College Report 2018-9 by Somerville College

SOMERVILLE COLLEGE REPORT

2018-2019

Somerville College Report 2018-19

Somerville College

Contents

Visitor, Principal, Fellows, Lecturers, Staff

The Year in Review Principal’s Report Fellows’ and Lecturers’ Activities Report on Junior Research Fellowships JCR Report MCR Report Library Report

7 10 17 18 19 20

Members’ Notes President’s Report Horsman Awards Somerville Senior Members’ Fund Life Before Somerville: Dr Judith McClure, 1970 Members’ News and Publications Marriages Births Deaths Obituaries

23 24 24 24 26 34 35 36 37

Academic Report Examination Results Prizes Students Entering College

54 56 59

Somerville Association Officers and Committee

Somerville Development Board Members

Notices Legacies Dates for the Diary

64 Back cover

This Report is edited by Liz Cooke (tel. 01865 270632; email elizabeth.cooke@some.ox.ac.uk) Photos: front cover (top left and right), inside front cover, pages 7 and 20 by John Cairns

Visitor, Principal, Fellows, Lecturers, Staff Visitor The Rt Hon The Lord Patten of Barnes, CH, PC, Chancellor of the University

Principal Jan Royall, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon, PC, MA, (BA Lond)

Vice-Principal Lois McNay, MA, (PhD Cantab), Professor of the Theory of Politics and Tutor in Politics

Beate Dignas, MA, DPhil, (Staatsexamen Münster), Associate Professor of Ancient Almut Maria Vera Suerbaum, History, Barbara Craig Fellow MA, (Dr Phil, Staatsexamen, and Tutor in Ancient History Münster), Associate Professor of German and Tutor in German Natalia Nowakowska, MA,

Fellows (in order of seniority)

Fiona Stafford, MA, MPhil, DPhil, (BA Leicester), FRSE, FBA, Hon DLitt (Leics), Professor of English Language and Literature, Tutor in English Literature

DPhil, Associate Professor of History and Tutor in History Jonathan Burton, MA, (PhD Cantab), Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry and Tutor in Chemistry

Dan Ciubotaru, (BSc, MA Babes-Bolyai, PhD Cornell), Professor of Mathematics and Diana Brown Tutor in Mathematics Guido Ascari, (BA Pavia, MSc, PhD Warw), Professor of Economics and Tutor in Economics Damian Tyler, (MSci, PhD Nott), Professor of Physiological Metabolism and Tutor in Medicine

Richard Stone, MA, DPhil, MSAE, FIMechE, Professor of Engineering Science, Tutor in Engineering Science

Luke Pitcher, MA, MSt, DPhil, (PGCert Durham), Associate Professor of Classics and Tutor in Classics

Roman Walczak, MA, (MSc Warsaw, Dr rer nat Heidelberg), Reader in Particle Physics, Associate Professor and Tutor in Physics

Simon Robert Kemp, BA, MPhil, (PhD Cantab), Associate Professor in French and Tutor in French

Louise Mycock, (BA Durh, MA PhD Manc), Associate Professor of Linguistics and Tutor in Linguistics

Christopher Hare, BCL, (Dip D’Etudes Jurid Poitiers, MA Cantab, LLM Harvard), Associate Professor of Law and Tutor in Law

Mari Mikkola, (PhD Sheffield), Associate Professor of Philosophy and Tutor in Philosophy

Benjamin John Thompson, MA, DPhil, (MA, PhD Cantab), FRHistS, Associate Professor of Medieval History and Tutor in History Charles Spence, MA, (PhD Cantab), Professor of Experimental Psychology and Tutor in Experimental Psychology Philip West, MA, (PhD Cantab), Associate Professor of English, Times Fellow and Tutor in English Julie Dickson, MA, DPhil, (LLB Glasgow), Associate Professor of Law and Tutor in Law Annie Sutherland, MA, DPhil, (MA Cantab), Associate Professor in Old and Middle English, Rosemary Woolf Fellow and Tutor in English Daniel Anthony, MA, (PhD Lond), Professor of Experimental Neuropathology and Tutor in Medicine Michael Hayward, MA, DPhil, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry and Tutor in Chemistry

Charlotte Potts, DPhil, (BA Victoria University of Wellington, MA UCL), FSA, Sybille Haynes Associate Professor of Etruscan and Italic Archaeology and Art, Katharine and Leonard Woolley Fellow in Classical Archaeology and Tutor in Classical Archaeology

Francesca Southerden, BA, MSt, DPhil, Associate Professor of Italian and Tutor in Italian

Renaud Lambiotte, (PhD ULB Brussels), Associate Professor of Networks and Nonlinear Systems and Tutor in Mathematics Elena Seiradake, PhD Heidelberg, Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Tutor in Biochemistry

Karen Nielsen, (Cand mag, Cand philol Trondheim, MA, PhD Cornell), Associate Professor of Philosophy and Tutor in Philosophy

Vivien Parmentier, (PhD Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur), Associate Professor in Physical Climate Science and Tutor in Physics

Jonathan Marchini, DPhil, (BSc Exeter), Professor of Statistical Genomics and Tutor in Statistics

Faridah Zaman, BA, MPhil, (PhD Cantab), Associate Professor in History and Tutor in History

Julian Duxfield, MA, (MSc LSE), University Director of Human Resources

Samantha Dieckmann, (PhD Sydney), Associate Professor in Music and Tutor in Music

Renier van der Hoorn, (BSc, MSc Leiden, PhD Wageningen), Professor of Plant Sciences and Tutor in Plant Sciences

Robert Davies, DPhil (BSc Toronto, MSc Ottowa), Associate Professor of Statistics and Tutor in Statistics

Professorial Fellows Stephen Weatherill, MA, (MA Cantab, MSc Edinburgh), Jacques Delors Professor of European Law Rajesh Thakker, MA, DM, (MA, MD Cantab), FRS, FRCP, FRCPath, FMedSci, May Professor of Medicine Matthew John Andrew Wood, MA, DPhil, (MB, ChB Cape Town), Professor of Neuroscience and Keeper of the College Pictures

Colin Espie, (BSc, MAppSci, PhD, DSc(Med) Glas), FBPsS, CPsychol, Professor of Behavioural Sleep Medicine Marc Feldmann, AC, BSc(Med), MB BS, PhD, MD(Hon), DMSc(Hon), FAA, FMedSci, FRCP, FRCPath, FRS, Professor of Cellular Immunology Alfred Gathorne-Hardy, (BSc Edin, MSc, PhD Imp Lond) Manuele Gragnolati, MA, (Laurea in Lettere Classiche, Pavia, PhD Columbia, DEA Paris)

Sarah Gurr, MA, (BSc, PhD Stephen Roberts, MA, DPhil, FREng, FIET, FRSS, MIOP, London, ARCS, DIC), Professor of Molecular Plant Pathology RAEng-Man Professor of Machine Learning John Ingram, (BSc KCL, MSc R'dg, PhD Wageningen NL) Aditi Lahiri, (PhD Brown, MA, PhD Calcutta), Professor of Joanna Innes, MA, (MA Linguistics Cantab) Steven Simon, MA, (PhD Muhammad Kassim Javaid, Harvard), Professor of (BMedSci, MBBS, PhD London), Theoretical and Condensed MRCP Matter Physics

Administrative Fellows Anne Manuel, MA, (LLB Reading, MA, MSc, PhD Bristol), Librarian, Archivist and Head of Information Services Stephen Rayner, MA, (PhD Durham), FRAS, MInstP, Senior Tutor, Tutor for Graduates and Tutor for Admissions Andrew Parker, MA, (BA Liverpool), ACMA, Treasurer Sara Kalim, MA, Director of Development

Senior Research Fellows Tony Bell, (MA, PhD Cantab), FRS, FRAS, MinstP, CPhys Amalia Coldea, (MA, PhD Cluj-Napoca)

Patricia Kingori, (BA, MSc Royal Holloway, MSc UCL, PhD London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine) Philip Kreager, DPhil Catherine Mary MacRobert, MA, DPhil Boris Motik, (MSc Zagreb, PhD Karlsruhe), Professor of Computer Science Frans Plank, (Statsexamen Munich, MLitt Edin, MA Regensburg, DPhil Hanover) Philip Poole, (BSc, PhD Murdoch) Mason Porter, MA, (BS Caltech, MS PhD Cornell) Franklyn Prochaska, (PhD Northwestern University), FRHS Michael Proffitt, BA Tessa Rajak, MA, DPhil, FRSA

Owen Rees, MA, (PhD Cantab), ARCO, Professor of Music Alex David Rogers, (BSc, PhD Liv)

Abdul-Lateef Haji-Ali, (PhD KAUST Saudia Arabia), Mathematics, Fulford Junior Research Fellow

Premila Webster, DPhil, FHEA, FFPH, MBE

Justin Lau, (BSc Queen’s University Kingston Canada, DPhil Toronto ), Medicine Fulford Junior Research Fellow

Jennifer Welsh, MA, DPhil (BA Saskatchewan)

Linxin Li, DPhil, Medicine Fulford Junior Research Fellow

Honorary Senior Research Fellow Stephanie Dalley, MA, (MA Cantab, Hon PhD London), FSA

Junior Research Fellows Naveed Akbar, Junior Research Fellow (MSc Manc, PhD Dund), Medicine Fulford Junior Research Fellow

Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey, MSt, DPhil, Music, Fulford Junior Research Fellow Fay Probert, (BSc, MSc, PhD Warwick), Medicine, Fulford Junior Research Fellow Ritu Raj, DPhil (BS, MS IISER Kolkata India), Biochemistry, Fulford Junior Research Fellow Laura Slater, (MA York, PhD Cantab), Music, Fulford Junior Research Fellow

Robert Beagrie, (BA, MSc Cantab, PhD Imp), Biochemistry, Fulford Junior Research Fellow

Joulia Smortchkova, (BA University of Bologna, Master in Cognitive Science Paris V, France, PhD Institut Jean Nicod Paris), Philosophy, Fulford Junior Research Fellow

Corinne Betts, DPhil, Medicine, Fulford Junior Research Fellow

Rachel Tanner, BA, DPhil Medicine, Fulford Junior Research Fellow

Lauren Burgeno, (BS California Irvine, PhD Washington), Experimental Psychology Fulford Junior Research Fellow

Martin Walker, (BASc Waterloo, MASc Toronto, PhD Cantab, AFHEA), Engineering Science, Mary Ewart Junior Research Fellow

Xiaowen Dong, (BEng Zhejiang University China, MSc Edin, PhD Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne), Engineering Science, Fulford Junior Research Fellow Christopher Durr, (PhD Ohio State), Chemistry, Fulford Junior Research Fellow Ana Laura Edelhoff, (BA, MA Freie Universität Berlin, PhD Humboldt Universität, Berlin), Philosophy, Mary Somerville Junior Research Fellow

Edmund Wareham, BA, MSt, DPhil, Medieval and Modern Langs, Fulford Junior Research Fellow Lauren Watson, (BSc, BSc (Med), MSc (Med), PhD Cape Town), Neuroscience Fulford Junior Research Fellow Francis Woodhouse, (MA, MMath, PhD Cantab), Mathematics, Fulford Junior Research Fellow

British Academy Fellows Pippa Byrne, BA, MSt, DPhil, British Academy Post-doctoral Fellow Lisa Forsberg, (MA, PhD KCL), British Academy Post-doctoral Fellow Nelson Goering, MPhil, DPhil, British Academy Post-doctoral Fellow Holly Kennard, BA, MPhil, DPhil, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow Vilija Velyvyte, MJur, MPhil, DPhil, (Bachelor of Laws, Master of International Law Mykolas Romeris University), Law, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow

Early Career Fellow Siddharth Arora DPhil, (BTech DA-IICT), Parkinsons UK Early Career Fellow

Career Development Fellow

Judith Heyer, MA, (PhD London)

Hazel Mary Fox (Lady Fox), CMG, QC, MA

Anna Laura Momigliano Lepschy, MA, BLitt

Julianne Mott Jack, MA

Averil Millicent Cameron, DBE, MA, DLitt (PhD London), FBA, FSA

Rosalind Mary Marsden, DCMG, MA, DPhil

Carole Jordan, MA, (PhD London), FRS, DBE Norma MacManaway, MA, (MA, MPhil Dublin, DEA Paris) Helen Morton, MA, (MSc Boston, MA Cantab) Hilary Ockendon, MA, DPhil, (Hon DSc Southampton) Josephine Peach, BSc, MA, DPhil Stephen Guy Pulman, MA, (MA, PhD Essex), FBA Frances Julia Stewart, MA, DPhil Adrianne Tooke, MA, (BA London, PhD Cantab) Angela Vincent, MA, MB, BS, (MSc London), FRS, FMedSci

Foundation Fellows Lady Margaret Elliott, MBE, MA Sir Geoffrey Leigh

Isabelle Roland, (MSc, PhD LSE), Economics

Robert Ng

Emeritus Fellows

Mr Gavin Ralston, MA

Margaret Adams, MA, DPhil Pauline Adams, MA, BLitt, (Dipl Lib Lond) Lesley Brown, BPhil, MA Marian Ellina Stamp Dawkins, MA, DPhil, FRS, CBE Katherine Duncan-Jones, MA, BLitt, FRSL Karin Erdmann, MA, (Dr rer nat Giessen) Mary Jane Hands, MA Barbara Fitzgerald Harvey, MA, BLitt, FBA, FRHistS, CBE

Lord Powell of Bayswater, KCMG, OBE

Baroness O’Neill of Bengarve, CH, CBE, MA, (PhD Harvard), Hon DCL, FBA, Hon FRS, FMedSci Kay Elizabeth Davies, DBE, CBE, MA, DPhil, FRS, (Hon DSc Victoria Canada), FMedSci Baroness Jay of Paddington, PC, BA Irangani Manel Abeysekera, MA Paula Pimlott Brownlee, MA, DPhil Julia Stretton Higgins, DBE, CBE, MA, DPhil, Hon DSc, FRS, CChem, FRSC, CEng, FIM, FREng Doreen Elizabeth Boyce, MA, (PhD Pittsburgh) Ruth Hilary Finnegan, OBE, MA, BLitt, DPhil, FBA Janet Margaret Bately, CBE, MA, FBA Margaret Kenyon (Mrs), MA Clara Elizabeth Mary Freeman (Mrs), OBE, MA Jenny Glusker, MA, DPhil

Ann Rosamund Oakley, MA, (PhD London, Hon DLitt Wafic Rida Saïd Salford), AcSS

Honorary Fellows Baroness Williams of Crosby, PC, MA Kiri Jeanette Te Kanawa, DBE, AC ONZ, Hon DMus Carolyn Emma Kirkby, DBE, OBE, MA, Hon DMus, (Hon DMus Bath, Hon DLitt Salf), FGSM Joyce Maire Reynolds, MA, (Hon DLitt Newcastle-uponTyne), FBA

Theresa Joyce Stewart, MA

Sarah Broadie, OBE, MA, BPhil, (PhD Edinburgh), FBA Harriet Maunsell, OBE, MA Mary Midgley, (D. 10 Oct. 2018), MA Hilary Spurling, CBE, BA Catherine Jane Royle de Camprubi, MA Nancy Rothwell, DBE, BSc, DS, (PhD London), FMedSci, FRS Baroness Shriti Vadera, PC, BA Elizabeth Mary Keegan, DBE, MA Carole Hillenbrand, CBE, OBE, BA, (BA Cantab, PhD Edinburgh), FBA, FRSE, FRAS, FRHistS Angela McLean, DBE, BA, (MA Berkeley, PhD Lond), FRS Michele Moody-Adams, BA, (BA Wellesley, PhD Harvard) Judith Parker, DBE, QC, MA Esther Rantzen, DBE, CBE, MA Caroline Barron, OBE, MA, (PhD London), FRHistS Fiona Caldicott, DBE, BM, BCh, MA, MD (Hon), DSc (Hon), FRCPsych, FRCP, FRCPI, FRCGP, FMedSci

Baroness Lucy Neville-Rolfe, DBE, CMG, MA

Emma Rothschild, CMG, MA

Judith Ann Kathleen Howard, CBE, DPhil, (BSc Bristol), FRS

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Kt, (BSc Baroda, PhD Ohio), Nobel Laureate, FRS (President)

Victoria Glendinning, CBE, MA

Tessa Ross, CBE, BA

Nicola Ralston, BA

Joanna Haigh, CBE, MA, DPhil, FRS, FRMetS

Antonia Byatt, DBE, CBE, FRSL, BA

Akua Kuenyehia, BCL, (LLB University of Ghana)

Baroness Wolf of Dulwich, CBE, BA, MPhil

Gabriel Moise, MChem, Chemistry

Lecturer in Medicine

Communications

Lorna Margaret Hutson, BA, DPhil, FBA

Harry Morgan, DPhil, (BA, MPhil Cantab), Ancient History

Caroline Mary Series, BA, (PhD Harvard), FRS

Ain Neuhaus, DPhil, Medicine

Helen Ashdown, BMBCh, (MA Cantab), MRCP, MRCPG, DCH PGDip (Health Res), Clinical Medicine

Jeevan Vasagar, (BA Manchester), Communications Manager

Sacha Romanovitch, BA Alice Prochaska, MA, DPhil, FRHistS Margaret Casely-Hayford, CBE, MA

Anca Popescu, (BSc Politehnica University Bucharest, PhD Cantab), Engineering Nisha Singh, MSc, DPhil, Medicine Graeme Smith, MPhys, DPhil, Physics

Stipendiary Lecturers

Jack Evans, BA, Communications Officer

Academic Office Joanne Ockwell, (BA, MA University of Gloucester), Welfare support and Policy Officer

Ayla Barutchu, (Bachelor of Behavourial Science, DPhil La Trobe University), Psychology

Kerstin Timm, (PhD Cantab), Medicine Sridhar Vasudevan, MSc, DPhil, Medicine Timothy Walker, MA, Plant Sciences

Achas Burin, BCL, DPhil, (LLB Leeds), Law Yvonne Couch, MSc, DPhil, Medicine Xon de Ros, DPhil, (Fellow of LMH), Spanish Kamel El Omari, (BSc Paris VII, MSc, PhD Paris VI), Biochemistry Andrew Elliott, MPhil, DPhil, (BA Cantab), Economics Rachel Exley, (BSc Leeds, PhD Paris XI), Medicine Francesco Hautmann, (Dottore in Fisica Florence), Physics Christian Kerpal, PhD, Chemistry Alison Lutton, DPhil, (MA Edin, MA Liv), English

Retaining Fee Lectures

Lisa Gygax, BA, Joint Secretary to the Somerville Association

Margaret Thatcher Scholarship Trust

Conferences & Catering

Jessica Mannix, (MA University of St Andrews) Campaign Director

Dave Simpson, Catering and Conference Manager

Claire Cockcroft, MA (PhD Cantab), Director of the Thatcher Scholarship Programme

Treasury

Oxford India Centre Richard Ashdowne, MA, DPhil, Linguistics Dr Radhika Khosla, Research Director Vilma de Gasperin, DPhil, (Laurea Padua), Modern Languages Library Departmental Lecturers Marco Scutari, (MSc, PhD Padua), Statistics Thomas Wallenius, MPhil, DPhil, (BSocSc Helsinki), International Relations

College Lecturer

Sofia Massa, Maths Quentin Miller, DPhil, (BMath Waterloo, Canada), Computer Science

Hanne Eckhoff, Cand Mag Cand Philol Doctor artium Oslo, Russian

Liz Cooke, BA, Joint Secretary to the Somerville Association

Julia Hill, (BBA University of Kent), Undergraduate Officer

Erfan Soliman, DPhil, FHEA, Engineering

Myrto Aloumpi, MSt, DPhil, (BA University of Crete), Classics

Alumni Relations

Susan Elizabeth Purver, MA, Assistant Librarian Matthew Roper, MA, (MA Durham), Library Assistant

Development Office Brett de Gaynesford, (BA, College of William & Mary, USA), Deputy Development Director Heather Weightman, (BA London), Annual Fund Officer

Elaine Boorman, College Accountant

IT Chris Bamber, Systems Manager

Portersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Lodge Mark Ealey, Lodge Manager

Chapel Brian McMahon, MA, MSt, (MA Essex), Director

Music Will Dawes, (PGDip RAM, BMus (Hons) Edinburgh), Director of Chapel Music

Estates Steve Johnson, Estates Manager

Further details of all administrative staff are to be found on the College website.

Principal’s Report 2018 was the centenary of suffrage being extended to women in Britain. 2020 is the centenary of the University of Oxford allowing women to matriculate and conferring on them the degrees that they had earned. These two centenaries - one an academic milestone and the other a milestone in democratic history, and both fought for by Somervillians - are a reminder of our special place in society. We were founded to extend education to those who were denied it. And once they have acquired an education, Somervillians today, like those of the past, are determined to go out and change the world. Our 140th anniversary falls between the two, and I hope that all of you will join me in celebrating a special occasion for the College at our Birthday panel and tea on October 20th. There is much for us to celebrate this year. I am delighted by the news that we will soon have an exciting neighbour. Thanks to a £150m gift from Stephen A. Schwarzman (chairman, CEO and co-founder of Blackstone) the University’s hub for the humanities will take shape next door to us. The Centre will bring our humanities programmes together in a single space, which will house a library, concert hall and exhibition venues. There will also be a new centre for AI and ethics. Together with the Blavatnik School of government and the Mathematical Institute, the new Humanities hub adds to the sense that the University’s centre of gravity is shifting further north, and coalescing around Somerville.

designation which means they will receive additional federal and state funding in Germany - and the Oxford tie-up was important as an example of how these institutions are now working together.

Together with our own construction project, the Catherine Hughes building, which is due to open in the coming academic year [2019-2020] and which will enable all of our undergraduates to live in for the duration of their studies, I trust this development will significantly increase interest from prospective undergraduates. It has been thrilling to watch our building take shape; the first student occupants are due to move in this coming Michaelmas term [2019-2020].

Two of the people who have helped to spark the intellectual curiosity of students and have shared their knowledge and academic experience are Roman Walczak and Guido Ascari.

As ever, our Fellows have given us a great deal to be proud of this year. Matthew Wood, Professor of Neuroscience, is heading a new centre to advance therapies for rare diseases.

He has contributed hugely towards making our mixed College such a success, as a terrific tutor doing ground-breaking research. He is passionate about science and dedicated to his field – but what you might not know is that he is similarly dedicated to the fields of his small farm in Poland, and that he is also a competitive swimmer.

Beate Dignas, Barbara Craig Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History, will co-lead a new project funded by the Oxford-Berlin Research Partnership, bringing together researchers from Oxford and the German capital to explore regional identity in the Hellenistic world. A further connection with the German capital came through Somerville’s medieval research network, which held its first meeting abroad at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry in Berlin. It is early days, but Oxford’s collaboration with three universities and a medical school in Berlin is prospering. The Berlin university alliance has just been awarded the “Excellence”

Roman, who is retiring from his Tutorial Fellowship in Physics after 26 years of service, first came to Somerville when the College was on the cusp of taking that fantastic step forward of becoming coeducational.

Guido, who leaves us this year, has only been at Somerville for 5 years but during that time we have benefited hugely from this fine economist of global renown, whose talents are sought after by banks and global institutions as well as academia. The fact that they are both at Somerville, like many other Fellows and students from overseas, is a testament to our internationalism and our desire for people from all over the world to work together for the benefit of all.

ROMAN WALCZAK. credit: Keith Barnes

PRINCIPAL JAN ROYALL ALONG WITH SENIOR TUTOR STEVE RAYNER AND DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR SARA KALIM DURING A CLASSROOM VISIT IN HONG KONG

Once again, our students have won prizes for their scholarship this year. Ain Neuhaus (2009, Medical Sciences) won the George Pickering Prize, for the candidate receiving the highest marks in the Medicine Finals and the Prize Vivas.

From conversations with fellow heads of house, a friendly and supportive group, I realise that I am extremely fortunate to have such a collegiate and positive Governing Body whose members care deeply about the College and the students.

Aaron Henry (2015, Medicine) won the Stewart Greenall Memorial Prize, which is awarded to the student who obtains the highest mark in the cohort for the Objective Structured Clinical Examination, a practical qualification in medical tasks.

One of my aspirations when I began was to widen access to the unique education we offer here, ensuring that we reach all of those who have the greatest potential to benefit. Thanks to the diligent efforts of our Access team led by Senior Tutor Steve Rayner, I was pleased to note that 69% of our UK undergraduate places will go to state school pupils this year. Steve now heads an expanded team of 1.5 FTE access officers which enables us to work with more state schools.

Aaron also won the John Pearce Memorial Prize, which honours those medical students who have demonstrated exemplary care for a patient. No-one who knows Aaron will be surprised at these achievements. Marie Ducroizet-Boitaud won a Gibbs Prize for topping her cohort in Maths and Philosophy. Will Andrews (2015, History and Modern Languages) came first in his cohort of 17 students, while Alex Crichton-Miller (2015, History and Modern Languages), came second in the same group. My congratulations to them all and many others who distinguished themselves this year. A full list of Principal’s Prize winners can be found on page 52. Starting your own business is an increasingly popular career choice for an Oxford graduate. I was delighted to see two Somerville teams pitching in the finals of All-Innovate, the inter-college ideas contest. The two projects were SeaStrong, which aims to help female seaweed harvesters in India create value-added products, and PCAid, a medical diagnostic tool using machine learning. Both teams are upholding a proud Somerville tradition of applying their education and skills to tackling pressing social challenges. Somerville’s Development Board has new leadership this year. Sybella Stanley (1979, Ancient and Modern History) and Ayla Busch (1989, PPE) have been appointed co-chairs. I am hugely grateful to Clara Freeman (1971, Modern History), and Hilary Newiss (1974, Psychology, Philosophy and Physiology), who are stepping down after a highly successful tenure. I am immensely grateful to all on the Development Board for their wisdom and to our donor community for their loyalty and generosity. I have been Principal for two years now. I continue to love this place, and most importantly our community and its people.

Our outreach is global as well as national. We held a special event in Hong Kong this March, speaking to schoolchildren from diverse backgrounds about the benefits of an Oxford education, and we have held similar events in Mumbai and Singapore. As we reach out to state school pupils, we do not forget that privately educated young people are valued members of the Somerville community, and that will continue to be the case. My intention is to have a truly inclusive community in which all students feel welcome and therefore able to reach their full potential. I will have more to say on widening access over the coming year, as well as addressing one of my other main goals, which is to support our academics at all levels. I am very pleased to say that thanks to the support of the family of our alumna Diana Brown (1957, Maths), we have been able to strengthen the teaching and research of Mathematics at Somerville. Their generous gift will support the new Diana Brown Fellowship in Pure Mathematics, held by Dan Ciubotaru. Thanks to further donations from our alumni, we have also been able to fund a new Junior Research Fellow in mathematics. Dr Beth Romano, who received her PhD from Boston College, has been appointed to that post and arrives at Somerville in Michaelmas term. A recent report by the Higher Education Policy Institute stated that higher education had become “an anxiety machine”, so I am working with the Conference of Colleges and the wider University to enhance the well-being of academics.

JAN ROYALL AT THE LAUNCH OF THE LEE KUAN YEW SCHOLARSHIPS. credit: ST Telemedia

THE SCHOLARS, RESEARCHERS AND ADVISORS OF THE OXFORD INDIA CENTRE DURING THE VISIT OF THE INDIAN HIGH COMISSIONER, RUCHI GHANASHYAM (THIRD FROM LEFT) IN MAY. credit: Keith Barnes

At Somerville, together with Raj Thakker and Matthew Wood, I have organised a couple of high-profile health discussions and have plans for another in the coming year on mental health.

Throughout the year I have organised, with amazing help and support from colleagues, many events which have been open to everyone in College, our alumni, and the wider community. These include discussions with and about refugees, working with a local school; events with the Afghan Women’s Orchestra; the operetta Rhondda Rips It Up!; a feisty panel event to mark the 40th anniversary of Mrs Thatcher’s first election victory and the centenary of legislation enabling women to enter the professions; and a speech by Ruth Hunt, the chief executive of Stonewall. We also hosted BBC Radio 4’s Any Questions?

In May, I led a debate in the House of Lords about children, young people and mental health, and brought our work at Somerville to the fore. The government response was given by Baroness Nicola Blackwood of North Oxford, who is also a Somervillian. From Manchester to Mumbai, one of Somerville’s great strengths is its global network of alumni. I have travelled around the world to meet many of our alumni this year, and have been moved, time and again, by the warmth and enthusiasm of Somervillians for their College. These travels are also opportunities for building support, raising awareness and funds beyond our own community. The trip with our Choir to India - performing in venues ranging from a Bollywood studio to a 17th century church - was particularly successful at building the profile of the College in one of the world’s fastest-growing major economies, making valuable contacts with philanthropists and leading businesspeople. The passion and hard work of our development team, led by Sara Kalim, have enabled us to increase the number of Thatcher Scholars to 14 next year and the number of Oxford India Centre Scholars to 19. I am confident that my aim of having at least 20 scholars in each programme is on track and in line with the University’s aim of increasing the number of scholarships, especially for graduates. I am delighted that we are now able to offer a new scholarship for exceptional Singaporean students who come from disadvantaged backgrounds. The first of these Lee Kuan Yew-Thatcher Scholarships will be awarded in October 2020. As we think about a major fundraising campaign next year, our work with alumni and people not connected with Oxford assumes a greater importance. Fundraising is of great importance if we are to improve the lives of academics, students and staff as well as ensuring that the College can meet the challenges of the future in an increasingly difficult financial environment.

The meetings with refugees have been the catalyst for University wide discussions which will, I believe, next year lead to a scholarship programme for refugees. At Somerville we are concluding discussions which will enable us to welcome a refugee student in 2020/2021 as well as supporting in some way an academic from a fragile state under the CARA programme. Somerville’s 140th anniversary is an opportunity to reflect on how far we have come. In Britain, at least, women no longer have to fight for the right to be educated. But all of us, men and women, have plenty of other causes to fight for. I often ask myself how we can live up to the achievements of brilliant women like Emily Penrose (1889, Lit Hum. and Principal 1907-1926). I am inspired by the example of our alumni like Gideon Laux (2017, MSc Economics for Development) - who has founded a social enterprise aiming to provide affordable green energy to remote villages in India - and Farhana Yamin (1983, PPE), who was at the forefront of climate change activism in London this year. I have met many other inspiring Somervillians since I started in this role. They are a constant reminder of our enduring values. At the service in Bayeux Cathedral to mark the 75th anniversary of the D Day landings in June, a message from the Pope said that he hoped that the commemorations “will allow all the organisations in Europe and the whole world to strongly reassert that peace is based on the respect of each person, whatever his or her background.” I hope that the lives of our students will be peaceful in this turbulent world. JAN ROYALL, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon, Principal of Somerville

Fellows’ and Lecturers’ Activities Biochemistry Elena Seiradake reports that the Biochemists have had a strong year with 2/3 graduating with a first class degree and 1/3 finishing with a high upper second class (2.1) result. Amongst the exciting research the students produced in their final year are insights into how pesticides impact on the development of motor neurone disease, and how proteins in our bodies interact with the lipid membranes that surround our cells. Pioneering in "including the excluded", Somerville has offered a place to a student from the Karta Initiative; a charity that seeks to connect young people from underserved rural areas to the world of educational and professional opportunity. This is the first year Oxbridge has made admissions offers to Karta students and we are immensely excited about the opportunity to work with one of these highly deserving students. Elena has been giving talks at international conferences and has received a new grant to pursue research at the cutting-edge Central Laser Facility at Harwell. This will enable her to visualise the action of proteins at super high magnification, and track their movements in real time. Her team has also made a new breakthrough in understanding how the protein ‘Latrophilin’, which is associated with ADHD in children, interacts with ‘Teneurin’ proteins and how this impacts on nervous system development. These discoveries have made a splash at recent conferences and are being summarised for publication.

Biological Sciences Renier van der Hoorn and his research team have published a major discovery in Science (Buscaill et al., April 2019, Science 364:145). This project uncovered a new arms race at the plant-pathogen interface. This relates to the discovery that bacteria hide themselves from the host plant

by covering their flagellin tails with a sugary coat. Bacterial pathogens do this because plants would otherwise recognise fragments that are released from flagella by plant-secreted enzymes. Some strains use enzymeresistant cloaks whilst other strains secrete enzyme inhibitors. The Van der Hoorn laboratory has also continued the collaboration with Syngenta on herbicide detoxifying enzymes, and with Leaf Expression Systems (Norwich) to use plants to produce pharmaceutical proteins. The international research team currently counts fourteen scientists with representatives from Canada, Columbia, France, Germany, India, Japan, Poland, Spain, Thailand, and the UK. Four Somerville Biology students enjoyed doing their FHS projects in this lab this summer.

Classics Beate Dignas has been on sabbatical leave this year, which she has used to edit the ancient volume of a Cultural History of Memory, forthcoming with Bloomsbury. She has also established close collaboration with colleagues from the Humboldt and the Freie Universitaet Berlin, as part of the Oxford-Berlin research partnership that the University formed last year. In May, she welcomed academic guests from Berlin at Somerville to a workshop on the theme of Ethnicity, Culture and Religion in the Ancient World. She is looking forward to teaching a new cohort of freshers in all Classics subjects in October. Luke Pitcher appeared on the Radio 4 show When Greeks Flew Kites at the beginning of February, in an episode topically devoted to examples of political deadlock, to talk about the early Roman Dictator Cincinnatus. The episode is available here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/ programmes/m0002bb6 He has also published an article on the treatment of Egyptian mythology by the Greek historian Diodorus in Wandering Myths, a volume co-edited by his Ancient History colleague at Somerville,

Beate Dignas. He advised on text and translation for the latest edition of the College Song.

Engineering Stephen Roberts is the Royal Academy of Engineering / Man Group Professor of Machine Learning and Director of the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance (the OMI). His interests lie in the theory and methodology of intelligent algorithms for large-scale real-world problems, especially those in which noise and uncertainty abound. His current major projects include the application of AI in the physical sciences (astronomy in particular), ecology and environmental monitoring, the engineering industry and finance. Over the past year Stephen has delivered seven keynote speeches on AI and its applications and implications. He has also spoken at several outreach events, including the Somerville in the City event, where he spoke on the benefits and dangers of AI. Stephen was part of the team that successfully renewed the Oxford Centre for Doctoral Training in Autonomous Intelligent Systems (AIMS) and has recently been able to secure generous follow-on funding from Man Group to ensure the future of the OMI. In collaboration with colleagues in Zoology, he has been awarded a Gates Foundation grant to develop better techniques for detecting mosquitoes using smartphone technology, to better understand their prevalence and role in vectoring disease. Richard Stone reports that Engineering at Somerville flourishes with three first class degrees in Finals and strong results in all of the other years. In the third year five of the students achieved first class performance, and one of them also had time to play for the England Women’s Lacross Team. Combustion work continues in very close collaboration with Jaguar Land Rover, and in the Department Richard

now has three colleagues. The increased importance of Hybrid Engined Vehicles means new challenges in engine optimisation and there is much more work to be done that they have capacity for. The ‘Cryogenic’ activity is also flourishing with a single stage pulse tube that has achieved temperatures below 80 K, a solar concentrator being trialled in India and Stirling engines. Another Stirling engine (with a novel in-line configuration) will be built as part of an EPSRC-funded project that starts in September. Richard has given a number of talks ranging from an invited talk at a combustion meeting held in Cambridge to a presentation on energy and engines to the UNIQ course; the latter with some very thoughtful and insightful questions

English Fiona Stafford has enjoyed another year of teaching Somerville English students across three years (and EML students in their fourth). She has also convened the MSt 1700-1830 for the English Faculty and runs the Romantic Research Seminar. An exciting trip to Scotland in the footsteps of John Keats became a walk-and-talk documentary, Keats goes north, which was broadcast by Radio 3. She recorded an Essay on Robinson Crusoe for the BBC at the Hay Festival, and offered a talk and a walk relating to her new book, The Brief Life of Flowers. She gave a keynote lecture on ‘Why Trees Matter’ at Evolving the Forest, a multi-disciplinary conference marking the Centenary of the Royal Forestry Society. Fiona chairs the Environmental Humanities Network at TORCH (The Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities – right next door to Somerville) and has been working with the Oxford/National Trust partnership. For Dead Ground, a collection of essays on twentieth-century war, published by Clutag Press to mark the Armistice, she wrote about a family diary, which documents the everyday life of a woman in the Blitz. This research is now the basis of her first play, written for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Annie Sutherland has had another busy year chairing English Prelims, so she is looking forward to having a term’s sabbatical after the summer and catching up with her research. In the

gaps between teaching and examining, she has published an essay on the nativity in early medieval literature, has finished work on a collection of essays that she is co-editing with Almut Suerbaum and has published a piece on medieval anchorites and Margaret Atwood’s handmaids in The Conversation. She has also enjoyed doing some work on access and outreach and has co-hosted, with Professor Stafford and Dr West, Somerville’s first ‘taster day’ for state school sixth-formers thinking about applying to read English at university. Philip West has had a very busy year of teaching, supervising, and chairing meetings of the English Faculty. In July he gave a paper at the inaugural Durham Editorial Colloquium on the subject of the choice of copy-text for editing seventeenth-century manuscript poetry, and he is currently completing the textual and general introductions to his edition of James Shirley’s poems. He is looking forward to research leave in Hilary Term 2020, in which he will be working on another editorial challenge, the sermons of John Donne in print and manuscript.

History The History tutor team evolved rapidly in 2018-19 with Faridah Zaman’s appointment to succeed Jo Innes and Natalia Nowakowska’s return from her ERC-funded project, followed – after they briefly coincided in Michaelmas 2018 – by Benjamin Thompson’s removal for around three years from January. Pippa Byrne, returning for her final year as British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, filled in for his sabbatical in Hilary and Trinity 2019, and will continue as Departmental Lecturer covering the medieval tutoring while he is seconded to the Humanities Division (of which more next year). Faridah Zaman found her first year in Oxford exciting. Her teaching ranged across British, European, and World History, some excellent final-year theses, and the MSt in Global and Imperial History. She participated in various Faculty Outreach events throughout the year, including a BME Study Day and the UNIQ summer school. She presented at three research seminars in Oxford, as well as giving

conference papers in Cambridge and Berlin. An article on the writing of histories of Islam in Britain was published earlier this year, and ongoing projects include research on the treatment of the Ottoman Caliphate after the First World War, drawing partly on the archives of the Labour Party. Faridah has also been busy on Faculty committees: the Race Equality Working Group, the advisory committees of the Centre for Global History and the Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity, and the Electors to the Ford Lecturership in British History. Acting as Personal Tutor of the Somerville firstyear historians has been an especially rewarding experience; she looks forward to seeing this cohort continue to flourish in their second year. This year saw the publication of the ERC Jagiellonian Project’s first book, Remembering the Jagiellonians (2019). This volume of essays – edited by Natalia Nowakowska as part of Routledge’s ‘Remembering the Medieval and Early Modern Worlds’ series – explores cultural memories of this leading Renaissance dynasty across twelve countries, from sixteenth-century poetry to twenty-first-century internet memes. In the past year, Natalia has given a lecture on the Jagiellonians at the Catholic University of Ukraine, in the magnificent city of Lviv; and a conference keynote on Queen Isabella Jagiellon at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest. She has also written an article (in press) on the changing fortunes and meanings of the word ‘dynasty’, and historians’ uses of it. Natalia has enjoyed teaching a number of new History papers to Somervillians this year, and has sat on the History Faculty Board, as well as the Faculty’s Research Committee. Pippa Byrne published her book on the moral dilemmas faced by medieval judges, which now leaves her free to work on the next one, on twelfth-century Sicily. She also gave a paper at the Somerville Medievalists’ Research Group’s Berlin conference (see below), discussing whether the way twelfth-century scholars ‘opened up’ and commented on the text of the Bible represented a distinctively new intellectual method. She looks forward to building on her previous Somerville teaching as a fully-fledged member of the all-female History tutorial team.

Benjamin Thompson enjoyed working with his new and returning colleagues for a term before disappearing to Cambridge for two terms of sabbatical. His main project was to finish his book on the Alien Priories, small French cells which were suppressed in the Hundred Years War, as a somewhat Brexity precursor to the general Dissolution of the Monasteries. He also completed his contribution to the previous Somerville Medievalists’ Research Group (SMRG) research project on Temporality (see below), in which he traced the tensions involved in devoting earthly capital to the eternal salvation of increasingly (from the perspective of the alwaysmoving present) long-dead souls. And he spoke at the SMRG Berlin conference (see below) on the vexed question of how ‘open’ medieval monasteries could be, designed as they were to be cut off from ‘the world’, when in fact they relied on it for manpower and money.

Law Dr Julie Dickson was on research leave in Michaelmas Term 2018, and she used this time to complete more chapters of her book on methodology in legal philosophy Elucidating Law, under contract with Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2021. She also visited universities in Canada and in Spain to give papers from the book and met some wonderful colleagues and young scholars. On returning to teaching in 2019, Dr Dickson was delighted to be shortlisted on the recommendation of students she has taught for an Oxford University teaching award in the category of ‘Outstanding Tutor’. It has also been a wonderful academic year in the Somerville Law School, as we have welcomed a terrific early career colleague, Achas Burin, who will be with us for three years, generously funded by Somerville alumni working in law. Professor Stephen Weatherill continues to teach European Union law at undergraduate and postgraduate levels while also supervising a grand bunch of research students whose work covers matters such as competition law, state aid, consumer law, constitutional identity, procedural protection in tax investigations, and the digital economy. He seems to have spent most of the last three years becoming increasingly

uneasy that the pain-free sunlit uplands promised by the Brexiters may not be quite as accessible as initially advertised and, as the revolution eats its own children, or at least those not prepared to sign up to a scorched earth ‘spit-inthe-eye of our major trading partners’ version of it, he isn’t sure it’s all going to end well.

Linguistics Louise Mycock reports that the Linguistics community at Somerville continues to grow. This year the number of undergraduates admitted to study on degree courses including Linguistics doubled again, with two Modern Language (German) and Linguistics students being admitted, along with two Philosophy and Linguistics students. Louise’s work on the ProTag construction in British English ("It’s a good book, that") was published in 2019 (in the journal English Language and Linguistics), as was her research comparing aspects of intonation and question formation in Hungarian and Slovenian (in the Journal of Linguistics). Louise also contributed to a festschrift for a colleague in Hungary, writing on the analysis of so-called echo questions. The major reference book on the theoretical framework of LexicalFunctional Grammar, of which she is an author, is due to be published by Oxford University Press in summer 2019. Louise’s British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant work came to an end in the spring. The outcomes of this project were a number of presentations (International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Canberra, Australia; Symposium in Honor of Professor Marcus Nordlund, University of Gothenburg, Sweden) and an invited talk at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. A journal article on the ProTag construction as it appears in the works of Jonson, Marlowe and Shakespeare is currently under review for journal publication. Louise also presented her research work at the International Pragmatics Conference in Hong Kong in summer 2019. She currently holds a John Fell pump-priming award for further research on the ProTag construction, with a focus on identifying which of the languages of Europe this construction appears in.

A network of which Louise is a member has been awarded funding by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. The network, titled ‘Syntax beyond the canon: innovative research on the noncanonical syntax of English’, has been funded for three years, with network meetings to be held in Germany and Oxford. She continues to supervise a DPhil student working on the history and structure of Portuguese, and is in the second year of a four-year term as an external examiner at the University of Essex.

Mathematics Dan Ciubotaru reports that Mathematics at Somerville has had a very good year with excellent results in examinations. They included five firsts in Part C (4th year) in Mathematics and joint degrees, a Gibbs prize for Part B (3rd year) Maths and Philosophy for Marie Ducroizet-Boitaud and an IBM prize in Part B Maths and Computer Science for Ivo Maffei, both for the top performance in their courses in the Maths papers, and several strong results in the other years. Dan has continued his research in the representation theory of Lie groups and algebraic Dirac operators, supported by an EPSRC grant. The Dirac operator originated in Physics, in the famous work of Paul Dirac on quantum mechanics, and subsequently found a home in the representation theory of Lie groups in the work of Parthasarathy, Atiyah, Schmid, Kostant, Vogan and many others. Dan’s research resulted in three publications over the past year (in IMRN, Representation Theory, Israel Journal of Mathematics) and one more paper submitted. Several of the results have been obtained in joint work with the postdoctoral fellow Dr Marcelo De Martino, who has also contributed to tutorial teaching at Somerville. Dan has given a number of talks on his work at international conferences (Dubrovnik, Hangzhou, Zagreb, Oberwolfach) and university seminars (Maryland, Rutgers, Birmingham). Being an optimist, he also attempted to explain his research area in an SCR symposium at Somerville. Due to a generous gift by the Brown family in support of Mathematics

teaching at Somerville, Dan’s post has been retitled the Diana Brown Fellowship in Pure Mathematics. In addition, Mathematics in the college will be further strengthened by the appointment of a new Junior Research Fellow, Dr Beth Romano, in September 2019. Renaud Lambiotte reports having thoroughly enjoyed his time in Somerville tutorials. From a research perspective, he has found the environment very stimulating. Two of his papers were the result of collaboration with long-term visitors, one on polarisation in Italian politics and the other on a tricky mathematical aspect of social networks, their directionality: ‘Extracting significant signal of news consumption from social networks: the case of Twitter in Italian political elections.’ C Becatti, G Caldarelli, R Lambiotte, F Saracco. Palgrave Communications, in press (2019) ‘Structure and dynamical behavior of non-normal networks.’ M Asllani, R Lambiotte, T Carletti. Science advances 4 (12), eaau9403. (2019) Renaud has also at last finalised a twoyears-in-the making perspective paper on what it means to represent a system by a network, proposing an answer to the questions: what should we do when networks fail to reproduce real-life systems? What are the alternatives? ‘From networks to optimal higherorder models of complex systems.’ R Lambiotte, M Rosvall, I Scholtes

Medicine Helen Ashdown continues her work on the role of blood eosinophils in targeting inhaled steroid medication in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). She has completed studies using large databases to collect routine data from primary care consultations and a prospective study of near-patient testing in primary care, which will be published shortly. She continues her work as a GP at the 19 Beaumont Street surgery and as Research Lead for the Primary Care Respiratory Society. She also has a new role as a GP on the pilot Integrated Respiratory Team service in Oxford City, which provides multi-

disciplinary community care to patients with chronic respiratory conditions and bridges primary and secondary care. Raj Thakker’s group investigates the genetic, molecular and physiological basis of endocrine disorders that affect calcium homeostasis, and endocrine tumour development. By identifying and understanding the underlying mechanisms, they aim to establish better diagnostic methods and develop novel targeted therapies for these disorders to improve patient care. Their research activities encompass finding novel genetic causes and developing novel therapies. Examples from these areas are, as follows: Endocrine tumours – studies of genetics and cellular biology leading to new therapies; Calcium-sensing by a G-protein coupled receptor – signalling and trafficking. Professor Thakker holds many distinguished posts including Presidentelect for the Society for Endocrinology; Fellow of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research; Panel member for the Wellcome Trust Science Investigator Awards. He has been an invited speaker at numerous conferences around the world and is the author of very many peer-reviewed papers, and in 2018 edited two books on the genetics of bone. (For further details of research and publications please contact the editor.) Damian Tyler reports that he has had a fantastic year, being awarded the title ‘Professor of Physiological Metabolism’ in the annual recognition of distinction exercise run by the University, being made an Honorary Skou Professor at the University of Aarhus in Denmark and being appointed as the Director of Magnetic Resonance (MR) Physics at the Oxford Centre for Clinical Magnetic Resonance Research (OCMR). He has also been successful in renewing his British Heart Foundation (BHF) Senior Research Fellowship and will spend the next five years continuing his work developing a new technique to measure how our hearts turn the fuels we eat (sugars and fats) into the energy needed to keep beating. This research has led to the first experiments on human volunteers using the novel technique of ‘Hyperpolarized Magnetic Resonance Imaging’, which has demonstrated a

problem in the way the diabetic heart uses sugars and may help us to better understand why so many diabetic people suffer from heart disease.

Modern Languages Almut Suerbaum (Fellow and Tutor in German) reports that Modern Linguists engaged in a whole range of activities, showing their versatility: one of the finalists, Will Andrews (History and German) won the Thomas Mann prize of the English Goethe Society for a piece he had written during his year abroad spent at the University of Freiburg; others took part in the choir trip to India, worked in museums and art galleries abroad, or learnt a third new language – many of these made possible by the generous gift of former Principal Catherine Hughes and her husband Trevor. Almut also reports on Medieval Studies. Somerville is home to the the largest research cluster of experts on the medieval world in Oxford. Following completion of the previous project In Time, Out of Time: Temporality in Medieval Culture (to appear shortly), they agreed on ‘openness’ as their new topic. She writes: ‘The group has grown considerably over the years, with former early career colleagues gaining positions at universities all over the world, but remaining part of the network and enriching our discussion. As a result, we took things to a new level and held the first ever SMRG (Somerville Medievalists Research Group) meeting abroad at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry in Berlin, co-organised by Somerville Senior Research Fellow and co-director of the ICI, Manuele Gragnolati, and Almut Suerbaum. We hope to publish the results of our discussion in an open access publication next year. During the academic year, Francesca Southerden has presented her research on medieval Italian poetry at conferences and workshops in Paris, Poitiers, Toronto, and Berlin, and has also made research trips to Bologna and Venice. With a colleague in French at UCL, she co-organised a one-day conference on ‘Medieval Barthes’. Francesca is in the process of completing her second book, Dante and Petrarch in the Garden of Language, and is

co-editing, with Manuele Gragnolati and Elena Lombardi, The Oxford Handbook of Dante. She continues in her role as schools liaison and outreach representative for the Italian sub-faculty and has been involved in organising and teaching academic sessions for the beginners’ strand of the UNIQ Summer School in Modern Languages.

what music is, what it’s good for, and why we should learn and teach it. Through examining various case studies, from ancient Athens to early modern Japan and the twentieth-century United States, throughout the course students learned how music education has been impacted by science, changing workforces, emerging middle classes, globalisation and (post-/)colonisation.

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Samantha has also enjoyed overseeing the Somerville Music Society this year. They have developed a regular recital series, and Samantha invites alumni to look out for these events in the coming year, as they are scheduled before Guest Nights to provide entertainment before you head to pre-dinner drinks.

Samantha Dieckmann’s first year at Somerville and the University of Oxford Faculty of Music has been both challenging and rewarding. She moved from Melbourne, Australia in September 2018 and has spent most of the 2018-2019 academic year updating and developing new courses at the Faculty of Music. She has developed new partnerships for the ‘Music in the Community’ course, so that students have undertaken placements with ArtLink at local hospitals, and with Soundabout, with people with profound and multiple disabilities. Work to expand this is continuing, so that students will work in contexts ranging from local prison settings to block music therapy or music development placements in other parts of the UK and even overseas. Samantha has also spent the year building the groundwork for a new course on ‘Music Education: Practice and Pedagogy’, where students will undertake classroom and orchestrarelated outreach placements in local schools with little access to music education. Developing skills and experience in these sorts of areas is increasingly important in the portfolio musician’s career, as most British concert venues, orchestras, opera companies and festivals are involved in this sort of work. Students really enjoyed the Kodaly workshop from visiting lecturer Jimmy Rotheram, the music teacher at Feversham Primary School and nominee for the Global Teacher Prize, further supporting the development of this area in the Faculty of Music. Throughout Trinity Term Samantha delivered the lectures for another new course, ‘History and Philosophy of Music Education’, which is compulsory for all Music finalists graduating in 2020. Through providing tutorials for this course, she met most of the current second-years, and had them debating

On the research publication front, Samantha has just submitted the final revisions of a chapter on music education and displacement, looking at how self-directed music activities are used to address ‘tribalism’ for displaced communities, and has another, coauthored article on ‘dropping out and reengaging’ in music participation in press at Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. This summer will involve finishing an article for, and co-editing, a special issue on Community Music for Peace, Empathy and Conciliation (International Journal of Community Music), to be published in December 2019.

Philosophy This has been Dr Mari Mikkola’s second academic year at Somerville and Oxford. For most of Michaelmas Term 2018, Mari was busy teaching a novel special subject paper on feminist philosophy. This attracted quite a bit of attention within the University. Mari was interviewed about the paper by the Oxford chapter of ‘Minorities and Philosophy’ (https://oxfordmap. wordpress.com/2019/01/16/oxfordoffers-feminist-philosophy-paper/). Over the past year, Mari has given one keynote address at a conference in the UK. In addition, she gave various other talks at conferences and workshops in the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, and Taiwan. In terms of research, Mari’s second book Pornography: A Philosophical Introduction (OUP) came out in February 2019. In September of

this year, there will be a workshop on this book at the University of Valencia, Spain. In addition, Mari has written two book chapters: ‘Treating Someone as Something: Dehumanization and Objectification’ in Kronfeldner, M. (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Dehumanization (NY: Routledge, forthcoming 2020); and ‘Social Ontology’ in Khoo, J. and Sterken, R. (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Social and Political Philosophy of Language (NY: Routledge, forthcoming 2019). She also wrote one encyclopaedia article (‘Social Identity’ in Duncan Pritchard (ed.), Oxford Bibliographies in Philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019) and two book reviews. Over the past year, Mari has been an Equality Champion at Somerville as well as being substantially involved in examining Philosophy finals papers. Karen Nielsen reports that our students continue to flourish, earning a number of firsts and distinctions in prelims and finals. Marie DucroizetBoitaud came first overall across the University in Maths and Philosophy finals. Michelle Liu, a Somerville DPhil student specialising in philosophy of mind, has just submitted her thesis, and awaits her viva. Karen presented papers at conferences in Dublin, Manchester, the University of California, Riverside and Oxford, and delivered a keynote at the Keeling Graduate Conference, University College London. ‘Deliberation and Decision in the Magna Moralia and Eudemian Ethics’ appeared in Brink, Sauvé-Meyer and Shields (eds.), Virtue, Happiness and Knowledge: Essays for Gail Fine and Terence Irwin (OUP, 2018); ‘Aristotle on Knowing One’s Own Character’ is about to appear in Fiona Leigh (ed.), Self-Knowledge in Ancient Philosophy (OUP, 2019); ‘Practice Makes Perfect: Habituation into Full Virtue in Aristotle’s Ethics’ is forthcoming in Komarine Romdenh-Romluc and Jeremy Dunham (eds.), Habit in the History of Philosophy (Routledge, 2020). Karen also contributed book reviews to Mind, Philosophical Review and Classical Review, and has accepted invitations to contribute papers to a special ethics volume of Philosophical Perspectives, and to a forthcoming book on the Eudemian Ethics edited by Giulio di Basilio.

A book called Vice in Ancient Philosophy: Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics has been commissioned for the series 'Elements in Ancient Philosophy', edited by James Warren. It will appear from Cambridge University Press in 2020. In addition to serving on a number of committees in College and on the Board of the Faculty of Philosophy, Karen has also acted as Placement Officer for the Faculty, with responsibility for organising job market preparation for more than twenty DPhil students. This involves arranging a series of meetings, setting up mock job interviews, job talks, and vetting letters of recommendation and dossiers. Her DPhil student Katharine O’Reilly recently defended her thesis Planning for Pleasure: Plato on Prudential Hedonism and had a chapter from the thesis, ‘The Jellyfish’s Pleasure: Philebus 20b-21d’ accepted for publication in Phronesis. Katharine will start a two-year lecturership in the Departments of Philosophy and Classics at KCL in September. Karen’s former DPhil student Bradford Kim defended his thesis on Aristotle’s theory of friendship last spring, and recently had a paper accepted in the Journal of the History of Philosophy. This summer, Bradford accepted a Lecturership at Auburn University in the United States. In Trinity Term, Karen supervised two MSt theses in Ancient Philosophy, and honed her palaeography skills on a number of illegible finals scripts. Also in Trinity Term, Karen hosted an academic visitor from Columbia University, Prof. Dhananjay Jagannathan. With Dhananjay and their former supervisor Terry Irwin, she co-taught a graduate seminar on Virtue and Intellect in Aristotle. Ana Laura Edelhoff joined the College as a Mary Somerville JRF last October, and has already made her mark. In addition to organising an early career workshop for women philosophers, Ana Laura took the lead in organising a conference to mark the birth of G E M Anscombe at Somerville on 11th September 2019, and is planning a workshop on the art and philosophy of Iris Murdoch for October 6th. She spent the spring as a visitor at Princeton. Joulia Smotchkova has joined the college as a Fulford JRF in Philosophy,

and Lisa Forsberg continues her tenure as a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow.

Physics Steve Simon researches superconductors. Superconductors are materials that have the unusual property that they carry electrical current with exactly zero resistance: zero loss of energy and zero production of heat. There are many materials that superconduct at very low temperatures and (perhaps surprisingly) most of these are fairly well understood theoretically. There are, however, some notable exceptions. One particular exception is a material known as Strontium Ruthenate-214 (Sr2RuO4). Discovered in 1994, many thousands of experiments have been performed on this material, and yet no coherent picture is emerging about the superconducting state – why it superconducts and how. One reason for studying the material is simply that we don’t understand it and we would like to. However, another reason for the intense focus on this material is that (there is good reason to believe) it might have some properties that would make it an unusually well suited material for building a quantum computer. Over the past few years, one of Steve’s research projects has been to focus on the superconducting properties of Strontium Ruthenate-214. In collaboration with theorists and experimentalists around the world, he and his team are further increasing the effort to unravel this mystery once and for all. They are developing and testing new theories and leaving no stone unturned at this point! Each spring Steve teaches a Masters level course on superconductivity which really helps him to focus on the basics of the field, even while at a research level trying to extend theories in new and untried directions. Roman Walczak reports that particle accelerators are essential instruments used by particle physicists to study fundamental constituents of matter. There are about a handful of such accelerators in the world right now. The LHC, where the Higgs boson was discovered, is the one with the highest energy. But accelerators are used

beyond particle physics. About 30% of physics Nobel Prizes were awarded for work based on accelerators. Moreover, an increasing number of non-physics Nobel Prizes are being awarded for work reliant on accelerators, as accelerators can be used to study the structure of matter, such as superconductors or biological samples, or to study the dynamics of chemical reactions. There are more than 20,000 accelerators working in the world right now, mostly for medical and industrial applications. But accelerators are expensive and cost is the limiting factor in the applications of accelerators. The leading technology to make accelerators cheaper uses very large electric fields created in plasma to accelerate particles. For the last four years, Roman has been involved in designing a European plasma accelerator, as a member of the EuPRAXIA consortium of forty-one institutions from Europe, Asia and the US, funded by the EU. The Conceptual Design Report will be delivered in October 2019 and the work on the Technical Design Report will follow. The plan is that construction will start in 2026 and operation in 2030. In parallel, Roman is involved in another EU-funded program called ARIES where, together with a colleague from CERN, he coordinates support for a new generation of scientists in the field of novel accelerators.

Psychology Prof. Spence continues to work on the multisensory perception of food with chefs such as Jozef Youssef. His last book, Gastrophysics: The new science of eating (2017) has now been translated into more than 20 languages, and was recently awarded the 2019 Le Grand Prix de la Culture Gastronomique from the Académie Internationale de la Gastronomie in France. Prof. Spence was recently acknowledged as being in the top 0.01% of scientists worldwide, according to a study of impact from Stanford University. Prof. Spence spends much of the year travelling the world speaking to chefs, mixologists, baristas, and food and beverage companies about his research. He is currently working on his next book for Penguin, entitled Sense-Hacking.

Honorary Senior Research Fellows Stephanie Dalley’s paper, written for the Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale in Philadelphia, ‘The First Sealand Dynasty: Literacy, Economy and the Likely Location of Dur-Enlile in Southern Mesopotamia’, is due out in summer 2019, in a volume edited by S Paulus and T Clayden to be published by De Gruyter. It is connected with two British excavations currently in progress in southern Iraq, and almost certainly identifies the pre-Hellenistic name of Alexander the Great’s harbour city on the Tigris river. A remarkable discovery beneath a bombed mosque in Mosul, northern Iraq has led to new evidence about the murder of the Assyrian king Sennacherib in the seventh century BC. It leads to an understanding of ‘the witch Nineveh’ in the biblical Book of Nahum. Co-operation with an Australian Assyriologist for a groundbreaking paper is in progress. Work on The City of Babylon through Time 2,000 BC – AD 116 for CUP is near completion. The book makes good use of ground-breaking research by several scholars, especially one Spanish and two Dutch. The Arabic translation by Professor Najwa Nasr of Stephanie’s book The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon (OUP, 2013) has now been published by Beisan Press in Beirut, on Stephanie’s initiative. Stephanie has recently responded to a request for it from a library in Pakistan! It is available at Saqi Books in Notting Hill.

Report on Junior Research Fellowships This year, as ever, the Somerville Junior Research Fellows have been conducting fascinating cutting-edge research in a wide variety of fields. Naveed Akbar works in the Radcliffe Department of Medicine, researching the role of enveloped messengers called extracellular vesicles. These entities alter the function and behaviour of immune cells which affects repair or further injury following a heart attack or a stroke. Developing an understanding of how extracellular vesicles function and the role they play could lead to new therapeutic options to promote tissue healing and repair. Laura Slater works in the Faculty of Music, studying the cultural patronage and role of Queen Philippa of Hainault, wife of Edward III. This is part of a wider interdisciplinary collaboration on ‘Music and Late Medieval European Courtly Cultures’. Robert Beagrie investigates the early development of red blood cells, specifically aiming to identify the point at which the genes for producing haemoglobin are switched on. Defects in this process can lead to anaemia so a better understanding may lead to new therapies to prevent this. Ana Laura Edelhoff is a researcher in Ancient Philosophy. She is currently completing a book manuscript on Aristotle’s Categories for Cambridge University Press. Ana Laura organised a workshop for female graduate students and early career researchers in Ancient Philosophy which was held in Somerville in January 2019. Rachel Tanner works in the Jenner Institute in the Nuffield Department of Medicine. Rachel works on developing a new effective vaccine for tuberculosis (TB). TB is now the leading cause of death due to an infectious agent so a new vaccine is very much needed. Xiaowen Dong works in the Department of Engineering Science, focusing on developing machine learning and signal processing techniques for use in computational social science. Xiaowen’s work with colleagues in MIT resulted in the release of the Atlas of Inequality. Xiaowen also contributed to the Data for Refugees Challenge, which aims to improve the living conditions of Syrian refugees in Turkey. Corinne Betts works in the research laboratory headed by our own Professorial Fellow, Matthew Wood. The focus of the research is Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a devastating muscle wasting disorder. Corinne’s research focuses on the metabolism in what is increasingly seen as a metabolic disorder. Edmund (Ed) Wareham works in the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, contributing to ‘The Nuns’ Network’ project. Ed transcribes and translates letters exchanged between nuns surviving from the Benedictine convent of Lüne. The letters were written during the period from 1460 to 1555 and give an insight into the reaction of the nuns to the Reformation, as well as revealing how convents kept in touch with each other, exchanging and developing ideas in the process.

Lauren Burgeno works in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, investigating the brain chemistry that underpins decision-making. Francis Woodhouse is a Hooke Research Fellow in Applied Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute. Francis draws inspiration from Biology to study how to mathematically construct new physical systems. Francis will shortly be leaving university research to become a Mathematical Consultant at the Smith Institute. Justin Lau works on improving imaging techniques that allow the metabolism of the heart to be studied following a heart attack. Good quality data of this sort can help determine whether a heart muscle damaged by a blood flow blockage can be repaired by removing the blockage and restoring the blood flow. Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey works in the Faculty of Music investigating historically-informed practice for nineteenthcentury music. Cayenna has also published an article on the suitability of the orchestra as a mechanism for socio-musical intervention practices. In addition to her research, Cayenna has contributed to the College by arranging a week-long residency for Ensemble Zohra from Kabul, culminating in a concert at the Sheldonian Theatre where they played alongside an 80-person Somerville Chorus including Somerville alumni. Linxin Li works in the Centre for Stroke and Dementia and has recently won a major grant to study the opportunities for preventing stroke at younger ages. Joulia Smortchkova works in the Faculty of Philosophy, investigating matters relating to how we build our understanding of the world from our senses and the role of metacognition (thinking about thinking) in developing concepts. One key research question is ‘What is the role of visual processes in understanding others?’ (for example, how do we judge age, gender, mood etc by looking at other people’s faces). Fay Probert works in the Department of Pharmacology, investigating metabolic measurements that will allow for better diagnosis and monitoring of Multiple Sclerosis. Ritu Raj works in the Department of Chemistry, investigating the properties of cell membranes and their role in regulating biological processes. The work has the potential to result in therapeutic drugs to treat viral diseases. Martin Walker works in the Engineering Department, studying how localised features, such as creases, form during the large deformation of thin shells. A better understanding of how structures buckle can generate opportunities to improve structure design so as to increase strength and durability. DR STEVE RAYNER, Senior Tutor

JCR Report

Somerville has just experienced a great year which has been full of positive change, with the amazing sporting and musical talent in the student body clear for all in the College and the wider University to see. In sport, several new teams were established including a joint Women’s Rugby team with University College. And there were two Cuppers victories, in Men’s Squash and Skiing! The Men’s Rugby team were Cuppers runners-up and the Men’s Football team got to the final of the Plate. The finals were great opportunities for the College to come together and support our own, with incredible atmospheres down at Iffley Road for both matches. We have had numerous students competing at University level and being part of Varsity winning sides too, with some being Blues captain or club President. So it’s safe to say Somerville has been making itself known on the University sporting map!

thanks to the current JCR Access and Admissions Officer, Daisy Makin. In terms of charitable endeavours, we’ve donated thousands of pounds to charities throughout the year covering a wide range of areas from the Woodland Trust to Cardiac Risk in the Young, which was successfully managed by Katie Inch.

Within the JCR itself, it was a very successful year in the events we normally organise, from the annual Arts Week run by Sophie Kuang and the Sports Day run by Hazel Ferguson to the successful logistical running of the admissions interview period thanks to Emily Louise and of the annual Access Roadshow

As I’m going on my year abroad and won’t be around, I wish everyone and in particular my successor, Talisha Ariarasa, all the best as she takes the reins for the next year.

In terms of change within the College, we finished the renovation of the Vaughan Junior Common Room at the beginning of the academic year in September. And we are proud of our efforts to successfully persuade College to enact widespread changes in College life, from the greater provision of food in Hall for those with dietary requirements and the improvement of kitchen facilities in accommodation buildings to increasing the amount of money available in the form of grants for our University sportspeople, just to name a few.

EMMANUEL AMISSAH-ESHUN, JCR President

MCR Report The Middle Common Room continues to be a vibrant and welcoming community to Somerville’s more than 200 graduate students. These members, in addition to our blossoming number of Associate Members, represent a vast array of courses, nationalities, and backgrounds. We have had a year filled with welfare improvements, changes to the constitution, and lots of fun. Our welfare officers for the year – Oana Garu, Chris Whiteman, and Ondine Atwa – planned many excellent events to supplement our weekly Welfare Teas including subsidising the purchase of reusable menstrual cups (Moon Cups), and working with the JCR to bring a menagerie into college: first alpacas and then guide dogs! Other welfare work includes efforts to make the Margery Fry building more accessible. Through discussions with the College we added a handrail to the steps on the Terrace up to the MCR door and are considering options for making the building wheelchair accessible. For the first time at Somerville the MCR will be running Consent Workshops during Freshers’ week, led by members who have been trained by Oxford SU on how to facilitate discussion-based workshops reviewing the basics of consent. In terms of the physical space of the common room, this year we purchased four new sofas for the TV room in order to step-up the area into an ideal venue for members to enjoy

films, television, and play games. The sofas got a lot of use, particularly during this summer’s season of Love Island when members gathered daily to watch the popular show. The social life of the MCR continues to thrive as we have many formal dinners and wine and cheese exchanges with other colleges in addition to bops, craft nights, and academic teas. As the only social secretary at the time – we typically have three – Kevin Judd single-handedly planned a fantastic Freshers’ week that welcomed in our new members and forged a strong community for the past academic year. He has now taken over as Treasurer as our new Social Secretaries Pippa Gleave, Chris Whiteman, and Laurel Kaye plan events for the upcoming term. Perhaps the highlight of the year was the Somerville/Jesus Ball themed ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’. The Ball Committee did a fantastic job planning an evening to be remembered featuring delicious food, a Ferris wheel, and an ABBA revival band. As I was on a nine-month masters course, I will be continuing my presidency of the MCR while an Associate Member in Michaelmas before passing on the torch to my successor. I am excited to see what our new matriculation class will bring to our community as we continue on this positive path towards improving our community. TISH JOHNSTON, MCR President

MEMBERS OF THE MCR

Library Report 2018-19 It has been another busy year in the library with some long-awaited improvements to the buildings, important expansions to our special collections, another very successful fund-raising campaign and an exciting new inter-college project to coincide with next yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s centenary of women becoming full members of the University.

years of scholarship; from John Villiers on sixteenth and seventeenth century Portuguese history; and from Sybille Haynes who has given us a large portion of her important collection of Etruscan and early Italic studies literature. We have also received gifts of books from dozens of generous donors (listed at the end of this report) for which we are, as ever, extremely grateful.

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After several years of trying to reconcile council planning officers (the library is a listed building and additions inside and out are strictly controlled) with health and safety advice we have finally got a hand rail in the East staircase. We have had to remove a bookcase to accommodate it but the result is worth it! Over the summer we will be installing a chilled water-bottle filler in the West staircase following requests from students.

Usage of the library continues to be brisk. Our hourly headcounts between 9.30am and 9.30pm reveal an average of 27 in the library at any one time â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a figure that has remained steady over the last five years â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and total loans were 11,661, very similar to last year at 11,339. This year has seen 2,257 acquisitions (of which 598 were gifts), 23 DVDs and 75 pamphlets. Major book donations this year have been gratefully received from Jo Innes on historical subjects reflecting her many

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The librarian would like to record her thanks to Sue Purver and Matthew Roper who have, as ever, been

providing an outstanding library service to the users, evidenced by a recent survey of students in which the high standard of the library was the most numerous comment by a long way. Despite (or perhaps because of) the reduced availability of the librarian during the year who has been battling with the College GDPR implementation!

PROFESSOR ANNE PHILIPS

ARMISTICE CENTENARY COMMEMORATION DAY PLAQUE

Archives and Special Collections

collection continued this year with Bethany Slater taking up the reins for six months and we are now tantalisingly close to finishing the project with only two book-stacks to go. Professor Albert Pionke came back again this year for a two week stint digitising the marginalia and his team back at the University of Alabama have made significant progress in loading the images up to his searchable database, millmarginalia.org. We were also very grateful to the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation who enabled us to use the Bodleian’s hyperspectral imaging service to enhance and decipher some marginalia that had faded or been erased. We are still analysing the results but some early successes were revealed at the March seminar. Details of the acquisitions and the projects will be in the John Stuart Mill newsletter which is available to Friends of the John Stuart Mill Library (please contact the librarian if you would like to join! librarian@some. ox.ac.uk).

In the archives and special collections we continue to receive a plentiful supply of both email enquiries (165) and visiting researchers (33). We were delighted to receive additions to the Brittain-Williams Collection from Baroness Williams of Crosby, Hugh Maw and donors to our crowdfunding campaign, and to the Lear-Noakes Collection from Charles Lewsen and Peter Gillies. Our grateful thanks go to them for their generous donations. We are also anticipating a major donation from the Ashmolean Museum of their watercolours and photographic slides produced by alumna and Chapel donor, Emily Kemp – more next year! The John Stuart Mill Library goes from strength to strength. Our lecture this year, given by Professor Anne Philips of the London School of Economics, attracted a record audience. We held two other very well attended events for Friends in the year – our Tea with John Stuart Mill seminar in March and an informal talk by Professor Roger Crisp in the library on the letters we had acquired last summer thanks to a generous donation from Christopher and Margaret Kenyon. This year we have expanded the collection further following a successful crowdfunding campaign and are now the proud possessors of seven more letters, six of which are unpublished. The project to catalogue all the marginalia in the

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College by Baroness Williams of Crosby and a wonderful Armistice Sunday service in the chapel. In the spring we started using our crowdfunding money from last year to photograph the Paradise of Dainty Devices and Mrs Roliston’s Travelling Adventures – two manuscript books in our special collections which will eventually be made available through Digital Bodleian. We also joined with the archivists of the other former women’s colleges, the History Faculty and the Bodleian Library to bid for a University Innovation Challenge grant. This was successful and we are now about to start on the project which will make primary sources on women at Oxford prior to 1920 available digitally. The web resource will be created over the coming twelve months, to be launched during an event in 2020 to mark the centenary of women becoming full members of the University. Another centenary was marked this year – 100 years since the birth of Iris Murdoch and Somerville hosted (and contributed to) a wonderful exhibition curated by Kingston University that accompanied a conference at St Anne’s.

November 2018 saw our Armistice centenary commemoration day which included: a fascinating talk about Margery Fry and World War I by Professor Anne Logan; a major exhibition by the History Faculty on Oxford, World War I and the World; a plaque unveiling on the front of the

Finally Kate O’Donnell and Anne Manuel have been working throughout the year with Lizzy Emerson to create the contents for our forthcoming Birthday Book: Somerville 140: A History of Somerville College in 140 Objects. More details can be found on the website.

List of Library Donors 2018-2019 Angelika Arend (Manyoni, DPhil Medieval & Modern Languages, 1977)*

Irene Lynch Fannon (Lynch, Jurisprudence, 1988)*

Lucy Audley-Miller (former Katharine and Leonard Woolley Junior Research Fellow)*

Ruth Finnegan (Classics, 1952)*

Christine Avery (English, 1959)*

Matthew Roper Sonja Ruehl (PPE, 1968)*

Aivin Gast (Classical Archaeology & Ancient History, 2018)

Linda Shampan (Chemistry, 1968)*

Pam Geggus (English, 1968)*

Nicholas Shea (Research Fellow, 2003)*

Caroline M. Barron (Hogarth, History, 1959)*

Kat Gordon (English, 2004)*

Mark Bostridge*

Sybille Haynes

Lesley Brown*

Carole Hillenbrand (Oriental Studies, 1968)*

Johanna Stevenson

Janet Howarth (Ross, History, 1960)*

Kathryn Sutherland (DPhil English, 1972)*

Roy W. Brown* Mary Lynn McCree Bryan* Averil Cameron (Sutton, Classics, 1958)* Michelangelo Cao (DPhil Clinical Neurosciences, 2017)* Chatto & Windus (donation of six new editions of Iris Murdochâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s books) Caroline Cracraft (Pinder, History, 1961) Anna Morpurgo Davies (more books from the bequest of) Eileen Denza (Young, Jurisprudence, 1958)* Dominik De Souza Vigneswaren (UGAdvDip British & European Studies, 2017) Beate Dignas* Bridget Dommen (Meade, PPE, 1958)* Downing College, Cambridge

Alex Rogers*

Joanna Innes* Elizabeth Knowles (DPhil English, 1970)* Sara Lodge* Judith McClure (History, 1970)* Kate McLoughlin (English, 1988)* Valerie Mendes Rosemary Moore (Filmer, PPE, 1950)* Delia Morris (Kay, Modern Languages, 1960)* Natalia Nowakowska* Rosie Oliver (Rogers, Mathematics, 1976)* The Principal Joanna Raisbeck (DPhil Medieval & Modern Languages, 2013) Niloufer Reifler (Marker, Social Studies, 1968)

Emma Smith (English, 1988)* Fiona Stafford*

Judith M. Taylor (Mundlak, Nat Sci, 1952)* Leah Tether (Academic Visitor, 2018)* Nicholas Thomas (History, 2007) Patricia Townsend (Physics, 1965)* Katherine Turley (English, 1979)* John Villiers Stephanie West (Pickard, Classics, 1956)* Carolyn D. Williams (English, 1965)* Shirley Williams (Baroness Williams of Crosby) (Catlin, PPE, 1948) * Indicates donorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own publication

The Somerville Association President’s Report 2018-19 Association presidents have a growing number of events to report: a monument to the huge benefits of our online age. Our annual Year Representatives’ symposium in September 2018 also grappled with some of its emerging challenges, from data protection to overlapping social media. But overall, what is striking is how much more effectively than in the past we can reach out to alumni, bring people together at events at Somerville, in London, and beyond, and keep everyone in touch with what is happening in their year, in their discipline, and in the entire alumni and College body. This year alone, there have been alumni events, hosted by the Principal, in Hong Kong, Japan, India (with the College choir), Singapore and Geneva. 2018 was the hundredth anniversary of (some) British women getting the vote, and was celebrated with two suffrage-linked events: a literary luncheon with Jane Robinson and then the Welsh National Opera’s performance, in a packed Oxford Playhouse, of Rhondda Rips It Up, a rumbustious celebration of the suffragette, philanthropist and Somervillian Viscountess Rhondda. The year’s other major and more sombre centenary, the end of World War I, was also marked by a commemoration. Baroness Shirley Williams (1948, PPE), whose mother, Vera Brittain (1914, History), wrote the extraordinary World War I memoir, Testament of Youth, unveiled a plaque on the College’s Woodstock Road frontage. The College hosted the AGM of the Somerville Association in March, when we enjoyed a talk by Susie Dent (1983) of Countdown fame. The annual Commemoration Service, for Somervillians who have died in the previous year, was in June. This service, to which family and Somervillian friends are invited, is a very moving and distinctively Somerville occasion, and graced by our wonderful current choir. A day for Historians in September 2018 was followed by a Gaudy for 1970-79, incorporating a special luncheon for 1978 and 1979; and reunion lunches for 1958, 1988, 1998, and 2008. The academic year’s major two-day 50th anniversary was (obviously!) for 1968; 1969’s is in September 2019.

There were also many interesting events organised by alumni. The London Group hosted a series of evening events – speakers ranging from Frank Prochaska to Alex Rogers, and outings to a play by Ella Road (2010) at the Hampstead Theatre and to the West London synagogue. The City, Public Policy, Law and Medics network groups also all held dedicated events. In addition the Principal has organised a series of speaker events in College, open to all alumni and local residents. Details of all these events are advertised on the College website https://www.some.ox.ac.uk/alumni/ events/. Please do take the time to check this site regularly to see what is available. Finally, we record with great pleasure the remarkable Somervillians recognised with Queen’s Honours this year: Professor Elan Closs Stephens (1966, English; Hon Fellow 2019) DBE for services to the Welsh Government and to Broadcasting Susan Catchpole (1977, PPE), Director, HM Treasury CBE for public service. Professor Caroline Mary Barron (1959, History) OBE for services to Education Professor Sarah Jean Broadie (1960, Lit Hum) OBE for services to Classical Philosophy Emma Stuart (1986, Lit Hum), LVO. Senior Curator, Books and Manuscripts, and Acting Librarian, Royal Library, Windsor Castle Our warmest congratulations to them all. Alison Wolf (Potter, 1967)

Horsman Awards The Alice Horsman Scholarship was established in 1953. Alice Horsman (1908, Classics) was a great traveller who wished to provide opportunities for former Somerville students to experience other countries and peoples, whether through travel, research or further study. The Alice Horsman Scholarship is open to all Somerville undergraduate and graduate alumni with the exception of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery students at other Oxford colleges. Applicants should be in need of financial support for a project involving travel, research or further study that is intended to enhance their career prospects. Applicants who have secured a place on the Teach First, Police Now or Step Up to Social Work schemes will be looked on favourably. Priority will be given to applicants who have not received previous awards. For information about the application process please email academic.office@some.ox.ac.uk or visit www.some.ox.ac.uk/studying-here/feesfunding/student-awards. Applications are accepted each term (Monday 21st October 2019, Monday 27th January 2020 and Monday 1st June 2020).

The Somerville Senior Members’ Fund 2018-2019 This Fund was established to provide small sums to help alumni with unforeseen expenses and hardship. We have also been able to use it subsidise the cost of individuals attending College events which would otherwise have been unaffordable for them. We hope that people who find themselves in need will not hesitate to call upon the Fund. We are glad to hear from third parties who think that help would be appreciated. We are always grateful for donations to this Fund. Applications for grants should be addressed to elizabeth.cooke@e.ox.ac.uk or lesley.brown@some.ox.ac.uk

Life before Somerville Dr Judith McClure CBE read History 19701973 and was a doctoral student, research fellow and part-time lecturer in Early Medieval History and Latin at the Universities of Oxford and Liverpool 1973-1981. She was a teacher and then Head of History and Politics at the School of St Helen and St Katharine, Abingdon, Assistant Head of Kingswood School, Bath, Head of the Royal School, Bath and finally Head of St George’s School, Edinburgh, until her retirement in 2009. She has been much involved in educational groups at all levels, including the Scotland-China Educational Network. She has been married to historian and author Dr Roger Collins, whom she met at Oxford, for over forty years; they live in Edinburgh. Barbara Craig, classical archaeologist and Principal, interviewed me for an undergraduate place at Somerville in the session 1970-1971. I was a nun, having entered the order of Canonesses of St Augustine in 1964, at the age of eighteen. I remain the only member of my immediate family to get to university. My devoted parents in Middlesbrough both left school at fourteen; my mother was the homemaker, caring constantly for my two elder brothers and me; my father was a Detective Sergeant in Middlesbrough CID. I was very proud of the fact that he worked on murder investigations, and it was through him that my earliest and most influential reading included Moriarty’s Criminal Law for Police Officers and the ten volumes of The New Book of Knowledge. I was extremely fortunate in my school education and I am forever grateful to the City of Middlesbrough Education Authority, which supported me until I received my first degree, aged twenty-seven. St Joseph’s Primary School, which I joined at the age of four, was mixed, disciplined and staffed by committed teachers at every stage. My experience of my brothers Jimmy and David meant that boys held no problems for me; much later Jimmy took the view that I had been spoilt rotten at home! I was determined to be top of every class in every subject and in particular to ensure that the clever boy

Dennis Kelly was in second place. My only disappointment was when I invited the Headmistress, Sister Mary Monica, to sign my new autograph book. She used a quotation from Charles Kingsley: Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever. I threw the book away in disgust. Although wide reading was encouraged, in class time the eleven-plus examination became increasingly the focus. Every Wednesday we had practice papers: I remember my frustration when I received only 119/120 in the Intelligence Test. After the real thing, we were invited to write to Middlesbrough’s Director of Education with our views. Although I was critical at the time, I was nonetheless delighted to secure a place at Newlands Convent Grammar School, this time for girls only. I loved the Newlands and I am still in touch with many old friends. Like St Joseph’s it was a dedicated Catholic school and our lives revolved around religious commitment as well as secular learning. We did not all like all our teachers, not surprisingly, but they were very committed. I remember being introduced to the works of Leo Tolstoy by one of them, a Faithful Companion of Jesus, Mother Winifred. I read and thought voraciously, using all of Middlesbrough’s resources: the excellent public library, Boddy’s bookshop, the Dorman Museum. The Sixth Form, though, was disappointing. There was little debate in class and the bookshelves, compared with those in the central reference library, were diminished and sometimes out of date. After a term, I decided to leave and study to become a lawyer. The Council’s careers adviser provided an introduction to the distinguished firm of Doberman, Richardson and Broady. At their very modern (for the Sixties!) offices, Mr Samuel Doberman, one of the leaders of the local Jewish community, interviewed me, still just sixteen, in my maroon school uniform with the dreaded beret. I was not worried that I had not read of any women involved in the law, apart from the occasional murderess. Nor did it make a difference; I was treated always with the greatest courtesy. When I attended the Magistrates’ Court to take a note when one of our clients had a third-party interest, the Prosecutor would hand me the whole police file. What could have been my final A level year was spent at the College of Law in London, where I passed the first part of the Solicitors’ Qualifying Examination and fell in love with the Law of Contract and Criminal Law. I still craved the perfect path for my life, though, and I became involved in seminars at my hall of residence in South Kensington, run by the Canonesses of St Augustine. The order had been founded in France in 1597 and was dedicated to education through a contemplative and active life. I found what I thought would be my vocation for life. At the age of eighteen, with only ordinary level and some legal qualifications, I became a postulant at the order’s house at Westgate-on-Sea in Kent. My parents were totally supportive, though it meant I could not leave the convent and they were allowed to visit me only once a month, for

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one hour and a half. They travelled overnight by bus from Middlesbrough and back the following night. I was teaching from the first: junior history and first year history and Latin. Despite my ignorance I loved the role, and produced plays, clubs and activities. Two of the lay staff were especially helpful and took me to Workers’ Educational Association lectures. After only three weeks the schools was inspected by HM Inspectors. Though perhaps surprised by my age and lack of qualifications, they responded to all my questions and concluded that I had the makings of a good teacher! Just as well. School life was exciting, but life in the enclosure, where we lived in silence, was demanding. One of my jobs was to sweep four flights of stone stairs; blind obedience was required at all times. I tried hard to make this work, at Westgate and during my apostolic year at the order’s Cambridge House. There I cycled to the local College of Arts and Technology and mastered A Level History, though Reverend Mother rebuked me for reading too late at night. On returning to Westgate I managed A Level Latin too, with no teaching this time. As I was applying for Oxford, I began the serious consideration of whether I really wanted to spend my life as a Canoness. A contemporary and great friend felt the same way; late at night we crept out of the convent into the dark garden to talk, sitting on a tree trunk and smoking a cigarette from a stock given to her by her parish priest in Glasgow. Barbara Craig was surprised but not alarmed when the nun she had interviewed emerged for the start of session a free woman! How I needed Somerville, which opened up the work of the independent life of the mind for me and shaped my life to come. Judith McClure (1970)

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1949

Marigold Philips (Mrs FreemanAttwood) writes that she ‘is 96 and fully operational, living at home with regular visits from her four children, eight grandchildren and two greatgrandchildren.’

Mally Shaw (Mrs Yates) is very grateful that she moved to a small modern flat in the centre of town (Bakewell) just before having a stroke in May 2019. ‘Activity is curtailed, but not too much.’

1944 Ruth Appledore Marsden (Mrs Binns) is widowed, with a son and a daughter, who lives close by, and two delightful granddaughters. She lives in a pleasant sheltered flat, in a block with a lovely garden. She walks with a frame and is almost completely housebound. Her family are a great help to her.

1945 Lalage Bown received an Hon DLitt from the University of Chester in September 2018. She is Hon Patron, Adult Education 100 (with the Archbishop of York, Mary Beard, Ruby Wax), launched to support the national Centenary Commission on Adult Education chaired by the Master of Balliol, Helen Ghosh. Audrey Donnithorne has published her memoirs, China in Life’s Foreground (Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne).

1948 Jean Carpenter (Mrs Forshaw) has moved to a care home in Surrey and is in the Nursing Wing, getting used to this last step, and enjoying the company of like-minded others and being so well looked after. Theresa Raisman (Mrs Stewart) was a Labour Councillor in Birmingham for over 30 years, Leader and then Lord Mayor 2000-2001. She now has ten grandchildren and five greatgrandchildren.

1950 Rosemary Filmer (Dr Moore) is officially retired, but still doing historical research; she writes: ‘After some years as a carer for my husband, I have now more or less picked myself up and am getting involved in local activities, mostly related to the U3A. The hills of Ashbourne are very good for keeping one fit.’ Rowena Patterson (Dr MacKean) completed a PhD two years ago and since then has been working on a book based on her research into the community groups that older people run for themselves and their peers. The book is a wider exploration of the role that those in post-paid-work or third age can and do play in the community. ‘Still writing,’ says Rowena; ‘I wonder if I’m the farthest away in geography of all Somerville alumnae, 42 degrees south in beautiful Tasmania.’ Naomi Shepherd (Mrs Layish) has given courses at the University of the Third Age, London, on nineteenthcentury Palestine and women radicals and has been finishing her ninth book. She would be pleased to hear from contemporaries. Pauline Wickham has been brushing up her Italian and is planning to go on a course on mixed media landscape painting.

1951 Pat Owtram (Mrs Davies) has been awarded Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur, France’s highest honour, for her services in the WRNS, 1942-45. Pat was in Special Duties (Linguist),

intercepting German naval radio messages, and sending operational messages to Naval Intelligence and messages in Enigma code to Bletchley Park. The investiture was at the residence of the French Ambassador on 18 June 2019 and afterwards at the Ritz for a champagne tea.

1952 Anne Fawcett (Mrs Kirkman) writes: ‘Last year I became a senior member of Wolfson College, Cambridge (probably in recognition of the support I gave to the College when my husband was VicePresident there, and later). My major hobbies and activities are: drummer with the parish church music group; member of U3A Cambridge, my main classes being in poetry writing and science fiction and fantasy; pub quizzes. All activities currently suspended while recovering from breaking an ankle in three places earlier this year.’ Isabel Ferguson (Mrs Roberts) reports that sadly her husband, Glyn (Jesus, 1951), died in April. They missed their diamond wedding by six months. Anne Hilary White (Dr Maitland) writes: ‘I am not able to do as much as I used to. The house has more cobwebs and the garden has more wild flowers, but I still enjoy home-grown fruit and vegetables. I still sing in the church choir and lead a Bible fellowship group.’

1953 Elizabeth Ann Gray writes: ‘While working as a teacher, I was twice national president of my association (union) because the amalgamation of the men’s and women’s unions happened at this time. I worked on the English Language and Literature curricula and was awarded OBE in this connection (also monitoring examinations). Since retirement I have been Secretary of the Church’s PCC, Board member YMCA, on the Executive Committee of Doncaster

Civic Trust, and Member Doncaster National Trust; I enjoy gardening, walking, holidays at home and abroad (mainly northerly).’ Sylvia Hafekost (Mrs Rudd) pursues her hobbies of reading, gardening (minimally), and group Bible study. Her youngest daughter is vicar of St Gabriel, Sunderland, and a non-residentiary Canon of Durham Cathedral. Sarah (‘Sally’) Hinchliff (Professor Humphreys) has published Kinship in Ancient Athens (OUP, 2018). Barbara Marshall (Mrs Britton) writes: ‘After the sad death of my husband, whom I still miss very much, I concentrate on my family. My daughter lives in Cambridge and is married with a daughter and a son; my son lives in Richmond, Surrey, teaches all sciences at a local secondary school and is married with two sons. For the past few years I have developed asthma, which has curtailed my activities, but cheerfulness breaks in.’

1954 Nadja Benziger (Mrs Tollemache) has had a distinguished legal career, teaching at the University of Auckland Law School, and as the first woman Ombudsman in New Zealand (1987) and the first Banking Ombudsman in New Zealand (1992), She has also served on numerous school boards and committees. She is now living in a retirement village called Pinesong.

1955 Sally Hilton (Mrs Wheeler) and her husband have retired to a rest home in Belfast, which is very nice and comfortable. ‘I often think about the old days in college. Long may it prosper!’

1956 Sonia Edelman (Professor Jackson) continues her cross-national research on foster care and adoption. She is Gloucestershire county rep on the South West Early Music Forum. Helen Hughes (Mrs Brock) is working for a Greek colleague, studying beads and engraved sealstones from two excavations she directed in Crete on Bronze Age sites (second millennium). With a colleague in Poland she is working

on Bronze Age objects in Greece made of Baltic amber, major indicators of long-distance contacts. Helen has spent many weeks on the huge but very gratifying job of sorting a friend’s large library of Hebraica and Judaica, racing against Brexit to get it transported to the University of Krakow, where the city is energetically reviving its great Jewish heritage.

1957 Felicity King (Dr Savage) writes: ‘Since retiring from the World Health Organisation in 2001, where I was Medical Officer working on policy and training of health professionals to support breast-feeding, I have worked as a volunteer for WABA (World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action) to continue the same kind of work, including acting as consultant and adviser to UNICEF, WHO and other agencies in the field. Recently my elder son, Dominic King (Jesus, 1992), sadly died of motor neurone diseases, cared for at home, by a fine team of carers. He was a gifted artist and writer.’

1958 Alice Boycott (Mrs Gillett) is gently retiring from farming (sheep down to 60 from 250). Jane Gladwin (Mrs Howard) has had a small collection of poems, Winter Light, published by Hyphen Press in 2016 and other work has appeared in N2 Poetry. She attends classes in Latin, German and (once) Ancient Greek, and volunteers for the MS Society and local environmental groups. Elspeth Langlands (Mrs Barker) continues to write and tutor in writing. Janet Treloar has been awarded the Honorary Order of the Silver Cross, given by the Russian Minister of Culture for Anglo-Russian Cultural Exchange. As the Principal said, ‘Certainly the only Somervillian, probably the only Oxonian to have this award’. ‘Very gratifying!’ says Janet.

1959 Marieke Clarke, working with her long-term collaborator Pathisa Nyathi, published in 2018 A Cradle of the Revolution: Voices from Inyathi School,

Matabeleland, Zimbabwe 1914-1980. The book tells the stories of former Inyathi (all black, co-educational) school students in the years before Zimbabwe’s independence. The book describes colonial conditions and local people’s attempts to dislodge settlers so as to bring about a democratic Zimbabwe. After leaving the school, many students took part in that struggle. Marieke went in 1963 to teach History, English and Latin at Inyathi School. She believed that majority rule was not only desirable but inevitable, which the colonists did not want to believe, and she was deported in November 1964. Her friendship with the people of the area and alumni/ae has continued till now. The book is available from African Books Collective: http:// www.africanbookscollective.com/ Caroline Hogarth (Professor Barron) was awarded OBE in the 2019 Queen’s Birthday Honours list for services to education.

1960 Carol Morrison, living in Canada, gave a presentation on plein air painting to Visual Voice Gallery in Truro, Nova Scotia, and is preparing for a show of paintings in Truro Library and art residency at Westport School House on Brier Island. Carol took part in hikes and a zodiac trip around Cape Split with the Halifax Field Naturalists. Sarah Jean Waterlow (Professor Broadie) was awarded OBE in the 2019 Queen’s Birthday Honours list for services to classical philosophy.

1961 Maria Hargreaves (Mrs Perry) writes that an option is being sought again for a film of Sisters to the King, now in its ninth edition, first published in 1998.

1962 Margaret Mindel (‘Della’) Shirley writes: ‘surviving comfortably, cardiologist has prescribed a new drug for me which has returned me to active life. Have lived for nearly forty years on the edge of Ashdown Forest. I have joined a local writers’ group, written three novels for children/young adults, which I can’t get published but enjoyed writing. I write more poetry than fiction nowadays and am

engaged in an enjoyable battle with the wildlife and vegetation in my large and unmanageable garden, along with the dog who accompanies me on the daily walks that keep my heart ticking over comfortably. Any Somervillian who wants to visit Ashdown Forest is welcome to get in touch – phone number on application to the Alumni office.’ Sheila Roxburgh (Mrs Mawby) writes: ‘My main hobbies are still photography and studying Japanese. I enjoy contact with Somerville and Somervillians at Film Club and other college events and as a “Year Rep” for 1962. Many thanks to those who have joined the Flickr Group. In April 2019, with the help of the various departments, I organised a day-long tour for the Oxford Society (Worcs) of the old and new buildings in the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter. We hope to visit the Science Area and Wytham Wood next year. Children and grandchildren continue to amaze with their various talents, activities, achievements and ever increasing heights!’ Ginny Sharpey-Schafer (Dr Stacey) writes: ‘My first book was published by Routledge on 8 April 2019. It’s called Finding Your Voice With Dyslexia/ SpLD and is the first in the series Living confidently with Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLD). It is addressed to dyslexic/SpLD adults. It is about getting our minds (I’m dyslexic) to function at their best. Having worked with students who are dyslexic/SpLD, I have become a repository of so many stories, insights and strategies and it is a privilege to be able to pass this fund of knowledge on to others. https://www. routledge.com/Finding-Your-Voicewith-Dyslexia-SpLD/Stacey-Fowler/p/ book/9781138202382’

1963 Lyn Beazley has become a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.

1964 Alison Skilbeck writes: ‘I have continued to tour my one-woman shows: Are There More of You? received five stars at Edinburgh; I also directed husband Tim Hardy in A Substitute for Life, written by Simon Brett. We gave

the first performance of my new twohander After All at a private fund-raiser for Sunera Foundation – Sunethra Bandaranaike was present. I regularly perform my show about Shakespeare’s older women, The Power Behind the Crone, for, amongst others, RADA students, and continue to teach and direct there. I have been invited to do my Mrs Roosevelt Flies to London for the Institute for Historical Research in the autumn. Claire Cockcroft arranged for me to do two workshops in Communications Skills with Somerville students; they were most responsive. I continue to work with RADA Business, working with non-actors from many and varied walks of life. My husband and I are so far refusing to retire.’

1965 Premala Siva (Dr Sivasegaram) has been honoured by the Parliament of Sri Lanka. She writes: ‘I was included in a group of twelve Sri Lankan Women Change Makers by the Sectoral Oversight Committee on Women and Gender and the Women Parliamentarians’ Caucus in collaboration with the USAID/SDGAP on Wednesday, 27 March 2010.’ https://www. parliament.lk/en/committee-news/ view/1683?category=33 Patricia Townsend (Mrs Marsden) has published Creative States of Mind: Psychoanalysis and the Artist’s Process (Routledge (London and New York), 2019).

1966 Elan Closs Roberts (Professor Closs Stephens) was awarded DBE in the 2019 Queen’s Birthday Honours list for services to the Welsh Government and to broadcasting. Sarah Venables (Mrs Jackson) writes: ‘On 13 December 2017 I had a bleed on the brain – a burst aneurism followed by hydrocephalus. Then op wipes out immediate short term memory and I am only now marginally recovering some immediate memory, 18 months on, but I am still unreliable – forgetting where I should be, when and what I said I’d do. Everyone tells me how much better I am and how pleased they are I am still alive, which is extraordinarily encouraging and a great blessing in itself. The main

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consequence is that I am now entirely convinced that God, Jesus and the Spirit are my constant support and delight.’

1967 Carolyn Beckingham is still working for the International Liberty Association which campaigns for human rights in Iran, and of which she is a Trustee, and is translating a book from French (the fifth she has done for them). Deborah Hewitt (Dr Bowen) was amazed in June to be honoured with a Leslie K. Tarr Lifetime Achievement Award by the Word Guild (Canada), for her work both in writing and in mentoring students. See https://thewordguild.com/media/ She also continues to write academic papers, present at conferences, and even some of the time write her own stuff just for the fun of it. Joanna Hodgkin (Mrs Hines) has written a book, under the name Hodgkin, with identical twins, Alex and Marcus Lewis, Tell me Who I Am. It has been made into a documentary by Simon Chinn for Netflix and is due to be released in the autumn of 2019.

1968 Bridget Long has had an article on the London Asylum for Orphan and Deserted Girls in the middle of the eighteenth century accepted by the London Journal. It is now online and will be published in the Journal sometime in the New Year. https://www.tandfonline. com/eprint/SQhBxVbgHBmnFGifKqkq/ full

1970 Sabina Lovibond writes: ‘I took part in a one-day graduate workshop (October) in Amsterdam based on my Essays on Ethics and Feminism (OUP, 2015), and spoke at a graduate women-in-philosophy event in Bergen, Norway (January). I contributed to the Royal Institute of Philosophy 201819 winter lecture series in London (February); to the centenary conference on Iris Murdoch at St Anne’s College, Oxford (July); and to a conference on Wittgenstein’s Culture and Value, also in Oxford (August). Publication: “Between Tradition and Criticism: The ‘Uncodifiability’ of the Normative”, in Benjamin De Mesel and Oskari Kuusela (eds), Ethics in the Wake of Wittgenstein (Routledge, 2019).’

1971 Patricia Davis (Mrs Pipe) and her husband are now happily retired and she enjoys reading and walking, and is a puzzles addict – particularly code words. Her three children all live fairly locally. Sue Dixson writes: ‘I have just completed eleven years living in Bulgaria and have applied for citizenship here. That meant swatting up (with no indication what the questions would be) history, customs, festivals etc for an interview, as well as sitting a language exam, both in Sofia. No decision yet. I was also interviewed live on BTV in Bulgarian on Easter Sunday, along with Charlie, one of my six rescue dogs. I still can’t get over the risk the mostwatched Bulgarian TV channel took but all went well. I wore a T-shirt from Nowzad, the British-founded animal rescue charity in Afghanistan which has conferred on me the honour of being its first international ambassador.’ Sarah Wedderburn is continuing to work as a writer for arts institutions, often focusing on capital projects, and has also for a long time written and occasionally published poetry. In 2018 she was proud to receive an MA in Writing Poetry, from Newcastle University and the Poetry School in London. She married the sculptor John Davies in 2008 and moved from London to live among owls and foxes in East Kent. She has two grown-up children

and a one-year-old granddaughter who is, of course, the apple of her eye.

1972 Rachael Rolfe (Mrs Rice) has lived in Chesterfield for nine years – close to the Peak District where she loves to walk with friends and her retired therapy dog Lucie. Three days a week she works as a therapist with young people, many of whom are on the waiting list for CANHS and most are on the autism spectrum. She has two church families – one a Hillsong Church (noisy!) and the other Heath Church, a small village church where they recently had fun with the annual Well Dressing.

Research, University of London, and as Honorary Visiting Fellow at the University of Leicester. ‘I am keeping fit, and continuing my classical ballet, with two Silver Swans classes per week – ballet for the over 50s – highly recommended.’ Jenna Orkin is a co-founder of the World Trade Center Environmental Organisation. Her book, Ground Zero Wars: The Fight to Reveal the Lies of the EPA in the Wake of 9/11 and Clean Up Lower Manhattan, was a semi-finalist out of almost a thousand entries to the North Street competition for selfpublished books.

Janey Anstey (Mrs Fisher)’s new novel You Owe Me Five Farthings, sequel to St Martin’s Summer, was published by Wings ePress in June (under the name Jane Anstey). It is available in print or kindle from Amazon. Janey is now working on a historical sequence of novels about the fourteenth century.

Louisa Parsons has retired from teaching and is spending a lot of time volunteering at the local hospice and with the elderly. She has completed a course and diploma in working with people at the end of life and is supporting some friends at the moment in this way. ‘I am very surprised to find myself working in this area and delighted that I have been open enough to explore something very difficult. It has been a fascinating journey.’

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Sue Barratt (Mrs Williamson) writes: ‘After nearly twenty years in public libraries, I was delighted to take up the post of Director: Libraries and Birmingham for Arts Council England in March 2018. After sixteen months in post, the only constancy is change, but it is the most satisfying role where I meet amazing people from all walks of life and all cultures and have a real opportunity to influence lasting changes.’

Philippa Tudor was one of the audit panel for the first ever UK GenderSensitive Parliament Audit, which reported in 2018.

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Erica Budgen (Mrs Wildgoose) has been working in Mental Health Services review in Bristol, North Somerset and Gloucestershire, especially rehab services. She is co-chair of Bristol Independent MH Network and a member of Extinction Rebellion, as well as active in the Bristol East Labour Party. She became ‘a lucky granny’ to Rowan in January 2018 and is looking forward to showing her around Somerville. Jane Mellor (Mrs Everson) has Emeritus Professor status at Royal Holloway, University of London, and in addition continues as Associate Fellow of the Institute of Modern Languages

1976 Robin Henry (Mrs Mednick) was awarded the Governor General of Canada Meritorious Service Medal in August 2018 for her work with the charity Pencils for Kids and its contributions to Niger, West Africa (www.pencilsforkids.com). Robin has been running this charity since she founded it in 2005, to help women and children in Niger. It provides scholarships for women, has started a sewing school and established eighteen income-generating gardens for women. It is opening a school for horticultural technicians, called the Dov Pasternak Training Centre, in partnership with Eliminate Poverty Now. Jane Macintyre has had a career in scientific publishing, but she is excited about becoming a student again this autumn when she will be back at Oxford doing a Masters in the History

of Design, a complete change from her undergraduate Chemistry degree.

the area of the world where we both began our careers.’

Ellen McAdam, Director of the Birmingham Museums Trust, reports that her Trust has had a very successful year, with Dippy on tour and Leonardo: A Life in Drawings attracting audiences. The Trust’s commitment to audience diversity, co-curation and community engagement is bringing awards such as the Charity Awards Overall Award for Excellence and a growing international reputation. The Edwardian Tea Room, described by Bill Bryson as ‘the best museum tea room in the universe’, feeds and waters the foot-sore visitors.

Kate Davies’s book, Intrinsic Hope: Living Courageously in Troubled Times (New Society Publishers), was awarded the Grand Prize of the Nautilus Book Awards for books published in 2018. It also won the Gold Award in the category of Personal Growth & Self Help. Previous winners of this international book competition include Desmond Tutu, the Dalai Lama, and Charles, Prince of Wales. See: http://nautilusbookawards.com/ nautilus-winners/ for more information.

Linda Salt continues to enjoy her role as Churchwarden, especially the challenges of a ten-month interregnum.

1977 Susan Catchpole received a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. The citation was ‘Susan Catchpole. Director, HM Treasury. For public service.’ Jane Page (the Revd Jane Chaffey) was ordained Deacon in 1988 and Priest in 1994 and subsequently trained as a teacher, working most recently as Chaplain at Wycombe Abbey. She retired last summer and hopes to resume parish ministry in due course. Virginia Reed (Mrs Nabavi) runs a vocal training and chanting group, a meditation group and a mindful movement to music group. She gives Reiki and tuning fork treatments and training courses and also gives occasional piano recitals from home. She has given Reiki treatments with tuning forks in her local hospice.

1978 Libby Ancrum writes: ‘After twenty years working as an economist and twenty years in education, I have retired this summer. This only means that I am now looking for interesting opportunities not necessarily paid but also looking forward to a more leisured existence. I will be joining my husband, David, for a year in Bangladesh where he is leading Save the Children’s response to the Rohingya crisis. I have just completed a TEFL qualification with a view to being useful in that environment. Life seems to have gone full circle as we return to

1979 Angela McLean, who is currently Senior Research Fellow in Theoretical Life Science at All Souls, has been appointed Chief Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Defence. Professor McLean is the first woman to hold this position. https://inews.co.uk/news/ministry-ofdefence-appoints-first-female-chiefscientific-adviser/ Julia Gasper’s news is that in 2018 she brought out another book, The Women of Corsica (Lulu Press). It is available as a paperback and also as an e-book. http://www.lulu.com/shop/juliagasper/the-women-of-corsica/ebook/ product-23771219.html

1980 Sue Arrowsmith continues to work as a Professor of Law at the University of Nottingham. In 2019 she was appointed honorary Queen’s Counsel (QC) in recognition of her significant contribution to the development of the law of England and Wales from outside court practice. Alongside publishing numerous books and articles on public procurement, she has been extensively involved in reform as a member at various times of the UNCITRAL Procurement Experts Group, World Bank International Advisory Group on Procurement and (for nearly twenty years) the European Commission’s procurement Advisory Committee. She has recently focused on Brexit (including producing the report for the European Parliament on Brexit and procurement) and on sport governance, working as an Expert to the International Partnership against Corruption in Sport on preventing corruption in contracts for international sporting events.

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Vicky Canning (Mrs Andrew) has been elected as Deputy President (effectively President-Elect) of the London Society of Chartered Accountants and as a member of ICAEW Council (the national governing body of the profession).

1981 Kate Hindmarsh (the Revd Kate le Sueur) is now Head of Chaplaincy for the North with Methodist Homes.

1983 Susan Clayworth (Mrs Baker) writes: ‘Recently moved to the Cotswolds to take up a new position at the Royal Agricultural University. Loving every minute of getting to know this beautiful part of the world again.’ Fahana Yamin is an internationally recognised environmental lawyer, climate change and development policy expert. Earlier this year she played a prominent part in the Extinction Rebellion protests.

1985 Maggie Taylor (Mrs Knottenbelt) competed in the European Open Bridge Championship in Istanbul. She and her partner ended up as the top English pair in the Women’s Pairs event and made it as far as the semi-final. Maggie says she is ‘ridiculously proud of myself’. Caroline Windsor (Mrs Barr) left HM Treasury in 2007, with the intention of spending more time at home, building a house, and completing her family. Her husband, Rob, died suddenly in 2010, and she continued to raise her family in

Weybridge until 2018. They now live on a small estate in Wiltshire, with chickens, alpacas and a vineyard. Caroline is a member of the Financial Services Consumer Panel, a Non-Executive Director of BlackRock Life and of the British Insurance Brokers Association, and a governor of her local primary school.

1986 Emma Owen (Mrs Stuart) was awarded LVO in this year’s Birthday Honours. Emma is Senior Curator, Books and Manuscripts, and Acting Librarian, Royal Library, Windsor Castle.

1987 Clare Ambrose was appointed Deputy High Court Judge in September 2018. Suzanne Cook (Lady Heywood), the Managing Director of Exor Group, writes: ‘My husband Jeremy, Lord Heywood of Whitehall, sadly passed away in November 2018. However I continue to work and have become chairman of CNH in addition to my ongoing roles.’

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Sue Hutchison (Mrs Canderton) has a new role as Head of Philanthropy at Changing Faces, the national charity for anyone with a scar, mark or condition on their face or body that makes them look different. Sue will be developing major funding partnerships to support Changing Faces’ work providing advice, support and psychosocial services to children, young people and adults. The charity challenges discrimination and campaigns for Face Equality – a world that truly values and respects people who look different.

1988 Claire Evans (Mrs Jacob) has recovered from bipolar disorder and returned to work as a Chartered Patent and Trade Mark Attorney. Having thought that she would be forced into a very early retirement, she is delighted to be back at work. Helena Hamerow, who came to Somerville as a Junior Research Fellow in 1988, has been appointed as a Commissioner to the Board of Historic England and has been elected to an Honorary Fellowship of Lincoln College, where she was a postgraduate student.

Anna Poole was appointed a Judge of the Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber) in April 2018 – on family-friendly terms (70%, four-day week, school term time working). She lives in Edinburgh with her husband Richard and two children Bess (16) and Jack (14).

1989 Philippa Hoskin is moving on 1 October from her current role, as Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Lincoln, to be Director of the Parker Library, and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College attached to the Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge. Tobie Williams (Mrs Brealey) writes: ‘This school year has been a very tough one for us as I was diagnosed with stage 3 oesophageal cancer in August 2018. After chemo, radiation and surgery (removal of whole oesophagus, part of stomach and associated lymph nodes) I am nearly back to normal, although still learning to digest with rearranged innards. Husband and children have held up well, although it is pretty shocking to hear your seven-year-old boasting “My mummy has cancer. People die of

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cancer, you know.” Worse still when the same child asked “Mummy, do you remember your normal voice? I don’t.” (A paralysed vocal chord, leaving me with a near-whisper, was collateral damage.) However, the Luxembourg health care system has brought me free from cancer, and the family can relax, knowing I can’t shout at them.’

1990 Jacqui Chetham (Mrs Adams) writes: ‘I continue to be busy writing, along with caring for Brian and parenting Midnight, who is just starting sixth form. I have a fantasy novel Dagmar of the Northlands out from Kindle and Smashwords in September 2019, writing as John C. Adams. I have decided that being nonbinary for gender works best for me.’

1991 Zoe Cross is an environmental specialist at Panasonic, and a business and life coach for people with a visible difference. Her new website is www. zoe-cross.com

1992 Celia Wrighton (stage name Celia Delaney) writes: ‘I am still married and living in London, now also with a Romanian rescue dog called Sunny. She has settled in very well in just three months. Dave (husband) is at the Foreign Office and I am having the time of my life in comedy, with a new show, Celia Delaney is … Angelic? at the Camden Fringe as a work in progress this year, with a view to taking it to Edinburgh in 2020. I am also in a cabaret duo, Loris & Lee, with Tamasine Kimber – we write original songs – so I may have two shows at Edinburgh next year!’

1993 Rachel (‘Bourby’) Norman (Mrs Webster) writes: ‘I was recently awarded the Western Australian of the Year for Arts & Culture – one of five awards given out by the State to recognise outstanding contribution across five areas. This is for my work in founding and growing the Perth Symphony Orchestra which now engages up to 220 musicians and soloists per year

performing to around 70,000, many of whom have never heard a symphony in concert before. We perform a range of concerts from all genres in crazy places and spaces from car parks to warehouses, and I write and create new productions for the orchestra which are increasingly being performed internationally and which showcase the symphony to an entirely new audience, aiming to ensure the symphony is as relevant today as it’s ever been. Our next production is a fully orchestrated reimagining of iconic 1960s group The Doors. Also this year I was a finalist in the Telstra Business Woman of the Year for Western Australia.’ Hannah Reid is a research scientist and continues to research and influence policy at the interface between climate change, biodiversity and natural resource management, and poverty reduction. Most of her work is in developing countries. She is married with two children.

1994 Trevor Bradbury has co-founded a consultancy called Pragmatex, which aims to help companies develop and commercialise new technology-based products and services. Oliver Major holds the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and from August 2019 he will be the Army Visiting Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI) in London. The appointment lasts one year. Jo-Anne Swales (Mrs Breckon) writes: ‘I am co-director and co-founder of Studio Response; we commission art in the public realm for the public, private and third sectors. Running my own business means I can work flexibly, and spend time with my son, Sam, who is growing up so quickly. Sam is eight in 2019, and we spent a wonderful weekend in Oxford earlier this year, visiting all my old haunts, including a lovely bit of Somerville.’

1997 Natalie Shenker has been appointed as a UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellow at Imperial College, London.

1999 Caroline Smith has had a significant year; as well as getting married, she has celebrated her twelfth anniversary working at SMBC and has been appointed Head of Power and Renewables for the EMEA.

2001 Suchandrika Chakrabarti writes: ‘I’m now a freelance journalist and podcaster, after leaving the Daily Mirror last year. Each episode of my podcast, Freelance Pod (https://podcasts.apple. com/gb/podcast/freelance-pod/ id1441907594), has a creative guest pop in to tell me about how the internet has revolutionised their work. I’ll be hosting a live recording at the London Podcast Festival in September with a special guest. More info and tickets here: https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whatson/words/freelance-pod/’

2002 Christopher Smith married Charlotte in 2012 and they have two children, aged four and one. He is a technical account manager, selling catalytic converters to a major automotive brand. Outside of work, he still follows the little highs and big lows of Derby County and is an active member of his local church.

2003 Christian (Kit) Yates writes: ‘The Maths of Life and Death is coming out in the autumn – September 5th to be precise. (https://kityates.com/) Just to give you a sense of the size of the project, the UK launch will be the first of at least twenty-five territories which will see the book translated into over twenty languages. This is almost unprecedented for a first non-fiction book.’

2004 Kathryn (Kat) Gordon’s second book was published by HarperCollins last year in hardback (under the title The Hunters) and came out in paperback as An Unsuitable Woman on 16 May 2019. It has also been selected for the Richard & Judy bookclub.

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2005 Christopher Stewart writes: ‘Having worked as Localisation Manager through the rebranding of 1&1’s hosting segment to 1&1 IONOS, in July I moved to Frankfurt to begin working as an Online Editor for S and S Media GmbH. I write for JAXenter.com, JAX Magazine, and am involved with conferences called JAX London, JAX DevOps and DevOps Con. I am also engaged and will get married next year in May.’

2007 Amelia Bell has a new job as a lawyer at Rathbone Trust legal services, and has got married (see page 34). Stephy Xuezhou Fang completed the Oxford half marathon in 2016. She has achieved the British Horse Society stage 1 in stable management and is currently working towards stage 1 riding. She works in the market risk department of J P Morgan. Elizabeth MacNeal has written a first novel The Doll Factory which has been featured on BBC Radio 2 and as Book of the Week in May on Radio 4. http:// elizabethmacneal.com/the-doll-factory

2010 Ella Waldman (Road)’s debut play The Phlebotomist premiered in 2018 at

the Hampstead Theatre Downstairs studio space. It won rave reviews, was nominated for an Olivier, and subsequently transferred to the main stage. The Somerville London Group organised a theatre trip and Ella very kindly gave them a pre-show talk, and later came to Somerville to talk to undergraduates.

2011 Rachel Porter: the editor wishes to apologise to Rachel Porter for the mis-spelling of her name as Parker in last year’s announcement of her engagement to Harry Challands. For news of their marriage see page 34.

this year have ranged from Tom Jenkins (2002) through to Hugo Lees (2017). Contact samuelpacker@gmail.com if you have any interest in playing or getting involved.

2013 Olivia Murray has moved jobs from Kilburn & Strode LLP to Boult Wade Tennant LLP and continues her training as a Patent Attorney.

2016 Avani Tandon Vieira was recently awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship to pursue a PhD in English.

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Sam Packer reports that this year has been mixed for the Old Somervillian cricket side, after a series of successes last year. Victory against the current College team the afternoon before the College Ball has been matched by a disappointing T20 league season. The club once again went on tour, this year to the West Country where they were hosted by the families of William Travis (2010) and Sam and Harry Packer (2012 and 2008) as they played against sides in Somerset and Wiltshire. The side is always keen to recruit new players of any age; players

Miriam Aba Arhin, after completing her postgraduate course in Diplomatic Studies at Somerville, was posted to the Embassy of Ghana in Berlin as First Secretary, Political and Diaspora Affairs. Germany hosts the second largest number of Ghanaians in Europe (second to the UK) and her role on the diaspora desk is to galvanise the Ghanaian diaspora to contribute meaningfully to the national development of Ghana. She has done this job for almost a year.

Marriages Bell – Smith On 22 September 2018 Amelia Bell (2007) to Tim Smith

Blagbrough – Cornish On 14 September 2019 David Blagbrough (2008) to Charlotte Pearce Cornish

Blyth – Ardali On 25 May 2019 Hannah Blyth (2010) to Babak Ardali

Borg – Cooper On 11 May 2019 Katie Borg (2008) to Nick Cooper (2008) BORG – COOPER

GOULTY – FULLER

On 23 August 2019 Chloe Kenvin (2008) to Sam Canning-Birtles

KOON – LEE

VEYS – BURKE

Koon – Lee

Riley – Knibbs

Thomas – Clough

On 14 June 2019 Kenneth Koon (2003) to Isabelle Lee

On 3 August 2019 Hannah Riley (2009) to Robert Knibbs; their married name will be Edwards-Bell

On 1 June 2019 Harry Thomas (2007) to Philippa Clough

Lee – Copley

Sankey – Frostick

On 20 July 2019 Lucy Veys (2009) to Jamie Burke (2010)

Goulty – Fuller On 5 May 2019 Michelle Goulty (2005) to Ed Fuller (2005)

Graham – Symmons On 31 May 2019 Alexander Graham (2006) to Emma Symmons

Grosse-Holz – Brauner On 31 August 2018 Friederike GrosseHolz (2014) to Jan Brauner

Hӓgerdal – Quinby On 30 June 2019 Nils Hägerdal (2003) to Laura Doss Quinby

Kenvin – Canning-Birtles

On 27 July 2019 Gala Lee (2014) to Kalil Copley (2014)

Percival – Bickley On 31 August 2019 James David Percival (2007) to Helena Jane Bickley

Perov – Agaeva On 20 September 2018 Yura Perov (2013) to Anastasiya Agaeva

Porter – Challands On 7 September 2019 Rachel Porter (2011) to Harry Challands (2011)

On 17 August 2018 David Sankey (2007) to Alexandra Frostick

Schofield – Briffett On 25 August 2018 Laura Schofield (2008) to Alistair Briffett

Smith – Lytton On 8 June 2019 Caroline Smith (1999) to Simon Lytton

Stevenson – Kennedy On 13 July 2019 Sally Stevenson (2010) to Jack Kennedy (2010)

Veys – Burke

Wason – Burr On 9 February 2019 Sacha Wason (2007) to Steven Burr (2007)

Williams – Joyner On 16 June 2018 Katie Hannah Williams (2005) to Michael David Joyner

Witton – Hodge On 28 September 2018 Cordelia Witton (2006) to Simon Hodge (2006)

Births Bacon

Honeybun

Prochaska

To Jenny Bacon (1998) and Andrew Barnett on 29 June 2018 a son Reuben James Marshall Barnett

To Hannah (Hardy, 2012) and Emyr Honeybun (2012) on 13 February 2019 a daughter Lowri Rae Honeybun

Bonnici

Hudson

To Elizabeth Prochaska (2006) and Duncan Clark on 12 March 2019 a son Orlando Franklyn Clark, a brother for Eva and Anton

To Kathryn Bonnici (1998) on 17 December 2018 a son Jamie Bonnici Thomson

To Holly (Ewart, 2011) and Karl Hudson (2011) on 23 February 2019 a son Noah Hudson

Fang

Jones

To Stephy Xuezhou Fang (2007) on 7 May 2019 a son Joseph Zizhou Wang

To Christopher Jones (2001) on 26 June 2019 a son Marceau Jones

Fitter

Joyner

To Richard (1999) and Lena Fitter on 10 January 2019 a son Oliver John Fitter, a brother for Isabella

To Katie (Williams, 2005) and Michael Joyner on 20 April 2017 a son Thomas James Hugh Joyner

Forsyth

Matei

To James Forsyth (2002) and Cara Zimmerman on 17 February 2019 a son Alexander Dylan Forsyth

To Anna Matei (2009) and Jake Reich on 23 February 2019 a daughter Rosa Matei-Reich

Furlonge

MacLeod

To Louise (Clifford, 2000) and Adrian Furlonge (2000) on 17 April 2019 a son Frederick Furlonge, a brother for Arthur and Theo

To Helen (Rogers, 2007) and Alick MacLeod on 24 May 2019 a son Rory MacLeod

Geiger To Nicholas (2000) and Marie Geiger on 21 May 2019 a daughter Colombe, a sister for Victoire and Josephine

To Polly (Robinson, 2002) and Anthony McDonald (2001) in January 2019 a son Tristan McDonald, a brother for Robin

Hogg

Morris

To Jennifer (Harvey, 2002) and Adam Hogg on 4 September 2018 a son Benjamin Hogg, a brother for Rosalie and Lilliana

To Sarah Anna Morris (2011) and Richard Ainsworth on 19 June 2019 a son Finnian Teodor Ainsworth

McDonald

Saccomani To Poppy and Gianni Saccomani (1999) on 7 January 2019 a daughter Emilia Saccomani, a sister for Alessia

Shakespear To Rosie Shakespear (2006) and James Reeve on 1 November 2018 a daughter Isabella Florence Reeve

Solomon To Tui (Brazier, 1995) and Jamie Solomon on 14 May 2019 twin daughters Aurelia and Alexia Solomon

Tyrell To Helen (Jenks, 2004) and Andrew Tyrell on 26 November 2018 a daughter Jenny Samantha Tyrell, a sister for Elsie

Wilkinson To Susan Wilkinson (2001) and Benedikt Roos on 21 May 2019 a daughter Charlotte Victoria Wilkinson

Williams To Tom (1998) and Helen Williams on 20 April 2019 a son Hugh Robert Andrew Lytton Williams, a brother for Rose Valentine Eden Williams

Deaths Midgley

Grodecki

Roberts

Mary Beatrice Midgley née Scrutton on 10 October 2018 Aged 99 (1938, Lit. Hum.; Honorary Fellow, 2006)

Dorothy Mary Grodecki née Vernon (1943) on 19 April Aged 93

Sara (‘Sally’) Margaret Helen Roberts née Hyder (1955) on 22 April 2019 Aged 83

Anscombe

Patricia Jean Hall (1943) on 25 April 2019 Aged 93

Constance (‘Connie’) Hayton Anscombe née Bethwaite (1941) on 7 August 2018 Aged 96

Hall

Hockaday

Diana Mary Rustat Rowley née Crowfoot (1936) on 22 September 2018 Aged 100

Barber

Judith Hockaday (1947) on 24 May 2019 Aged 89

Salusbury

Sheila Mary Barber née Marr (1949) on 25 January 2019 Aged 87

Howard

Jane Salusbury née Terry (1953) on 14 April 2019 Aged 85

Bell

Jane Mary Howard née Waldegrave (1952) on 6 May 2019 Aged 85

Sander

Anthea Bell (1954) on 18 October 2018 Aged 82

Jones

Susan Deborah Sander (1970) on 16 May 2019 Aged 67

Campbell

Kathleen May Jones née Hennis (1954) on 31 January 2019 Aged 82

Scully

Jennet Parker Campbell née Adrian (1945) on 3 January 2019 Aged 91

Kazantzis

Celia Scully née Shopland (1954) on 20 January 2019 Aged 83

Cartwright

Judith Elizabeth Kazantzis née Pakenham (1958) on 18 September 2018 Aged 78

Nina Valerie Cartwright née Bearman (1961) on 7 July 2019 Aged 81

Catmur Paulla Bolingbroke Catmur née Johnson (1949) on 21 August 2019 Aged 89

Chatterjee Margaret Chatterjee née Ganzer (1943) on 3 January 2019 Aged 93

de Courcy Jones Rosemary de Courcy Jones née Eldridge (1948) on 11 May 2019 Aged 91

Donovan Claire Marie Donovan née Baker (1971) on 5 June 2019 Aged 71

Driver Anne Driver née Browne (1942) on 15 June 2019 Aged 94

Faber Audrey Faber née Thompson (1944) on 2 July 2019 Aged 93

Fooks Jean Lesley Fooks née Scott (1958) on 28 November 2018 Aged 79

King Jean Brown King née Davidson (1954) on 7 May 2019 Aged 84

Kitz Beryl Kitz née Marchington (1944) on 24 February 2019 Aged 91

Krassowska Anne Marie Prom Krassowska née Olesen (1961) on 26 June 2019 Aged 80

Low Barbara Wharton Low (1939) on 10 January 2019 Aged 98

Parkinson Betty Joan Parkinson (1942) on 22 November 2018 Aged 95

Playfer Frances Vera Playfer née Tindall (1951) on 21 July 2019 Aged 87

Posner Rebecca Posner née Reynolds (1949) on 19 July 2018 Aged 88

Richards Joan Mary Richards (1951) on 6 April 2019 Aged 86

Rowley

Semark Jennifer Rosemary Patricia Semark née Bullen (1956) in March 2019 Aged 81

Sieghart Felicity Ann Olga Howard Sieghart née Baer (1944) on 28 May 2019 Aged 91

Sleeman Maureen Mary Bridget Sleeman née Rough (1980) on 30 April 2019 Aged 58

Smith Sylvia Mary Smith (1951) on 18 December 2018 Aged 85

Vance Barbara Joan Vance née Ridsdale (1939) on 29 November 2019 Aged 97

Villiers Myee Miranda Villiers née McKenna (1954) on 30 March 2019 Aged 83

Williamson Mary Amity Williamson née Mallinson (1942) on 16 April 2019 Aged 94

Wood Erica Betty Mary Wood née Twist (1951) on 11 October 2018 Aged 86

Obituaries Mary Beatrice Midgley (Scrutton, 1938; Honorary Fellow, 2006) Mary Midgley was the author of more than a dozen books of philosophy, from her first, Beast and Man (1978) to What is Philosophy For, published shortly before her death at the age of 99. She became well known for her scientifically informed and wide-ranging theorising about ethics, which eschewed what she saw as the narrow concerns of mainstream moral philosophy in favour of an approach which integrated the implications of scientific advances and of evolutionary theory for understanding human behaviour. Among her best known books are Animals and Why They Matter (1983), The Ethical Primate (1994) and Wickedness (1984). In her autobiography, The Owl of Minerva (2005), she recorded how – thanks in particular to her book Wickedness – she was often called on to take part in broadcast discussions of an interdisciplinary nature. In these she deployed her wide knowledge of evolutionary theory and animal behaviour and their application to philosophy. Mary Midgley taught philosophy at the University of Newcastle from 1965 to 1980, when she took early retirement to focus on her writing. Prior to that she had taught briefly at the University of Reading, and at Somerville while a graduate student (1947-49). In 1950 she married Geoffrey Midgley; they had three sons. Mary Scrutton, as she was then, won a scholarship to Somerville and came up to read Classics Mods and Greats in 1938, finding herself in the same cohort as Iris Murdoch, who became a lifelong friend. Both of them gained firsts in 1942, before taking up the civil service war work they were assigned on graduation. As an undergraduate and later when she returned as a philosophy graduate student to Oxford in the forties, she was close to Elizabeth Anscombe and to Philippa Foot. Her autobiography recalls the fruitful discussions held between herself, Foot, Anscombe and Jean Coutts, later the philosopher Jean Austin. All these women, together with the slightly younger Mary Warnock, came to make names for themselves in philosophy, and Midgley credited this in part to the fact that in wartime Oxford there were fewer pushy male students around, so that it was a great deal easier for a woman to be heard than it is in normal times. In recent years these women philosophers have been the subject of considerable interest, and Mary Midgley was a key figure for an ongoing research project at the University of Durham into the work and experiences of these philosophers who were fellow students, all of them associated with Somerville: Anscombe, Foot, Midgley and Murdoch. Lesley Brown (Wallace, 1963; Fellow, 1970; Emeritus Fellow, 2011)

MARY MIDGLEY

Diana Mary Rustat Rowley (Crowfoot, 1936) Diana was born in 1918 in Khartoum, Sudan on the day of the summer solstice. Her father worked for the Colonial Government as Director of Education, and her mother helped establish women’s education. Diana, or Dilly as she was called by her family, was the youngest of four sisters. Her first travels were as an infant journeying to England with her mother just before the Armistice. Her parents stayed in the Sudan until she was nine when her father became Director of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem. Diana, however, remained in England with her sisters, who all grew up as self-reliant, strong, and independent women like their mother. Aged four Diana attended the Farmhouse School, a Quaker school established by Isabel Fry (Margery Fry’s sister) where, as the youngest, she was put in charge of the rabbits, gradually working her way up to running the dairy. Her eldest sister, Dossie (Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin), was responsible for her during school holidays, and when Dossie was a Somerville undergraduate Diana often found herself lodging there as there was nowhere else for her to go. In 1935, aged sixteen, she joined her parents for a year in Palestine where they were excavating the ancient city of Samaria. At the end of the summer, Diana, her sister Joan, and Kathleen Kenyon bought a dilapidated 1926 Dodge and

spent six weeks driving back to England. It was an adventurous journey – three single women sleeping in a tent and a car that frequently broke down in out-of-the-way places. Yet that experience cast a spell that later propelled her to many interesting places, from Burma to Syria, Ethiopia, the Yemen, and back to the Sudan at the age of 90. Diana wanted to read science at Oxford, but given the limitations of her own science education spent a term at a crammer to prepare for the entrance examinations. She learnt enough science to spot the hardest questions and attempted those, on the grounds that everyone else would plump for the easy questions. The family story recounts that written across the top of her paper in capitals was ‘Ignorant but thank God not spoon-fed’. This and her required essay on organising an expedition to Atlantis gained her admission to Somerville where in 1936 she was one of the first students on a new combined science degree. It also meant that her eldest sister, Dossie, by then a Fellow, became her Moral Tutor. After leaving Oxford she was a doctor’s driver in the Blitz, and in 1941 became assistant editor of the Royal Geographical Society journal. There she found herself chasing Graham Rowley who had given a lecture on crossing Baffin Land and was over a year late in submitting the written account of his talk. They married in 1945, and in late 1946 Diana joined Graham in Canada, making their home in Ottawa. The Rowley home became a focal point for anyone with an interest in the Arctic, and there was a constant stream of visitors. Diana continued with her editing, and was actively involved in northern issues and in her local community and church. When Diana took on something she was ‘all in’ and firmly believed one could always do a little more. Her help was given freely and with great pleasure. Whilst age started to catch up with her in the last few years and slowed her down physically, it didn’t slow down her enjoyment of life and family (three daughters including another Somervillian, seven grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren). Jane Rowley, daughter

Barbara Wharton Low (1939) While Margaret Thatcher was the most famous student taught by Dorothy Hodgkin at Somerville, Barbara Low was undeniably a more gifted biochemist. Low, who died on 10 January 2019, aged 98, was one of Hodgkin’s most talented and trusted protégées. While at Somerville she helped the future Nobel Prize winner use X-ray crystallography to identify the structure of penicillin and went on to enjoy a long and successful career of her own in the United States. She discovered the pi helix, a structural element in proteins, developed a means of measuring the molecular weight of crystals, and researched snake venom neurotoxins and crystal cooling. Like Hodgkin, she studied the structure of insulin. Overcoming sexism was another of her achievements. At one meeting of scientists in the US in the 1950s she was initially barred from entering the room because it was assumed she

BARBARA LOW

was the tea lady. Later, at Columbia University in New York, she became a committed advocate for women in science. Opportunities for female scientists were far from abundant at Oxford when Hodgkin and Low were young, but X-ray crystallography was one of the more accessible fields for women – albeit perhaps for sexist reasons. It involves passing beams through crystals to make diffracted patterns that are analysed in order to determine the three-dimensional structure of molecules. This task of making and examining patterns was seen by some of the male establishment as not worthy of serious attention and even inherently feminine – likened to ‘intellectual knitting’, as the crystallography expert Maureen Julian has written. It was established in Oxford in 1929 but not integrated into the Department of Chemistry until 1946. Hodgkin and Low were among the small band of determined women who proved its value. Low was born in Lancaster on 23 March 1920; her parents, Matthew and Mary, née Wharton, ran a food shop. After attending the Park School (since closed) in Preston she came up to Somerville to study chemistry in 1939 – four years before the future Prime Minister, then known as Margaret Roberts, who was also supervised by Hodgkin for her Part II Chemistry. Politically, both Low and Hodgkin (who died in 1994 aged 84) leaned rather more leftwards than Thatcher. Low gained a BA in 1942, an MA in 1946 and a DPhil in 1948. From 1943 to 1946 she worked as a research assistant in the University’s department of chemical crystallography, aiding Hodgkin, a Fellow at Somerville, as they uncovered

the molecular mysteries of penicillin. It was sensitive work in wartime, when it was hoped that harnessing penicillin’s antibiotic potential could be of great benefit in treating wounded soldiers. Indeed, research applications had to go through the Ministry of Labour and Low was initially rejected, according to Patterns, Proteins and Peace, a biography of Hodgkin by Georgina Ferry. But Hodgkin contacted a chemist at the ministry who knew Low’s work, and she was ultimately approved. ‘Red hot news! Penicillin and all its degradation products contain sulphur. This is very hush-hush,’ Low wrote to Hodgkin in 1943 in a letter cited by Ferry. The work was exciting but demanding. ‘[Dorothy] really believed in throwing people in the deep end. She expected you to work with crystals that you could only just see under the highest power of the microscope, and she expected you to manipulate them and mount them,’ Low told Ferry. ‘There were all sorts of gadgets in the lab … and if you were expected to do something you did it, there were no alternatives … Sometimes I remember being told to mount on a little piece of glass fibre a sort of nasty resinous mess with a little crystal in the middle.’ Hodgkin again used her connections to help Low in 1946, finding her a post as a research fellow at the California Institute of Technology under the direction of Linus Pauling, who would win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954, ten years before Hodgkin. So began a relationship with America that lasted for the rest of her life. Low became a US citizen in the 1950s, though she never lost her English accent and formal mannerisms and gave Oxford-style one-on-one tutorials. Hodgkin, meanwhile, was refused a US visa in 1953 owing to her support of pro-peace groups that allegedly had Communist links. Low moved to the east coast in 1948 for a research job at Harvard, becoming an assistant professor of physical chemistry in 1950, the year she married Metchie Budka, a Slavic languages and literature expert who died in 1995. Low was named an associate professor of biochemistry at Columbia University in New York in 1956. By the time she officially retired in 1990 the field was much changed by computer technology. As professor emeritus of biochemistry and molecular biophysics at Columbia she continued to share her knowledge, even teaching a writing seminar until the age of 93. Tom Dart (1997)

Anne Driver (Browne, 1942) Anne Driver was born Anne Lyster Browne in Sowerby Bridge, Yorkshire. Her childhood was marked by the death of her father in a tram accident when she was two years old, an event which brought her closer to her extended family in Shropshire, especially her cousins and aunts. She was awarded an exhibition to study English at Somerville, and came up to Oxford in 1942, turning down the offer of a place at RADA. At Oxford she studied Old English and Norse literature, under tutors including J R R Tolkien.

ANNE DRIVER

She graduated in 1945, and after working for a local newspaper in Bath she turned to teaching, first at the village school at Chipping Campden (1948-1953), then Oxford Central Girls School, where she was Head of English (19531956). In 1957 she travelled to north India with her partner John Driver, who was studying Tibetan Buddhism. They spent three years living in the small town of Kalimpong, near Darjeeling, hosting a string of Tibetan exiles who had reached India over the Himalayas. Her two daughters were born there. Following their return to England, she took up an appointment in January 1962 as an English teacher at Penrhos College, a girls’ school in North Wales, five months after giving birth to twin boys in 1961. While working full-time and caring single-handedly for her four young children in a large house in Colwyn Bay, she published three novels (under the pseudonym Anne Rider) with Bodley Head – The Learners (1963), The Bad Samaritan (1965), and A Light Affliction (1967), the last set in the Himalayas and re-published in the USA under the title Hilltop in Hazard. These drew on her experiences of life in Oxford, Rome (where she lived for six months in 1957) and India. A fourth novel, A Safe Place (1974), was published by Bobbs-Merrill in the USA. Her writing was variously described by reviewers (including Anthony Burgess and Graham Greene) as ‘serio-comic’, ‘highly intelligent, ironic and most elegantly funny’, ‘taut, elegant and witty’, ‘surgically philosophical’, ‘totally persuasive’, ‘briskly elliptical’ and ‘deeply English’. She moved to London and joined the English Department at Godolphin and Latymer School, Hammersmith, in

1967, staying there until her retirement in 1984. She was an inspirational teacher, taking an active part in school drama, running school plays, Shakespeare days, and drama competitions. Retirement and the departure of her children marked a new phase in her life. She took adult education classes in art history, Italian and Finnish, and swam regularly. A deep commitment to peace and social justice led her to campaigning. She was a Greenham Common peace camper, and was arrested several times for non-violent direct action. Leading on from this she took part in Cruise Watch, a network formed to track missile convoys leaving American bases on regular road exercises, and was later arrested for sitting down in Whitehall to protest against the first Gulf War. She visited Nicaragua to learn firsthand about conditions in coffee plantations there, and attended an international women’s peace conference in Moscow, taking the Soviet hospitality with a strong pinch of salt and making a lasting friendship with the group’s official interpreter. She travelled widely, making a return trip to Kalimpong, and was a member of one of the first small western groups to travel to China from Pakistan via the Khunjerab Pass – including a stint on the back of a cement lorry. Above all, she devoted herself to her many grandchildren, by whom she will be sorely missed. Tabitha Driver (1976)

Margaret Chatterjee (Gantzer, 1943) Whether she was dressed in sari and cardigan in the Delhi winter or sari and sensible overcoat in the English summer, Margaret Chatterjee always gave the impression of being at home in either the England of her birth or the India where she spent most of her life. She could tie together the viewpoints of George Eliot and the Vedas. ‘I glean material from across the globe, finding both commonalities and diversities,’ she once said. As one of India’s most distinguished philosophers – a member of the philosophy department at the University of Delhi for thirty years who also taught in the United States and Britain – she became a scholar of Gandhi and was convinced that he held the ‘key to understanding India’. On arriving in India as a young bride in 1946, Margaret had, she later wrote in her memoirs, felt like ‘a fish out of water’. Her interest in Gandhi started when she met Nirmal Kumar Bose, an anthropologist who had worked with Gandhi in the struggle for independence, in Calcutta in the late 1940s. She often accompanied him when he was invited to give talks and spent afternoons at his home discussing Gandhian thought. She eventually published six books about Gandhi. No writer wrote as much about him as she did, dwelling on his philosophy and religious thought, as well as history and politics. An obsessive, committed writer, with a lucid pen, she produced dozens more books and wrote on Kant, Hegel, Schlegel, Bertrand Russell, Aurobindo and Karl Jaspers, among others. She wrote too on the philosophy of language, art, poetry, music and nature, and was an energetic lecturer, known to her students in Delhi as ‘Margaret-di’. She was also firm and

assertive, and once enjoyed politely pulling up a Hari Krishna devotee in Oxford for wearing his dhoti incorrectly. Always fiercely independent and ever the philosopher, she saw her last two years spent with her son and daughterin-law as a ‘new phase of life’, remarking that it was the first time she had been looked after by others. When she could not find someone to repair notes on her beloved piano, which she had often played to friends, she winked and said, ‘I am learning to play pieces that do not need those reeds.’

MARGARET CHATTERJEE

Margaret Hickman Gantzer was born in London in 1925, the daughter of Edith (née Hickman) and Norman Gantzer, a civil servant. Her family’s origins were in Germany, and her mother’s family had interests in printing and publishing. Her parents were public speakers and active in the Labour Party. Margaret was taken to public meetings to hear the best of left-wing orators, including Ernest Bevin and Ellen Wilkinson. During the early war years, she lived in Dorset, where she attended Poole and then Parkstone grammar schools. Her school certificate year was spent ‘largely in air-raid shelters’. School friends included Jewish refugees. She went to Oxford as an exhibitioner to read Modern Greats at Somerville College, where her contemporaries included Margaret Thatcher. At Oxford, she also met Nripendranath Chatterjee – and then everything changed. They married in 1946 and left for India later that year. At first they toured rural Bengal, where her husband worked in the Indian Administrative Service. Coming to India was her dream, although it was accompanied by illness and babies in quick succession. The early days in Bengal were spent mainly with her large marital family. Something of a polyglot already, with knowledge of Latin, French and German, she concentrated on acquiring Bengali and Hindi. She later wrote of her close relationship with her mother-in-law, ‘Ma’, who had had thirteen children when Margaret first met her. As a high-caste Brahmin, Ma lived closeted in a small space, and was responsible for the vegetarian cooking in the house. Margaret also met Yehudi Menuhin in Calcutta in 1952 as well as Joachim Wach, who belonged to the Mendelssohn family. She was an admirer of Felix Mendelssohn and had seen his original scores. Pleased with the written questions he had received from the audience after delivering a lecture in Calcutta, Wach asked to meet the ‘gentleman who had provided such knowledgeable comments’. Margaret went up to introduce herself.

When the family moved to Delhi, she read for a PhD at the University of Delhi, and, in 1956, began to teach in the philosophy department, where she would remain, eventually with a chair, until retirement at the age of 65 in 1990. Retirement was something of a misnomer, for she took up a Spalding fellowship at Oxford in 1991 and continued to churn out ‘a hundred’ books. ‘Oxford teaches you to write!’ she once said with typically impish humour. She also enjoyed a spell as director of ‘Viceregal Lodge’ (the Indian Institute of Advanced Study) in Shimla. Her childhood love of music blossomed: she gave piano and lieder recitals on All India Radio, and for several decades was western music critic for The Statesman newspaper. She also published six volumes of her poetry between 1967 and 2005. As an amateur botanist, her interest in plants, birds and animals was reflected in her philosophical writings, and she kept up her annual visits to Britain for research and writing as long as her health permitted. She had three children: a son, Professor Malay Chatterjee, who became an architect and regional planner; and two daughters, Nilima Das, who became a schoolteacher, and Amala, a history student who died in 1973. By the end of her life, even her English was filled with Bengali expressions. Few would have guessed that she was not a born Indian. She wrote short stories set in Bengal with a cast of colourful characters. ‘What I would like to do is portray Calcutta life in the spirit that Dickens portrays London life,’ she said. For years after her husband’s death, she lived by herself in an apartment in Delhi where she enjoyed standing among the potted plants on her balcony. Her bedroom doubled as a study. She woke up very early, had a bath, washed her own clothes, watered her plants, did her exercise and was ready with her tea by the time the sun rose. Among the books she kept from childhood was an edition of The Christopher Robin Story Book given to her by her mother in 1932. According to friends, her bed was covered with books and piles of paper. ‘What is past is past,’ she often said, ‘the future beckons and the future for me always means the next book.’ Margaret Chatterjee, philosopher, was born on 13 September 1925. She died on 3 January 2019, aged 93. This obituary first appeared in The Times on 1 April 2019 and is reproduced with kind permission from The Times.

Audrey Faber (Thompson, 1944) died on 2 July 2019. A full obituary will appear in next year’s Report.

Felicity Ann Olga Sieghart (Baer, 1944) When Felicity Ann came home from school and announced that she wanted to try for both Oxford and Cambridge, her mother replied, ‘Whatever for?’ Felicity Ann’s education had hardly been a priority in the family (despite her brother being sent to Eton and Cambridge). She didn’t start school until she was seven, having learned to read, write and count from her nanny, and she missed another two years of schooling from twelve to fourteen because her mother didn’t want to waste her petrol ration. Given that, it’s remarkable that Felicity Ann ended up winning places at both Newnham and Somerville at the age of sixteen. She chose to go to Oxford because it was further from home, and her inspirational history teacher at the Hertfordshire and Essex High School had said: ‘You must go to Somerville.’ There she remembered being cold and hungry most of the time, as it was 1944, but hugely intellectually stimulated. Having already won the wartime equivalent of Junior Wimbledon, she was naturally recruited to the Oxford tennis team. And she joined Ken Tynan’s theatre troupe, enjoying a hilarious tour of the West Country, in which the stage collapsed in one church and Tynan disappeared in a volley of expletives. After Oxford, she joined the press library at Chatham House, but found referencing Canadian newspaper articles was hardly an intellectual challenge for a Somerville graduate. However, she didn’t want to teach, nor to join the Civil Service, as it still had a marriage bar. When a charming Anglo-Irish sisal planter, John Ward, asked her to marry him and to move to Mozambique, she thought this might prove to be more of an adventure than grey, austere post-war London. Adventure it was, but not a pleasant one. Portuguese-run Mozambique was hardly the hedonistic, social whirl of, say, British-run Kenya. Felicity Ann found herself isolated in a hopelessly remote place, far from interesting company, and many hours’ boneshaking drive and a canoe ride in a crocodile-infested river from any sizeable town. Still, she managed to add Swahili and Portuguese to her fluent French, German, Italian and Latin. Ward had promised her that she could return to England after one tour if she didn’t like it. He didn’t keep to his word. Unfortunately, he also contracted leprosy, and Felicity Ann didn’t believe she should abandon a husband with such a disease. So she waited until he was given the all-clear, and then left the marriage. Once back in England, she decided to drive out to Rome and found a job with the British School there, driving around the Italian countryside, mapping Etruscan remains, work that she loved. After that, she spent time at the Natural History Museum, referencing the correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks. In 1958, she met Paul Sieghart, a barrister and human rights campaigner, at a dinner party. By the end of the evening, they discovered that not only did they both know and love Italy (still rare in the 1950s); they both adored Italian church architecture, and particularly the Cosmatesque pulpit in the Duomo in Ravello. This was surely a meeting of minds. Paul already had two small children, Alister and Matilda, but their

Documentary Festival, which has just celebrated its twentyfifth anniversary. She retired in 2003, at 75, and was awarded an MBE for services to the film industry. Her achievements did not end there, however. At 76, she became probably the oldest person in the world to score two holes-in-one in one round of golf. Corals put the odds of a woman her age doing that, particularly on the difficult Aldeburgh course, at a hundred million to one – seven times harder than winning the National Lottery jackpot. Felicity Ann carried on playing golf until she was 90. She was a passionate long-distance traveller, visiting countries from Burma to Brazil, Indonesia to Peru, even in the last decade of her life. She also attended Latin poetry and English literature classes, learned bridge, devoured social history books and kept utterly up-to-date with politics and current affairs. She was never more than a few feet away from her iPad. More than anything, she was interested in people. Felicity Ann had a huge circle of friends, many of them a generation younger than her, as well as ten grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. All of them thoroughly enjoyed her lively, intelligent and forthright company. She will be greatly missed. FELICITY ANN OLGA SIEGHART

Mary Ann Sieghart, daughter

Jennet Parker Campbell (Adrian, 1945) mother had died. Felicity Ann married him in 1959 and, after William and Mary Ann arrived in 1960 and 1961, found herself looking after four children under seven. It was soon clear to her that she had a clutch of very bright children on her hands, so she started an Essex branch of the National Association for Gifted Children. Not many years later, she was chairing the charity, and she hosted a World Conference on Gifted Children in London in 1979. In 1981, she became a magistrate in the South Central district of London, which encompassed Brixton and Camberwell, then some of the roughest parts of the capital. Many of the Brixton rioters came up before her, and her experience was fed into Lord Scarman’s inquiry into the causes of the riots. By 1989, she was elected Chairman of the South Central Bench. After her husband Paul died of lung cancer in 1988, Felicity Ann bought a holiday house in Aldeburgh, on the Suffolk coast. She had long enjoyed summers there, both as a small child herself, and with her own children. She particularly liked the golf course, and she was an accomplished golfer, with a handicap at one point as low as six. Once she reached the compulsory retirement age from the Bench at 70, she moved full-time to Aldeburgh. But with her ever-restless and curious mind, Felicity Ann was reluctant merely to sit back and socialise. So, when the Managing Director of the independent Aldeburgh Cinema asked her if she would like to take over the job, she leapt at the opportunity. The cinema was financially precarious at its best, and was always reliant on blockbusters to cross-subsidise the more arthouse, recherché films. But Felicity Ann brought it back to financial health, refurbished it, and introduced the Aldeburgh

Jennet Campbell was a lifelong educator and champion of music for all. She was awarded an MBE in 2011 for services to music and education in Cornwall. Jennet was born into a high-powered academic family in Cambridge. Both her mother Hester Adrian and grandmother Ellen Pinsent were awarded DBEs. Her father Edgar Douglas Adrian was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge and a Nobel Prize-winning electrophysiologist. With the outbreak of World War II, Jennet was evacuated at the age of twelve with her twin brother Richard to Pennsylvania, to be cared for by American families in the scientific fraternity. Here she spent four formative years at Swarthmore High School. Returning to England in 1944 she read English at Somerville where she formed a close friendship with Margery Fry who became her landlady when she went on to study the flute with Geoffrey Gilbert at the Guildhall. In 1948 she went to Music Camp, where young professionals and gifted amateurs gathered to live frugally and communally, rehearsing major choral and orchestral works. Jennet recruited instrumentalists from Camp to play for the Falmouth Opera Singers. Run by her cousins Maisie and Evelyn Radford, this opera group pioneered the first performances in English of Mozart’s Clemenza di Tito (1930) and Idomeneo (1931) and was where Jennet’s commitment to music in Cornwall began. It was also at Music Camp that Jennet met her husband Peter Campbell. After marriage in 1953, Jennet embarked on a life bringing up three children, teaching and a daunting list of voluntary commitments. She taught English at Mortlake Secondary

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Modern and St Paul’s Girls’ School, woodwind at the Royal Ballet School and Barnes Comprehensive School. She and her husband were both on the original committee for the Chelsea Opera Group. She was a member of the Plowden Committee on education, marked exams to keep abreast of the curriculum, was a magistrate in the Juvenile Courts and chaired committees for CVS, CAB, Mind and Cruse. She also ran a children’s orchestra in her living room on a Sunday afternoon and during the school holidays in Cornwall she founded the St Anthony Players which gave concerts and musical experience to young musicians for twenty-four years.

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Moving to Cornwall permanently in 1978, Jennet started on her mission to get an instrument into the hands of every child in her local village school where she became a governor, teaching whoever wanted to learn for free and usually finding a way of providing an instrument too. She also travelled regularly to the Scilly Isles to give woodwind lessons, similarly for free. She edited the Roseland magazine, gave lectures for the WEA on English Literature, taught woodwind for the County Music Service, ran the Tregye Festival Players and set up a community youth concert band, ‘St Anthony’s Noyse’. She also took over the running of the Radford Trust, a charity providing grants and instruments to young musicians in the county. Her way with music was utterly practical, generous and inclusive. Jennet was pre-deceased by her husband Peter and son Richard. She is survived by her two daughters and four grandchildren. Emma Campbell, daughter

Erica died of cancer on 11 October 2018 after a mercifully short final illness. She leaves her husband, three daughters, six grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Erica was a true child of Somerville in that she never ceased academic pursuits: while coping with a family she added a degree in Classics and a diploma in Italian to her Oxford History degree; she was never happier than when she could take someone on in argument, either in person or in letters to friends. Many of the books in her large collection are interleaved with cuttings – reviews, biographies, or snippets of her own comments. Yet she also loved young children and was inventive in her dealings with them, designing and embroidering samplers for all the youngsters. Born in Blackheath in 1932, she attended Blackheath High School and was evacuated with them at the beginning of the Second World War to Walthamstow Hall in Sevenoaks. When that was damaged by bombing she was taken to Pontisford in Shropshire. She had very happy memories of the freedom they enjoyed in the gardens there and the pets (unofficial but tolerated) kept by some of the girls. She was very fond of ‘Nurse’, Miss Smith, who later became Domestic Bursar at St Anne’s College in Oxford. She met her husband Eric when as students they volunteered at the Common Cold Research Centre in Salisbury – rumour has it their names first drew them together – and they married in the spring after leaving Oxford. His work with County Councils took them to many places round the country,

including Chester, Nottingham and Peterlee in County Durham. Here, she remembered how the miners’ weekly free coal was left on the pavement outside their houses. She was also touched by the wives’ custom of putting a silver coin under the pram pillow for a new baby. She began teaching immediately on leaving Somerville, then became a librarian, and later most enjoyed teaching Latin and Classical Studies. After a spell living in Blackheath where she taught at Blackheath High School and at Haberdasher’s Aske’s Hatcham Girls’ School, the family settled in Bristol. It was here she completed her Classics degree, begun part-time at Birkbeck while she was working during the day and bringing up three girls. Her Head of Classics at Red Maids School in Bristol commends her for paying as much attention to less able children as to the willing and bright ones, and mentions ‘a memorable trip to Italy where Erica took over from a rather ineffective guide and impressed us all, and a number of bystanders, by her knowledge and enthusiasm.’ She and her husband loved long-distance walking, and for many years explored the Vosges and the Black Forest. They also regularly visited Tresco in the Scilly Isles with their everincreasing family. She was bitterly disappointed not to be able to join the party of nineteen to Tresco in July 2018 because of an operation, but she did have a happy few days in Somerville only the September before she died. Eric, her husband of sixty-three years, writes: ‘I think of her firstly as honest, loyal and committed. When we became engaged during our last year at Oxford, she said she saw marriage as a demanding undertaking, and knew that resolution would be needed to overcome its difficulties – not perhaps a romantic view, but one that was characteristic of her maturity and lack of sentimentality. She had, too, a quick intelligence and sense of humour. We had a long and happy married life, and each day I knew I was fortunate to be married to Erica.’ Helen Bond (Wilman, 1951)

Anthea Bell (1954) In 1991 Anthea Bell joined a panel discussion at a conference of Pen International, the writers’ association, on the challenges of literary translation. As she recounted years later for the BBC: ‘Just before our event, a famous pundit who shall be nameless swept in, and announced from the stage that all translation was by definition pointless, useless and downright bad. She then read aloud a good deal of poetry in Spanish with no concessions to anyone in the audience who didn’t know the language, and swept out again without giving any time for questions.’ Bell was alarmed. With remorseless logic, she dissected the critique by the unnamed pundit (Germaine Greer) and upheld the importance of what she called the invisible translator. For the rest of her career she argued, whenever asked, that the art

of translation was to render an author’s words so cogently into another language that the reader is unable to tell that the book is a translation. Making available to English speakers the glories of literature in other languages was Bell’s vocation. In a career stretching over fifty years, she ranked among the great translators of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. She was celebrated by readers of all ages for her rendering of a French bande dessinée (comic strip) by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo depicting Gauls in the year 50 BC holding out against Roman invasion. That the exploits of Asterix became an international rather than exclusively French phenomenon is due in large part to Bell’s inventiveness and wit. She translated the entire Asterix oeuvre, except the thirty-seventh (and most recent) volume, transforming it into a small masterwork of English comic fiction. Asterix formed only a fraction of an output that made Bell one of the most prolific translators in the English-speaking world. Her works encompassed Franz Kafka, Sigmund Freud and W G Sebald, along with a range of modern German and French authors. Publishers referred to her as the grande dame of literary translation. Anthea Bell was born in Redisham, in Suffolk, in 1936, the eldest of three children. Her father was the writer and farmer Adrian Bell, whose abilities with lateral thinking (he compiled the first Times crossword in 1930 and thousands more for the newspaper thereafter) she credited with sparking her fascination with wordplay. Her brother, Martin, is a former BBC war correspondent – ‘the man in the white suit’ – who later became an independent MP. Bell was educated at Talbot Heath School in Bournemouth. She was not happy as a boarder, but she excelled in languages and literature. She went to Somerville College, Oxford, in 1954 to read English. In her first term at Oxford, Bell was introduced by a family friend to a student at Worcester College, Antony Kamm, five years her senior and a talented sportsman who played first-class county cricket. They married in 1957, on Bell’s graduation, and had two sons: the elder, Richard, is an academic, and the younger is the Times writer Oliver Kamm. In deference to the wishes of her in-laws and her mother, Marjorie, and with intense disappointment, she abandoned the idea of an academic career and went to secretarial college. The first work Bell translated, at her husband’s suggestion, was an award-winning German children’s book by Otfried Preussler, published in English as The Little Water-Sprite in 1961. Bell did this with her first child in a carry-cot by her side. Once asked how many dozen books she had translated, she was startled into answering: ‘Oh, not dozens, hundreds.’ Indeed, over her career, she translated about 250. British publishers who knew of the Asterix books initially regarded them as untranslatable, but Brockhampton Press eventually bought the rights and the first volume, Asterix the

Gaul, appeared in English in 1969. Critical consensus is that the translations are true to the spirit of the French versions while being totally original in their Anglophone wit, cultural references and excruciating puns. Hence the tiny white canine Idéfix is, in English, Dogmatix; the tuneless bard Assurancetourix becomes Cacofonix; and Roman adversaries include such characters as Infirmofpurpus, Tremensdelirius and Squareonthehypotenus. She named the druid who makes the magic potion Getafix, a reference that must have brought a knowing smile to the faces of readers emerging blinking from the Age of Aquarius. Bell and Kamm divorced in 1973, whereupon Bell decided to make a career as a freelance translator. She moved from Leicester to Cambridge in the 1980s after her children left home. The same sense of wit that informed Asterix helped Bell to appreciate the writings of Kafka, whose English language reputation is bedevilled by some flat-footedly reverential translations by early admirers. Bell translated Kafka’s most famous work, The Castle, for Oxford World’s Classics, restoring the humour in the absurdism. As a German specialist Bell translated many works on the catastrophic history of Europe during the Third Reich and of the Jews. The reputation in English of the novelist Stefan Zweig, a victim of Nazism who exemplified the learning and ethical humanism of scattered central-European Jewry, has been restored in recent years largely through Bell’s new translations of his works. The greatest single achievement of Bell’s career was her translation of Austerlitz by W G Sebald, a novel based on the experience of the Kindertransport, under which refugee Jewish children came to Britain from Germany between 1938 and 1940. The book won multiple awards for both author and translator. Among other works illuminating this era, Bell translated the unintentionally remarkable memoir Until the Final Hour by Traudl Junge, Hitler’s secretary in the bunker, which formed the basis for the film Downfall. The book was not published until 2002 and raised questions about responsibility amid evil, being in effect a chronicle of domesticity by a naive girl who is ignorant of the barbarism wreaked by the tyrant she served. Bell’s work also encompassed the post-war history of Germany, including the memoirs of the former chancellor Willy Brandt and a history by the journalist Stefan Aust of the far-left BaaderMeinhof terrorist group. The novelist Julia Franck, who as a child experienced nine months with her family in a refugee camp en route from East Germany to the west, was a favourite author of Bell’s. It was a meeting of minds. Bell won numerous awards, some of them several times, including the Independent foreign fiction prize. Until becoming too frail, she travelled widely to address literary festivals, where she would talk without notes for her allotted hour with a rapt audience on the nature of the translated word. Bell might have excelled in other fields had she chosen them. Aged 24 she wrote a monograph on the children’s author E Nesbit that is still cited in the scholarly literature. She wrote

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two historical novels in the 1980s yet, regarding them as mere fripperies, she resolutely excluded them from lists of her published works. She was a talented cook: when arranging to meet her to discuss translation commissions, editors cannily angled for invitations to visit her at lunchtime. Hers was a quiet, rather old-fashioned presence; she was graceful, courteous and well liked. Americans found her the epitome of the English lady as they liked to think of her and perhaps seldom found her. After her divorce she had suitors, but preferred a solitary life with her books, garden and cats. She bred prize-winning Birmans – beautiful smoky-coloured cats who fitted the place without disturbing its quiet atmosphere. Anthea Bell OBE, translator, was born on 10 May 1936. She died two years after suffering a stroke, on 18 October 2018, aged 82. This obituary first appeared in The Times on 20 October 2018 and is reproduced with the kind permission of The Times.

Miranda Villiers (McKenna, 1954) Miranda was born in London in August 1935, the eldest of three daughters of David McKenna and Lady Cecilia Keppel. Her mother was a daughter of the ninth Earl of Albemarle and her father was the son of the distinguished Liberal statesman Reginald McKenna. Her childhood was spent in various houses in London and the country including Quidenham, the Keppel family seat in Norfolk. Several members of Miranda’s family on both sides were exceptionally musical and notable for their intellectual and artistic achievements, and their close friends included the painter Henry Lamb and the architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, Miranda’s godfather. Miranda’s great-aunt was Gertrude Jekyll, the eminent garden designer, and the writer Violet Trefusis was her cousin. Miranda was educated at Cheltenham Ladies’ College. From there, she came to Somerville, in what she herself described as an attempt to escape the rather restrictive environment of her home life. She read Greats, her love of Classics took wing, and she made many life-long friends. Her devotion to Oxford and to Somerville remained with her for the rest of her life, as well as playing a part in her conversion to Catholicism, which coincidentally happened at about the same time as the conversion at Cambridge of her future husband, John Villiers. John and Miranda were married at the London Oratory in July 1958 and began their married life in a tiny medieval cottage in Cambridge, which John had bought for £900. A year later they moved to Lisbon, where John researched in the Portuguese archives for his PhD, while Miranda taught English to a class of mainly Portuguese children at the International School. In 1960 John completed his PhD, he and Miranda returned to England and their first child, Daniel, was born. John applied to join the overseas service of the British Council and was posted to Bandung, Java. Miranda followed him soon after the birth of Daniel. There then ensued four exciting years during which John and Miranda together ran a large library, taught a variety of subjects at several Javanese universities, had their second child, Cecilia, and lived through the dangerous days of Sukarno’s ‘Confrontasi’ against the creation of the Malaysian Federation, which had led ultimately to the tumultuous collapse of his regime and the expulsion of the British Council from Indonesia. After Bandung came postings to Warsaw, Athens, Bucharest and Jakarta, interspersed with spells in the Council’s Headquarters in London. Always Miranda found interesting and intellectually rewarding things to do, including teaching Classics at Lancing College, obtaining an O level in Chinese, taking the Foreign Office exams in foreign languages, and singing wherever she could find a choir, including the London Symphony Chorus and the Brighton Symphony Chorus. Her experience of totalitarian regimes gave her a profound dislike and distrust of all of them, but she took a lively interest in their rich and ancient cultures.

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In 1967 she and John bought from a colleague in Warsaw for the princely sum of £80 a plot of land on a deserted beach on the Greek island of Andros. They had no idea whether they would be able to do anything with it. So it seemed almost miraculous when only a few weeks later John was posted to Athens. As soon as they arrived in Greece, they took a ferry to Andros and built a house there. This house soon became the centre of their family life, providing much-needed continuity and stability in their peripatetic existence. When the family finally reassembled in England, first in Brighton and then in Battersea, Miranda embarked on a new career as a Parliamentarian, working as PA until the end of the century to a series of MPs. Miranda devoted much time and energy to supporting charitable causes, among them the Society of Our Lady of Lourdes, for which she worked for twenty-four years as a helper for sick pilgrims at Lourdes, served twice on the Society’s Council, edited its journal Pilgrims’ Way, and with John wrote its history, In the Service of Our Lady. She also served for many years on the Committee of the Friends of Queen Alexandra’s House. She took a great interest in the extended Keppel family and in 2003 co-founded the Keppel Association, which as its Secretary she organised with great dedication almost until the

day of her death. Nor did she neglect her old college. To her surprise she was elected Chairman of the Somerville London Group and she organised many of their most successful events and activities. In 2001 Miranda and John moved to a converted barn in North Norfolk. Here Miranda, energy and creativity undiminished, created a magnificent garden. Here too she entertained a steady stream of friends and family. At about the same time she and John acquired a pied à terre in Camden, from where they made frequent trips abroad, especially to their beloved Andros. Miranda suffered serious heart problems six years before her death but she did not allow these to curtail her activities and the final diagnosis of acute leukaemia was only confirmed a week before her sudden and unexpected death at home on 30 March 2019. She is survived by her husband, one son and three daughters. John Villiers

Rosemarie Ann Swinfen (Pettit, 1956) Ann Swinfen was a fine scholar, teacher and novelist. She was born in Akron, Ohio, in 1937, of English and American parents, and lived until her mid-teens on the east coast of the United States. There she learned to sail, ride and sing – she once sang a solo in Washington Cathedral. At Wroxeter School in Maryland she came under the tutelage of the Revd Charlie Danner, an inspirational teacher who introduced her to Chaucer and Shakespeare, and encouraged her dreams of one day going to Oxford. When she was sixteen, she came to live permanently in England, and enrolled in Wolverhampton High School for Girls. Here, amongst other subjects, she studied Latin and taught herself Classical Greek – so well in fact that she was invited to teach the junior class and won a scholarship in Classics to Somerville. After she came up she changed to Mathematics, leading in due course to both an MA and MSc. We were married in 1960, in what was then St Peter’s-inthe-East. After we moved to Dundee in 1963 (I had been appointed to an Assistantship at Queen’s College) Ann enrolled as a distance learning student in English Literature at London University, gaining a first along the way. Simultaneously she wrote a doctoral thesis for Dundee, later published (and soon to be republished) by Routledge as In Defence of Fantasy. And all this while bringing up our five lovely children, Tanya, Michael, Katrina, Nikki and Richard. In the years that followed Ann did a variety of jobs – as a translator of Russian Mathematics texts for Pergamon Press (having first taught herself Russian for the purpose); as a tutor for the Open University, where she was elected to the Governing Council; as a lecturer on Books for Children in the Extra-mural Department of Dundee University; as a researcher for the University’s Department of Medical Education; as a technical author for the computer company ICL; as the founder, organiser and presenter for fifteen years of Dundee

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Book Events, bringing talented authors to Dundee to present their latest books and meet their readers – the list goes on. More recently, however, she was becoming increasingly committed to writing (and self-publishing) her own hugely successful novels – more than twenty of them now – mostly in the genre of historical fiction. Her research for the novels has been meticulous. I believe that this venture has brought her more personal satisfaction than all the others. In addition to several stand-alone novels, Ann’s books are arranged in three series. The first of these – The Chronicles of Christoval Alvarez – tells the story of a Portuguese Jewish girl, the daughter of a medical professor at Coimbra University, who comes to Elizabethan London disguised as a man to escape the Spanish Inquisition, and finds employment as a code-breaker for Sir Francis Walsingham. The shorter Fenland series is set in Cromwellian East Anglia, as powerful men seek to appropriate the fertile land of the fens to their own profit. The Oxford Murder Mystery series, set in the years immediately following the Black Death, charts the adventures of the University’s leading bookseller and his engaging family, in a number of intriguing Tales. When the news of Ann’s death was reported on Facebook, the response from literally hundreds of her readers was immediate and heart-warming. David Swinfen

Jean Lesley Fooks (Scott, 1958) Jean Fooks’s death was front page news in the Oxford press. She had become extremely well-known in Oxford in recent decades as a City Councillor from 1992 and County Councillor from 2001, representing several areas of North Oxford. She had a formidable reputation as the councillor who would get things done. She found the fame hard to live comfortably with, always seeing herself as a very ordinary person. She was particularly emphatic that nothing was to be made of the fact that she was Lord Mayor of Oxford 2017-18. It was a role she filled with her usual interest in people, education, the environment and European links. She valued far more the title Honorary Alderman, awarded just before she died, recognising, as it did, commitment to the work of Oxford City Council far above and beyond the normal dedication of councillors. As a Liberal Democrat Councillor, Jean tried to bring people together: the City and the University; the City Council and the County Council; neighbours with different views and ‘the Rich and the Poor’. There is only space to pick out a few details from her long career. As a member of the city executive, she oversaw the introduction of fortnightly non-recycling collections and wheelie bins. Oxford’s bins hit the national headlines. She persevered and weathered the occasion when the BBC set her up with an interview in front of specially-created piles of rubbish. Time has justified her vision and she was respected by the staff and officers, not least for accompanying them on an early morning round. Very conscious of her training as a scientist, she worked on the problem of the poor air quality in Oxford: reducing congestion, promoting pedestrianisation and environmentally-friendly buses, whilst fighting for continued bus services in deprived areas. One vision yet to be achieved is the reinstatement of the Canal Basin. Jean was never one to walk by on the other side. She stopped to talk to the homeless, she rang the appropriate officer about a missing buoyancy aid, she picked up litter and she pushed for trees and flower beds. She fought for public toilets, bus shelters and play areas. She never let anyone forget that North Oxford contained substantial pockets of deprivation. In the brief time since she moved to Somerset for her planned retirement, she had already started to ring the council to correct their signage of road closures.

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correspondence; she was terrier-like in following up issues and she remembered people and took an ongoing interest in their welfare. Jean agreed to be Sheriff of Oxford in 2011 on condition she performed on horseback the annual duty of rounding up the animals on Port Meadow. She was a keen horsewoman and enjoyed riding on Exmoor. Jean came from a family with strong traditions of education and public service. Her father was a grammar school headmaster, who had read Greats at Christ Church; her grandparents were missionaries in India and her aunt founded St Aidan’s College, Durham. Political and social discussion were woven into family life and it could get noisy!

Young people were important to her: she was an active school governor and took the role of corporate parent extremely seriously, encouraging children in care to follow their dreams. She invited the children from Frideswide’s school into the Lord Mayor’s parlour. In earlier days, she ran a church youth club.

Jean’s first choice of subject was Maths but she was told that girls did not read Maths, so she applied for Physics. Somerville offered her a scholarship, whilst Cambridge rejected her. She always focused on theoretical physics as far as possible. At Oxford, she was active in the ‘Joint Action Committee Against Racial Intolerance’ in South Africa. Her first job was as the first female scientific officer at the Radio and Space Research Station in Slough where she published papers on the ionosphere.

At times, especially when at home with children, Jean felt outclassed by the prominent achievements of other Somervillians. Nonetheless, for decades she worked intensely and unrelentingly at street level. She knocked on every door in her wards at every election; she attended surgeries, even outdoors in the rain; she always responded to messages and

She and her husband Geoffrey were both keen Europeans and they went to work at the European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany for a few years. Jean spoke her mother’s native Danish and she also learnt German, which she used in the close twinning links between Oxford and Bonn. Last year, as Lord Mayor, she enjoyed a very warm welcome in Leiden.

They had two children: myself and my younger sister Monica. While we were young, Jean devoted herself to her gardens. Following divorce, when money was tight, the fruit and vegetables she grew were vital. Trees, plants and the environment were always enormously important to her. She taught Maths and Physics for a while but returned to programming, first in business and then for medical research, publishing papers on leukaemia and premature babies. Monica, herself an inveterate campaigner against poverty and oppression, killed herself aged twenty-five due to manic depression, despite Jean’s vigorous attempts to secure treatment for her. Jean and Geoffrey worked with Dame Fiona Caldicott to set up the Monica Fooks Memorial Lecture at Somerville, beginning 2002. They were keen to promote research and good practice and to support GPs in their crucial role. They especially hoped to inspire medical students to work in mental health. It attracts eminent lecturers and is a highlight of the year in the field. Jean operated at a personal level. To deal with a problem, she would often ring up someone she knew. She always spoke to people on public transport and made several good friends by doing so. One had to allow extra time to walk across Oxford with her as she stopped frequently to talk, often to one of her ‘best constituents’. The reaction to her sudden and unexpected death from cancer, so shortly after her retirement to Somerset, shows how much of a difference she made. Carolyn Naylor (Fooks, 1985), daughter

Judith Elizabeth Kazantzis (Pakenham, 1958) Judith Kazantzis, who has died aged 78, was a prolific, awardwinning poet. Her lifelong passion for weaving words together in playful and intriguing ways mirrored her simultaneous commitment to making connections in life and politics, between love and activism, and, as an artist, between words and images. Judith formed part of an impressive generation of women poets including Fleur Adcock, Gillian Clarke, Alison Fell and Penelope Shuttle, who were raising their voices in a maledominated poetry world. She examined the traps and seductions of power relationships, domestic, sexual, social. She could be savagely witty; never didactic. New wine demanded new bottles: beginning with Minefield (1977) she composed spare, tightly controlled free verse unafraid of gaps and jumps. She employed a vernacular that could be tart, bawdy, lyrical, satirical by turns. Some of these pioneering early poems explore the role of women in myths and fairy-tales, as powerful but vulnerable goddesses, as angry drudges, as ambivalent mothers, as contradictory daughters. Angela Carter and Sara Maitland, along with others, were doing this in prose; Judith challenged a Western poetic tradition that named women more as muses

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and monsters than as makers. In the essay she contributed to Michelene Wandor’s 1983 anthology On Gender and Writing, Judith explained how she re-drafted Clytemnestra, for example, ‘not as a crazy bitch, but as a human being with strong passions and good reasons’. In the 1980s Judith began to publish collections, such as A Poem for Guatemala (1986) and Flame Tree (1988), that made strong political statements. Her collection Just after Midnight (2004) reveals how, if she was writing tender elegies for the personally-known dead, she was also creating memorials to witness those dying in Tiananmen Square, or in Jenin camp on the West Bank. Despite their subject matter appearing explicit, despite their forensic exactness, often her poems refuse easy readings, do not offer neatly tied-up endings. She could be a poet of Negative Capability, able to rest in not-knowing, relying on the reader to do the same. Throughout her life Judith developed her artist’s practice, working in watercolour, scraperboard and printmaking, learning from and collaborating with artists such as Carolyn Trant, showing her work in local exhibitions or at home. Despite chronic, debilitating back pain, she supported and befriended younger artists, and mentored younger poets, sharing her expertise. Judith was born in 1940 in Oxford, the fourth child of Frank and Elizabeth Pakenham (Lord and Lady Longford). One of the last debutantes to be presented at Court as part of the Season, subsequently she refused to use her title. She attended convent school and then won an exhibition to read History at

Somerville. She married Alec Kazantzis in 1963, and with him had two children, Miranda and Arthur. During the 1970s she worked for the first Women’s Liberation Workshop in London, became a member of the Women’s Literature Collective, reviewed poetry for Spare Rib and other journals, and taught writing via the Inner London Education Authority. She married her second husband, the American writer Irving Weinman, in 1998. They spent regular time in Key West, Florida, where Irving taught, then settled in Lewes, Sussex, where both of them became actively involved in politics. Judith campaigned against modern slavery, the arms trade, nuclear weapons, illegal occupations; against all abuses of power. Judith published twelve collections of poetry in all. In 2007 she received the Society of Authors Cholmondeley Award. She is survived by Miranda and Arthur, by two stepchildren, by her siblings Antonia, Thomas, Rachel, Michael and Kevin, and by a wide extended family. Michèle Roberts, 1967

Claire Marie Donovan (Baker, 1971)

Verity Joubert (Curry, 1972)

I sat next to Claire at the Somerville Carol Concert in 2017 and as we walked back in the same direction to our respective homes we became friends.

Verity grew up in Epsom, Surrey with parents George and Alison, elder brothers Nick and Tim. She was the cleverest girl in the school and she was given special permission to study science A Levels at the boys’ school. She went on to win a place at Somerville College, Oxford, to read Chemistry.

Claire had been educated at Oxford High School before studying English and History of Art at the University of London. In 1972 she gained a postgraduate diploma at Somerville and in 1981 a PhD from the University of East Anglia. Her PhD subject, ‘The Early Development of the Illustrated Book of Hours in England c1240-1350’, was published as a book in 1981. Claire was working on a new book about the Winchester Bible and the books of Bishop Henry of Blois, for publication in 2020, at the time of her death. Before coming back to Oxford Claire had lived in Littlehempston, Devon, where she and her husband Colin Platt transformed the medieval church to be a useful multipurpose space for everyone. Amongst other positions Claire had been an honorary research fellow at the University of Exeter, Deputy Principal of Dartington College of Arts, and trustee of the Poltimore Trust. Claire was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a member of the Kelmscott Campaign Group, supporting conservation, regeneration and increasing visitor numbers to Kelmscott Manor, William Morris’s home. On 28 March she gave a fascinating talk in Exeter College Chapel focusing on William Morris’s love of books and medieval manuscripts, his collection of important early books and their association with the creation of the Kelmscott Press. Claire was no dry academic but a warm, friendly person, creator of a beautiful home, wonderful cook, lover of art and the Italian language, proud mother of her two sons Giles and Dunstan and her young granddaughter, and much loved friend and neighbour. She will be sadly missed. Judith Collier (1975)

VERITY JOUBERT

At Oxford Verity spent much of her free time developing her exceptional musical talents. As a child she had sung regularly in church (frequently accompanied by her brother Nick on the organ). In early adulthood she sang soprano at a professional level. After Oxford she joined Peat Marwick (now KPMG) and qualified as a chartered accountant (ACA). She met Christopher Joubert in the mid-1970s, and Christopher and Verity were married in 1978. In her mid-twenties she was also diagnosed with the Type 1 diabetes which would cast a shadow over much of her adult life. Determined to live life to the full, she was able to have a child, Katy, in 1981, but decided for health reasons not to risk further pregnancies. Christopher, Verity and Katy lived in Wimbledon throughout Katy’s childhood. After leaving KPMG, Verity worked part-time at a local accountancy firm in Wimbledon, Reay & King, then later joined St Paul’s Girls’ School and latterly St Paul’s Boys’ School as School Accountant/Deputy Bursar. The Jouberts’ home was a place of great friendship and welcome to all. Verity and Christopher took a liberal approach to parenting, preferring to let their daughter make her own mistakes and making sure that she and her friends knew that they could always find assistance and security when needed. There was great tolerance and even joy for Verity in hosting her daughter’s friends and ensuring an open and welcoming house.

Throughout her life, Verity enjoyed playing games which exercised her brain, particularly bridge and word games. In the 1990s she was encouraged by her family to audition for Countdown and to her great surprise she won four games on the bounce, meaning that she qualified as seventh seed for the quarter finals. Katy went up to Leeds with her for the knockout matches and, to their great surprise and glee, Verity went all the way – winning the three matches needed to become Series Champion of Series 30. This was as near to global fame as Verity ever got! After Katy left home, Verity moved to Cambridge and then Waterbeach where she worked as Deputy Bursar at the Perse School before retiring due to ill health in 2011. She spent the last few years of her life as she had lived before: constantly making new friends (particularly through her love of playing bridge as an entry into Cambridge social life), hosting people in her home, and of course spending time with her family including Mary and Bart after they arrived in 2010 and 2014 respectively. Christopher moved to Cambridge too, and spent a great deal of time in Waterbeach with Verity, where he cared for her unstintingly and unselfishly. Kate Astley, daughter MAUREEN SLEEMAN

Maureen Mary Bridget Sleeman (Rough, 1980) Maureen died at her home in Penzance on 30 April 2019. She valued kindness and love above everything. Always curious about life, she was also funny. Just before she died she told a friend, ‘If I weren’t dying, this would be so interesting!’ Maureen was born in Upton on The Wirral. When she was thirteen her father died suddenly. It was a loss she felt keenly all her life. After working conscientiously at Birkenhead High School, Maureen was awarded an exhibition to read English at Somerville. She loved Oxford, delighting in the place and the people she met there. She was looking forward to visiting Somerville next year for the fortieth anniversary gaudy. After gaining her PGCE from Nottingham University she taught in Bournemouth and Calne before becoming Head of English at Warwick Preparatory School. She cared deeply about her pupils, relishing their achievements, always striving to bring out the best in them. She wanted them to love learning as much as she did. Maureen married David after meeting on holiday in Greece. She transformed David’s townhouse in Penzance into a beautiful home for them. She became a skilled gardener. Plants flourished in every room and the back yard became a colourful Mediterranean-style courtyard where flowers and fragrances reminded them of their travels. Maureen immersed herself in her work as West Cornwall Women’s Aid Volunteer Co-ordinator, leaving a valuable legacy in the body of volunteers she had trained. One of them recalls her warmth: ‘Maureen could light up a room. She was the dearest, brightest, the best of women. She had such curiosity about new possibilities. She joined up thoughts and ideas,

collecting them like jewels, stringing them together to create something that was always uniquely her own’. Recognition came in 2017 when the charity won the Queen’s Award for Volunteering. Maureen and David visited her mother regularly on The Wirral and worked tirelessly to enable her to stay in her own home. Writing was Maureen’s passion. A number of her travel articles were published in newspapers and magazines. She also wrote several books and, before her cancer diagnosis, had decided to retire to concentrate on writing. Amongst her children’s stories was ‘Holy Macaroni! The Dog who Fell through Time’. Macaroni lives in modern-day Pompeii and falls through a hole, crashlanding in the middle of Roman Pompeii. It’s a great story – funny and clever. Like Maureen, it wears its intelligence lightly and has the warmest of hearts. Children she knew read it and loved it. Maureen faced death head-on. After six months of gruelling chemotherapy she was told that the treatment had not succeeded. She knew she had only a few weeks to live but she still found joy in the natural world: the song of a blackbird, a daily visit from a bee and the warm breeze on her face. She planned her funeral in detail including meticulous instructions about the food to be served: ‘I don’t want any curled-up sandwiches at my wake!’ Maureen had made deep and lasting friendships. The church where she and David were married was packed for her funeral. People came from every chapter of her life to grieve for a special friend. Maureen loved living. She strove to be a better person and in turn those near her became better people. Towards the end, Maureen told a friend, ‘You have filled my life with story and true friendship and so so much more. How blessed am I.’ We are privileged to have known her and to have loved her. David Sleeman and Dinah Jones (1980)

Academic Report 2018-19 Examination Results UNDERGRADUATE RESULTS Ancient and Modern History

Class II.I

Benjamin Etty

History and Modern Languages Class I

Alex Crichton-Miller

Class I

Oliver Smith

Jurisprudence

Class II.I

Edmund Harding Laurie Sanderson

Class I Alastair Ahamed Alexander Wathan

Biological Sciences Class I

Atticus Albright Jai Bolton Daniel Simonsen Andrew Wood

Class II.I

Tiago Andrade Castro Benjamin Fisk

Classical Archaeology and Ancient History Class II.I Sade Clarke Finbar Kavanagh Rachel Roberts

English and Modern Languages Class I

Charlotte Kent

Class II.I

Joanna Kaye

Class II.I Ewan Fraser Amna Khalili Alexander Martiyanov Alexander Maton Wai Yan Wong

Literae Humaniores Class I

Sophia Cattermole

Class II.I Felix Clive James Cottam Sowon Lee Aidan Quinlan Claudia Swan

Mathematics Class I

Robert Harvey Wood

Class II.I Ria Chavda Gillian Parkinson

Music Class I

Philosophy and Modern Languages Class II.I Viveka Kjellberg-Motton Miriam Swallow Adler

Philosophy, Politics and Economics Class I

Master of Biochemistry Class I

Class I Lachlan Black Nathan Mattock* Benjamin Michiels Siu Ying Wong

Class I Catriona Fraser Grace Lee

Mathematics and Computer Science

Class II.I

Paul Horvath-Bojan*

European and Middle Eastern Languages

Medical Sciences

Olufisayo Noibi

Experimental Psychology

Mathematics and Statistics Class II.II

Class I

Xinya Li

Lara Reed

Class II.I Elizabeth Cooper Sarah Peters

Class II.I

Maria Allan-Burns

Modern Languages

Class II.II

Suzan Yavuz

Class I Ashley Barnard Eva Hilger Sophie Jordan

History Class I Pak Hei Hao Rachel Solomon Class II.I Tristan Alphey Maddie Culhane Abigail Marthinet-Payne

Class II.I Elizabeth Norton Hannah Thomson Emily Williams

Callum Matthews

Master of Chemistry

English Language and Literature

Class III

Kean Murphy

Class II.I William Brown Harold Collett Holly Mackay Matthew Maclay Rohan O'reilly Hannah Patrick Andy Wang

Class II.I

Class II.I Emma Line Charles MacPherson Maxwell Purkiss Poppy Stuart

Francesca Millar

Class II.I Eloise Kenny-Ryder Alice Woffenden

Class II.II Jiali Liu Thuvarakan Mathetharan

Class II.I

History and Economics

Matthew Crawford

Master of Computer Science Ioana Vasile

Master of Engineering Class I Denis Koksal-Rivet Jack Pegg Class II.I

Tim Riley

Class II.II

Peter Whales

Class III

Michael Lin

Master of Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Distinction Horia Magureanu

Master of Mathematics Class I Samuel Juniper Robin Leach Jonathan Yick Yeung Tam Class II.I James Martindale Hannah Sowter

Master of Mathematics and Computer Science Class I

Adam Hillier

Class II.II

Thomas Dowley

Master of Physics Class I

Jacob Amacker

Daniel Tucker Class II.I

Francesco D'Antonio

Neuroscience

Lev Tankelevitch

Organic Chemistry Thomas Wilson

Pharmacology Kim Wals

Bachelor of Civil Law Distinction Aishwarya Amar Gayathree Devi Kalliyat Thazhathuveetil Vandita Khanna

Distinction Gergely Csegzi*

Global Governance and Diplomacy Merit Laura Wegter

Integrated Immunology Pass Meera Madhavan* Jonathan Sheridan*

Philosophy Yuanbo Liu

POSTGRADUATE RESULTS

Computer Science

Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics Tirsa van Westering

Mathematical and Computational Finance Distinction Mees Heeringa Merit Yige Xu

Systems Biology (EPSRC CDT) Mathematics

Mathematical Sciences

Fergus Cooper Tomislav Plesa

Merit Hanhong Wei

Merit Asmita Singhvi

Theoretical Physics

Distinction Tomas Dominguez Chiozza

Neuroscience

Nicholas William Jennings

Pass Emilia Piwek*

Distinction Ain Neuhaus

Zoology

Pharmacology

Pass Grace Barnes Sacha Burgess Magnus Fugger James Goetz Daniel Overin William Sargent

Nishant Kumar

Distinction Caroline Weglinski *

Master of Business Administration

Political Theory Research

Pass Maria Azul Cimerman Sariego* Ning Yang*

Radiation Biology

Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery

Pass Rachel Drummey*

Doctor of Philosophy

Master of Philosophy

Biochemistry

Economics

Nadiya Ishnazarova Gemma Seabright

Clinical Neurosciences Hakan Cetin

Comparative Philology and General Linguistics Joseph Lovestrand

Computer Science

Modern South Asian Studies Pass

Zhongyi Huang

Navya Jannu

Water Science Policy and Management

Engineering Science

Law Tobias Lutzi Ali Pir Ataie

Statistical Science Pass Zhipeng Jiang* Chunchao Ma*

Hajar Altuwaijri* Adnan Mohamad Zahid*

Nele Pollatschek

Pass Eva Miletinova* Sreetharan Sivapatha Sundaram* Ana Filipa Vieira Noia*

Master of Philosophy by Research Law Master of Public Policy

English

Sleep Medicine Distinction Priya Maharaj*

Pass Ritika Mazumdar Lewis McLean

Filippos Lazos

Alessandro Michel Brunetti

Pass Daniel Kotecky*

Master of Science Biodiversity, Conservation and Management Pass Rowan Davis* Gabriella D'cruz*

Distinction Philip Behrens* Pass Claire Nakabugo*

Master of Science by Research Engineering Science Rowan Nicholls

Mathematics Joshua Ciappara

Master of Studies Classical Archaeology Merit Edward Aplin

Creative Writing Distinction Harriet David*

Diplomatic Studies Merit

Mohammed Sheriff Iddrisu

English

Awards to Undergraduate, Graduate and Postgraduate Students All students are asked to give their consent to their awards being listed in this publication. A number of scholarships and exhibitions have been awarded for which this consent has not been obtained, these have been listed without reference to subject or name.

Distinction Haniel Whitmore Pass Letitia Johnston Derek Mitchell

Global and Imperial History Distinction Alastair Brook

Medieval History

Barraclough Exhibition Bethan James (English Language and Literature), Rosalind Perrett (English Language and Literature), 1 Barraclough Exhibition

Endowment Exhibition Eleanor Thompson (Engineering Science)

Endowment Fund Scholarship Sophie Kuang (Engineering Science), Jun Liu (Engineering Science), Ming Ow (Engineering Science), Yinni Hu (Philosophy, Politics and Economics), Agatha Lim (Philosophy, Politics and Economics), Junseo Yoon (Philosophy, Politics and Economics), 7 Endowment Fund Scholarships

Ginsburg Scholarship Miranda Rogers (Medicine - Clinical), 1 Ginsburg Exhibition

Haynes Scholarship Beilby Exhibition Jessica Mendall (Medicine - Preclinical), Sarah Peters (Medicine - Preclinical), Lara Reed (Medicine - Preclinical)

Daniel Cubbin (Chemistry), Dorian Gabriel Muntean (Chemistry), Ryuki Nishikawa (Chemistry), Michal Pychtin (Chemistry)

Music

Beilby Scholarship

Jones Scholarship

Merit Grace Mason

Lachlan Black (Chemistry), Benjamin Michiels (Chemistry), Tommy Pitcher (Chemistry), Siu Ying Wong (Chemistry), Joseph Salf (Medicine - Preclinical), 1 Beilby Scholarship

Hannah Patient (English Language and Literature)

Distinction Megan Bunce*

Modern Languages Distinction Caroline Ridler

Slavonic Studies Distinction Nilo Pedrazzini

Murray Exhibition Matthew Pugh (Classics)

All students are offered the choice, at the start of their course, of opting out of any public list that the University or College may produce. There are therefore the following results to announce, without reference to subject or name: Undergraduate: Class I = 6, Class II.II = 18 Postgraduate: Distinction = 4, Pass = 5 This list is accurate at the time of print and some exam results may be released after this date. Results with * were released in 2017-18 after going to print, and are therefore included here.

Bentivoglio Scholarship Tsz Yau Jessamyn Chiu (Biological Sciences), Benjamin Fisk (Biological Sciences), Anna Gee (Biological Sciences), Daniel Simonsen (Biological Sciences), Andrew Wood (Biological Sciences), 4 Bentivoglio Scholarships

Brazell Exhibition Joseph Lord (Physics), 1 Brazell Exhibition

Brazell Scholarship Jacob Amacker (Physics), Francesco D'Antonio (Physics), Horia Magureanu (Physics), Vuk Radovic (Physics), Daniel Tucker (Physics), 1 Brazell Scholarship

Bryant Scholarship Hannah Ayikoru Asiki (Chemistry), Jessica Crompton (Chemistry), Lily Latimer Smith (Chemistry)

Scourse Scholarship John Henry (Medicine - Clinical), Joseph Salf (Medicine - Preclinical)

Seymour Exhibition Natasha Brickstock (Experimental Psychology)

Shaw Lefevre Exhibition Ilona Clayton (History and Modern Languages), Woo Seok Jung (Mathematics), Eve Webster (Modern Languages), 1 Shaw Lefevre Exhibition

Shaw Lefevre Scholarship Andrei Diaconu (Computer Science), Haowei Elvis Zhang (Law), Amrek Bassi (Mathematics), Ramona-Marinela Deaconu (Mathematics and Statistics), Laura Packham (Modern Languages and Linguistics), 3 Shaw Lefevre Scholarships

Exam Prizes to Undergraduates and Graduates Accurate at the time of print. * indicates Awarded in 2017-18 after going to print, and therefore included here.

Archibald Prizes (for Graduates who achieve a Distinction in examinations) Aishwarya Amar (Civil Law), Gayathree Devi Kalliyat Thazhathuveetil (Civil Law), Vandita Khanna (Civil Law), Gergely Csegzi (Computer Science)*, Sofija Ana Zovko (Creative Writing)*, Haniel Whitmore (English), Mees Heeringa (Mathematical and Computational Finance), Tomas Dominguez Chiozza (Mathematical Sciences), Ain Neuhaus (Medicine - Clinical), Megan Burnside (Medieval History)*, Caroline Ridler (Modern Languages), Saman Malik (Modern South Asian Studies), Alice Waters (Modern South Asian Studies)*, Caroline Weglinski (Pharmacology)*, Nilo Pedrazzini (Slavonic Studies), Philip Behrens (Water Science Policy and Management)*, 4 Archibald Jackson Prizes

College Prizes (for Undergraduates who achieve a First, Distinction or average of at least 70% in all examinations other than the Final Honour School) Alyssa Crabb (Biochemistry), Joshua Stott (Biochemistry), Anna Gee (Biological Sciences), Celia Hanna (Biological Sciences), Cecilia Jay (Biological Sciences), William Norton (Biological Sciences), Ajay Patel (Biological Sciences), Natalie Said (Biological Sciences), Albert Tremlett (Biological Sciences), Hannah Ayikoru Asiki (Chemistry), Jessica Crompton (Chemistry), William Hadley (Chemistry), Lily Latimer Smith (Chemistry), Dorian Gabriel Muntean (Chemistry), Ryuki Nishikawa (Chemistry), Tommy Pitcher (Chemistry), Michal Pychtin (Chemistry), Alastair Flynn (Computer Science), Sophie Kuang (Engineering Science), Jun Liu (Engineering Science), Ming Ow (Engineering Science), Devang Sehgal (Engineering Science), Eleanor Thompson

(Engineering Science), Christopher Wheeler (Engineering Science), Rebekah Cohen (English Language and Literature), Marie-Louise Klampe (Experimental Psychology), Ayesha Moore (Experimental Psychology), Edward Ashcroft (History), Ewan Connell (History), Selina Schoelles (History), Ivo Maffei (Mathematics and Computer Science), Ramona-Marinela Deaconu (Mathematics and Statistics), Anurag Choksey (Medicine - Preclinical), Jessica Mendall (Medicine - Preclinical), Zoe Bray (Modern Languages), Jack Mullis (Modern Languages), Asher Sandbach (Modern Languages and Linguistics), Meriel Cooper (Philosophy, Politics and Economics), Oluwatelemi EmmanuelAina (Philosophy, Politics and Economics), Thomas Ashton-Key (Physics), Matthew Jennings (Physics), Chuqiao Lin (Physics), Joseph Lord (Physics), Kieran Moore (Physics), Vuk Radovic (Physics), Dorcas Chua (Psychology, Philosophy and Linguistics), 12 College Prizes

Mary Somerville Prizes (for Undergraduates who achieve a First or Distinction in the Final Honour School examinations) Oliver Smith (Ancient and Modern History), Callum Matthews (Biochemistry), Daniel Simonsen (Biological Sciences), Andrew Wood (Biological Sciences), Lachlan Black (Chemistry), Benjamin Michiels (Chemistry), Siu Ying Wong (Chemistry), Grace Lee (English Language and Literature), Pak Hei Hao (History), Rachel Solomon (History), William Andrews (History and Modern Languages), Alex Crichton-Miller (History and Modern Languages), Alastair Ahamed (Jurisprudence), Sophia Cattermole (Literae Humaniores), Horia Magureanu (Mathematical and Theoretical Physics), Robert Harvey Wood (Mathematics), Robin Leach (Mathematics), Jonathan Yick Yeung Tam (Mathematics), Adam Hillier (Mathematics and Computer Science), Lara Reed (Medicine Preclinical), Ashley Barnard (Modern Languages), Eva Hilger (Modern Languages), Sophie Jordan (Modern Languages), Francesca Millar (Music), Kean Murphy (Philosophy, Politics and Economics), Irene Sibille (Philosophy, Politics and Economics), Jacob Amacker (Physics), Daniel Tucker (Physics), 13 Mary Somerville Prizes

Principal's Prizes (for Undergraduates or Graduates who scored in the top 10% or better of their subject University wide, and/or gain top marks for a dissertation or in a particular set of papers) Jessica Crompton (Chemistry), Tommy Pitcher (Chemistry), Denis KoksalRivet (Engineering Science), Charlotte Kent (English and Modern Languages), Katherine House (English Language and Literature), Claudia Rowan (English Language and Literature), Rachel Solomon (History), William Andrews (History and Modern Languages), Horia Magureanu (Mathematical and Theoretical Physics), Marie DucroizetBoitaud (Mathematics and Philosophy), Ain Neuhaus (Medicine - Clinical), Sophie Jordan (Modern Languages), Irene Sibille (Philosophy, Politics and Economics), Philip Behrens (Water Science Policy and Management), Daniel Tucker (Physics)

Postgraduate Awards Alice Horsman Scholarship Gabriella Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Cruz (Biodiversity, Conservation and Management), 5 Alice Horsman Scholarships

Somerville College Alumni Scholarships Andrew Wood (Interdisciplinary Bioscience), Pak Hei Hao (International Relations), Sarah Peters (Medicine Clinical), Francesca Millar (Music), 2 Somerville College Alumni Scholarships

Music Awards Chloe and Helen Morton Choral Scholarships Robert Harvey Wood (Mathematics), 2 Chloe and Helen Morton Choral Scholarships

Margaret Irene Seymour Music Award Joshua Grubb (Biochemistry), Brigitte Wear (Biological Sciences), Xiaoyi Ouyang (Classics), Edward Ashcroft (History), Eloise Kenny-Ryder (Music), Francesca Millar (Music), 1 Margaret Irene Seymour Music Award

Travel Awards Alcuin Travel Grant Harry Bollands (Ancient and Modern History), Arthur Eastwood (Ancient and Modern History), Emily Louise (History), Ilona Clayton (History and Modern Languages), 1 Alcuin Travel Grant

Alice Horsman Travel Grant Joseph Heidrich (Chemistry), Niall Macklin (History), William Andrews (History and Modern Languages), Matthew Maclay (Philosophy, Politics and Economics), 3 Alice Horsman Travel Grants

Anne Clements Travel Grant Anna Gee (Biological Sciences), Emily Dixon (Chemistry), Dorian Gabriel Muntean (Chemistry), Katherine Krauss (Classical Languages and Literature), Yuhang Song (Computer Science), Ming Ow (Engineering Science), Katie Inch (History), Rakib Akhtar (International Development), Navya Jannu (Law), Ain Neuhaus (Medicine - Clinical), Miranda Rogers (Medicine - Clinical), Natasha Oughton (Philosophy), 2 Anne Clements Travel Grants

Carmen Blacker Travel Grant Harry Bollands (Ancient and Modern History), Aleksandra Rutkowska (History of Art)

Hansell Travel Grant Isadora Santos De Oliveira (Business Administration), Jing Xuan Tan (Business Administration), 1 Hansell Travel Grant

Joan and Don Dixson Travel Grant Bethan James (English Language and Literature)

Luedecke Travel Grant

Other Somerville Awards Cerrie Hughes Prize Hannah Patient (English Language and Literature)

Daphne Robinson Award Agatha Lim (Philosophy, Politics and Economics)

Laura Fearn (Modern Languages)

Medical Fund Scholarship Maria and Tina Bentivoglio Travel Grant James Lucas (Biological Sciences), Cristian Trovato (Computer Science), Cameron Royle (Inorganic Chemistry), Xuejian Zhang (Inorganic Chemistry), Grace Barnes (Medicine - Clinical), Sacha Burgess (Medicine - Clinical), Magnus Fugger (Medicine - Clinical), John Henry (Medicine - Clinical), Joseph Rattue (Modern Languages), Eloise Stark (Psychiatry), 1 Maria and Tina Bentivoglio Travel Grant

Olive Sayce Travel Grant 1 Olive Sayce Travel Grant

Rhabanus Maurus Travel Grant Elinor Lamrick (Modern Languages), Joseph Rattue (Modern Languages), 2 Rhabanus Maurus Travel Grants

Rita Bradshaw Travel Grant Laurel Kaye (Astrophysics), Lachlan Black (Chemistry), Safa Fanaian (Geography and the Environment), James Goetz (Medicine - Clinical), Emily Anderson (Renewable Energy Marine Structures), 2 Rita Bradshaw Travel Grants

John Henry (Medicine - Clinical), Miranda Rogers (Medicine - Clinical), Yifan Chen (Medicine - Graduate Entry), 1 Medical Fund Scholarship

University and External awards Braddick Prize (Experimental Psychology), Braddick Prize (Proxime Acessit) (Experimental Psychology), David McLintock Prize (Modern Languages), General Practice Essay Prize (runner up) (Medicine), George Pickering Prize (Medicine), Greenhall Prize (Medicine), Hobson Mann Lovel Scholarship (Medicine), John Pearce Prize (Medicine), Martin Wronker Prize in Medicine (Medicine*), Martin Wronker Prize in Pharmacology (Medicine*), Thomas Willis Prize (Sleep Medicine)

Undergraduate Students Entering College

Engineering Science James Leader, The Kings of Wessex Academy Devang Sehgal, Delhi Public School, Dwarka, India

BA Modern Languages and Linguistics

Lucy Taylor, St Pauls Girls School

Asher Sandbach, St John's International Academy

Roland Whiteley, IKB Academy

Biological Sciences Lauren Eddie, The West Bridgford School Jonathan Heale, Wirral Grammar School for Boys

Christopher Wheeler, Harrodian School

English and Modern Languages Martha Davies, Waldegrave School George Wright, John Hampden Grammar School

William Norton, Royal Grammar School Guildford

English Language and Literature

Ajay Patel, Royal Grammar School, Buckinghamshire

Freya Hann, Camden School for Girls

Natalie Said, City of London Freemen's School Kieran Storer, Houghton High School, USA Albert Tremlett, Harrow School

Chemistry Emily Dixon, The Becket School William Hadley, Ewell Castle School Pavel Rahman, The Perse School Ephraem Tan, NUS (National University of Singapore) High School Jordan Welsh, Yeovil College Charlotte Yates, Winstanley College

Classical Archaeology and Ancient History Aivin Gast, Bataafs Lyceum, Netherlands Matthew Kingdom, Richard Huish College

Rebekah Cohen, Tapton School Alexander Haveron Jones, Sir William Borlase's Grammar School Dani Heath, Christ's Hospital Ava Hedley-Miller, Wycombe Abbey School, High Wycombe Georgia McHugh, Watford Grammar School for Girls Hamza Rana, Altrincham Grammar School for Boys George Rendall, Hinchingbrooke School Philip Sadler, Hagley Catholic High School Oliver Smithson, St Bartholomews School

Luke Tinniswood, Sutton Grammar School Alice Vodden, New College Pontefract

History and Economics Morgan Border, Collingwood School, Canada

History and Modern Languages Grace Taylor-West, Hurstpierpoint College

Jurisprudence Talisha Ariarasa, Woodford County High School, Woodford Green Maia Gibb, Jordanhill School Mia Hando, John Roan School Krisna Srinavasajendren, Victoria Park Collegiate Institute, Canada Sam Warburton, Bolton School Boys Division Richard Wagenlaender, Gymnasium Neubiberg, Germany Sophie Warren, Wallingford School

Jurisprudence (with Law in Europe) Jamie Chen, St Edward's School, Oxford

Literae Humaniores John Boyd, Strathallan School Nina Hurst, The Stephen Perse Foundation

Experimental Psychology Natasha Brickstock, Stockport Grammar School

Caroline Murphy Racette, Newton Country Day School of the Sacred Heart Cyrus Naji, Westminster School

Anna Elliott, Carmel College

Shanae Nge, St. Clement's School, Canada

Marie-Louise Klampe, Peter Symonds College

Mathematics

Ayesha Moore, Charters School

William Campbell, Dunfermline High School

Cara Digby-Patel, Sevenoaks School

History

Classics and Oriental Studies

Edward Ashcroft, St Paul's School, London

Baoyue Kang, Kungsholmens Gymnasium, Sweden

Althea Sovani, Liceo G Berchet, Italy

Ewan Connell, Boston Spa School

Classics and Modern Languages

Harry Hyde, Barton Peveril College

Computer Science Victor-Andrei Popa, Mihai Viteazul National College, Romania Mihail-Ioan Zamfirescu, Ienachita Vacarescu National College, Rumania

Benedek Pap, Fazekas Mihaly Primary and Secondary School Miles Soloman, Tapton School

Melissa Jakes, Comberton Sixth Form (Comberton Village College)

Eleanor Washington, St Josephs College (Edmund Rice Academy Trust)

Rebecca Keddie, The Hollyfield School, Surbiton

Mathematics and Computer Science

Mia Rothwell, New Mills School Business & Enterprise College

Mary Adigun-Hameed, The Coopers' Company and Coborn School, Upminster

Selina Schoelles, Moreton Hall

Anca-Maria Balaoi, Colegiul National Sfantul Sava, Bucharest

Lore Sturmy, Dame Alice Owen's School

Mathematics and Statistics

Philosophy and Modern Languages

Alice Chen, Collyers VI Form College, Horsham

Emily Bullock, Newlands Girls' School

Dimitar Lyubenov, Sofia High School of Mathematics

Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Graduate Students Entering College

Alexander Brindle, Welbeck Defence Sixth Form

Bachelor of Civil Law

Meriel Cooper, Stoke Newington School and Sixth Form

Aishwarya Amar, Symbiosis International University

Anurag Choksey, Warwick School

Oluwatelemi Emmanuel-Aina, Burnham Grammar School

Wilfred Jenkins, Royal Grammar School, Worcestershire

Patrick Gembis, King Edward VI School, Bury St Edmunds

Gayathree Devi Kalliyat Thazhathuveetil, The University of Oxford

Maya Mellor, Ripon Grammar School Raphaella Ridley, Alexandra Park School

Marua Mukanova-Finch, St Pauls Girls School

Robert Temple, Shebbear College, Beaworthy

Leeya Patel, Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls, Elstree

Medicine

James Standfield, Royal Grammar School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery

Sara Hosseinzadeh, The University of Manchester

Elliot Stone, St Clement Danes School

Sanah Ali, The University of Oxford

Kaitlyn Veloria, BASIS Phoenix, USA

John Henry, The University of Oxford

Alexandra Mighiu, University of Oxford

Edward White, Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School

Jae Young Park, The University of Oxford

Medical Sciences Josephine Carnegie, Hautlieu School, Jersey

Modern Languages Hannah Andrusier, Dame Alice Owen's School Bethany Barber, North Bristol Post 16 Centre Zoe Bray, Dr Challoner's High School for Girls

Thomas Ashton-Key, Peter Symonds College

DPhil Area Studies (South Asia)

Vishal Aurora, King Edward's School, Edgbaston

Tingxi Ma, Beijing Foreign Studies University

Matthew Jennings, Oakham School

Rebekah Possener, Norwich High School for Girls

Daisy Makin, Tonbridge Grammar School

Merlyn Latimer Smith, City of London Freemen's School Mary McBain, Maelor School, Wrexham

Eva Zilber, The University of Oxford Matthew Zimmerman, The University of Oxford

Chuqiao Lin, Qingdao Hongguang Foreign Language College

David Aitken, Caerleon Comprehensive School

Asmita Singhvi, O. P. Jindal Global University

Physics

Jack Mullis, Royal Grammar School, Buckinghamshire

Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry

Vandita Khanna, O. P. Jindal Global University

Kieran Moore, Trinity School, Croydon Nikita Ostrovsky, The Jewish Community Secondary School

Psychology, Philosophy and Linguistics Dorcas Chua, Methodist College, Kuala Lumpur

DPhil Atomic and Laser Physics Anastasiia Pushkina, University of Calgary

DPhil Classical Languages and Literature Katherine Krauss, Barnard College (affiliated with Columbia University), New York

DPhil Clinical Medicine

Joshua Stott, Dean Close School

Zheyi Cao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University China

Music

Vilada Chansamouth, Institut de la Francophonie pour la Medicine Tropicale, Vientiane, Laos

Man I Melissa Chang, Downe House School Finlay Dove, Prior Park College

Bahar Kashef Hamadani, California State University

Max Rodney, Hutchesons' Grammar School

Laurel Kaye, Yale University (transferred to Astrophysics January 2019) Ziqi Long, The University of Cambridge

DPhil Computer Science Yuhang Song, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics China

DPhil Condensed Matter Physics

DPhil Pharmacology

MPhil Law

Giulio Campanaro, Universita degli Studi di Milano (Universitas Studiorum Mediolanensis) Italy

Philippa Gleave, The University of Manchester

Aradhana Cherupara Vadekkethil, The University of Oxford

Zachary Zajicek, The University of Oxford

DPhil Philosophy

MSc Clinical Embryology

DPhil Economics

Natasha Oughton, The University of Oxford

Madison Eisler, Cornell University

Sanghamitra Warrier Mukherjee, University of Delhi

DPhil Engineering Science

DPhil Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics Carla Martin, University College London

MSc Computer Science Arturo Lopez Limon, Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey

Luigi Campanaro, Politecnico di Bari Chen Chen, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics

DPhil Plant Sciences

Tom Hickling, University of Durham

Sabrina Dietz, Hedmark University College / Hogskolen i Hedmark

Utkarsh Sharma, The University of Warwick

DPhil Politics

DPhil History

Sarah Lubrano, The University of Cambridge

Shelley Castle, The University of Birmingham

DPhil Population Health

Ryah Thomas, Arizona State University

Fiona MacLean, The University of York

DPhil History of Art

DPhil Zoology

Aleksandra Rutkowska, The University of Oxford

Margaux Steyaert, Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine

DPhil Inorganic Chemistry

Master of Business Administration

Subhadip Mallick, University of Calcutta

Brendon Ferreira

Cameron Royle, The University of Oxford

Miha Grzina Isadora Santos De Oliveira

DPhil Law

Jing Xuan Tan

Navya Jannu, The University of Oxford

DPhil Medical Sciences Martin Fellermeyer, The University of Oxford

DPhil Medieval and Modern Languages (GER) Mai-Britt Wiechmann, Georg-August Universitat Gottingen Germany

Master of Public Policy Ming Zhe Choong, The University of Oxford Sarah Mourney, University of Sydney

MPhil Economics Sonan Memon, Lahore University of Management Sciences

DPhil Organic Chemistry

MPhil General Linguistics and Comparative Philology

Yan Zhang, Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine

Pat Snidvongs, Princeton University

DPhil Particle Physics Federico Celli, Universita degli Studi Bologna Italy

MPhil Greek and/or Roman History Annee Lyons, Georgetown University

MSc Environmental Change and Management Madeleine Millington-Drake, The University of Exeter Jillian Leigh Neuberger, Macalester College MN

MSc Global Governance and Diplomacy Laura Wegter, University of Leiden Netherlands

MSc History of Science, Medicine and Technology Dianne McMullin, Iowa State University

MSc Integrated Immunology David Ahern, Gonzaga University Malak Alshaikhali, Al-Quds University

MSc Mathematical and Computational Finance Mees Heeringa, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands

MSc Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing Anna Maria Riera Escandell, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona Spain

MSc Mathematical Sciences Tomas Dominguez Chiozza, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) Hanhong Wei, University College London

MSc Modern South Asian Studies Neha Chaudhary, University of Delhi Aastha Tyagi, The University of Exeter

MSc Pharmacology

MSc Statistical Science

MSt English and American Studies

Christopher Whiteman, The University of Oxford

Amina Bouchafaa, Universite de Paris IX (Paris-Dauphine) France

Derek Mitchell, The University of Oxford

Yue Zhang, University of South Florida

MSc Psychological Research Madison Milne-Ives, University of Guelph Canada Sam Webb, University of Wales, Bangor

MSc(Res) Biochemistry

MSt General Linguistics and Comparative Philology

Ondine Atwa, Queen Mary University of London

Kamila Akhmedjanova, The University of Oxford

MSc(Res) Psychiatry

Yu-Xian Huang, National Taiwan Normal University

Sara Nahon, McGill University Susan Cross, The University of Bristol

MSt Classical Archaeology

MSt Modern Languages (FRE and RUS)

Maria Cunha, Escola Superior de Tecnologias da SaĂşde do Porto

Edward Aplin, The University of Oxford

Caroline Ridler, University of Durham

Neranjan De Silva, Columbia University

MSt Creative Writing

MSt Music (Composition)

Carly Gregory, Middlesex University

Cassandra Cooper-Bagnall, The University of Warwick

Grace Mason, Royal Northern College of Music

MSc Sleep Medicine

Maria Guerrero Gonzalez, Universidad de Monterrey Kuo Jui Huang, University of Waterloo

Juliette Hampton, The University of Cambridge

MSt Slavonic Studies

Sasha Norris, The University of Oxford

Nilo Pedrazzini, Universita degli Studi di Pavia Italy

Supawan Laohasiriwong, Khon Kaen University Thailand

MSt Diplomatic Studies

Visiting Non-Matriculated History

Anna Millet Esteve, Florida Southern College

Nader Abbasi, University of California, Los Angeles

Angelica Patino, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Amal Afifi, The University of Oxford

Bianca Kuckertz, Rheinisch-Westfalische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Germany

MSc Sleep Medicine (PGDip Conversion) Khai Beng Chong, The University of Oxford Ann Eure, The University of Oxford Olga Runcie, The University of Oxford Leo Smith, The University of Oxford

Susanna Cripps, The University of Oxford

MSt English (1550-1700) Letitia Johnston, Stanford University

MSt English (1700-1830) Haniel Whitmore, The University of Oxford

Soline Schweisguth (Erasmus Exchange)

Somerville Association Officers and Committee

Somerville Development Board Members

as of 9 March 2019

President

Clara Freeman (Jones, 1971) and Hilary Newiss (1974) stepped down as Chair and Deputy Chair at the end of 2018 after over ten years of generous service. Clara will continue to serve on the committee.

Baroness Alison Wolf (Potter, 1967) Joint Secretaries Liz Cooke (Greenwood, 1964) Lisa Gygax (1987) Committee Members Tim Aldrich (1994) Joanne Magan (1984) Pia Pasternack (1982) Natasha Robinson (1972) Virginia Ross (MCR, 1966) Joe Smith (2013) Lorna Sutton (2010) Fellows Appointed by the College Benjamin Thompson (Fellow and Tutor in Medieval History)

Co-Chair Sybella Stanley (1979) Co-Chair Ayla Busch (1989) Basma Alireza (1991) Clara Freeman (Jones, 1971) Lynn Haight (Schofield, 1966) Niels Kroninger (1996) Vicky Maltby (Elton, 1974) Nicola Ralston (Thomas, 1974) Sian Thomas Marshall (Thomas, 1989)

Fiona Stafford (Fellow and Tutor in English) Luke Pitcher (Fellow and Tutor in Classics)

Honorary Development Board Members Tom Bolt

For full details see the college website at www.some.ox.ac.uk/alumni/networks Year Reps To help alumni stay in touch with each other and with the College, we are building up a system of year reps. To see who is your year rep, please follow the link https://www. some.ox.ac.uk/alumni/year-reps/.

Doreen Boyce (Vaughan, 1953) Paddy Crossley (Earnshaw, 1956) Sam Gyimah (1995) Margaret Kenyon (Parry, 1959) Nadine Majaro (1975) Harriet Maunsell (1962) Hilary Newiss (1974) Roger Pilgrim

Ideally there will be more than one rep per year and some years have as yet no rep at all. If you would like to act as a year rep, or to hear more about it, please contact Lisa (lisa.gygax@some.ox.ac.uk) or Liz (Elizabeth.cooke@some.ox.ac.uk).

For full details see the college website at www.some.ox.ac.uk/alumni/the-development-board

Legacies Legacies are a vital source of support for the Collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s activities, for which we are deeply grateful. Here, we honour of the Somervillians who have left legacies to support us. Barbara Mitchell (Davies, 1941, Lit. Hum.)

Erica Wood (Twist, 1951, History)

Gillian Falconer (1944, History)

Virginia Holt (White, 1956, History)

Susan Nobel (Barfield, 1959, Nat. Sci.)

Dates for the Diary The updated schedule of college events appears on the college website at www.some.ox.ac.uk/alumni/events All events are in college unless otherwise indicated.

2019 marks 140 years since the foundation of Somerville. To celebrate, the College is publishing Somerville 140, which will be available from October. A catalogue of the rare, the everyday and the just plain curious, this beautifully illustrated book includes everything from sculpture to teapots and books to bicycle racks, and tells the stories of some of the extraordinary individuals who have been part of Somerville. You are warmly invited to our birthday tea party and a panel discussion here on 20 October, from 2.00pm. Details and booking to follow.

2020

20 October

23 October

Somerville Birthday Celebration: A History of Somerville in 140 Objects City Group: Young Alumni and Recent Leavers at Diageo

24 October

1959 60th Anniversary Reunion

5 November

Lawyers Group meeting at the Oxford & Cambridge Club (tbc)

5 December

Alumni Carol Service

6 December

London Group Carol Concert at the Savoy Chapel

Somerville College Oxford OX2 6HD Telephone 01865 270600 www.some.ox.ac.uk Exempt charity number 1139440

1 February

Supportersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Luncheon

7 March

Medics Day

14 March

Winter Meeting

23 May

Will Power Society luncheon

6 June

Commemoration Service

27-28 June

Gaudy for matric years 1980-1991

There will be regular events organised by the London and City groups and probably some regional events. Details to follow. Please let us know if you would like to be involved in helping to organise any of these events.