of the longest-established literary and talent agencies in London. PFD’s generous support and vision for the Prize has enabled many shortlisted and winning authors to begin successful literary careers. PFD kindly provide valuable industry insights to our shortlisted authors, through one-to-one consultations with judge and Head of Books at PFD Tim Bates, who shares editorial feedback and discussions about the marketability of the shortlisted work. As part of the 2022 judging panel, Tim will be looking for unique storytelling and compelling prose – perhaps the next bestseller? Find out more at www.fictionprize.co.uk

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Sport News

SPORTS SPORTS AND AND MUSIC MUSIC

Lucy student Kate Kirk makes the squad for the Real Tennis Varsity match at Lord’s Kate Kirk is a part-time student through the Institute for Continuing Education at Madingley, and proud to be a member of Lucy. Kate is taking the MSt in Crime and Thriller Writing, and is part of the first cohort on the course. At 61, Kate is possibly the oldest player ever to be selected for the Varsity squad. The match was played at Lord’s over 2 days, Friday 2 and Saturday 3 July 2021.

Lucy student Diana Bevan was selected for the English University Sports Women’s Hockey team The team faced Telford and Wrekin HC on 19 June 2021 and won 3-0 against an excellent adversary. Diana is an MPhil student in Environmental Policy with a dissertation exploring the adoption of regenerative agriculture in England. She is a keen hockey player representing England Universities, University of Cambridge Women’s Blues (1st XI), and co-captaining University of Bath Ladies 1st XI. She has a passion for equestrian sports, eventing up to BE Advanced, breeding and producing young horses, coaching a range of ages, and representing GB student RiderSport.

Virtual sporting opportunities In Easter Term Tristan Coles at The University Sports Centre has been offering Lucy Cavendish Students exclusive strength training classes every Thursday, and our students have also been able to enjoy online bodyweight fitness sessions with a personal trainer over lockdown, as well as the very popular weekly online yoga sessions. Due to the restricted access to sporting facilities this year, College made equipment available for all students to borrow and enjoy: skipping ropes and sets of 1kg dumbbells, croquet equipment to make the most of sunny days on College lawn, and four brand new tennis rackets to use on the plenty of free to use, non-bookable tennis courts in Cambridge.

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Rowing Report BY CATRIN DARSLEY

Lucy Cavendish College Boat Club, 2020-2021

ucy Cavendish rowers continued to train and learn new skills during an interesting year for College sport in Cambridge. The club offered land training opportunities as well as water sessions across the academic year, in line with University and British Rowing COVID-19 guidance. Inspired to take up new hobbies during lockdown, LCCBC saw record interest in learning to row this Michaelmas Term. We were able to train 28 new rowers and provided land training programs for many others. The cancellation of key competitions in the Cambridge novice rowing calendar, such as Queen’s Ergs and the Fairbairn Cup, meant that rowers could focus on developing technique beyond racing skills. LCCBC partnered with Cantabrigian Rowing Club, one of the largest town clubs, to offer sculling (two-oar rowing) to club members while eights were not allowed on the river, moving into eights when restrictions eased between UK lockdown periods. To maintain fitness levels and club morale we ran triweekly, high intensity circuits – designed to be doable even in the smallest of College rooms during quarantine! Unfortunately, access to the river was heavily restricted during Lent Term. This led to the creation of our ‘Let’s Go Lental’ Challenge, which aimed to keep athletes moving and to support positive mental health. Weekly points scores were racked up for activities from running, ergs and cycling to making friends with dogs and reading a non-academic book. It was great to see our rowers not only achieve their personal fitness targets each week, but also encourage one another to find new ways to relax and enjoy themselves during a very tough term. The top three points-scorers in the ‘Let’s Go Lental’ Challenge were Julia Lawrence, Miriam Schäpers and Ira Poensgen. Crews progressed quickly once able to row on the water again. Two crews competed in the 2021 X-Press Head race (12th June), with the A-crew winning their category by 26 seconds over 2.1km and the B-crew beating Hughes Novice Women’s 1st VII by 24 seconds to come third in their category. The highlight of the 2020-21 racing year was the June Eights Regatta, which replaced the traditional May Bumps with a side-by-side racing format down the Long Reach. LCCBC entered two novice eights who impressed with both their technique and their strength on the water. Ably coxed by novice cox Emily Johnson, NW1 won two out of three races with a close-fought final challenge against Caius. The NW2 crew dominated across the week, winning all three of their races. A positive COVID test sadly knocked both crews out of competing on the final day, but it was a brilliant end to a challenging year.

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The past year has been challenging for the club in many ways but through the hard work of the committee and the support and enthusiasm of our rowers, LCCBC has stayed true to its mission – to provide a space for the diverse and highly motivated women of Lucy Cavendish College to move out of their comfort zone, learn a new skill and above else build friendships that will last long after the end of this academic year. We are looking forward to the 202122 academic year and hopefully a return to regularlyscheduled training and events, and we are excited to get back on the water and also to expand the club with a new men’s squad. What’s a bow, a stroke, a cox, a spare pair and what’s the significance of the different positions? An eight is the biggest boat class in competitive rowing. The cox sits facing the crew and plays a key role. Dylan, our cox, did an excellent job steering the boat and executing our race plan. Coxes need to keep the overview during a race. They motivate their crew and decide when the crew puts in moves and pushes to get ahead of the opposition and cross the finish line first. Next, we have a stern pair. The stroke seat faces the cox and 7 is right behind. They set up the rhythm for the crew. Stern pairs work together to be as consistent and efficient as possible and create a powerful race rhythm. The middle four is made up of seats 6-3. These seats are often referred to as “the engine room”. The strongest rowers sit here and put down as much power as possible to create speed with the rhythm set by the stern pair. Last but not least, we have two seats: 2 and Bow, who together make up the “bow pair”. Bow pairs cross the finish line first and are two very technical seats. There is so much power in an eight that these seats get lifted out of the water during each stroke, which makes it harder to row in those seats. Additionally, bow pairs can influence the balance and rhythm of a boat through their rowing, so they require a lot of technical ability. Spare pairs are an incredibly important part of the team. They are the reserves who have to be ready to jump into the crew during races and training whenever someone is injured. They are very agile and skilled rowers without whom no crew would get to the start line.

Lucy students in winning boat at the Gemini Oxford Cambridge Boat Race 2021 Following the announcement earlier this year that six Lucy students were selected for the boat race trials, five athletes contributed to the victories of all of the crews in the Cambridge women’s squad this year. Two students made it to the final CUBC Women’s Blue Boat crew; one to Blondie, the women’s reserve crew; one to the lightweight eight; and one to the lightweight spare pair. Cambridge won both the men’s and women’s contests in the Oxford Cambridge Boat Race - the 166th Men’s and the 75th Women’s Boat Races. The women’s team triumphed first, earning their fourth straight win, by less than a length. The reserve crew, Blondie, won their race by 7 lengths, and the Lightweights beat their Oxford opposition by 2.5 lengths. The Oxford Cambridge Women’s Boat Race took place at Ely on Sunday 4th April 2021, with the Blondie/ Osiris race held on the 25th April. The Women’s Lightweight races took place on 18th May.

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Meet the students Anouschka Fenley, Law Tripos, Blue Boat Anouschka previously rowed for the University of Washington (Seattle), raced in the winning Cambridge Blondie crew in 2019 and was selected for the Cambridge Blue Boat in 2020 prior to the race being cancelled. “Taking part in the race was an amazing and unique experience. The disappointment of being unable to race last year (7 out of 9 of us were returners from Blue Boat 2020) made being able to race this year particularly special. We had been working towards this race for the past two years, and to cross the finish line first was an incredible feeling. The crew has a strong bond and it is always so much fun to train and race with them all.”

Sarah Tisdall, MPhil Education, Blue Boat Sarah is new to the crew this year, previously rowed at Harvard-Radcliffe, University of Queensland boat club, and raced in the U23 Australian national team coxed four in 2019. “It was incredible to be a part of something with so much history. The whole experience, especially the lead up to the race, was like nothing I have ever experienced before and I feel so grateful to have been involved.”

Lea Baltussen, MPhil Economics, Lightweight Eight Lea started rowing in 2010 at her local club in Germany. She was also on the squad last year but had to drop out of selection for the 2020 race due to a brain injury sustained in a bike accident, from which she then successfully recovered. “Competing in the Boat Race has been my goal since I started rowing, so to finally have achieved it was amazing.”

Claudia Williams, MPhil Criminology, Lightweight Spare Pair Claudia started rowing in 2016 at Bristol University. “Rowing in the lightweight pair was a unique experience. The training load was greater than I’d ever had previous and was definitely a step up. The year was challenging, mentally and physically but the supportive nature of the lightweight squad helped immensely. Despite setbacks and uncertainty this year, representing CUBC, a club with so much history was, and will always be very special.”

Rhiannon Mulligan, MPhil in M-D Gender Studies, Blondie crew Rhiannon previously rowed for Wellesley College, MA, in the Varsity and Women Collegiate, and won an Outstanding Senior Athlete Award. “Coming to Cambridge in the middle of Covid could have turned into an incredibly isolating experience, however, the support of my teammates at CUBC made the year incredible. I made life-long friends and improved dramatically as a rower. In our Blondie race, we easily beat Oxford with a final margin of 7 lengths into a very strong headwind. This boat will forever have a place in my heart.”

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Music Report The Lucy Cavendish Singers 2020/21 Who would have imagined that lockdown would make us better singers? And yet, it seems that’s just what has happened. Obliged for months to rehearse on Zoom, singing alone at home via our computer screens, then in groups of six outdoors, then in groups of six indoors, then as a whole choir outdoors in a courtyard – when, finally, we sang together indoors we could hear that amazing things had happened. Did the solitary singing, lonely and frustrating as it was, bring greater self-reliance and keener listening? Or perhaps we all rediscovered on some deeper level what we’d always known: that nothing can compare to making live music. During the past year, despite having no performances, we kept to our rehearsal schedule, singing one at a time for each other on Zoom (it is impossible actually to sing together because of the time lag) and learning new music by recording separate lines at home. We were very fortunate in having a singer and an instrumentalist able to combine the individual tracks and some of the small group recordings were good enough to post on our YouTube channel. In addition to music learning, part

By Katharina Megli (History 1991) of every rehearsal was devoted to vocal development exercises. Each week, to entertain and inspire each other, two singers recorded pieces to be played to the rest of the group. On very special occasions, a guest artist would finish the Zoom session with a ‘live’ mini-concert. In this way we managed to keep progressing through the dark months. Nobody was sorry to leave Zoom behind and as soon as permitted we began to meet in small groups out of doors, never mind the weather! In one garden, the group of six was augmented by a robin each week. In others, passers-by stopped outside the gates to listen and clap. This coming season, public concerts are back on the calendar and we can hardly wait. September kicks off with a conference engagement at King’s College followed by concerts at Downing Place and Stapleford Granary. We hope some of you can join us. http://www.lucycavendishsingers.org.uk/

Emily Slade (Creative Writing, 2018) Throughout the whole year our alumna Emily Slade, UK based singer-songwriter guitarist, has been uploading a song most weeks on Facebook and Youtube for everyone to watch, listen and enjoy: originals, traditionals, covers of Cyndi Lauper, Queen, Simon & Garfunkel, Richard Thompson, Joni Mitchell and more... At the College, she completed a Master of Studies in Creative Writing in 2018. She’s now working on her first Young Adult novel, Don’t Tell, about a teenager trying to reconcile her love and fear of her dad, who has bipolar disorder.

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GB Fellows Lucy is delighted to welcome new members to the Fellowship: Dr Alex Freer is College Lecturer and Director of Studies for Part I English. His research focuses on Romantic writing and its relations to the history and theory of literary criticism. Dr Johnhenry (Hank) Gonzalez is a Lecturer in Caribbean History with a primary focus on the history of Haiti. Nooman Haque is Managing Director, Life Sciences and Healthcare for EMEA at Silicon Valley Bank. He leads a team supporting early, growth-stage and established multinational businesses in all sectors of life sciences. Nooman is responsible for expanding the bank’s business across Europe. Dr Joe Sutliff Sanders is a Fellow in Education, and a University Lecturer in the Department of Education. Joe works in Children’s Literature, with past books on classic girls’ novels, the Belgian cartoonist Hergé, children’s nonfiction and critical engagement, and children’s animation. His current projects include research on autism and comics, the role that comics and graphic novels have played in shaping understandings of literacy, and Chinese children’s literature.

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Dr Julian Gilbey is a Fellow in Mathematics, in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. He is currently developing machine learning (AI) techniques for diagnosing coeliac disease from histopathological images. Dr Renan Baker is an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of History. Historian and philologist, his interests range from Hadrian’s Wall to the Mediterranean, and from Homer to Charlemagne. His most recent research focuses on chronology of the Ancient World, Roman Imperial Biographies and the reception of Classics in the early middle ages. Dr Richard Lloyd, Physiology, Development and Neuroscience Fellow in Anatomy, manages the Cambridge Human Anatomy Centre, which is home to one of the busiest body donation programmes in the United Kingdom and is responsible for providing anatomy instruction to all pre-clinical and clinical students. Richard teaches pre-clinical anatomy and supervises Part II anatomical projects. In College, he supervises the MedST Part IA Functional Architecture of the Body (Anatomy) paper, a role he also undertakes at Hughes Hall.

Dr Henriette Hendriks is promoted to Professor in Language Acquisition and Cognition

Cambridge’s recipe for innovation success: science, skills, space, capital and networks

Henriette is Fellow and Vice-President at Lucy Cavendish College. She has been promoted to Professor in Language Acquisition and Cognition at the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics (or MMLL), TAL (Theoretical and Applied Linguistics). Henriette also takes on a leading role in a new international research centre, co-leading the work package which aims to understand the role of social factors in promoting cognitive flexibility. The Centre for Lifelong Learning and Individualised Cognition (CLIC) is a collaboration between the University of Cambridge and the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), and is funded by Singapore’s National Research Foundation. The new research centre, focused on improving support for lifelong learning and cognitive agility, opened on 1 October 2020 in Singapore.

Bruno Cotta, Executive Director, Entrepreneurship Centre, Cambridge Judge Business School and Lucy Cavendish College Fellow, has established a small satellite office at the Bradfield Centre co-working facility at Cambridge Science Park. He hopes to see Lucy’s enterprising students and their companies there in the future and is happy to connect with new members of the College’s growing community who have promising ideas for new ventures, as well as Lucy’s entrepreneurial alumni who may be interested in supporting our next generation of innovators. Email Bruno at b.cotta@jbs.cam.ac.uk.

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Professor Ruth Cameron receives prestigious ‘Engineering and Physical Sciences’ Award from Suffrage Science on the scheme’s tenth anniversary Professor Ruth Cameron has been chosen by Professor Serena Best CBE, University of Cambridge, to receive a prestigious award celebrating her achievements. Professor Cameron and eleven other awardees were honoured at an online celebration on Monday 8 March 2021, the tenth anniversary of the scheme. This will be the fifth Suffrage Science awards for the Engineering and Physical Sciences.

Dr Amber Ruigrok launches The Early Career Autism Network Amber is Research Associate at the Autism Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry and launched the network with her colleague Julian Tillmann, a Research Associate at King’s College London. The Early Career Researcher Autism Network (ECRAN) was launched in June 2019 at the AIMS-2-TRIALS general assembly – an event that saw over thirty researchers share ideas about their training needs. To promote training opportunities for researchers in an early stage of their career with an interest in autism, the first of a series of workshops went ahead in July 2020. The workshop brought together 25 postdocs, 10 PhD students and 6 members of the autism community who are researchers themselves or who have a research interest in autism, from 12 different European countries. It was a great success, with high levels of engagement and interaction throughout the event and fantastic feedback from all attendees. Workshop attendees were offered a multi-faceted three-day programme which included presentations on biomarker research, opportunities for collaborative project development and transferable skills training on communication and participatory research.

Professor Sabine Bahn recognised as one of UKTN’s coolest women in tech Sabine is Director of the Bahn Laboratory and Lecturer in Molecular Neurobiology and Clinical Psychiatry and Fellow at Lucy Cavendish College. Sabine has been recognised by UKTN as being one of 2021’s coolest UK female founders making a huge impact in tech. Her focus is on mental health. Her company, Psyomics, has recently closed £1.5 million funding to bring their product Censeo, a mental health assessment tool, to market. When one in four people can expect to experience a mental health problem during their lifetime, the tool helps busy GPs accurately assess their patients’ mental health needs to ensure they get referred to the right healthcare.

Lucy Law Fellow and DoS envisions transforming trade and investment for sustainable development In her new book Crafting Trade and Investment Accords for Sustainable Development (available from Oxford University Press), Professor Marie-Claire Cordonier examines the measures being debated in the WTO and adopted by States in a selection drawn from over three hundred and fifty innovative and flexible regional and bilateral trade and investment accords.

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Dr Elizabeth Fistein publishes in JMIR Education Dr Elizabeth Fistein is a Fellow and Director of Clinical Studies at Lucy Cavendish College. She works in the School of Clinical Medicine where she is responsible for delivery of the Professional Responsibilities curriculum. She coauthored a publication on a project that she has been involved with developing early professionalism education for first year medical students. The paper titled Using a Scenario-Based Approach to Teaching Professionalism to Medical Students: Course Description and Evaluation is published in JMIR Education, an open access, Pubmedindexed, peer-reviewed journal with focus on technology, innovation and openess in medical education.

Dr Neil Stott publishes in the Academy of Management Learning and Education Journal Neil’s co-authored paper is titled Teaching (Cooperative) Business: The ‘Bluefield Experiment’ and the Future of Black Business Schools. Published in the Academy of Management Learning and Education, 4*/A+ journal in the 2021 list of top journals in the field, it addresses the intellectual lacuna of the historical trajectories of Black Business schools and the legacy of the African American academics who shaped them by providing a critical history of experiential business teaching at the Department of Business Administration at Bluefield Colored Institute.

Fellow-commoners and Honorary Fellows

Baroness Perry of Southwark has been appointed to chair a new board at the British University in Egypt Baroness Perry is a former President, an Honorary Fellow

and a Foundation Board Member. The British University in Egypt is a not-for-profit private university and is reorganising the governance and academic structure, modernising and raising standards. Lady Perry has been asked to chair one of two new Boards to support this reform: the other is to be chaired by the Rt Hon Charles Clarke, a former Secretary of State for Education. Baroness Perry comments on the appointment: “I’m delighted to be associated with the British University in Egypt and to help the inspirational Chair of Trustees, Farida Khamis, with her vision for the reorganisation and renewal of the university.”

Professor Lynne Berry is recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List, receiving a CBE for her services to civil society and charity Professor Lynne Berry received the award for her services to civil society and charity. Lynne Berry is Chair of the Human Tissue Authority and also of Sustrans. Until recently she was Chair of Breast Cancer Now; Deputy-Chair of the Canal & River Trust and Chair of Glandŵr Cymru. She has had several Chief Executive posts: RVS; the Charity Commission; the General Social Care Council; the Equal Opportunities Commission and the Family Welfare Association. She is a Visiting Professor at the Business School, City, University of London; a Fellow-Commoner of Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge and an Honorary Fellow of Cardiff University. She is from North Wales, a keen opera-goer, and a singer in Vox Holloway, a community choir based near where she now lives in north London.

Research Fellows Dr Lorena Gazzotti publishes in Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space online journal Lorena is the Lucy Cavendish Alice Tong Sze Research Fellow and is based at CRASSH during the period of her Fellowship. She has co-authored an article with Niyousha Bastani (POLIS, University of Cambridge) titled Still a bit uncomfortable, to be an arm of the state: Making sense and subjects of counter-extremism in the UK and Morocco. The article presents a comparative political ethnography of Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) projects framed as care provision in the field of education in Morocco and the UK. It asks how is CVE rationalised for and by nontraditional security actors in education, such as university and NGO administrators, and how it is integrated into the ordinary across the North and the South.

New GB Fellows

Departing Fellows

• Dr Alex Freer • Dr Johnhenry (Hank) Gonzalez • Nooman Haque • Dr Julian Gilbey • Dr Joe Sutliff Sanders • Dr Renan Baker • Dr Richard Lloyd

• Dr Isobel Maddison (becoming an Emeritus Fellow) • Dr Jackie Brearley (becoming an Emeritus Fellow) • Dr Kate Daniels • Dr Astrid Gall • Dr Emily Gordon

New Research Fellows • Dr Rihab Khalid • Dr Suhail Duwan

• Dr Dee McCormack • Dr Orsola Rath Spivack • Prof Arathi Sriprakash

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NEWS FROM OUR ALUMNI

Gita Khalili Moghaddam wins prestigious award from the Royal Academy of Engineering

Dr Soma Sengupta and colleagues hope RNA technology could be a treatment for brain cancer Dr Soma Sengupta (Clinical Medicine, 1998), Lucy alumna and Bye-Fellow, is the Associate Director of the University of Cincinnati (UC) Gardner Neuroscience Brain Tumor Center and a UC Associate Professor of Neurology. Soma comments: “The focused ultrasound with bubbles, opens up the blood-brain barrier in a way where you can deliver the RNA package. If a brain is a fortress wall the focused ultrasound acts as a sort of Trojan horse. The method is more targeted, less invasive and gives new hope to those with inoperable tumours. To our amazement we saw that it actually works in mouse models of glioma, cancers like glioblastoma, and also a paediatric brain cancer called medulloblastoma.” In the future she hopes it will break down barriers in the fight against the deadly and aggressive cancer known as DIPG. Soma also discovered that a new class of sedative, a member of the benzodiazepine family, is capable of killing cancer cells. Her team tested the drug in mice and found that in some cases the cancer disappeared completely. They say it could be a year or more before the FDA will consider the drug for human testing.

Gita Khalili Moghaddam (PhD Biotechnology, 2017) is one of five winners of the RAEng Engineers Trust Young Engineer of the Year competition. Gita is CEO of TumourVue Ltd, which she co-founded in 2018 to address a pronounced unmet need in cancer surgery. Based at the University of Cambridge’s Biomedical Innovation Hub and with funding from the Medtech Accelerator, TumourVue’s technology combines real-time imaging and AI to distinguish a viable tumour from normal brain tissue. Gita innovated the system to improve outcomes for cancer patients undergoing surgery by allowing the surgeon to identify the edges of the tumour accurately, to help preserve as much healthy tissue as possible. As an academic entrepreneur, she has been widely recognised as one of the top 18 women in AI & Data by Innovate UK (2019), a BioBeat Mover & Shaker in BioBusiness (2020) and a top contender for Cofinitive 21 toWatch (2021).

Dr Lucy Havard awarded an extraordinary Blue for triathlon Alumna Lucy Havard (MPhil Early Modern History, 2019) studied medicine as an undergraduate at University College London (UCL), graduating in 2013. She always enjoyed studying history and intercalated in History of Medicine at the Wellcome Library in London. After working full-time as a medical doctor for four years, she decided to pursue her interest in history further, undertaking a Masters in History and Philosophy of Science at UCL. She began the Early Modern History MPhil at the University of Cambridge in 2019 and was awarded a Distinction in 2020. During her time at Cambridge she trained for triathlon and was a member of the Cambridge University Cycling Club (CUCC).

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New poster display in Warburton Hall feature alumni and students who are making a positive impact on society (https://lucycavendish.chorus.thirdlight.com/link/students-posters-2020)

Geraldine Peterson elected as Master of the Bench Geraldine Peterson (Law, 1993) has been elected as a Master of the Bench of Middle Temple. The Masters of the Bench, or Benchers, are responsible for the governance of the Inn. Masters are elected by their peers from the Inn’s members who have been called to the Bar in recognition of their contribution to the life of the Inn or to the law.

Rebekah Miron publishes in Emma Press Anthology of Illness Rebekah, (MSt Creative Writing, 2016) is a talented writer and Lucy alumna. Her poem in the anthology is entitled Checkup and is drawn from her own experiences of Hemiplegic Migraine Disorder - a rare kind of migraine

Alumna and Postgrad Ruby Pillai (Mst Entrepreneurship, 2018) enrols in prestigious accelerator programme established by Cambridge Judge Business School The purpose of the accelerator programme is to enable and nurture venture creation from the University of Cambridge. Accelerate Cambridge offers a structured approach of three-month programmes that combine entrepreneurship training, regular coaching and mentoring, as well as access to a shared workspace. Ruby’s start-up, iWarranty, is developing a cloud-based solution to eliminate existing paper-based warranties and manual claim processes. The focus of iWarranty’s innovation is in the application of existing and expanding technological development in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to provide process efficiencies for manufacturers, digital and eco-friendly warranties. iWarranty offers consumers convenience and peace of mind when it counts the most, and its free mobile app captures receipts, registers products, summarises key warranty terms and allows consumers to make and manage a claim from anywhere and at any time.

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which occurs in attacks accompanied by symptoms such as paralysis, visual disturbances and problems with speech. Like many chronic/invisible conditions, migraine disorders are under-researched and largely misunderstood. Amongst other things, she hope this anthology will start conversations which lead to better understanding of illnesses such as these.

Usha Akella (MSt Creative Writing, 2016) publishes poetry collection as a tribute to women The book I will not bear you sons was published in April 2021, by noted feminist press Spinifex, Australia, and is a tribute to Usha’s own life and to that of other women. Writing from her Niyogi Brahmin sensibility within which she grew up, her poems are the medium for the unsilenced voice both of her own story and those of women across various cultures. She calls for a united womanhood in her poems dedicated to women violated through rape, caste, FGM, foot binding, religion, politics, terrorism and other patriarchal abuses , and to the women who have triumphed against subjugation and built new ways of being.

Maria Fihl, Theology, Religion and Philosophy of Religion, 2018 “While at Lucy I prepared for the priesthood at Westcott House and was on ‘attachment’ at Kings College Chapel, as part of my training. This, amongst a host of other things, included preparing and giving sermons in a Chapel which carries so much history and is so well known worldwide. To be part of the Cambridge and Lucy Cavendish community has been an incredible experience both academically and vocationally for a future in wider society, calling on us all to show collective responsibility.” Marta Beneda, Psychology PhD, 2017 Marta is a recipient of the prestigious University of Cambridge Vice-Chancellor’s Award. She is committed to promoting gender equality which is reflected in her research work. She studies factors affecting the development of sex differences in infancy and has presented her research at conferences in the UK, US, Russia, Poland and Australia. Marta supports the graduate community at her Department where she is a graduate student representative. For the last four years she has been engaged in volunteering work with vulnerable children in the Cambridge area. Rebecka Nordenlow, English, 2017 Rebecka received the Madeleine Jörgensen Prize for First Class Results in Tripos in her second year (2019). She joined Lucy Cavendish College Boat Club as a novice in Michaelmas of her first year and was then selected for the first boat after one term, continuing her rowing commitment into her second year as Treasurer and third year as President of LCCBC. Rebecka completed a Spring Week with Slaughter and May in her second year, followed by an internship at the head office of Barclays Bank that summer. Her poetry features in the 28th edition of The Mays. Rebecka Loodus, HSPS, 2017 Rebecka is interested in how Criminal Justice policy can be used to improve women’s conditions in the Criminal Justice system. Alongside her studies she volunteers at Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service, running self-development classes and leading focus groups on equality and diversity for female offenders. She has contributed to outreach work at Lucy Cavendish and in 2018 represented the College at the 70th Anniversary of Women’s Admissions to Cambridge and attended a summer school in China with the help of the college partnership with Shanghai University of Finance and Economics.

Chloe Gamlin, Medicine, 2014 Chloe secured a position as an academic foundation doctor in the highly competitive Severn Deanery. She has published six research papers during her time at Cambridge, and presented her work at many national and international medical conferences. She won a Royal Society prize for her Part II dissertation on history of medicine, and graduated with a 1st Class BA in History & Philosophy of Science in 2017. She founded the Cambridge University General Practice Society, and was successful in bidding for funding from the Royal College of GPs to host a regional conference. As a result, she was shortlisted for the RCGP Student of the Year. Alannah Klein, Medical Science, 2018 Alannah, an affiliated student in Medicine, is completing her second year of preclinical studies before entering into the clinical component of her course. With a passion for global health, she has helped to organize and run the first annual 5-week Global Health Lecture Series at Cambridge. The series explored the different facets of global health through various panel discussions and talks from prominent leaders in the field. This year, inspired by her studies, she has focused on issues of access to essential medicines. As the representative for affiliated students in Medicine, Alannah hopes to create a sense of community within this smaller cohort of students. Shameera Nair Lin, English 2017 Shameera won a full academic scholarship to Cambridge and spent her tenure as Faculty Representative. She has written dissertations on a broad range of topics with a firmly interdisciplinary approach, one of which will feature in the Cambridge Review of Books. She has also strived to create inclusive artistic spaces as a founding member and president of Bread Theatre and Film Company. She has performed in, directed and written plays and sketches staged at the ADC and Corpus Playroom. Shameera was a semi-finalist in the 2018 Malaysian Public Policy Competition, and has made political contributions in both student and national press. She hopes to combine writing, activism and research in any future undertaking.

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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.

She taught medieval and English literature, as well as African studies, receiving tenure in 1973. She also published numerous articles on her wide range of research interests, held a Cambridge University Fellowship at Lucy Cavendish College in 1999, and sang regularly in the university’s Master Chorale. MacRae officially retired in 2004, though she did not stop working at that time. As late as 2012, MacRae was still teaching for the English department on a voluntary basis, still doing what she loved. In that year’s packet of spring course listings for the department, her description of her course on African Literature and Film read as follows:

Dr Suzanne MacRae, written by Anne Marie Candido, Bill Quinn, and Leigh Sparks, University of Arkansas (1/07/1941-29/11/2020) (From the University of Arkansas website: https://news. uark.edu/articles/55417/department-of-english-mournspassing-of-professor-emerita-suzanne-macrae) Suzanne MacRae, 79, an associate professor emerita of English, passed away from natural causes on 29 November in Rogers, Arkansas. Born in Mount Gilead, North Carolina, MacRae received her B.A. from Queens College in Charlotte in 1963 and four years later earned her Ph.D. in English literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. MacRae was a trailblazer, and in many ways. Immediately after graduating from her doctoral program (in four years) in 1967, she was hired as an assistant professor of English at the University of Arkansas, joining the faculty as one of only a few women in the Department of English at that time.

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• Purpose: Enjoyment! • Read excellent works of literature by Africans. • See excellent films made by Africans — all from various parts of sub-Saharan Africa. • Examine African culture from [an] African perspective in various genres. • Counteract western stereotypes/misconceptions about Africa. She is remembered fondly by faculty, students, and friends as an impassioned teacher, a loyal colleague, and a perpetual advocate for animal rights. “Suzanne reached out to me with camaraderie and kindness when I first arrived as junior faculty,” recalled professor of English Mohja Kahf. MacRae was especially passionate about teaching world literature — African literature in particular. “She brought a West African griot to perform part of The Epic of Son-Jara in Giffels Auditorium,” Kahf said. “Those decades, she was one of the few people on campus introducing people, including me, to West African literature, through her work and her love of teaching West African texts.” Former colleague Carole Lane agreed, adding, “she took it upon herself to study up on and teach African literature

and film before many people became interested. Very perspicacious. And she was very ahead on the intelligence of animals, too. And a punster.”

Professor of English Dorothy Stephens also remembered MacRae’s sense of humor and love of animals, along with her affinity for spontaneous conversation. “No matter where you ran into her — a hallway on campus, an aisle in a grocery store, or the farmers’ market — Suzanne always made time to stop and talk. She usually had a funny story to relate, often about her world travels or about her beloved pets. She liked both humans and animals, but animals had the edge.” MacRae likewise made an undeniable impact upon her students due to her enthusiasm for the subjects she taught and her dedication to her students’ success. “African Film was one of my favorites,” alum Derek Van Lynn noted. “She made spaghetti for us after we took the GRE, and she played her Rolling Stones albums,” Melissa Harwood-Rom, another former student, reminisced. “You could spend hours reading the political cartoons on her door.” Local artist Ray Allen Parker met Suzanne in 1970 when he took his first class from her: Survey of British Literature on the third floor of Old Main. He would continue to be one of her students in classes she taught on Contemporary Values, Contemporary American Novel, Chaucer, and other subjects. “She introduced me to Sir Thomas Wyatt and John Donne but also Ken Kesey and Tom Wolfe. She loved Leonard Cohen and James Taylor because they had written songs about Suzanne. She thought the Rolling Stones’ Sticky Fingers was the greatest rock album cover,” Parker said. “When I returned to Fayetteville after more than 30 years away and was learning to be a painter, she was one of the first people to sit for me, literally sitting for me on the floor for several hours as I shot photo after photo of her wearing her beloved, dangly African earrings. After my first exhibition, I was pleased to give the portrait to her.” MacRae’s influence was felt not only on campus but also out in the Fayetteville community, even beyond. “She brought to Fayetteville an exceptional social personality,” explained Professor Emeritus of English, Dick Bennett. “She could engage anyone immediately, including

strangers, in vivacious conversation. I well remember her dancing at my and others’ homes, in early days, ponytail flying! She was a defender of civil liberties and long-time member of the ACLU.” MacRae regularly made trips to Africa. Teaching about and traveling to Africa, said Lane, “were some of her greatest loves.” Most memorable about MacRae, perhaps, is how greatly she appreciated her connections with people and encouraged a genuine joy of learning and living in others. “She would come back from her travels to West African countries energized with ideas for her research and teaching, ready to inspire students,” Kahf recollected. “Once she brought me back — from Ghana, I think — a wooden figurine of a fertility goddess and, when I jokingly balked saying I had all the children I planned to have, pointed out that the talisman was also good for intellectual fertility (it worked!). Thank you for your warmth and gifts, and rest in peace, Suzanne.” “Since I accompanied her to numerous movies and concerts, I remember her passion for the arts, especially music of all kinds (classical, blues, international, and blue grass in particular),” said Anne Marie Candido, a colleague and close friend. “She could talk at length and with interesting critical insight and real excitement about a good movie or a good play or a concert she had just seen,” Candido added. “Sheer enjoyment of music and literature and the insights they bring about our fellow humans were front and center for her in artistic experience. And I remember her deep concern for the rights and welfare of all living creatures, animal and human. She was an extremely generous supporter of many, many worthy charitable causes. And finally, her wit. She loved witty sparring and spirited word play. May she rest in peace.” “Being around Suzanne,” reflected retired English faculty member Jim Gamble, “it was impossible not to catch her enthusiasm for literature, animals, and life its own self.” “She was a good friend,” colleague Roy Swaty said. “I’ll miss her.”

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Dr Nancy Carlton Smith, written by her daughter Josephine Fenton. (13/04/1920-21/05/2021) A medical scientist, Nancy Carlton Smith was a Member of the Combination Room 1979-2008, who knew Anna Bidder, the College’s co-founder, first President and another longlived Quaker, well. Born Nancy Gough, she was educated at Nottingham Girls’ High School and at Friends’ School, Saffron Walden, before going up to the University of Edinburgh in 1937 to read biochemistry, followed by a PhD looking at ‘Cholesterol in Blood and Bile’ and ‘The Stability of Carotene in Human Serum’. In receipt of research grants throughout her career as a bench scientist, mainly from the Medical Research Council, a main interest was in the role of progesterone in the placenta, particularly its possible involvement in foetal-maternal tolerance. In 1974, whilst based at St Thomas’ Hospital Medical School, she published a paper with M. G. Brush entitled ‘Preparation of human placental villous surface membrane’, arguing that progesterone might ‘bind to the external villous surface of the placenta and mask its antigenicity’. Nancy published fifteen other papers in The Lancet, Nature and a variety of gynaecological and endocrinological journals. After moving from London to Cambridge in 1977 with her

husband, Alan, an alumnus of Trinity Hall, she worked as a senior technician in the Medical Research Centre on the Addenbrookes Site and then with Dick White, at the Cambridge Veterinary School. Forced to retire on grounds of age at 68, she mourned the loss of life as an active scientist. Nancy was thrilled to become part of Lucy Cavendish, having been introduced by one of the Trustees, and enjoyed dining with academics and students. Up to the week before her death, she loved to be driven past the College and spoke fondly of it.

Dr Erica Swale, written by Dr Jane M. Renfrew (04/04/1929-06/02/2021)

HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (10/06/1921-09/04/2021)

Lucy Cavendish College was very sorry to learn of the death of Dr Erica Mary Forster Swale on February 6 2021. She had been associated with the College since the 1970s when she and her lifelong companion, the late Dr Hilary Becher, first came to Cambridge. Erica was born on 4 April 1929 and brought up in Swaledale, North Yorkshire.

It is with great sadness that the whole community of Lucy Cavendish College marked the passing of His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh was Chancellor of the University of Cambridge for 35 years and the official Visitor for the College in its formative years from 1984 to his retirement as Chancellor of the University in 2011.

Erica was a phycologist. She went to Manchester University where she graduated with a BSc. in 1955. She then went on to Sir John Cass College in London where she obtained a MSc. in 1959, this was followed by a PhD. from University College, London, in 1962, and a DSc. also from University College in 1976. She was an internationally known expert on freshwater algae and protozoa. She first met Hilary Belcher, her lifelong companion, in 1955 when they both attended a scientific meeting at the Freshwater Biological Association Laboratory at Ferry House, Ambleside. In 1960 they both joined the staff there as Chief Scientific Officers studying freshwater algae. In 1967 they spent three months in the Botany Department of Leeds University learning electron microscopy under Professor I. Manton. They much enjoyed the ten years they spent working at Ferry House and living in cottages in Near and Far Sawrey.

He was genuinely interested in, and supportive of, the College’s development, enjoyed visiting it in person several times and, most significantly, attended the celebrations in 1998 on the granting of the Royal Charter to the College. Lucy Cavendish College Former Associate Maria Victoria Monsalve shared her memories of HRH the Prince Philip in a wonderful blog for our website: https://www.lucy.cam. ac.uk/blog/once-upon-time-memories-hrh-princephillip-duke-edinburgh

In 1970 they were both invited by Mr Eric George to set up an NERC laboratory at 36, Storey’s way, Cambridge for the study of algae and protozoa. They were both Principal Scientific Officers and Hilary was Deputy Director to Eric George. Erica was in charge of Electron Microscopy. It was at this time that they met Dr Anna Bidder and she introduced them to Lucy Cavendish College. They became Senior Members of Lucy Cavendish in 1977 and Honorary Members of the Combination Room in 1982. They remained loyal and generous members of the College up to the end of their lives. They were great and generous supporters of the gardens and of hardship funds for students. In the 1990s they supported a Bosnian refugee student to complete her postgraduate degree at the College. Erica was co-author with Hilary Belcher of ‘A Beginners Guide to Freshwater Algae’ (HMSO 1977); and ‘An illustrated Guide to River Plankton’ (HMSO 1979). They also wrote ‘Culturing Algae – A Guide for Schools and Colleges’ (Institute of Terrestrial Ecology 1982), which went into 8 editions by 1988). She also contributed a number of articles to the British Phycological Bulletin.

Nancy died in her sleep, aged 101, during the early morning of 21st May, 2021, at the Victoria Homes; a Cambridge community providing independent living accommodation for the elderly, where she also dug an allotment for over forty years. She leaves two daughters, two grandchildren, one great grandson and an old cat.

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