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St Catherine’s College . Oxford

2015The Year

MASTER

Professor Roger W

Ainsworth, MA, DPhil, FRAeS

FELLOWS

Fram E Dinshaw, MA, DPhil

Official Fellow

Finance Bursar

Peter D Battle, MA, DPhil

Tutor in Inorganic Chemistry

Professor of Chemistry

A Gervase Rosser, MA (MA,

PhD Lond)

Tutor in History of Art

Associate Professor in History

of Art

Librarian

John S Foord, MA (MA, PhD

Camb)

Tutor in Physical Chemistry

Professor of Chemistry

Robert A Leese, MA status

(PhD Durh)

Fellow by Special Election in

Mathematics

Director of the Smith Institute

Louise L Fawcett, MA status,

MPhil, DPhil (BA Lond)

Tutor in Politics

Wilfrid Knapp Fellow

Professor of International

Relations

John Charles Smith, MA

Tutor in French Linguistics

Vice-Master

Penny A Handford, MA (BSc,

PhD S’ton)

Tutor in Biochemistry

Wolfson Fellow

Professor of Biochemistry

Timothy Cook, MA, DPhil

Fellow by Special Election

Richard I Todd, MA status,

DPhil (MA Camb)

Tutor in Materials Science

Goldsmiths’ Fellow

Professor of Materials

Marc Lackenby, MA (PhD

Camb)

Tutor in Pure Mathematics

Leathersellers’ Fellow

Professor of Mathematics

Marc E Mulholland, MA (BA,

MA, PhD Belf)

Tutor in History

Wolfson Fellow

Gavin Lowe, MA, MSc, DPhil

Tutor in Computer Science

Professor of Computer

Science

President of the Senior

Common Room

Richard M Berry, MA, DPhil

Tutor in Physics

Associate Professor in

Condensed Matter Physics

Ashok I Handa, MA status

(MB BS Lond), FRCS


Medicine


Surgery

Tutor for Graduates

James L Bennett, MA (BA

Reading)


Home Bursar

David J Womersley, MA,

DLitt (PhD Camb), FBA

Warton Professor of English

Literature

Cressida E Chappell, MA

(BA, MA Hull)


Academic Registrar

Secretary to the Governing

Body

David R H Gillespie, MA,

DPhil

Tutor in Engineering Science

Rolls-Royce Fellow


Engineering Science

Peter P Edwards, MA (BSc,

PhD Salf), FRS

Professor of Inorganic

Chemistry

Patrick S Grant, MA, DPhil

(BEng Nott) FREng

Vesuvius Professor of

Materials

Justine N Pila, MA (BA, LLB,

PhD Melb)

Tutor in Law

College Counsel

(Leave M15)

Bart B van Es (BA, MPhil,

PhD Camb)

Tutor in English

Sullivan Fellow

Sullivan Clarendon Professor

of English Literature

Senior Tutor

Tommaso Pizzari, MA (BSc

Aberd, PhD Shef)

Tutor in Zoology

Professor of Evolutionary

Biology

Byron W Byrne, MA, DPhil

(BCom, BEng Western

Australia)

Tutor in Engineering Science

Professor of Engineering

Science

Tutor for Admissions

W I F (Bill) David, MA, DPhil


Physics

Richard M Bailey, MA (BSc

Leics, MSc, PhD Lond)

Tutor in Geography


Geochronology

Dean

Gaia Scerif (BSc St And, PhD

Lond)


Experimental Psychology

Tutor in Psychology

Professor of Developmental

Cognitive Neuroscience

Karl Sternberg, MA


Christoph Reisinger, MA (Dipl

Linz, Dr phil Heidelberg)

Tutor in Mathematics


Mathematical Finance

Robert E Mabro, CBE, MA

(BEng Alexandria, MSc Lond)


Kirsten E Shepherd-Barr, MA,

DPhil (Grunnfag Oslo, BA Yale)

Tutor in English

Professor of English and

Theatre Studies

Angela B Brueggemann,

DPhil (BSc St Olaf, MSc Iowa)


Biological Sciences

Associate Professor &

Wellcome Trust Career

Development Fellow

James E Thomson, MChem,

DPhil


Chemistry

Andrew J Bunker, MA, DPhil

Tutor in Physics

Professor of Astrophysics

Adrian L Smith, MA (BSc

Keele, MSc Wales, PhD Nott)

Tutor in Zoology


Infectious Diseases

(Leave H16-T16)

Andreas Muench, MA (Dr

phil, Dipl TU Munich)

Tutor in Mathematics

Associate Professor in Applied

Mathematics

Kerry M M Walker, DPhil (BSc

Memorial, MSc Dalhousie)


Biomedical Sciences

Udo C T Oppermann (BSc,

MSc, PhD Philipps Marburg)

Professor of Musculoskeletal

Sciences

Alain Goriely, MA (Lic en Sci

Phys, PhD Brussels)

Professor of Mathematical

Modelling

Naomi Freud, MA, MSc


Director of Studies for Visiting

Students

Geneviève A D M

Helleringer, MSc (MSc ESSEC,

Maîtrise, Doctorat Paris I,

Master Paris II, MSc Sciences

Po, JD Columbia)


in Law

Leverhulme Trust Early Career

Fellow

Duncan A Robertson, MA,

DPhil (BSc Lond)


Management

Peter T Ireland, MA, DPhil

Donald Schultz Professor of

Turbomachinery

Pekka Hämäläinen, MA (MA,

PhD Helsinki)

Rhodes Professor of

American History

Benjamin A F Bollig, MA (BA

Nott, MA, PhD Lond)

Tutor in Spanish

(Leave M15-T16)

Eleanor P J Stride, MA

(BEng, PhD Lond)


Engineering Science


Science

Paul S Davies (MA Camb)

Tutor in Law

Associate Professor in Law

Saira Uppal (BA Durh)


Director of Development

K W M (Bill) Fulford, MA,

DPhil. (MB BChir Camb, PhD

Lond), FRCPsych, FRCP


Heidi de Wet (BSc North-

West, DPhil Cape Town)

Tutor in Pre-clinical Medicine


Physiology

Philipp E Koralus, MA (BA

Pomona, PhD Princeton)

Tutor in Philosophy

Fulford Fellow in Philosophy

of Mind & Cognitive Science

Fulford Clarendon Associate

Professor in Philosophy of

Mind

Master and Fellows 2015

C O N T E N T S

ContentsMaster’s Report 2

College Life The Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professorship 6

The Development Office Review 8

Richard Parish 10

From the Archives: Rev VJK Brook, Censor from 1930-1952 12

Outreach 14

Postcards to the Master 16

Sports & Societies Review 2015 18

Finals Results & Prizes 2015 20

Student Perspectives Tom Gaisford (2013, Human Sciences) 26

Sophia Saller (2011, Mathematics) 28

Katie Hickson (2012, Geography) 30

Christian Amos (2013, History) 32

Alumni News Sarah McCready (2008, History) 34

Mark Simpson (2008, Music) 36

Maxine Williams (1992, Law) 38

Martin Heipertz (1997, PPE) 40

Alumni News in Brief 42

College Events 2016 44

Catz Research Bill Fulford and Ashok Handa 46

Kirsten Shepherd-Barr 48

Shimon Whiteson 50

Jessica Goodman 51

Amanda Power 52

Gazette Obituaries 2015 54

Admissions 2015 72

Left: A view of St Catz and the moat

Front Cover Image: John Simopoulos, Founding Fellow of

St Catherine’s, who died in 2015 aged 91© Professor Roger Ainsworth

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Master’s ReportIt is with an air of disbelief that I must start by

recording the passing of John Simopoulos, aged 91,

whilst he was still in the saddle as Dean of Degrees – a

Catz institution if ever there was one. It never really

occurred to any of us that one day he might not be

here. He arrived at the Society in 1951 and laid down

his subfusc 64 years later, having brought considerable

inspiration and joy to many generations of Catz

students, not least through the many Simopoulean

episodes that could be retold. We held a Service of

Thanksgiving for him in Michaelmas.

We mourn, too, John Bayley, who came to Catz from

New College in 1974 as the first Warton Professor of

English Literature, a post he held until 1992. John was

both a rare public intellectual, whose work reached

the widest possible educated public, and a modest

and engaging colleague, whose eccentric presence in

College was a delight to all. We celebrated his life and

work at an event in November.

Most recently, Terry Jones, our first Donald Schultz

Professor of Turbomachinery, died after a long illness.

He was a significant pioneer of a great plethora of

experimental techniques and analysis, with very wide

application. He is fondly remembered as a tutor,

supervisor and colleague, being extremely generous

with his time.

Elsewhere, the college has had a very positive year

indeed, although the Senior Tutor sometimes labels my

report as a rerun of a 1950s Pathé newsreel in terms

of trumpeting tone. I’m sorry but the trumpet is to

the fore this year… sixth in the Norrington Table, with

45 Firsts. There have been plenty of smiles around

the Senior Common Room about our position relative

to those richer and smaller colleges. Here I know my

colleagues would want to pay significant tribute to

the diligence and dedication of our Senior Tutor in

taking so many initiatives to help bolster our collective

attention to the college’s academic culture, in looking

at all aspects of teaching, learning and research. It is

particularly fitting for him, and Kirsten Shepherd-Barr,

that Harriet Smith-Hughes won the Gibbs prize, taking

the top First across the university in English Finals – an

outstanding achievement in a cohort of 251.

There have been so many university and national prizes

this year that I can only mention a few out of a total

of 18. Kirubin Pillay (2014, Engineering Science) has

won a national student design award for his eye-control

wheelchair design. He is currently studying for a DPhil

in Healthcare Innovation. Kirubin’s design includes an

electric module which converts eye movements acquired

from an eye tracker into directional commands, and he

will now receive funding to turn his design into reality.

Samuel Taylor (2012, Law) won the 5 stone Buildings

Well, I’m

sorry but the

trumpet is to

the fore this

year… sixth in

the Norrington

table, with 45

Firsts.

The Master, Professor Roger Ainsworth


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In terms of

its musical

achievements,

the College

continues to

ride the crest

of a great

wave.

Prize for top performance in Trusts, together with a

Gibbs book prize. Courtney Spoerer (2012, Experimental

Psychology) achieved a distinction which is certainly

almost unheard of these days – a congratulatory First

– together with the George Humphrey Prize, the Gibbs

prize and a British Psychological Society Prize. Sabrina

Barrett (2011, Engineering Science) won the ARM Prize

for Digital Technology for her project “Acoustic Signal

Processing to Battle Malaria Mosquitoes”. This project

involved contributing to the development of a wearable

acoustic sensor to detect the sound of mosquitoes

in rural communities, to enable tracking of disease-

carrying mosquitoes.

In addition to the academic achievements, our students

continue to excel in all walks of life. Particularly

impressive was the performance of two of our

batswomen at the Blues T20 cricket match at Fenners.

Cambridge 88 all out; Oxford 217-0. Siân Kelly (Modern

Languages and Linguistics, 2014) and Sarah Attrill

(Biology, 2014), scored more between them than the

whole Cambridge side.

In terms of musical achievements, the College continues

to ride the crest of a great wave. Daniel Shao (2013,

Music) and Cayenna Ponchione (2011, Music) organised

an impressive concert in the Holywell Music Room,

demonstrating the talents of both current students and

alumni, including those of our Honorary Fellow Tom

Phillips (1997, English), Makoto Nakata (2012, Music),

winner of the Oxford Philharmonic Music Concerto

Competition, and Joshua Hagley (2013, Music),

winner of the Royal Opera House Fanfare Competition.

Meanwhile, Mark Simpson (2008, Music) continues to

rise to new heights internationally. Among his many

achievements this year, he was recently soloist at

the BBC Proms, where he performed the fiendishly

virtuosic Clarinet Concerto by Carl Nielsen with the BBC

Symphony Orchestra.

We have created a number of new Fellowships:

Dr Shaw Vee Meng becomes an Honorary Fellow in

recognition of his continuing generosity and Dr Tony

and Mrs Mary Henfrey become Honorary and Domus

Fellows respectively, again for their very loyal support

over many decades. We now have a Henfrey Tutorial

Fellow in Music, Laura Tunbridge, and a new Henfrey

Graduate Scholarship in Chinese Studies to sit alongside

two Henfrey Foundation Scholarships. In addition,

Dr Wilfred Wong’s contribution over the last few years

is recognised by the award of a Domus Fellowship.

We have established a Wilfred Wong challenge which

matches the donations raised in our telethon.

As one would hope, our alumni continue to sparkle,

demonstrating their creative skills and sporting prowess.

They have published over two dozen books this year, on

subjects ranging from Hazlitt, through House of Lords

Reform, Big Data, and Perplexing Problems. James Marsh

(1982, English) has been awarded the Outstanding

British Film BAFTA for directing The Theory of Everything,

the film about Steven Hawking’s life and work. It also

received multiple Oscar nominations. Following her great

success with the children’s book Rooftoppers, inspired

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by her midnight flittings over the All Souls’ roofs,

Kate Rundell (2005, English) has produced another

splendid children’s book, The Wolf Wilder, published by

Bloomsbury. The book is set in the snow-bound woods

of revolutionary Russia and is about Feo, a person who

teaches animals to fend for themselves.

On the sporting front, Charlotte Marshall (2010, Modern

Languages) has earned a place in the world record

books, having rowed 100km, equivalent to the distance

from the Earth’s surface to the edge of the atmosphere,

on a Concept 2 Rowing Machine in under eight hours,

three minutes faster than the previous record.

We are delighted to welcome three new Tutorial Fellows

this year. Professor Shimon Whiteson comes to us

from the University of Amsterdam as a Tutorial Fellow

in Computer Science. His research focuses on artificial

intelligence, with the aim of improving machine learning

for search engine optimisation and developing the

intelligence of telepresence robots. Professor Amanda

Power replaces Professor Gervase Rosser, who moves

permanently to the position of Tutorial Fellow in the

History of Art. Amanda, as the new Sullivan Fellow in

History, joins us from the University of Sheffield. Her

research explores the role and thoughts of the early

English Franciscans, as well as the intellectual, religious

and political life of Medieval Europe. Dr Jessica Goodman

joins us as Tutorial Fellow in French, coming from Clare

College, Cambridge. Her research focuses on authorial

self-fashioning and literary austerity in eighteenth-

century literature and thought. Meanwhile, Professor

Bart van Es becomes the Sullivan Fellow in English

Literature. The College has benefited markedly from the

late Michael Sullivan’s generous legacy and Amanda and

Bart’s fellowships are but two indications of that.

Shimon’s post is a new one in College terms, and, as

an addition to the Computer Science establishment,

alongside Gavin Lowe, it is an investment in the future

in an area we believe to be of considerable importance.

However, the other two posts are equally significant. In

terms of History, I pay tribute to Marc Mulholland’s great

spirit of collegiality as the sole historian tenured Tutorial

Fellow over quite a number of years, whilst also serving

as Dean. Amanda Power will be an excellent colleague

for him. As far as Modern Languages is concerned, we

are truly delighted with Jessica Goodman’s appointment

in French. Jessica is experienced in the Modern

Languages scene in both Oxford and Cambridge and will

be a very worthy successor to Richard Parish, who has

retired after 39 years as a Tutorial Fellow – a record,

and one for which the College is deeply grateful. His

pupils throughout those years have held him in the

highest regard for the fulfilling education which he

has given them, for their interest in the subject he has

engendered, and for the pastoral care he has taken

– and in return, they have shown great loyalty and

affection. We will be holding a dinner for them and for

him in early March. I must also record the retirement of

Professor Susan Cooper, Professor of Particle Physics.

Susan has helped the Physics Department steer a course

through challenging waters, but she is best remembered

across the University for the brave leadership she

...on the

sporting front,

Charlotte

Marshall

(2010, Modern

Languages)

has earned a

place in the

world record

books, having

rowed 100km,

equivalent to

the distance

from the

Earth’s

surface to the

edge of the

atmosphere...

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showed in the great governance debates during the

era of John Hood’s Vice-Chancellorship. She was even

dubbed “Joan of Arc”, I believe, by John Simopoulos. She

leaves a Congregation with a voice which must still be

heeded and a membership which continues to regard

itself as the owner.

I turn now to some achievements of the Fellowship

– I have space only to mention a small fraction. We

congratulated Professor David Womersley on the award

by the University of the Degree of DLitt, in recognition

of the distinction of his academic research over the

years – a high honour too for the college and for his

Department. Professor Richard Parish was awarded

the insignia of the Ordre des Palmes académiques

by the French Ambassador, Madame Sylvie Bermann,

recognising his work in promoting classical French

culture throughout his career. Richard has been

awarded the Order of Commandeur, the highest grade

in the National Order originally founded by Emperor

Napoleon for distinguished academics and figures

in culture and education. We also were delighted to

see the award of the London Zoological Society’s

Scientific Medal to Professor Tom Pizzari, for his

significant contributions to the field, specialising in the

evolutionary ecology of sexual behaviour.

It has been a notable year for success in academy

recognition. Lord Stern, Honorary Fellow and current

President of the British Academy, has been made

a Fellow of the Royal Society, in recognition of his

distinguished career in mathematical economics,

whilst Professor Peter Edwards has been elected to

the American Academy of Arts and Sciences – one of

America’s most prestigious honorary societies. Professor

Kia Nobre, Professorial Fellow in Translational Cognitive

Neuroscience, has been elected to a Fellowship of

the British Academy. Her research looks at how neural

activity linked to perception and cognition, is modulated

according to memories, task-goals, and expectations.

It was with great delight that I attended the ceremony

in the Guildhall in London for the award of Freedom of

the City of London to Professor Angela Brueggemann,

for her outreach work in state schools in South-East

London. Finally, we congratulate Professor Eleanor

Stride (again), a world expert in biomedical engineering,

for receiving a prestigious international prize, the

Institution of Engineering and Technology AF Harvey

Engineering Research Prize worth £300,000, for her

outstanding contributions to biomedical engineering.

I hope I have given you a flavour of the energetic spirit

which has been all pervasive in the college this year.

As the largest college in Oxford by quite a margin,

there is no doubt that we have achieved highly on all

fronts. Not only have our students performed admirably,

but the work of our Fellows has been recognised

and rewarded, our alumni continue to shine, and our

outreach to potential new students is at an impressive

level, with over 12,500 students seen. We know none

of this would be possible without the support of a very

loyal staff in all Departments. I pay very warm tribute to

them all, and to the support I receive from you and the

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It was with

great delight

that I attended

the ceremony

in the Guildhall

in London for

the award of

Freedom of the

City of London

to Professor

Angela

Brueggemann

for her

outreach work

in South-East

London.

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Established by Honorary Fellow Sir Cameron

Mackintosh and funded through a grant

from the Mackintosh Foundation, the Visiting

Professorship aims to promote interest in,

and the study and practice of, contemporary

theatre.

The title of Simon Russell Beale’s inaugural

lecture as Cameron Mackintosh Professor

of Contemporary Theatre was Everything’s

remade/With shovel and spade: Playing

Shakespeare with Simon Russell Beale. Simon

explained at the start of the lecture that this

quotation is drawn from one of his favourite

poems by Philip Larkin, which contains images

of exceptional resonance. Just as with the

poem, Simon’s conversation with broadcaster

Libby Purves contained many memorable

vignettes, creating a fascinating image of his

career as a celebrated actor.

Simon explained how his wide-ranging and

eclectic experience in theatre, film and

television was influenced in the first instance

by his long stint as a chorister at St Paul’s

School. Libby suggested early in the lecture

that the level of responsibility and attention

to detail required of choristers is arguably an

excellent training-ground for an acting career,

which Simon began after a brief period on the

postgraduate opera course at the Guildhall

School of Music and Drama. Simon revealed

that his extensive musical education has given

him a propensity to ‘find melodies in speech’:

The Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professorship

The College welcomed actor and music historian Simon Russell

Beale as the 24th Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor of

Contemporary Theatre. The University Drama Officer, Ellie Keel,

tells us about Simon Russell Beale’s lecture, which took the form

of a dialogue. It took place at St Catz in March 2015.

a prerequisite for any Shakespearean actor.

This reference to Shakespeare was a natural

link to the main focus of the remainder of the

lecture.

It was interesting that Simon noted how the

demands of acting and directing Shakespeare

have changed in recent years, mainly in

terms of audience expectation. He cited the

many directors working today who have ‘a

strong concept of updating the setting’ of

Shakespeare, among them Sam Mendes,

with whom Simon has worked extensively.

Despite these frequent modernizations, the

fundamentals of outstanding Shakespearean

acting in Simon’s book remain the same.

‘Every fresh thought should be like a blow to

Simon Russell Beale

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the head’, he said, referring to the importance

of resisting the temptation to anticipate the

end of a line while delivering it or, more

broadly, avoiding playing a part like Iago with

obvious foreknowledge of what will transpire.

Referring to his own experience of playing

major Shakespearean roles (among them

Iago, Hamlet, Lear and Timon in recent years)

Simon claimed that this had consolidated

his philosophy of what an audience needs in

order to find an actor convincing: Clarity (of

language and syntax), in the first instance,

spontaneity, and the aforementioned

‘freshness’ of thought. One of the examples

Simon gave of this approach to acting was

his experience playing Hamlet at the National

Theatre in 2000. An actor playing Hamlet

faces the distinct challenge of ‘getting rid of

preconceptions’, Simon explained, because

that role has been interpreted so many times

and by so many great actors. Simon revealed

to the audience at St Catz that he had

learned that his mother had died two months

prior to him taking on the role. Libby asked

whether it was ‘redemptive’ to have suffered

this great personal loss before taking on

the momentous challenge of Hamlet. Simon

responded affirmatively, claiming it was in

some ways a ‘privilege’ to have recourse to

the emotional scope of such an experience

while tackling the part.

Simon and Libby’s subsequent discussion of

Simon’s interpretation of Lear in the recent

National Theatre production introduced a

different theme to the subject of acting: the

importance of research. As well as drawing on

his personal experience in order to play a part

convincingly, Simon explained that many of the

roles he has undertaken have required specialist

knowledge. Before playing Lear, he canvassed

members of his family who work in the medical

profession to gain a better understanding of

dementia. Lear, Simon claimed, is irrefutably a

‘nasty old man’, but ‘he must have something

about him that’s loveable’. The importance of

these subtleties is matched only by the demand

to be heard and understood on stage. ‘I’m very

ruthless’, was Simon’s summary of his attitude

in this regard. He explained how together with

the director he will implement changes if a

line seems ‘needlessly elaborate’, so that the

audience can understand ‘at first hearing’.

The example he gave was the line from King

Lear: ‘He cannot touch me for coining’, which

in Simon’s version was rendered as ‘He cannot

touch me for crying’. Similarly, in the acclaimed

production of Timon of Athens, small parts were

added and subtracted from the text to aid clarity.

The last part of the lecture explored Simon’s

lighter roles on stage, including Spamalot.

Libby cited the unique depth that Simon

brings even to comic parts, to which Simon

responded with characteristic humility, referring

to the palpable sadness at the root of some

such roles, and the necessity to ‘play up

truthfulness’. This insight was an intriguing

conclusion to a fascinating lecture, which filled

the audience with anticipation about Simon’s

year ahead as the Cameron Mackintosh Visiting

Professor of Contemporary Theatre.” n

Simon’s inaugural lecture is available as a

podcast for all to enjoy, and is available at:

https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/everythings-

re-made-shovel-and-spade-playing-

shakespeare-simon-russell-beale

Broadcaster Libby Purves converses with Simon Russell

Beale about his acting career at his inaugural lecture as

Cameron Mackintosh Professor of Contemporary Theatre

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The Development Office:The year in review

All of the support we receive enables our

College to continue flourishing. Last year,

donations helped us to appoint new Teaching

Fellows in three subjects: French, History,

and Computer Science. We have thereby

maintained our team of over 100 Tutors and

Lecturers, who provide a very high level of

one-on-one tuition.

Donations assisted us in continuing to expand

the financial help we provide for our students.

Last year, we supported one in five of our

undergraduates on the basis of financial need

and offered more than 30 scholarships for

our postgraduates. We were also delighted

to increase our ability to house the College’s

graduate community through a renovation of

St Catherine’s House, which now has 42 new

rooms that are only a short walk away from

the College.

Connecting Catz People Our events enable us to stay in close contact

with our alumni, parents and friends. They

provide a forum for preserving old friendships,

making new connections, and engaging with

The Development Office has a diverse

range of roles at St Catz. We keep our

10,000-strong community of alumni,

parents and friends connected, we

broadcast news from the College, and we

fundraise to preserve the very high quality

of a Catz education. The 2014-2015

academic year featured many milestones,

and we are delighted to share the

successes we had with you.

Supporting Catz StudentsThe generosity of our donors supports all of

the core functions of the College: our world-

class tutorial teaching, the financial help we

provide for students, and the maintenance

and upgrading of our buildings. Last year, we

received over £5 million in gifts, and more

than £1 million in Legacy Pledges, with over

1,600 alumni, parents and friends making

donations. These are our best results

in recent memory, and we would like to

express our deepest thanks to everyone

who donated.

Among the many wonderful gifts we

received, the year was highlighted by three

exceptional contributions. Dr Wilfred Wong

(m. 1976) set up a munificent matching

gift, which significantly boosted the amount

raised in our Telethon. Dr Tony Henfrey

(1963, Chemistry) and Mrs Mary Henfrey

sponsored the Henfrey Tutorial Fellowship in

Music and endowed a Graduate Scholarship

with a very generous donation. What’s

more, we were deeply moved and heartened

by a magnificent Legacy gift from our late

Emeritus Fellow, Professor Michael Sullivan.

Last year, we received over £5 million in gifts and more

than £1 million in Legacy Pledges... These are our best

results in recent memory, and we would like to express

our deepest thanks to everyone who donated.

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the intellectual life of the College. Last year,

we hosted close to 1,000 people at more than

20 events, which included alumni reunions,

memorial services, lectures, and more.

We were honoured to begin the year by

welcoming Simon Russell Beale, who has

been hailed as ‘the greatest stage actor

of his generation’, as Cameron Mackintosh

Professor. His thought-provoking inaugural

lecture, Everything’s remade/With shovel

and spade: Playing Shakespeare with Simon

Russell Beale, was delivered in conversation

with Libby Purves. A podcast of the lecture

can still be viewed at: http://podcasts.ox.ac.

uk/everythings-re-made-shovel-and-spade-

playing-shakespeare-simon-russell-beale.

In the spring, we held a number of exciting

and popular events. We hosted a delightful

dinner gathering at the China Club in Hong

Kong, and we welcomed back many of our

Legators to the College for the inaugural

Dean Kitchin Circle Lunch. This was followed

by our annual London Party, held at the

beautiful Innholders’ Hall, and the Gaudy for

1973-1982 matriculands, at which nearly 300

alumni reminisced with old friends over dinner.

We were very sad to lose two Catz luminaries

this year – John Simopoulos and John Bayley

– and poignant services of thanksgiving were

held for both of them in the autumn. We were

deeply moved by the hundreds of people who

came to offer their condolences and reminisce

about the major contributions that these two

great individuals made to the College.

Broadcasting Catz NewsFor many decades now, CatzEye and The

Year have been the focal point of our

communication with our alumni, parents and

friends. These publications have enabled the

many members of our community to stay

up to date with the latest news from the

College and have painted a vibrant picture

of the wide range of activities that Catz

people undertake. We do hope that you enjoy

reading them.

In recent years, we have significantly expanded

our digital communications. Our Facebook page

(www.facebook.com/stcatz) is lively and active,

enabling us to share news and photos instantly

with a world-wide audience. Nearly 4,000

people have now ‘liked’ our page – an increase

of more than 20% compared to 2014. Our

Twitter feed (@St_Catz) has been growing too

and now has over 2,000 followers. Our LinkedIn

community (search: ‘St Catherine’s College,

Oxford’) also provides a very useful networking

platform for our alumni, parents and friends.

Finally, and as you may be aware, for only

the second time in its long history, the Oxford

Almanack features our College! The Almanack

is a popular calendar which contains key

information relevant to Oxford University, and

the 2016 edition is headlined by a beautiful

painting of St Catz by the artist Cathy Read.

Our inclusion in the Almanack will, in years

to come, mark a significant milestone in our

history and will serve as an important symbol

of the Catz community of which you are an

integral part. If you would like to purchase a

copy, please contact the Development Office

at +44 1865 271760 or at

[email protected]. n

Donations assisted us in continuing to expand the

financial help we provide for our students. Last year, we

supported one in five of our undergraduates on the basis

of financial need and offered more than 30 scholarships

for our postgraduates.

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Professor Richard Parish joined St

Catherine’s College in 1976 as a Tutorial

Fellow in French. During his 39 years

at St Catz, he has held a variety of

positions, including Vice-Master, Senior

Tutor, and Tutor for Graduates. It is fair

to say that Modern Languages at St Catz

has benefited greatly from Richard’s

dedication, teaching and leadership.

Although he is retiring, Richard will still be

at the College regularly, succeeding John

Simopoulos as Dean of Degrees.

A lot of hard work and the making of many

new friends is how Richard recalls his first

term at St Catz. After completing his DPhil at

Keble College, Richard took on a lectureship

at Liverpool for three years before returning

to Oxford and joining the St Catz Modern

Languages team of Bruce Tolley, Robert

Pring-Mill and Mike Shotton. His early years

at St Catz were very full, juggling extensive

teaching responsibilities with long hours, but

he credits that time as having taught him how

to teach. Richard has since tutored more than

200 students at the College.

Over the past four decades, Richard has seen

Modern Languages at St Catz develop to

become one of the College’s great strengths,

comprising a strong, collegial community of

tutors and students. Catz has a large Modern

Languages intake, receiving approximately

twelve new students each year, of which

around six to eight will study French. Richard

speaks highly of the motivation and work

ethic of his students, and has enjoyed working

with and getting to know them over the years.

His students have gone on to work in diverse

fields, ranging from law and journalism to

translating and teaching, and he continues to

keep in touch with many of them. When asked

about whether French at Oxford has changed

over the years, he says that the subject today

is more intimately connected with France and

that greater emphasis is now placed on the

language. Students are expected to know

about what is going on in France, to go to

France, and to read criticism in French.

Richard Parish Dean of Degrees

Richard’s research interests focus

predominantly on two major aspects of early

modern French. He has written extensively

on 17th-century neo-classical theatre and on

the French Counter-Reformation, reflecting his

interest in theatre and in the overlap between

theological ideas and their literary expression.

He is currently working on the Mémoires of

the duc de Saint-Simon, which, despite being

the most challenging piece of work that

Richard Parish

Students are expected

to know about what is

going on in France, to go

to France, and to read

criticism in French.

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is looking forward to bringing his own style to

the role and to retaining his close connection

to the College. n

Richard Parish Dean of Degrees

he has embarked on, is a project that he is

looking forward to. His proudest achievement

at Oxford was delivering the Bampton

Lectures in 2009 on aspects of the French

Counter-Reformation. Richard’s contribution

to the field was recognised by the French

Government in 2012, as he was promoted to

the rank of Commandeur dans l’Ordre des

Palmes académiques.

Richard claims that the most rewarding

aspect of his role as Tutorial Fellow has been

to kindle an enthusiasm in students for

the subject. Therefore, it is of no surprise,

that when asked what he will miss most

about the role, Richard simply answers ‘the

students’. Richard says that he has come

to know his students very well and formed

a closeness that has been both fruitful and

unforced. More than any other group, he

will particularly miss Finalists: seeing them

through their final year, and so working with

students who have returned from their year

abroad, are highly motivated, and able to

appreciate nuance in both the linguistic and

literary dimensions of the subject.

Richard speaks fondly of the College today

as a convivial and friendly place. He has

enjoyed working within the collaborative

environment at St Catz, both with his first

Modern Languages colleagues and with later

Catz Fellows, the Revd Colin Thompson, JC

Smith, and Ben Bollig. Richard has seen the

College evolve over the years, growing in

staff and students, and speaks warmly of the

leadership of the Master, Professor Roger

Ainsworth, in fostering a strong sense of

community at the College.

Following retirement, Richard is looking

forward to spending more time at home in the

countryside and pursuing other interests. He

is a wine connoisseur and a music and opera

enthusiast, and enjoys travelling to France,

Portugal and Ireland. As Dean of Degrees,

Richard will be responsible for presenting

candidates at graduation, as well as taking

students to their matriculation ceremony. He

Professor Richard Parish was promoted to the rank of Commandeur dans l’ordre des Palmes académiques, and received the insignia from the French Ambassador (bottom left) at the Maison Française

...it is of no surprise, that

when asked what he will

miss most about the role,

Richard simply answers

‘the students’.

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...he is said to have

performed his duties

with the utmost vigour,

with no effort “too great,

no sacrifice of his time

too distasteful, for him

cheerfully to make.

From the Archives: Rev VJK Brook, Censor from 1930 – 1952Alice Wang, an intern in the St Catz

Development Office, delved into the

College archives to find out about the life

of Censor Brook.

St Catherine’s College was founded in

1962, but traces its history back almost a

century earlier to 1868, when a group of 18

undergraduate students matriculated as the

first members of the Delegacy for Unattached

Students. Much has changed since then, and

many individuals have been instrumental in

paving the path to what would become the

College that we know today.

The first head of the Delegacy was Censor

Kitchin, at a time when the Delegacy was

housed in a single room at the top of the

Clarendon Building on Broad Street. Censor

Brook was the fifth of the Censors, holding

the role from 1930 until his retirement in

1952. Alan Bullock succeeded Censor Brook

in 1952 and would later become the College’s

first Master. Censor Brook had considerable

standing in the University and built on the

work of Censor Baker, not only establishing a

new name for the Delegacy as St Catherine’s

Society, but also securing a new building

on St Aldate’s and bringing about increased

status and prestige for the Society.

Born in 1887 and the second son of a Yorkshire

woollen merchant, Censor Brook attended

Bradford Grammar School and matriculated

from The Queen’s College in 1906. He gained

second-class honours in Classical Moderations

in 1908 and a double First in Literae

Humaniores and Theology in 1910 and 1911

respectively. A humorous, sharp and attentive

man, he married in 1914 and had a son and

a daughter. His first wife, who at one time

had worked as Secretary of the Oxford Branch

of the Prisoners’ Aid Society, was a woman

of many interests and someone ‘in whose

company a dull moment is impossible’.

Censor Brook spent several years as a

parish clergyman before finding a calling in

education, first at Charterhouse as assistant

master and house-tutor and then at Lincoln

College, where he was (among other things)

a Fellow, University Lecturer in Reformation

Theology, and Chaplain. He was also

Censor Brook was head of the delegacy from 1930-1952 and re-named it as St Catherine’s Society

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publishing numerous books and essays in

theology and philosophy.

He became Censor of the Delegacy in 1930

after the retirement of Censor Baker, although

he had previously been a tutor in theology, so

was no stranger to the Delegacy. According

to the archives, he ‘identified himself at once

with the society and its purpose and it was

soon realised by the men (then nearly 200

and later over 300) that no individual problem,

whether undergraduate or postgraduate, was

too much trouble for him.’ His 23 years as

Censor was an eventful period, covering the

Second World War, as well as notable changes

in the institution’s history. Building on the

foundations that were laid by Censor Baker,

the Delegacy for Non-Collegiate Students was

renamed St Catherine’s Society in 1931 and a

new site south of Christ Church on St Aldate’s

was offered by the University and secured in

1934. During his time at the Society, he was

also appointed Chaplin of All Souls’ in 1935

and elected a Fellow in 1938.

Censor Brook was actively involved with

Institution life, often hosting students at his

residence on Merton St. He was also often

‘seen on the playing-fields for “Cuppers” and

on the towing-path for “Toggers” and Eights,

places where, if his interest was not always

expert, it was cheerful and welcome.’ He

believed that a key part of the Oxford education

was in the conversations and interactions

with other students, writing in the 1949/50

edition of The Wheel that learning is induced

‘merely by being here, mixing with other men

whose course of study is quite different, whose

outlook is unfamiliar and whose points of view

are varied. Only by that kind of mixing and

broadening does a man become in the wider

sense educated, as well as learned.’

Censor Brook played tennis and liked to walk

extensively, taking long walks every afternoon,

including, once, the 20 miles to Burford.

He was described as ‘always approachable,

though he never allowed his time to be

wasted’ and is remembered by a former

student as an ‘easy conversationalist but was

in no way soft; he had a quick wit, and was

shrewd in his judgment of undergraduates.’

Censor Brook lived in Burford after his

retirement in 1952 and died in 1974. An

obituary in The Times recalls Censor Brook as a

man whose success as an administrator ‘came

from his ability to combine shrewdness with

tact, energy with patience, and a very keen

sense of humour’ and as someone who, with

the individual, was ‘always at his best, giving

a quite tireless patience and understanding.’

He inspired respect and affection throughout

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Censor Brook gained a double First in Literae Humaniores and Theology and spent several years as a Parish Clergyman before working in Education. He believed conversations with other students to be a key part of the Oxford Education

Prebendary of Lincoln and Examining Chaplain

to the Bishop of Lincoln. At Lincoln, he is said

to have performed his duties with the utmost

vigour, with no effort ‘too great, no sacrifice

of his time too distasteful, for him cheerfully

to make.’ Censor Brook also played a central

role in the University, as a member of

Hebdomadal Council, Senior Proctor, a Select

Preacher, and a Delegate of Lodgings and of

Local Examinations. He was also a scholar,

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At St Catherine’s we are committed to

recruiting the brightest students from all

backgrounds. Over the past few years, we

have been steadily increasing our outreach

work with schools and colleges to ensure

we are accessible to more students. The

College’s Admissions & Access Officer,

Kathryn Thompson, tells us about her role.

‘I spend approximately half of my time

working on outreach. This involves hosting

visits at the College from school groups

and visiting schools to give presentations

about the University, all with the aim of

demystifying the application process, helping

students make informed decisions and

encouraging applications to both St Catz and

the wider University.

Much of our outreach work at St Catherine’s

takes place with schools in Ireland, as part

of the University’s regional links programme

(www.ox.ac.uk/linkcolls). The regional links

programme aims to ensure that each school

in the UK has a named first point of contact

within the University, if teachers or students

are unsure who to contact for guidance in the

application process. Over the last few years

I have visited Northern Ireland on numerous

occasions, giving presentations to prospective

applicants, representing the University at

UCAS events, and joining with colleagues

from Cambridge to deliver Oxbridge

information events.

There are practical problems in inviting

schools from Northern Ireland to come and

visit Oxford for a day trip, and consequently

in July we were delighted to organise our

first residential summer school for students

and teachers. The summer school was jointly

hosted by St Catherine’s and New College,

and welcomed a total of 82 students and

teachers from 21 schools across Northern

Ireland. The main focus of the programme

was the opportunity to take part in tutorials

with Oxford tutors, supplemented with

admissions-related and social activities. A real

highlight for those who participated was the

opportunity to spend time getting to know

some of our College student ambassadors,

who inspired them with their enthusiasm for

St Catz and for the Oxford system.

Although much of our outreach work takes

place with schools in Northern Ireland, we also

welcome a large number of visits from groups

of sixth formers or secondary school students

in other regions of the UK. A typical visit

usually involves an admissions talk, the chance

to chat to current students and explore the

College, lunch in Hall and sometimes a subject

taster session or visit to another college.

Schools often comment that they find it useful

to bring their students to Catz because of our

modern architecture and openness. A visit to

St Catherine’s can provide a good contrast to

Outreach

Students and teachers from Northern Ireland benefitted from a residential outreach event at St Catz



one of the older colleges, or be somewhat

less daunting, and we hope that this helps us

to debunk some of the Oxford stereotypes.

We’re always delighted to be able to make

contact with schools we have not worked with

previously and welcome all school groups to

arrange a visit to Catz.

This year we have also hosted a few visits

for primary school children to find out more

about university life. These events take a

slightly different format to our usual school

visit: children hear the story of “Dave and

We look forward to developing our work

with schools and colleges further in 2016.

Information about our outreach work can be

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Although much of our

outreach work takes place

with schools in Northern

Ireland, we also welcome a

large number of visits from

groups of sixth formers or

secondary school students

in other regions of the UK.

Primary School children find out about university life

the Great University Mystery”, and then find

out about university life by interviewing a

student, taking part in a scavenger hunt and

eating lunch in Hall. A key highlight of the

visit is the chance for the children to dress

up in a gown and mortar board and receive a

certificate at ‘junior graduation’ as a memento

of the day!

The University-wide Open Days in July and

September are always key dates in the

calendar for the Admissions Office at St

Catherine’s. This year, as always, we were

delighted to welcome hundreds of prospective

applicants and parents to the College and

to give them the chance to explore the

College facilities and meet tutors and current

students. The enthusiasm of our Catz student

ambassadors always

knows no bounds,

even despite the

36-degree heat of

the first Open Day

this year!'

Primary School children enjoy dressing up and ‘graduating’ at the end of their outreach day

This year, College Travel Awards were awarded

to more than 45 students who planned,

organised, and undertook expeditions

across the world. Many students undertook

charitable work, and all found their

experiences culturally and educationally

enriching. Postcards landed on the Master’s

desk from, amongst other countries,

Honduras, China, Japan, Ecuador and Iceland.

Here are four of the many he received…

Postcards to the Master

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Emma Hallam (2014, Experimental Psychology),

the JCR Clubs and Societies Representative shares

some of the College’s many sporting and cultural

activities of the past year.

The sporting and cultural life at St Catz has continued

to thrive in a year that has also seen us enjoy a record

sixth placing in the Norrington table. This year has

been excellent in relation to Cuppers success as well as

the number of students representing the College and

University, with 19 members of the College achieving

full Blues.

In addition to sport, there are also numerous cultural

societies, which are not only popular with the

students, but also play a key part in contributing to

the richness of college life. Photography, Zumba and

Mindfulness and Meditation are just some of the many

societies on offer, thus ensuring St Catz students have

diverse and extensive extra-curricular opportunities.

There are also an array of academic societies, with the

Biomedical Society having organised numerous events

with speakers such as sixth-year medic Andrew Dooley

(2012, Medicine), who spoke about the advances in

cancer treatments.

Sports and Societies Review 2015

Founded this year, the Arts Club helped fund a trip to

the Middle East for Catz students to make a documentary

about Palestinian refugees. The club also organised an

incredible Arts Festival during the second week of Trinity.

Featuring a jam-packed revue comedy night, a spoken

word poetry evening from young poets laureate of

London and a spine-chilling immersive film screening in

the woods behind the college, the St Catz Arts Festival

proved hugely popular with both college and wider

university members. With 16 free events packed into one

week, including a dance show, talks from three artists,

an open mic night, an improvised promenade play and a

viewing of short films with Catz-composed live scores, the

Arts Club was quick to credit the generosity and support

of the College, which enabled them to host the week.

Sport remains one of the strengths of the College.

Many new clubs and societies have been formed this

year, including Table Football, Women’s Cricket, Lacrosse

(not previously active) and Volleyball. Two volleyball

teams were entered into the inter-college league,

with one making it through to the knockout stages.

Rounders Cuppers also took place for the first time this

year, and the Catz team reached the final.

Women’s Football has enjoyed a hugely successful

season, most notable for the fact the team did not

The sporting

and cultural

life at St Catz

has continued

to thrive in a

year that has

also seen us

enjoy a record

sixth placing in

the Norrington

table


Catz JCR Volleyball team Catz Men’s 5-a-side Football

team

Catz JCR Women’s Football team

Michael Fernando ran the

London Marathon in full

hockey goalkeeping kit,

raising £37,880.03 for Cancer

Research UK

concede a goal all season. They won their league and

move up to the top university division for next season.

Men’s Football 5-a-side team won their Cuppers

tournament, whilst Touch Rugby placed third and Men’s

Rugby team reached the quarter-finals.

Women’s Tennis also won Cuppers, beating Keble in the

final after a 3-3 score led to a deciding tie-breaker after

full-time

Women’s Hockey placed third in the league, losing to

eventual winners Quildas (Queen’s and St Hilda’s). Both

Men’s and Mixed Hockey teams reached the Cuppers’

quarter-finals.

We also have a gifted dance, drama and music

community. The Catz Choir and Orchestra perform to

a high standard, with Thomas Pease (2013, Modern

Languages), Thomas Gaisford (2013, Human Sciences)

and Natalie Fairhurst (2014, Medical Sciences)

members of the University mixed a cappella group, the

Alternotives. Three members of Catz are also part of the

‘Broad Street Dancers’, who put on a sell-out show at the

Old Fire Station during Hilary. Many Catz members have

been involved in university plays and musicals – Jacob

Boswall (2014, Oriental Studies) participating in seven

different plays, including the Catz Cuppers performance

‘Don’t Say Macbeth’, which made it through to the final

ten plays and for which Boswall was nominated for best

supporting actor. He also performed in ‘Richard Parker’ at

the Edinburgh Fringe Festival last summer.

Finally, the student body voted for the Catz Sports

and Arts Personalities of the Year 2015. Lucy Byford

(2013, History of Art) was awarded the Arts Personality

of the Year award, in recognition of her outstanding

organisation of Arts Week. Michael Fernando (2012,

Philosophy, Politics & Economics) received the Sports

Personality of the Year for running the London

Marathon in full hockey goalkeeping kit, for which he

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ScholarsJames Arch (Physics) College ScholarThomas Barrie (History of Art) College ScholarLucy Budd (English Language & Literature) College ScholarKatie Burns (Biological Sciences) College ScholarOscar Chang (Computer Science & Philosophy) ATV ScholarAlexander Davies (Chemistry) College ScholarEleanor Diamond (Law) David Blank ScholarWilfred Diment (Chemistry) F M Brewer ScholarKatherine Ember (Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry) College ScholarNicole Evans (Chemistry) College ScholarAyako Fujihara (Philosophy, Politics & Economics) Philip Fothergill ScholarSusannah Gold (Biological Sciences) Rose ScholarHannah Griffiths (Chemistry) College ScholarMatthew Gripton (Computer Science) ATV ScholarCharles Grover (Mathematics) College ScholarMorio Hamada (Biomedical Sciences) Rose ScholarJoel Hancock (Mathematics) College Scholar



Matthew Harrison (Modern Languages) College ScholarWilliam Hartz (Chemistry) ATV ScholarMiles Huseyin (Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry) College ScholarMark Johnson (Physics) College ScholarIsaac Kitchen-Smith (Biological Sciences) College ScholarHugo Leatt (Modern Languages) College ScholarXiewen Liu (Materials Science) Kaye ScholarJonathan Moloney (Chemistry) College ScholarLauren Moult (Human Sciences) Clothworkers ScholarNguyet Anh Nguyen (Economics & Management) Clothworkers ScholarMaria O’Hana (History of Art) Goldsworthy ScholarHuw Oliver (Modern Languages & Linguistics) Baker ScholarJames Orrell (Music) Répétiteur ScholarAlice Pickthall (History) Garret ScholarStefans Rozanskis (Chemistry) ATV ScholarEmma Ruskuc (Psychology & Linguistics) College ScholarLiam Saddington (Geography) College ScholarLatifah Sat (Law) David Blank Scholar

Carolyn Scott (Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry) College ScholarAmelia Sellers (Experimental Psychology) College ScholarAudrey Shi (English Language & Literature) Brook ScholarAmy Symons (Philosophy, Politics & Economics) College ScholarRajan Tanti (Engineering Science) Geoffrey Griffith ScholarJoanna Thompson (Geography) Goldsworthy ScholarJoseph Waldron (Law) David Blank ScholarThomas Wells (English Language & Literature) College ScholarAdam Weston (History & Politics) College Scholar

ExhibitionersAlistair Adams (Physics) College ExhibitionerRoya Athill (Chemistry) College ExhibitionerRosemary Barker (Medical Sciences) College ExhibitionerRobert Blackwell (History & Politics) College ExhibitionerRosalind Booth (Chemistry) College ExhibitionerSanjana Canumalla (Law with Law Studies in Europe) College ExhibitionerPhoebe Corker-Marin (Experimental Psychology) College Exhibitioner

Thomas Gaisford (Human Sciences) College ExhibitionerLouis Gardner (Medical Sciences) College ExhibitionerAlexander Grigg (Modern Languages) College ExhibitionerPaul-Stefan Herman (Computer Science) College ExhibitionerChristopher Horner (Mathematics) College ExhibitionerHugh Johnson (Medical Sciences) College ExhibitionerJoe Jones (Biomedical Sciences) College ExhibitionerKristian Kostadinov (Computer Science) College ExhibitionerPierre Loning (Philosophy, Politics & Economics) College ExhibitionerChristopher Mason (Chemistry) College ExhibitionerGrace Mayhew (Oriental Studies) College ExhibitionerEleanor McIntyre (Modern Languages) College ExhibitionerOwen Morgan (Engineering Science) College ExhibitionerHannah Partington (Biomedical Sciences) College ExhibitionerJoe Phillips (Engineering, Economics & Management) College ExhibitionerChuan Qin (Engineering

Science) College ExhibitionerPatrick Shammas (Mathematics) College ExhibitionerTamara Shaw (Chemistry) College ExhibitionerLucas Shelemy (Experimental Psychology) College ExhibitionerAkash Sonecha (Law) College ExhibitionerLisa Staniforth (History) College ExhibitionerMiranda Stoddart (Medical Sciences) College ExhibitionerStephen Turrell (Materials Science) College ExhibitionerEmma Vidler (Medical Sciences) College Exhibitioner

PRIZES AND AWARDS

University PrizesUndergraduates5 Stone Building Prize for TrustsSamuel Taylor (Law)

ARM Prize for Digital TechnologySabrina Barrett (Engineering Science)

Armourers & Brasiers’ Company / Rolls Royce Prize for Outstanding Performance in PrelimsKaiyi Chen (Materials Science)

British Psychological Society Undergraduate AwardCourtney Spoerer (Experimental Psychology)

Ensoft Prize for Group Design PracticalsPaul-Stefan Herman (Computer Science)

George Humphrey Prize in Psychological StudiesCourtney Spoerer (Experimental Psychology)

Gibbs Book PrizesCarolyn Scott (Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry)Samuel Taylor (Law)

Gibbs Prize for Group Project PresentationAmelie Buxton (Physics)

Gibbs Prize for the Best Overall Performance in Course IHarriet Smith Hughes (English Language & Literature)

Gibbs Prize for the Best Paper 6 Extended EssayHarriet Smith Hughes (English Language & Literature)

Gibbs Prize for the Best Psychological Studies Library DissertationCourtney Spoerer (Experimental Psychology)

Herbertson Prize for the Best Human Geography DissertationAmelia Davy (Geography)

Institution of Civil Engineers Student Prize for the Best Performance in Civil EngineeringIona Richards (Engineering Science)

Law Faculty Prize in Copyright, Trade Marks and Allied RightsMartin Dickson (Law)

Linklaters Prize in Competition Law and PolicyMartin Dickson (Law)

Maurice Lubbock Prize for the Best Performance in the Honour School of EEMSagar Shah (Engineering, Economics & Management)

Motz Prize for the Best Project in Electrical EngineeringDean Irvine (Engineering Science)

Prize for Best Performance in A Roman Introduction to Private LawLatifah Sat (Law)

SABMiller Joint 3rd Prize for Performance in FHS Part IAWilfred Diment (Chemistry)

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WorldQuant Prize for Group Design PracticalsMatthew Gripton (Computer Science)

Worshipful Company of Ironmongers Prize for Best Part II TalkFrederica Onslow (Materials Science)

GraduatesBlackwood Student Design AwardKirubin Pillay (Engineering Science)

British Geotechnical Association Cooling PrizeWilliam Beuckelaers (Engineering Science)

Law Faculty Prize in Comparative Corporate LawThom Wetzer (Law)

Law Faculty Prize in Principles of Financial RegulationThom Wetzer (Law)

MLF Prize for the Best Overall Performance in the MSc in Law and FinanceThom Wetzer (Law)

MLF Prize in Law and Economics of Corporate TransactionsThom Wetzer (Law)

College PrizesThe Burton Prize for the best academic performance

during the year in an area covering Psychology, Sociology, Geography and Human Sciences was awarded to Courtney Spoerer (Experimental Psychology).

The Cochrane Evidence-Based Medicine Prize for the best critical appraisal of evidence answering a practical clinical question was awarded to Joel Ward (Medical Sciences) and Dilraj Kalsi (Medical Sciences).

The Francis and Caron Fernandes Music Prize for contributing towards the musical life of the College was awarded to Hannah Scott (Music).

The Gardner Prize for outstanding contribution to the life of the College was awarded to Liam Saddington (Geography).

The Harold Bailey Prize for Asian Studies was awarded to Clementine Brown (Oriental Studies).

The Katritzky Prize for the best performance in Chemistry Part I was awarded to Michael Jones (Chemistry).

The Katritzky Prize for the best performance during the year in History of Art by a second-year was

awarded to Maria O’Hana (History of Art).

Leask Music Scholarships were awarded to Joshua Hagley (Music), Natalie Fairhurst (Medical Sciences) and James Orrell (Music).

The Michael Atiyah Prize in Mathematics for the best mathematics essay or project written by a St Catherine’s undergraduate in his or her second year reading for a degree in Mathematics or joint school with Mathematics was awarded to Chan Bae (Mathematics & Computer Science).

The Neville Robinson Prize for the best performance in Physics Part B was awarded to Alexander Mol (Physics).

The Neville Robinson Prize for the best performance in Physics Part C was awarded to Thomas Miller (Physics).

The Peter Raina History Essay Prize for the best essay by a second-year reading History was awarded to Aoife Hyde (History).

The Rose Prize for the best academic performance during the year in Biological Sciences was awarded to Alistair Leverett (Biological Sciences) and Poppy Simmonds (Biological Sciences).

The Rupert Katritzky Prize is awarded for the best performance in the Final Honour School in History was awarded to Callum Kelly (History) and Catherine Lillycrop (History).

The Smith Award for services to Drama within the College was awarded to Thomas Wells (English Language & Literature).

The Smith Award for services to Music within the College was awarded to Daniel Shao (Music).

The Stuart Craig Award given to an outstanding student who has gained distinction in a university or national sport, or cultural or musical activities was awarded to Daniel Shao (Music).

The Thomas Jefferson Prize for the North American student who has contributed most to the College academically, socially or culturally ‘in the spirit of Thomas Jefferson’ was awarded to Leo Mehr (Visiting Student).

The Wilfrid Knapp Prize for the best essay by a second-year reading PPE was awarded to Amy Symons (Philosophy, Politics & Economics).

College Travel AwardsWallace Watson Award Thomas Joy (Engineering Science)

Patricia Knapp AwardDavid Rowland (Medical Sciences)Katy-Louise Whelan (Medical Sciences)

Emilie Harris AwardTrevon Joseph (Engineering Science)

Bullock Travel AwardAnna Wakelin (English Language & Literature)

Bullock Career AwardPersis Love (Modern Languages)

Philip Fothergill AwardGuillermo Pascual Perez (Mathematics)

Raymond Hodgkins AwardLucy Byford (History of Art)Emily Norcliffe (English Language & Literature)

Environmental Travel AwardAlexei Du Bois (Education)

Antony Edwards BursaryAbigail White (Modern Languages & Linguistics)

Teach First BursaryLisa Staniforth (History)

College Travel Awards Adeleke Abolade (Engineering Science)Hector Bagley (Interdisciplinary Area Studies)Laura Bengescu (Computer Science)Luca Bertinetto (Engineering Science)Jeremy Bosatta (Modern Languages)Jacob Boswall (Oriental Studies)Lisa Buziek (Law)Nathan Caldecott (Fine Art)Oscar Chang (Computer Science & Philosophy)George Cox (Experimental Psychology)Louise Dandy (Geography)David Furlong (Computer Science & Philosophy)Matthew Geiger (Geography)Oliver Glanville (Geography)Paul Guy (Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry)Jack Hampton (Philosophy, Politics & Economics)Alexander Hetherington (MPLS Doctoral Training Centre)William Honey (Engineering Science)Ayumi Igarashi (Computer Science)



Graduate Degrees & DiplomasDuring the academic year 2014-2015 leave to supplicate for the DPhil was granted to the following:

Kseniya Arsentieva (Mathematics)Asymptotic Solutions for Porous Medium and Inviscid Flow

Casper Beentjes (Mathematics)The Best Performance in the MSc in Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing

Farid Boussaid (Oriental Studies)The Political Economy of State-Business Relations in Morocco

Judith Campos Cordero (Mathematics)Regularity and Uniqueness in the Calculus of Variations

Christopher Chan (Engineering Science) *Magneto-Inductive Wave Data Communications Systems

Luying Chen (Computer Science)Integration and Querying over Semantic Annotations

Matteo Cremonesi (Physics)Observation of S-Channel Single Top Quark Production at the Tevatron

Nadiya Figueroa (International Development) *The Construction and Contestation of Legitimate Authority in Contemporary Jamaica

Judyta Frodyma (English Language & Literature) Wordsworth’s Scriptural Topographies

Patrick Gan (Chemistry)Electrochemical Studies at Carbon-Based Electrodes

Eliza Gheorghe (Politics & International Relations)Atomic Politics: Romania’s Cold War Nuclear Acquisition Strategy, 1962-1979

Paul Gray (Experimental Psychology)Maltreatment-related Processes of Emotion Regulation and Social Understanding: A Study of Adolescents in Care in New South Wales

Caroline Harfield (Engineering Science)Bubbles: Sensors for the Micro-World

Matthew Hennessy (Mathematics)Mathematical Problems Relating to the Fabrication of Organic Photovoltaic Devices

Esme Hill (Medical Sciences)Perfusion Imaging and Tissue Biomarkers for Colorectal Cance

James Iles (Zoology) *The Molecular Epidemiology of HCV & Related Viruses in Africa

Raja Jayaram (Medical Sciences)Effects of Peri-operative Statin Treatment on Atrial Electrical Properties, Post-Operative Atrial Fibrillation and In-Hospital Clinical Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Elective Cardiac Surgery

Felix Kahlhoefer (Physics)Complementarity of Searches for Dark Matter

Anneke Kramm (Medical Sciences) Identification and Characterisation of Epigenetic Mechanisms in Osteoblast Differentiation of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells

Georgina Lang (MPLS Doctoral Training Centre)Mechanics of Swelling and Damage in Brain Tissue: a Theoretical Approach

Alpha Lee (Mathematics)Statistical Physics of Bulk and Confined Ionic Liquids

Ren Lim (Physics)Application of External Torque on the Bacterial Flagellar Moto

Grant McDonald (Zoology)Competitive Structure and the Operation of Sexual Selection

Moctar Kane (International Development)Caroline Leclerc (Continuing Education)Junsong Lin (Physics)Sarah Lyons (Philosophy, Politics & Economics)Katarina Martinovic (Physics)Julian Marwitz (Continuing Education)Christopher Mason (Chemistry)Sarah Mathews (History of Art)Kinga Petrovai (Education)Isobel Renton (History of Art)Henry Richardson Banks (Medical Sciences)Maria Rodriguez Arteaga (Management Studies)Lauren Sabin (Geography)Latifah Sat (Law)Anwesha Sengupta (Oriental Studies)Poppy Simmonds (Biological Sciences)Yosef Singer (Medical Sciences)Luke Turner (Medical Sciences)Emma Vidler (Medical Sciences)Jingjing Wang (Government)Peter York (Computer Science)

The Charles Wenden Fund has continued to support the sporting life of the College.

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Calum Mechie (English Language & Literature)Re-Conditioning England: George Orwell and the Social-Problem Novel

Andrey Melnik (Mathematics)The Role of Anisotropy and Fiber Dispersion in the Mechanics and Remodeling of Biological Tissues

Daniel O’Connor (Medical Sciences)Genetic Determinants of Vaccine Responses

Joshua Owen (Engineering Science)Magnetic Microbubbles: investigation and design of new formulations for targeted therapy

Konstantinos Papoutsis (Engineering Science) *Construction and Characterisation of MRI Coils for Vessel Wall Imaging at 7 Tesla

Chun Peng (Law)Taming the Dragon: Rural Land Takings Law in Modern China

Max Pitz (Mathematics)Topological Reconstruction and Compactification Theory

Daniel Puleston (Medical Sciences)The Role of Autophagy in CD8+ T Cell Immunity

Nazanin Rashidi-Alavijeh (Chemistry)Cation and Anion Doping of ZnO Thin Films by Spray Pyrolysis

Timothy Rooney (MPLS Doctoral Training Centre) *Development of Small Molecule Inhibitors of the Bromodomain-Histone Interaction

Mathias Rufino (Physics)Two Non-Equilibrium Phenomena in Low-Dimensional Electronic Systems

Rok Sekirnik (Chemistry)Studies on Ribosonal Oxygenases

Arghya Sengupta (Law)Speaking Truth to Judicial Power: Judicial Independence, Accountability and Reform of the Indian Higher Judiciary

David Shackleton (English Language & Literature)Grand Narratives: Time and History in the Work of H. G. Wells, D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf

Dong Myung Shin (Chemistry)Growth of Doped Transparent Conducting Oxides by Oxygen Plasma Assisted Atomic Beam Epitaxy

Inga Shpilevaya (Chemistry)Surface Characterisation and Functional Properties of Modified Diamond Electrodes

Lukas Stelzl (Biochemistry) Studying Macromolecular Transitions by NMR and Computer Simulations

Nicholas Torr (Physics)A Model-Independent Approach to Mixing in Prompt D0->Ks0H+H- Decays at LHCb

Patrick Valiquet (Music)‘The Digital is Everywhere’: Negotiating the Aesthetics of Digital Mediation in Montreal’s Electroacoustic and Sound Art Scenes

Jan Vonk (Mathematics)The Atkin Operator on Spaces of Overconvergent Modular Forms and Arithmetic Applications

Alexander Wain (Theology)Chinese Muslims and the Conversion of the Nusantara to Islam

Rasmus Wissmann (Mathematics)Expansion Methods for High-Dimensional PDEs in Finance

Xiaohe Zhang (Physics)A Novel Phonon-Scintillation Cryogenic Detector and Cabling Solution for Dark Matter Direct Detection

* indicates previous graduate of the College

The following were successful in other examinations:

Benjamin Abraham, MSc (C) Global Governance & DiplomacyCarlos Acero Casamitja, Master of Public Policy †Nana Acquah, MSc (C) Applied Linguistics & Second Language Acquisition

Mette Ahlefeldt-Laurvig, MSt Modern British & European History †Ashish Airon, MSc (C) Computer ScienceMartina Aleksandraviciute, MSc (C) Modern Japanese StudiesNiklas Allamand Frijs-Madsen, Master of Public PolicyRita Alonaizan, MSc (C) Clinical EmbryologyRavi Amarnath, BCLAngela Anzola de Toro, Master of Public PolicySarah Rose Aquilina, MSt English (1900-present day)Hector Bagley, MSc (C) African StudiesCasper Beentjes, MSc (C) Mathematical Modelling & Scientific Computing †Tumi Belo, MSt US HistoryLuka Boeskens, MSc (C) Sociology †Sophie Bolding, MSc (C) Criminology & Criminal JusticeMichelle Brummer, MSc (C) Criminology & Criminal JusticeLisa Buziek, Diploma in Legal Studies †Jennifer Byram, MSc (C) Visual, Material & Museum AnthropologyLeah Carden, 2nd BM *Charles Cavness, Executive MBA (part-time) *Gayatri Chadha, BCLKa Hin Chan, MSc (C) Financial EconomicsGeorgina Chandler, MSc (C) Biodiversity, Conservation & ManagementMichael Collins, MSt Creative Writing (part-time)Philippa Collins, BCL †Christopher Copplestone, 2nd BM (Graduate Entry)Agnes Davis, MSt Creative Writing (part-time)Julie Dayot, MPhil Development Studies †Fraser Dick, MSc (C) Mathematics & Foundations of Computer ScienceMartin Donlon, PGCE Modern LanguagesAndrew Dooley, 2nd BMFlorence Duhamel, PGCE Modern LanguagesHajira Dambha, MSc (C) Evidence-Based Health Care (part-time)Mirjam Eggli, MSc (C) Contemporary Chinese StudiesNathan Eizenberg, MSc (C) Mathematical Modelling & Scientific ComputingMark Ekinde, MSc (C) Financial Economics †Freja Elbro, MSc (C) Mathematics & Foundations of Computer ScienceChristopher Elsby, MSc (C) Computer Science *Pamela Faber, MPhil Development StudiesKira Fischer, MSc (R) BiochemistryLiam Fleming, MSt Modern British & European History




Oliver Fletcher, MSc (C) Latin American StudiesAlexandra Fottinger, 2nd BM (Graduate Entry)Ella Gunn, MSc (C) Refugee & Forced Migration StudiesJan Hagedorn, MPhil Oriental Studies (Islamic Studies & History) †Mads Hansen, MSc (C) Mathematical Modelling & Scientific ComputingImogen Harris, MSt Creative Writing (part-time)Mark Harrison, MSc (C) Learning & Teaching (part-time)Emily Rose Hay, MSc (C) Criminology & Criminal Justice †Matthias Hirtschulz, PGDipl Mathematical Finance (part-time)Ruth Ingamells, MSt World Literatures in EnglishJian Ping Jen, 2nd BM *Yasumune Kano, Master of Public PolicyArsalan Karim, MSc (C) Experimental Therapeutics (part-time)John Kenny, MPhil Politics (Comparative Government)Helen King, 2nd BM †Sergey Kravchenko, MSc (C) Computer ScienceReenen Kroukamp, MSc (C) Software & Systems Security (part-time)Mengwei Kuang, MPhil Comparative Social PolicyYasmin Kumi, MSc (C) African StudiesDeepa Kurup, MSc (C) Contemporary India †Francesco Lanzoni, MSc (C) Social Science of the InternetNicholas Lehn, MSc (C) Cognitive & Evolutionary AnthropologyIan Lim, MSc (C) Applied Statistics †Zhi Lu, MSc (C) Applied Statistics †Rachel Luney, PGCE ChemistryMaria Macaya Marten, MSt Modern LanguagesRoderick MacKenzie, MPhil EconomicsMusata Matei, PGDipl Diplomatic Studies †Robert McConnell, PGCE BiologyLaura McDonald, MSt Psychodynamic Practice (part-time)Laura McLaren, 2nd BM *Mmannyana Mokgachane, MSc (C) Evidence-Based Social Intervention & Policy EvaluationAngharad Monk, MSt English (1700-1830) †Marcel Monkenbusch, MPhil EconomicsMichael Museba, MSc (C) Water Science, Policy & ManagementValeriia Mutc, MSt Modern LanguagesBenjamin Myara, MSc (C) Mathematical & Computational FinanceIkuno Naka, MPhil Development Studies †Kirtirupa Nandi, MSc (C) Clinical EmbryologyShaun Ng, MSc (C) Financial Economics †Soni Nougtara MBA

Naoya Okamoto, MSc (C) Modern Japanese StudiesMegan O’Donnell, MPhil Oriental Studies (Modern Middle Eastern Studies) †Aikaterini Orfanidi, MJurisDaniel Ott, MSc (C) Medical AnthropologyPatrick Outhwaite, MSt Medieval StudiesOnur Ozlu, MSc (C) Sustainable Urban Development (part-time) †Aleksander Palikot, MSc (C) SociologyAaron Primero, MSc (C) Financial EconomicsJoanna Przewrocka, MSc (C) Experimental Therapeutics (part-time) †Jatuporn Puntree, MSc (R) Particle PhysicsKalyani Ramachandran, MPhil Visual, Material & Museum AnthropologyPadraig Rice, Master of Public PolicyMaria Rodriguez Arteaga MBARachel Ross, MSc (C) History of Science, Medicine & TechnologyIlze Saleniece, MSc (C) Education (Comparative & International Education)Haiya Sarwar, MSt Creative Writing (part-time)Niklas Schraml, MSc (C) Global Governance & Diplomacy †Maximilian Schulze, Diploma in Legal StudiesAaquib Shams MBA*Naima Sharif, PGCE ChemistryRebecca Sherriff, PGCE GeographyPatrick Simpson, 2nd BM *Yossi Singer, MSc (C) Neuroscience †Siddhartha Sinha, MSc (C) Software Engineering (part-time)Helen So, MSt Music (Musicology)Bethany Sparks, MSt English (1900-present day)Thu Tessier, Diploma in Legal StudiesCatherine Tyack, MSt Slavonic StudiesSheona Urquhart, PGCE PhysicsEfim Voinov, Executive MBA (part-time) *Jingjing Wang, MSc (C) Economics for DevelopmentWujing Wang, MSc (C) Education (Learning and Technology)Yonatan Weizman, MSt Creative Writing (part-time)Thom Wetzer, MSc (C) Law & Finance †John Williams, BCL †Jack Winfield, MSt Global & Imperial HistoryLingxi Zhang, MSc (C) Financial EconomicsHanning Zhu, MSc (C) Applied Statistics †

* indicates previous graduate of the College† indicates candidates adjudged worthy of distinction by the Examiners

Graduate ScholarsAlex Barbaro (Materials) Overseas ScholarAndrew Dean (English Language & Literature) Overseas ScholarBenjamin Abraham (Government) Light Senior ScholarCallum Kelly (History) Foundation College ScholarChun-Mann Chin (Chemistry) College Scholar (Sciences) and Foundation College ScholarEirion Slade (Medical Sciences) Glaxo ScholarFabio Anza (Physics) Wilfrid Knapp Scholar (Sciences)Frances Watson (Music) Allen Senior Music ScholarGeorgina Edwards (Modern Languages) Ghosh Graduate ScholarJakob Engel (Geography & the Environment) College Scholar (Arts)James Kwiecinski (Mathematics) Alan Tayler ScholarJingjing Wang (Government) Light Senior ScholarJoel Ward (Medical Sciences) Light Senior ScholarJohn Mittermeier (Geography & the Environment) Wilfrid Knapp Scholar (Arts)Juan Gutierrez Rodriguez (Government) Light Senior ScholarKinga Petrovai (Education) Light Senior ScholarLuca Bertinetto (Engineering Science) Light Senior ScholarMarketa Tomkova (MPLS Doctoral Training Centre) Light Senior ScholarMiles Huseyin (Medical Sciences Doctoral Training Centre) Foundation College Scholar 2015-2019Natalie Haley (MPLS Doctoral Training Centre) Leathersellers’ Company ScholarPernille Sogaard (Medical Sciences) College Scholar (Sciences)Peter Forsyth (Engineering Science) College Scholar (Sciences)Serkan Birgel (Geography & the Environment) Light Senior ScholarShan Chang (Social Policy & Social Intervention) Foundation College ScholarSophia Saller (Mathematics) Foundation College ScholarStephen Pates (Zoology) Brade-NaturalMotion Graduate ScholarThomas Clark (Modern Languages) Magellen ScholarZane Linde (English Language & Literature) College Scholar (Arts)

M E S S A G E S

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S T U D E N T P E R S P E C T I V E S

It’s almost a week before I next encounter anything

human, aside from a faded footprint. I’m at 2,592 metres,

the summit of Mt Nyangani and the highest point in

Zimbabwe. Caught crouched, supping from a can of

condensed milk, I hear a cough like the alarm call of a

buck. It hung in my ears for a second longer than usual

as I recognised that it was human, and found myself

panicked. A bemused guide came into view around a

boulder to find me standing, ready to hurl the milk can. I

can’t have looked normal, nor did I behave normally, being

too quiet at first then pouring conversation at the poor

bloke and his clients as my voice sparks up for the first

time in days. They leave and I have the mountain, and its

fog, to myself again.

My first week in the Nyanga area in the North-East

passed in a blur like falling down those steep sections;

going from box-fresh khakis to the feral milk-cradling

man atop Nyangani. For another month I continued

through the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe, tracing

the border with Mozambique. The Afro-Montane forest

of Nyanga gave way to highveld and then the grand

quartzite peaks of Chimanimani. I passed through steep

sided valleys dense with bush, through pine forests, tea

plantations, farmland, and was afforded views that sat

me down in wonder. Often without a map I picked my

way across this landscape on the advice of locals, my

course buffeted by ridges, game tracks or the paths of

gold panners. I got used to collecting water, swimming

below waterfalls and cooking sadza and ration packs

on a tiny stove, so that the smell and sight of purple

meths would pique my appetite. That said, I was too

Don’t worry. The trails will always be obvious like

this” he beckons to our right at a gap between two

trees, seemingly free of footfall. “And a gaboon

viper will make a sound like....if you step on it.

God speed.”

“Cheers”

I set off, crashing a rhythm through the forest. New

khaki hat, new khaki shirt making me feel like an extra

in Carry on up the Jungle. I practically fall down the

steepest sections, halted occasionally by a deliberate

run-in with the upright of a trunk. My first evening

alone in Africa beside a fire, the chatter of nocturnal life

beyond the firelight’s reach punctuated with moments of

ringing silence.

Tom Gaisford (2013, Human Sciences), winner of the

2014 Wallace Watson award reminisces

on his trip to Zimbabwe

I passed

through steep

sided valleys

dense with

bush, through

pine forests,

tea plantations,

farm land, and

was afforded

views that sat

me down in

wonder.

M E S S A G E S



I returned home just in time for my 21st birthday, and

found myself on the other side of the same feeling I

had taking those first steps into the forest. I had walked

until sunset most days; gone so mad with thirst I almost

did a ‘Bear Grylls’; seen snakes, freshwater crabs,

monkeys and klippspringer; sat naked on top of the

highest mountain in Mozambique eating a boil-in-the-

bag chicken tikka massala with a tent peg and generally

been party to a surfeit of vibrant experience. The

Wallace Watson Award made this both financially, and

on a more fundamental level, imaginatively possible. I

enjoy armchair exploration as much as anyone, but never

would have taken the plunge: the Watsons pushed me

off, and I’m extraordinarily grateful. n

often subject to hunger, not having accounted for the

amount I would need to eat to stave it off. Stops to

acquire provisions in villages or towns along the way,

and in the houses of a number of kind people, consisted

of sleeping and gorging myself, often to the amusement

of hosts. Out in the highlands, on evenings where my

stomach wouldn’t let me get to sleep, I’d smoke one of

the cigarettes I’d brought to win favour with any border

guards or police, and get my head to the pillow while

the nicotine was still in effect.

The principal function of the cigarettes as a bartering tool,

thankfully, went largely untested. On the advice of a man

who lived in the area, I did once go and ask permission

from the police to walk along a particular section of the

border. The policeman I saw, after establishing that my

Shona was poor and I was British, took great delight in

refusing me this permission, instructing me to return to

the district headquarters a two day round trip away. As a

contingency, I’d been told to seek the ‘President’s Office’,

the shadier arm of policing in Zimbabwe. I found their

headquarters in a shed just down from the main police

station, and spent a while there in front of a huge portrait

of Mugabe, reassuring a big man that I wasn’t searching

for diamonds or gold, before moving on to the subject of

Oxford and finally golf, about which I know nothing. My

golf chat was evidently good enough, as it got me this

man’s number, to be called in the case of any trouble.

This did present itself briefly in the border town of Cashel,

where breakfast was rudely interrupted by a man with an

AK47 and his plain-clothed mate, but it was all resolved

and no porridge went to waste.

Tom Gaisford (2013, Human Sciences) went many days without

encountering human life during his time in Zimbabwe

I had walked

until sunset

most days;

gone so mad

with thirst I

almost did a

‘Bear Grylls’...

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that this year would mean a step up in the level of

competition and I didn’t know what I could expect of

myself. I had done a solid winter of training and was

looking forward to giving it my best and seeing where

in the world I could place myself. Unfortunately in Abu

Dhabi I felt like I couldn’t show what I was capable of,

although I did still come 33rd in a race where almost

every name in the triathlon world was present.

Next up was the WTS race in Cape Town, just two days

before the start of Trinity Term. Exam nerves were

kicking in and I wasn’t sure whether I’d made the right

call in deciding to race – but then again these races

are what I had trained for all winter. This race was an

Olympic distance race, which means a 1,500m swim,

40k bike and 10k run. The water in Cape Town was

cold, only 11 degrees, which meant that the swim was

shortened to 750m – definitely long enough in the cold

water. In the WTS, drafting is allowed during the bike

leg, which means that the aim of the swim is to exit

the water in the lead group. This time, I managed to

swim myself into that front pack! On this occasion my

pack had about 30 girls in it and knowing who to trust

is essential: luckily I came through unscathed, but a few

people had some near misses by misjudging corners

Alongside my undergraduate Masters in

Mathematics, I have been training hard to become

the best triathlete I can be and to raise my

standings in the ITU World Triathlon rankings.

After winning silver at the European Championships

and gold at the U23 World Triathlon Championships last

year, in 2015 I was given the opportunity to race the

best women in triathlon, in the World Triathlon Series

(WTS).

Having competed in the WTS Hamburg event in 2014,

I knew I was in for a steep learning curve, but I was

feeling excited for the first WTS race of 2015, which

was in Abu Dhabi at the end of Hilary. I was aware

Sophia Saller (2011, Mathematics) was the ITU World

U23 Triathlon champion in 2014, and

shares her experiences of stepping up

to senior level in 2015.

Exam nerves

were kicking

in and I wasn’t

sure whether

I’d made the

right call in

deciding to

race...



exam, a race that I had been dreaming of doing for a long

time and which has been taken off the Series in 2016. I

was devastated. Common sense told me not to compete,

but my instinct was to just to go for it. Revision was going

well and I was feeling confident about my exams, so I

made the choice – I was racing. What an amazing feeling

it was to race in Hyde Park – I had volunteered at the

Olympics here and I felt a large privilege to race on the

same course against many of the same athletes. The swim

was a battle, I didn’t think open water swimming could be

so much like fighting! I managed to exit the water with

the main pack just 30 seconds behind a lead group of

five. Despite our best efforts, we didn’t manage to close

that gap during the bike leg. My legs did not feel fresh on

the run, but I still managed my second top-ten finish of

the season, finishing 10th. The banks of the Serpentine

were lined with spectators, three deep on the run course

and many of my friends had come from Oxford to support

– the atmosphere was amazing.

My revision paid off and I have met the conditions for

my DPhil offer from St Catherine’s College. As tough

as it is to fit triathlon training into the busy schedule

of an Oxford student, all of the experiences I’ve been

allowed to have through my sport are making up for

every sacrifice that is made along the way. So far, I have

managed to raise my international triathlon ranking

to 28th and I am currently placed 19th in the WTS

series. I’m excited to see what the future has in store

for me and to what other exciting places my triathlon

career will take me – but I’m already looking forward to

returning to Catz for my DPhil. n

or coming too close to others. Then it was time to hit

the run and I felt like I was flying! After a few hundred

metres, I was leading the race with about 10 other girls

(including the Olympic Champion). I remember having

to shake my head at the thought of finishing in the

top 10! The run was hard and painful, but at the same

time I don’t think I have ever felt as much joy before.

I gave it my all and finished in fourth place! The trip

had definitely been worth it! I had just missed out on a

medal, but there was nothing that could have wiped the

smile off my face – all of the hard work over the past

months had been worth it and all the disappointment

about the race in Abu Dhabi was forgotten. I travelled

home more motivated than ever for revision.

Cape Town left me on a high and looking forward to

exams, but when my exam timetable was released there

was bad news. WTS London was the day before my first

Left: Sophia Saller (2011,

Mathematics) won the World

ITU U23 Triathlon in Edmonton

in 2014

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Last summer, I went to Inner Mongolia and Hebei

Province as part of a voluntary teaching initiative

organised through Tsinghua University in Beijing.

The ‘Summer Service and Learning Programme’ aims to

help increase the quality of teaching in less privileged

parts of rural China and inspire students to fulfil their

potential and reach higher education. The project

involved teaching English at four separate middle

schools across the country, travelling as part of a group

with nine other students, many of whom were from

China and Taiwan.

Arriving at the airport, I was immediately confronted

with a challenge which was not about to go away.

‘Qlng hùzhào!’. ‘Sorry, I don’t understand’. ‘Hùzhào.

Hùzhào!!’ (‘Passport. Passport!’). The airport, at least,

should surely be a place where English is understood.

Looking around, it became very apparent that my

assumption of my native tongue as a universal language

was naïve. After what felt like a mission just making my

way through Beijing airport and negotiating myself a

phone contract, I was pleased to be greeted by Aurora,

an enthusiastic engineering student from Tsinghua

University, who would lead our trip to four different

schools across the most rural regions of China over the

coming month. Having almost failed to make my way to

the airport exit, I was more than happy to discover that

her English was in fact fantastic – something I was to

become very grateful for in the coming weeks.

Meeting Aurora and the other students in the group as

stipulated at 7am the next morning, I was introduced to

the conventional form of student transport in Beijing:

the bicycle. Whilst two years of sprinting to lectures

back in Oxford should have stood me in good stead

for this, Beijing bicycle transport relies on a rather

different set of skills. Balance, rather than sheer leg

speed, happens to be the most useful trait when it

comes to elegantly situating oneself on the precariously

Katie Hickson (2012, Geography), winner of the

Emilie Harris Award, writes about her

trip to China to teach English.

Some of Katie Hickson’s students take time out to enjoy

themselves

Above: Katie came into contact

with huge numbers of children

during her time teaching in

China

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rickety frame which covers the rear bicycle wheel, whilst

dodging the traffic and small interweaving luggage

carts. Secretly rather pleased with myself for having

perfected the art of leaping off the back of a bicycle

when confronted with a nearby bus on day one, I was

greeted with a new challenge when we came to depart

our cosy university campus to catch the bus northwards

out of the city. I came out of the dormitory the next

morning to be confronted with 10 students (and

accompanying suitcases), 5 bicycles, and 2 additional

luggage bags, to be told that we had better hurry

because we had to catch a bus to Inner Mongolia in

20 minutes. The station was about 5 miles away. With

wheelie suitcases duct-taped to the racks of overloaded

bicycles, we started the 200-mile journey North in a

rather rickety fashion.

Having been saved by a pitying motorised luggage

cart driver, we did eventually find ourselves leaving

the traffic-laden hustle that was Beijing city and

immersed in the rather beautiful, remote, and desolate

countryside of the southern stretches of Inner

Mongolia, eventually reaching Duolun County, where

we were to be based for the next 10 days, before

moving south to Wuqiang. My time in Inner Mongolia

was a whirlwind of small yellow-uniformed students,

enthusiastic faces, everlasting expanses of grasslands

and repetitions of ‘Hello, ma name ees …. Wha is Yu

naaaame.’, with precisely the same intonations from

every student and teacher. Despite our language

differences, the teachers were the most welcoming and

friendly people, continuously treating us to extravagant

Chinese dishes until our bellies were stuffed. I soon

learned to express that I could not eat any more in

Chinese. My continual efforts to pick up Mandarin also

proved to be a reliable source of entertainment, with

attempts to correctly enunciate the four different tones

inevitably unsuccessful despite my best efforts. I now

have real admiration for anyone who has mastered the

language.

In a way, however, this struggle also made me realise

the importance of language learning, and I tried to

get this across to the students in my English lessons.

Initially rather overwhelmed by the sheer size of the

classes (which often exceeded 70 in number) I soon

came to learn that having teachers from outside the

immediate area was in fact a rarity for these students

and they were more than willing to learn. This provided

a fantastic opportunity to focus on some of the

areas which were typically less well addressed in the

Chinese school syllabus; namely speaking English, since

this element is in fact entirely lacking from county

examinations and is thus generally ignored. In addition

to basic grammar and pronunciation, I tried to introduce

as much variety and cultural insight into the lessons

as possible, with lessons ranging from ‘British Royals’

to ‘Improvised Role Play’ and ‘British Festivals’. Seeing

the students progress throughout our time there was

immensely rewarding.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Emilie

Harris Foundation for their very generous contribution

which made this opportunity possible. n

Below: Katie made the most

of experiencing the Chinese

culture

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It was dark and cold, as it was 5am in February.

Lucjan Kaliniecki, Rachel Frame and myself (team

name ‘Catz me if you can’), dragged ourselves to the

OUSU building along with many other teams from

around Oxford.

It was the start of 36 hours of terrifying ‘Jailbreak’

adventure, the aim being to get as far away as possible

from Oxford within the timeframe, with a crucial

catch– you can’t spend anything on transport. The idea

behind Jailbreak is to get sponsored and raise money

for charity. We were fundraising for Oxford RAG, whose

donations are given to specially chosen charities.

We sent dozens of emails in advance, as the rules

stipulate you can arrange transport beforehand, if

it is free by the company. After hitting a brick wall

with every transport company under the sun, from

Megabus to Ukraine Airlines, we tried getting in touch

with Catz alumni. With the generous intercession of

the Master, Professor Roger Ainsworth, we contacted

EasyJet Captain, Nick Curson (1984, Engineering), who

Christian Amos Christian Amos (2013, History) writes about his involvement

with Jailbreak, where his team ‘Catz me if you can’ had 36

hours to get as far away from St Catz as possible without using

paid transport, with the aim of raising money for Oxford RAG.

Christian Amos (2013, History)

and his Jailbreak team ahead

of their adventure


kindly offered us free tickets to a range of destinations,

including Moscow, Tenerife and Athens. Moscow, while

great for distance, would require getting a very short-

notice Russian visa. I made an over-the-phone attempt

to get us free visas from the Russian Embassy in London,

but needless to say, that was not going to materialise.

Tenerife was further than Athens, but we felt flying to

a remote island limited our ability to fulfil the spirit of

adventure and travel crucial to Jailbreak. Athens was our

best bet. To our pleasant surprise, Oxford Bus Company

furnished the three of us with free tickets to the airport.

We set off on our adventure dressed in neon-toned

orange t-shirts and with GPS trackers for Gloucester

Green. After some delirious early-morning conversation,

we rolled out of the bus and into the airport. We tried

to hustle some trans-continental airlines for tickets, but

failed abysmally. Once in Athens, we found our way to

Piraeus Harbour. Our lack of Greek led to an awkward

conversation in pidgin English with a middle-aged

Athenian, but with the help of a local police officer we

found our way to the ferries which crossed the Aegean.



With much pleading, we convinced the ferry company

that our cause was good enough to warrant free passage

to the island of Kos, near the Turkish coastline. It was

an uncomfortable night’s sleep over some chairs, but

the spectacular view of the Dodecanese when we

drifted into Kos was adequate compensation. Getting

off at Kos involved waiting for a huge plate metal door

to be lowered, in a scene worryingly reminiscent of the

beginning of James Cameron’s Avatar.

Kos is a beautiful island, serene and relaxed, but we

had less than 12 hours left on the clock, and we were

determined to reach Turkey by taking the ferry to Bodrum.

At the harbour, prices ranged enormously, so we raised

as much as we could and prayed it would be enough. In

Kos, we had to find a way of communicating our message

and raising money for our voyage. I contacted a friend

at Hertford College who’s half-Cypriot, and he was able

to give us the appropriate Greek sentences, which we

wrote on a whiteboard we’d taken with us – signalling

our desperate plight to Kos citizens. We spent a couple

of hours getting minimal donations, concerned we might

have to accept Kos as our final Jailbreak destination. We

eventually found more luck going into shops and cafes.

We poked our heads into most small shops and cafes on

the island, asking for donations to be placed in a little hat

we’d bought. Within about 6 hours, we raised over €70,

enough to buy ferry tickets to Bodrum. We took a few

photos of the island, whose people had been generous

enough to trust our ‘philanthropikos’, and left for Turkey.

When we got to Bodrum, our time was almost up. We

looked for ways of getting further afield, and using

remaining ferry money, we took a coach to Izmir. Our 36

hours elapsed on the coach, and we were proud to have

raised £1,600 for Oxford RAG.

Nick had kindly arranged for us to get a return flight

from Athens, and we found we had 2 nights in Izmir

before flying back to Greece. It was a bizarre break from

Oxford life in Turkey’s third largest city, taking in the

local culture and history. We had to fly to Athens via

Istanbul, but unfortunately, it was snowing heavily in

Istanbul. Our flight from Izmir landed, but all outbound

flights were grounded until the evening. We confronted

the airline, explaining how we needed to get to Athens

by the evening to catch our flight back to London. Much

to our surprise, our plea was met with the offer of three

free tickets from Istanbul to London, meaning we had

half a day in Istanbul in the snow – beautiful but slightly

treacherous. The slush and icy-wind made it a memorable

plunge. We did a whistle-stop tour of the Hagia Sophia

and the Blue Mosque, got pursued by an overly-zealous

carpet-salesman and left. Istanbul behind us, we finally

arrived in Stansted and went back to Oxford.

We had an unforgettable experience – and I don’t say

that lightly. My crazy few days in the middle of Hilary

during my first year at Oxford will undoubtedly stay with

me; they were some of the best days of that year. We

raised money for charity and had a lot of fun. What was

less fun, however, was being several days behind on

essays. One tutor was not convinced that visiting Hagia

Sophia was a more direct way of studying the early

medieval world than doing the essay!! n

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Sarah McCready (2008, History)

on her appearance on BBC One’s Masterchef

Everyone in the office looks at me with a

bemused expression on their faces as my

eyes nervously dart back and forth from my

laptop screen to my desk drawer, which has

been vibrating at an increasingly alarming

frequency for the last 30 minutes.

Last night on Masterchef, BBC One’s famous

amateur cooking competition, the episode had

concluded with a preview of the next night’s

action; for 30 seconds or so my face had been

on screen, giggling nervously at John Torode

and awkwardly suggesting my preferred tactic

for success would be to ply my food with so

much golden tequila he would have no choice

but to propel me into the next round. The cat is

now officially out of the bag after three months

of MI5 levels of secrecy, and thus my social

media is imploding. My Facebook wall is heaving

under the weight of all these new posts, and

I’m amassing dozens of new Twitter followers

every hour. I’m overwhelmed, which is why

my IPhone has been relegated to my drawer,

muffled by scrap paper and rich tea biscuits.

In that moment, it occurs to me that what

started as pure curiosity on a slow Friday

afternoon at work had somehow turned into

something that had the potential to alter the

direction of my life. When I had completed my

application only five months previously, it had

not been with the intention of forging a new

career in food. Yes, I had always watched the

show, and yes I was something of a super-fan,

but I was more intrigued to see how I would

fare in the application process and whether

or not my food was truly as impressive as my

(rather biased) friends had led me to believe.

Finishing the competition as a Semi-Finalist,

and only just missing the Final by one rather

spectacularly undercooked piece of Salmon,

would not have been fathomable to me at

those early stages.

Succeeding in something that is unequivocally

an achievement, and one that so many people

in our country would recognise, gives you

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a sense of accomplishment and pride that I

can only compare to receiving my initial offer

from St Catherine’s College. It certainly made

three months of 5am starts, juggled around

my rather demanding day job, worthwhile. It

also definitely took the sting out of the mild

public humiliation and severe online trolling

that is sadly now inevitable with something

of this nature. Being able to say I catered for

the Red Arrows’ 50th anniversary banquet,

or that I successfully created a tasting menu

for a group of people who insure their ever

so discerning taste buds (including the master

tea-blender at Tetley), are the types of

experiences that no one expects to collect at

the age of 24. It goes without saying that I

am equally grateful and gob-smacked.

The best thing is that the journey is far from

over. I am now in a fortunate enough position

that my day job – property development for

The Dorchester Group – is entwining with

my foodie ambitions. Having delivered

community facilities, including shops,

schools and public open space, as part of

the developments that I work on, the natural

evolution has been for me to develop the

restaurant portfolio for the group. Having

secured the necessary investment, we are

all crossing our fingers that our first venture

together, a complex of country eateries on

the edge of the Cotswolds, will be ready

to open its doors to the public in 2017.

Although this sounds like a long time away,

as we have chosen to refurbish not one, but

two, heritage buildings (‘go big or go home’

they tell me), this long-stop date is already

somewhat ambitious. Being able to build my

very own menu from scratch, in addition to

having creative control over the branding

and interiors, has put me in a perpetual

state of giddiness and I am now practically

frothing at the mouth to get onto site and

start building.

Gregg Wallace starts every episode of

Masterchef by affirming that ‘cooking

doesn’t get tougher than this’. However,

from what I am currently learning about the

realities of being a commercial restaurateur,

I would have to respectfully disagree with Mr

Wallace. Still, I’m very much looking forward

to getting my teeth stuck in (pardon the

pun) to the challenges ahead! n

Sarah McCready on the set of Masterchef

When I had completed

my application only five

months previously, it

had not been with the

intention of forging a

new career in food.

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Mark Simpson (2008, Music)

on his career and latest operatic work, Pleasure.

A virtuoso clarinettist, composer, and

one of Britain’s rising stars in music,

Mark has barely had a quiet moment

since graduating from Oxford in 2011.

He is a regular figure in concert halls and

in the media, and the past three years

has seen a flurry of new commissions,

appointments and performances

knocking at his door. At the time of

writing, Mark is living in Bordeaux and

writing his first opera, Pleasure, which

will premiere in Leeds in April 2016.

Mark came to St Catz as an already

accomplished young clarinettist and composer.

In 2006, at the age of 17, he was awarded

BBC Young Musician and BBC Proms/Guardian

Young Composer of the Year, the first to win

both competitions. He immersed himself in

music life at Oxford as a performer, composer

and conductor. Mark had many memorable

experiences at St Catz, and recalls with

particular fondness performing at an intimate

late night concert in the Catz Music House and

travelling to Singapore with the Catz Quintet.

After Oxford, Mark moved to London to study

at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and

was presented with a number of opportunities

in 2012 to springboard his music career. He

became an artist with the Young Classical

Artists Trust and was named a BBC Radio 3

New Generation Artist. Mark also received a

commission from the BBC for the Last Night

of the Proms in 2012 (for which he composed

the orchestral piece Sparks) and performed

a Mirror-Fragment with the BBC Symphony

Orchestra at the Barbican. His attributes much

of his more recent success to building on these

early experiences and opportunities.

Mark says that a lot of these opportunities

have come as a surprise, but the seeds of

Mark Simpson (2008, Music) has enjoyed a blossoming musical career since leaving St Catz and has been a regular

in concert halls and in the media

He immersed himself in

music life at Oxford as a

performer, composer and

conductor. Mark had many

memorable experiences at

St Catz...

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his recent success were sown early on.The

idea for his upcoming opera Pleasure came

from his experiences as a young 18-year-old

living in Berlin, struggling with the limelight

he experienced as BBC Young Musician and

Composer of the Year and reflecting on the

ways that people use pleasure to escape

their own lives. The Jerwood Opera Writing

Fellowship has allowed Mark and British

writer, poet and librettist Melanie Challenger

to work on this project. Pleasure will premiere

at Opera North in Leeds on 28 April 2016,

with further performances in Liverpool,

Aldeburgh and London.

Mark also has a strong relationship with the

BBC Philharmonic, and is the orchestra’s

current Composer in Association. During his

tenure, Mark will compose three new scores

and the BBC Philharmonic will also programme

his existing orchestral works. The BBC

Philharmonic recently performed Mark’s work

The Immortal at the Manchester International

Festival.

The Immortal delves into the Late Victorian

world of séances, as told by John Gray’s book

The Immortalization Commission, and is the

biggest and best piece that Mark has written.

Its premiere in July 2015 at the Manchester

International Festival received critical

acclaim, with Richard Morrison for The Times

describing the piece as ‘the most thrilling new

choral work [that he has] heard for years’.

The work, which touches on concepts such

as love, soul and immortality, is the most

challenging project that Mark has worked on.

It is also his proudest achievement to date.

Mark speaks candidly about the pressures

and difficulties of life as a composer, and

the constant flitting between despair and

bravado. He loves his craft, but it also comes

with many challenges. Mark draws inspiration

from literature and poetry, and hopes to write

a musical and to explore electronic media in

the future. nMark’s opera Pleasure will premiere in Leeds in April 2016

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Maxine Williams (1992, Law)

on her role as Facebook’s Global Director of Diversity

The more diversity we

have in our experiences,

skills and backgrounds, the

better we are at solving

complex problems...


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Not one to shy away from a challenge,

Maxine Williams has been at the helm of

improving Facebook’s workforce diversity

since joining the social network giant as

Global Director of Diversity in 2013. It is no

secret that there is still a lot of work to be

done in relation to diversity in the high-tech

sector, particularly as gender and ethnic

diversity present particular challenges for

Silicon Valley. At Facebook, Maxine develops

strategies to find, grow and keep the best

and brightest talent from all backgrounds.

On her time at St Catherine’s College…

The meaning that St. Catz had for me was

the connection that I felt with a long line of

scholars from the Caribbean of little financial

means, but great ambition. St. Catherine’s

Society (as it was earlier in the last century)

had opened the way for Eric Williams (former

Prime Minister of Trinidad) and Grantley

Adams (former Prime Minister of Barbados)

to study at Oxford University when there was

little access to the established colleges for

poor Black people. Every day that I was there,

I walked around with a sense of pride to be

continuing in their paths.

On life at Oxford… I enjoyed the feeling of

being equally connected to East and West by

virtue of both geographical proximity to Asia,

Africa, Europe, America and the Caribbean

and the international student body who

literally came from all over the world.

On leadership… Having grown up in

the incredibly cosmopolitan country that

is Trinidad and Tobago, I developed an

appreciation for differences and the power

of diversity. That appreciation has remained

at my core as I lead with the belief that we

achieve our best when we leverage all that

is brought to the table through different

perspectives and backgrounds.

On her background and career… At Facebook

we are trying to do things that have never

been done before – to connect the entire

world and to do so in a way that makes us all

better through our openness and connection.

The more diversity we have in our experiences,

skills and backgrounds, the better we are at

solving complex problems because we can

see things from different angles. I bring all

of me – my past careers and skills – to every

decision and interaction. The fact that there is

so much diversity in my background has been

an advantage time and again.

On her work at Facebook… I was attracted

to a company whose mission was in sync

with my own – to make the world more open

and connected, for the better. My proudest

achievement has been deepening our

connection to traditionally under-represented

communities of Latinos, Blacks, women and

many others. The challenge is to create equal

opportunities for these groups who have been

locked out over hundreds of years of history and

to do so as fast as we can. The type of equality

we want to see has never been achieved before

but we are up for the challenge! n

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Martin Heipertz (1997, PPE),

on his fascination with the Euro

Martin Heipertz (1997, PPE), Head of the

European Policy Division of the Federal

Ministry of Finance in Berlin and Honorary

Member of the SCR reflects on how the

Oxford experience helped shape his views

and prepared him for his career.

Whilst at St. Catherine’s College, my

fascination with the Euro began. I was reading

PPE during a time when monetary union

became reality, at least on the continent,

and when the European Central Bank (ECB)

was taking up operations in my hometown of

Frankfurt. I started to wonder how national

fiscal policies would need to be organised in

order to accommodate an integrated monetary

policy and I sought to understand the

interactions between the monetary and fiscal

dimensions of this undertaking. Help came

from excellent Economics tutorials at Catz, as

well as from several magnificent lecture series

offered by the University. In Politics, I was

assigned tutors at Christ Church and Magdalen,

digging into German economic policy and

the role of the Bundesbank in the design of

monetary union. Gordon Brown’s famous five

tests on whether Britain should join the euro

was an exam topic during my Finals. In my

essay, I remember weighing the pros and cons

from a perspective of economics, inconclusively

so, and then arguing that this decision was a

purely political one, albeit clouted in the terms

of economics. A few years later, I actually

found myself within the ECB, as an economist,

preaching fiscal discipline to reticent Member

States – obviously without much success.

By 2007, you could virtually feel in the air

that a crisis was coming our way. The origins

had nothing to do with monetary union.

Unprecedented laxity by the Greenspan Fed had

fuelled a bubble in the US real-estate market

to which European banks were found to be

heavily exposed. The bursting of this bubble

in 2007 led to the most serious stock market

crash and subsequent banking crisis in post-war

financial history. This in turn pushed several

members of the euro zone beyond the brink

of insolvency, first of all Greece in early 2010.

The question as to whether one could allow

Greece to fail without serious or potentially

disastrous consequences for the euro zone

itself, is the hardest I have so far encountered

in my career. It reminded me of the PPE papers


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on the Cold War which

I had read at Oxford:

uncertainty and the

essence of decision.

At the time, it was

thought that the risks

of contagion and

fatal knock-on effects

would outweigh the arguments of moral hazard

that were militating against the bail-out.

People were also over-optimistic about the

chances of success for an IMF-led programme

of adjustment and reform. We hence embarked

upon a strategy of ‘solidarity to solidarity’.

Contagion occurred nevertheless, and events

ensued very quickly, spreading from Ireland via

Portugal and Spain to Cyprus.

In the autumn of 2012, I sat on a Catz alumni

panel discussing the crisis. I accepted a bet

proposed by one of my co-panellist who

predicted the demise of the euro by 2013. I

bet against. The reason why I won this bet

is probably that, seen from London, one

generally underestimates, first, the political

will within the euro zone to make the

common currency survive and, second, the

degree to which our

strategy of ‘solidarity

for solidarity’

has actually

been effective

after all in every

programme country,

except Greece.

The others have successfully undergone

indeed tremendous adjustment efforts,

sustained by a whole set of newly formed

and improved European institutions, rules

and procedures, ranging from the European

Stability Mechanism to the introduction of

the so-called ‘banking union’. We have been

able to advance European integration farther

and faster than at any moment in history. This

achievement should not be overshadowed

by the ongoing convulsions in Greece,

momentous as they are, yet amounting to a

mere two percent of the euro zone’s GDP.

Great Britain, meanwhile, is pondering

whether or not to remain part of the EU.

From my point of view, this is the most

strategic issue at the current juncture. It is

now widely accepted that the euro zone will

have to pursue further integration in order

to institutionally consolidate the degree of

stabilisation achieved so far. The formation

of a politically, structurally and economically

more homogenous bloc on the continent (and

Ireland) will have to be situated within the

wider EU as part of an overall arrangement

with which also Great Britain and the other

non-participating member states should

be comfortable. This debate will be at the

fore over the coming months and I have

the honour of working on this dossier in

Berlin, where we see it as one of our primary

strategic goals to have the UK remain ‘in’.

At any moment of my path so far in the

service of Europe, I could have hoped for no

better academic preparation than the one

I received at St. Catherine’s College almost

two decades ago. Nova et vetera – this was

my best possible point of departure. Moving

on and looking back, my gratitude and

recognition grow year by year. I am always

glad to be back for a visit at the College

whenever I come to the UK. I am proud to be

part of this outstanding family of academic

achievement and personal amiability. n

I accepted a bet proposed

by one of my co-panelists

who predicted the demise

of the euro by 2013.

M E S S A G E S

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Alexander Campkin (2002, Music) received

a major commission to compose a piece for

the finale of the Colourscape Music Festival

called Imagined Cities, a one-hour immersive

theatre piece. In the world’s largest walk-in

structure of colour and light, this cross-media

performance fills the entire structure and

brings to life the many journeys that can be

taken through it. Imagined Cities is a thought

provoking reflection on the explorations of

Venetian traveller Marco Polo, and features

live musicians alongside electro-acoustic

music. Following a successful premiere, four

more performances took place in 2015.

Ben Willbond (1991, Modern Languages)

co-wrote and co-starred in the film Bill. He

had always wanted to get into film and when

he spoke with the director, Rich Bracewell,

about five years ago, he proposed the idea

of doing a film with the rest of the Horrible

Histories team. He was keen to keep the

six of them together, as he felt it is not

often you get such a good gang of comic

actors working together for so long (Horrible

Histories ran for 6 years). Ben started working

on a new TV show (Yonderland for SKY 1)

News in Briefand then got together with Larry Rickard

(from Horrible Histories and Yonderland) and

they started to prepare the story. The pair

approached BBC Films, who funded the script

process and then the BFI came on board.

Ben commented, ‘It was touch and go for a

while, and I now have a much greater and

deeper understanding of how hard it is to

make independent British film. We shot last

year, in February and March, predominantly

in Yorkshire. It was, without doubt, the best

filming and acting experience I have had to

date. I got to work with Helen McCrory and

her husband Damian Lewis who were both

spectacular.’

Ben wanted to stress that Bill it is an

independent British comedy, not a Horrible

Histories film, although he admits that

he cannot blame the press for assuming

otherwise.

Ben added: ‘I remember saying to Bernard

Hughes when we were at Catz that I would

call him as soon as I had a feature film ready

to go, so he could compose the music. I

kept that promise and was delighted that he

agreed to help. He’s composed two fantastic

pieces for the film that capture the mood

perfectly.’

Bernard Hughes (1992, Music) wrote some

of the songs and background music for Bill.

The film was released in cinemas on 18th

September and was in the top 10 for two

weeks. The soundtrack is available online.

Merrill Leffler (1969, English) received the

Achievement Award from the Capital Area

Chapter of the Association of Jewish Libraries,

at the AJL annual conference in Washington,

D.C. The award recognises Merrill’s

contribution to the Jewish literary scene. He is

the founder publisher of Dryad Press, which

has published many literary books (www.

dryadpress.com) and he also has several

books of poetry to his name, most recently

Mark the Music (Dryad Press, 2012).

Sam Forsdike (2003, English) directed The

Stranger on the Bridge, a documentary aired

by Channel 4, in May 2015. The documentary,

also known as Finding Mike, follows the story

of Jonny Benjamin’s search for the man who

talked him down from the edge of London’s

Waterloo Bridge, in 2008. The Finding

Mike campaign was launched by Postcard

Productions, the film production company

co-founded by Sam, and Rethink Mental

M E S S A G E S


Illness, supported by the hashtag #findmike,

and reaching over 300 million people

worldwide. Sam’s career in media began in

2006 when he won the Nick Young Award

at St Catz. Each year a student from Catz is

offered a three-month internship with the

Arts and Features department at ITV, as part

of the award. It was set up in 1982 by

the family of Nick Young, a former

Catz student and ITV employee,

who died tragically in a road

accident.

Zoe De Toledo (2010,

Experimental Psychology)

competed in the Rowing World

Championships this year, coxing

the Great Britain Women’s Eight. In

the Varese and Lucerne regattas of the

World Rowing Cup, the crew placed third,

leading up to the World Championships in

September. The Women’s Eight again came

third in their heat, before winning the

repechage to qualify for the final. Racing

against the USA, New Zealand, Canada,

Russia, and the Netherlands, the Great

Britain crew finished the course in a time of

6:10.11, placing fourth. n

Ben Willabond (1991, Modern Languages) on the left,

co-starring with Damian Lewis in ‘Bill’

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C O L L E G E E V E N T S

College Events 2016Saturday 27 February Rowing Society AGM and Dinner

Saturday 5 March Richard Parish Dinner for Modern Linguists*

Thursday 10 March Wallace Watson Award Lecture

Saturday 12 March Parents’ & Freshers’ Lunch*

Saturday 12 March Degree Day

Friday 8-Saturday 9 April Oxford Alumni Weekend in North America: Washington DC

Friday 15 April Oxford University Inter-Collegiate Golf Tournament, Frilford Heath Golf Club

Saturday 30 April Peter Franklin Dinner for Musicians*

Saturday 7 May Degree Day

Saturday 4 June Degree Day

Tuesday 7 June London Party

Saturday 18 June Parents’ and Second-Years’ Garden Party*

Saturday 25 June Gaudy for 1983-1992 Matriculands*

Saturday 2 July Family Day

Saturday 16 July Degree Day

Friday 22 July Degree Day


Friday 29 July Degree Day


Saturday 17 September Degree Day

Saturday 5 November Degree Day

*Invitations for these events will be sent out nearer the time.

To book your place on any of these events, please contact the Development Office.

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 (0)1865 281 596

Check the College website www.stcatz.ox.ac.uk, and www.facebook.com/stcatz for details.

London Party 2016Tuesday 7 June 2016, 6.30-8.30pm

THE LEATHERSELLERS’ HALL

6 St. Helen’s Place, Bishopsgate, London, EC3

The Venue for this year’s London Party will be

at The Leathersellers’ Company. Invitations will

be sent out to those living in London and the

Home Counties. If you live outside this area,

but would still like to attend, please contact

the Development Office directly.

E: [email protected]

T: +44 1865 281 596

We have always had a

strong relationship with the

Leathersellers’ Company and

we are delighted that we have

their kind permission to hold

this year’s London Party in their

newly refurbished Hall. It was

splendid to see so many of our

matriculands at last year’s event

and I can only hope for the

same again this spring.

The Master, Professor Roger Ainsworth


C O L L E G E E V E N T S

The College Time Capsule

The College Enigmatist, Chris Maslanka (1973,

Physics), offers the next clue, in a series of

50, to the contents of the time capsule buried

underneath St Catherine’s College . . .

The clues so far:

1. Two thirds of my number is one and a half

times what I am.

2. Pooh in 1927, true of us today?

3. Do they belong to longevity?

4. The first 6000 flowers.

5. A good hiding...

6. Six of one and half a dozen of the other.

7. Initially he found like an insect…

8. Bovine comes to river

9. To each his own

10. Do men gather grapes of thorns…

11. List: Order half a dozen pears. Ordered.

12. Twelve characters alternate around a wheel.

We are delighted to be hosting our biennial Family

Day in College in July 2016. The event will consist

of a range of entertainment for all ages, including

afternoon tea, face-painting, soft play and a College

treasure hunt.

We would be delighted to see many of our alumni back

in College with their families.

Invitations will be sent out nearer the time.

All family members are welcome for what promises to

be a fun-filled and relaxing afternoon.

Family Day 2016Saturday, 2 July 2016

12–4pm, St Catherine’s College

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Catz Fellows, Professor Bill Fulford and

Professor Ashok Handa, are leading a new

initiative that brings individual values to

the fore in health and social care.

Health care has always been guided by values.

Some values, such as caring and compassion,

are universal and tend to go unnoticed in the

day-to-day setting of clinical decision-making.

It is only when values come into conflict that

we become aware of their presence. As more

treatment and care decisions are being made

in non-life-or-death scenarios, a greater range

of values must be balanced in every case. For

example, a patient may refuse treatment due

to undesirable side-effects, even though such

treatment may be highly effective.

Values-based practice is an approach to

working with complex and conflicting values

in health care. It is the basis for the newly

established Collaborating Centre for Values-

based Practice in Health and Social Care. Based

at St Catherine’s College and led by Professors

Bill Fulford (Director) and Ashok Handa (Co-

Director), the Centre aims to support the

development of values-based practice through

shared learning. The Centre is supported by

a project-orientated management team, a

diverse consortium of project partners and an

esteemed seven-member Advisory Board. The

Master, Professor Roger Ainsworth, whose

support and guidance has been crucial in

establishing the Centre at St Catz, leads the

Advisory Board as Chair.

Values-based practice emerged out of Bill’s

work in value theory at the start of the

millennium and is driven by science. Scientific

advances have greatly increased choice in

treatment and care. With different treatment

options accommodating different values,

clinical decision-making must respond to

increasing levels of complexity and tension.

Healthcare professionals can no longer rely

solely on a framework of ethical rules and

regulations that determine what the right

outcome is, as modern healthcare decisions

require nuanced consideration of complex

and conflicting values. Values-based practice

therefore seeks to provide practical skills

and tools that enable individual values to

Bill Fulford and Ashok Handa on the

newly established Collaborating Centre for Values-based

Practice in Health and Social Care.

be identified and considered. As a process-

orientated, rather than outcomes-orientated

approach, values-based practice is also a

partner to evidence-based practice. Combined,

these approaches link scientific evidence

with the unique values of individual patients

to support balanced clinical judgement in

individual cases.

Originating in mental health and social care,

values-based practice is spreading to other

areas of healthcare. The Centre’s long-

term vision is to see values-based practice

embedded alongside evidence-based practice,

in health and social care internationally, and

a particular aim is to support the extension

of values-based approaches to other areas

of medicine. A key figure in this expansion is

Ashok, who has spearheaded the movement

of values-based practice into hospital

medicine and is leading the programme on

values-based surgical care. The spread of

values-based practice has also been helped

by recent developments in the law. Notably,

the new legal standard for informed consent

is values-based. It is patient-centred, requiring

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C A T Z R E S E A R C H

that the patient have sufficient understanding

and information to make a choice between

available options, according to his or her

values.

At the core of the Centre’s activities is its

website (www.valuesbasedpractice.org),

which was launched in August this year

and underpins the work of the Centre. The

website contains information about the Centre

and its activities, as well as resources for all

stakeholders in the clinical decision-making

process, ranging from clinicians and patients,

to managers and policymakers. The inclusive

and collaborative nature of values-based

practice recognises clinicians; patients and

carers; managers; and policymakers as equal

partners in the treatment decision. In addition

to the website, the Centre also provides

opportunities for Advanced Studies Seminars

to be hosted at St Catz.

The skills-based and practical focus of the

Centre aligns with St Catz’s ethos as an

outward-looking college and its commitment

to the application of ideas to the real

world. Being based at Catz has also fostered

innovation and interdisciplinary collaborations.

A number of other Catz Fellows are involved

with the Centre’s work, including Fulford

Fellow in Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive

Science and Fulford Clarendon Associate



Professor Philipp Koralus, whose work in

philosophy reflects the Centre’s commitment

to theoretical and practical research in the

field, and Fellow and Tutor in History of Art

Gervase Rosser, with his work on the role of

aesthetics in mental health.

The Centre aims to play a central role in the

growth of values-based practice globally,

supporting the open development of values-

based practice across all areas of health and

social care and serving as a centre of gravity

for the field, bringing together individuals

and organisations working on different

aspects of values-based practice from around

the world. n

Ashok Handa, Roger Ainsworth and Bill Fulford

The Centre’s long-term

vision is to see

values-based practice

embedded alongside

evidence-based practice...

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other beings? The way organisms relate to

one another and to their environment is at the

core of both theatre and evolution. I was also

drawn to what might seem to be the counter-

intuitive element of the encounter between

theatre and evolution: how do you stage, in a

couple of hours, a process that in reality takes

aeons of time, and is barely perceptible in

‘real time’? From the 1840s onwards, theatre

has attempted to do this in a wide variety of

theatrical forms and in a markedly contrarian

spirit. Far from simply reflecting evolutionary

concepts, theatre has tended to question and

sometimes even transform them.

Even before Lyell’s Principles of Geology

appeared in the 1830s (Darwin was eagerly

reading them as he voyaged on the Beagle),

the question of the age of the earth had been

thoroughly explored and theatrical techniques

used to show it: people flocked to see vast

panoramas and hear public lectures bringing

geology to life. In fact, they encountered

Theatre and Evolution from Ibsen to Beckett

came out of my long-standing interest in how

theatre has engaged with scientific ideas

over the centuries, a subject that I explored

in Science on Stage: From Doctor Faustus to

Copenhagen (2006). In that book, I looked

at a range of scientific fields, including

physics, medicine, cosmology, mathematics,

and evolution, and covered about 400 years,

though focusing mostly on the contemporary

‘science play’— for example, Tom Stoppard’s

Arcadia, Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen, Shelagh

Stephenson’s An Experiment with an Air-Pump,

and Caryl Churchill’s A Number. Although I

enjoyed researching such a wide range of

scientific areas and plays, it was evolution that I

most wanted to keep investigating.

Theatre and evolution have deep affinities;

they ask the same fundamental questions.

What does it mean to be human? What is

the experience of seeing (and being seen),

of knowing (and being known), of relating to

Dr Kirsten Shepherd-Barr, Fellow and Tutor in English at St Catz and Professor in English and Theatre Studies at Oxford on her new book Theatre and Evolution from Ibsen to Beckett.



a panoply of evolutionary ideas through all

kinds of performance, ranging from street

theatre, missing link shows, circus, and human

anomaly displays, to the “legitimate” theatre

of Henrik Ibsen, Henry Arthur Jones, George

Bernard Shaw, Harley Granville Barker, Susan

Glaspell, Sophie Treadwell, Elizabeth Robins

right through to the present day. One of

the major differences between these earlier

playwrights (all writing in the late 19th/

early 20th centuries) and today’s dramatists

engaging with evolution is that concepts

like heredity, extinction, and environment

are treated completely differently, as our

understanding of genetics (and epigenetics),

climate change impact, and endangered species

has deepened. The Epilogue of my book—

’Staging the Anthropocene’—looks at how

such recent developments are being staged by

contemporary playwrights.

One of the reasons I wrote Theatre and

Evolution from Ibsen to Beckett was that, while

there were numerous books looking at Darwin

in relation to the novel and poetry, theatre’s

engagement with evolution had hardly been

explored. Furthermore, the emphasis in these

studies seemed to be on Darwin, yet the more I

looked into stagings of evolutionary ideas, the

more I realized that playwrights and directors

were interested in non-Darwinian thinkers and

concepts too. What I had initially thought of as

Billington, and Professor

of Neuroscience, Morten

Kringelbach, speaking about

the book from very different

perspectives.

My explorations of evolution

and theatre are part of a

broader interest in how

science becomes culturally

embedded. How we

represent science on

stage in particular

seems to intrigue

people, as shown by

the steady stream

of new ‘science

plays’— just this year

we have already

had Tom Stoppard’s

The Hard Problem at the National Theatre

and Tom Morton-Smith’s Oppenheimer at the

Royal Shakespeare Company Swan Theatre. I

am also intrigued by the evolving concept of

interdisciplinarity. How we ‘do’ interdisciplinary

work is a question that I’m pursuing in my next

project. In the meantime, I have another book

coming out in January 2016, called Modern

Drama: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford

University Press), that serves as a guide to the

major theatrical developments and key plays

and playwrights since the 1880s. n

“Darwin and the Dramatists”

turned out to be far more

complex and interesting

than that: not only Darwin

but also Haeckel, Lamarck,

de Vries, Bateson, Huxley

and Spencer are all a part

of this sprawling theatrical

landscape. And some of

Darwin’s discarded ideas

also find surprising theatrical

currency (his “wedge”

theory, for instance, and

his mistaken theory about

Glen Roy). But perhaps the biggest surprise

was Samuel Beckett, whose seeming dismissal

of Darwin early on, ‘I never read such badly

written cat lap,’ belies a deep, lasting, and

innovative engagement with evolutionary ideas

in all of his plays.

I hope that my work will open up new areas of

investigation, in taking further the discoveries I

have made about new or neglected playwrights

and works such as James A. Herne, ‘the

American Ibsen’; Elizabeth Robins; Elizabeth

Baker; and Hubert Henry Davies. Although

it’s still too early for reviews, the book has

been warmly received here in Oxford, with

a special ‘Book at Lunchtime’ panel in May

featuring Goldsmith’s Professor of English,

Laura Marcus, Guardian theatre critic, Michael

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When I first started

studying artificial

intelligence, I was

motivated by the

belief that the

inadequacy of the

human brain was a

major obstacle to

overcoming many

of the challenges faced by society. The

mysteries of science, the logistical challenges

of industry and commerce, and even complex

political and social problems, all defy analysis

because, at the end of the day, that analysis

is done by humans, whose brains are poorly

suited to the task. Augmenting these brains

with artificial intelligence was thus essential

to human progress.

At the time, this seemed a remote vision.

I never expected that, only fifteen years

later, it would be so close to reality. Artificial

intelligence is now all around us, often in

ways we don’t even realise. I think many

people are unaware of how much artificial

intelligence goes on behind the scenes, for

example, when they purchase something on

the Internet: product recommenders at the

website, robots at the warehouse, planners

setting the lorry’s route, etc.

As artificial intelligence continues to augment

our own intelligence, the interaction

between human and computer plays an

increasingly important role. I’ve seen this

phenomenon repeatedly in my own research.

For example, for several years I’ve been

working on algorithms that optimise search

engines on-line, by exploiting the user’s

click behaviour to estimate which documents

satisfy her information need. In addition to the

mathematical and statistical challenges, this

requires thinking hard about the user herself

and how she interacts with a list of documents.

Shimon Whiteson joined St Catz as an Associate Professor and Tutorial Fellow in Computer Science in October

2015. Prior to this, he spent eight years as an Assistant and then an

Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam.

Similarly, I’m currently coordinating a

European project about telepresence robots,

which function like Skype on a mobile robot.

The goal of the project is to develop a new

system that automates low-level behaviour

like navigation, orientation, eye contact, etc.

so that the user of the system can focus on

the conversation in which she is participating.

Of course, this poses many algorithmic and

engineering challenges but it also requires

ascertaining what kind of behaviour people

expect from a telepresence robot, so that

the new system will not just be intelligent in

the conventional sense, but socially intelligent

as well. n

I was motivated by the

belief that the inadequacy

of the human brain was a

major obstacle...

Shimeon Whiteson



My research centres around authorial self-

fashioning and literary posterity in eighteenth-

century France. My current project, entitled

‘Literary Monuments’, examines the textual

commemoration of the author in plays and

dialogues set in the afterlife. By analysing

how these works draw on and re-imagine an

individual’s reputation in life, I think about

how they present the specific authors they

discuss, and construct the social value of

literature and authors in society. The project

is also a way into thinking about larger

questions, like the origins of literary celebrity,

new forms of mourning and memorialisation

at the turn of the century, and even why we

study the texts that we do in modern schools

and universities. It, therefore, includes all the

elements I most enjoy about studying early

modern literature: lots of texts to analyse

closely, a contemporary socio-historical angle,

and a link to important questions we are still

asking about authors and literature today. As

part of this project, I am producing a critical

edition of Olympe de Gouges’ Mirabeau aux

Champs-Elysées (1791) and other related texts,

which will provide a preliminary glimpse of the

commemorative genre. This edition will appear

with MHRA / Phoenix in 2017.

Educated at a state school in Cardiff, I completed

my undergraduate and graduate studies at

Worcester College, Oxford, where I gained my

doctorate in 2013. My thesis, entitled ‘La gloire

et le malentendu: Goldoni and the Comédie-

Italienne, 1760-93’, examined the status of

the playwright in eighteenth-century Paris,

with a particular focus on the archival history

of the Italian troupe in the city, and the career

strategies of one of its most famous authors,

Carlo Goldoni. This manuscript is in the final

stages of being reworked for publication.

I teach French language and French literature

from a variety periods, with a focus on the

Jessica Goodman joined St Catz as an Associate Professor and Tutorial Fellow in French in October 2015.

Prior to this, she spent two years as a Junior Research Fellow at

Clare College, Cambridge.

seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. I have

a particular interest in widening access and in

the practical exploration of theatre through

performance, and I really look forward to be

being involved in these aspects of life at Catz. n

Jessica Goodman


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I grew up in Australia with an acute sense

of distance from Europe and of the curious

mediations through which the past of a

physically remote continent existed within the

culture that I knew. This may have been the

cause of an instinctive sympathy with the way

that medieval people imagined the cosmos, and

the meanings that they assigned to it. Much

of their information came in fragments from

the half-forgotten civilisations of the ancient

world, and was read in the light of their own

authoritative traditions combined with newly

acquired texts from the Muslim world. It was

then reinterpreted for contemporary readers

through a remarkably evocative literature of

marvels, wars and travels across the globe,

into purgatory beneath the earth and through

the heavenly spheres. My doctoral work, and

later my monograph Roger Bacon and the

Defence of Christendom (Cambridge University

Press, 2012), explored, among other things,

the functioning of this complex world-view

through the work of the English Franciscan,

Roger Bacon (ca. 1214-1292).

Bacon is important in the history of

western science for his insistence that Latin

Christendom needed to improve its systems

of learning, abandoning conventional wisdom

for more rigorous scholarly methods such

as the science ‘of experience’ (scientia

experimentalis). Yet, his analysis was

prompted by his fearful sense of where his

society stood in the larger arc of salvation

history – at the end of time, darkened by sin

and corruption of every kind, and beleaguered

by enemies of the faith – and of its moral

responsibility for the souls of all humanity.

He explained how philosophy, mathematics,

astronomy, magic, alchemy and other branches

of learning could be brought to bear on these

problems.

Amanda Power joined St Catz as an Associate Professor and Tutorial Fellow in History in October 2015. She was a Junior

Research Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge, before spending the

last decade as Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer, in Medieval History at the

University of Sheffield.

I am now working on a study of the early

English Franciscans, partly as influential

participants in the kingdom’s affairs during

the century of Magna Carta, and partly as

representatives of wider currents of European

thought and endeavour. I am particularly

interested in the volatile relationship between

religion and power in the medieval world:

the way that authority and dissent alike drew

on the language of faith; and how public

rationality and social order were delineated in

this context. n

I am particularly

interested in the volatile

relationship between

religion and power in

the medieval world...



Amanda Power

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G A Z E T T E

JOHN

SIMOPOULOS

Founding Fellow

of St Catherine’s

College, Emeritus

Fellow, Dean

of Degrees and

Philosopher died

on 4 March 2015

aged ninety-one.

John Simopoulos

liked to tell a

story which shed light on both himself

and the role he played in the life of St

Catherine’s College, Oxford, for 60 years.

As the sort of now-extinct don who thought

that the pastoral aspect of his duties were

as important as the pedagogic, he would

visit his new philosophy students on their

first night in college to check all was well.

Late one evening in 1973, he knocked on

a freshman’s door and found him sitting

puzzled on the only large piece of furniture

in the room, an austere plywood divan.

Where, asked young Peter Mandelson, was

he expected to sleep? With something of a

gleam in his eye, Simopoulos bent down and

slid out the bed concealed beneath.

Obituaries 2015 Simopoulos was unconventional, not least

in not minding who heard such tales about

him. ‘If you learn that I’ve been arrested

for this, that and the other,’ he told a

fellow academic, ‘it’ll all be true.’ If it was

only rumour that he gave tutorials while

in the bath, certainly it was true that his

idiosyncrasies led to complicated relations

with others.

One Master of the College was subjected

to terrifying correspondence when,

unaccountably, Simopoulos’s favoured

brand of mineral water was not served

at high table. Yet such episodes only

inspired affection in his pupils, mirrored by

his devotion to them and to St Catz. He

expected loyalty, and could be disappointed

in people, but he was ever ready to help

those in need.

He had no public reputation as a philosopher,

since, he published little. Indeed, he was

more widely known as the author of a paper

in the British Journal of Venereal Diseases on

the treatment of non-specific urethritis. For

his view of teaching — drawing on his Greek

heritage — was that what was important

was what could be learnt by discussion. If

someone dropped into his rooms, they would

find Simopoulos, and frequently his students,

talking with other Oxford philosophers of the

time. These included Gilbert Ryle, Freddie

Ayer, Iris Murdoch and Isaiah Berlin.

Yet, though he had few doubts about the

quality of his mind, he was surprisingly humble

about the utility of what it might yield.

Moreover, he believed that it was for individuals

to work out their own solutions to problems,

rather than to rely on those presented by

others. For that reason, he preferred not to set

down his own ideas in print.

Perhaps accordingly, his intellectual energy

found outlets in other enthusiasms,

notably technology. Chief among these was

telephones. So expert did he become on

their workings that it was said that during

the Cold War, he and a Russian-speaking don

were able to manipulate calls on the Soviet

network to suggest that they emanated from

the Kremlin. They used this deception to

improve the lot of several dissidents.

Simopoulos also rigged up a monitor to

detect when a student was breaking the

rules by reversing the charges to the callbox

in College. He would then hare across the

quadrangle to confront the offender, though

it was characteristic of him that he would

merely rebuke rather than report them.

He spent holidays working at Rome’s

telephone exchange — he spoke Italian —

and was employed by plutocratic Greeks

and the Getty family to install their private

lines. The operation of these was fearsomely

complicated, and their owners risked being


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berated by Simopoulos if they did not prove

up to the task.

When the College acquired one of the first

word-processors, he employed his knowledge

of logic to program it — far beyond its

intended use — as an increasingly gargantuan

database. It was typical of him that he should

create a world to which only he had the key.

He was most put out by the advent of

personal computers, which enabled a

mere secretary to perform his functions.

Simopoulos removed the word-processor

and its yards of cables to his flat near Baker

Street in London, where he had grown up in

the 1930s. He shared it for many years with

his former nanny, and even after her death it

remained almost unmodernised.

Like him, his parents’ world had been urbane,

cosmopolitan and backwards-looking. John

Simopoulos was born in 1923, the year

that Constantinople — where his father was

then Greece’s high commissioner — changed

its name to Istanbul. His mother was both

Scottish and Jewish.

When his father became ambassador

in London, the young Simopoulos was

sent to Stowe (where he knew Peregrine

Worsthorne). He then read Greats at

Magdalen College, Oxford, and taught Latin

at Christ Church Cathedral Choir School before

working after the war in Italy for Oxfam.

In 1953, he became one of the four founding

members of staff of the St Catherine’s

Society, which gained collegiate status eight

years later. It was then much associated

with the coming men of the age, rather than

with Simopoulos’s more reactionary cast of

mind. He did not always trouble to hide his

scorn for anyone who might put cream on

their grapefruit, and clashed with St Catz’s

first Master, the historian Alan Bullock, when

in 1957 the latter invited Arne Jacobsen to

design its architecture in an uncompromisingly

contemporary style.

‘We weren’t consulted,’ recalled Simopoulos

in 1993, criticising the decision that year

to give the buildings grade I listed status.

‘Everyone licked Alan’s arse at the time. He

was very impressed by Jacobsen, even let him

design the ghastly cutlery ... I said I thought

they looked like a DIY abortion kit by Charles

Addams.’

He enjoyed pointing out that the Danish

electrical fittings prescribed by Jacobsen did

not meet UK standards. But 35 years on, he

did concede that the College’s gardens were

‘the saving grace. They’ve been done by one

of the Fellows.’

His contributions to civilising St Catz included

organising reading parties and dinners

intended to promote better understanding

of the work of other fellows. These were

pleasures which stemmed from his own

tastes. His hangdog looks belied a warmth

and a delight in repartee and whimsy — his

party piece was to recite The Ancient Mariner

— which won him many friends, among

them Murdoch and her husband John Bayley.

Simopoulos was the dedicatee of The Bell

(1958), Murdoch’s novel about byzantine

personal relationships.

Although he informally adopted Chris

Maslanka, the deviser of puzzles, as his heir,

the College and its students perhaps stood

in for that part usually played in life by love.

Even after he retired in 1988, he continued

until his nineties to be its Dean of Degrees,

shepherding students through the formal

ceremonies of matriculation and graduation.

He would meticulously check the French of

the menus for the lunches that followed

and admonish graduands that if they did not

swear loudly enough the Latin oath Do fidem

on collecting their degree, it would leave

them depressed.

Elegance of speech was important to him.

He was not pompous, but one English tutor

accused him of being pedantic. ‘At least I

use the language with sufficient precision for

you to say that of me,’ he responded, ‘which

I doubt is true in your case.’ His delight in

words also found expression in composing

and collecting scatological clerihews and

limericks.

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One of his favourites ran:

There once was a fellow called Rex,

who’d a diminutive organ of sex.

When had up for exposure,

he replied with composure

De minimis non curat lex (The law does not

concern itself with trivialities).

Reproduced by kind permission of The Times.

JOHN BAYLEY CBE, Emeritus Fellow of St

Catherine’s has died aged 89. John Bayley

came to St Catherine’s as the first Warton

Professor of English Literature in 1974 after

twenty years as a hugely influential English

tutor at New College, where his pupils

included Dennis Potter, John Fuller and A.N.

Wilson. He never regretted the move, loving

the informality of St Catherine’s, which gave

his many eccentricities the freest possible

rein. His rooms looked over the water garden

where he enjoyed watching the visiting heron

scattering the ducks; from here he had ample

time to read, write and exercise the strong

vein of speculative fantasy that made him

such an original and engaging literary critic.

John was latterly more widely known to the

world as the husband of Iris Murdoch and

her assiduous carer during her descent into

Alzheimer’s disease. But at St Catherine’s,

despite his resolutely unassuming manner,

there was never any mistaking John’s star

quality, which came with the added bonus of

Iris’s quietly watchful and almost unnervingly

benign presence at College events.

In many ways, St Catherine’s was an

appropriate home for this most unlikely

Professor, who could not have been less

preoccupied by the then controversial issues

of syllabus reform or faculty organisation. The

College already harboured the almost equally

eccentric friend of his youth, Dennis Horgan,

with whom, before either was married, he

had been in the habit of taking long walks on

summer mornings. On one occasion walking

back from Minster Lovell they were picked

up by a BT engineer on his way to work in

Paradise Square and all three had a lively

discussion about the poems of A E Housman.

As he dropped them by the station, they were

bemused to have a large bar of Cadbury’s

Bourneville pressed on them. It was only

years later, after they had recounted this

episode to their younger colleague Michael

Gearin-Tosh, that Michael was able to draw

the obvious conclusion that the engineer with

literary leanings had mistaken them for poetic

tramps in the tradition of WH Davies.

John, Dennis and Michael were, above all else,

passionate readers who could communicate

to their pupils a lasting and unfussy delight

in literature both as a way of engaging with

the world and, simultaneously, as a way of

surpassing it. All three were masters of that

elusive literary accomplishment - an ear for

tone. John was also a fluent and original

writer who could be relied upon to upend the

conventional idée reçue with a spontaneous

instinct for what was fresh and authentic.

He wrote as he spoke, discursively, yet the

apparently rambling progress of his thoughts

would be marshalled to detonate a series of

small revelations. His pupils remember his

highest term of encouragement: a ruminative

‘Quite so…’ trailing away with a dying fall

and sometimes accompanied by a Cheshire

cat smile. Conversely there was no steelier

rebuttal than his casually dropped ‘You may

well be right’.

John and Rachel Trickett, later the

redoubtable Principal of St Hugh’s, had been

Lord David Cecil’s favourite pupils; Rachel had

nurtured and protected Michael’s budding

talents as a troubled young man, and he

was a favourite of John and Iris. All of them

represented a tide in Oxford English which

had a huge influence over the lives and tastes

of their pupils, but was ebbing in the face of

the increasing professionalization of graduate

studies and scholarly disciplines promoted by

Helen Gardner and John Carey. And also at St

Catherine’s was one of Iris’s – and John’s –

oldest friends John Simopoulos, to whom she

had dedicated The Bell.

John Bayley was born in 1925 in Lahore where

his father, an admirer of Kipling, was a Major

in the Grenadier Guards. John always said his

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childhood was happy. Although his parents

had been notably undemonstrative, he ‘didn’t

mind a bit’ as ‘almost all my life took place in

books.’ He thought himself fortunate that at

Eton ‘there was no formal teaching of English

in those happier days, but lots of time to

read.’ He then served in his father’s regiment,

daydreaming his way through Walter Scott

and in 1947 came up to Oxford to read

English under Lord David Cecil. In 1955 he

joined John Buxton as English Tutor at New

College. In 1956, to his own and everyone

else’s surprise, he married Iris Murdoch, then

philosophy tutor at St Anne’s, who that year

published her second novel, aptly titled The

Flight from the Enchanter. When Iris sat him

down shortly before their wedding in order

to confess her penchant for mittel-European

intellectual monsters, John reacted with the

whimsical phlegm that was to be the bedrock

of the marriage, remarking that ‘Unknown

figures arose before me like the procession of

kings in Macbeth, seeming to regard me with

grave curiosity as they passed by.’

While John admired Iris’s novels – and would

contribute to them certain passages to do

with cooking or the functioning of motor

cars – theirs was never a particularly egg –

head union and their devotion was based

on child-like jokes and a mutual conviviality.

He would remark that although he knew he

was married to one of the most intelligent

women in Britain, the marriage actually felt

‘more like two animals in a burrow.’ Neither

partner overshadowed the other, and

Iris’s distinguished career was matched by

John’s impressively lucid yet subtle works of

criticism from the ground-breaking early The

Characters of Love (1960) to Shakespeare

and Tragedy (1981). Along the way came

marvellous monographs on Tolstoy (1968),

Pushkin (1971), Hardy (1978) and The Short

Story (1988). John’s strength as a critic

was not so much his appreciation of formal

structures, though he had that too, but his

probing understanding of the secret places

– often endearingly banal – that informed

a writer’s personality. After his retirement

in 1992 he continued to write extensively

in the public prints for a wide and general

audience. His aesthetic was predominantly

reactionary, but so disarmingly expressed

and wittily at odds with mainstream critical

convention that this was not always

appreciated. Some of his best teases of

contemporary theory were collected in

The Order of Battle at Trafalgar (1987),

but history arguably had the last laugh

when Terry Eagleton was appointed as his

successor to the Warton Chair.

If John was miffed by this, the guards

officer in him never showed it. When his

favourite pupil A.N Wilson committed critical

parricide in his book Iris Murdoch as I Knew

Her (2003) describing John’s attitude to Iris

as that of ‘a screaming hate-filled child’,

John said ‘the thing you must understand

is that there is absolutely nothing personal

about Andrew’s disloyalty.’ That these

reactions came from the core of the man is

demonstrated by a striking sentence from his

account of Iris’s decline:

There is a certain comic irony – happily,

not darkly comic – that after more than

forty years of taking marriage for granted,

marriage has decided it is tired of this, and

is taking a hand in the game.

After Iris’s death in 1999 John married Audi

Villars, the widow of Borys, and one of their

oldest friends. We saw him less in College

after that, but John hated change and Audi

provided the gift of continuity that had

always been a strong thread through his life.

Kindly contributed by Fram Dinshaw

BARRI BISHOP

(1954, English)

died peacefully at

home on 24 June

2015. He was 82.

Barri grew up in

Sussex and was a

keen sportsman at

Hastings Grammar

School. During his

National Service he

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volunteered to do the Forces Language Course

in order to learn Russian. He spent a year at

Cambridge University, took A-level Russian

after six months and finally took the Civil

Service Interpreters’ examination, becoming an

interpreter during the Cold War. He retained an

interest in Russia and the language all his life.

Barri read English at Oxford and was President

of the St Catz JCR during 1956-57.

He and I did our PGCE together at the

Department of Education in Norham Gardens.

We both started our teaching careers in Essex,

Barri at Westcliff High School for Boys. He

moved on to become Head of English, first

at Queen Mary’s School, Basingstoke and

later at the Sixth Form Queen Mary’s College.

From scrum-half he scored many tries for

Basingstoke Rugby Club and he also played

club cricket regularly.

He married Margaret in 1970 and they moved

to Leicestershire in 1973, when he took up

an appointment as Deputy Head at Ashby

de la Zouch Grammar School, where, I am

told, ‘He became a much respected and

well-liked colleague.’ Apparently, a visit to

his study was usually a pleasant experience

if you did not mind the smell of pipe smoke!

He was particularly noted as being kind and

supportive to new staff. A former colleague

says, ‘He was an authoritative figure but

always with a twinkle in his eye.’ He played a

full part in school activities including a visit to

the Soviet Union where his Russian-speaking

prowess proved invaluable.

Barri gave over 30 years’ service to Ashby de

la Zouch (Hastings) Rotary Club having been

a founder member in 1981. He was President

of the Club in 1992, the year he retired from

teaching. I am told he was active and highly

regarded in Rotary and a regular member of

the club’s golfing fraternity. Barri also enjoyed

singing and he was a long-time member of

Atherstone Choral Society, and sang with

them, as a bass, in Austria and Germany.

He had always enjoyed singing: a former

colleague at St Catz tells me that, ‘Barri was

well known for singing Welsh hymns loudly in

his digs, to the delight of the other inmates.’

After he retired, Barri did a degree in Russian

Studies at Nottingham University. His interest

in rugby continued with frequent visits to

watch Leicester Tigers. After attending the St

Catz Gaudy in 1997, Barri and I met annually

with several other Catz alumni for a few days

of nostalgia and renewed friendship. He was

a lovely guy and we shall miss him.

Barri is survived by his wife Margaret, his two

children and five grandchildren.

Kindly contributed by Tony Elder

(1953 Modern History)

CHRISTOPHER

EDWARD FREEMAN

(1963, Modern

History), the son

of Robert and

Agnes Freeman, and

brother of Robert

and Patricia, died on

13 December 2014.

Christopher joined

Ampleforth College,

North Yorkshire, from St Martin’s Ampleforth

prep school in January 1958. His steady

progress through the school led to the sixth

form scholarship and a place at St Catherine’s

College, Oxford, having picked up his colours

for athletics on the way.

Christopher played the organ in the Parish

Church of St Wilfrid in Ribchester, and was

organist and choir master for many years. He

played the organ at Ampleforth College for

services, and for four years at most services

at the Catholic Chaplaincy in Oxford where,

one disastrous day when Cardinal Heenan was

attending to preside over Mass, he overslept

– thereafter all Saturday nights had to be

spent at the Chaplaincy!

He was a District Judge in Manchester from

1987, following a successful career as a

Solicitor in Witney and Blackburn. He then

became a Recorder, or Deputy Circuit Judge,

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in 1996. He moved to Burnley County Court in

2005 and retired in 2011, but continued to sit

as a Deputy District Judge and Recorder until

he became ill at the end of April 2014.

Christopher was a prominent member of

Ribchester Amateur Theatrical Society for

many years, mainly as a musical director

but also as a pantomime dame, composer,

performer, and latterly as a scriptwriter of

two pantomimes which he co-directed.

Christopher’s first marriage in 1967 proved

unsatisfactory on both sides and in 1992 he

married Judith Carter, acquiring a loving and

devoted wife, two wonderful step-daughters,

and four fantastic grandchildren.

He died peacefully.

GEOFFREY

NORMAN

SWORDER (1948,

Chemistry)

came up to St

Catherine’s from

St Edward’s,

Oxford. He led a

quiet life at the

College, apart

from his great love of rowing and the not

insignificant achievement of six bumps in

the Summer Eights of 1949. A re-enactment

of this was celebrated every 10 years until

the last one in 2009, where five surviving

members of the original crew turned out for

a paddle over the old course. A dinner the

night before in College slowed matters down

even further! He continued to support the

Catz Boat Club for the rest of his life.

Geoffrey left Catz to join ICI at their heavy

chemical plant in Northwich, subsequent

postings were to Magadi in Kenya and the

Pyrethrum Company in Nakuru.

After leaving Kenya in 1968, Geoffrey re-

joined ICI and worked for their Management

Services division in Wilmslow, he was an early

pioneer of ‘encounter’ groups, and a disciple

of Meredith Belvin; these were the early

years of a sea change in British management

practice and style.

He retired early in 1985 to live in Devon,

and became an ardent supporter of country

life, with over 30 years in the Devon branch

of the Campaign to Protect Rural England,

and more than 20 as a parish councillor. His

private passions were his garden, shooting

and reading.

He died peacefully at home on 20 May, and

leaves behind his wife Mary, sons Michael,

David and four grandsons.

JOHN RANKIN

MORRIS (1948,

Modern Languages)

lived the life of

a quintessential

European

businessman and

could be mistaken for

a German, French or Italian native owing to his

remarkable gift for languages. Nevertheless,

he was always a proud Welshman.

He was born in 1930 in Treherbert in the

valleys. As his father’s career as a bank

manager progressed, the family moved

to Tonypandy and then Newport, where

he met his future wife Peggie Williams. A

somewhat shy and studious boy, he went up

to St Catherine’s in 1948 to read French and

German. He remained immensely proud of his

time at Oxford.

John graduated in 1951 and then joined the

army. He was drafted for Korea, but at the last

minute was sent instead to the Joint School

of Slavonic Languages in Sussex Gardens to

learn Russian. He qualified as an interpreter

and became a commissioned officer in the

Intelligence Corps. The days in London are

remembered fondly by both John and Peggie

as being full of fun and laughter.

By this time they had married and John

accepted an offer of a job with Cooper

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McDougall and Robertson in animal health

products. This took him first to Paris, where

he worked with Michael Lis, the Polish

wartime saboteur, and then to the Belgian

Congo (now DRC). Thus began an obscure

episode of sheepdipping which has passed

into the family mythology to fascinate and

bemuse his grandchildren.

His wife and baby son joined him in

Johannesburg in 1958, where they spent four

very happy years, and the family grew with

the birth of two daughters. John worked hard

but played hard too, and had warm memories

of that time.

However, tensions in South Africa led to the

young family leaving. Once back in the UK,

John worked in marketing for Wilkinson Sword

and Penguin Books. During this time his third

daughter was born. In 1967 he joined Glaxo,

replacing an MD known as ‘Fag-Ash Fred’ at

the helm of Murphy Chemicals. In 1974 he

was asked to establish a raw pharmaceuticals

trading company in mainland Europe and in

1975 he took his family and a small team of

colleagues out to Switzerland. The business,

Sefton, was a great success. He settled in the

Canton of Zug and set up his own company,

Biotrade. Throughout his working life he

travelled extensively, the number of long-

haul flights he clocked up being recorded

by mountains of complimentary wash bags.

He also embraced wholeheartedly the

business lunch culture and his catchphrase in

restaurants became ‘man kennt mich hier’ (‘I

am known here’).

In his latter years John continued to

be involved in many areas of emerging

pharmaceutical and financial ventures, and

was well-known for his experience and

conviviality.

John’s health deteriorated with the diagnosis

of diabetes and heart problems. It frustrated

him to be losing control, and he became

increasingly immobile. After a stroke in

November 2014 and a series of falls, he died

peacefully in April 2015. His ashes have been

divided between Oberägeri, his last home,

and Wales, his first.

John may have wanted his legacy to be the

businesses he established, but he will be

remembered by his family as an exuberant

pianist and singer, a great dancer, humourist,

bon viveur and pontificator extraordinaire! His

great love of languages continues through all

his children, his three nephews and at least

one of his grandchildren.

John is survived by his wife, three of his

children and six grandchildren.

Kindly contributed by Sarah Cuthill

KEITH SYMONS

(1942, History)

passed away in

December 2014

aged ninety.

Keith attended

Dartford Grammar

School in Kent and

in 1942 he was

awarded an Open

Exhibition to St Catherine’s, in those days the

St Catherine’s Society, based in St Aldates.

The scholarship was no mean feat, as Keith

had to juggle work for Oxford entrance and

Higher Certificate exams with evening and

weekend service in both the Officer Training

Corps and the Home Guard.

At the end of his first year at Oxford, during

which he rowed for the 1st VIII and played

an active role in the Oxford University Naval

Division, Keith was called up and joined the

RNVR. He took part in the first wave of the

D-Day landings, commanding three landing

craft carrying troops of the Green Howards

ashore at Gold Beach. He went on to make

a total of 14 Channel crossings aged 21,

then moved to Coastal Forces, where he was

involved in high-risk Motor Torpedo Boat

attacks across the North Sea. In 1945, aged

twenty-one, he captained a Minesweeper,

clearing mines in the Malacca Straits.

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In 1946, Keith was demobilised and returned

to Oxford to finish his history degree. He

admitted in later years that returning to

undergraduate life, with its restrictions and

curfews, felt very strange after war service.

However, it was also an extremely happy and

fulfilled time in his life, during which Keith

threw himself into college life, becoming

secretary of the college History Society and

Boat Club and again rowing in the Ist VIII,

winning an oar in the 1947-48 summer

eights. He formed lifelong friendships, which

were rekindled until very recently at regular

informal reunions and at St Catherine’s College

Gaudies.

Immediately after graduating in 1948, Keith

took a post as House Tutor and assistant

history master at the Perse School in

Cambridge, where he formed the Naval

Section of the Combined Cadet Force. He went

on to become a House Master, supported

by his wife Jean, whom he married in 1954.

In 1966, he was appointed headmaster of

Ryde School, moving with Jean and his two

daughters to the Isle of Wight.

Under Keith’s leadership Ryde School more

than doubled in size, became co-educational

and was admitted to the Headmasters’

Conference. But perhaps his most enduring

legacy was the affection in which he was

held by former colleagues and pupils of both

schools at which he taught, many of whom

visited him regularly during his thirty years

of happy and busy retirement in Wilton, near

Salisbury.

As one of his Perse pupils wrote in the school

magazine this summer:

‘Keith Symons will be remembered with

affection as an inspirational man of strong

family commitment, with a firm belief in the

development of the individual; for his wisdom,

courtesy, kindness and enthusiasm for all that

is good in life – not to mention his sartorial

elegance and mischievous sense of humour.’

At his Service of Thanksgiving in March this

year, over 300 family, friends and former

pupils, came together to celebrate his life and

work.

Kindly contributed by Joanna Symons

KENNETH FRAZER

(1968, Music)

was born on 15th

February 1948 in

Northern Ireland,

and studied at

Oxford University

and the Royal

College of Music.

In 1976, he went

to Portugal to become head cellist at the

Gulbenkian Orchestra, where he stayed until

1979. He later became soloist for many

years at the São Carlos Orchestra. Whilst in

Portugal, he began to show interest in the

viol, having attended many courses oriented

by Jordi Savall.

As a cellist and viol player he took part

in various chamber music groups, among

which were the Segréis de Lisboa and the

renaissance group Concerto Atlântico, with

whom he participated in various recordings.

He was a founding member of the Arcus

Quartet, later renamed Atalaya Quartet, which

performed regularly from 1987. Other Old

Music groups he took part in were Flores de

Música and La Batalla, both directed by Pedro

Caldeira Cabral.

Kenneth Frazer was co-responsible for the

cello section of the São Carlos Orchestra. He

passed away on 22 May 2011, victim of a

road accident. Kenneth Frazer is survived by

his wife and two children.

THE REVD MALCOLM PURDY (1954, Politics,

Philosophy & Economics) died at home on

2 January 2015, at the age of 84. Malcolm

was called to the Ministry in 1958, and lived

out his Christian principles to the end. His

only church, Newall Green Baptist Church in

Wythenshawe, was not an easy place.

He was asked by an Anglican friend to visit an

Ethiopian family while on holiday, which led to

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an ongoing relationship with the country. 15

years on he has helped 20 people to find and

build a life in the UK.

He was ecumenical in every way; his funeral

was attended by Methodist, Church of

England, United Reformed Church and

Catholic contingents, who spoke publicly of

his love for all.

He lived out his Christian beliefs to the high

and the low. As a husband and a father he is

very much missed, and he will be remembered

fondly by his family and all those who knew

him.

Kindly contributed by Elsie Purdy

MAURICE DYER (1951, Chemistry) was

a sociable and vivid character with an

enthusiasm for life and a strong loyalty to

his friends, both old and new. Educated at

Newport High School for Boys, he came up

to St Catherine’s Society with a cohort of his

peers ready to enjoy University life. He played

badminton for the University and cricket for

the BBC, although in later years he was more

of an armchair spectator of his two favourite

sports: cricket and rugby.

After National Service in Egypt, Maurice

found employment at the Patent Office in

London, and settled there with his wife,

Joy, whom he married in 1959. The second

of his two daughters, Sarah, was born with

Down’s Syndrome, which prompted Maurice

to take an active role in setting up a local

society to provide support for other parents

and families. He was keenly aware of the

privileges that his education had afforded him

and always strove to help those who were

less fortunate than himself, championing care

and support for people with mental health

issues and alcohol dependency and those

living in poverty. He was also the chairman of

the local community health council for many

years.

Maurice was an active freemason and

belonged to lodges up and down the country.

He was a founder member of the Basingstoke

Bridge Club, a countryside rambler, a member

of the RSA, a keen classical concert-goer, an

avid reader of detective fiction and a spirited

traveller who was particularly drawn to Syria,

Egypt and Jordan.

Maurice was a loyal friend and family man

who never forgot that his own pleasure in

life was a gift. He often quoted the maxim

that the measure of a civilised society is how

it treats those who are most vulnerable. He

never lost his belief that every small change

to relieve the hardship and suffering of others

was worth fighting for.

Kindly contributed by Emma Dyer

PETER FINCH (1951,

Modern History)

passed away in

December 2014. He

was a prime example

of the students for

whom St Catherine’s

Society was formed

and whose lives it

transformed.

Peter was born in rural Essex in 1932. The

family were far from wealthy and when

Peter’s father Fred died of rheumatic fever

a few years later, leaving five children, they

were cast into real hardship. Peter’s mother,

Violet, having a great head for numbers,

landed an office job in nearby Chelmsford.

However, a woman’s salary was not expected

to support a family and times were tough.

Peter attended the village school in

Highwood, a small rural school run and

staffed by two elderly women who had low

aspirations for the children in their care. They

had never entered a child for the vital eleven

plus exam – choosing to keep the bright

children in their care to serve as assistant

teachers and to raise the apparent level of

attainment at the school.

Peter’s elder brother and sister left school

at fourteen and found work – he expected

to follow them and looked around for an

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apprenticeship in market gardening – the only

job he could imagine himself doing.

At this point my father’s story takes an

extraordinary turn. Realising that their school

had been mismanaged for years, the people

of Highwood got up a petition to the local

school board, signing their names in a ring

around the text so that no leader could be

identified. This ‘round robin’ had a satisfying

effect: the two teachers at Highwood School

were disposed of and a new head teacher put

in place. She entered Peter not for the eleven

plus – he was already too old for that – but

for the thirteen plus.

Success in the thirteen plus took Peter to

Chelmsford Grammar, where he joined boys

who had already been there for two years. He

worked hard and quickly caught up, learned

French and Latin, excelled in Mathematics and

developed the love of History that he kept

to the end of his life. In his final year, Peter

was Head Boy and a member of the First XI

in both football and cricket. The Headmaster

suggested he apply to university, to Oxford,

where a society existed that allowed bright

young men of limited means to attend the

University without the prohibitive costs

associated with membership of a college.

I wonder how my father coped with that first

year. My mother believed he had struggled

terribly in his first year – intimidated by the

sheen and confidence of the public school

boys who thronged the city and worrying

if he was up to the job before him. Peter

panicked after a set of examinations (college

collections perhaps) and ran to tell the new

Censor – a young Alan Bullock – that he had

failed and would have to leave Oxford. Alan

calmed Peter down and persuaded him to

stay, a kind act typical of that great man.

Once he had found his feet, Peter made the

most of his time in Oxford, Cross Country

running alongside Roger Bannister and Chris

Chataway, captaining the College football

team and taking them to a collegiate final

only to be beaten by a Brasenose team

captained by cricketer Colin Cowdrey.

University was followed by National Service

and that by a career in marketing. Peter

met Margaret Wilson, who became his

wife. Together they moved to the village

of Nutfield in Surrey, where Peter made

himself indispensable, chairing virtually every

committee the community had to offer and

starting a few more. Peter became an expert

on the history of this little corner of East

Surrey, publishing several books and becoming

known as ‘Mr Nutfield’ in local history circles.

Peter and Margaret had five children and

seven grandchildren. They were together until

Margaret’s death in 2012. Peter lost his sight

and was very ill towards the end of his life.

He was extraordinarily brave and gentlemanly

to the very end.

Without the existence of St Catherine’s Society,

my father certainly could not have attended

Oxford University, possibly could not have

attended University at all. My father never

took this extraordinary gift for granted. He was

proud beyond measure when I, his youngest

son, won a place at the College in 1990.

My father left a generous gift to the College

in his will; perhaps that legacy will help some

other bright but poor young person to come

to Oxford. Were my father to be finishing

secondary school today, one of four children

from a cash-strapped family, and in today’s

political and financial climate, I do not believe

he would be able to take up the opportunity

to come to Oxford.

Kindly contributed by Edward Finch

PETER SHAW, one of the Founding Fellows

of St. Catherine’s College, died at home in

Scotland on 13 April 2015, aged 92. He was

educated at Kendal Grammar School and was

awarded a scholarship to read Chemistry at

Jesus College, Oxford. He then worked at the

Clarendon Laboratory, becoming a Senior

Research Officer. In 1954, at Alan Bullock’s

invitation, he became the first Stipendiary

Tutor in Physics to what was then St.

Catherine’s Society.

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Peter took great interest in the planning and

building of the College. He was one of the

14 Founding Fellows who accompanied Alan

Bullock to the Villa Serbelloni, on Lake Como,

to discuss the ethos and constitution of the

new college. He admired Arne Jacobsen’s

plan, in its bold and unified architectural

vision and in its fine attention to detail, and

he was particularly pleased that the plan

included a Music House. He was also very

glad to have appointed Neville Robinson to

the Physics staff. This was, he felt, the most

valuable thing he ever did for the College.

After graduating in Chemistry, Peter was

appointed to the research team which Sir

Francis Simon and Nicholas Kurti established

at the Clarendon Laboratory, with the aim of

separating uranium-235 from uranium-238 by

gaseous diffusion through a semi-permeable

membrane. His personal contribution was to

investigate the making of copper membranes.

Once membranes of an acceptable type

had been made, his efforts were devoted to

stabilising them against attack by ‘hex’, which

was achieved by treatment with fluorine gas.

This diffusion technique formed the basis of

the British Tube Alloys project, later subsumed

into the Manhattan Project which produced

the first atomic bomb.

The excitement that this work generated in

him, and the insights he gained, inspired

Peter to continue in the field of nuclear

structure. A meticulous and imaginative

experimentalist, who could make apparatus

to a high specification, he worked closely

with theoreticians, notably Professor Sir

Denys Wilkinson, to determine the accurate

data required. This started with a series of

observations of the protons and neutrons

produced in the D-D reaction (fusion of two

deuterium nuclei). The two end-results of

this reaction were found to be surprisingly

different and asymmetric, and led to a

reassessment of the original elementary

wave-function theories about these nuclei.

After the war, the Clarendon had been able

to capitalise on its radar research to become

a world leader in nuclear magnetic resonance

techniques. Peter was part of the team that

established the nuclear spin and magnetic

moments of cobalt-56 and -57, making

possible their subsequent use in medicine

and radiography. He continued his research

into nuclear structure, producing papers on

Resonant Proton Capture by chlorine as well as

on similar studies in medium-weight and heavy

nuclei. He also turned to the study of hot atom

reactions in atomic bromides, in particular the

neutron irradiation of bromoethane.

Peter is remembered by his students as an

excellent tutor, offering a broad education

which, according to one of them, was, ‘By no

means limited to the pipe-smoking tutorials

on the mysteries of atomic physics… With

his all-embracing interest in science (not just

physics), music, art and culture in general,

he was in every respect the epitome of the

renaissance man.’

His interests ranged from Modern Art

to mushrooms, and from music to

mountaineering. He helped establish the

Museum of Modern Art in Oxford, after its

founder, the architect Trevor Green, asked him

to join the original executive board. Trevor, a

personal friend of Peter’s, was always grateful

for his help in bridging the gap between the

academic world and contemporary art.

His enjoyment and knowledge of wine led to

him starting the St Catz cellar. At home he

led expeditions to forage for edible fungi,

about which he was a considerable expert.

As a young man he played the piano to a

reasonable level, largely self-taught, and later

took up the Spanish guitar.

In 1969 he married Patricia Gearin Tosh,

whose son Michael was then a Fellow

(English) of St Catz. The following year Peter

retired on account of ill health, and he and

Patricia moved to Scotland, where she had

started a successful dog-breeding business.

To this they added a boarding kennels, which

was also very successful, and in all of this

Peter was able to put his practical skills to

good use. As a schoolboy in Kendal he had

become a keen hill-walker. Now in Scotland

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he was able to pursue this passion and was

never happier than when climbing in the

Cuillins.

Patricia died three years before he did.

Peter had been married twice before and is

survived by a daughter and a son from his

first marriage, four grandchildren, and eight

great-grandchildren.

Kindly contributed by Stephen Shaw.

RICHARD BRETT-

KNOWLES (1941,

Physics) died in

March 2015. He

was born in 1924 in

Essex. As a teenager

he found himself

drawn to practical

electronics and

radio, subjects that

would continue to

interest him, personally and professionally,

through a remarkably varied life. At school

in Wellington, Richard was planning on

studying chemistry, but the war saw his life

take a different path when his headmaster

offered him a place on a government scheme

to study physics at Oxford. He recalled in

an interview for the British Library’s An Oral

History of British Science: ‘I said, “I thought

I was going there to read chemistry.” [The

headmaster] said, “That wasn’t what I said.

Do you or don’t you want to go to Oxford to

read physics?” Instant decision, I said, “Yes”

He said, “Pack your bags, go tomorrow.” Mr

Churchill wanted forty boys to read physics to

work on radar.’

Richard left Oxford in 1943 after studying an

intensive two-year course, however wartime

urgency meant his degree was not officially

conferred, resulting in an accidental posting

to a radar factory in Bournemouth. He

revealed: ‘Civil servants didn’t understand, at

Oxford. You don’t get the degree. You pass

the exam then you have to have the degree

conferred on you. It wasn’t until 1991 that I

actually got my degree.’

After extracting himself from the bureaucratic

oversight, Richard was posted to the

Telecommunications Research Establishment

(TRE) at Malvern, the top secret centre

of British radar development. He found

himself in his element amongst inventive

colleagues pioneering this new technology:

‘We were all nutcases,’ he recalled. ‘We

weren’t conventional, some of us were less

conventional than others. Remember, radar

was unconventional at the time.’ Seconded to

serve in the field, Richard’s wartime scientific

career was unusually eventful. He served as

a radar expert aboard an aircraft carrier HMS

Vindex, with a front line Swordfish squadron

in newly liberated Europe after D-Day and,

with the war drawing to a close, found

himself investigating German radar stations in

Holland with the aid of the Dutch resistance.

Finding post-war TRE lacking its previous

revolutionary spirit, Richard joined the Royal

Navy as an instructor. The peacetime navy

was not entirely to his tastes, but in 1952 he

enthusiastically swapped the cocktail parties

and drill for two years’ scientific research in

the Arctic, as part of the pioneering British

North Greenland Expedition. An enthusiastic

reader of adventure books as a child, Richard

took to the harsh life in huts and tent,

traversing the arctic by dog sled and ‘Weasel’

snowmobile and enjoying the comradeship

far from civilization. ‘I enjoyed it so much.

Freedom from money, you couldn’t buy

anything,’ he recalled. ‘And in my case doing

what I’d always wanted to do as a small child.’

Richard eventually left the Navy in the mid-

1960s to return to research and worked on

the development of early guided missiles at

the Admiralty Surface Weapons Establishment

near Portsmouth. Throughout this time, he

maintained an active role in the sailing world,

as skipper of the London Sailing Project, a

charity for young offenders based in Gosport.

He took early retirement in 1982 to become

an electronics consultant, including work

for the Airbus A320 airliner, as well as to

lecture on radar history, and continued a

long involvement with the amateur radio

community, using his call sign G3AAT. An

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editor for the Radio Society of Great Britain’

publications, he shared his boundless

enthusiasm and technical knowledge until the

day he died.

He is survived by a daughter and a son.

Kindly contributed by Tom Lean

JOHN DALE LAIRD

(1963, Engineering)

passed away

peacefully on 6 April,

2015 at his home in

Kittery Point, Maine

after an eight-month

battle with pancreatic

cancer. Born on

February 26, 1938

in Trenton, NJ, the

second son of Max O. Laird and Vivian Shirley,

John combined a creative, inquiring mind

with an engineer’s drive to solve problems.

After graduating from Princeton high school,

he attended Purdue University, where he

received a bachelor’s degree in aeronautical

engineering. He earned a Master’s degree in

Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT while

working at Avco Corporation in Wilmington,

Mass., where he was closely involved in the

design of the Mach 20 AVCO Hypersonic

Shock Tunnel and the development of

a miniature, high sensitivity pressure

transducer. Both were important tools in the

development of the Apollo Command Module.

In 1963, he left his job to pursue a doctorate

at Oxford University.

Returning to the US in 1965, he joined the

team led by Dr. Arthur R. Kantrowitz at

the Avco Everett Research Laboratory that

developed the intra-aortic balloon pump, a

heart-assist device that is still widely used in

cardiac care. His work in this area attracted

international attention, which led to his

appointment to the newly established Thorax

Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, where

he continued his cardiovascular research

– and became fluent in Dutch. A leading

authority on the regulation of coronary

blood flow, John later became a professor

of physiological physics at the department

of medicine at Leiden University, where he

combined research into the mechanism of the

control of coronary blood flow with numerous

teaching responsibilities.

He moved back to the US in 1990, and

worked as an independent consultant for a

variety of organisations in the Boston area.

In 1995, he became the principal scientist

at Abiomed, working on the implantable

artificial heart project, which led to the

development of a battery-operated device,

which was developed as an implantable

synthetic replacement heart. After leaving

Abiomed, John worked as a consultant to

MIT Lincoln Laboratory for several years

before finally retiring to enjoy sailing and his

eclectic range of other hobbies, which varied

from learning to play the organ to amateur

radio. Undaunted by his cancer diagnosis,

he renewed his amateur radio licence last

August, passing the examination giving him

full privileges on all amateur frequency bands.

John was passionate about good food, good

wines and whisky. He spent some of his

happiest moments on the enclosed porch

at his house in Kittery Point overlooking

Pepperrell Cove, watching the boats and

enjoying a glass of Scotch.

John is survived by his wife Els Overkleeft;

his three daughters Karen de Groot-Laird,

Elizabeth van der Made-Laird and Anne de

Jong-Laird, all residing in the Netherlands;

his son, Peter W. Laird, of Grand Rapids,

Michigan; his two nieces Julie Ann and

Susan Laird; his nephew Keith Laird; 15

grandchildren and 7 great-grandchildren.

Cremation has taken place privately, in

accordance with his wishes. A gathering to

celebrate his life will be held at a later date.

Partly reproduced by kind permission from

the New York Times.


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STEPHEN ELLIS

(1972, MODERN

HISTORY) died

as he had lived:

as a philosopher,

a man of faith,

a perfect

gentleman. He

was a historian

and remained one

right to the end,

in his scrupulous attention to sources and the

diversity of those on which he drew. Thanks

to the different posts he occupied throughout

a particularly successful and varied career,

his social skills, his human warmth and his

absolute discretion, he probably had one of

the best address books a specialist in African

affairs could boast: in it, leading lights in the

international scholarly community rubbed

shoulders with civil servants of all nations,

activists, journalists, bankers, brokers, ex-

mercenaries, business figures sometimes

with a background in armed struggle, priests

and pastors, environmentalists, diamond

merchants, and a host of anonymous people

he had met in the course of his travels,

especially in Africa, to whom he evinced

a respect which did not cloud his clear-

sightedness. Working with Stephen was a

pleasure, but also a necessity, as his erudition

was always so valuable for the research of

all of us. I experienced this myself on several

occasions, especially when I wrote, with him

and Béatrice Hibou, The Criminalization of

the State in Africa. Although I personally

learned a great deal from him for my own

books, other people are better placed than

I am to salute his activities as a historian of

Madagascar and the Republic of South Africa,

his contribution to an understanding of the

civil war in Liberia, and his decisive work –

with Gerrie ter Haar – on the study of religion

in Africa.

Having derived such benefit from it, I

am pretty well qualified to express the

gratitude of Africanists for his generosity to

his colleagues and students, on whom he

lavished advice, information, bibliographical

leads, and contacts – that famous address

book again! Stephen was a sharer. He was

active in many collective endeavours –

including being a co-editor of African Affairs

for many years – to the detriment of his

personal projects. Nor did he ever hesitate to

offer his French-speaking peers the services

of his superb English, without regard for his

own schedule.

But as our sorrow might otherwise lead us

to forget it, I would like here, if I may, to

mention one aspect of his personality that

lay at the basis of his professional integrity

and that I particularly valued, especially in the

course of the long field work we undertook

while working on our Criminalization of the

State in Africa: humour. Stephen enjoyed a

good laugh, and knew how to make others

laugh too. People will object: ‘is this so

unusual in a Briton, especially a man so

British as Stephen?’ The fact is that his

laughter was not just a sign of decency and

distance with regard to the cruelty of the

world which saddened his humanism. His

laughter was subversive – a guarantee of his

freedom of thought. The best proof of this

is that, although he was a subject of Her

Majesty’s, he could also laugh at animals.

His favourite scenes, which he could watch

again and again, were the bits in A Fish

Called Wanda where three horrible dogs are

killed in succession (one of them crushed

under a falling concrete block) when it’s their

mistress who is the real target, if I remember

rightly. And we would be overcome by

uncontrollable laughter, in the presence of a

few flabbergasted American colleagues, when

he told us how South African tourists would

slip plastic snakes under the stones to scare

off some creepy-crawly or other in the Kruger

Park. He was a free man, as I have said, and

as his Stoic lucidity and courage reminded us

when his death approached.

Kindly contributed by Jean-François Bayart

and translated by Andrew Brown


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CHARLES ‘HARRY’ WHITNALL (1948,

ENGLISH) was commissioned during 1944

into the RNVR, ‘the wavy navy,’ as Navigating

Officer on ML 914 of the 15th Flotilla, Coastal

Forces, having experienced the youthful Sea

Cadets, later training at HMS King Alfred and

sea-going exercises on HMS Dauntless. During

this time he saw action in the North Sea, the

English Channel and D-Day operations.

Following demobilisation he abandoned a

brief spell as a teacher, and came up to St.

Catherine’s Society where he particularly

enjoyed the fellowship and camaraderie of

similarly placed post-war undergraduates.

Harry was an active member of the College

Boat Club, crewing in the 2txt eight and

rowed Number 4 during Eights Week, when all

three St Catz crews achieved six ‘bumps’ – a

University Record during Tripods and Head

of the River Races in 1949. After graduating,

with Margaret his wife, Harry welcomed the

challenges and rewards offered in a business

career, with various appointments in a variety

of international companies: he eventually

retired as Principal Sales Director with a well-

known fashion house.

As a ‘lifelong learner,’ Harry actively pursued

his interests in Literature, Music and Art...and

Arsenal FC...of which he was a devoted and

passionate supporter.

Harry, with Margaret (who sadly predeceased

him), lived near Eye in Suffolk, where he died

at home, as he wished, on 7 August, 2015.

Kindly contributed by Frank Whitnall

ROBIN

HORSCROFT

(1953,

CHEMISTRY)

died aged 83 on

29 September

2015, following a

short illness. The

beloved husband

and father is

survived by his

wife, Jane, 83, and his four children, Gillian,

Rebecca, Timothy and James.

Robin Charles Horscroft was born to Dorothy

and Charles on 21 April 1932 in Oxford. Robin

was educated first at the Dragon School

and then from the age of 12, at St Edward’s

boarding school. Here, Robin developed his

love of rowing, which continued throughout

his university days, rowing in bow position, in

the 1st Eight.

Before reading chemistry at St Catherine’s

Society, Robin undertook his National Service

with 3 Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery and

299 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery. After

university, Robin joined the TA in which he

served with the Oxfordshire Yeomanry for a

number of years.

Shortly after commencing his undergraduate

studies he met Jane, his future wife. Jane

introduced Robin to Catholicism, and he

converted to that faith during their two-year

engagement. They married on 14 April 1956,

both aged 24, about a month before Robin’s

university Finals.

Robin completed his academic studies with

a doctorate in chemistry at St Catherine’s,

under the tutelage of the Nobel prize winner,

Professor Sir Cyril Hinshelwood. Robin then

took a job working for the Scientific Civil

Service at Aldermaston near Newbury, starting

on New Year’s Day 1960. He enjoyed a long

and successful career, playing an important

role in the joint US / UK scientific programs

1979–1984, and later working for seven years

in London before returning to Aldermaston

as superintendent of the chemistry labs – a

position he held until his retirement in 1997.

Robin was an active member of the Roman

Catholic church of St Francis de Sales in

Newbury, serving on a number of committees,

and working to establish contacts with other

Christian churches in Newbury. He was also a

long standing member of The St Vincent de

Paul Society.

Robin, a true son of Oxford, had a life

characterised by service to his country, his

family and the church. He was kind, friendly

and generous with praise, a quiet and gentle

man of great faith.

Kindly contributed by Tim Horscroft

JOSEPH BRYAN NELSON MBE (1959,

BIOLOGY) died on 29 June, 2015, aged 83.

Bryan was born and raised in Shipley, West

Yorkshire, and attended Saltaire Grammar

School until the age of 16, when he left

to support his family. Bryan nevertheless

pursued his studies at night school, going

on to win a place at St Andrews, where he

read Zoology. In 1959 he went on to study

at St Catherine’s, Oxford, gaining a DPhil in

Biology. The world expert on gannets, Bryan

spent his honeymoon studying gannets on

Bass Rock in the Firth of Forth with wife June.

Such was Bryan’s tireless conservation work

and scholarly passion that ‘the Bass’ still

holds the largest colony of Northern Gannets

in the world. The couple spent three years

on the remote island, enduring gale-force

winds and plummeting temperatures in

pursuit of their shared passion. Bryan and

June later lived on the Galapagos Islands

and studied booby and frigate birds. During

their research, amidst crippling heat and arid

conditions, the couple were invited on to

the Royal Yacht Britannia and met the Duke

of Edinburgh. They were admired by fellow

activists, including Prince Charles and Sir

David Attenborough, for a shared commitment

towards environmentalism. In 1968, Dr Nelson

sailed to Christmas Island to study the jungle

tree-top nesting Abbott’s booby. Later on he

was instrumental in pressing the Australian

government into designating Christmas Island

a national park. Bryan spent many years

lecturing at St Andrews University, and is

fondly remembered for his definitive work

The Gannet – but also for his compassion

and respect towards others. Bryan was a key

supporter of the Seabird Centre, opened in

2000, which has been flying its flag at half-

mast in his honour. Bryan was tireless in his

determination not only to study the problems

facing the environment, but to take action to

combat them. Bryan was awarded an MBE in

2006 for his services to seabirds. He married

June Davison, from Rawdon, Leeds, in 1960.

He is survived by June and their twins Simon

and Becky. Bryan died during an environment-

awareness bicycle trip in Uzbekistan.

With thanks to June Nelson for providing

much of the information

HAZEL MILLER (1987, LAW) died on 10

August, 2015, aged 46 years. Born in

Bridgewater, Somerset, she was educated in

Bridgwater and in 1987 gained a place at St

Catherine’s College, Oxford, where she read

Jurisprudence. She gained a BA with honours

and then went to Guildford College of Law


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where she gained a Postgraduate Diploma

in Legal Practice. Hazel then went to work

for Slaughter & Mary in London and also

spent time in their Hong Kong and Singapore

offices. She then moved to Jones Day, where

she became a partner. Her next move was

becoming a partner at Orrrick before moving

to Proskauer Rose, also as a partner. Hazel

specialised in corporate and commercial

financing transactions, restructuring, and

bankruptcy. She had travelled extensively

in Canada, the USA, Asia, the Far East,

Australia and New Zealand. She trekked in the

mountains of Nepal, travelled the Inca Trail,

and visited many European countries. Hazel

had a passion for photography, studying at

Central St Martins, Santa Fe, and in Spain.

She also had a love of art. Hazel liked to play

golf and was a member of Sundridge Park

Golf Club. Watching live sport was another

of her passions. Hazel never married but had

many friends.

Kindly contributed by Marlene Miller

7 0 / S E C U R I N G T H E F U T U R E

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NOTIFICATIONS

Michael Sheldon (1966, Mathematics)

Lothar Scheiner (1947, Theology)

Harvey Thorn (1949, Theology)

Donald Schofield (1949, Theology)

Michael Whatmore (1951, Theology)

Robert Coke (1972, Social Sciences)

Douglas Simon Sherwin (1947, PPE)

John Murphy (1971, Zoology)

Gareth Hughes (1950, Geography)

Dougal Oldfield (2001, Modern Languages)

Rowland Hill (1972, Physics)

Oliver Lucas (1973, Biological Sciences)

The Revd John Eric Scott (1935, Theology)

Sincere apologies to Philip N Smith, whose

name was incorrectly listed in the deceased

notifications in the 2014 edition of The Year.

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Over the last five years,

we have received over

£5 million from Legacies…

What’s more, we are proud

to have a community of

nearly 200 alumni, parents

and friends who have

pledged to leave Legacies

to St Catz.

For more information about leaving a

Legacy to the College, or to request a

copy of our Legacy Brochure, please

contact the Development Office at

[email protected]

or +44 1865 271 705. We would

always advise that you consult a legal

professional prior to changing your Will.

Without charitable donation

Gross Estate £1,000,000

Net Estate £675,000

No charitable donation £0

Taxable Estate £675,000

Less Inheritance Tax @ 40% £270,000

Remaining Estate £730,000

With charitable donation

Gross Estate £1,000,000

Net Estate £675,000

Less donation of 10% £67,500

Taxable Estate £607,500

Less Inheritance Tax @ 36% £218,700

Remaining Estate £713,800

Building our Future: A Gift to St Catherine’s in Your WillRemembering St Catz in your Will is a very special and personal way of supporting the

College. Legacies play an important role in helping to preserve all of the elements that make

a Catz education special – the scholarships we provide for our students, the very high quality

of our teaching and research, and our unique buildings and grounds. Over the last five years

we have received more than £5 million from Legacies, for which we are very grateful.

What’s more, we are proud to have a community of nearly 200 alumni, parents and friends who

have pledged to leave a Legacy to St Catz. We thank our Legators by welcoming them back to

the College for the biennial Dean Kitchin Circle Lunch, which will next be held in 2017.

As St Catz is a Registered Charity in the UK (No. 1143817), Legacy donations can help you to

reduce the amount of tax you pay on your estate. Legacies made to the College are exempt

from Inheritance Tax and Capital Gains Tax in the UK, and are simple to put into effect by adding

a codicil or making a revision to your Will. Under current UK Law, those who leave at least 10%

of their estate to charity may receive a 4% cut on their Inheritance Tax. Tax reductions may also

be possible in other countries.

THE DIFFERENCE YOUR LEGACY MAKES (UK TAXPAYERS)

G A Z E T T E


Biological SciencesEleanor Blake - Pate’s Grammar School, CheltenhamAlice Godson - King Edward VI School, LichfieldWilliam Hughes - Corsham School, WiltshireMatthew Jordon - Duchess’s Community High School, NorthumberlandOliver Mattinson - Marlborough College, WiltshireJenna Poole - Repton School, DerbyshireHolly Smith - St Helen’s School, NorthwoodMolly Songer - Truro & Penwith College, Cornwall

Biomedical SciencesZoe Curtis - Dubai College, United Arab EmiratesFaraaz Khan - St Paul’s School, London

ChemistryDaniya Aynetdinova - Bromsgrove School, WorcestershireRachel Chan - Raffles Institute, SingaporeShelley Chen - Trinity School, CroydonAdam Heisig - Farnborough Sixth Form College, HampshireDaniel Kane - Sir Thomas Rich’s School, GloucesterOscar Kelly - Whitgift School, SurreyJacques Morgan - Fortismere School, LondonMatthew Peters - Dunblane High School, PerthshireBradley Sheath - Christ The King College, Isle of WightAngus Yeung - Queen’s College, Taunton

Computer ScienceThomas Denney - Hills Road Sixth Form College, CambridgeNick Hu - Lawrence Sheriff School, WarwickshireSauyon Lee - School for Independent Learners, USACiprian Stirbu - Colegiul National Gheorghe Vranceanu Bacau, Romania

Economics & ManagementChristopher Rawlings - Sir Thomas Rich’s School, GloucesterJames Taylor - Reigate Grammar School, SurreyTill Wicker - American High School of the Hague, NetherlandsThomas Williamson - Repton School, Derbyshire

Engineering ScienceAue Angpanitcharoen - Shrewsbury SchoolGeorge England - Abingdon School, OxfordshireDuncan Field - Peter Symonds College, WinchesterToby Guppy - London Oratory SchoolGeorge Todd - Altrincham Boys’ Grammar School, CheshireJustin Wu - The Bromfield School, USAKieran Young - Royal Grammar School, Worcester

English Language & LiteratureEleanor Bourne - Pate’s Grammar School, CheltenhamMichael Delgado - Highgate School, LondonMolly Easton - St Paul’s Girls’ School, LondonPriya Khaira-Hanks - Chase School, MalvernMatilda Nevin - Beaconsfield High School, BuckinghamshireMayu Noda - Haberdashers’ Aske’s Girls’ School, ElstreeRosemary Shakerchi - City of London Freemen’s School, SurreyLily-Anna Trimble - St John the Baptist School, WokingEmma Woodcock - Ridgeway School, Wiltshire

Experimental PsychologyEndi Skenderi - CATS College Canterbury, Kent

Fine ArtChuan-Yueh Chang - Dulwich International High School Zhuhai, ChinaNour Jaouda - Cairo Modern English School, Egypt

GeographyGeorge Carew-Jones - Hampton School, MiddlesexAlexander Curtis - Chauncy School, HertfordshireNaomi Kelly - Reeds School, CobhamRivka Micklethwaite - Drayton Manor High School, LondonRufin Nowers - Burnham Grammar School, BerkshireDaniel O’Callaghan - Leicester Grammar SchoolJames Piggot - Eton College, WindsorLauren Rowley - North London Collegiate School, MiddlesexElizabeth Watson - Woodhouse Grove School, BradfordJames Winder - Bedford School

HistoryJake Croft - King Edward VI College, WarwickshireAntonio Gottardello - Institut Montana American School, SwitzerlandLauren Milner - Godolphin & Latymer School, LondonSienna Rothery - Sevenoaks School, KentMikayla Sinclair - Wallington High School for Girls, SurreyVerity Winn - Alcester Grammar School, Warwickshire

History & EconomicsJames Thomas - British School of Brussels, Belgium

History & PoliticsJames Evans - Wirral Grammar School, BebingtonClaire Sims - New College, Swindon

History of ArtNathan Geyer - Haberdashers’ Aske’s Hatcham College, LondonHannah Kelly - Grey Coat Hospital School, LondonFionn Montell-Boyd - Wimbledon High School, London

Human SciencesLauren Blum - Haberdashers’ Aske’s Girls’ School, ElstreeJoshua Parker Allen - University College School, LondonEleanor Potter - Southam College, WarwickshireMaya Shahor - Rugby High School, Warwickshire

LawKeshya Amarasinghe - Colombo International School, Sri LankaAlex Benn - North Halifax Grammar School, West YorkshireSae Hun Jang - Singapore American School, SingaporeLuca Jezerniczky - Oriel High School, West SussexSeon Woo Kim - Cardiff Sixth Form CollegeDylan Nathwani - Queensmead School, MiddlesexThomas Pausey - Windsor Boys’ School, BerkshireJasmin Sahota - Wyggeston & Queen Elizabeth I College, LeicesterJaimya Zaver - St Albans High School, Hertfordshire

Law with Law Studies in EuropeGabriel Moussa - École Active Bilingue Jeannine Manuel, France

Materials ScienceGiles Chambers - St Paul’s School, LondonInigo Howe - Cherwell School, OxfordJunhao Liang - Guangdong Country Garden School, ChinaWilliam Roberts - Concord College, ShropshireBrandon Severin - Harrow School, Middlesex

MathematicsEmily Ball - Anthony Gell School, DerbyshireFaizaan Hakim - Queen Elizabeth School, BarnetNathan Harpham - Wallingford School, OxfordshireAdam Higgins - Notre Dame Sixth Form College, LeedsAlexander Howson - John Port School, DerbyshireStuart O’Connell - Queen Elizabeth’s Hospital School, Bristol

Mathematics & Computer ScienceWilliam Platt - Bacup & Rawtenstall Grammar School, LancashireCalin Tataru - Hailsham Community College, East Sussex

Mathematics & PhilosophyGang Hyeok Lee - Daewon Foreign Language High School, South Korea

Admissions 2015

G A Z E T T E


Medical SciencesSheriff Akande - Seven Kings High School, IlfordJonathan Drake - Prudhoe Community High School, NorthumberlandNisha Hare - Oxford High SchoolAjay Kapur - Eltham College, LondonJames Perring - Blundells School, DevonAffan Saibudeen - Luton Sixth Form College, Bedfordshire

Modern LanguagesGregory Alexander - Manchester Grammar SchoolAnousha Al-Masud - Colchester Royal Grammar School, EssexPortia Cox - Marlborough College, WiltshireLorenzo Edwards-Jones - Radley College, AbingdonIndia Phillips - Godalming College, SurreyWilliam Ponsonby - Eton College, WindsorNicole Rayment - Gumley House Convent School, MiddlesexColette Rocheteau - Crossley Heath School, West YorkshireHarry Sampson - St Albans School, HertfordshireIsobel Whyte - Kendrick School, Berkshire

Modern Languages & LinguisticsThomas Frame - Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School, ElstreeSarah Wallace - Tytherington School, Cheshire

Molecular & Cellular BiochemistryZoe Catchpole - Monks Walk School, HertfordshireAlissa Hummer - Frankfurt International School, GermanyElinor Oppenheim - Camden School for Girls, LondonElena Zanchini di Castiglionchi - D’Overbroeck’s College, Oxford

MusicShu-Yu Chang - King Edward VII School, SheffieldJohn Lee - Raffles Institute, SingaporeMelissa Morton - St Helen’s School, NorthwoodChloe Rooke - Wycombe High School, Buckinghamshire

Philosophy, Politics & EconomicsImogen Downing - Arran High School, Isle of ArranShian Harris - High Storrs School, SheffieldRachel Hughes-Morgan - North London Collegiate School, MiddlesexPhoebe Jacobson - Watford Grammar School for Girls, HertfordshireJoseph MacConnell - Richard Huish College, TauntonMax Salisbury - Kingston Grammar School, SurreyChristos Tsoukalis - Athens College - Psychico College, GreeceThomas Turner - Reigate College, Surrey

PhysicsThomas Dickinson - Thirsk School, North Yorkshire

James Fallon - Sir John Deane’s College, NorthwichMatthew Fay - Southend High School for Boys, EssexDomonkos Kakas - Highgate School, LondonAlexander Langedijk - Farnborough Sixth Form College, HampshireHarrison Manley - Sandon School, EssexAlexandra Tindall - Collyer’s Sixth Form College, West SussexIeuan Wilkes - Old Swinford Hospital School, Stourbridge

Psychology & LinguisticsJosephine Barnett-Neefs - European School Culham, OxfordshireLuka Nikolic - City of London School

GRADUATES

Roxanna Abhari (BSc University of Western Ontario, Canada), MSc (R) Musculoskeletal SciencesBenjamin Abraham (BA University of Otago, New Zealand; MSc St Catherine’s), DPhil Public Policy *Erik Abrahamsson (BSc King’s College London), MBABryan Adriaanse (BSc, MSc University of Maastricht, Netherlands), DPhil Clinical NeurosciencesMichael Agathangelou (BA University of Bristol), MSt English (1830-1914)Swati Agrawal (MB BS Sikkin Manipal Institute of Medical Sciences, India; MS Rabindranath Tagore Institute, India), MSc (C) Clinical EmbryologyMette Ahlefeldt-Laurvig (BA Academy of Music, Aalborg, Denmark; BA Chelsea College of Art & Design; MSt St Catherine’s), DPhil History *Ikuya Aizawa (BA International Christian University, Japan), MSc (C) Applied Linguistics & Second Language AcquisitionAdnan Al-Khatib (BSc Higher Institute of Business Administration, Syria; BSc Hult International Business School), MBANajwa Al-Thani (BSc Northwestern University, Qatar), MSc (C) Global Governance & DiplomacyAluvaala Aluvaala (BMBS MSc University of Nairobi, Kenya; MSc London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine), DPhil Clinical MedicineInes Alvarez Rodrigo (BSc University of Edinburgh), DPhil Chromosome & Developmental BiologyGilad Amzaleg (MSc University of Nottingham), DPhil Biomedical ImagingAishwarya Anam (BSc London School of Economics & Political Science), MSt Literature & Arts (part-time)Antonio Andres (BEng Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain; MSc Universidad Politecnica de Barcelona, Spain), MSc (C) Water Science, Policy & ManagementFabio Anza (BPhys University of Palermo, Italy; MPhys University of Pisa, Italy; Wolfson College), DPhil Atomic & Laser PhysicsAysha Aswat (BEd Institute of Education London), MSc (C) Education (Child Development & Education)

Andrew Baca (BA Harvard College, USA), MBAGeorge Bacon (BA Oxford Brookes University), PGCE Religious EducationAmraj Bahia (BSc Imperial College London), MSc (C) Mathematical & Computational FinanceRoger Bailey (BSc University of Durham; MB BS Charing Cross & Westminster Medical School; LLM University of Manchester), MSc (C) Evidence-Based Health Care (part-time)Ameen Barghi (BSc University of Alabama, USA), Master of Public PolicyMichael Barton (BSc University of Edinburgh), PGCE BiologyVicky Bastock (BA, PGCE University of Leicester), MSc (C) Learning & Teaching (part-time)Anthony Bates (MB ChB University of Bristol; BSc University of Manchester), MSc (C) Surgical Science & Practice (part-time)Priyanka Bawa (BBS University of Delhi, India; MPP Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India), DPhil Social PolicyClarissa Bayer (BSc Katholische Universitat Eichstatt-Ingolstadt, Germany), MSc (C) SociologyJoao Bechara Calmon (LLB Universidade Federal do Parana, Brazil), MBAMatilda Becker (BSc King’s College London), MSc (C) Water Science, Policy & ManagementSara Bencekovic (BA York University, Canada), MPhil Social AnthropologyLouise Bendall (BSc University of Sheffield; MSc University of Birmingham), DPhil OncologySolana Beserman Balco (LLB, LLM University of Buenos Aires, Argentina; Bucerius Law School, Germany), MJurisJi Bian (BSc Central South University, China; MSc University of Maryland, USA), MBAPaul Booth (BA University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa), Master of Public PolicyMichael Bouterse (BA Whitworth College, USA; MTh Wycliffe Hall, Oxford), MSt TheologyMark Brown (BSc University of Victoria, Canada), MBAAlexander Bucknell (MEng Christ Church, Oxford), DPhil Gas Turbine AerodynamicsAlice Budisatrijo (BA Indiana University Bloomington, USA), Master of Public PolicyRobert Burdon (BA St Catherine’s), 2nd BM *Samuel Campbell (BA Hampshire College, USA; BSc Imperial College London), DPhil ZoologyJoseph Chadwin (MA University of Aberdeen), MSt Study of ReligionPo Hsiang Chan (MEng Imperial College London), DPhil Engineering ScienceShan Chang (BA St Catherine’s), MSc (C) Comparative Social Policy*Rose Chantiluke (BA Wadham College, Oxford), MSt Modern LanguagesZenan Chen (BSc University of Nottingham Ningbo, China), MSc (C) Computer Science

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G A Z E T T E

Anran Cheng (BSc Imperial College London), DPhil Oil & GasChun-Mann Chin (MChem St Catherine’s), DPhil Inorganic Chemistry *Luke Chiverton (BSc University of Warwick), 1st BM (Graduate Entry)Morgan Christie (BA Salem College, USA), MSt Creative Writing (part-time)Thomas Clark (BA, MSt St Anne’s College, Oxford), DPhil Medieval & Modern LanguagesAnnmarie Clay (BSc University of Leeds), MSc (C) Theoretical & Computational ChemistryClayton Comber (BA, LLB University of Wollongong, Australia; MA University of Sydney, Australia), MSt Creative Writing (part-time)Fiona Curnow (LLB Sheffield Hallam University), MSt Psychodynamic Practice (part-time)Vikram Dalal (BEng National Institute of Technology, India; PGDip International Institute of Information Technology, India), MBAAndrew Dean (BA University of Canterbury, New Zealand; MSt New College, Oxford), DPhil EnglishMarco Delise (BSc University of Trieste, Italy; MSc University of Padua, Italy), DPhil Synthetic BiologyAngela Diana (MSc University of Milan, Italy), DPhil OncologyDaniel Dixon (MSci University of Bristol), DPhil Synthetic BiologyPatrick Dowd (BSc Georgetown University, USA), MBAPhilip Earp (BA, MSci Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge), DPhil MaterialsGeorgina Edwards (BA Worcester College, Oxford), MSt Modern LanguagesKareem Edwards (BSc University of the West Indies, Trinidad & Tobago), MBATegan Ekanayake (BSc Monash University, Australia), MSc (C) Clinical EmbryologyTarek El Banna (BSc Cairo University, Egypt), MBAJakob Engel (BA University of Pennsylvania, USA; MSc London School of Economics & Political Science; Wolfson College, Oxford), DPhil Geography & the EnvironmentFaidra Faitaki (BA University College London), MSc (C) Applied Linguistics & Second Language AcquisitionAmanda Farr (), MSc (C) Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (part-time)Ciaran Ferris (BDS University of Dundee), MSc (C) Surgical Science & Practice (part-time)John Fielden (BSc Imperial College London; MSc St Catherine’s), DPhil Oncology *Taylor Fields (BA University of Michigan, USA), MSt History of Design (part-time)Matthew Fisher (MChem St Catherine’s), DPhil Inorganic Chemistry *Pablo Gabriel (BSc Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie de Montpellier, France), DPhil Synthesis for Biology & Medicine

Louis Gardner (BA St Catherine’s), 2nd BM *Harold Geddes (MSc University College London), DPhil Inorganic ChemistryGeeva Gopal Krishnan (BSc Georgetown University, USA), Master of Public PolicyElisabeth Gram (BSc University of Durham; MSc Imperial College London), DPhil Medical SciencesGiovanna Granata (BSc, MSc University of Naples Federico II, Italy), DPhil OncologyGustavo Haber Filho (BA Federal University of Para, Brazil), MBAAnushka Halder (BA Jadavpur University, India), MSc (C) Social AnthropologyAnya Hancock (BA University of Birmingham), MSt Literature & Arts (part-time)Claudia Hartman (BA University of Maastricht, Netherlands), MSc (C) Migration StudiesAlice Hawryszkiewycz (BSc University of Adelaide, Australia; BA London South Bank University), MSc (C) International Health & Tropical MedicineMary Heath (BA, PGCE St Catherine’s), MSc (C) Learning & Teaching (part-time) *Mark Herring (BSc University of Auckland, New Zealand), MBAMark Hew (BSc Texas A & M University, USA), Master of Public PolicyMathias Hoeyer (BSc Aarhus University, Denmark), MSc (C) Financial EconomicsVictoria Howells (BSc University of Leicester), PGCE PhysicsXimeng Hu (BA Beijing Foreign Studies University, China), MSc (C) Applied Linguistics & Second Language AcquisitionHeather Huddleston (BA, LLB University of Sydney, Australia), BCLMiles Huseyin (MBiochem St Catherine’s), DPhil Chromosome & Developmental Biology *Ji Young Hwang (BA Yonsei University, South Korea), MPhil Development StudiesLucy Ingham (BA University of Lancaster; PGCE St Catherine’s), MSc (C) Learning & Teaching (part-time) *Kelsey Inouye (BA, MEd, JD University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA), MSc (C) Education (Higher Education)Owain James (BA University of Exeter), MSt TheologyRobinson Jardin (BCom McGill University, Canada), MSt History of Design (part-time)Jonathan Jenkins (BA University of Northumbria at Newcastle), MSt History of Design (part-time)Hugh Johnson (BA St Catherine’s), 2nd BM *Ananya Joshi (BSc University of Delhi, India), MSc (C) Financial EconomicsMatthew Judge (LLB University College Dublin, Ireland), BCLJakob Kaeppler (BSc, MSc Albert Ludwigs Univesitat Freiburg, Germany), DPhil OncologySungkyung Kang (BA, MMath Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea), DPhil Mathematics

Dinesh Kapur (BEng Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, India; MPhil Clare Hall, Cambridge), Master of Public PolicyCallum Kelly (BA St Catherine’s), MSt History of Art & Visual Culture *Jason King (BA University of London), MSt History of Design (part-time)Sumeyye Kocaman (BA, MA Istanbul Universitesi, Turkey; MA University of California Los Angeles, USA), DPhil Oriental StudiesJelle Koopsen (BSc University of Amsterdam, Netherlands), MSc (C) Integrated ImmunologyTimm Kruse (Diploma, Universitat Fridericiana Karlsruhe, Germany), MSc (C) Mathematical Finance (part-time)Yasmin Kumi (BSc European Business School University of Economics & Law, Germany; MSc St Catherine’s), MBA *James Kwiecinski (BSc Monash University, Australia; St John’s College, Oxford), DPhil MathematicsGernot Lassnig (MPhys Karl-Franzens Universitat Graz, Austria), MSc (C) Mathematical Finance (part-time)Johnny Latham (BSc Oxford Brookes University), MSc (C) Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (part-time)Misa Lazovic (BA, MA University of Nis, Serbia), MBAHenry Lee (BSc University of Manchester), DPhil Musculoskeletal SciencesMatthew Lee (BSc, McGill University, Canada), MSc (C) Sustainable Urban Development (part-time)Susi Lee (BA University of Sussex; St Antony’s College, Oxford; MSc Leicester University), MSt Psychodynamic Practice (part-time)Audrey Lemal (LLB, MBA Université Paris X (Nanterre), France; LLM Université Paris II (Pantheon-Assas), France), MJurisKa Ho Leong (BSc, MSc University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), MSc (C) Sustainable Urban Development (part-time)Lik Yuen Leung (BSc Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), MPhil Sociology & DemographyRuoyu Li (LLB Tsinghua University, China), MJurisZane Linde (BA, MA University of Latvia, Latvia; Linacre College, Oxford), DPhil EnglishLouise Linnander Obermayer (BA Linköping Universitet, Sweden), MBAKaren Litton (BA University of Durham), MSc (C) English Local History (part-time)Jesse Liu (BA Exeter College, Oxford; MSc University of Waterloo, Canada), DPhil Particle PhysicsNatalie Lloyd (BSc University College London; MSc University of Amsterdam, Netherlands), MSc (C) Sustainable Urban Development (part-time)Martyna Lukoseviciute (BSc University of Manchester), DPhil Medical SciencesMan Luo (BSc University of Warwick), MSc (C) Applied StatisticsEdrys Lupprian (BA St Catherine’s; MSc University College London; PGCE St Catharine’s College, Cambridge; MEd University of Exeter), MSc (C) Applied Landscape Archaeology (part-time) *


G A Z E T T E

Zhongyi Mai (BSc King’s College London), MSc (C) Radiation BiologyMichael Mair (MSc Technische Universität München, Germany), DPhil Engineering ScienceGabriel Mak (MB BS University of Melbourne, Australia), MSc (C) Experimental Therapeutics (part-time)Cutherbert Makondo (BA University of Zambia, Zambia; MSc University of Hull), DPhil Geography & the EnvironmentLuigi Marchese (BSc, MSc University of Naples Federico II, Italy), DPhil Particle PhysicsNicholas Martinez (BEng, MEng Queensland University of Technology, Australia), MBAMusata Matei (BA University College London; PGDipl St Catherine’s), MSt Diplomatic Studies (part-time) *Russell Mayall (MEng University of Sheffield), EngD Renewable Energy Marine StructuresLauren McKarus (BA Sarah Lawrence College, USA), MSc (C) Social Science of the InternetMatthew McMillan (BSc Wheaton College, USA; MASt Christ’s College, Cambridge), MSt Philosophy of PhysicsMike Mehta (BSc Ohio State University, USA; MD Ohio University, USA), MBARomulo Mendonca Machado Carleial (BSc, MSc Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil), DPhil ZoologyAlberto Meneghello (BSc, MSc University of Parma, Italy), MBAIllona Meyer (BA University of South Africa, South Africa), MSt Literature & Arts (part-time)Christopher Mirfin (BSc, MMathPhys University of Warwick; PGCE University of York), DPhil Biomedical ImagingArpita Mitra (BA Lady Shri Ram College for Women, India), MSc (C) Criminology & Criminal JusticeJohn Mittermeier (BA Yale University, USA; MSc St Edmund Hall, Oxford; MSc Louisiana State University, USA; Oriel College, Oxford), DPhil Geography & the EnvironmentLaura Molloy (MA, MPhil University of Glasgow), DPhil Information, Communication & the Social SciencesIan Moore (BA Swansea University), MSc (C) Applied Linguistics & Second Language AcquisitionHangwani Muambadzi (BA University of Cape Town, South Africa), MBADale Munn (BA University of London; PGCE Loughborough University; MA University of Leicester), MSc (C) Applied Landscape Archaeology (part-time)Mudasser Musaoir (BA Richmond American International University in London), Certificate in Diplomatic StudiesValentina Ndolo (BSc University of Nairobi, Kenya), MSc (C) International Health & Tropical MedicineLakshmi Neelakantan (BA, LLB National Law University, Jodhpur, India), MSc (C) Evidence-Based Social Intervention & Policy EvaluationJessica Neilan (BA Oriel College, Oxford), 1st BM (Graduate Entry)

Yihan Ng (BSc Imperial College London), MSc (C) Financial EconomicsSherry Ngai (BSc Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), MBAFreddie O’Farrell (BA University of Sheffield), MSc (C) Comparative Social PolicyBenjamin Page (BA Harris Manchester College, Oxford), MPhil Philosophical TheologyYijing Pan (BA Peking University, China), MSc (C) Financial EconomicsBo Pang (BA Peking University, China), MBAPankaj Pansari (MTech Indian Institute of Technology, India), DPhil Engineering ScienceMartin Pastor (LLM Charles University, Czech Republic), MJurisStephen Pates (MSc Homerton College, Cambridge), DPhil ZoologySupratik Paul (BSc University of Calcutta, India; MBA Xavier School of Management, India; MSc University College London), DPhil Computer ScienceJessica Penberthy (BSc University of Stellenbosch, South Africa), MBAAvril Perry (BA Fordham University, USA; MSc London School of Oriental & African Studies), MBAFrancesca Perry (BA St Anne’s College, Oxford), MSt Music (Musicology)Sean Peters (BA Simon Fraser University, Canada), MBACarey Pike (BSc University of Cape Town, South Africa), MSc (C) PharmacologyNaomi Poltier (BA University of Exeter), MSt Creative Writing (part-time)Angelos Prastitis (BA National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece), MSc (C) Computer ScienceFeng Qi (BEng Jiangsu University, China; MSc Beijing University, China), DPhil Clinical NeurosciencesPrakash Ranjan (BA, MEng Madras Institute of Technology, India), MBASachhyam Regmi (BA Moravian College, USA), MBAMiguel Renteria Rodriguez (BSc Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico; PhD University of Queensland, Australia), Master of Public PolicyGeorge Roberts (MSci University of Nottingham), DPhil Biomedical ImagingRosa Maria Romero (MD Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain), MSc (C) Surgical Science & Practice (part-time)Nastaran Rooeen (BA University of Brighton), PGCE EnglishRonan Royston (BEng University of Limerick, Ireland), MSc (R) Engineering ScienceMabel Rubadiri (BA United States International University Africa, Kenya), MSc (C) African StudiesSimone Rubinacci (BSc, MSc University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy), DPhil Systems BiologyYuria Saavedra Alvarez (LLB, PhD National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico; LLM University of Utrecht, Netherlands), MSc (C) Criminology & Criminal Justice

Nikhil Saigal (BA University of Delhi, India), MBASophia Saller (MMath St Catherine’s), DPhil Mathematics *Olivia Sanchez (BA, PGCE King’s College London), MSc (C) Learning & Teaching (part-time)Emily Savage (BA, BSc Chaminade University of Honolulu, USA), MSc (C) Criminology & Criminal JusticeHannah Schaller (BA Biola University, USA), MSt English (1700-1830)Natalia Schlossberg (BA Staffordshire University), MSt History of Design (part-time)Carina Schwarz (LLB, MA Buceris Law School, Germany), MJurisSanvit Shah (BEng Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, India), MSc (C) Contemporary IndiaAnkita Shanker (LLB University of Reading), BCLJay Shiao (BSc Northwestern University, USA; MD, MPH University of Texas, USA), MSc (C) Radiation BiologyYosef Singer (BEng, BSc University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa; MSc St Catherine’s), DPhil Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics *Preman Singh (MB BS Vellore Christian Medical College, India; MSc Universite Laval, Canada), MSc (C) Experimental Therapeutics (part-time)Clare Smedley (BA St Catherine’s), 2nd BM *David Smith (BSc University of Portsmouth), DPhil Clinical MedicineYang Song (BA Mount Holyoke College, USA), MSc (C) Latin American StudiesMaria Springer (BA University of California Los Angeles, USA), MBAEliana Tacconi (BA St John’s College, Oxford), 1st BM (Graduate Entry)Michael Tai (BA St Catherine’s), 2nd BM *Eastina Yiting Tan (BA University of York), Master of Public PolicyFergus Taylor (BA University College London; MSt Regent’s Park College, Oxford), MSt Literature & Arts (part-time)Isaac Thimbleby (BSc Newcastle University; MRes Swansea University), DPhil PsychiatryIva Trenevska (BSc, MSc University College London), DPhil Medical SciencesErica Tso (BA Smith College, USA; MSc St Cross College, Oxford), MSt History of Design (part-time)Liwen Tu (BA Nanjing University, China; MPhil Wolfson College, Oxford), DPhil Oriental StudiesLuke Turner (BA St Catherine’s), 2nd BM *Nora Turoman (BSc Cardiff Metropolitan University East Asia Institute of Management, Singapore), MSc (C) Psychological ResearchAbigail Tyer (MBiochem Exeter College, Oxford), 1st BM (Graduate Entry)Mikesh Udani (MSc Indian Institute of Technology, India), MSc (C) Computer Science

G A Z E T T E

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Victor van Dooren (BSc Amsterdam University College, Netherlands), MSc (C) Biodiversity, Conservation & ManagementRegina Vathi (BA, MSc Epoka University, Albania), MSc (C) Sustainable Urban Development (part-time)Irene Veng (BA Royal Holloway, University of London), MSc (C) Contemporary Chinese StudiesCara Volpe (BA University of Virginia, USA), MBAJingjing Wang (BA, LLB University of Auckland, New Zealand; MSc St Catherine’s), Master of Public Policy *Yixin Wang (BSc George Washington University, USA), MSc (C) Financial EconomicsFrances Watson (BA The Queen’s College, Oxford; MA Oxford Brookes University), DPhil MusicJoseph Watson (BMus, MA King’s College London), MSt History of Design (part-time)Daniel White (BSc Liverpool John Moores University; PGCE Aston University), MSc (C) Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (part-time)

Ke Xu (BEng Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; MSc London School of Economics and Political Science), MSc (C) Mathematical Finance (part-time)Zhaoli Xu (BSc Wuhan University of Technology, China; MSc University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), MBAAssma Youssef (BA University of Birmingham), MSt Women’s StudiesFeifan Yu (BSc Imperial College London), MSc (C) Applied StatisticsJake Yudelowitz (BSc Imperial College London), MSc (C) Mathematical Modelling & Scientific ComputingVasilios Zafeiris (BSc University of Piraeus, Greece), Executive MBA (part-time)Soumia Zeghida (Institut Nationale de Sciences Appliquees de Lyon, France), Visiting Graduate Student in BiochemistryPaige Zelinsky (BA New York University, USA), MSc (C) Sustainable Urban Development (part-time)Qiankai Zhao (BSc University of Warwick), MSc (C) Applied Statistics

Florian Zobel (BSc Universitat Salzburg, Austria), MSc (R) Biochemistry* indicates graduate of the College

Admitted to the Fellowship

Kallol Gupta as a Junior Research Fellow in ChemistryVictor Prisacariu as a Junior Research Fellow in Engineering ScienceMark Senn as a Junior Research Fellow in ChemistryEwa Kociszewska as a Junior Research Fellow in Modern LanguagesAmmara Maqsood as a Junior Research Fellowship in AnthropologyShimon Whiteson as a Tutorial Fellow in Computer ScienceAmanda Power as the Sullivan Tutorial Fellow in HistoryJessica Goodman as a Tutorial Fellow in French

Andrew J Dickinson, BCL, MA

Tutor in Law

Professor of Law

Ian P J Shipsey, (BSc Lond,

PhD Edin)

Professor of Experimental

Physics

Philip H S Torr, DPhil (BSc

S’ton)


Engineering Science


Science

Sumi Biswas, DPhil (BSc, MSc

Bangalore, MSc Lond)

Junior Research Fellow in

Medical Sciences

Fiona R McConnell (BA

Camb, MA, PhD Lond)

Tutor in Geography

Associate Professor in Human

Geography

Laura Tunbridge, BA (MA

Nott, PhD Princeton)

Tutor in Music

Henfrey Fellow

Associate Professor in Music

Salvador Mascarenhas (Lic

Lisbon, MSc Amsterdam, PhD

New York)


Philosophy

Anna Christina de Ozório

(Kia) Nobre, MA (BA Williams

College, MS, MPhil, PhD

Yale), FBA

Professor of Translational

Cognitive Neuroscience

Kallol Gupta (BSc, MSc

Presidency Calcutta, PhD

Indian Institute of Science)


Chemistry

Victor A Prisacariu, DPhil

(BSc TU Iasi)


Engineering Science

Mark S Senn (MChem Durh,

PhD Edin)


Chemistry

Ewa M Kociszewska (MA,

PhD Warsaw)


Modern

Languages

Ammara Maqsood, MPhil,

DPhil (BSc LUMS Lahore)


Anthropology

Shimon A Whiteson, MA (BA

Rice, PhD UT Austin)

Tutor in Computer Science


Computer Science

Amanda Power, MA (BA

Sydney, PhD Camb)

Tutor in History

Sullivan Fellow

Sullivan Clarendon Associate

Professor in History

Jessica M Goodman, MA,

MSt, DPhil

Tutor in French

Associate Professor in French

HONORARY FELLOWS

Professor Sir Brian E F

Fender, Kt, CMG, MA (BSc,

PhD Lond)

Ruth Wolfson, Lady Wolfson

Professor Sir James L

Gowans, Kt, CBE, MA, DPhil,

FRCP, FRS

Sir Cameron A Mackintosh,

Kt

Sir Michael F Atiyah, OM,

Kt, MA (PhD Camb), FRS, FRSE

John Birt, The Rt Hon Lord

Birt of Liverpool, MA

Tom Phillips, CBE, MA,

RA, RE

Professor Sir Geoffrey

Allen, Kt (BSc, PhD Leeds),

FRS, FREng, FRSC, FInstP,

FIMMM

Professor Sir (Eric) Brian

Smith, Kt, MA, DSc (BSc, PhD

Liv), FRSC, CChem

Tan Sri Dato’ Seri A P

Arumugam, AP, CEng, FIEE,

FRAeS, FIMarEST, FinstD, PSM,

SSAP, SIMP, DSAP, DIMP

Peter Mandelson, The Rt

Hon Lord Mandelson of Foy &

Hartlepool, MA

Sir John E Walker, Kt, MA,

DPhil, FRS

Professor Noam Chomsky

(PhD Penn)

Nicholas H Stern, The Rt

Hon Lord Stern of Brentford,

DPhil (BA Camb), FBA

Raymond Plant, The Rt Hon

Lord Plant of Highfield, MA

(BA Lond, PhD Hull)

Professor David J Daniell,

MA (BA, MA Tübingen, PhD

Lond)

Professor Nicanor Parra

(Lic Chile)

Masaki Orita (LLB Tokyo)

Professor Joseph E Stiglitz

(PhD MIT), FBA

Sir Peter M Williams, Kt,

CBE, MA (PhD Camb), FREng,

FRS

Sir (Maurice) Victor Blank,

Kt, MA

Professor (Anthony) David

Yates, MA

Professor Ahmed Zewail

(BS, MS Alexandria, PhD

Penn)

Michael Billington, OBE, BA

Professor C N Ramachandra

Rao, MSc Banaras, PhD

Purdue, DSc Mysore, FRS

Professor Richard J

Carwardine, MA, DPhil, FBA

Mark H Getty, BA

Simon B A Winchester, OBE,

MA, FRGS, FGS

Professor Christopher P H

Brown, MA, Dipl (PhD Lond)

Professor John B

Goodenough, MA (PhD

Chicago)

Giles B Keating, MA

Peter W Galbraith, MA (AB

Harvard, JD Georgetown)

Professor Nigel J Hitchin,

MA, DPhil, FRS

Professor Graeme B Segal,

MA, DPhil (BSc Sydney), FRS

Vee Meng Shaw, BA (DLitt

Singapore)

Anthony W Henfrey, MA

DPhil

EMERITUS FELLOWS

Ernest L French, FHCIMA

Professor Donald H Perkins,

CBE, MA (PhD Lond), FRS

John W Martin, MA, DPhil

(MA, PhD, ScD Camb)

J Derek Davies, BCL, MA (LLB

Wales)

Professor Peter G M

Dickson, MA, DPhil, DLitt,

FBA

Bruce R Tolley, MA, DPhil

(MA Victoria Wellington)

Barrie E Juniper, MA, DPhil,

Secretary for Alumni

Henry C Bennet-Clark, MA

(BA Lond, PhD Camb)

Professor Daniel W Howe,

MA (PhD California)

Stephen J Sondheim (BA

Williams)

Sir Ian McKellen, Kt (BA

Camb)

Sir Alan Ayckbourn, Kt, CBE

Michael V Codron, CBE, MA

Sir Peter L Shaffer, Kt, CBE

(BA Camb), FRSL

Sir Richard C H Eyre, Kt, CBE

(BA Camb)

Thelma M B Holt, CBE

Dame Diana Rigg, DBE

Nicholas R Hytner (MA

Camb)

Stephen D Daldry (BA Sheff)

Professor Malcolm L H

Green, MA (PhD Lond), FRS

Sir Timothy M B Rice, Kt

Professor Gilliane C Sills,

MA (PhD Lond)

Patrick Marber, BA

Phyllida Lloyd, BA Birm

Professor G Ceri K Peach,

MA, DPhil

G Bruce Henning, MA (BA

Toronto, PhD Penn)

Professor Jose F Harris, MA

(PhD Camb), FBA

Sir Patrick H Stewart,

Kt, OBE

Michael Frayn, CLit, BA

Camb

Professor John R Ockendon,

MA, DPhil, FRS

Revd Colin P Thompson,

MA, DPhil

Sir Trevor R Nunn, Kt, CBE

(BA Camb)

Meera Syal, CBE (BA Manc)

Professor Sudhir Anand,

BPhil, MA, DPhil

Sir J Michael Boyd, MA Edin

Professor Peter R Franklin,

MA (BA, DPhil York)

Gordon Gancz, BM BCh, MA

Professor Richard J Parish,

MA, DPhil (BA Newc), Dean

of Degrees

Professor Susan C Cooper,

MA (BA Collby Maine, PhD

California)

DOMUS FELLOWS

Sir Patrick J S Sergeant

Melvyn Bragg, The Rt Hon

Bragg of Wigton, MA

Bruce G Smith, CBE, MA,

DPhil, FREng, FIET

Keith Clark, BCL, MA

Roushan Arumugam, MA

Usha Q Arumugam, MA

Nadia Q Arumugam, MA

Simon F A Clark, MA

Marshall P Cloyd, BSc

Southern Methodist

University, MSc Stanford,

MBA Harvard

Søren H S Dyssegaard (MSc

Columbia)

Surojit Ghosh, DPhil (BA

Antioch Ohio, MA Toronto)

Susan M Ghosh, MA (MBA,

City, MA, PhD Lond)

Mary J Henfrey

Y W Wilfred Wong (BSocSci

Hong Kong, MPA Harvard)

VISITING FELLOWS

*Professor Derek Attridge,

University of York, H16

Professor Catherine

Bradley, State University of

New York, M15

Professor David Peters

Corbett, University of East

Anglia, H16

*Professor Ken Dill

(Hinshelwood Lecturer),

Stony Brook University, H16

Dr Sune Haugbolle, Roskilde

University, M15

Dr Elaine Ho, National

University of Singapore, M15

Dr Megan Leitch, Cardiff

University, M15

Dr Duncan Wheeler,

University of Leeds, T16

* Christensen Fellow

RESEARCH ASSOCIATES

Roger Gundle, BM BCh, DPhil

(MA Camb), FRCS (Eng), FRCS

(Orth)

James R McBain, MPhil,

DPhil (BA Dubl)

Axel Moeller (LLB Cape

Town, MLB, Dr iur Bucerius),

Max Planck Visiting Fellow

Frank Haselbach (PhD, Dipl

TU Berlin)

Master and Fellows 2015

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