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Issue sIX of the GTC alumni magazine celebrates some important milestones: marking 50 years of Management Studies at Oxford, wishing Green Templeton Boat Club a happy fifth birthday, and looking at 200 years of weather recording at the Radcliffe Observatory. It also considers why and how the online knowledge economy is creating inequality, and discovers the hidden influences that shape the way we shop.

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Issue 6 September 2014

The GTC Magazine is published annually by Green Templeton College, Oxford.

Editor: Sue Wilson, Communications ManagerTel: +44 (0)1865 274787, email: [email protected]

Editorial Advisor: Dr David Levy Editorial Assistant: Nadine Levin

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Front cover photograph: Dr Mark Graham, GTC Research Fellow.(Photo courtesy of the BBC)Read ‘Mapping the Digital Divide’ on pages 17 & 18

6 Milestones in Management

14 Health in the hills

23 McAlpine Quad garden redesign

28 Forecasting the Future

18 Radcliffe Observatory Quarter update

4/5 FOUNDING PRINCIPLES 6/9 MILESTONES IN MANAGEMENT 10/12 AN EQUAL START IN LIFE 13/16 RACING TRADITION 17/18 MAPPING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE 19 GTC NEWS 20/21 THE YEAR IN PICTURES 22/23 GTC NEWS 24/26 TO BUY OR NOT TO BUY? 27 MURDER IN THE OBSERVATORY 28/29 FORECASTING THE FUTURE 30/36 SUPPORTING GTC 37/38 ALUMNI FOCUS 39 DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

17 Mapping the Digital Divide

7 Five years of Green Templeton Boat Club

10 INTERGROWTH-21st Project reports findings

24 To Buy or Not to Buy?


igher education institutions have been founded at different times and in different places for highly distinctive purposes. They have also proved remarkably adaptable, responding to new demands, threats and opportunities to remake themselves.

Oxford and Cambridge colleges helped to set the mould for the late medieval and early modern version of the self-governing academic and professional community.

Merton College, which is one of Oxford and Cambridge’s oldest colleges, celebrating the 750th anniversary of its foundation this year, was founded to secure the education of the many ‘nephews’ of Walter de Merton, Chancellor to Henry II and Edward 1, and Bishop of Rochester.

Clare College, Cambridge, where I was an undergraduate, was founded in 1326 (it is Cambridge’s second oldest College) by Lady Elizabeth de Clare, a granddaughter of Edward I, to support fifteen scholars, of whom no more than six were to be in strict holy orders. Its ‘mission’ was an early form of outreach:

‘Through their study and teaching at the University the scholars should discover and acquire the precious pearl of learning so that it does not stay hidden under a bushel but is displayed abroad to enlighten those who walk in the dark paths of ignorance.’

In contrast, Green Templeton College is not only Oxford’s newest College (founded through merger in 2008), it is also the only one with a Royal Charter written in the twenty-first century.

According to this, the objects of the College are ‘to carry out advanced study or research particularly in management studies, medical and life

sciences, social sciences and a range of other subject areas as approved by its Governing Body’ (Charter and Statutes, 1 October 2008).

GTC’s ‘founding charge’ thus represents a powerful and unique intellectual equation. It has been warmly and enthusiastically adopted by fellows, students and staff. The outcome is innovative, interdisciplinary and practical thinking that defines and seeks to solve major problems.

Higher education makes a difference. All around the world it has become an essential element in ‘strategies’ and ‘policies’ adopted by international organisations, governments, economies, and communities in their search for health, security, prosperity, cultural enrichment, and mutual respect. The type of higher education undertaken by Green Templeton College makes a special difference. Our mission is to understand and enhance human welfare in the contemporary world.

As a merged College, we also honour and respect our other ‘founding’ moments, including at our annual Foundation Dinners.

Fifty years ago (in June 1965) the Oxford Centre for Management Studies (OCMS) represented Oxford’s belated decision to join the world of business and management studies, under the leadership of Clifford Barclay, Sir Norman Chester (first Chairman of the Council) and Norman Leyland (the first Director).

Thirty-five years ago (in 1979), Cecil and Ida Green made the donation that enabled Green College to come

into being, as Oxford’s first primarily ‘medical’ College, designed and led with distinction by its founding Warden, Professor Sir Richard Doll.

Thirty years ago (in 1984) Templeton College, as OCMS had become, achieved its own charter, with the support of Sir John Templeton, as a fully-fledged postgraduate and post-experience College for business and management studies.

Also, like most Oxford institutions we cannot escape antiquity. In addition to being curators of the Radcliffe Observatory (the leading scientific observatory at the turn of the 19th century), we are responsible for the upkeep of the Cistercian Abbey wall, constructed in 1218, and now the boundary of our student residences in Rewley Abbey Court.

However, even more important than our bricks, stones and mortar are the ideas that animate our academic community. Academic institutions forget their ‘founding principles’ at their peril.

In 2008 I delivered a lecture as part of the University of Cambridge’s 800 year celebrations on ‘Foundations, funding and forgetfulness’ (published by Cambridge University Press in a collection called Beyond the Lecture Hall available to download as a pdf from the University of Cambridge website).

In this I described how, until the advent in the late 20th century of company or ‘for-profit’ universities, all university-type institutions grew in some way from the communities that originally sponsored them.

I then looked at how many such founding commitments have been modified – positively and perversely – over the ensuing years. It’s revealing, for example, to look at the charters of the British Victorian and Edwardian ‘civics’, where local and regional themes abound.

At GTC we know where we have come from, where we are today, and (with increasing confidence) where we are going. Our ‘founding principles’ remain a secure and inspiring guide.

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An 18th century engraving of the Cistercian Abbey wall at Rewley Abbey Court from the British Library archives.

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In recent years, Management Studies at Oxford has expanded rapidly: the Saïd Business School, now with a top 20 global ranking, was founded in 2001. It now runs a comprehensive executive education portfolio, with origins inherited from Templeton College and a top-class MBA programme. The Oxford Martin School, which explores global issues and futures, and the Blavatnik School of Government, which as part of its remit aims to bring wider management thinking to governance and government globally, are also contributing to Oxford’s unique approach to the discipline.

As the University embraced and developed Management Studies, Templeton College became the natural collegiate home for management scholars and students.

Following the merger with the former Green College in 2008, GTC is now a collegiate home for over 500 students and over 100 fellows, researchers and visiting practitioners, as well as a burgeoning centre for academic initiatives and a meeting place for policymakers, academics and practitioners to interact.

Making a difference in the next 50 years

So, how will the discipline of Management need to evolve over the next 50 years in order to remain relevant and to continue to make a difference to the major challenges facing the world? Certainly, it will need to be grounded in the issues faced by humanity and potentially different to the past.

Thanks to its distinctive heritage, GTC as a graduate college, is uniquely placed to help its future development. GTC’s fellows and students, based in the Business School, and the University, already work on many issues relevant to today’s wider challenges such as complexity; risk and resilience; gender and diversity; new forms of organisation and enterprise; the digital world and big data; futures and scenarios; evidence-based healthcare; governance and government and social responsibility.

The College also has a commitment to the flow of ideas across traditional disciplinary and professional boundaries,

together with expertise in medicine health and social sciences, as well as business and management, is already creating exciting new opportunities for interaction between disciplines.

This is particularly evident in the range of academic initiatives that are blossoming at GTC and which bring together academics, professionals and practitioners from all over the world to discuss major issues relating to public policy and professional practice.

Two prime examples are the Oxford Praxis Forum, which works with senior practitioners to explore how they might engage with a top research university in ways that are mutually beneficial, and the Emerging Markets

Symposium which brings together influential leaders from governments, the public and private sectors and academia to address issues critical to human welfare in emerging market countries.

GTC is also a partner in the Oxford Health Experiences Institute, which aims to become one of the major research centres dedicated to understanding the attitudes, values and experiences of people coping with illness or making decisions about their health, and to use this to make a difference; the Future of Work Programme; the Management in Medicine Programme and the Global Health Policy Programme.

Milestones in ManagementJune 2015 marks 50 years of Management studies at the University of Oxford. As Green Templeton College, with colleagues from the Saïd Business School, prepares to celebrate this important anniversary, we look back at the achievements of the last half century and look forward to the next 50 years. What challenges lie ahead for leaders and entrepreneurs and how can GTC help to meet them?

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M anagement Studies is a young discipline at Oxford, established just 50 years ago, in a University which was founded in the 12th century.

Yet, in this relatively short time, it has achieved much, undertaking world-class research and spawning generations of talented executives who have had a profound impact on global industries and economies.

This success is due in no small part to Oxford’s approach to the discipline, which is rooted in a desire to secure real world benefits from new thinking.

The College has played an entrepreneurial role in building the discipline at Oxford and continues today to be a leading player: it is the University’s pre-eminent graduate college for Management Studies, home to the largest number of Management students (122 in the academic year 2013/14) and scholars and with many fellows current faculty members at the Saïd Business School (SBS).

Today, the Business School, 12th in the Financial Times European Business School ranking 2013, is at the centre of the University’s academic study of business and enterprise.

Founding origins & the first 50 years

Rewind 50 years to 1965 and the foundation of the Oxford Centre for Management Studies (OCMS) – later Templeton College – to provide mid-career, post-experience management education and to apply Oxford teaching methods and research to Management, a subject which had not been formally studied at the University before.

The story of Management at Oxford has many origins, but the vision and perseverance of academics such as Norman Chester, Norman Leyland and Uwe Kitzinger – alongside entrepreneurs such as Clifford Barclay and Sir John Templeton – helped lead to Oxford’s achievement in building an approach to Management

Studies grounded in evidence-based scholarship. Equally important was their insistence that Oxford should embrace Management as a new discipline grounded in ‘professional practice’.

Drawing on its founders’ vision, as well as supervising management degree programmes, OCMS, then Templeton College, developed pioneering executive education programmes rooted in practice, starting with the Senior Management Development Programme, (later merged with the Advanced Management Programme), then establishing the Oxford Strategic Leadership Programme and later (jointly with HEC) Consulting and Coaching for Change, as well as specialist programmes and commissioned programmes with major organisations such as M&S, Thames Water, P&O, Standard Chartered Bank and BMW. Strong collaborative academic practitioner research partnerships also developed within subject specific research institutes.

Celebrating 50 years of Management Studies at Oxford

Save the date - Friday 5 June 2015

Come and join the debate on ‘Where Next for Management?’

On 5 June 2015 Green Templeton College, and colleagues from the Saïd Business School, are marking 50 years since the Oxford Centre for Management Studies was established. The College, with its roots in the former Templeton College, is proud of its role supporting the research and teaching of management and leadership practice that can make a positive impact on organisations and wider society.

But, as well as marking the contribution from the past, GTC is looking forward to the role it can play, with the Saïd Business School and the wider University, in making sure the study and practice of management is relevant for the challenges of the 21st century and the next 50 years.

Celebrations on Friday 5 June are likely to include:

Morning: Open HouseVisit the Saïd Business School, including the new Thatcher Business Education Centre, and hear about latest research and executive education.

Afternoon: Stimulus conference ‘Management – Where Next?Held in Oxford’s Observatory Quarter. To include the annual Barclay Lecture on ‘Management – Challenges and Responsibilities in a Changing World’ followed by panel sessions by practitioners and Oxford experts and interactive discussions. Key themes are likely to include: dealing with new global challenges; management for healthcare and human welfare; professional and leadership development, and new models and mindsets for enterprise and entrepreneurship.

Evening: Celebration reception and dinnerHosted at Egrove Park, Kennington, now the Saïd Business School’s Executive Education Centre and previously OCMS and Templeton College.

Fellows past and present, alumni, supporters and senior leaders from the private and public sectors will be sent personal invitations. Views will be sought both before and at the event on where GTC, including through its development agenda and working with the Business School, can best help future scholars and practitioners to ‘make a difference’.

To register interest or for more information, contact: [email protected] or visit the GTC website at www.gtc.ox.ac.uk/OCMS@50.

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Egrove Park, Kennington, the home of the Oxford Centre for Management Studies and later Templeton College. Now the home of the Saïd Business School’s Executive Education programme.

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GTC Emeritus Fellow Keith Ruddle, who himself combined a career in industry with one later at Oxford, is helping with the 2015 celebrations. To kick start our thinking, he asked five GTC alumni – all of whom are members of our wider fellowship – to share their views on what they gained from studying at Oxford and what they see as the challenges for the discipline over the next 50 years.

Here’s what we asked them and what they said.

What made the Oxford experience distinctive for you?

Personal impact

Ron Emerson: “I was influenced by meeting such a wide range of seriously interesting people who were generous with their time and sharing of views/ideas and, through my reading, exposure to ideas I would not have come into contact with in the ‘real’ world. I would describe the Oxford experience therefore as freedom to explore, combined with rigour around outputs: freedom did not allow sloppy thinking.”

John Hood: “Being at Oxford means being part of an international and diverse community – across many disciplines – and a freedom to pursue different interests, both in the degree study and in cultural and sporting activity.”

Michael Smets: “I had no intention of pursuing a career in academia when I first arrived at Oxford, so in terms of my personal career and life, Oxford has been most impactful.”

Hamish Stevenson: “Oxford taught me to be more of a critical and creative thinker, and gave me the confidence to set up Fast Track 18 years ago.” (Although Richard Branson commented to Hamish later that he backed him ‘despite’ his education!)

Andromache Athanasopoulou: “Being a woman initially studying and then working at Oxford, I always felt that I have been given equal opportunities to those of my male peers to grow academically. Templeton and now Green Templeton and the Business School have had a long tradition of female academics who have served as role models for myself and other female students.”

The influence of Oxford mentors and their personal touch

HS: “I still quote Dan Gowler on a regular basis to my staff and four children. Some of my favourites include: ‘I don’t want it good, I want it Monday’; ‘The meaning of management is the management of meaning’; ‘Your CV is all about reputation management’.”

MS: “In between two squash matches, Professor Tim Morris (GTC Fellow and his supervisor) sat me down on a pile of exercise mats, pulled out a draft of some of my early ideas and started working through them with me there and then. Being used to the German university system where relationships with professors are far more distant (if they exist at all), this was completely surreal, but incredibly refreshing.”

JH: “My time at OCMS gave me a chance to pursue many different conversations and to find different people in a maze of Oxford experts, all

of whom were willing to take the time to spend with me.”

MS: “From day one, you were taken seriously as a colleague by senior members, rather than as a student. You had the freedom, but still the collegial support, to explore interesting projects and make your DPhil your own. I hope I’ll honour this tradition in the ways I supervise research and instruct our students.”

The Oxford difference: management in a wider context

JH: “OCMS was great in balancing the tension between a functional skills education in business with a wider understanding of what the mature leaders – in business, public, charitable and other organisations – need to have: understanding of power, economics, their communities and organisations and society. This will be key in the future.”

AA: “Besides providing the most up-to-date knowledge on key management theories and having leading academics teaching on the programmes, I find particularly encouraging that the University has been more open to interdisciplinary research than perhaps many other leading business schools are.”

What needs to be different in the future?Better understanding of the changing context: Oxford has a role

RE: “This calls for some views on how the context will evolve. What is going on in the outside world that Oxford can contribute to? I think this is Oxford’s time in Management Studies if it wishes to grasp the opportunity.”

Andromache Athanasopoulou, Junior Research Fellow to 2014, MBA and DPhil 2007After a thesis looking at ethics and corporate responsibility, Andie has been working on a coaching book with SBS colleagues and coordinating the GTC Management in Medicine Programme. She now has a post at Harvard.

Ron Emerson, Barclay Fellow, MLitt 1997 Studied ‘organisational communications in change’ after a career as international banker with Bank of America, Nomura and Standard Chartered. Now Chair of the UK Government’s British Business Bank.

Sir John Hood, Honorary Fellow, MPhil 1978 A New Zealand engineer, Oxford’s Vice-Chancellor 2004-2009 and now senior non-exec with BG, President of the Robertson Foundation and Chair of Rhodes Trustees.

Michael Smets, Research Fellow, DPhil 2009 Originally from Germany, he is now an associate professor in organisation at the Saïd Business School after posts at the University of Alberta and Aston.

Hamish Stevenson, Associate Fellow, DPhil 1984 Studying the hype surrounding expert systems being used in financial services, his DPhil was embargoed for some years because of its commercial sensitivity. A South African who returned to Oxford with a Virgin research scholarship in entrepreneurship, he is the founder and CEO of Fast Track, the network of UK’s private businesses which publishes Top 100 League tables with The Sunday Times.


AA: We need to equip students with two very important attributes, besides technical skills and knowledge: first, they should prepare students to lead in complexity and adapt in a changing world (and the business world in particular) that is much more multicultural now than it ever has been and much more dependent on technology. Being able to adapt and lead effectively as circumstances change is key. A graduate college at Oxford with its interdisciplinary and multicultural mix of fellows and students offers students a sense of what living in a multicultural environment really is. This can help in the ‘leading in complexity’ challenge.”

We must go ‘beyond business’ to help

MS: “I hope this will be a celebration of the University, not just the School and the College, because these ‘big questions’ reach far beyond the scope of business per se. In fact, increasingly, we see captains of industry helping tackle the challenges of humanity, so the two are becoming increasingly intertwined. The more that happens, the more we need to intertwine our scholarship with what is happening around us in the University at large. And what college would be better placed to deliver that than a graduate college focused on human welfare at the intersection of business and healthcare?”

RE: “I am always concerned with the tendency to perpetuate the 20th century model of Management Studies when, with no legacy to undo, Oxford could be reinventing the whole approach.”

JH: “In future it is even more important for Oxford to give their Management

students a real understanding of the world in which we live. Oxford is best placed to do this and can do it alongside giving them the functional business disciplines more traditionally associated with an MBA. GTC, as part of the collegiate system to support that, can help maintain that balance.”

We must engage in and with the communities we study

MS: “We should remain able to explore the ‘big questions’ that connect business to the communities in which they are embedded and not limit ourselves to purely organisational or even corporate questions. But doing so should always be focused on improving the lives of those we engage.”

New mindsets and models of management

HS: “From a practical business perspective I think Oxford needs to encourage critical thinking and entrepreneurial behaviour/mindset; understand organisations as looser, stakeholder affiliations; recognise that remuneration packages and profit objectives are less relevant than they were.”

AA: “The study of Management needs to give more emphasis on ‘values’ and particularly on developing ethical leadership. The expectations and pressures from stakeholders to corporations are much more intense now than ever before, demanding ethical and responsible behaviour. Tomorrow’s leaders need to reconnect with values that have been often intentionally or unintentionally ignored. The pastoral care system at Oxford can be one additional avenue to nurture ethical leadership – after all, in the

past Oxford college advisers were also referred to as a moral tutors!”

RE: “One key development I believe is the increasing level of entrepreneurial activity that will be a component of the UK economy. Speed of change will increase and agility will be the key capability of companies and economies. This calls for new ways of thinking and the ability of organisations, institutions, and people in general to think creatively. This is at the core of Oxford’s distinctive approach to education. Rote approaches will not do. Hierarchies no longer work. The way things get done will be completely different in the ways that people interact with each other.”

GTC can act as catalyst for new thinking and ideas and provide a link to practice

RE: “At GTC there is a willingness to embrace the new and carve out a very distinctive role in the collegiate system. I suspect that, like all change, we will have to find a few change agents there who are willing to work with us and risk themselves in the process. I think, as a first step, GTC could play host and be a forum for new thinking by linking with external players to develop ideas. If it evolves there are a number of academics at SBS for whom this is fertile territory.”

MS: “We must continue to more closely integrate research into executive education to ensure that our insights actually have a tangible impact in the world of practice.”

HS: “The College needs to ensure students get good exposure to both theoretical thinkers, and a cross-section of businessman and leading entrepreneurs.”

Personal Perspectives

Were you one of our pioneers or entrepreneurs who studied Management at Oxford? We hope your experience at Oxford made a difference. We’d like to hear from you and in particular we’d like your views on how Green Templeton College, working with Saïd Business School and more widely both within and outside the University, can best support Management scholarship and professional development to meet future challenges.

Share your views by sending us an email at [email protected] or visit www.gtc.ox.ac.uk/OCMS50 and complete the online form responding to the following questions:

1. The context: Your Oxford degree or course – when, what, and what was the particular subject interest you studied?

2. The past: How did your study time at Oxford influence you most? And, in particular, what in your view was distinctive about the ‘Oxford‘ approach to research and teaching of Management?

3. The future at Oxford: What needs to be different about the study of Management at Oxford in the future? What new challenges should the profession of Management help address? How, in particular, can a graduate college such as GTC and the Business School work together and with the rest of the University to meet these future challenges?

If you would prefer to talk to someone, please contact a member of our team by telephone: +44 (0) 1865 274797. We will also be meeting alumni in the next few months to gather views and aim to report the results back at the 5 June 2015 event.

Where next for Management? Share your viewsGTC Management Alumni

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A newborn baby has his head circumference measured as part of the INTERGROWTH-21st Project.

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n a busy clinic in Brazil, a newborn baby is having his weight, length and head circumference measured.

He is taking part in the INTERGROWTH-21st Project, a landmark international study set up to study growth, health and nutrition from early pregnancy to birth, and led by the Oxford and Perinatal Health Institute (OMPHI) at Green Templeton College.

It has previously been suggested that race and ethnicity are responsible for the differences in the size of newborns around the world.

However, this new study, co-led by GTC Fellow, Professor Stephen Kennedy and Professor José Villar, confirms that babies’ growth in the womb and their size at birth, particularly their length, are strikingly similar wherever they are born – provided they are born to healthy, educated and well-nourished mothers receiving adequate medical care.

The study findings were published in July in the Lancet, Diabetes and Endocrinology, and earlier this month, international standards for newborn size for gestational age/sex and fetal growth, resulting from the study, were published in two papers in the Lancet.

At present, we are not all equal at birth. Across the world there are wide disparities in the average size of newborn babies and this has significant consequences for their future health and life chances: small for gestational age babies, who are

already undernourished at birth, often face severe short- and long- term health problems, throughout their lives.

In 2010, an estimated 32.4 million babies were born already undernourished in low- and middle-income countries. This represents 27 per cent of all live births globally and is closely associated with illness and death in infancy and childhood.

Small size at birth has an impact on adult health too, with an increased risk of diabetes, high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease. Smaller babies also result in substantial costs for health services and a significant economic burden on societies as a whole in the longer-term.

Mothers’ health more important than ethnicity

The large, multi-ethnic INTERGROWTH-21st Project – funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – involved almost 60,000 pregnancies in eight defined urban areas in Brazil, China, India, Italy, Kenya, Oman, the UK and the USA.

In fact, the scale of the project is unprecedented in this area, also involving the standardisation of clinical practice of 300 health professionals across the eight study sites, the careful monitoring of equipment and data to ensure accuracy, and a team of over 200 researchers.

The researchers carried out ultrasound scans from early pregnancy to birth to

measure babies’ bone growth in the womb, using identical methods in all countries and the same ultrasound machines provided by Philips Healthcare. They also measured the head circumference of all babies at birth, as well as their length and weight.

Overall, no more than four per cent of the total difference in fetal growth and birth size could be attributed to the differences between the eight countries in the study.

“Our findings show that fetal growth is determined more by the social, economic, nutritional and environmental conditions of the mother before and during pregnancy, rather than her ethnicity,” says Kennedy, Professor of Reproductive Medicine and Co-Director of OMPHI.

“By making sure that mothers are well-educated and nourished, by treating infection and providing adequate antenatal care, all children should enjoy the same prospects for growth and development,” adds José Villar, Professor of Perinatal Medicine and Co-Director of OMPHI.

The fact that when mothers are in good health, babies grow in the womb in very similar ways the world over is a positive message of hope for all women and their families. But there is a challenge as well.

An Equal Start in LifeIn an ideal world, every child would have an equal start in life. But there are wide disparities in the size of babies, born in different countries and populations, which has implications for their future health. It has been suggested that race and ethnicity are responsible for this difference in size, but a landmark new study shows that, if mothers are in good health, all babies can achieve the same size at birth irrespective of race or ethnicity.

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t is 6.30am on a cold January morning, and you are rowing on the Isis, the section of the River Thames that runs from Iffley Lock to Folly Bridge. The sun won’t rise for another hour, and yet you find yourself wrapped from head to toe in Lycra, willing your body to move in sync with seven other bodies through the light drizzle of rain. To any outsider, this would be crazy. But as your muscles scream and your shirt becomes soaked with sweat, you envision yourself crossing the finish line first, supporting your teammates, and with the words ‘Green Templeton’ painted across your hard-won blade.

This year, Green Templeton Boat Club (GTBC) celebrates its fifth anniversary. Founded in 2008 shortly after the merger of Green and Templeton Colleges, it is the newest of the University of Oxford Rowing Clubs. It is made up of a motley crew of medics, social scientists, and business students, who take the time out of their busy Oxford schedules to row for their college.

Similar to other college boat clubs at Oxford, its men and women row in and out of term, in rain or shine (or snow), to compete in a variety of rowing events. Typically, they train six days a week. The training is mentally and physically tough, and often takes place in the early hours of the morning. They

compete in intramural ‘bumps races’ alongside other colleges, and also in external regattas alongside Olympians and international teams.

Training and commitment like this breeds results. To date, GTBC boasts an impressive total number of 110 bumps and 15 blades, as well as impressive results at renowned events like Head of the River Regatta in London, Metropolitan Regatta at Dorney Lake, and Head of the Charles in Boston.

How, then, has such a young boat club managed to be so successful in such a short period of time?

Developing international growth standards

A key problem in starting to improve pregnancy outcomes is that, until now, there have been no international growth standards for the fetus and newborn, although such standards do exist to monitor the growth of children from 0 to 5 years of age. These were developed in 2006 by the WHO’s Multicentre Growth Reference Study (MGRS), and are now used in more than 140 countries worldwide.

At present, therefore, fetal growth and newborn size are evaluated in clinics around the world using at least 100 different charts rather than a single set of international standards.

“This is very confusing for mothers and makes no biological sense,” says Kennedy. “How can a fetus or newborn be judged small in one clinic or hospital and treated accordingly, only for the mother to go to another city or country and be told that her baby is growing normally?”

The INTERGROWTH-21st standards, describing optimal fetal growth and newborn size, reflect how babies should grow when mothers have adequate health, nutrition and socioeconomic status. The standards complement the existing WHO Child

Growth Standards, which means that, for the first time in history, there is a measure of optimal growth from early pregnancy until age five, valid for babies and children from all ethnic groups, in all countries, that everyone in the world can use.

Once introduced, it will be possible to evaluate improvements in health and nutrition using the same yardstick.

So, INTERGROWTH-21st provides evidence about the conditions required to achieve optimal growth and a toolkit for evaluation purposes.

Influencing policymakers

And by showing that significant improvements are achievable – even within one generation – there is also an important message for policy makers. Its findings will help governments identify what should be done to prevent poor growth in early life and provide benchmarks against which early growth can be measured.

Problems of maternal and child health and nutrition should concern the world at large, argues Kennedy, who delivered the opening presentation at the GTC Emerging Markets Symposium last January, the theme of which was Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition.

There are implications in terms of the way we think about public health: this is about the health and life chances of future citizens everywhere on the planet. All those who are responsible for health care will have to think about providing the best possible maternal and child health.

The challenge remains how best to reach the most vulnerable women, such as urban slum dwellers, remote and rural communities and migrant and displaced people.

The last word goes to the lead researcher, José Villar: “Don’t say that women in some parts of the world have small children because they are predestined to do so. It’s simply not true.”

As well as the lead authors from the University of Oxford, the international research team included members from Peking University in China, the Universidade Católica de Pelotas in Brazil, the Aga Khan University in Kenya, the Ministry of Health in Oman, the Università degli Studi di Torino in Italy, the University of Washington School of Medicine and the Swedish Medical Centre, Seattle in the USA, and the Ketkar Hospital in Nagpur, India.

Racing to TraditionSince its foundation just five years ago, Green Templeton Boat Club has gone from strength to strength. As the Club celebrates its fifth birthday, Nadine Levin (DPhil Anthropology, 2010), a rower in the Women’s First Eight 2010-2013, charts its success and the reasons behind it.

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Left to right: (back) Velicia Bachtiar, Zuzana Kalivodova, Melissa Pancoast, Madeline NIghtingale, Nadine Levin, Kate Roll, Oliwia Rysnik, Hanna Nykvist. (Front) Will Downey, Naomi Walker.

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The answer is not the decades of traditions and rowing experience which characterise other long-standing boat clubs and Oxford institutions. Instead, the answer is a unique combination of club atmosphere, organisation, coaching, and spirit. Together, these elements make GTBC much more than the sum of its years and experience, creating the new traditions and history of a club that is only five years old.

In the beginningFollowing its founding in 2008, GTBC had no established position in Oxford bumps races. Formerly, Green College had competed with the medical students’ club Osler House Boat Club, while Templeton College had competed as an affiliate member of Hertford College Boat Club. These clubs had a history of rowing dating back to the mid-19th century, and regularly competed in the top Divisions of Torpids and Summer Eights.

Despite the past successes of Osler House Boat Club and Hertford College Boat Club, GTBC had to start from scratch. Each boat was placed in a ‘Rowing On’ Division, meaning that they had to qualify in time trials in order to participate in Torpids and Summer Eights. The prospect of moving to the higher divisions, which would afford more prestige and competition, was daunting, and would likely take several decades.

At this time, GTBC also had limited assets and experience. It had just three boats, a mere fraction of the number usually owned by college boat clubs. Of these three boats, only one, a Stampfli men’s eight, could be used for Oxford bumps racing. The majority of GTBC’s rowers were new to the sport, lacking the experience and traditions of more established boat clubs.

According to Eduardo López, a GTC Research Fellow based at the Saïd Business School and one of the longest standing members of GTBC, the Club’s first year was a challenging one: “Nobody knew what to prioritise, or how to structure the training.”

A long spell of bad weather meant that crews did not have much time to train on the water, such that “the rowers that started had forgotten most things by the time Trinity came around.” Michael Smets, GTC Research Fellow, founding President of GTBC, reflects: “Those who did lend their support to the Club in those early days did so with so much enthusiasm that you could begin to see the great potential that subsequent generations have nurtured and begun to harvest.”

Although GTBC achieved its first bumps during Summer Eights 2009, the Club began to face the challenges associated with training on the Isis, which is prone to flooding, and offers a relatively small and crowded stretch of water during term time.

GTBC also began to face the unique challenge of being a graduate-based boat club. With many of its rowers on one-year Masters or business courses, the Club struggled to recruit and retain experienced rowers and officers to run it.

However, GTBC turned its unique community of graduate students to its advantage. Drawing on rowers who were available outside of term times, the Club began to compete in external regattas. This gave its rowers the opportunity to train around the year, and provided them with experience and competition beyond the short Oxford terms.

In 2009, GTBC competed in its first external regatta, Staines Regatta in Greater London. As López explains:

“The first set of interesting events really started to happen in the off season of that first year, when [we] decided to start going to outside events. Although those performances left a lot to be desired, they showed us a whole other world of possibilities that a totally new club like ours could aspire to.”

With increases in water time and experience, GTBC began to gain momentum. The women’s first crew achieved movement into the Fixed Divisions on the first day of Summer

Eights 2011. Similarly the men achieved movement into the Fixed Divisions on the last day of Summer Eights 2011 in spectacular fashion, with an overbump – a bump over not one but three crews – that also won them blades.

Since then, the successes have continued in both college and external regattas. In 2011, a GTBC men’s boat placed 19 out of 48 in the Men’s Club Fours category of the Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston, USA. In 2012, both men’s and women’s crews placed in the top third at the Head of the River Regattas, with the women finishing 86 out of 287, and the men finishing 116 out of 399. In 2013, a GTBC women’s crew placed 64 out of 302 at the Head of the River Regatta, while a men’s crew made it to the final of the Metropolitan Amateur Regatta, competing against powerhouses like Oxford Brookes University.

On top of a number of wins at local external regattas like Staines, Abingdon, and Oxford City, the Women’s First Eight made history by achieving an almost unheard-of ‘double overbump’ on the Friday of Summer Eights 2013, moving up a record eight places and winning blades.

What makes GTBC special

How long does it take to make a rowing tradition? What are the key elements that lead to success, and allow a boat club to weather hardship and failure?

According to López, GTBC has prospered on a mix of “training time, organisation, quality coaching, and financial backing.” The Club has had the use of Reading Rowing Club and a 15km stretch of water with very little traffic, for its weekend training. It has had the benefit of internationally-outstanding instruction from former coaches like Charlie Simpson, a Senior Lecturer at Oxford Brookes and the recipient of the 2007 Amateur Rowing Association Senior Coach Award, as well as Allan French, the Freshers’ Coach at Oxford Brookes, which is part of the British Rowing High Performance Programme.

GTBC has also been buoyed by the financial support of alumni like Kevin Burke (MSc Industrial Relations, 1990), Marc Desmidt (MPhil Management Studies, 1989) and Sean David (DPhil Pharmacology, 2002), as well as the dedication of long-standing Club members like former GTC Bursar Mike Dudley and former Green College Warden Sir John Hanson. Together, they have contributed several boats, cash donations, and years of collective wisdom and experience. Sir John believes that: “What makes our Club special is how our boats always look out for each other on the water – GTC rowers row for each other, not just with each other.”

What makes GTBC truly special, however, is the Club atmosphere and spirit that has been cultivated by its

rowers, alumni, and supporters for the first part of it history. Despite drawing from a relatively small pool of rowers, the Club has striven to develop first eights to compete in top-class events, as well as second and third eights to provide rowers with collegiate experience. It is a unique mixture of being inclusive, having fun, and promoting competition.

Ultimately, the ethos of GTBC is infectious. It has a spirit that has gained the Club much respect and recognition from other boat clubs along the Isis. According to Andrew Symington (DPhil Computer Science, 2009), President of GTBC 2010-11: “High quality rowing emerges from a good club atmosphere. If you create something that people want to be a part of, it will foster high performance.”

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n the 13th century, somewhere in Italy, the Carta Pisana – today the world’s oldest surviving navigational chart – was drawn. It depicts the Mediterranean fairly accurately and the rest of Europe a little less so, but farther flung parts of the world are not depicted at all.

Transportation and communications technologies of the time – essentially ships and books – meant the cartographers had no detailed knowledge of the Americas or East Asia and so they were not portrayed. These continents were, quite literally, not on the map.

“In the past, information and knowledge about the world was limited by geography and distance,” explains Dr Mark Graham, GTC Research Fellow.

Fast forward eight centuries and the Internet has changed that forever. We are surrounded by digital information, much of it user-generated and disseminated globally, in an instant, at the push of a button.

This complex and multi-layered online knowledge economy is hugely important: it is a key driver of global economic processes and we all access and produce information daily, using it to navigate our way through the real world.

Graham is an Associate Professor at the Oxford Internet Institute, which aims to understand and explain the complex societal implications of the

Internet and the many ways it shapes our lives on and offline.

His research on the ‘geographies’ of the Internet explores how people and places are increasingly defined by and made visible through their traditional physical locations and virtual attributes.

“These geographies shape what is and can be known and influence the ways in which information is produced and reproduced. So it matters when highly uneven geographies of information exist,” he argues.

Even in the Internet age, it’s not just 13th century navigational charts which display uneven patterns. Today, complex maps of digital information form an invisible cloud above our physical world, describing its places and people. But closer analysis shows that these digital maps are skewed: some places are covered much more densely with information than others.

Almost all mediums of communication in the early 21st century – including traditional books and newspapers – are characterised by geographic inequalities, with the Global North producing, consuming and controlling much of the world’s codified knowledge and the Global South largely left out.

Graham points to academic publishing as a prime example of

this. The US and the UK publish more indexed journals than the rest of the world combined, according to statistics gleaned from the Thomson Reuters’ Web of Knowledge Journal Citations Reports (JCR) database, which includes some 9500 leading international journals.

Western Europe also scores highly, but most of the rest of the world scarcely shows up in these rankings. The Global South is not only under-represented but also scores poorly on average citation score measures.

The inequality in the geography of the production of academic knowledge is starkly illustrated in a cartogram (shown overleaf) which shows each country with a box sized according to the number of journals published within it.

Information technologies are no longer confined to an elite few. Approximately two billion people across the world use the Internet – that is almost one in three people who have online access – and in 2011 over five billion mobile phones were in use.

This widespread connectivity has led many to believe that technology can overcome the constraints of distance, and that everyone can access and exchange knowledge, wherever they live in the world. Technology giant IBM has recently stated that the digital divide will cease to exist in the next five years.

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Oxford College rowing is typically done in boats with eight rowers, although it can also be done in boats of four, two, and one. It is what is termed ‘sweep rowing,’ where each rower has one oar. Rowers can row on either ‘stroke side’ or ‘bow side,’ and boats are led by coxswain or ‘cox,’ who is responsible for steering, rhythm, and motivation. Coaches cycle alongside boats on the towpath, providing feedback.

Oxford College rowing centers around ‘bumps races.’ In this type of racing, boats chase after one another in a single file line, with each boat attempting to catch the boat in front without being caught by the boat behind. Bumps racing is named after the so-called ‘bump,’ which occurs when any form of contact is made, when the stern (front) of a boat completely passes the bow (back) of the boat it is chasing, or if a cox concedes. This type of race stands in contrast to ‘side by side races’ (also known as a regattas), in which boats start from a stationary position and attempt to cross the finish line first, as well as ‘head races,’ in which boats compete over a course in single file to achieve the fastest overall time.

At Oxford, there are two bumps races per year. There is Torpids, which takes place in Hilary term in late February, and Summer Eights, which takes place in Trinity term in late May. Both Torpids and Summer Eights take place over four days on a 1.8 mile course, with one race occurring per day. The racing

typically involves more than 80 men’s and women’s crews in total, with crews competing in smaller groups called ‘Divisions’.

The racing begins each day with boats lined up along the river, with a distance of one and a half boat lengths between them. At the start of the race, a cannon called the ‘starting gun’ is fired, after which crew starts to row furiously to catch one another. If a bump is made, the crews involved (or in the case of Torpids, the slower crew only) pull over to the side of the river and drop out of the race, and the two crews switch starting positions the next day. Crews start each year in the placement of the previous year, and each crew can typically advance four spaces per year. If wins or ‘bumps’ are made on four successive days, crews are awarded ‘blades,’ and members of the crew can purchase rowing oars painted with the crew colours and the names of boats they bumped.

Oxford bumps races date back to 1815, and are one of the most famous Oxford traditions. Bumps races involve the participation of an estimated one tenth of the Oxford student population. Bumps racing is inherently theatrical, with crews racing to ‘bump’ each other as fast as possible, often resulting in crashes between boats or with river banks. As a result, both Torpids and Summer Eights see the banks of the Isis covered with supporters, competitors, and tourists, with boathouses running barbeques and alumni events.

GTBC officers and coaches to date

PresidentsMichael Smets (2008/09)Lena Mass (2009/10)Andrew Symington (2010/11)Robert Hastings (2011/12)Yulia Stange (2012/13)Kareem Ayoub (2013/14)

Women’s CaptainsJackie Cheng (interim 2008) Madeline Fowler (2008-2010)Yulia Stange (2010-2012) Allison Stewart (2011/12)Naomi Walker (2012/13)Rosalind Howes, Alison Boyes and Victoria Stoll (2012-2014)

Women’s CoachesPhil Davies (2008)Leanne Hodson (2009/10)Allan French (2010-12)Michael Smets (2012)Will Downey (2012)Karl Offord (2012-14)

Men’s CaptainsPhil Davies (interim 2008)Eduardo López (2008-2010)Joseph Feyertag (2010-2012)Katie Glover (2012/13)Anna Kotova/Jamie Manuel (2013/14)

Men’s CoachesMichael Smets (2008/09, 2012-2014)Leanne Hodson (2009)Joe Sadowsky (2009)Alexander Rhodes (2009-2012)Charlie Simpson (2011-2014)

Left: A women’s crew in action at Summer Eights.

Right: The Men’s Eight celebrate at the end of Summer Eights 2010.

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“In reality, the Internet seems to be reinforcing unequal patterns of information geographies, emphasising the digital divide and amplifying the informational power of the already powerful and visible,” he continues.

Being connected to the Internet is not a determinant of digital participation and contribution to knowledge production. As an example of this, Graham cites contributions to Wikipedia, one of the world’s largest platforms of user-generated content.

Hundreds of thousands of people have contributed information to the site and hundreds of thousands of places around the world have been described. However, there is more than twice as

much content created about France than the entire continent of Africa and more written about Germany than South America and Africa combined.

There are other examples too. Graham and co-researcher Dr Matthew Zook of the University of Kentucky have analysed what content Google indexes about particular parts of the world. The results show that the Tokyo metropolitan region is more densely layered with information than the entire continent of Africa.

So, despite a rapid growth in education and Internet access for much of the world, we now seem to be witnessing a new digital division of labour in which much of the world’s knowledge work is produced in the global cores. Even amongst the two billion online, a significant proportion is left out of global networks, debates and conversations.

These digital divides can’t simply be explained away by a lack of connectivity, says Graham. Connectivity is a necessary but not a sufficient condition. But so is a broader

ecosystem of information, an educated and tech-literate population, having reliable infrastructure, not excluding half of the population (ie. women), having the Internet be trusted rather than a surveilled space, and having the critical mass for local-language tools, platforms, and communities.

How might this inequality be remedied? The first step to encouraging participation from and about parts of the world currently left out is to allow people to see what is and isn’t represented, says Graham.

Strategies to boost content may help too: Kenya has launched a strategy to boost local digital content, for example, while Wikimedia’s Arabic Catalyst Project is encouraging the creation of content in Arabic.

“We need to examine the difference that the Internet has made in bringing about potentially new information geographies,” says Graham.

“It is crucial to keep asking where visibility, voice and power reside in an increasingly networked world.”

All change in the GTC Lodge

Dave Colcutt, Green Templeton’s much-loved Lodge Manager, spent his last day overseeing business in the Porters’ Lodge on Friday 28 March, before heading off to a well-deserved retirement.

During his 12 years at GTC, Dave made the Lodge a friendly and helpful hub, boosting the reputation of GTC as a welcoming and sociable place.

He was given a good send-off by colleagues and friends who gathered to say goodbye and thank him for all hard work and was presented with a watch, a personalised GTC golfing jumper, and a photo book of his time at GTC by College Principal Professor Sir David Watson.

Dave joined the former Green College in 2000 as a porter, and (after a brief spell working in the Jesus College Lodge) in 2002 he became Head Porter.

Oxford born and bred, Dave embarked on a long and varied career in and around the city, before joining the then Rover plant at Cowley where he worked for 30 years, 20 of them as a shop steward – an experience which he says stood him in good stead when he joined the College! He was also the Vice Chairman of the Social Club for 13 years.

He retired from BMW in 2000 and less than a fortnight later saw the advert for a porter’s role at Green College. He

attended an interview and was offered the job the same day.

Dave says that he “fell in love with the place” as soon as he walked through the gate and has had that feeling ever since. “I have enjoyed coming into work every single day and will miss everyone,” said Dave.

Paying tribute, Sir David said: “Through his role in the Lodge, Dave has kept the whole College ticking over smoothly and he has done so with unflappable good humour and intense loyalty. He will be very much missed, not least by me.”

Best wishes to Dave for a long and happy retirement from all his friends at GTC.

Dave is succeeded as Lodge Manger by Steve French who joined GTC in late July from the Porters’ Lodge at St

John’s College where he worked for two years.

Steve has a background in security and worked at Birmingham Airport in the West Midlands between 2003 and 2012 before relocating to Oxford. Based in the control room for six years, he was responsible for the Airport’s emergency response to a variety of situations, from medical emergencies to aircraft crashes. During his time at the Airport, there were two air crashes, in 2006 and 2010.

In his spare time Steve enjoys exploring the countryside on his Suzuki VStrom adventure bike with his girlfriend, their most recent trip being a 1,200-mile expedition around Scotland and Northumberland.

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Sporting opportunities at GTC have received a major boost with the opening of the new Gym.

With GTC students making their mark in individual and team sports at both College and University level, from basketball to table tennis and squash to rowing, excellent on-site training facilities are increasingly important.

So the completion of the Gym in August and the extra opportunities it now offers has been warmly welcomed by the sports-loving College community.

Construction work began last October in part of the back gardens of College houses in Observatory Street, with a view to an opening in Spring.

Unfortunately, last winter’s exceptionally wet weather soaked the timber frame of the building and drying it out slowly and thoroughly (essential to prevent future warping and damage) was a long and painstaking process.

Now open, it boasts a wide range of equipment, including six concept ergometers, a spinning bike, three team bikes, a stationary bike, two treadmills, two cross trainers, and a variety of free weights, gym balls and mats.

The finished building (21.39 meters by 7.98 meters with a gross internal area of 171 square meters in total) is large enough to allow the key equipment to be set up on a semi-permanent basis whilst leaving a flexible space for other activities such as weights,

yoga, circuits, dance and other sport. The £100,000 building also includes a foyer with lockers, benches and store rooms for equipment.

During 2012, the GCR raised £25,000 towards the costs of the building through a variety of fundraising events and initiatives, including barbecues, a music festival, a sports banquet, donations and a promises auction, all of which involved a large proportion of students, fellows and staff.

“We are very excited about the completion of the new Gym,” said Bastian Betthaeuser (DPhil Social Policy) who is co-chair of the multi-purpose building student committee.

“It will provide students, staff and fellows with a high-quality sporting facility on College grounds and greatly enhance the experience of being part of the GTC community. We are particularly proud of the significant contribution that students have made to the realisation of this project, from initiating it to raising funds, providing input for the planning of the building and sourcing the sports equipment. We are very grateful for the tireless work of the GTC staff in making this vision of a high quality gym on College grounds a reality.”

Plans for a formal opening ceremony later in the year are currently being put in place.


Head Gardener Michael Pirie recounts the inspiration behind the landscaping redesign of the McAlpine Quad this summer.

The remodelling of the McAlpine Quadrangle this year may be said to have originated on 25 September 2010 at 4pm when I conducted a garden tour at the GTC Alumni Reunion to which Professor Sir David and Lady Watson attached themselves, shortly before his official duties as Principal of Green Templeton College began.

Going into the McAlpine Quad I made the remark that I regarded it as a secondary area compared to the Lankester Quadrangle from its variety of unsympathetic surface materials and path widths. I didn’t stop to think that I was effectively condemning the Principal’s office in Observer’s House to the same status.

When alterations to the Walton Building for the Advanced Studies Centre (ASC) were in progress, I thought how the garden aspect might be improved so I volunteered before-and-after plans to the College to show how the large expanse of tarmac drive with accompanying narrow gravel paths could be unified by alterations to the shape of the lawn and the use of resin-bound gravel as a single surface material over the whole area.

In February 2013 the area at the end of the Walton Building was occupied as a builders’ yard and was not considered part of the scheme but a new flower

bed was already envisaged in front of Observer’s House.

The plans were accompanied by an argument in their favour, naturally enough. The initial response from the College was positive to the extent that a costing for the resurfacing was obtained from Cirencester Civil Engineering (CCE), a firm specialising in resin bound and resin bonded materials.

The question of funding and timing intervened for the ensuing 12 months but in March 2014 it was agreed to proceed straight away over the Easter break. The builders’ yard at the end of the Walton Building had now been cleared and our thoughts focussed on how to turn the area into a garden which would finally enable the McAlpine Quadrangle to be seen as a self-contained entity without the sense that it diffused into the car park.

The idea for the garden was that it should be almost an extension to the Library with seating in a calm atmosphere. There should be a narrow entrance so that a sense of enclosure was achieved. The area was rectangular and I was reminded of some formal garden designs of the 17th century when trying to find a solution. The English Gardener, or a sure guide to young planters and gardeners by Leonard Meager (1670) contained a number of designs and it was one of these which has been used in a modified form for the new garden.

The project as a whole was divided into landscaping and resurfacing

with the College’s garden contractor Jonathan Probitts handling the landscaping and CCE the resurfacing.

The original plans had been simply drawn on sheets of A4 with coloured marker pens. However, the limitations of A4 sized plans became apparent when the project manager for CCE took a look at them at the start of the work and enquired after the measurements and levels which he would be working to. The explanation that we were following the precepts of the Landscape Movement of the 18th century in deliberately doing without ruler or level in order to achieve a sense of naturalness made him realise that initiative was going to be a requirement for this job. Matt proved well up to the task.

My main concern during the work was not so much ensuring that the design came together at the point of implementation as trying to isolate different areas from pedestrians while the work proceeded. Student accommodation and the ASC had to be kept accessible at all times and the resin-bound material was vulnerable to the slightest impression until it went off. Fortunately only one small footprint was left for posterity. I hope that the disruption was short-lived compared to the long lasting benefit gained.

Finally I would like to thank the College for having the confidence in me to do this project and in particular Professor Ingrid Lunt as Vice-Principal and Garden Fellow for her full support.

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Perhaps that’s not surprising: retail sales are big business and never more so than in the lead up to the holiday season. In December 2013 total retail sales in the UK were worth £40.6 billion according to market research company Mintel, while in the United States the retail industry generated about US$3.12 trillion during the holidays in 2012 (source: Statistica).

But as well as starting earlier each year, the festive season seems to be ever more over-the-top, with retailers vying to put on the most extravagant displays of decorations and intrusive, cheesy Christmas songs playing in every store.

What many retailers seem unaware of is that this enforced festivity may actually bring out consumers’ ‘inner Scrooge’.

“Holly-jolly sales assistants, relentless music and dazzling decorations make shoppers less willing to purchase,” says GTC Associate Fellow Nancy Puccinelli, one of the world’s leading experts in consumer psychology, whose 2011 research study found that shoppers in a bad mood due to the pressures of Christmas were less likely to purchase from a store that was extremely festive.

“Shops tend to create very upbeat retail environments in the run-up to the holidays, but customers are often highly-stressed and half-depressed

with financial concerns. Ultimately, it works against the retailer.”

Instead of going over the top, Puccinelli advises stores to choose more muted decorations, play classical music instead of carols and follow the lead of US department store Macy’s, which situates its famous Santaland on upper levels, giving shoppers the chance to avoid it.

Based at the Saïd Business School where she is a Fellow in Consumer Marketing, Puccinelli researches consumers’ cognitive responses to marketing through experimental studies.

She also consults for some of the world’s leading businesses and government organisations, including large US chemist CVS, Coca-Cola, Procter & Gamble and the American Chamber of Commerce.

Her research into consumers’ responses to festive cheer shows that the psychology of shopping is sometimes counterintuitive and more complex than it first appears.

Puccinelli, who has a PhD in Psychology from Harvard, says: “Increasingly, my research shows that there are many things that consumers didn’t realise affected their judgement while shopping – and nor did marketers – but it turns out they do.”

One such influence is the colour of prices in advertisements. In a recent study co-authored by Puccinelli and published in the Journal of Retailing, men shown an advertisement with the prices written in red believed that the retailer was offering greater price savings than if prices were printed in black. They also felt more positive about making a purchase.

However, red prices had no such effect on women: in fact, they made them suspicious of what was going on.

What is at play here, says Puccinelli, is a fundamental difference in the way that men and women shop.

Men are generally less practised shoppers and more likely to be seduced by superficial product

characteristics, such as the colour of the advertised price which they see as a useful shortcut, while women think more deeply and are less likely to be persuaded by an offer.

This difference may be because men don’t think very deeply about advertisements because they’re not really interested. This conclusion is borne out by the study results: when told to pay more attention to the ads, the effect of the colour red went away and men became better shoppers.

There is a wide range of other tactics employed by retailers to persuade us to part with our hard-earned cash.

Most people are familiar with the supermarket trick of wafting baking aromas through the store to tempt us as soon as we enter and the banks of confectionery by the checkouts.

More subtle ploys include the use of music which has been shown to impact how we behave in store. Slow music encourages us to walk slowly and consequently buy more. Generally, the longer we stay in a store, the more we buy. The opposite is also true: fast-paced music means we move more quickly. This is advantageous in a restaurant context because it makes us eat faster (and more) and vacate the table more quickly. In a crowded store, slow music can also help make it feel less congested, enhancing the shopping experience.

The strategic positioning of goods in store is also important.

Supermarkets often display fresh fruit and vegetables close to the entrance. Shoppers base their judgement of the quality of the whole store on the quality of this produce, so it is one of the most expensive endeavours that a supermarket undertakes: inevitably it will be making a loss because fresh produce is expensive to buy in and perishes quickly.

Impulse buys and special offers are displayed at the end of aisles (known as ‘end caps’) because they sell better than in the aisles themselves. Shops are laid out to make sure that you pass as many end caps as possible on your way to pick up staples such as bread and milk. There is intense competition amongst manufacturers to have their

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products in that position and they happily pay a premium to supermarkets for the privilege.

Goods with the highest profit margins are generally placed on shelves at eye level following experiments that show we often only look at things level with our eyes as we cruise the aisles, which means that cheaper ‘value’ goods are placed lower down.

Does all of this matter? Absolutely, says Puccinelli. Referring back to the red prices study, she points out that male consumers are 185 per cent more likely to view a retailer as offering good prices when they are written in red compared to when prices are in black. With retailers chasing after sales in a highly competitive market where there is a one or two per cent difference in market share, large effects can be achieved by making subtle changes in the retail environment.

There are, of course, some things that retailers can’t influence, such as the weather.

This has been shown to be a major influence on consumer behaviour. When the sun comes out, it makes us happy: we buy more and think less about the choices we are making. Rain and snow hit retailers badly: both trends that have been demonstrated in the UK during the heat wave in the summer of 2013 and the very wet weather of early 2014. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported a three per cent increase in retail sales in July 2013 over the same month the previous year, because of the hot weather.

So, as consumers, how can we avoid the pitfalls of retail marketing? Puccinelli offers some techniques to help you stick to your shopping list.

First, draw up a list of things you need before you go shopping: once you get into the persuasive atmosphere of the supermarket, the list will help you to be conscious of the fact that if you’re tempted to buy an item that isn’t on your list, there is a reason that has nothing to do with your needs.

However, be prepared for your grocery bill to be higher if you shop with a list: once you’ve got everything on your list, you tend to reward yourself with impulse buys for having ticked everything off. Shopping online can be a solution, as the absence of immediate gratification reduces impulsive purchasing.

People who shop without a list, on the other hand, tend to find themselves back at home with lots of items featured in store promotions, but without the bread and milk they headed out for, although overall they spend less than people with a list.

Choose a trolley not a basket: desire for certain types of product seems to be influenced by whether you are pushing a trolley or holding a basket. Recent studies have shown that you are more likely to fill a basket with chocolate and other treats, whereas if you push a trolley you are more likely to buy staples and ‘virtuous’ items.

Finally, avoid shopping on an empty stomach: you buy more items and more sugary treats when hungry.

Today, for many people, shopping is a leisure activity and we are becoming experts at it. In that way, we are in a better position to be aware of what’s going on and make more informed choices.

Puccinelli is finding that some retailers are very progressive in wanting to understand the psychology of their customers and how they can enhance the shopping experience for them.

She cites her work with CVS in the USA whose customer base is largely female. The retailer lowered the height of shelves to make goods more accessible, even on the top level. This may seem trivial but represents a costly reduction in the number of products they can showcase in each square foot of the store.

“The idea that how people feel drives how they behave in a much more fundamental and profound way than we ever realised is important, not least because it not only affects us as consumers but also in business-to-business negotiations. How a client feels in a boardroom, for example, will drive how they behave and how they will respond to a proposal or pitch,” concludes Puccinelli.

“We are getting very good at understanding what impacts the way people feel and it’s a matter of articulating what the implications are for business, whether that’s in the consumer space or in the business-to-business space.”

Now, time to start making that Christmas shopping list.

Murder in the Radcliffe ObservatoryMore than 30 actors and crew from hit British television detective drama Lewis spent several days at GTC in May, when the College provided the backdrop for another grisly murder case for Lewis and Hathaway to crack.

Hundreds of props, including large pieces of furniture, were taken up the stone staircase of the Radcliffe Observatory to the top floor observing room which was transformed into a fictional astronomy professor’s study.

Perhaps inevitably, given the high number of murders in the ITV drama’s Oxford, the astronomy professor came to a sticky end, hit over the head with one of his own instruments.

College members watched as Robbie Lewis and James Hathaway (played by actors Kevin Whately and Laurence Fox) arrived at the Observatory to investigate the murder scene and a body in a body bag was stretchered out of the building.

Other scenes were filmed in the Rotunda, which doubled as a small planetarium, and the College gardens.

The drama – with the working title of The Lions of Nemea – is one of three new two-part stories which are due to be broadcast in Spring 2015.

This is the eighth series of the much-loved drama: the last series which

was broadcast in 2013 attracted an audience of 8 million for each episode. Originally intended to be the last series, it was re-commissioned by ITV earlier this year due to its popularity.

This isn’t the first time that the Observatory has featured in Lewis: in an episode entitled Dark Matter broadcast in 2009 as part of series four, the Observatory was also the scene of a fictional murder, when the body of a college dean, an enthusiastic amateur astronomer, was found at the foot of the stairs in suspicious circumstances.

Visit the GTC website at www.gtc.ox.ac.uk early in 2015 for an update on the broadcast dates.

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The Radcliffe Observatory was one of several European observatories, including others at Paris and Greenwich, which were built to promote astronomy and navigation.

As well as astronomical observing, various meteorological observations were made at the Radcliffe Observatory: observations of air temperature and pressure were driven by the practical need to understand astronomical refraction. This is the process by which light waves bend as they pass from the vacuum of space and into the Earth’s atmosphere. Refraction disrupted observations of the positions of celestial bodies, which could be affected by the weather conditions at the point of observation. Consequently, astronomers like Hornsby needed to understand local weather conditions in order to ensure the accuracy of their observations.

Hornsby made regular meteorological observations at the Radcliffe Met Office from 1776, and continued until his death in 1810. Meteorological observations were subsequently carried on by successive Radcliffe Observers, including Abram Robertson (1751-1826), who was responsible for the first publication of the Radcliffe Met Station records of 1816-1821, and Manuel John Johnson (1805-59), who consolidated and published the existing observations and also introduced self-recording instruments. In 1872 the Radcliffe Met Station became an official reporting station to the Met Office. At this time, its

meteorological work predated any governmental meteorological service for the country by roughly a century.

Monitoring today’s weather

Despite being over two centuries old, the Radcliffe Met Station plays an active role in modern day climate reporting and research. It provides information about historical weather trends, and also about local variations in weather in the Oxfordshire area. Maintained by the School of Geography and Environment, the Radcliffe Met Station is monitored by Ian Ashpole, a postdoctoral researcher and the official Radcliffe Meteorological Observer.

Every morning, 365 days a year, Ashpole and colleagues take readings from the various instruments at the site. The readings are primarily used by academics and the UK Met Office, where they feed into daily weather reports. They have even been used for insurance purposes to verify weather claims during accidents.

According to Ashpole, the instruments used to collect weather data are relatively simple: they include a rain gauge and barometer to collect information about rainfall and pressure. Remarkably, these instruments have changed relatively little since the 18th century, when Hornsby used a 12-inch copper funnel as a rain gauge, and a barometer that is now part of

the collection at the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford.

Recently, the Radcliffe Met Station’s records helped to show that January 2014 was the wettest January on record for 247 years and its long-term records demonstrate that such heavy rain was somewhat of an outlier in relation to 20th century records. These records, which provide a context for the historical and local climate of Southern England, are highly valuable to scientists working to understand the mechanisms and consequences of global warming. Long-running data provides unique evidence that extreme weather events, such as very wet English winters, are becoming increasingly likely in a warming world.

Using the past to see the future

Today, many weather stations exist across the UK. The Radcliffe Met Station is no longer unique in this regard, but still, it continues to inform understandings of the past and future climate. The value of the Radcliffe Met Station lies in its history and continuity: by providing a glimpse into the historical and local climate of Southern England, the station allows researchers to understand how the earth’s climate is changing in relation to natural and man-made causes.

Only by looking at historical records, which connect modern climate science with past astronomical observation, can scientists begin to understand the causes and consequences of global warming.


Forecasting the Future2015 marks 200 years since the formal recognition of the Radcliffe Observatory as a weather station, with an almost unparalleled record of daily readings, unbroken since 1815. Today, continuing daily observations are helping scientists understand how our climate is changing.

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alking around the Green Templeton grounds, admiring the tower of the Radcliffe Observatory or the planting in the gardens, you may have noticed a small patch of grass that sits cordoned off by a rickety metal fence. It sits, unassuming, in the middle of the main lawn, a hodgepodge of small instruments.

Unbeknownst to many visitors to the College, this weather station will celebrate its 200th anniversary next year in 2015.

Formally known as the Radcliffe Meteorological (Met) Station, it possesses the longest-running record of temperature and rainfall data for a single site in Britain, running

continuously from 1815. Its records, which date back to 1767, are taken in strict accordance with the UK’s national weather service Met Office standards, and yet double the length of Met Office records themselves, which only date back to 1910.

In the past few years, the Radcliffe Met Station has been an invaluable resource for showing long-term trends in England’s – and the world’s – climate. Because of the long duration of its records, it is helping scientists to show increases in extreme weather events, in particular heavy rainfall, which are likely correlated with global warming. With its roots in 18th century science, the Radcliffe Met Station is a

testament to the value of long-term records, and to the ways in which the astronomical legacy of the Radcliffe Observatory is still relevant for present day science.

The Radcliffe Met Station through time

The construction of the Radcliffe Observatory was the idea of Dr Thomas Hornsby (1733-1810) then the University of Oxford Savilian Professor of Astronomy, who is best known for his astronomical work as Radcliffe Observer (1763-1810).

Hornsby approached the Trustees of Dr John Radcliffe with a request for funds for the erection and equipping of an astronomical observatory.

Left: Dr Ian Ashpole, the Radcliffe Meteorological Observer, measures rainfall.

Right: In the past, meteorological instruments were sited on the roof of the Observatory.

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It is always a great pleasure to meet our alumni: whether they are guests at a special event, attend a reception when we are visiting another country or whether they are simply passing through Oxford and come in to Green Templeton. Everyone seems to have a story to tell about their time at GTC, or has gone on to do something incredibly interesting with their lives. Perhaps this isn’t wholly surprising given our unique heritage, our status as a graduate college and the fact our alumni body currently live and work in 117 countries worldwide!

Since taking up my post as Development Director in early November 2013, it’s been a busy year in the Development Office.

Together with our now permanent Development Assistant, Hilary Tonks, and our Alumni Relations Officer, Rachel Lindenbaum, the team has been busy organising events, running the GTC Annual Fund, and launching new initiatives for alumni.

We have hosted some fantastic events for alumni both in the UK and overseas, including an excellent wine tasting, held at Le Pont de la Tour, overlooking the Thames and – also in London – a very popular reception at the House of Lords, hosted by Lord Darzi, where we welcomed over 150 alumni and guests to a reception on the Terrace, followed by guided tours of both Houses.

Overseas, our Principal Professor Sir David Watson presided over a GTC reception at the Yale Club in New York as part of the University’s biennial North America Reunion.

Back in Oxford, the College hosted the annual Garden Party for fellows, students, staff and alumni in June, which unusually for English weather, was held on a perfect summer’s day. Finally, in May, Green Templeton Boat Club celebrated its fifth anniversary during Summer Eights at Longbridges Boathouse and also launched the Friends of GTBC.

In January we introduced a new monthly alumni e-bulletin, which at

the time of writing is circulated to just over 4,000 alumni for whom we have email addresses. Packed with news, events details and other relevant information from around GTC and the collegiate University, the feedback has been hugely positive. The bulletin also provides direct links to our LinkedIn page, which currently has over 650 members, and also the GTC Facebook fan page.

Alongside all the events and other activities, we are grateful to all of you who have supported the College either financially or with your time. We have received some generous contributions from major benefactors and legacies this year, which have allowed us to renovate parts of the College for the use of current and future students, as well as supporting graduate scholarships. In addition, many people have made regular or single donations to our Annual Fund, which goes to support student-led initiatives. There is more on fundraising news and appeal updates on pages 34 and 35.

For more information on being a member of GTC, please visit the Alumni and Friends tab of the GTC website at www.gtc.ox.ac.uk.

Ali James Development Director

Staying Connected


A candid shot of a quiet moment in the College dining room before the lunch service begins won this year’s annual GTC Photography Competition for a staff member.

‘Attention to Detail’ by Fees Administrator Debbie Tolond was chosen by the judging panel from more than 20 entries on the theme of ‘GTC at Work and at Play.’ Entrants were asked to submit photographs that capture the essence of the working and social life of the College, from academic and administrative work to sporting and social activities.

Debbie explains: “The dining room is a place to enjoy good food and great

company and is a way of catching up with colleagues and students. The attention to detail when the tables are fully laid up is what I aimed to capture with the Food and Beverage Manager Gary Strivens doing his final checks, a quiet time with the light shining through just before we all enter, creates a moment of serenity before the dining room comes to life.”

Sven Jungmann (Master of Public Policy) scooped the runner-up prize with a black and white portrait entitled ‘Anticipation’ which depicts fellow student Suha Gangopadhyay while she served at the Stables Bar.

He says: “I really love going to the bar,

especially when I have guests come over for formal dinner. It’s such a small, lively community. We’ve got a great collection of drinks and a wealth of fascinating people to talk to. This picture is taken through the door at the left entrance and it reminds me of the flush of pleasant anticipation I get every time I peek through the glass window of that door before entering.”

The College is very grateful to Common Room Member Dr Elman Poole, a retired neurologist living in Oxford and a keen amateur photographer, whose generous gift makes the competition possible.

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Development Director Ali James outlines how the generosity of donors, combined with proactive fundraising campaigns over the last year, have made possible a variety of projects at GTC, from improving facilities to supporting scholarships and student learning initiatives.

This year has seen exceptionally generous levels of support from many different sources, funding a plethora of projects and priorities – both large and small – in and around GTC.

As the GTC Magazine goes to press, we are making final preparations for the formal opening of the Grzeslo Family Room, the small ground floor dining room in the Radcliffe Observatory. Rick Grzeslo (Senior Managers Development Programme, 1993), his brother Mark, his mother Irene and his sister Theresa Kaminski have generously funded the renovation of this much-used space. A significant part of their donation will help support other aspects of the renovation of the Radcliffe Observatory and Observer’s House, including the completion of the restoration of the façade.

The first phase of the Advanced Studies Centre was formally opened in early 2014. Located in the Walton Building, the Centre includes an IT centre, a quiet study space for fellows, further study and seminar space, and the refurbished E P Abraham Lecture Theatre. Most importantly, the Centre includes a new library and two reading rooms, the main space of which is called the

Choudhrie Library in recognition of the generous benefaction to the College by the Choudhrie family, who opened the Library in February. The Choudhrie’s investment company, C&C Alpha Group Ltd, is also supporting the College’s annual Emerging Markets Symposium (EMS) for a further five years. Their benefactions to the College now exceed £2 million, for which we are enormously grateful.

We have also had major support for areas other than the fabric of the College, from generous donors and benefactors.

Kevin Burke (MSc Industrial Relations, 1990) and Marc Desmidt (MPhil Management Studies, 1989) continued their support of both the Boat Club and the Squash Club, and Mrs Joyce Weil gave an additional donation to the Doll (Weil) Medical Teaching Fund which helps to support teaching sessions for clinical medical students. In addition, we received continuing support from the JW Laing Trust for their named Fellowship.

Over the past year, GTC has been working collaboratively on a joint venture with the University’s Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine (WIMM). In honour of an outstanding contribution to medicine, the Oxford-Sir David Weatherall Graduate Scholarship has been established to support a research student in the area of molecular medicine. Each recipient is based at the WIMM for research, but is matriculated as a student at

Green Templeton. It is hoped that this graduate scholarship will be endowed in perpetuity, and we have already had generous support from various individuals and institutions associated with Sir David, as well as large contributions from the Wellcome Trust, the Wolfson Foundation, the Royal College of Physicians and various University departments. As a result, the first recipient of the scholarship, Lucas Greder, is now in post, about whom you can read more on page 38. At the time of writing, we have raised just over £410,000, but require an additional £200,000 to enable us to release matched funding to endow this scholarship. For more information, visit www.gtc.ox.ac.uk/alumni-and-friends/projects.html.

Our own GTC Scholarship Appeal continues to flourish, with just over a fifth of the £250,000 target by 2018 raised to date. In addition, the first GTC Student Leavers’ Challenge was well supported and has enabled the first GTC student-to-student scholarship to be awarded in the name of John Penny, the much-loved GTC Porter who passed away in September 2013.

We are always very honoured when people remember the College in their wills, and this year has seen some fantastic generosity in this area. We received substantial benefactions from

Supporting GTC, Making a Difference

Left: Last year’s Annual Fund helped to purchase equipment for the new Gym.

Right: The Annual Fund supported the 2014 Human Welfare Conference which brought together leading student-scholars to debate important welfare issues that have real-world ramifications.

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the estates of the late Emeritus Fellow Gerald Elliott, the late Tim Faulkner, and the late Mrs Pauline Bailey, a patient of Dr Laurence Leaver (GTC Senior Joan & Richard Doll Clinical Tutorial Fellow). These legacies are supporting the development of the McAlpine Quad landscaping and the College’s endowment. We are humbled by their thoughtfulness and trust they would approve of the positive ways in which we have invested their bequests.

Aside from major gifts and legacies, in June we held the first Green Templeton Telethon for more than two years in support of the GTC Annual Fund.

Every year, the Annual Fund supports projects and initiatives which benefit our student community. Last year’s Fund supported sports clubs, GCR activities, the purchase of equipment for the new Gym and the 2014 Human Welfare Conference.

With the help of five of our current students who were trained as callers, the Telethon took place over two weeks when we attempted to contact by phone some 1,500 GTC alumni around the world. The student callers really enjoyed talking to all the alumni they spoke to, and had some fascinating conversations with people about what they had gone on to do since leaving Templeton, Green and GTC. Not only were our alumni willing to take the time to talk to our students, but also many were happy to support the Annual Fund. By the end of the campaign, the Telethon had raised £40,000. This will be supplemented by donations from the Annual Fund mailing, which was sent to all alumni not asked to participate in the Telethon.

Annual and regular gifts, however small, are the backbone of College revenue and allow us to provide current students with grants to fund a wide variety of initiatives and activities, which would not otherwise be funded. Some of these projects go on to benefit future students too, as well as those currently studying at the College.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all those people who have supported the College either financially, or with their time, attended an event or who have taken part in another College activity.

John Penny scholarships awardedThe first recipients of the GTC student-to-student scholarships are Linda Magaña (DPhil History of Science, Medicine and Technology) and Felix van Urk (DPhil Social Intervention).

The scholarships are named in memory of former GTC Lodge Porter John Penny, who passed away suddenly in September 2013 (pictured below). John is remembered by all at GTC for his spirit of care and warmth: naming these first ever student-to-student awards in his honour is a fitting tribute to him.

The scholarships are funded by donations to the 2013 GTC Student Leavers’ Challenge Fund by GTC alumni who left the College last year. The University-wide campaign – set up to encourage students to give something back to their college when they leave – matches all donations raised from new graduands up to a maximum of £2,500. The generosity of two anonymous donors at GTC turned this into a ‘triple match’ opportunity.

The Challenge raised almost £4,500 in total, enabling the College to offer an award of £5,000 for study in academic year 2014/15.

In the end, instead of one award, the selection panel (which included student representatives) supplemented the scholarship fund and made two awards to two excellent applicants who have both contributed an enormous amount to the College during their time as students.

Felix chaired the Human Welfare Conference in 2013 and is currently the editor of the GTC online Human Welfare Journal. By coincidence, Linda was one of the small team of students who launched and led the Student Leavers’ Fund fundraising campaign last year.

“Being honoured as a recipient of this generous scholarship is immensely humbling as I think on the incredible individual in whose memory it is named. I only hope that I can continue to contribute to our vibrant College community in the same way that John did, making GTC more than an Oxford college, but a home to a diverse and thriving group of young scholars,” commented Linda.

Felix said: “It is stimulating and exciting to be part of a community of current, as well as past, members that is so supportive of its active students and the initiatives they develop. With this award, which commemorates a friend who was so exemplary of our welcoming atmosphere, the College demonstrates its commitment to its driven individuals. I am honoured to receive this scholarship and feel encouraged to keep playing an active part in the College!”

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Professor Steve Ngo

Dr Wright Nichols

Dr Arthur Nienhuis

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Mr Alfred Nyalila

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Mr John O’Loan

Professor Sir Stephen O’Rahilly

Dr Jonathan Osborn

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Dr Gordon Paterson

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Professor Sir Mark Pepys

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Dr Nigel Pickering

Dr Joanna M Pickles

Mr Martin Platts

Dr Elman Poole

Mr David Powell

Mr Ken Prior

Mr Anil Puttabuddhi

Dr Phillip Pymm

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Dr Bheeshma Rajagopalan

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Mr Roger Remington DRGGA

Mr Andrew Robinson

Professor Sarah Rowland-Jones

Dr Noémi Roy

Miss Kaijaleena Runsten

Mr Guido Russi

Mrs Anne Ryan

Miss Laura Saarikoski

Ms Catherine Sage

Mr Keith Saunders DRGGA

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Professor Murray Skeaff

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Dr Martin Steinberg

Dr Rosemary Stewart

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Mr Salim Suleman

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Dr Joanne Traeger-Synodinos

Mr Faraz Vahid Shahidi

Dr Elliott Vichinsky

Dr John Wallin

The Lord Walton Of Detchant Kt TD

Dr Gerry Warner

The Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe

Professor Sir David Watson & Lady Watson

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Dr Florian Weigand

Mrs Joyce Weil

Professor Lloyd Weinreb

Professor Andrew Wilkie

Mr Richard Wilkinson

Professors Tom Williams & Kathryn Maitland

Mr F R Williamson

Mr Bill Woodley

Professor James Worrell

Ms Ying Xu

Mr Steven Yamshon

Miss Fan Yang

The following people and foundations are honoured for their continuing generosity to the College to 31 July 2014Mr Stephen Barclay

Dr George Beiko BM BCh FRCSC

Dr Paul Brankin OBE

Mr Kevin Burke DSGGA

Professor Don Chambers

Mr Sudhir Choudhrie & the Choudhrie Family Foundation

Mr Marc Desmidt

Emeritus Professor Alan Emery FRCP & Marcia Emery

Mr Rick Grzeslo

Mr Mark Grzeslo

Ms Irene Grzeslo

Sir Douglas Hague CBE

Ms Teresa Kaminski

Dr Akinori Kawasaki MD & Kawasaki Gakuen

Mr Ian Laing CBE DL MA

Sir Bruce MacPhail

Professor Sir Andrew McMichael

Mr Alexander Patrick CBE DL

Mrs Catherine Peters

Dr Elman Poole

Professor Sir Peter Ratcliffe

Sir David Rowland

Dr Noémi Roy

Dr Rosemary Stewart

Dr Jack Templeton Jnr & the Templeton Education & Charity Trust

The Wolfson Foundation

Dr Jennie Turner BSc PhD

Professor Sir David & Lady Watson

Mrs Joyce Weil

Mr Steven Yamshon

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Exxon Mobil

Furnace TV

ITV Lewis Limited

J W Laing Trust

The Farrar Foundation

University of Oxford

The Wellcome Trust

Individuals making donations to GTC Dr Tochukwu Abadom

Dr Ibrahim Al Bakir

Drs Steve & Angie Allen

Mrs Renee Aronson

Mr Projjol Banerjea

Mr Stephen Barclay

Mr Philip Barnard DRGGA

Mr Paul Barrett CMG OBE DRGGA

Dr Sara M Barrett

Mr Adrian Basnayake

Ms Colette Belisle

Professor Edward S Benz

Professor Wendy Bickmore

Mr Iwan Biemond

Professor Alan Bittles

Professor Dr Bernd Blömbaum

Ms Ute A Bock

Professor Sir Walter Bodmer FRS

Mr Mark Boyden

Professor Michael Bracken

Dr Paul Brankin OBE & Mrs Maire Brankin

Mr B Julian Britton

Dr Christopher Bunch

Dr H Franklin Bunn

Dr Peter Burge

Mr Kevin Burke DSGGA

Professor Jeff Burley

Sir Iain Chalmers

Professor Don Chambers

Professor Vivian Chan

Dr Richard Chapman

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Dr Roshan Colah

Professor D K C Cooper

Professor Tim Cox

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Mrs Marian Custance

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Professor Dame Kay Davies CBE

Mrs Janet Dawson

Ms Florianne de Boer

Mr William De Laszlo

Mr Timothy De Swardt

Dr Maya Desai

Mr Marc Desmidt

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Professor Tom Fearn

Dr Kenneth Fleming

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Professor Bernard Forget

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Dr Richard Hall

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Ms Kimie Moriyama

Dr Philip Mosley

Donors to Green Templeton College 2013/14Donations to the College, whether small or large, make an enormous difference to the postgraduate experience here at GTC, enabling us to offer support through scholarships, as well as invest in projects such as academic initiatives and improving and developing our buildings and facilities.

The list on these pages is based on all gifts received in the last year between 1 August 2013 and 31 July 2014. We have respected the wishes of those who have asked for their gifts to remain anonymous, and thank them too. The list also acknowledges all those people whose ongoing support for the College over a number of years is greatly appreciated. We thank you all.

Please note that we have made every effort to ensure the completeness of this list: we apologise for any omissions and ask you to tell us about them.

“Enjoying a delicious meal at GTC and entering into discussions with peers and scholars engaged in cutting-edge research from different disciplines has been a truly enriching and often inspiring experience.

The GTC scholarship has made all of this possible. But beyond the financial contribution, it is being part of the community of scholars and students that make up GTC, many of whom have enriched my intellectual experience here in unexpected ways, that I will remember as the most positive impression of my first DPhil year.

Dana Landau (DPhil Politics) GTC Scholarship awardee

This year’s seventh GTC Human Welfare Conference – titled ‘Innovations in Development’ – would not have been possible without the GTC Annual Fund.

It helped us cover costs for key elements such as promotion and a properly designed programme and also enabled us to maintain features that have been introduced over the years and make the Conference increasingly popular, such as the live scribes and the Beyond Academia Panel.

We are immensely grateful to the Annual Fund and our alumni and donors for their support.Diana Koester (DPhil Politics)Chair, GTC Human Welfare Conference 2014

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Lucas Greder (DPhil Medical Sciences) is the first Oxford-Sir David Weatherall Graduate Scholar, a four-year post established jointly by the MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine and Green Templeton College. He is one of some 40 students who receive scholarship support from GTC each year to pursue their studies at Oxford. He describes how he arrived in Oxford and his experiences over the last year.

Before coming to Green Templeton College, I hadn’t experienced rowing, or black-tie dinners, or Management in Medicine seminars, or the general intellectual veracity that surrounds GTC and the University. Frankly, without the support of GTC and the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine (WIMM), I would still lack these incredible experiences.

After completing a BS in Cell Biology in 2007, I assumed a sort of double life. I was a researcher by day at the University of Minnesota’s Stem Cell Institute and a law school student at night. My intent was, and still is, to combine law and science, most likely in the field of patent law. I took this route because, having spent time in a research lab, I knew the pace could be slow and frustrating, but also very rewarding. I just wasn’t quite so sure about the slow and frustrating part.

However, with some luck and hard work, our lab’s discoveries helped move our field forward and served as the requisite motivation I needed to finally decide to pursue a childhood dream – a PhD. I completed law school in July 2013 and turned my attention back to the laboratory.

My supervisor, a native of the UK and former researcher at the University of Oxford, recommended I look at the UK for graduate schools.

As I began exploring my options, the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine immediately caught my attention. After a meeting with Director, Professor Doug Higgs, and an impromptu meeting with my future supervisor, Marella de Bruijn, I knew I wanted to be a part of the WIMM community, consisting of world-class facilities and world-class researchers.

However, before I could start at the WIMM, several hurdles stood in my way.

My status as an international student (originally from the US) made it challenging to gain admission to the University of Oxford and secure funding. Thankfully, luck played a part as this was the inaugural year for the Sir David Weatherall-Oxford Graduate Scholarship – a partnership between GTC and the WIMM.

After being awarded the Scholarship, with part funding provided by the Clarendon Fund, I began my research

in Dr de Bruijn’s lab in October 2013, leaving behind a career in patent law – at least for the time being.

Much like Professor Sir David Weatherall, my scientific interests generally revolve around gaining an understanding of human disease at the molecular level with the goal of making that knowledge applicable in the clinic. Working in the Institute and donning the Scholarship that both bear his name are truly an honour: an honour I hope to live up to in the coming years as I strive to make a contribution to field of molecular haematology.

Last year I decided to embark on what I hoped would be a life-changing experience. Between the early morning rowing sessions on the Isis, formal dinners, and research with world-class scientists, this past year has certainly exceeded all my expectations.

Without the generosity of GTC and the WIMM, none of this would be possible. It is truly an honour to be able to attend the University of Oxford with such a prestigious scholarship.

Observations of Venus in Transit at GTCFrom Minnesota to Oxford: a life-changing experience

MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine (WIMM) and Green Templeton College ScholarshipThe MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine (WIMM) and Green Templeton College are working to establish a permanent international scholarship in medical sciences in honour of Professor Sir David Weatherall. Sir David (an Honorary Fellow of GTC) founded the WIMM in 1989 and was the Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford from 1992 to 2000.

The WIMM has recently established a comprehensive, fully integrated student programme, which is open to young scientists from all corners of the world and aims to attract the very best young graduates. So far, sufficient funds have been raised to support the first scholar for four years but the aim is to establish the scholarship in perpetuity.

For more information, visit

www.gtc.ox.ac.uk.

Lucas at work in Dr de Bruijn’s lab at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine.

➔ Clockwise from top left: April and Eduardo, Erie and Tyler, Mithila Rose Jha, known as Mithi, Robyn and Charles, Sam and Karla.

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Green Templeton is a renowned meeting place with a lively academic and social calendar – but some College members are meeting their life partners here too. GTC alumna Jojo Scoble (Zoology, 2008) looks at romance at GTC.

Some of you may be aware of the love stories which have flourished at GTC since its foundation in October 2008.

One might say that the marriage of two very different colleges had some unusual influence on its members. Astronomers with a romantic side could argue that the coupled Transits of Venus in 2008 and 2012 played a part.

The Radcliffe Observatory was built 245 years ago, initiated by astronomer Dr Thomas Hornsby who observed the first of the 18th century’s transits of Venus at Shirburn Castle. Transits occur in a pattern that repeats every 243 years, with pairs of transits eight years apart separated by long gaps of 121.5 and 105.5 years. The need for ‘a large and proper observatory’ was heightened by the transits of 1761 and 1769.

Now six years old, GTC has already seen many declarations of love and commitment proclaimed between its members, with proposals in the Tower and wedding celebrations in the gardens, and there have been four marriages (at least that I am aware of ) since 2008. That year, Erie Roberts, from Wisconsin, USA, an MSc Education student met Tyler Lane from Connecticut, USA, an MSc student continuing to study a DPhil in Evidence-Based Social Intervention.

In July 2011 they were married in Oxford Town Hall with a reception at the College.

Research Fellow and Physicist Eduardo López met staff member Academic Registrar April Robson, a Physics alumna of St Hugh’s College, at a College lunch in 2008. They were married in the Church of St Aloysius on Woodstock Road in the spring of 2012 and also held their wedding breakfast and reception at the College.

The third couple in this GTC history of romance were my two house-mates on St Margaret’s Road in 2008: Harsh Kumar Jha and Rebecca Tuck were both taking MSc courses, one in Management Research and the other in Forced Migration.

After exams, Rebecca moved back to her London family home and Harsh rented a flat so they could stay together. When Harsh moved out to California to start a PhD, Rebecca went too. They married in December 2013 in Jaipur, India, where Harsh and Rebecca’s families celebrated together.

The fourth GTC couple to marry were Charles Laurie and Robyn Cox, a Zimbabwean and a South African who started dating at the end of 2009. When they weren’t challenging each other on

the squash court, they were working on their DPhil and MSc: Charles in Sociology and Robyn in Evidence-Based Social Intervention. They married in Magdalen College Chapel in September 2013.

The impetus for this article was provided by the birth of Harsh and Rebecca’s baby girl, Mithi, who was born on 5 November 2013 in California – perhaps the first GTC baby!

Since then, another GTC couple have married. Brit Sam Franzen (DPhil Clinical Medicine) proposed to Mexican doctor Karla Lam (DPhil Clinical Medicine, 2008) on New Year’s Eve 2013. They had a civil wedding in the UK last July and will also celebrate their wedding in Mexico in January 2015.

I would like to think that the 2012 Transit of Venus is working some of its magic and that the Tower of the Winds will observe more ‘transitions of Venus’ between GTC members for many years to come.

If you know of any other GTC love matches, please let us know: [email protected].

Thursday 11 December 2014

Varsity Rugby Match at Twickenham

The pinnacle of amateur and student rugby in the 133rd clash between Oxford and Cambridge. Oxford, after four wins in a row, have the momentum – can the Dark Blues do it again? This year’s match is dedicated to the 55 Blues who died in World War One.

Kick-off is at 2.30pm. Tickets are available to buy online from the Varsity Match website: www.thevarsitymatch.com.

February 2015

Alumni Drinks in London

Full details of this event will be confirmed shortly: please check the GTC website at www.gtc.ox.ac.uk.

Saturday 14 March 2015

Medics’ Day at Green Templeton College


Saturday 11 April 2015

The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race

Sponsored by BNY Mellon, 2015 sees the 161st clash between the two crews along a challenging course along the River Thames. Race starts at 6pm.

Friday 24 April 2015

Alumni Dinner in Vienna

As part of the Meeting of Minds Oxford Alumni Weekend in Vienna on 24-26 April, GTC will be hosting a reception and dinner with St Antony’s, St Cross, Kellogg and Wolfson Colleges at the Palais Daun-Kinsky in Vienna, with a lecture by Professor Rana Mitter of the University of Oxford Faculty of Oriental Studies. Full details and ticket price to be confirmed. Please save the date.

Thursday 6 November 2014

McGovern Lecture 2014: John P McGovern and his Oxford Connection - A Biographer’s Perspective

Please join us for GTC’s annual Lecture in the history of medicine at 6pm in the E P Abraham Lecture Theatre, GTC. The speaker is Dr Bryant Boutwell, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

All welcome.

Wednesday 12 November 2014

Barclay Lecture 2014: New Patterns of Innovation

Presented by Professor David Gann, Vice-President and Chair in Innovation and Technology Management, Imperial College, London.

Join us at 6pm in the E P Abraham Lecture Theatre, GTC. Registration is essential: contact email [email protected]

The Barclay Lecture is generously supported by the Barclay family in memory of Clifford and Evelyne Barclay.

Friday 14 November 2014

London Drinks Reception including a Private Tour of the V&A Museum

A private tour of the European Galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, followed by a drinks reception.

The tour will commence at 6.30pm and last for an hour. After the tour we will be hosting a drinks reception (location to be confirmed).

For more information please email: [email protected].

The online booking page will be available soon.

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Dates for your Diary 2014 – 2015We have a range of benefits on offer to our alumni, and we are hoping to increase these in the coming year. Currently benefits include a programme of special events, dining and accommodation options, and free subscription to GTC publications, all of which are outlined below.

Alumni events GTC hosts a wide variety of regular alumni events around the world. In particular, we host a reunion event at the College every September for alumni to coincide with the University’s Meeting Minds Reunion. We offer a tour of the garden and the Radcliffe Observatory Tower, afternoon tea and a dinner in the evening. We also organise a couple of events in London each year. For a list of forthcoming events, please see the listing opposite, read our monthly e-bulletin, or go to www.gtc.ox.ac.uk/AlumniEvents.

Visiting the College, dining and accommodationAs an alumnus/na of Green Templeton, you are of course welcome to visit the College at any time. Do let us know if you plan to be in Oxford, as you are entitled to dine in College once a term and may bring a guest. To book for dinner, please email the Conference and Events Manager at [email protected]. Dinner is charged at £24.80 for alumni and £37.25 for your guest; there is an additional charge of £7 per person for wine.

You may also book in for lunch at a small charge, by contacting the Porters’ Lodge directly at: [email protected] or telephone +44 (0) 1865 274770 and letting them know your matriculation year. For more information on dining at GTC, please visit www.gtc.ox.ac.uk/college-life/facilities/meals.html.

We also have a guest accommodation available for your use. This can be booked through Nick Martin in the Accommodation Office: [email protected] or telephone +44 (0) 1865 274795. Depending on the time of year, it may also be possible to book additional rooms.

General College facilitiesIf you wish to use other College facilities, please contact Rachel Lindenbaum directly at [email protected].

Update your detailsTo make sure you are able to enjoy the benefits that being an alumnus/na brings, we rely on you to help us to keep your details up-to-date. The more current our records are, the more easily we are able to send you invitations and other information. In addition, we want to hear from you too! Please do share news with us for College publications. Visit the website: www.gtc.ox.ac.uk/alumni-and-friends/update-your-details.html. You can also contact us directly by email at [email protected] or by telephone +44 (0) 1865 284556 and we will be happy to update your record.

University of Oxford alumni benefits and cardAs an alumnus/na of GTC, you are also part of the University and entitled to a range of offers and discounts on travel, books, magazines and learning resources and, when visiting Oxford, discounts on attractions and restaurants, as well as reduced entry fee or free access into parts of the University.

You may also access electronic journals via the JSTOR database, as well as the Bodleian Library. For more information visit www.alumni.ox.ac.uk.

To book for events and take advantage of the range of benefits and services available to Oxford alumni, you will need to register for an account on the Oxford Alumni website, using your alumni number.

Your alumni number will be on most of the letters and emails you receive from the University, including Oxford Today, as well as on your University Alumni Card. Most of the time you won’t need your Alumni Card but if you would like one, you can complete an online form, as well as request your alumni number: www.alumniweb.ox.ac.uk. If you are planning a visit to Oxford in the near future and are not sure if you will receive your Alumni Card in time, email [email protected] for a temporary Alumni Card.

Please note that alumni cards and alumni numbers are only available from the University. The GTC Development Office cannot issue either.

Keeping in touchIf you are visiting Oxford, the Development Office is located on the first floor of Fellowship House and we always welcome a visit.

Ali James, Development Director +44 (0)1865 274777 [email protected]

Rachel Lindenbaum, Alumni Relations Officer +44 (0)1865 284556 [email protected]

Hilary Tonks, Development Assistant +44 (0)1865 274797 [email protected]

Development Office Green Templeton College 43 Woodstock Road Oxford OX2 6HG

You can stay connected with College news and events through the GTC groups on LinkedIn and Facebook.

Visit our Facebook page at: www.facebook.com/

greentempletonoxford Join the GTC LinkedIn group by going to:

www.linkedin.com and search for Green Templeton College.

Green Templeton Alumni BenefitsFriday 5 June 2015

OCMS@50 Celebrations

GTC is organising a programme of special events to mark 50 years of the foundation of the Oxford Centre for Management Studies, later Templeton College.

Please see page 7 of this magazine for more details or visit www.gtc.ox.ac.uk/OCMS50.


Saturday 20 June 2015

Summer Garden Party at Green Templeton College

Enjoy the beautiful gardens, music, entertainers and afternoon tea. Check the GTC website for more details nearer the time.

Saturday 19 September 2015

Alumni Reunion at Green Templeton College

Please join us for the annual gathering of GTC alumni and friends at the College during the University of Oxford alumni weekend. There will be a special programme of events and activities, followed by a drinks reception and dinner in the Radcliffe Observatory.

Contact us

For more information about these events, please contact:

Rachel Lindenbaum, Alumni Relations Co-ordinatorEmail: [email protected]: +44 (0)1865 284556

Or visit www.gtc.ox.ac.uk/AlumniEvents

Please note that all dates and details are correct at the time of going to press but may be subject to change. Please check the Green Templeton website www.gtc.ox.ac.uk for the latest information.

www.gtc.ox.ac.uk

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