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Professor Stephen Blundell Professorial Fellow and Tutor in Physics

Stephen has published a number of research papers this year, including ‘Information and Decoherence in a Muon-Fluorine Coupled System’, which was selected as an editors’ highlight. He is currently working on an edited book, ‘Introduction to muon spectroscopy’, which will be published by OUP in 2021. Stephen was awarded the 2020 Yamazaki Prize by the International Society of Muon Spectroscopy. This prize is awarded once every three years to a scientist whose work has a long-term impact on muon spectroscopy’s scientific and technical applications.

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Recent publications: Information and Decoherence in a Muon-Fluorine Coupled System’, JM Wilkinson and SJ Blundell, in Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 087201 (2020).

Dr Andrei Constantin Stipendiary Lecturer in Physics

Andrei is one of the first nine Stephen Hawking Fellows in Theoretical Physics announced in March 2020. The Fellowship will support Andrei’s work in String Theory, including a new mathematical approach to the quest of connecting String Theory to the physics of elementary particles.

Kate Clanchy MBE Writer in Residence

We hope you will join us in warmly welcoming Mansfield’s new ‘Writer in Residence’, Kate Clanchy MBE. Throughout Michaelmas term Kate has been holding weekly nonconformist writing workshops with Mansfield staff and students.

Recent publications: Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me (Picador, 2019). ISBN 978-1-5098-4029-8.

How to Grow Your Own Poem (Pan Macmillan, 2020). ISBN 9781529024708.

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Professor Pavlos Eleftheriadis Tutorial Fellow in Law

Pavlos’s latest book, A Union of Peoples, was published in April 2020. In this new work, Pavlos presents an original argument about the legal and political nature of the

Recent publications: A Union of Peoples (Oxford University Press, 2020). ISBN 9780198854173.

The Revd Sarah Farrow Chaplain

This year we welcomed Mansfield’s new Chaplain, the Revd Sarah Farrow, to College.

Sarah is originally from New York and New Jersey but has lived in London with her family for over 15 years. In 2016 she was ordained into the Lutheran Church in Great Britain and is an Assistant Minister at St Anne’s Lutheran Church in London. Sarah is also Lutheran Chaplain at King’s College, London, and the Chaplain at the International Lutheran Student Centre.

She holds an MA in Theology (St Augustine’s) and an MSc in Theory & History of International Relations (LSE). Prior to ordination, Sarah worked for over 12 years with Boston University’s London Programs, managing its academic programmes and providing academic advice to students.

Dr Paul Flather Supernumerary Fellow

Paul is President of The Forum for Philosophy, based at the LSE, which promotes public discussion led by philosophers. He has just completed 20 years as Chair of the Noon Educational Foundation, which has supported more than 200 leading Pakistani scholars at Oxbridge. He has also joined the board of an ecological film festival, and continues his work as Chair of the Oxford Adam von Trott Memorial Committee, based at our College.

Paul has spoken at a number of international events including Difficult Dialogues in Goa, plus talks on supporting dissidents in the former central Europe, for which he recently won a Czech Government medal. He has written for The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs and is currently co-editing a book on the law in India.

Henry (Nick) Green Front of House Manager

Nick has written a new novel, The Nightwatchman. When John’s wife Peggy and dog Arthur are kidnapped by a mysterious Greek, John is forced to reveal his secret past-life as a spy. John just wants to watch the cricket, but now he must come out of retirement and race against time to free his family.

The Nightwatchman is an action-packed thriller taking us from Gloucestershire to Greece, full of intrigue, murder, deception and even romance. Bashed out in six weeks during lockdown it is in honour of three big birthdays that weren’t celebrated this year due to the global pandemic.

Recent publications: The Nightwatchman (2020). ISBN 9798664034677. Ebook: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08C1MLX7B

Dr Joe Goodwin Junior Research Fellow in Physics

Joe and his colleagues in the Ion Trap Quantum Computing group recently demonstrated a means of producing a faster and more reliable quantum link between separate ion trap quantum computers.

By interfering single photons emitted by ion qubits at each node of the network, the qubits can be entangled with one another without ever coming into contact, al-lowing a large quantum computer to be built from networks of smaller devices.

Recent publications: High-Rate, High-Fidelity Entanglement of Qubits Across an Elementary Quantum Network’, LJ Stephen-son, DP Nadlinger, BC Nichol, S An, P Drmota, TG Ballance, K Thirumalai, JF Goodwin, DM Lucas, CJ Ballance, in Physical Review Letters, 124, 110501.

The Revd Professor Andrew Gosler Fellow in Human Sciences

Andy’s Ethno-ornithology World Atlas (EWA) project has hosted four international meetings (two at Mansfield, two in the University of Pittsburgh). It then published in the groundbreaking volume that is the major output of Creative Multilingualism (an AHRC-funded venture exploring the links between creativity and language; see https://www.creativeml.ox.ac.uk/). The conferences brought linguists, ethnobiologists and conservationists together with indigenous scholars to focus on common concerns.

After ordination in 2019, Andy was invited to lecture in Aotearoa New Zealand, where he spoke in Auckland, Wellington and Dunedin on faith, conservation and human rights. In 2020, using funds otherwise unspent due to the pandemic, EWA supported Amazonian indigenous communities to document their knowledge. The EWA Research Group based across Zoology, Anthropology and Geography now has seven graduate students (see also https:// ewatlas.net/who-we-are and https://ewatlas.net/news).

In October 2020, Andy was made a Professor, and is, we think, the world’s first Professor of Ethno-ornithology. We proudly congratulate him on this academic distinction. He also holds a joint position between the Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology (Zoology Department) and the Institute of Human Sciences (School of Anthropology & Museum Ethnography).

Dr Alex Henley Stipendiary Lecturer in Theology and Marie Curie Research Fellow

Alex left Oxford in summer 2020 for a position at the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London, heading its MA in Islamic Studies. During his three years at Mansfield he divided his time between teaching in College – on Islam and ways of thinking about religion in society – and research trips to Jordan where he investigated the new religious institutions that are redefining the place of Islam in the Middle East. In Hilary term he hosted a popular series of visiting speakers at Mansfield to discuss cutting-edge critical and decolonial approaches to ‘religion’, out of which conversations he is putting together an exciting new volume, Seeing Through ‘Religion’: A Practical Handbook of Critical Approaches. Alex can be reached at ahenley@iis.ac.uk.

Recent publications: ‘Islam as a Challenge to the Ideology of Religious Studies: The Failure of Religious Studies in the Middle East’, in Implicit Religion. Issue 3, Vol 22 (2020), 372-389.

‘Islamic Authorities and Mosques in Jordan during the Corona Crisis’, in the Bulletin of the Council for British Research in the Levant, forthcoming in 2020.

‘Religion and the Study of Religious Leadership’; and ‘Who Defines Religion in the Colony?’, in The Critical Religion Reader, ed M Barbato, C Montgomery and R Nadadur Kannan (Studio Dreamshare Press, forthcoming in 2020).

‘Mashyakhat al-‘Aql: The making of a modern Lebanese Druze institution’, in The Druze Millennium, ed A Abu-Husayn and M Rabah (American University of Beirut Press, forthcoming in 2020).

Lukas Hensel Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Development Economics

Recent publications: Coronavirus Perceptions and Economic Anxiety’, T Fetzer, L Hensel, J Hermle, and C Roth, in The Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming).

‘Does Party Competition Affect Political Activism?’, A Hager, J Hermle, L Hensel and C Roth, in Journal of Politics (forthcoming).

Professor Peter Keevash Professorial Fellow in Mathematics

This year Peter was awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant. His project entitled ‘Combinatorial Applications of Random Processes and Expansion’ tackles a variety of challenging open problems in Pure Mathematics, many of which concern networks and are inspired by real life phenomena. This includes understanding mathematical models of phase transitions, the flow of fluid, or the spread of information or disease throughout a network.

Dr Nishant Kumar College Associate

Nishant received a £15,000 grant from India-Oxford initiative’s Global Challenge research funds, for the organisation of collaborative workshops in India from August 2020 to July 2021. He has also completed Phase V of the Black Kite Project, on which he has been working with Professor Andrew Gosler. He is in the process of seeking a five-year extension from the Raptor Research & Conservation Foundation, Mumbai.

Nishant is a researcher jointly based at the Department of Zoology (University of Oxford) and the Wildlife Institute of India. In Delhi, he tries to understand opportunistic animal responses to resources provided by humans, and how centuries of coexistence have tied urban ecology of commensals with religiously founded patronage and ritual animal feeding by people. He is currently interested in understanding the socio-economic and public health impacts of scavenging ecosystem services provided by opportunistic commensals, and how their biocultural links are vital for a sustainable urban future in south Asia.

Recent publications: ‘Dynamic characterisation of space in South-Asian megacities shapes the commensalism of a facultative avian scavenger’, in Indigenous Urbanism, ed S Sharma, G Edwards (Routledge).

‘Human Dimensions Modulate Commensalism in Tropical Megacities: the case of an urban raptor in Delhi (India)’, in Ecology of Tropical Cities: Natural and Social Sciences Applied to the Conservation of Urban Biodiversity, ed F Angeoletto, P Tryjanowski and M Fellowes (Springer Nature).

‘GPS telemetry unveils the regular high elevation crossing of the Himalayas by a migratory raptor: implications for a definition of a Central Asian Flyway’, N Kumar, U Gupta, YV Jhala, Q Qureshi, AG Gosler, and F Sergio, in Scientific Reports 10 15988 (2020).

‘Cities, why do certain birds thrive there?’, N Kumar, U Gupta, YV Jhala, Q Qureshi, AG Gosler, and F Sergio, in Frontiers for Young Minds (8:46. doi:10.3389/frym.2020.00046).

Professor David Leopold John Milton Fellow in Politics

Recent publications: ‘Karl Marx and the Capabilities Approach’, in Cambridge Handbook of the Capability Approach, ed E Chiappero-Martinetti, S Osmani, and M Qizilbash (Cambridge University Press, 2020).

‘Alienation’, in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed EN Zalta (Research Laboratory at the Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University). Online at http:// plato.stanford.edu).

Elizabeth Li Outgoing Junior Dean

Elizabeth Li celebrated her small, socially distanced wedding at Mansfield Chapel on 22 August 2020.

Professor Paul Lodge Professorial Fellow in Philosophy

During 2019/20 Paul held a Theatres Seed Fund Grant from TORCH (The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities) to develop ‘Cantat Ergo Sumus’ with local band Flights of Helios – a project that consists of setting poems written by philosophers to music. Sadly, this is on hold due to the Covid-19 outbreak. However, during the first lockdown, he wrote and recorded a number of other songs. These include ‘Preludes to Wordsworth’, nine settings of poems for the project ‘Wordsworth 250 – For the Love of Nature’ (http://www.wordsworth250. com/), which celebrates Wordsworth’s 250th anniversary; Paul is currently working with Ryan Michaels, a Nashville-based producer, to turn this into an album. For demo recordings of both these projects see: https://www.paullodge.com/music.

Paul was on sabbatical during 2019/20 and began developing a new research project concerned with what it is like to live a life that has involved manic experience. This is derived in part from his own experiences as someone with a bipolar-disorder diagnosis.

Recent publications: Leibniz’s Key Philosophical Writings: A Guide, co-edited with L Strickland (Oxford University Press, 2020). ISBN 9780198844983.

‘The Theodicy’ in Leibniz’s Key Philosophical Writings: A Guide, co-edited with L Strickland (Oxford University Press, 2020), 173205.

‘Leibniz’s Philosophy as a Way of Life?’ in Metaphilosophy. Vol 51 (2020), 259-79.

‘What Is It Like to Be Manic?’ in The Oxonian Review (Feb 2020). Online at http://www.oxonianreview.org/wp/what-is-it-like-tobe-manic/.

Paul also published an online interview in the series ‘Dialogues on Disability’ at Biopolitical Philosophy.com in July https:// biopoliticalphilosophy.com/2020/07/15/dialogues-on-disabilityshelley-tremain-interviews-paul-lodge/

Professor Michèle Mendelssohn Tutorial Fellow in English

In April 2020, ‘Making History: Christian Cole, Alain Locke and Oscar Wilde at Oxford’, an exhibition and series of events co-curated by Michèle, was shortlisted for a Vice Chancellor’s Diversity Award. These awards aim to highlight and celebrate projects and individuals who have demonstrated a commitment to equality and diversity across the University.

While the ‘Making History’ exhibition at Magdalen College closed on 21 October 2019, Michèle and her ‘Making History’ colleagues have now created and launched a brand new digital resource to help people to continue to explore the lives of trailblazers Christian Cole, Alain Locke, and Oscar Wilde online: https://makinghistory. magd.ox.ac.uk.

Helen Mountfield QC Principal

In 2019/20, Helen chaired a series of meetings of an Equality Task Force for the Institute for the Future of Work (of which she is a Trustee). In November, the ETF’s report, ‘Mind the Gap: Accountability for Algorithms’, was published. Its main proposal for an Accountability for Algorithms Act, is described in this article in Prospect magazine: https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ author/helen-mountfield-and-josh-simons.

Helen also participated in this year’s Oxford Putney Debates on the Sovereignty of Parliament (https://www.oxfordputneydebates. com/); her contribution will become a chapter in a collection of essays on this subject, edited by Professor Denis Galligan.

In April, Helen was sworn in (online) as a Judge of the Jersey Count of Appeal. She has been profiled in a number of articles in national media this year, including the Guardian (https://www.theguardian. com/education/2020/mar/24/one-oxford-college-has-96-ofstudents-from-state-schools-how-did-they-do-it ) and The Times (https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/state-pupils-flockto-oxford-college-and-degree-results-soar-q96p7bxj0), about Mansfield’s groundbreaking work to broaden access to Oxford.

During the summer Helen was featured by Counsel magazine discussing her role at Mansfield, and her work as a barrister at Matrix Chambers: https://www.counselmagazine.co.uk/articles/ legal-heads. In Michaelmas term, she took over as Chair of the University’s Equality and Diversity Forum and has chaired the Conference of Colleges’ Disability Sub-Group.

In 2020, Helen also presented an intervention for the Equality & Human Rights Commission in the Supreme Court in a case concerning the implications of international law for the interpretation of the Human Rights Act regarding the ‘two child rule’, a discriminatory cap on Child Tax Credit.

Dr Amber Murrey Tutorial Fellow in Geography

Amber’s research on community responses to natural resource extraction in Cameroon was recognised by an Oxford Inspiration Award. She is the recipient of a 2020 British Academy Writing Workshop Grant which will fund two collaborative projects in support of Early Career Researchers working on critical political economy in Cameroon and Ethiopia.

Amber was also awarded an Oxford Teaching Development and Enhancement Project Award for the development of a collaborative digital postgraduate course, Decolonising Research Methods in the Social Sciences, which brings together students and staff at the University of Oxford and three universities in Africa. The interdisciplinary digital course will be co-taught with Dr Steve Puttick (Education, Oxford) and Dr Nokuthula Hlabangane (Anthropology, University of South Africa). The course builds from a webinar hosted by Amber and Steve in Trinity term 2020, Digitising Critical Pedagogies in Higher Education Amidst Covid-19, which facilitated debate among pedagogists in Bhutan, China, India, the US and the UK.

Recent publications: Confronting the deafening silence on race in geography education in England: learning from anti-racist, decolonial and Black geographies’, A Murrey and S Puttick in Geography. Issue 105, Vol 3, 162-164.

‘A decolonial critique of the racialized “localwashing” of extraction in Central Africa’, A Murrey and N Jackson in Annals of the American Association of Geographers. Issue 3, Vol 110, 917-940.

‘Colonialism’ in The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography: People, the Earth, Environment and Technology, ed A Kobayashi (Elsevier, 2020), 315-326. 2nd ed. ISBN 9780081022955.

‘“When spider webs unite they can tie up a lion”: Anti-racism, decolonial options and theories from the South’ in Routledge Handbook of South-South Relations, ed E Fiddian-Qasmiyeh and P Daley (Routledge, 2020), 59-75. ISBN 9781138652002.

‘Thomas Sankara and a political economy of happiness’ in The Palgrave Handbook of African Political Economy, ed T Falola and S Oloruntoba (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), 193-208.

‘Between assassination and appropriation: Pedagogical disobedience in an era of unfinished decolonisation’ in International Journal of Social Economics. Issue 46, Vol 11, 1319-1334.

‘Race, decolonial ethics, and women researching in Africa’ in Women Researching Africa, ed R Jackson and M Kelly (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), 171-192. ISBN 9783319945019.

The Revd Canon John Ovenden Chaplain (2014-2019)

After many dedicated years of service, John retired from his role as Chaplain at Mansfield at the end of 2019.

John’s warmth, kindness and patience have left a lasting impression on those who have worked with him. We hope you will join us in wishing him all the very best on his retirement.

Lucinda Rumsey Senior Tutor and Tutor for Admissions

In March 2021, Lucinda will be admitted as the University of Oxford’s Senior Proctor, and so will be temporarily leaving Mansfield. We hope you will join us in wishing Lucinda warm congratulations on her new role.

Professor Alison Salvesen Supernumerary Fellow in Oriental Studies

In October 2020, Alison’s co-edited volume, Israel in Egypt: The Land of Egypt as Concept and Reality for Jews in Antiquity and the Early Medieval Period was published, having resulted from a project at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies in 2016, funded by the Polonsky Foundation and the Dorset Foundation.

Joseph Mélèze Modrzejewski famously stated in The Jews of Egypt that ‘From time immemorial, Egypt has exercised a singular power of attraction over the Jews’. Israel’s larger and more powerful neighbour represented both religious danger and a place of safety and prosperity. Through essays from scholars in fields ranging from biblical studies and classics to papyrology and archaeology, Israel in Egypt explores what can be known of the attitudes and lived experiences of Jewish communities in Egypt, using both documentary and literary evidence. Recent publications: Israel in Egypt: The Land of Egypt as Concept and Reality for Jews in Antiquity and the Early Medieval Period, ed A Salvesen, S Pearce and M Frenkel (Brill, 2020). ISBN 9789004435391.

Dr Ruth Scobie Stipendiary Lecturer in English

Recent publications: ‘“A World of Bad Spirits”: The Terrors of Eighteenth-Century Empire’ in The Cambridge History of the Gothic Volume 1, Gothic in the Long Eighteenth Century, ed A Wright and D Townshend (Cambridge University Press, 2020), 180-197. ISBN 9781108472708.

Professor Jenn Strawbridge Tutorial Fellow in Theology & Religion

In January, Jenn was installed as the first Canon Theologian for the Diocese of Blackburn. Within this role, she assists the Diocesan Bishop and Cathedral Chapter in their theological reflections, studies, and teaching. Following the installation, she gave an inaugural lecture for the Diocese – ‘“Sight to the Inly Blind”: Encountering Blindness in Hymns and Scripture’ – drawing from her wider research on sightlessness in the New Testament. Jenn also continues to serve as a Wiccamical Prebend (Honorary Theological Canon) for the Diocese of Chichester.

Recent publications: The First Letter of Peter: A Global Commentary, editor and coauthor (SCM Press, 2020). ISBN 9780334058878.

‘Taking up Armour: The Challenges of Early Christian Exegesis of Ephesians’, in Studia Patristica, Vol 100, 19-38.

‘Farrer on St Paul’, in Austin Farrer for Today, ed R Harries and S Platten (SCM Press, 2020), 37-52. ISBN 9780334059448.

Dr Eileen Tipoe Career Development Fellow in Economics

Eileen was awarded the ‘Social Sciences 2020 Divisional Teaching Excellence Award (Early Career)’ during the summer, in recognition of her outstanding contribution to teaching and learning, and the academic development of students within the Department of Economics and the Division.

2019/20 College and University Prizes

Scholarships

Andrey Afonin (Geography) Madeleine Awan (Theology & Religion) Jeremy Beard (Mathematics) Tobia Beccari (Mathematics) Benjamin Campbell (Engineering) Tommaso Crestani (Oriental Studies) Lukas Dijkstra (Mathematics) Oliver Farquharson (Engineering) Matthew Feaster (Physics) Lara Garrett (History) Joshua Ming An Gei (Engineering) Robin Gerlach (Mathematics) Daniel Guest (Mathematics) Alberto Hernandez Melian (Physics) Timothy Hobson (Mathematical & Theoretical Physics) Philip Holdridge (Mathematics) Jordan Jones (Oriental Studies) Pia-Marie Kaden (Human Sciences) Aamir Kaderbhai (Theology & Religion) Tabitha Kirkwood (Oriental Studies) Dina Kujundzic (Engineering) Nicholas Lai (Mathematics) Nikola Langov (Mathematics) Joshua Lanham (Geography) Peter Lewin-Jones (Mathematical & Theoretical Physics) Cameron Matchett (Physics) Shezad Mohamed (Mathematics) Thomas Morris (Mathematics) Yasmin Nguyen (Human Sciences) Rohan Nuckchady (Mathematical & Theoretical Physics) Kieran Rivers (Materials Science) Emily Roper (Oriental Studies) Jack Sagar (Philosophy & Theology) Robert Scales (Materials Science) Jenny Scoones (English) Daniel Scotson (Materials Science) Adhiti Shenava (PPE) Benjamin Shi (Materials Science) Yixuan Song (Materials Science) Thomas Surridge (History) Anna Sweetman (Human Sciences) Francis Taylor (History) Jia Yi Tham (Geography) Jasper Threadingham (Engineering) Andrew Torr (Engineering) Ellen Walkingshaw (Theology & Religion) James Ward (Geography) Robyn Ware (History & Politics) Freya Webb (Law with Law Studies in Europe) Joel While (Geography) Yilong Yang (Engineering) Mingyang Ye (Physics)

Exhibitions

Gabriel Barrueco (Mathematics) Martha Birtles (English) Brennig Davies (English) Katie Egerton (Theology & Religion) Oluwafemi Fakokunde (Materials Science) Travis Godfrey (Oriental Studies) Katherine Humphrey (English) Amira Izhar (English) Jim Laney (Engineering Science) Jeanne Lerasle (Theology & Religion) Maya Little (English) Mustaqim Mohammad Iqbal (Law) Richa Nahata (Engineering) Caleb-Daniel Oyekanmi (Law) Rajun Phagura (Materials Science) Alison Porter (English) Jamie Priestley (Physics) Jasmine Simms (Physics) Annabel van der Kooy (Materials Science) Charlotte Withyman (Materials Science) Laurent Wu (Mathematics)

Music scholarships and exhibitions

Norman Booth Memorial Instrumental Exhibition Nathan Bentley

Choral scholarships Vincent Elvin Travis Godfrey Patryk Imielski Victoria Roskams Joschua Spiedel-Johnson Flora Walker

College prizes

Andrew Olive Prize for Economics Caitlin Deacock

Kwabena Osei-Boateng Engineering Science Prize Mateusz Szewc

Mason Lowance Prize in memory of Malcolm Parkes for best performance in English Language & Literature Mods Sophie Gwilt

Mason Lowance Prize in honour of John Creaser for best performance in English Language & Literature secondyear work Brennig Davies Alison Porter

Mason Lowance Prize in memory of Stephen Wall for best performance in English Language & Literature Finals Maya Little

Henty Prize for outstanding secondyear work in Geography Rachael Chan Ikra Hussain George King Georgina Morris Robert Power Fran Rigby Jia Yi Tham Joel While

Mahony Prize for best second-year performance in History Callum Brignall

Worsley Prize for Law Mustaqim Mohammad Iqbal

Simon Calhaem Scholarship (Law) John Yao Wen Yap

John Sykes Prize for best Part I Materials results Yixuan Song

Adam Monk Scholarship (Mathematics) Jiahe Zhu Bob Coates Prize for Mathematics tbc

Horton Davies Prize for best secondyear work in Theology Ellen Walkingshaw

Lynda Patterson Scholarship for best prelims distinction performance in Theology or Philosophy & Theology Mary Whittingale

Sarah & Peter Harkness Bursary Adam Austin Ionut-Gabriel Lazar Alex Williamson

Sarah & Peter Harkness Prize Mitch Marshall

Grenader Family Visiting Student Prizes Kelli Powers Michaelmas term 2019 Xinxian Wang Hilary term 2020 Xinxian Wang Trinity term 2020

Visiting Student Prize for 2019/20 Katherine Franco (Kenyon College)

University prizes

Arnold Prize for best thesis in Modern British History Lara Garrett (History)

FHS Gibbs Book Prize for History Lara Garrett (History) Institute of Materials, Mining and Minerals (IoM3) Prize for Best Overall Performance, Department of Materials Benjamin Shi (Materials) Armourers & Brasiers’ Company Medal and Prize for Best Part II Project, Department of Materials Benjamin Shi (Materials)

Nomination for the IoM3 Royal Charter Prize for Best Materials Graduate, Department of Materials Benjamin Shi (Materials)

Armourers & Brasiers’ Company/ TATA Steel Prize for Best Team Design Project, Department of Materials Yixuan Song (Materials)

Nominee for the Society of Glass Technology’s Oldfield Award, Department of Materials Tara Milne (Materials)

Armourers & Brasiers’ Company/ TATA Steel Prize for Best Overall Performance in Prelims Coursework, Department of Materials Rosanna Roskilly (Materials)

Prelims commendation for practical work, Department of Physics Alexander Fisher (Physics)

FHS Gibbs Prize for Theology & Religion Aamir Kaderbhai (Theology & Religion)

FHS Gibbs Essay Prize for Theology & Religion Kevin Cho (Theology & Religion)

Examination results 2020

DOCTORATE (DPhil)

Condensed Matter Physics Pass David Macdougal

Cyber Security Pass Mariam Nouh

Economics Pass Xiyu Jiao

Engineering Science Pass Huan Qi Tarlan Suleymanov

English Pass Steven Burton

Geography & the Environment Pass Xuanyi Sheng

Industrially Focused Mathematical Modelling Pass Jung Eun Lee Michael McPhail Victoria Pereira Jessica Williams

Information, Communication & Social Sciences Pass Joseph Shaw

International Relations Pass Shiu Cheung Alan Kwan

Materials Pass Koen Evers

Systems Biology Pass Leo Speidel MASTER OF ENGINEERING (MEng)

Class I Robert Scales Class I Daniel Scotson Class I Benjamin Shi Class IIi Joshua King Class IIi Tara Milne Class IIi Henry Williams

MASTER OF MATHEMATICS (MMath)

Mathematics Class I Jeremy Beard Class I Lukas Dijkstra Class I Shezad Mohamed Class IIi Gabriel Barrueco Class IIi Laurent Wu

Mathematics & Statistics Class IIi Matthew Harrington

MASTER OF MATHEMATICAL & THEORETICAL PHYSICS (MMathPhys)

Distinction Timothy Hobson Distinction Rohan Nuckchady

MASTER OF PHILOSOPHY (MPhil)

Economics Distinction Daniel Mead Merit Shreshtha Mishra

History Merit Filippo Soramel Modern Middle Eastern Studies Merit Zein Nasser

Philosophical Theology Merit Philip Sivyer

Politics Merit Katerina Kapodistria

MASTER OF PHYSICS (MPhys)

Physics Class I Alberto Hernandez Melian

MASTER OF PUBLIC POLICY

Merit Leila Swan Pass Lavanya Choudhary

MASTER OF SCIENCE (MSc BY RESEARCH)

Engineering Science Pass Daniel Kaiser

MASTER OF SCIENCE (MSc)

Biodiversity, Conservation & Management Merit Elliot Fisher Merit Hannah Nicholas Pass Yuanzhao Ding

Economic & Social History Distinction Hannah Copeland