Homerton College Annual Review 2020

HOMERTON COLLEGE

UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

HOMERTON COLLEGE

UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

COLLEGE NEWS

From the Principal Senior Tutor’s Report Bursar’s Report

From the Library 2020 News Highlights

FROM THE PRINCIPAL

Professor Geoffrey Ward

This time a year ago my column for the Annual Review took its lead from Samuel Beckett’s meditation on the human condition Waiting for Godot, a two-act play in which one early reviewer complained that nothing happened – twice. As I walked around a campus dominated by ongoing new builds and emerging extensions – the Dining Hall, the North Wing Auditorium, practice spaces and guest rooms – it seemed as if we were waiting for something to take final shape and declare itself. Well, something happened, for sure, but it was neither what we expected nor what we wanted.

Along with the rest of collegiate Cambridge and the wider world beyond, Homerton has faced the impact of the pandemic. Our students have been particularly affected. The face-to-face supervisions which are the cornerstone of Cambridge teaching have had to be replaced by remote learning. And while their College accommodation is of a gratifyingly high standard (Homerton came first in a Daily Telegraph survey of student accommodation across Oxford and Cambridge last year), students’ rooms were intended to be a nest from which to fly to lectures and practicals before returning at day’s end, not a 24/7 pod with strict limitations on movement outside and on contact with peers within.

When an outbreak occurred at the beginning of Michaelmas term, there is no doubt that we were tested. But we learned from that. Moreover, our students have shown consideration, resilience and ingenuity in finding ways to work through these difficult circumstances. And some of the changes created in emergency conditions, such as

the new reliance on computer-based learning, will undoubtedly have a permanent effect on the ways in which the University organises post-pandemic teaching in order for students to both absorb new knowledge at speed, and produce their best work.

Meanwhile the reputation of the College has done nothing but rise. The number of direct applications for undergraduate places at Homerton is up by over 25% this year, as it was the year before (this in a context where applications to Cambridge University as a whole have risen by nearer 10%). Even in a context where jobs are getting harder to find, the emails I receive from recent graduates now working in the Foreign Office, for NGOs or in many other prominent positions give ample testimony that Homerton is a both a destination of choice for the talented school-leaver and a launch-pad for the leaders of tomorrow. I am very proud of the Fellowship for

Homerton rowers practise in socially distanced form on Cavendish Lawns

helping our students to excel, and am particularly grateful to the senior team for overseeing this core activity while dealing with the ongoing difficulties of the pandemic. For example Dr Louise Joy has extended her portfolio as Vice-Principal, already full, to organise a Mental Health Awareness Week, supplemented by other measures focusing on student welfare at this difficult time.

By Statute and Ordinance, it falls to the VicePrincipal to lead the search for a new Principal, and that time has now come. I will demit office at the end of September this year. (Not so much Godot now, more Endgame…) I cannot imagine a more stimulating and satisfying role in UK higher education than the one I have been privileged to occupy for the last eight years. I am confident that Homerton will go from strength to strength. The College has the critical mass, the brilliant teachers and researchers, the readiness (where it is in our

interest) to grow for strategic purposes, and, last but not least, the top-level students that are prerequisites for high and continued success, even by the world-leading standards of this ancient University. Those students become alumni who will look back with gratitude and pride at all that Homerton has made possible in their lives, and the pressures brought about by the current pandemic will not, I feel sure, be an impediment to this in the longer term.

Among the most loyal attendees of our Alumni Reunion Weekend are, still, some alumnae who studied at Homerton during the Second World War. Their experience was certainly different from those of their predecessors and their successors. However, the inevitable privations did nothing to dim their enthusiasm for Homerton, but rather made the invaluable opportunities it brought all the more precious. Respice Finem n

The Principal cuts a cake marking the 10th anniversary of the College Charter in March 2020

SENIOR TUTOR’S REPORT

Dr Penny Barton

Sometimes, in biological evolutionary terms, it takes a major disruption of the status quo to trigger new adaptions in response to the new environment, resulting in a radiation of interesting new forms of life.

I am hoping that, by analogy, there may ultimately be a positive outcome to the last ghastly year, in that it has helped us all to focus on our priorities, and perhaps freed us from some long held ‘evident truths’. Although Homerton is never a College for standing still, it might in the long run do us good to be nudged out of our comfort zone and think again about what is really important.

I would say that giving young people from all backgrounds the chance for the transformative experience of a Cambridge education is at the centre of our mission. The diversity of our student body is something we are passionately committed to, and is a higher priority for us than our exact place on the league tables. Drawing students from a wider background means that in many cases students arrive at Homerton with less educational preparation, less cultural capital and less backup from family and community. We also note that students from every background seem to be struggling more with mental health and resilience, even before the pandemic.

The generations coming of age in the next decade may be profoundly damaged by the current pandemic-induced gaps in the education system at every level, and by the economic catastrophe that will shortly become apparent. We are making great strides towards enhancing our position as a leader in drawing in students from a wide variety of social, ethnic and economic

backgrounds, and our next step is to reinforce and develop the outstanding educational and wellbeing support we provide.

So, what have we learnt that we can use to do things a bit differently going forward? As well as this chance to reflect on our priorities and direction as an institution, some quite pragmatic points emerge, that may in the end change a lot of what we do and how we do it.

• Online meetings can be quite efficient –luckily, as there have been a lot of them.

• Online teaching and interviewing are similarly often quite effective, and may bring out the best in students who might otherwise not have participated so much – not being physically present certainly has some upsides as well as downsides.

• Students hardly ever read anything we send them.

• It is possible to be much more agile –changing things at a moment’s notice rather than on a ‘Cambridge timescale’ (Question: How many Cambridge academics does it take to change a lightbulb? Answer (in outraged tones): CHANGE?)

• Students can adapt and make the best of things – they are sad to miss their hectic social lives but in most cases would still prefer to be getting on with their academic work even with all the restrictions.

• Academically, Homerton students blossomed whilst working from home last summer, and in 2020 we had our best results ever in Arts and Social Sciences, with the emphasis moved from three-hour exams to more thoughtful and continuous pieces of work.

UNDERGRADUATE ADMISSIONS

STATISTICS 2020

INCOMING UNDERGRADUATES

UK STUDENTS

EU AND INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS 75%

State school educated 15% were recipients of free school meals 23% from POLAR 1 and 2 postcodes

• Our colleagues are precious and resilient and we have managed to hold each other together through the most difficult of times, working as an extended team as never before.

It has to be said that 2020 has been tough, and it doesn’t look as if 2021 is shaping up well yet, but we all have high hopes of the vaccination programme. The best part of the Senior Tutor job is talking to students, so that has been the

thing I have missed most this year. In the Michaelmas term it was possible to walk right through the Cavendish building to the Combination Room to get a cup of tea without seeing anyone in a College with 700 students living in it – quite sad and disturbing. Like everyone in the world, we are all desperate to return to normal, but perhaps to a slightly kinder, more reflective and less hectic normal when it finally comes n

BURSAR’S REPORT

Deborah Griffin OBE

It was interesting for me to look back at the Bursar’s report for 2019 in writing the 2020 update. It has been quite a year which we did not foresee!

While last year’s report included a picture of me “turning the first sod” of the new playing fields, we can now include a picture of the completed pitches. The pavilion is now under construction ready for September 2021. It was wonderful to hear comments from our students when they were able to use the facilities for the first time in October. “I am so glad I have another three years to enjoy these.” “Are these really for us?” “We should have the best College sports teams with these facilities.” Let’s hope we can host some student versus alumni matches in 2021.

Another change from last year is the length of my hair as hairdressers and others closed during lockdown! The College has also changed significantly if only in appearance. The staff worked tirelessly to prepare the College for the

students’ return in October. Signage, Perspex screens and sanitisers abound! Although it has been a difficult term for everyone with the restrictions on activities and movement, the underlying friendliness and support and commitment to our students by our staff has shone through. I must particularly commend our porters, catering teams and the “Quarantine team” which became the “Isolation team” for their support of our students. When West House was in isolation due to the number of positive cases of Covid-19, catering were delivering up to 300 meals a day to the building. Thankfully due to everyone’s efforts, during the last five weeks of Michaelmas term we had only one positive case. Without any conference business we opened up all our rooms for students to study in a Covidsafe environment. The Griffin proved particularly popular despite the bar not being open. We also had a marquee on the Queen’s Wing lawn for the duration of term where we were able to have matriculation welcomes and some events in a well-ventilated if cold environment.

The new North Wing auditorium

In February 2020 we commenced the construction of the new Dining Hall, servery, kitchens and buttery. Progress has been good and we are excited to see it rising into the sky. The Arts and Crafts tradition of the Ibberson building is very much in evidence in the new building in the

brick work, the faience and timber. It is scheduled to be completed at the end of 2021.

North Wing was also completed in June 2020 although the 18 beautiful guest bedrooms are obviously awaiting the return of visitors, including our alumni. The new auditorium has been

welcomed, as have two large, well-ventilated music rooms. These have been much used this term.

We have started planning for a much needed Porters’ Lodge and are in the midst of an architectural competition which we hope will produce a stunning and functional new entrance for the College to welcome everyone.

The accounts for the financial year to 30 June 2020 were approved by the Governing Body on 4 December. Obviously the loss of a term’s residential and catering fees for the Easter term (as students did not return after Easter) and the loss of conferencing and events after March 2020, caused a large drop in income and our loss for the year was higher than budgeted. Our investments, both our property assets in Homerton Gardens

and our investment portfolio managed by Rothschild & Co, performed well and we were able to record an overall surplus of £5.5m.

While the enhanced Cambridge Bursary Scheme was not approved for the start of the academic year in October 2020, the College extended the pilot scheme to the first three years and Trinity College extended some support for two years, for which we are grateful. Overall the total paid to our students in FY20 was £491k (FY19 £461k) of which Homerton College contributed £229k (FY19 £262k). We hope that the enhanced CBS scheme will get approval for next year.

The full Annual Report Financial Statement is available on the College website n

Students try out the Long Road facilities

Photograph by Stephen Bond

FROM THE LIBRARY

Liz Osman, Librarian

It certainly has been a strange way to spend my tenth year at Homerton, one that I’d be happy not to repeat, although it has brought with it opportunities to reflect and adapt too.

January and February seem a lifetime ago, but the start of the year saw myself and my Deputy Rosie Austin presenting at the Cambridge Libraries Conference on our involvement in an ARHC project considering diversity in children’s literature rare books collections such as our own, and issues around digitisation. Unsurprisingly, our collection is not diverse, and contains a fair amount of challenging material reflecting opinions and attitudes of earlier times. The project continues and we are awaiting more analysis of our holdings from the research assistant so we can explore how we can address the issue and create a better balance of material.

February also saw me trial my first sessions using Lego as a tool for study skills education. It may not seem obvious that being asked to build a duck out of Lego can be helpful in finding sources and referencing work correctly, but it can! The teaching was well received and I’m looking forward to delivering more.

Then came Covid, and a rapid succession of plans for ‘amber’ and ‘red’ levels, mostly thrown out the window as we quickly shifted to a full closure. I can’t praise my team enough for being calm, efficient and supportive, and continuing to give their all to help students as they left College.

One small thing we were able to do as we packed up and closed the doors was to

create The Little Library. Housed on trolleys in an accessible space, The Little Library was a selection of adult and children’s fiction, DVDs and our Wellbeing Collection, covering everything from coping with anxiety to recipe books. This ran on an honesty basis for everyone remaining on site until the Library re-opened.

Liz raided the archives for an online talk on Pantomime

Running a Library from home is challenging. Praise and thanks must go to the Cambridge University Library ebooks team for responding quickly to requests for electronic copies of key texts.

Once we were all set up at home, we moved to supporting students remotely via email. We continued to buy new books for the Library in anticipation of re-opening and helped students as they sat their exams and alternative assessments in early summer. There were many small frustrations, but I was amazed at how well we were able to help, and the adaptability of the students to such an entirely different situation.

I also began to plan for re-opening, which included having various scenarios from being fully open to a limited click and collect model. We’ve been extremely fortunate, due to the layout of the Library, to be able to open fully, and to lose only a few study spaces to social distancing. Perspex was erected around the enquiry desk,

hand sanitiser and wipes were distributed throughout the Library and staff returned to work in two bubbles in September, alternating days on site with days working from home.

Along with all other libraries, we had the mammoth task of trying to get books returned from graduating students who were now spread across the world. We agreed to accept book returns for any library and, with co-ordination from the University Library, books were then crated up and returned to their home libraries. This went on all summer, with a much smaller number of now graduates to continue chasing into the autumn.

We had to move our usual inductions of freshers online. We all missed the opportunity to meet everyone in small groups, but we hope what we were able to provide still gave them a start in how to use the Library. Library Assistant Gabriel Duckels got the starring role in our Library walkthrough video.

As term began, we introduced a new chat service allowing students to talk to us in real time over the internet. We felt this might be a welcome service for some who did not wish to physically come into the Library, and just another convenient method of communication for others. There hasn’t been a high take up, but it has been appreciated by those that have used it, and I see no reason to discontinue it post-Covid.

We also got into a new rhythm for returning books from students, putting in place a 24 hour quarantine before they were returned to the shelves, and extra wiping for books with plastic covers where the virus could survive for longer. This seems to have worked well and I hope it has increased the confidence of students to use our books.

Rosie and I also had to work out how to adapt what is usually an extremely hands on session for the Children’s Literature MPhil students. Whilst the PowerPoint presentation was easy enough to do over Zoom, allowing the students to see and explore our rare

Lego study skills

books was a challenge. We decided to show them various items over the video, and also set them tasks using some images before the class. We then offered follow up one-to-one sessions with me where they could be hands on with items either selected by me or that fitted with an interest they already had.

Finally, in late November I was able to deliver a talk on pantomime over Zoom, using a number of our rare books. This was quite a challenge –both in reading up on the history of panto, and in working out the best way to share our items with the audience. It seems fitting this year to say, as we enter 2021 “it’s behind you!”

However, in what has been a challenging and changeable year, some things remain the same. The enthusiasm of students, the kindness of Homerton and, for the Library, eagerness to help, providing as much of a service as possible, exhibitions in the display cases, Christmas decorations in November and a smiling face behind the desk, though sometimes hidden by a mask.

So with those things in mind we look forward to 2021 and taking forward what we have learnt

and experienced. We look forward too, to the birth of another junior librarian courtesy of Rosie Austin and a new staff member whilst she is on maternity leave n

New signs ensure social distancing

Library staff shield behind perspex screens

2020 NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

Liz Osman

From lunchboxes to foodbanks

Alumna Lorraine Schulze (née Wicker) (BEd 1985) explains how her Homerton training and 30 years in teaching equipped her to manage foodbank provision as demand soared during the pandemic.

I was at Homerton from 1985–89 and it was an amazing and inspiring time, full of fun, friendship and vibrant learning experiences. It was in the days when everyone at Homerton was training to teach and we had that common bond. My main subject was Religious Studies and I especially enjoyed studying theology with other university students.

I went on to teach in Kent, London and Medway for the next 30 years, teaching the whole age range from Nursery to Year 6 and specialising at times in music and then special needs. I spent the last 14 years as a SENCO, for most of that time working with a fantastic team in a Catholic primary school in a deprived area of Medway. I also worked on safeguarding issues for many of those years.

When a particularly inspirational head teacher that I worked closely with retired, I decided to take a mini career break. After some part-time SENCO posts in tiny schools in Kent villages, I took a big career change step and took on the role of Project Manager for Medway Foodbank. I had been a voucher distributor for the foodbank in my role as SENCO and was well aware of the levels of poverty for many local people. As a volunteer at the foodbank in the church that I attended, I had already seen the foodbank operation from two different angles.

That was in 2018 and in that year the eight foodbank centres in Medway fed around 5,800 people. This year of 2020, as for all of us, has been somewhat different and challenging. We closed the foodbank centres during the first lockdown and haven’t opened them since. We reworked our whole operation quickly into a delivery only service and we are currently delivering around 100 parcels a week to those in need. Medway is currently in Tier 3 with our rates sadly being the highest in the country as I write in December.

So far this year we have fed over 10,600 people, of which just over 5,000 were children. We are part of the UK-wide Trussell Trust network of foodbanks so we work with a voucher system. We have 150+ voucher distributor agencies including schools, Children and Family Hubs and local charity groups that support families. The aim is that, as well as receiving food, people also receive signposting support and advice to help them out of their financial crisis.

From my days as a SENCO and safeguarding lead I know only too well the complexities of life for those experiencing poverty as well as the need for clear advice to help families make steps towards a better future.

I have learnt that my skills from 30 years of teaching are certainly transferrable, and this year I have certainly called upon some of the resilience that I developed through working in a school in a challenging area.

All eyes on Beth

In June, Junior Research Fellow in Artificial Intelligence Dr Beth Singler was named a 21toWatch award winner by communications consultancy Cofinitive, at an event which celebrated the people and companies setting the standard in innovation and entrepreneurship.

Cofinitive founder Faye Holland said: “What all our winners have in common is something that has the potential for huge impact on a personal, company or product basis.”

After reading Theology and Religious Studies as an undergraduate at Pembroke, Beth spent eight years working as a screenwriter, during which time she also acquired a Postgraduate Diploma in Script Development at the National Film and Television School.

She made the move back to academia in 2010, returning to Pembroke for a Masters, in which she developed a growing interest in the anthropology of religion, and how theistic elements find their way into such unlikely areas as pro-anorexia websites. Her PhD explored the formation of identity through online platforms, looking at how technology shapes people’s worldview, and as a post-doc she established an

increasing expertise in Artificial Intelligence from an anthropological perspective.

After a research project at the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, where she explored questions of human identity in relation to developments in AI, Beth joined Homerton in 2018. She is in international demand as a speaker and conference contributor, has lectured at the Faculty of Divinity and, through her active Twitter presence, provides an engaging and accessible voice on an aspect of contemporary life which many perceive as threatening.

“The conversation around AI is moving so quickly, that there’s something very exciting about trying to keep up with both technological developments and people’s understanding of them,” she says. “Online cultures are constantly developing, so it’s almost like working in a lab – you’re seeing things happen in real time.”

Having harnessed the skill-set of her previous career to make a series of short films about AI, Beth is rapidly making a name for herself as the go-to person for public engagement around the subject.

“Science Fiction gives the impression that the future is set. I think it’s important to remind people that we do have agency. We can say no.”

Beth accepts her award in an online ceremony

Dr Mariah Whelan becomes Homerton’s first Poet-in-Residence

The College was hugely excited, in August 2020, to appoint Oxford-based poet Mariah Whelan as its inaugural Poet-in-Residence, a role which is believed to be a first for any Cambridge college.

The position is generously funded by Dr Norman Bardsley, in memory of his wife, Jacqueline, who attended Homerton from 1960–62. Mrs Bardsley, who died last year, was a lifelong writer and lover of poetry, and was actively involved in several poetry societies near her home in California.

“Homerton has a long tradition of stimulating creativity and encouraging students to develop knowledge and skills that go well beyond their major academic studies,” says Dr Bardsley. “My family and I hope that the Poet-in-Residence programme will help to develop greater participation in the arts by future students and alumni.”

The introduction of a Poet-in-Residence is intended to enable Homerton to foster a culture of poetry among its students and alumni, an ambition which correlates directly with Mariah’s previous experience. Having recently completed her PhD at the University of Manchester, and the

author of two published collections of poetry, she is also the former Director of the Oxford Writer’s House, which brings diverse communities together through writing. Mariah is a member of Truth Tellers, an interdisciplinary collective that brings together Arts and International Relations methodologies to explore questions of identity in contemporary Britain.

“The thing about bringing people together to write poetry is that most people don’t do it professionally or in an academic context, so it’s a wonderful playground,” she says.

The Principal, Professor Geoff Ward, said: “I am delighted to welcome Mariah Whelan as the first Poet-in-Residence at Homerton College. Not only does Mariah have an excellent reputation as a published poet, but also brilliant ideas for building a poetic community here, even under the tough conditions brought about by the pandemic. Poetry is quite rightly experiencing a revival of interest during these troubled times, when people are looking not only for solace but for new ideas. Mariah Whelan’s poetry is full of the new, but will appeal to all, and I am delighted to welcome her on behalf of Homerton College.”

Poet-in-Residence

Mariah Whelan

Photograph by David Johnson

Mariah plans a threefold approach: writing new poetry for the College in collaboration with students and staff, teaching and bringing in contemporary poets to give readings, and conducting research.

She made her first public appearance for Homerton at the online Alumni Reunion Weekend at the end of September. Alumni joined Mariah via Zoom to discuss their own favourite poems and listen to Mariah’s own work and

Supporting refugees in Greece

Second-year student Jacob Gawel (Natural Sciences 2019) took full advantage of the relaxing of travel bans over the summer, taking up a spontaneous opportunity to travel to a Greek island. Tempting as that might sound, this was no holiday, but a monthlong volunteering stint, working with Syrian refugees on the island of Chios.

“I got a message from a friend saying that someone else had dropped out and did I want to go to Greece to help refugees for a month. A few weeks later I was on a plane.”

Now run as a German NGO Offene Arme (Open Arms), the project Jacob worked with began in 2015 when Chios hotelier Toula Kitromilidi turned over her hotel to accommodate refugees who were arriving on the island with nothing.

“Chios is one of the closest islands to Turkey – you can actually see Turkey from the east coast, and boatloads of people cross that stretch of water every day.”

Refugees are now housed in a camp, but volunteers like Jacob are needed to run a clothing warehouse which provides them with essentials. Stocked with donations from all over Europe, the warehouse operates as a cashless shop, providing each person with set number of free items.

“We had to restock the shop with winter items for the change of season, help people to find

thoughts in the context of Poetry and Connection.

She has since conducted two virtual residencies for students, in one of which she made enthusiastic use of her findings from the Homerton archive, and regularly stages a takeover of the College’s social media in order to share her interactive approach to creating new work.

“Poetry gives people new ways of thinking about the world,” she says. “It’s not a decoration on top of life, but fundamental to the way I live my life.”

suitable clothes, and check their documents to make sure they weren’t receiving more than they were entitled to. It’s awkward, as obviously you don’t want to deny people something when they have so little, but clothes are currency in the camp, so we have to stick to the system to ensure it’s fair.”

Under normal circumstances, volunteers would also visit the camp itself to run activities such as language classes or children’s sports, but it was closed under Covid restrictions. Instead, Jacob visited refugees who were housed separately from the camp because they were perceived to be vulnerable, playing cards and providing muchneeded human interaction.

“Talking to local people, you get an immediate sense of the tension between them and the NGOs. Although there were no boat landings while we were there, 250 people arrived in a single day just after we left, and there’s been lots of conflict. One of the clothing warehouses has previously been burned down by locals – it’s quite a volatile situation.”

Jacob received a £300 grant from Homerton towards his expenses, which helped him to cover travel costs, a Covid-19 test and his accommodation at Toula’s hotel.

“When you’re in a room full of people from all over the world, all fleeing from something and all of their lives in limbo, it’s quite overwhelming, but rewarding to be able to do something to help.”

Eddington street honours Homerton Fellow

Homerton is delighted that one of its former Fellows, Jean Rudduck, has been immortalised by having a road named after her in Eddington, the new residential development in North West Cambridge. Fittingly, Rudduck Way is opposite the pioneering University of Cambridge Primary School, in whose creation several members of the College played key roles.

Jean Rudduck died of ovarian cancer in 2007 aged 70. She was well known for championing the potential of ‘pupil voice’ as a means of achieving school improvement and changes to teaching and learning. Her ideas were taken up both across the UK and further afield.

Jean was Joint Director of Research at Homerton during the 1990s and made major contributions by building the College’s reputation as an international centre for research and innovation. She also played an important role in helping to create the vision for the new Faculty of Education in 2001. She was made a Professorial and Foundation Fellow in 2001, and appointed Professor of Education by the University.

When, several years ago, the University asked for suggested names for Eddington’s streets and roads, it received over 50 nominations including Nobel prize-winners, scientists, poets and playwrights. During a second round these suggestions were whittled down to the Nobel laureates, features of the landscape and nine people nominated by the local community. These included the biblical scholar Miles Burkitt, the physicist Sir Arthur Eddington, Dorothy Garrod, the University’s first female professor in Archaeology, and Alan Turing, the pioneering computer scientist.

Having reached the final round, Rudduck Way provides a permanent record of Jean’s outstanding contribution among those honoured on the new site.

Jean is the second person associated with Homerton in recent times to have had a road named after them. Harrison Drive, which runs between the College and the Faculty of Education, pays tribute to the leadership provided by Sir David Harrison, chair of Homerton’s trustees.

How Homerton became a key distributor of PPE

As the University closed down its usual functions in mid-March, and hospitals prepared for a potential influx of Covid patients, Homerton swapped students for scrubs, becoming the site of an impressive PPE distribution point.

While our proximity to Addenbrooke’s Hospital meant that we were ideally placed to offer support, it wasn’t initially clear what form this might take.

“At first, it was thought that Addenbrooke’s might be overwhelmed, so we offered to provide accommodation to any healthcare professionals who might need to be near to the hospital,” explains the Principal, Professor Geoff Ward. “In the event that wasn’t necessary, but instead we were able to offer space to store personal protective equipment (PPE) for use at the hospital and in other settings.”

Cambridge University departments, including the School of Biological Sciences, the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, and the departments of Zoology, Pharmacology and Chemistry donated face masks, visors, gowns, goggles, antibacterial wipes and hazmat suits. Donations also flooded in from around the world through alumni connections and University partners, allowing a central logistics hub to be formed at Homerton.

The auditorium in the Mary Allan Building, used in normal times for lectures and concerts, became a warehouse, packed with towers of boxes. Medical grade equipment was supplied to the hospital, while PPE was also issued via the Homerton site to care homes, GP practices and other healthcare sites.

“From the start, and throughout, Homerton have been fantastic,” says the Pro-Vice Chancellor for Enterprise and Business Relations, Professor Andy Neely. “The speed with which the facility was set up was in no small part due to Homerton’s generous offer to provide space for the PPE donations. This also enabled Addenbrooke’s to store additional PPE that they had purchased when their storage facility was at capacity. This was invaluable to the hospital, and I know they are greatly appreciative of the College in providing this facility.”

The Principal with some of the supplies of PPE

COLLEGE LIFE

HUS President’s Report

Charter Choir of Homerton College Sport

HUS PRESIDENT’S REPORT

Joseph Saxby, President of the Homerton Union of Students

Ifinished my undergraduate degree in mathematics in 2019 and now work for the Homerton Union of Students. As you might guess, when I was elected last year, we had no idea what was just around the corner.

Let me take you back to the end of a fairly usual Lent term: full of essay sessions in the library; successes in sport on the pitches and river; the grand Formals every week in the Great Hall; the bustle of hundreds of students living and socialising as the great big Homerton community.

After most students returned home for the vacation, then the headlines came. The guidance from the University updated over the Easter vacation, as things became more and more serious across the country and the world, and Easter term became remote.

Students found the whole experience very weird to start with: we were Zooming into supervisions, socialising with mates from back gardens and bedrooms, through screens and calls instead of over cups of tea or pints in the Buttery.

The move to home study was difficult for some. The whole system behind Homerton existed inside a screen instead of faces around the hallways. Students became used to seeing the living rooms of their Directors of Studies, and the kitchens of their tutors. Academics and supervisors were trying various exciting ways to teach virtually, showing slides and virtual whiteboards, or just spending hours on end chatting about the subject. Room-booking deadlines became a thing of the past.

The support system at Homerton didn’t go away however. The HUS continued to support students in a variety of ways. We put on social

events, we put on virtual yoga. We hosted regular welfare drop-ins for students to come together and share ideas about how to cope with the struggles of juggling the academic workload alongside the issues caused or exacerbated by the pandemic. We supported our black students by unequivocally supporting the Black Lives Matter movement, and have responded as a union in light of this to better represent students from minority backgrounds.

Students also still had plenty of support from the College itself. The College counsellor and nurse went virtual, students kept in close contact with Tutors over email, phone calls and of course Zoom. Regular academic updates from the Senior Tutor reassured students that the University was coming up with plans for the term. The exams that individuals such as myself had to complete at the end of the year were, I feel, communicated clearly to put our minds at rest and the news of a safety net was great relief for students who feared that they had been disadvantaged by the whole situation

It’s not been all bad news, and I hope you’ll celebrate with us the successes of students! Some students used their spare time to give back. Many students across many universities volunteered their time and expertise for the Coronavirus Tutoring Initiative, a nonprofit that asked university students to virtually tutor those who were sadly unable to attend school due to closures. I know that many of our students keenly took part.

Homerton’s May Ball Committee were proud to be involved with the May Week Mega event, that raised over £7,000 for the Against Malaria Foundation, by putting on a huge event to try and make up for the absence of the extravagant May Balls at the end of the year. Back closer to home, the HUS raised £123 for Winter Comfort,

a local charity supporting the homeless, with their #stayingHOM Instagram campaign.

And now we’re looking forward to a brand new Michaelmas term. Students have been arriving from overseas over the past three weeks into quarantine in halls, in preparation for the next academic year. I was asked by College to assemble a team of about eight students to help support those in quarantine. My first achievement was getting the College to sign off on naming it “the Quaranteam”. We’ve been checking in on each student daily, delivering meals from hall, organising grocery deliveries, as well as hosting Zooms in the evenings, giving out arts and crafts and sweets and pizza. We hope that we’ve been able to make what is a rather difficult time of self-isolation as pleasant as possible for students.

Once students are here, we were a bit worried about both the social aspects of university and the welfare of arriving students. The planning for student social events has changed many times

over the past couple of months, as guidelines constantly change. We’ve got many events planned virtually for our freshers, but also realise that it’s hard to make friendships over a screen so will be organising amazing in-person opportunities for small groups of students in households – for example we will buy them pizza and give them board games for them to eat together and enjoy as households. We have booked escape rooms in Cambridge for groups of 4–6 so students can go and socialise in households in a Covid-safe way. We’re very lucky to be in constant communication with students. They understand that things are difficult for everyone and know that we can’t go back to normal. We’re very hopeful and excited for some epic events to occur as soon as this is all over n

A version of this article was delivered as a speech as part of the 2020 Virtual Alumni Reunion Weekend.

A food van serves students at a socially distanced Halloween celebration

CHARTER CHOIR OF HOMERTON COLLEGE

Dr Daniel Trocmé-Latter, Director of Music

Where to start a report on music, in a year when musicians’ lives have been turned upside down? I count myself extremely fortunate to be in a stable job, one which – even if it has involved almost nothing in the way of live music-making since March – has still meant I can work.

The sounds of Fauré’s Requiem from St Martin-in-the-Fields and the Charter Choir’s new Christmas recording, Till all the place with music ring, had barely finished resonating in our ears when we heard about the emergence of some mysterious new virus; the weeks passed and the first cases in different corners of the world were confirmed. In late February and in March, as we headed towards the end of Lent term, most of us in Cambridge still had no idea about the significance or the lasting impact of this coronavirus.

For the Charter Choir, there was no sign of slowing down: on Saturday 7 March the Choir’s ranks swelled to double their usual size as we welcomed c.25 alumni to sing a special Evensong in celebration of the College’s – and thereby also the Choir’s – 10-year Royal Charter anniversary. With those present spanning the whole of the past decade, including some dating back to the foundation year itself, the air was filled with exuberance and celebration, our glasses with wine. The augmented choir also sang at the Charter Dinner itself, to an audience of Fellows of the College and their esteemed guests. The next day, the number of confirmed cases in the UK was reported 273, with three confirmed deaths; 10 days later, the very idea of ever holding such an event as the Charter Dinner seemed implausible; two weeks later, the whole country was in lockdown. Institutions shut their doors; choirs, orchestras, and all other sorts of musical groups and solo performers were silenced.

Choral alumni joined the Charter Choir for an anniversary Evensong

Back in the University sphere, all teaching and examining was done online for the duration of Easter term, and all other in-person activities were curtailed. For the Charter Choir, and all other choirs in Cambridge and beyond, this meant that life became very complicated – or, from another perspective, very straightforward. There was simply no prospect of singing. Our anticipated tour to Italy – where we would have sung in Milan, Cremona, Mantua, and Ferrara – was out of the question. However, we were able to pull together a virtual Evensong in July, hosted generously by the Church of St John the Evangelist, Hills Road. Every choir member sent in a recording of themselves at home, singing a simple anthem and a hymn, with additional liturgical material provided by soloists. One of our first-year Choral Scholars, and an undergraduate in Medicine, Adam Wolowczyk, then took on the mammoth task of editing the musical content. Adam and I spent hours on the phone or over Zoom, correcting errors of pitch and rhythm, and discussing the overall balance of the choir as one recording was layered on another until the desired ensemble effect was achieved. We have, of course, come a long way since then. Professional and non-professional choirs were

able to resume in-person activities in August, after research from Public Health England concluded that singing was by and large no riskier than speaking at a similar volume. This gave the green light to cathedral and church choirs to start up again, albeit in unfamiliar and distanced layouts, and university choirs began following suit at the start of their new academic years. Hopes for a normalityresembling Michaelmas term in Cambridge, however, were soon dashed, as Covid-19 cases began to rise again in September. At Homerton in October, with risk assessments approved, singers placed two metres apart from one another, and strict cleaning processes in place, we managed just a single Evensong before West House was put into isolation. With all of our first-years out of the picture (meaning that a third of the Choir was taken out of action) and with yours truly also in isolation, the following Evensong then had to be cancelled. We managed one further performance, with much reduced forces, the following week, before the second national lockdown came into effect. At Homerton, this meant that all extracurricular in-person activities were suspended. By the time we emerged from that lockdown, the end of term had arrived.

Organ scholars past and present: Chris Baczkowski, Matt Walters and Mark Englander

However, the show had to go on somehow, so we geared up for one more virtual choir event: a carol service. Again, each choir member recorded themselves singing in isolation, and this time I put them all together, with software advice and assistance from Adam. The preparation (recording myself conducting, accompanying, and creating listening tracks for the choir) involved five to 10 hours of work, while the editing process took me something like 80 hours over six days – and all for just 15½ minutes of music,working out at about five hours’ editing per minute! Because lockdown had struck before we had begun rehearsing any Christmas music, the choir members had to fend for themselves in terms of note-learning. Many others played their part, making this a truly collaborative effort. Our Honorary Lay Chaplain, Miss Patricia Maude, organised the readings, with some poetry suggestions from our new Poet-in-Residence, Dr Mariah Whelan. Alumna Natalie Jobbins quickly organised a recording of the jazz trio accompaniment to her arrangement of In the Bleak Midwinter. Current soprano and English

student Charlotte Horner recorded not only the solo to Natalie’s piece but also listening tracks for each of the four parts to David Hurd’s Alleluia canon. Our unflappable IT department installed my new audio- and video-editing software (and even provided me with a new computer in my office when my existing one couldn’t cope with the graphics!). The Revd. Chris Campbell, Curate at St John’s Church, generously integrated all the moving parts into the final version of the video, which was broadcast on our YouTube channel on Tuesday 1 December.

Now, with choir members scattered all over the UK, Europe, and the world for the Christmas vacation, we brace ourselves for the challenges of 2021.

As ever, alumni and other supporters of the Choir are warmly encouraged to follow the Charter Choir on their Facebook page, at www.facebook.com/homcharterchoir, and we look forward to welcoming you back at a performance or service once ‘normality’ resumes. The virtual carol service can be viewed on the Homerton YouTube channel n

The Charter Choir sing Evensong from their homes

These pages would usually be filled with updates from the College sports captains, detailing the highs and lows of a year competing in everything from Lacrosse to Frisbee. Sadly, this year, there is little to report in the way of sporting achievement. Students were sent home in March and did not return to Cambridge until October. In the Michaelmas term, training had just got underway when a second lockdown prevented any competition.

However, our new facilities on Long Road have now opened and will transform the future of sport at Homerton. A joint venture with St Mary’s School, the site includes floodlit all-weather pitches and tennis/netball courts, as well as a pavilion

which will open in 2021. Less than 10 minutes cycle from College, the new grounds enabled students to exercise within their households throughout the Michaelmas term, and will provide a spectacular venue for competitive sport when restrictions ease.

HUS Sports Officer 2020–21, Lily Wilkinson (2019, BA Education) says: “Despite the lack of competitive sport, the Homerton sports teams have experienced a taster of the new Long Road sports facilities and are hungry to train there next term. The sports captains look forward to competing again and representing Homerton in what will hopefully be a fantastic season for sport.” n

The new sports ground at Long Road

Photograph by Stephen Bond

RESEARCH

Research Roundup

RESEARCH ROUNDUP

Dr Robin Bunce, Bye-Fellow and Director of Studies in Politics, coauthored the authorised biography of Diane Abbott MP, published by Biteback Publishing in September 2020. The book was named as a Waterstones Best Politics Book of the Year.

Robin also worked as historical consultant on Mangrove, a film made by Steve McQueen exploring the arrest of the Mangrove Nine, which was screened on the BBC to widespread acclaim in November.

Professor Karen Coats, Director of the Centre for Research in Children’s Literature, has published the following papers and chapters this year:

• Cadden, M., Coats, K. and Trites, R. S., Eds. “Teaching Young Adult Literature” MLA Options for Teaching Series

• “From ‘Death be not Proud’ to Death Be Not Permanent: Shifting attitudes toward death in contemporary young adult literature” International Journal of Young Adult Literature, Vol. 1, Issue 1.

• “The Self in Twentieth Century American Children’s Literature: A Tale of Two Schemas” Literary Cultures and Twentieth-Century Childhoods Edited by Rachel Conrad and L. Brown Kennedy, Palgrave, pp. 31-49

• “Genre and Gentrification in the Young Adult Novel” Examining Images of Urban Life Edited by Laura M. Nicosia and James F. Nicosia, Myers Education Press.

• “Line Breaks, Page Turns, and Gutters: Formal Moments of Silence in Children’s Texts” International Research in Children’s Literature, Volume 13 Issue Supplement, pp. 127-140.

• Coats, K. (2020) “Diverse Identity in Anxious Times: Young Adult Literature and Contemporary Culture.” Transforming Young Adult Services, 2nd edition. Edited by Anthony Bernier, ALA Neal-Schuman, pp. 17-26.

Professor Tim Eisen, Professor of Medical Oncology, was Chief Investigator in a large-scale trial of the drug sorafenib which confirmed that the drug should not be used as a treatment straight after surgery for kidney cancer. The results, published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology in October 2020, confirm that active surveillance, where patients are closely monitored for signs of the disease coming back or getting worse, remains the standard of care for patients at intermediate or high risk of recurrence after surgical removal of their primary cancer.

Director of Studies and Fellow in Education

Dr Karen Forbes has published Cross-Linguistic Transfer of Writing Strategies: Interactions between Foreign Language and First Language Classrooms (Published October 2020 by Multilingual Matters) Aimed at both researchers and practitioners, the book draws on research evidence to explore the ways in which skills and strategies developed in a foreign language classroom in schools can positively influence learning in students’ other languages, including in their first language. It seeks to encourage more joined-up, cross-curricular thinking related to language in schools and includes a step-by-step guide for developing and

implementing a cross-linguistic programme of language learning strategy instruction.

Karen is also a co-author of Language Development and Social Integration of Students with English as an Additional Language (Cambridge University Press, July 2020).

“Given the current context of the experience of migration on schools in England and Europe, and the competing policies and approaches to social integration in schools, there is a need to understand the connection between language development and social integration as a basis for promoting appropriate policies and practices,” Karen explains. “This volume explores the complex relationship between language, education and the social integration of newcomer migrant children in England, through an in-depth analysis of case studies from schools in the East of England.”

Professor Ravi Gupta led the world’s first published validation and implementation study of a rapid point of care nucleic acid test for Covid-19, now used by over 100 NHS Trusts and more than 20 schools. Having started out as a device for monitoring HIV viral load in sub-Saharan Africa, the test is now enabling rapid testing and safe hospital triage during the UK’s second wave of Covid-19.

In a follow-up paper, Ravi’s team demonstrated that point of care nucleic acid testing combined with point of care antibody testing by lateral flow significantly increases diagnostic sensitivity in hospitalised patients.

Ravi has also been continuing his work on HIV, identifying a new way in which the virus has developed resistance to a powerful class of drugs called protease inhibitors.

“Most of our drug resistance work has been in clinic attendees, and I have wanted to know how drug resistance impacts hospitalised patients. I had the opportunity to work with colleagues at the Malawi-Wellcome unit, and we undertook NGS in patients hospitalised for conditions such as TB. We found not only that a significant proportion

had unsuppressed HIV in blood, but that there was a strong association between multi-drug resistance and 28 day mortality. The implications of this work are that hospitalisation offers an opportunity to test for viral failure, resistance and intervene.”

Ravi’s role in the treatment of the London Patient, the second person ever to be ‘cured’ of HIV, saw him named one of TIME magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of the Year in September 2020.

Dr Shery Huang, Director of Studies in Physics, published a paper in Science Advances on inflight fibre printing (iFP), a one-step process that integrates conducting fibre production and fibre-tocircuit connection.

“Sensors made from small conducting fibres are especially useful for volumetric sensing of fluid and gas in 3D, compared to conventional thin-film techniques, but so far, it has been challenging to print and incorporate them into devices, and to manufacture them at scale,” she explained. “Our fibre sensors are lightweight, cheap, small and easy to use, so they could potentially be turned into home-test devices to allow the general public to perform self-administered tests to get information about their environments.”

Dr Louise Joy, Vice-Principal and Director of Studies in English, has published a new book, Eighteenth-Century Literary Affections. Published by Palgrave Macmillan, the book assesses the mediating role played by ‘affections’ in eighteenth-century

contestations about reason and passion, questioning their availability and desirability outside textual form.

Graduate Tutor and Director of Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Dr Melanie Keene’s research into ‘Noah’s Ark-aeology and nineteenthcentury children’ was published in September

2020 as part of Rachel Bryant Davies and Barbara Gribling’s Pasts at Play: Childhood encounters with history in British culture, 1750–1914 (Manchester University Press).

In Melanie’s chapter she explores how Noah’s Ark could be used as a means of playing, both figuratively and literally, with presents and pasts. Boys, girls, and family groups, she reveals, not only used this particular sacred story as a means of learning scriptural and natural history, but also of safely navigating moral values, social interactions, imaginative conjecture, and even nascent consumerism. She is now working on a new research project about the history of juvenile gardening.

In September, Dr Ros McLellan, Fellow in Education, was appointed Chair of the British Educational Research Association’s Publications Committee. Ros is also a Council member and Trustee of the organisation, the largest learned society for education researchers in the UK. BERA publishes four journals and a range of other publications including the widely deployed BERA Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research. Ros has published the following this year:

• Jenson, H., Kvalsvig, J. D., Taylor, M., Sibisi, S., Whitebread, D. & McLellan, R. (2020) “What counts as learning in play? Uncovering patterns in perceptions of South African early educators” International Journal of Early Years Education

• Yu, J., & McLellan, R. (2020) “Same mindset, different goals and motivational frameworks: Profiles of mindset-based meaning systems”. Contemporary Educational Psychology

• Yu, J., McLellan, R., & Winter, L. (2020) “Which boys and which girls are falling behind? Linking adolescents’ gender role profiles to motivation, engagement and achievement” Journal of Youth & Adolescence

• Li, J., McLellan, R., & Forbes, K. (2020).” Investigating EFL teachers’ gender stereotypical

beliefs about learners: A mixed methods study” Cambridge Journal of Education,

• Winter, L., Hernandez-Torrano, D., McLellan, R., Almukhambetova, A., & Brown Hajdukova, E. (2020) “A contextually adapted model of school engagement in Kazakhstan” Current Psychology

Dr Kamal Munir, Fellow and Director of Studies in Management Studies co-wrote a paper with John Amis and Johanna Mair on “The organizational reproduction of inequality” (Academy of Management Annals) which was cited by Forbes magazine as one of five must-read articles on racism. The paper was one of the most-read articles ever in the Academy of Management Annals, the leading management journal.

Kamal also contributed a paper on “Challenging institutional theory’s critical credentials” to Organization Theory, and co-wrote “Holier than thou? Identity buffers and adoption of controversial practices in the Islamic banking category”, published in the Academy of Management Journal.

Director of Homerton Changemakers, Dr Alison Wood, has taken a practical approach to pandemic isolation, co-creating ‘Connections Through Covid’, a reading and discussion group for the Cambridge community, curated with Dr Tyler Shores, Simon Hall and Sheila McDerment. https://www. connectionsthroughcovid.co.uk

She has also developed PAUSE, a virtual Salon for the Homerton community on the big questions made more visible by pandemic conditions, co-curated with Dr Robin Bunce. https://www.changemakers.homerton.cam.ac.uk/ homertonpause

Alison has also contributed to The Hawkwood Circle: Future Ready Education? A high-level seminar series and conference co-hosted by Homerton Changemakers, the Hawkwood Centre for Future Thinking, SusEd, and the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership n

DEVELOPMENT

From the Development Director

Our Donors

FROM THE DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR

Matthew Moss MVO, Director of External Relations and Development

What distinguishes an institution from a community? It was an easy question to answer this year, because Homerton-as-a-community has been on daily display.

As everywhere, the pandemic has had some effects that are the same for everyone (every current student, Fellow and staff member sorely misses the camaraderie of lunch in the Great Hall, for example) – but in other aspects, Homertonians have been affected very differently. Some report feeling more connected than ever, since it has become natural to use video calls to meet colleagues and friends regardless of distance. Others have felt totally cut off from support.

A strong community connects all its members, and the Development Office team set about providing that connection to Homertonians in new ways and with a new sense of mission.

Communications

Our External Communications Manager, Laura Kenworthy, found that social media in particular gained in importance during the pandemic. She uses Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to keep alumni, staff and students connected to Homerton, and found a great appetite from alumni to learn about how the College was responding to the challenge.

As a forum to share our concern and support for students, to update the community on how we were responding to the challenges of self-isolation, and to celebrate news of the extraordinary work of Homerton researchers, social media allows for an immediacy and an intimacy which filled a real need.

“Social media has enabled us to connect, casually and regularly, with the College community as a whole,” says Laura. “At a time when everyone has been scattered and isolated, it has allowed alumni, however long ago they left, to be in regular contact with the College and to know that they are part of a wider network.”

Over the Spring, realising that the intellectual life of the Homerton community could continue and reach new audiences despite being scattered, we devised the Homersphere (www. homersphere.org), an online magazine carrying articles from Homerton researchers, senior and junior, on topics that take their fancy. The result has been a delightful variety: everything from the stories behind Fitzwilliam Museum artworks, to the conservation of rhinos, via cricket and plumbing and David Foster Wallace. Ease of encountering ideas from other disciplines is the defining feature of a Cambridge College, and we are proud that, necessity being the mother of invention, Homerton now has this terrific new forum to share ideas. Do have a look.

Alumni Relations

Also in the front line was our new Alumni Relations Manager, Sally Nott. Sally joined Homerton a matter of weeks before the first lockdown in March (there are still many colleagues she has not seen outside a square box on her computer monitor!). We were very conscious that not every one of our alumni used social media, and that this was the group most likely to be feeling isolated – not just from Homerton, but from everything else. Using our database, she quickly began calling our alumni aged over 70, with no email address listed. By the end of the first lockdown she had had 190 conversations with alumni – not only a sign to our alumni that

Homerton was thinking of them, but a brilliant way for Sally, newly in post, to get a crash course in the College and its recent history.

“Without exception everyone I spoke was deeply touched that Homerton was thinking of them at such a difficult time and felt uplifted to have received a call,” she says. “It was a joy to speak to so many of our alumni and to get a sense of the great warmth and affection which they all feel for the College.”

Sally has also launched an online series of seminars and talks, providing the opportunity for alumni to engage with multiple aspects of College life, from wherever they may be.

Fundraising

Just as we want to help our alumni, our alumni want to help our students.

Christopher Hallebro, Deputy Director and the ‘head gardener’ of our annual fund, was bowled a googly when the planned first day of the annual telethon at Easter turned out to be the day that all Cambridge students had to return home. The telethon was duly wrapped up before it had started, and knocked back to the end of the year.

Students’ need for financial help, on the other hand, spiked. Overseas students had to book immediate flights; some had to quarantine in

hotels; and the ‘level playing field’ of our student rooms at Homerton was replaced by the hugely varying conditions that students encountered while learning from home. ‘Study at home’ was barely feasible for students with elderly computers, poor network connection, no private space to study, and rowdy young siblings.

Alumni contributed magnificently to our Covid-19 Emergency Fund, turning a handsome lead donation of £20,000 from Siobhan Cassidy and her husband Adrian into a fund of some £40,000 to address immediate need. Thank you, sincerely, to all those who were able to help.

And in our telethon, when it finally happened in December 2020/January 2021, alumni gave more generously than ever before. In the most exceptional circumstances – with students mainly calling from home, and knowing that they were calling alumni who had been thumped by Covid-19 just like everyone else – the community of alumni stepped up magnificently to support current and future students.

“We can’t thank our alumni enough for the support they’ve shown over this telephone campaign,” says Christopher. “It will make such a difference, just when it is needed the most - and almost as importantly, the student callers had a great time talking to you all!”

This year more than ever, the point is made: we don’t fundraise for the sake of having money, but for the good that we can do with the flexibility that donations provide.

The Principal says to every new student “you are a Homertonian for life”. 2020 has shown the power of that simple idea, and the Homerton community is stronger than ever before n

Development Director Matthew Moss and Deputy Development Director Christopher Hallebro at the Donor Reception, October 2019

OUR DONORS

The Principal, Fellows, students and staff of Homerton College wish to thank alumni and friends who have generously made donations to the College in 2020. Every effort has been made to ensure that the list is accurate; do contact us if you believe we have made an omission.

Key: (d)* = deceased

1936 Mrs Margaret Kent

1943 Mrs Kathleen Hayward

1944 Miss Margaret Rishbeth

1947 Ms Christine Andrews

Lady (Dorothy) Franklin

Mrs Maureen Grover

1948 Professor Joan Chandler

Mrs Jane Farley

Miss Elizabeth Rainsbury

1949 Mrs Mary Dowse

Mrs Coral Harrow

Mrs Molly Payne

1950 Mrs Mavis Blow

1951 Mrs Sheila Duncan*

Mrs Sheila Smith

Mrs Patricia Stockdale*

1952 Mrs Shirley Haslam

1953 Dr Alison Littlefair

1954 Mrs Pauline Curtis

Mrs Sheila Mackenzie

Mrs Penny Marshall

1955 Mrs Gwenda Ackroyd

Mrs Christine Grainge

Mrs Anthea Griggs

Mrs Gillian Hewin

Mrs Doreen Hobbs

Mrs Rachel Lewington

Mrs Wendy Oakley

Mrs Rosemary Owens

Mrs Hazel Thornley

1956 Mrs Maguerite Donkin and Mr Norman Donkin

Mrs Alice Severs

1957 Mrs Julia Davis

Mrs Gillian Figures

Mrs Christine Lincoln

Mrs Val Read

Mrs Josephine Sutton

1958 Mrs Ann Banner*

Mrs Christine Carne and Mr Philip Carne MBE

Mrs Diana Hadaway

Mrs Jill Hicks

Mrs Vivien Ivell

Mrs Beryl Izzard

Mrs Rachel Macdonald

Mrs Judy Manson

Mrs Wanda Kielbinska

Mrs Wendy Powell

Mrs Patricia Stott

Mrs Dorothy Waite

1959 Mrs Dora Beeteson

Mrs Pamela Dawson

Mrs Christine Frost

Mrs Ann Hamilton Herbert

Mrs Ann Hardie

Mrs Diana Lucas

Mrs Annmarie Mackay

Miss Gill Rogers

1960 Mrs Rosemary Allan

Lady Baker

Mrs Jacqueline Bardsley*

Mrs Jean Clarke

Mrs Sue Dickinson

Mrs Jenifer Freeman

Mrs Rosemary Hill

Mrs Christine Kershaw

Mrs Cynthia Loudon

Mrs Jennifer McKay

Mrs Christine Parkyn

Mrs Jacqueline Swegen

Mrs Janet Valentine

Mrs Hillary Young

1961 Mrs Jan Campbell

Mrs Marilyn Clare

Mrs Anne Hulse

Mrs Joy Kohn

Mrs Susan Lovett

Mrs Sue McFarland

Mrs Jill Nibelett

Mrs Caroline Sykes

Mrs Jean Thorman

1962 Mrs Diana Dalton

Mrs Lynn Dowson and Dr Jonathan Dowson

Mrs Marion Foley

Mrs Carole Girdler

Mrs Carole Nolan

Miss Esme Partridge

Mrs Gwendolyn Williams

1963 Mrs Jean Addison-Fitch

Mrs Andrea Caish

The Revd Dr Anthea Cannell

Mrs Christine Macpherson

Mrs Erica Rigg

Mrs Kate Ryder

1964 Mrs Judith Brownlee

Mrs Elizabeth Maycock

Mrs Maggie Meredith

Mrs Pamela Metcalfe

Mrs Sue Rescorla

Mrs Jill Taylor

Mrs Jane Woodford

1965 Mrs Lorna CordellSmith

Dr Tricia Cusack

Mrs Wendy Dunnett

Mrs Annie Illingworth

Mrs Dorothy Nicholls

Lady Ann Ricketts

Mrs Janet Webb

Mrs Dilys West

1966 Mrs Linda Birtwhistle

Mrs Jean Carnall

Lady (Marilyn) Fersht

Mrs Margaret Funnell

Mrs Judy MartinJenkins

Mrs Judith Queripel

Mrs Cheryl Trafford

Miss Lorraine Welch

Mrs Jan Wilkinson

1967 Mrs Marjorie Caie

Mrs Miriam France

Mrs Avril Growcott

Mrs Marion Pogson

Mrs Netti Smallbone

1968 Mrs Lesley Marriott

Mrs Robyn Mitchell

Mrs Lynne Parsons

Mrs Pemma SpencerChapman

Mrs Marilyn Stansfield

Mrs Alison Syner

Mrs Eithne Webster

1969 Mrs Tricia Coombes

Dr Vicky McNeile

Ms Anne Reyersbach

Ms Hilary Stokes

Mrs Sarah Taylor

1970 Mrs Patricia Bradley

Ms Fiona Cook

The Revd Claire Heald

Mrs Mary McCosh

Mrs Denise Mitchell

Dr Roz Sendorek

Mrs Denise Shakespeare

Mrs Helen Wood

Mrs Mary Wyatt

1971 Mrs Denise Few

Mrs Mal Reid

1972 Mrs Ros Allwood

Ms Catherine Beavis

Mrs Sarah Flynn

Mrs Margaret Howell

Mrs Fiona Karlin

Ms Anne Kennedy

Ms Jane Lewin Smith

Mrs Helen Malcolm

Mrs Caroline Melrose

Mrs Valerie Mills

Mrs Penny Riley

Mrs Annie Ryder

Mrs Angela Swindell

Mrs Jan Thomson

Mrs Maureen Weston

1973 Miss Stephanie Beardsworth

Mrs Elizabeth McLean

Mrs Dilys Murch

Mrs Heather Wilkinson

1974 Mrs Jenny Little

Mrs Elizabeth Rose

Mrs Vera Sklaar

1975 Mrs Alyson Baker

Mrs Helen McRoberts

1976 Mrs Judy Clarke

Mrs Joan Gibson

Ms Jill Grimshaw

Ms Sarah Jacobs

Miss Amanda James

Mrs Ann Kirkby

Mr Tony Little

Mrs Ann Muston

Mrs Jo Newman

Mrs Zena Tinsley

1977 Miss Sheila Berry

Mrs Jane Bishop

Mrs Lalli Draper

Ms Jane Edwards

Mrs Ann Jackman

Mrs Helen Mitchell

Mrs Louise Mursell

Mrs Clare Myers

Mrs Jane Pearson

Mrs Patricia Poole

Mrs Lesley Thomas

1978 Mrs Vicki Addey

Mrs Marianne Billitt

Mrs Ruth Briant

Mrs Sandra Burmicz

Mrs Annette Cameron

Mrs Clare Danielian

Mrs Dee Davey

Mrs Mary Powles

1979 Mrs Rachel Bond

Ms Elizabeth Dickinson

Mrs Lizzie Habashi

Ms Karen Ready

Mrs Amanda Renwick

Mrs Brenda Thompson

1980 Ms Victoria Brahm

Mrs Jo Broughton

Mrs Sarah Holmes

1981 Professor Gregory Clark CBE

Miss Anna Chapple

Mrs Amanda Edwards

Mrs Cordelia Myers

Mr Graeme Plunkett

1982 Mr Mark Hanley-Browne

My Brian Howarth

Ms Gek-Ling Lee

1983 Mrs Alison Brinklow

Mrs Karen Miranthis

Mrs Frances Surridge

1984 Ms Cathy Graham

Ms Alison Mesher

Mr Peter Ventrella

1985 Dr Kirsty Byrne

Mrs Karen Coombs

Mrs Sally Jaspars

Mrs Anna Williams

1986 Mrs Keren Cooke

Ms Nansi Ellis

Mrs Virginia Eves

Miss Samantha Taylor

1987 Mrs Alison Allen

Mrs Kim Chaplin

Mrs Michaela Khatib

Mr James Thomson

1988 Mr Phil Coldicott

Mrs Katie Mayne

Mr Andrew McNeil

Mrs Sarah McWhinnie

Ms Philippa Rushby

Ms Adrienne Saldana

Miss Jen Svrcek

Mr Giles Storch

1989 Miss Lucy Bradley

Mr Carl Howarth

Mrs Charlotte Irving

Mr Matthew Irving

Mrs Penny Lee

The Revd Wendy Wale

1990 Mrs Naomi Baynes

Mrs Karen George

Mrs Fiona Gruneberg

Mr Ian Hodgson

Mrs Sharon Holloway

Dr Susi Pinkus

1991 Mrs Joy Bensley

Mr David Chapman

Miss Claire Corkran

Miss Helen Diggle

Mrs Elizabeth Sartain

1992 Mrs Claire Brooks

Mr Simon Camby

Mrs Sarah Haines

Miss Caroline Mander

Mrs Diane Rawlins

1993 Dr Stephen Chapman

Mrs Helen Morgan

Mrs Jane Riordan

1994 Mrs Siobhan Cassidy and Mr Adrian Cassidy

Mrs Torie True

Mrs Emma Vyvyan

1995 Mrs Carol Carlsson

Browne

1996 Mr Ian Bettison

Mr Christopher Shephard

1997 Ms Caroline Bell

Mr Matt Buck

Mrs Amy McDonnell

1998 Mr Alastair Chipp

Mrs Elisabeth Hackett

1999 Dr Neil Hennessy

Mr Paul Jones

Mrs Denise Mieszkowski

Mrs Laura Penrose

Mrs Louisa Tipler

Mrs Zoe Yeomans

2000 Mrs Angela Clark

Mrs Abby Deeks

Dr Tom Kitchen

Mrs Cheryl Smith

2001 Mr Laurence Ball

Mr Gareth Crooks

Mrs Lesley Crooks

Miss Lidia Fesshazion

Mrs Amy Fleming

Mr James Frecknall

Mrs Catherine Kitchen

Mrs Nadine Lloyd

Mrs Kimberley Rayson

Mrs Sandra Stapleton

2002 Mrs Katy Coles

Dr James Croft

Mr Sam Farmer

Mr Sutherland Forsyth

Mrs Carys Gladdish

Mr Chris Kellaway

Mr David Lawrence

Miss Sian Mawditt

Mr Remi Moynihan

Miss Krista Pullan

Mr Tim Scott

Dr Lisa Sessions

Mrs Stephanie Shelmerdine

Mrs Angela Woodruffe

Mrs Rhiannon WynneLord

2003 Ms Susanna Bellino

Miss Katherine Bluck

Mr Raymond Cilia

Mr Gregoire Hodder

Mrs Anne Howell

Mr Jonathan Levine

Mr Can Liang

Dr Feilong Liu

Mrs Elizabeth Mansfield

Mr Daniel Roberts

Dr Tovah Shaw

Mr Jean-Paul Skoczylas

Mr Tristan Stone

Miss Stephanie Tillotson

Mr John White

2004 Mrs Emily Davies

Miss Natasha Gray

Mr Richard Hopkins

Mr Ravi Raichura

Mrs Nina Sever

Miss Jennifer Sneyd

2005 Dr Enyi Anosike

Miss Stephanie Baxter

Mr Nicholas Bebb

Mr Benjy Boateng

Mr Nick Clark

Mrs Lisa Galantini and Mr Fabio Galantini

Mrs Rebekah Perry

Dr Oliver Rupar

Mrs Liz Sharp

Mrs Shingfield

Ms Nadia Syed

Mrs Emma Turner

2006 Miss Aniko Adam

Dr Theresa Adenaike

Mr Andrew Blackburn

Mr Thomas Dix

Dr Joshua Jowitt

Mrs Dawn Pavey

Mrs Hannah Shepherd

Mr Luke Shepherd

Mrs Liza de Uphaugh

2007 Mrs Tracey Harjatanaya

Mr Ton Horn

Mr John Keene

Miss Teresa Li

Mr Michael Lynch

Miss Nic Pollard

Mr Joseph Randall-Carrick

Dr Matilda Stickley

2008 Mr Luke Clarke

Mr Mike George

Mr Matthew Linsell

Mr Duncan Loweth

Ms Elaine Mo

Miss Amy Munro-Faure

Mr Ikenna Obiekwe

Mr Gershwinder Rai

Mr Kenichi Udagawa

2009 Mr Adarsh Bala

Mr Nigel Beckford

Mr Daniel Beresford

Mr Iain Cameron

Ms Shruti Chaudhri

Me Jonny Edge

Miss Alice Esuola

Dr Jack Euesden

Miss Christine James

Mr Christopher Morgan

Mr Michael Thorp

Ms Rhiannon Williams

2010 Miss Emma Bowell

Mr Nahum Clements

Miss Alex Courage

Mr Richard Craven

Mr Gabrielius Glemza

Mr James Henderson

Mr Paul James

Miss Sian Jones

Miss Suzie LangdonShreeve

Dr Dirk Mersch

Mrs Helen O’Hara

Mr Emmanouil Rodousakis

Mrs Jessica Taylor

Miss Megan Trimble

Miss Yuanjia Yin

2011 Mr James Chicken

Mr Jack Hooper

Mr Ted Levermore

Mrs Cordelia North

Mr Thorben Schaefer

Mr George Sykes

Miss Abigail ThurgoodBuss

2012 Mr Joshua Cozens

Ms Louise Holyoak

Mr Tim Hubener

Dr Sylvester Juwe

Ms Samantha Kellow

Dr Peter Marber

Miss Danielle Poole

Mr Douglas Porter

Mr Theepan Tharmarajah

2013 Mr Hachimi Maiga

2014 Mrs Alexandra Annett

Mr Nigel Ironside

Mr Vivek Saraswat

Mrs Andrea Saunders

2015 Mr Adam Dobson

Professor Vincent English

Miss Sarah WitkowskiBaker

Dr Zamir Zulkefli

2016 Miss Mille Fjelldal

Mr Mitchell Hayden-Cook

Friends of Homerton

Mrs Frances Barrett

Dr Norman Bardsley (in memory of Mrs Jacqueline Bardsley, née Lockhart)

Miss Patricia Cooper

Mr Gordon Gaddes (in memory of Mrs Pamela Gaddes, née Marchbank)

Dr Lesley Hendy

The Hon Lady Barbara Judge CBE*

Mrs Leslie Lemonick

Mr James Malcolm

Mr Matthew Moss MVO

Dr Kate Pretty CBE

Professor Steve Rennard

Dr Peter Warner

Dr David Whitebread

Ms Yukino Yamasaki

1768 Society

Mrs Vicki Addey

Mrs Rosemary Allan

Dr Enyi Anosike

Ms Catherine Beavis

Miss Sheila Berry

Mr Ian Bettison

Mr Andrew Blackburn

Mr Matt Buck

Mrs Sandra Burmicz

Dr Kirsty Byrne

Mrs Marjorie Caie

Mr Simon Camby

Mrs Jan Campbell

Mrs Kim Chaplin

Dr Steven Chapman

Ms Shruti Chaudhri

Mr Nick Clark

Mr Phil Coldicott

Miss Patricia Cooper

Mr Richard Craven

Mrs Pauline Curtis

Mrs Diana Dalton

Mrs Clare Danielian

Mrs Marguerite and Mr Norman Donkin

Mrs Lynn Dowson

Mrs Sheila Duncan

Mr Jonny Edge

Professor Vincent English

Miss Mille Fjelldal

Mr Sutherland Forsyth

Mrs Miriam France

Mrs Karen George

Mrs Carole Girdler

Mrs Christine Grainge

Miss Natasha Gray

Mrs Fiona Gruneberg

Mr Mark Hanley-Browne

Dr Neil Hennessy

Mrs Jill Hicks

Mr Gregoire Hodder

Mr Ian Hodgson

Ms Louise Holyoak

Mr Richard Hopkins

Mr Tom Horn

Mr Brian Howarth

Mr Carl Howarth

Mrs Anne Howell

Mr Tim Hubener

Mrs Ann Jackman

Mr Paul James

Mr John Keene

Dr David Lawrence

Mr Jonathan Levine

Ms Jane Lewin Smith

Mr Can Liang

Mr Matthew Linsell

Mr Tony Little

Mrs Susan Lovett

Mrs Diana Lucas

Mr Michael Lynch

Mrs Christine Macpherson

Mr Hachimi Maiga

Mrs Lesley Marriott

Mr Andrew McNeil

Mrs Helen McRoberts

Mrs Sarah McWhinnie

Mrs Maggie Meredith

Dr Anthony Metcalfe

Mrs Karen Miranthis

Ms Elaine Mo

Mr Matthew Moss MVO

Mr Remi Moynihan

Mrs Ann Muston

Mr Ikenna Obiekwe

Mr Douglas Porter

Mr Ravi Raichura

Mrs Diane Rawlins

Lady (Ann) Ricketts

Miss Gill Rogers

Mrs Elizabeth Rose

Mrs Kate Ryder

Mrs Andrea Saunders

Mr Luke Shepherd

Mrs Netti Smallbone

Mrs Cheryl Smith

Mr Tristan Stone

Mrs Jessica Taylor

Mrs Lesley Thomas

Mrs Brenda Thompson

Mr James Thomson

Mr Michael Thorp

Mrs Dilys West

Mr John White

Dr David Whitebread

Ms Rhiannon Williams

Mrs Helen Wood

Cavendish Circle

Lady Baker

Dr Norman Bardsley

Ms Victoria Brahm Schild

Mrs Pamela Dawson

Mrs Annie Illingworth

Macaulay Circle

Mrs Jane Bishop

Miss Patricia Cooper

Mr Gordon Gaddes

Mrs Coral Harrow

Mrs Karen Miranthis

Mrs Kate Ryder

Dr Peter Warner

Mrs Dilys West

Donor and alumna Mrs Siobhan Cassidy at the Donor Reception 2019

ALUMNI

Alumni Weekend

Alumni News

Retired Senior Members’ Association

ALUMNI WEEKEND

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Hosting Alumni Reunion Weekend in virtual form was an interesting prospect. Without a physical return to College, the chance to check up on familiar haunts, catch up with old friends and fill up on indulgent food, what was left?

Well, quite a lot, as it turned out. One hundred and twenty alumni joined us via Zoom for a weekend which demonstrated that the energy, vitality and variety of Homerton life were undiminished by six months of remote activity.

• A Welcome session with the Principal, Senior Tutor and HUS President explained how Homerton has responded to the pandemic, from supporting remote learning, to working towards antibody testing and supplying PPE to Addenbrooke’s.

• Our Director of Music, Dr Daniel TrocméLatter, and members of the Charter Choir described the process of creating a recording (and an Evensong!) while scattered in their respective homes, as well as looking ahead to their plans for gathering once again as a choir.

• Our Pre-Clinical Director of Studies in Medicine, Dr Julia Kenyon, provided a clear, accessible and fascinating session on how knowledge of other viruses is enabling her and other scientists to unravel the mysteries of Covid-19.

• Dr Mariah Whelan made her first official appearance as the Jacqueline Bardsley Poetin-Residence, leading a moving and thoughtprovoking session on Poetry and Connection.

Groups of alumni celebrating 60, 50, 40 and 30 years out also gathered in social Zoom calls. It was wonderful to see so many people engaging with the College, and fascinating to see how a new approach, while brought about by inauspicious circumstances, can have benefits. Several participants mentioned that distance or other commitments meant that they would be unable to attend an in-person event. We are delighted that they were able to take part this year, and will incorporate online access into future events to enable them to continue to do so.

We are enormously grateful to Sally Nott, who joined Homerton as Alumni Relations Manager in March and had spent a mere 10 days in College before lockdown banished her to work from home. Creating the first ever virtual Alumni Reunion Weekend, six months into the post but having spent almost none of that on site, is no small achievement! n

Alumni Relations Manager Sally Nott leads the reunion from a distance

ALUMNI NEWS

We are delighted to share the following news of our alumni. Please do get in touch (alumni@homerton.cam.ac.uk ) if you would like to include an update in the next issue.

1940s

Eileen McWilliam (née Price) (CertEd with Music, 1945) sent us a wonderful overview of her post-Homerton career.

“Miss Skillicorn was not pleased that I had not accepted a teaching post on leaving Homerton, but I think I was forgiven when I told her that I had accepted the Open Scholarship at the Royal College of Music in London, where I stayed for five years to qualify. My voice developed so well I sang professionally for many years, until a devastating car accident stopped my progress for some years. However I was able to start again after a few years quite successfully, ending up as Head of the Vocal Department of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and London University. I was also the chair of the Association of Teachers of Singing in the UK for two years. I returned to the Land of my Fathers six years ago, and take occasional private pupils and give advice on voice.”

We were saddened to hear from Ann Kirkby (née Harper) (BEd 1976) of the death of her mother, Eleanor Harper (née Kirkby) (CertEd 1949). Eleanor, who died just shy of her 90th birthday in February 2020, was the first of three generations of Homertonian women. Her granddaughter, Ann’s daughter, Rebecca Kirkby, completed her PGCE at Homerton in 2016–17, before undertaking the Masters in Education in 2018. Rebecca currently teaches at Comberton Village College, and is completing her Farmington Scholarship at Homerton.

“Eleanor was a wonderful mother and teacher who held Homerton in a special place in her heart,” Ann wrote. “I probably would not have gone to Homerton were it not for her, and the same would probably be true for my daughter. My mother, my daughter and I have all loved Homerton and, on their behalf, they and I wish the staff and students the very best for the future years there.”

1950s

Ruth Alcock (née Alpine) (CertEd 1954) travelled from Yorkshire to study at Homerton, where she qualified as a teacher and met a St John’s student, Robert Alcock, whom she married in 1960. Ruth sent us these memories of her time in Cambridge.

Rebecca Kirkby, Ann Kirkby and Eleanor Harper

“My room was 102 on the third floor of the ABC wing. One lunch time I was called out of lunch and asked to show an old lady over College. She had been at Homerton in 1895 and had lived in the same room. She remembered having to make a candle last and not to ask for a replacement.

My father’s cousin was at Homerton in 1923, though I never knew her name. Her parents received a letter from College one day informing them that their daughter was associating with a young man from Jesus College and should they discourage the friendship?

I shall never forget the tradition at 10pm on the last night before going down for Christmas Vacation. Keeping it secret from the new first years until the last minute the Senior Student Grace Isaacs led a carol singing crocodile gradually along the wings ABC and DEF all in darkness except for our electric torches.

What a different world it was! Ten girls were presented at Court and the next day, back in College, they paraded in their dresses.

I did come back just the once when we were newly retired and it happened to be Graduation Day. I was thrilled to see the boys, what an improvement!”

1960s

Anne Martin (née Sparrowe) (CertEd 1968) shared with us her reflections on a year like no other.

“I am sure that for many people of my age, having just passed my 70th birthday, this year as well as being an extraordinary year for all the wrong reasons, has been a time of reflection. I know I have been very lucky to not live on my own, to have had access to my own and shared gardens during complete lockdown, to have a secure income and to have had plenty to do. I guess for those of us who grew up during the 1950s and 60s, the limits imposed have for many been not as hard as for those younger than ourselves. I remember the lonely school holidays stretching out in front of me. We did not have a television until I was 11 and viewing was strictly rationed. The telephone was only used for important calls or emergencies. As I had few friends locally, most of the time I occupied myself. This year I have been really appreciative of Zoom, WhatsApp and email.

That doesn’t mean I haven’t missed family and friends, especially as we moved 400 miles three years ago to support our daughter and sonin-law as they adopted two young children. I have missed my close friends; Zoom, email, WhatsApp and the telephone are not the same

Ruth Alpine marries Robert Alcock in 1960

as going for a walk or meeting for a coffee, and visits south not practical. But technology has given us new opportunities.

I was fortunate to have a project to finish this year. I completed my PhD thesis, having my viva by Zoom. I experienced the kindness of people, when I needed to get hold of two rare books for corrections. I have used Zoom to hold weekly meetings for the Edinburgh Society of Recorder Players and we have put virtual performances together – something I previously had no experience of. Meetings I have attended by Zoom have been far more efficient than previous face-face meetings, often completed in an hour when they previously took two hours or more. Through small Zoom groups, I have met people I had not previously met. I’ve read more than usual and started embroidery again after 40 years. I’ve tried to contact people I haven’t spoken to for a while, particularly those who are on their own and have enjoyed catching up with them.

So I wonder what we will think when the year is over and hopefully the end of the Covid epidemic is in sight. I’m looking forward to hugging my grandchildren again, which as adopted children they really need, and my daughter and son-in-law, who are exhausted. What will we remember positively about this year? The extraordinary dedication of the NHS and scientists; the imaginative use of technology; the wakening up of communities to support each other; the hope of change in the USA; a greater appreciation of what we had and hope for the future. We must never forget the tragedies of this year; the deaths, the after-effects of Covid, the increase in domestic violence, unemployment and all the consequences of this and increased mental health problems. 2021 will be a year to take stock and consider the future and how we want our world to be.”

1970s

Congratulations to Dr Jane Clements (née Boddington) (CertEd 1971) who has been awarded an MBE for services to Inter-Faith and Community Cohesion.

Nicola Kemp (née Morris) (CertEd 1974) has retired as Assistant Head and Head of 6th Form, and written her first novel, All You Should Be, available on Amazon. Boosted by the response it has received, she is now working on a sequel.

Dr Wendy Bishop (née Waterfield) (PGCE 1976) is currently working as an independent landscape historian. Her book, Ornamental Lakes: Their Origins and Evolution in English Landscapes will be published in 2021 by Routledge.

Anne Martin at her graduation in 1972

2000s

Dr Miranda Malins (BA History 2003) completed an MPhil and PhD at Magdalene after leaving Homerton. A commercial solicitor, she began writing historical novels while on maternity leave. The Puritan Princess, a fictionalised life of Oliver Cromwell’s daughter, was published by Orion Fiction in March 2020.

Miranda is a Trustee of the Cromwell Association and regularly speaks at historical conferences as well as publishing journal articles and book reviews.

Jessica King (BA History 2006–11) recently wrote a script on which she has had professional feedback from Industrial Scripts. She is now looking to re-submit her edited version to find a producer and an interested network.

She has also collaborated on a pilot which is being made into a radio play, and regularly ghost-writes content for blue-chip companies.

2010s

Dr Constanze Maria Hammerle (MRes 2010, PhD Medical Sciences 2011) has recently published the findings of her team at the Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science: Mesenchyme-derived IGF2 is a major paracrine regulator of pancreatic growth and function. The research comprised the main chapter of Constanze’s PhD thesis, and enables the scientific community to access the peer-reviewed findings of many years of research, leading to wider understanding of the mechanisms contributing to a functional pancreas.

She has since moved to Denmark, where she works as a regulatory project manager in stem cell development at Novo Nordisk, maintaining her focus on diabetes research.

“I attach the striking image of an immuno-staining which closely resembles Edvard Munch’s iconic artwork Scream, which I discovered in one of the research sections I imaged for my project – nature truly is amazing!

Dr Miranda Malins

Immuno-staining, as worked on by Dr Constanze Hammerle

We were delighted to hear from George Jenkins (BA Classics 2011; MPhil Classics 2014) and Ruth Jenkins (née Beddow) (BA Geography 2010; PGCE 2013; MEd 2016) that they have welcomed their first child, Henry John David Jenkins, this year.

George, Ruth and Henry Jenkins

Tania Clarke (BA Education with English and Drama, 2012–15; MPhil Education 2015–16) is currently a Vice-Chancellor’s PhD scholar in Psychology and Education at St Edmund’s College. Her research investigates how national concepts of education can change to incorporate a focus on children’s wellbeing alongside their academic

achievements. Tania recently published her first single-author article in Theory and Research in Education, entitled Children’s wellbeing and their academic achievement: The dangerous discourse of ‘trade-offs’ in education.

Congratulations to David Bamford (MSt in Applied Criminology, Penology and Management, 2013) who has been awarded an OBE for services to Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service.

Rebekah-Miron Clayton (BA Education with English and Drama 2013) contributed to The Emma Press Anthology of Illness – a collection of poems that grapple with everything from chronic conditions to life-altering hospital stays. Her poem Check up was recently mentioned in The Glass Magazine’s review and the anthology is available to buy online and in bookstores. Over the past year, Rebekah has been published by Rattle Magazine, Maudlin House, Nymphs Publications and Lunate. In June, Rebekah’s poem Moon Bear was shortlisted for the Frogmore Poetry Prize and then published in their autumn edition. In August, Rebekah was a finalist in the Sweet Lit Poetry Contest.

Rebekah-Miron Clayton

RETIRED SENIOR MEMBERS’ ASSOCIATION

Dr Peter Warner, Chair of the RSMA and Keeper of the Roll

We all know what a terrible year this has been for everyone. Not surprisingly for the Retired Senior Members

Association, all of whom by definition are over 65 and many much older and frail, lockdown has been a dangerous and isolating experience.

All our usual social events, in and out of College, site visits to gardens and museums, our coffee mornings, have been cancelled until further notice.

However, with characteristic resilience, the Committee has maintained a number of its key functions: Libby Jared edited a 40-page bumper annual Newsletter in 2020, and there were reports from the Committee and news about College sent out regularly by Clare Ryan from the Bursar’s Office. As usual we maintained contact with sick and isolated older members via email and Zoom. Every week Philip Stephenson gave us his riveting personal insight into works of art at the Fitzwilliam Museum.

The RSM Committee continues to meet regularly on Zoom. Like everyone else we long for the return of normality, or even approximate normality, so we can once again enjoy a distanced coffee morning in College.

Sadly, this year we have lost a number of older members, but gained a few new retirees. Among the losses were John Chapman, a much-loved Head Porter, fondly remembered by students from the 80s and 90s, as well as Dr Jill Richardson, who taught Psychology with memorable pizazz. She and Mike Bibby made a great partnership and were always very sociable and welcoming to younger members of staff and students alike.

We also mourn the loss of Barbara Pointon MBE, Head of Music at Homerton, who became

nationally famous for her TV documentary on Alzheimer’s and the harrowing decline of her husband, Malcolm, also a former Head of Music. Barbara was one of those exceptional Homerton characters who made a mark on all who met her, especially her students who enjoyed performing music or singing with her.

More recently we have to report the loss of George Hume. George was a member of the mathematics department and is remembered fondly by many people. Some colleagues knew George when he first arrived from Uganda after being ejected by Idi Amin in 1972. Despite having lost a lot – both emotionally and financially – he always seemed cheerful, caring and positive with a splendid sense of humour. Others recall that he had the knack of helping to take the heat out of tricky situations, hence his appointment as our first Dean of discipline. There was never a kinder, more gentle Dean in Cambridge than George. He lived in France for a number of years after retirement before moving back to the Cambridge area.

We welcome new retirees from the Faculty of Education: Keith Taber, Professor of Science Education, who joined Homerton in 1999, but a year later transferred to the Faculty, and Dr Peggy Watson who was appointed to Homerton in 2007 as Senior Research Fellow in Sociology and as Director of Studies in HSPS (Human Social and Political Sciences). A specialist in post-Cold War studies in Eastern Europe, Peggy focused on the sociology of health and critical gender studies. She had first-hand experience of living and studying at the University of Warsaw in the final years of the Cold War, but had also worked later in the USA and Helsinki.

It is interesting now to welcome retiring College Fellows into the RSMA as they complement the majority of older members who

remember Homerton before ‘convergence’ with the University. We also welcome Robin Surtees, who was deputy librarian for nearly 20 years at a time of considerable change for the College and its students. She saw the number of triposes offered for undergraduate study expand exponentially – a great deal of book purchasing was therefore required every year to keep up with these new courses and other essentials such as skeletons

for medics! During Robin’s time there was also a complete refurbishment of the new library.

In spite of Covid-19, keeping in touch is relatively easy with mobile phones, newsletters, email, and Zoom, but nothing compares with an hour of sitting down with old friends, having a chat, and catching up with College gossip.

Hopefully we shall return to that soon in some shape or form in 2021 n

Photograph by Helen Andre-Cripps

MEMBERSHIP

Principal and Fellows

Student Achievement

Blues Awards

Graduates

New Members

PRINCIPAL AND FELLOWS

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Principal

Professor Geoffrey Ward FRSA

Fellows

2002 Dr Penelope Barton Senior Tutor

Dr David Clifford

Mr David Whitley

2005 Mr Philip Stephenson

Dr Elaine Wilson

2006 Dr Louise Joy Vice-Principal

2007 Dr William Foster

Dr Simon Wadsley Secretary of Council and Governing Body

2008 Dr Theophilus Hacking

Dr Rosalind McLellan

Dr Olivier Tonneau

2009 Dr Melanie Keene Graduate Tutor

2010 Dr André Neves

2011 Dr Thomas Graumann

Professor Simon Gregory

2012 Dr Katherine Boyle Director of Research

Dr Juliana Cavalcanti

Ms Deborah Griffin OBE Bursar

Dr Myrto Hatzimichali

Dr Daniel Trocmé-Latter Director of Music

2013 Dr Pauline Goyal-Rutsaert

Dr Georgina Horrell Admissions Tutor

Dr Yan Yan (Shery) Huang

Dr Julia Kenyon

Dr Timoleon Kipouros

2014 Dr Christopher Brooke

Dr Joel Chalfen

Professor Douglas Easton

Professor Timothy Eisen

Dr Paul Elliott Admissions Tutor (Sciences)

Dr Zoe Jaques Dean

Dr Francesca Moore

Mr Matthew Moss MVO Director of External Relations and Development

2015 Dr Chibeza Agley

Dr Anthony Ashton

Dr Mark Manford

Mrs Elizabeth Osman Librarian

Mr Paul Warwick

Dr Rachel Williams

2016 Professor Simone Hochgreb

Dr Hayk Kupelyants

Dr Maja Spanu

2017 Dr David Belin

Dr Stephen Burgess

Dr Ross Cole

Professor Mary Dixon-Woods

Dr Susanne Hakenbeck

Dr Elizabeth Hook

Mr Aaron Westfall

2018 Dr Kamal Munir

Dr Beth Singler

Dr Samuel Strong

Dr Alison Wood

2019 Professor Karen Coats

Professor Ravindra Gupta

Dr Kathelijne Koops

Ms Ines Lee

Dr Clare Lestringant

Mr James Manwaring

Dr Miles Stopher

Dr Carmen Ting

2020 Dr Timothy Brittain-Catlin

Professor Matthew Collins

Miss Amelia Drew

Dr Karen Forbes

Dr Fernanda Gallo

Ms Meredith McLaughlin

Miss Sofia Singler

Honorary Fellows

2007 Mrs Ann Cotton OBE Founder and President of CAMFED

2010 Dame Carol Ann Duffy DBE Poet Laureate

2011 The Rev’d Sir Ralph Waller Director of the Farmington Institute, Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University of Oxford

2013 Dr Katharine Pretty CBE Principal of Homerton College 1991-2013

2014 Professor Sir Andrew Motion Poet Laureate 1999-2009

2016 Professor Dame Sally Davies DBE FMedSci FRS Chief Medical Officer for England

Dame Evelyn Glennie CH DBE Percussionist

Sir David Harrison CBE Former Chair of Trustees of Homerton College

Ms Meg Rosoff FRSL Novelist

2017 Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz Vice-Chancellor Emeritus of the University of Cambridge

2019 Dame Sue Black DBE FRSE FRCP FRAI Pro-Vice Chancellor for Engagement of the University of Lancaster, President of the Royal Anthropological Institute

Professor Jane Shaw Principal of Harris Manchester College, Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University of Oxford

Emeritus Fellows

2009 Dr Peter Raby Former Vice-Principal

2010 Mr John Beck

Dr Ian Morrison

2011 Professor David Bridges

Mr Stephen Tomkins

2012 Commodore Gale Bryan Former Bursar

2013 Mr Dhiru Karia Finance Tutor and Former Finance Officer

Dr Peter Warner Keeper of the Roll and Former Senior Tutor

2014 Ms Patricia Maude MBE

Professor Morag Styles

Mrs Elizabeth Anne Thwaites

2015 Dr Peter Cunningham

Professor John Gray FBA Former Vice-Principal

Mr Michael Younger

2016 Ms Christine Doddington

Dr John Hopkins Composer-in-Residence

Dr Molly Warrington

2017 Professor Richard Hickman Artist-in-Residence

2019 Mr Steve Watts

2020 Professor Maria Nikolajeva

Dr Peggy Watson

Mr David Whitley

Bye-Fellows

2013 Dr Linda King

Dr Richard Williams

2014 Mrs Jane Warwick

2015 Mr Bob Dillon

Dr Joanna Haywood

Dr Catherine MacKenzie

2016 Mr Dario Palumbo

2018 Dr Robin Bunce

Dr John Fawcett

Dr Elsa Lee

Dr Eileen Nugent

2019 Dr Mojtaba Bagheri

Dr Louis Chan

Dr Josie O’Donoghue

Dr Min-Yen Ong

Dr Joanna Stasiak

2020 Dr Abdeldjalil Bennecer

Dr Carmen Olmedilla Herrero

Research Associates

Dr Axel Bangert

Dr Clementine Beauvais

Dr Jim Blevins

Dr Doug Coombes

Dr Neville Dean

Dr Karthik Depuru Mohan

Dr Judy Fonville

Dr Rose Grey

Dr Louise Hardwick

Dr Hayley Hooper

Dr Richard Johns

Dr Deborah Kronenberg-Versteeg

Dr Thomas Leppard

Professor Rebecca Lingwood

Dr James Loudon

Dr Ruth Mugford

Dr Ankur Mutreja

Professor Helen Nicholson

Dr Nurulamin Noor

Dr Redell Olsen

Dr Unai Pascual

Professor Stephen Rennard

Dr Sophie Richter

Dr Abigail Rokison-Woodall

Dr Darren Sarisky

Dr Matthew Tointon

Professor Richard Toye

Dr Gonzales Urcelay

Dr Astrid Van Oyen

Dr Jasper van Wezel

Dr Lauren Waszek

Mr Steve Waters

Professor Bryn Williams-Jones

Dr Alice Wilson

Dr Arjan Zuiderhoek

Dr Stelios Zyglidopoulos

Dr Alison Wood, Dr David Belin and Dr Robin Bunce

STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT

Each year Homerton makes a number of awards to students in recognition of academic merit and outstanding achievement. The following were awarded in 2020 and the College congratulates the recipients.

UNDERGRADUATE PRIZES FOR FINALISTS

The Foundation Prize awarded to students graduating with a starred First Class result

Emmanouil Angelidakis

Samuel Burry

Lucy Champion

Charlotte Husnjak

Gabriela Martin

Jasmin Thien

Katherine Whitfield

Emily Williams

Archie Williams

The Horobin Prize for the best First Class result in the Education Tripos

Charlotte Husnjak

The Aditya Dalmia Prize to the student graduating with the best First Class result in the Land Economy Tripos

James Hayes

The Lord Dawson/Kueh Prize for the best First Class result in the Theology & Religious Studies Tripos

Lily Ford

The Simms Benefaction awarded to the student graduating with the best

First Class result in the History Tripos

Archie Williams

The David Thompson Prize awarded to students graduating with a First Class result

Aditi Aggarwal

Emmanouil Angelidakis

Nadia Bahemia

Adam Boxall

Anna Burke

Samuel Burry

Amelia Calladine

Oliver Carr

Jonas Cerneckis

Isabel Clancy

Dario Colajanni

Sam Coleman

Matthew Coombes

Isabella Copplestone

Eleanor Coverdale

Daniel Cronin

Emma Davies

Adam Dewhurst

Charlotte Facherty

Dilyan Hristov

Robert Johnson

Rafaella Keavney

Anandita Ketkar

Gary LeGresley

Hannah Lyall

Ruairidh Macleod

Roderick MacSween

Anna Marisina

Gabriela Martin

Juliet Martin

Parissa Moghanchi

Anne Monk

Georgina Moore

Reuben Morris

Neal Patel

Dominic Pattison

Sebastian Putman

Klara Rehm

Constantin Schwetlick

Olivia Sewell

Kit Shoebridge

Nicholas Smith

Yi Song

Jing Min Tan

Alexander Thompson

Isabel Towell

Helena Trenkic

Rhoel Tupaz

Owen Underwood

Zelna Weich

Vijja Wichitwechkarn

Zuzanna Witkowska

Henry Wright

Maya Yousif

The Shuard/Simms Prize for students graduating with a First Class result in the Education Tripos

Xahra Binti Mohamed Ashraf

Lucy Champion

Chloe Lee

Olivia Miller

Francesca Reed

Jasmin Thien

Katherine Whitfield

Emily Williams

College Academic Achievement Award for students who have been awarded a University Prize

Oliver Carr

Jonas Cerneckis

Neal Patel

Nicholas Smith

Rhoel Tupaz

Kayden Xie

ACADEMIC PRIZES AND SCHOLARSHIPS FOR UNDERGRADUATE CONTINUERS

The Bridget Robinson Studentship to reward academic excellence in Maths or Music (in memory of the late Bridget Robinson)

Eddy Guo

The David Thompson Scholarship awarded to continuing students who received a First Class result

Saffa Fatima

Ziyi Kang

Evans Rozario

Tin Tse

Pavel Turek

Kayden Xie

ACADEMIC PRIZES FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS

College Master’s Prize awarded to graduate students who achieved a distinction overall

Harry Bickerstaffe

David Buterez

Yuege Chen

Antonia Chiappa

Sorrell Cookson

Jamie Culkin

Leo Duddin

Celine Fournier

Rebecca Green

Carly Guppy

Daniel Hissey

Alex Hpa

Yu Yin Law

Craig Nethercott

Leopold Peiseler

Hannah Rapp

Joanne Reading

Abigail Sloan

Chaewon Sohn

Song Tang

Jane Unsworth

Imran Visram

Wilfred Woolf

Xiaowei Zhang

PRIZES FOR CONTRIBUTING TO COLLEGE LIFE

The Barton Prize awarded to the graduate student who has made the most outstanding contribution to College life

Annabel Manley

Oscar Wilson

The Westall Prize for the most outstanding contribution to College life

Henry Wright

MUSIC AWARDS

The Accompanist Scholarship awarded to Angelus Blank

The Pointon Prize awarded to a student of Music who has made the most distinctive contribution to the musical life of the College

Anna Cooper

Senior Organ Scholarship awarded to

Matthew Walters

Junior Organ Scholarship awarded to

Mark Englander

BLUES AWARDS

‘Blues’ are awarded in recognition of sporting excellence in representing the University of Cambridge. During the 2019–2020 academic year, Blues were awarded to the following Homertonians.

Full Blues

Danielle Ball Karate

Paddy Bird Golf

Emma Mary Carson Netball

Juliette Graham Cheerleading

Alistair Greenwood Boxing

Ella Hordern Hockey

Dongchan Lee Boxing

Morgause Lomas Hockey

Daisy Margolis Cheerleading

Reuben Morris Squash

Lily Norris Cheerleading

Kosi Nwuba Football

Bill Taylor Hockey

Jack Wilson-Smith Lawn Tennis

Ruth Wright Trampoline

Half Blues

India Blakesby Real Tennis

Nathan Butler American Football

Eve Hull Swimming

Marcus Jones Hockey

Omar Khassal Table Tennis

James Lee Rowing

Carmen Lim Swimming

Lily Norris (2017 Education) as part of the Cambridge Cougars cheerleading squad

Photograph by Lily Bungay

GRADUATES

The College congratulates the following students on completing their studies at Homerton and on being awarded their qualifications.

Bachelor of Arts

Caija Ebony Acheampomaa

Natural Sciences Tripos

Aditi Pravin Agaarwal

Law Tripos

Claudia Elizabeth Anderson

History & Politics Tripos

Emmanouil Angelidakis

Chemical Engineering via Natural Sciences Tripos

Nadia Bahemia

Psychology & Behavioural Sciences Tripos

Filippo Bertocchi

Asian & Middle Eastern Studies

Aryehi Bhushan

English Tripos

Mohamed Ashraf Binti

Education Tripos

Samuel Bird

Natural Sciences Tripos

James William Bisping

Education Tripos

India Blaksley

Modern & Medieval

Languages Tripos

Eleanor Lind Booton

Archaeology Tripos

Adam Boxall

Natural Sciences Tripos

Katie Boylan

Human, Social & Political

Sciences Tripos

David James Bradburn

Engineering Tripos

Anna Natalya Burke

English Tripos

Harry Thomas Hele Burke

Classical Tripos

Blythe Burkhart

Modern & Medieval

Languages Tripos

Samuel Hans Roy Burry

History & Politics Tripos

Amelia Beatrice Lillie Calladine

Music Tripos

Christopher Cannon

Natural Sciences Tripos

Oliver Ben Carr

Natural Sciences Tripos

Jonas Cerneckis

Natural Sciences Tripos

Lucy Eleanor Champion

Education Tripos

Ka Ka Evelyn Choi

English Tripos

Monika Ewa Chowaniec

Natural Sciences Tripos

Isabel Clancy

Human, Social & Political

Sciences Tripos

Jack Clarke

Human, Social & Political

Sciences Tripos

Dario Colajanni

Classical Tripos

Samuel Coleman

Engineering Tripos

Courtney Anne Collins

Engineering Tripos

Joseph Marcus Cook

Human, Social & Political

Sciences Tripos

Matthew Coombes

Land Economy Tripos

Anna Florence Cooper

Music Tripos

Charles Benjamin Cooper

Classical Tripos

Isabella Copplestone

Human, Social & Political

Sciences Tripos

Megan Rose Coslett

Education Tripos

Eleanor Jane Coverdale

Economics Tripos

Daniel Cronin

Geographical Tripos

Geza Csenger

Computer Science Tripos

Emma Davies

Natural Sciences Tripos

Adam Michael Dewhurst

Land Economy Tripos

Wenqing Du

Education Tripos

Leah Marie Durant

Historical Tripos

Katie Embling

Education Tripos

Isabel Mary Emery

Management Studies Tripos

Alexander George Evans

Law Tripos

Charlotte Decia Facherty

Natural Sciences Tripos

Alborz Nader Farahati

Modern & Medieval

Languages Tripos

Kate Field

Education Tripos

Lily Madeleine Needham Ford

Theology, Religion & Philosophy of Religion Tripos

Bryony Megan Mycock Fyffe

Historical Tripos

Constantino Gavalas

Psychological & Behavioural

Sciences Tripos

Gianna Maria Giordani

Modern & Medieval

Languages Tripos

Madeleine Sarah Bradley

Green

Education Tripos

Alistair Greenwood

Historical Tripos

James Luke Hamilton

Historical Tripos

Isabella Hazel Harter

English Tripos

Michael Harvey

Engineering Tripos

Elizabeth Hawkings

Engineering Tripos

James Michael Hayes

Land Economy Tripos

Josephine Anna Jessie Heesom

English Tripos

Samuel Hoar

Historical Tripos

Amaya Rose Holman

English Tripos

Dilyan Hristov

Natural Sciences Tripos

Charlotte Elizabeth Husnjak

Education Tripos

Leila Hussein

Human, Social & Political

Sciences Tripos

Chak Chi Alison Iu

Law Tripos

Emily Robertson James

Historical Tripos

Gurbir Singh Johal

Natural Sciences Tripos

Nathan Johns

Classical Tripos

Robert Johnson

Economics Tripos

Jake Smith Lloyd Jones

Law Tripos

Rafaella Keavney

Historical Tripos

Anandita Ketkar

Land Economy Tripos

Matthew Benjamin Koster

Natural Sciences Tripos

Qiangru Kuang

Mathematical Tripos

Eugenie Kwan

Education Tripos

Dee Loon Lai

Engineering Tripos

Mohammed Yama Latif

Natural Sciences Tripos

Chloe Lee

Education Tripos

Gary Johnathan LeGresley Law Tripos

Alfred Leigh

Classical Tripos

Alex Augustus Lemery

Education Tripos

Frank Valentine Jack Levermore

Psychology & Behavioural

Sciences Tripos

Li Hong Liew

Engineering Tripos

Emma Louise Lindsey

Engineering Tripos

Alexey Lipov

Natural Sciences Tripos

Andre Chu Qiao

Natural Sciences Tripos

Morgause Lomas

Archaeology Tripos

Yat Yi Lung

Law Tripos

Hannah Marion Lyall

Human, Social & Political

Sciences Tripos

Ruairidh Macleod

Archaeology Tripos

Roderick MacSween

Computer Science Tripos

Daniel Magennis

Modern & Medieval

Languages Tripos

Shane Gill Mallard

Economics Tripos

Alice Mamelle

Human, Social & Political

Sciences Tripos

Anna Marisina

English Tripos

Gabriela Lucy Martin

Modern & Medieval

Languages Tripos

Juliet Martin

English Tripos

Jade McCarthy

Psychological & Behavioural

Sciences Tripos

Finn Milo Devoy McIntosh

Natural Sciences Tripos

Raj Mehta

Mathematical Tripos

Olivia Miller

Education Tripos

Luke Mleczko

Chemical Engineering via

Engineering Tripos

James Henry Mocatta

Natural Sciences Tripos

Parissa Moghanchi

Management Studies Tripos

Charlotte Victoria Moncrief

Economics Tripos

Anne Monk

Human, Social & Political

Sciences Tripos

Georgina Leah Moore

Historical Tripos

Bethan Morris

Natural Sciences Tripos

Reuben Benjamin Morris

Human, Social & Political

Sciences Tripos

Morgan Morrison

Natural Sciences Tripos

Cassandra Audrey Neathercoat

English Tripos

Razvan-Cristian Nicolescu

Computer Science Tripos

Lily Norris

Education Tripos

Chukwunenyem Nwuba

Natural Sciences Tripos

Temiloluwa O O A E

Onilogbo

Chemical Engineering via Natural Sciences Tripos

William Pallier

Natural Sciences Tripos

Yitong Pang

Economics Tripos

Petros Papadopoulos

Law Tripos

Neal Patel

Economics Tripos

Romil Patel

Economics Tripos

Micah William Tipple

Patterson

Music Tripos

Dominic Daniel Pattison

Anglo Saxon, Norse and Celtic Tripos

Nikhil Popat

Land Economy Tripos

Rhiannon Power

Modern & Medieval

Languages Tripos

Sebastian Joseph Putman

Management Studies Tripos

Mahid Qamar

Land Economy Tripos

Francesca Isabella Reed

Education Tripos with Religious Studies

Klara Joyce Rehm

History & Politics Tripos

Ayush Rodrigues

Natural Sciences Tripos

Joseph Edward Saxby

Mathematical Tripos

Samuel Sayer

Theology, Religion & Philosophy of Religion Tripos

Carlo Scarian

Mathematical Tripos

Constantin Schwetlick

Natural Sciences Tripos

Benjamin Lucas Searle

Computer Science Tripos

Oliva Madeleine Sewell

Psychology & Behavioural Sciences Tripos

Nishi Vijaykumar Shah

Human, Social & Political Sciences Tripos

Kit Trewhella Shoebridge

Geographical Tripos

Hannah Shury-Smith

English Tripos

Nicholas James Smith

Asian & Middle Eastern Studies

Yi Song

Economics Tripos

Rebecca Jane Stevenson

Human, Social & Political Sciences Tripos

Jing Min Tan

Law Tripos

Megan Taylor

Natural Sciences Tripos

Jasmin Seow Ting Thien

Education Tripos

Alexander Hamish Thompson

Law Tripos

Emily Anne Thompson

Classical Tripos

Thomas Thorogood

Natural Sciences Tripos

Isabel Towell

Management Studies Tripos

Helena Trenkic

Historical Tripos

Kazuki Tsujisaka

Geographical Tripos

Rhoel Art Aebriel Padua Tupaz

Modern & Medieval

Languages Tripos

Owen Underwood

Manufacturing Engineering Tripos

Georgia Eleanor Mary

Vyvyan

Education Tripos

Natanya Mariah WalcottBurton

Modern & Medieval

Languages Tripos

Abby Megan Wallace

Historical Tripos

Zelna Cecilia Weich

Geographical Tripos

Katherine Whitfield

Education Tripos

Vija Wichitwechkarn

Natural Sciences Tripos

Archie Williams

Historical Tripos

Emily Williams

Education Tripos

Zuzanna Witkowska

Linguistics Tripos

Henry David Wright

Computer Science Tripos

Yan Wu

Psychology & Behavioural Sciences Tripos

Yijie Yin

Natural Sciences Tripos

Maya Yousif

Theology, Religion & Philosophy of Religion Tripos

Postgraduate Certificate in Education

Rahbia Ahmed

Rebecca Alexander

Hina Kanwal Ali

Adam Al-Janabi

Eleanor Ruth Amaya Taylor

Wendy Kaye Archer

Kathleen Armsby

Elizabeth Faye Ayres

Lucrezia Baldo

Jack Richard Baldwin

Kate Balgarnie

Callum Robert Bates

Bertie John Beeching

Wei Jie Beh

Grace Bentham

Yaron Bernstein

Daniel Bowry

Lois Braysher

Thomas Andrew Breakwell

Hannah Burton

Bryony Byrne

Claire Rachel Carrick

Sophie Carroll

Florence Chapman

Isabelle Charles

Lewis Church

Jessica Ciantar

Marie-Christine Clemente

Catarina Clifford-Stephenson

Hannah Cockayne

Liam John Connolly

Storm Clara Cook

Sara Chloe Crooks

Natasha Crosby

Tara Jane Michelle Cross

Jessica Isabel Davies

Iona Davis

Lucy Charlotte Dayer

Eleanor Kate de Wild

Andrew John Derrett

Eleanor Dimond

Laura Dixon

Olivia Dixon

Neelam Dovedi

Elinor Downie

Megan Louise Doyle

Joshua Adam Draper

Tessa Alison Sandford

Drysdale

Andrew Graham Curnyn

Eades

Jessica Mai Eady

Alice Lucy Rose Edwards

Rukaya Elgaziari

Clara El-Metaal

Victoria Evans

Syed Fahad

Natalie Faulkner

William Findlay

Natalie Fisher

Trudi Fisher

Zen Cosmo Fordham

Catherine Alice Franks

Constance Gellatly

Maisie Ella Giblenn

Aimee Jade Gibson

Eliza Heather Gilchrist

Lauren Rebecca Hanslow

Kai Robert Alfred Hardy

Jemima Elizabeth Rose Harney

Katherine Laura Hayhurst

Isabelle Hearnshaw

Kirsty Hensleigh

Victoria Hesketh

Nicola Jane Hodson

Henrietta Mabel Lucy Hook

Emily Louise Howells

Lucy Elizabeth Hudson

Hannah Ireland

Sadhia Islam

Fergus Patrick Jemphrey

Alison Johnson

Bethany Jones

Dafydd Gwilym Ifan Jones

Genevieve Amaris Price Keith

Pietro Keith

Ayesan Kermanipour

Amina Khan

Annabelle Lucy Lee

Jan Jelle Lever

Faye Hannah Lindsay

Junru Liu

Emma Lloyd-Jones

Joseph Lockwood

Katie Lord

Rebecca Ludbrook

Emma Luke

Nara Faye MacDermottClapperton

Eleanor Magill

William Mason

Joseph Lewis McLoughlin

Orla Marie Fallon McMahon

Lawrence Francis McNally

Jonathan Messling

Charlotte Miller

John Mitchell

Jasmine Lara Moore

Tascha Lucia Mountford

Fiona Muir

Emma Kathryn Need

Sarah Newton

Ellie-Jo Sian O’Connell

James O’Dell

Gareth Eilian Rhys Owen

Dominic Alexander Payne

Jack George Penhaligon

Benjamin David Pickles

Kelly Alannah Piper

Emily Pluck

Andrew Pollard

Madeleine Clare Rhodes

Ellie-Rebecca Richardson

Matthew William Richardson

Phoebe Grace Salkeld

Hazel Salmon

Thomas James Sanford

Bethany Saunders

Adrienne Schneider

Richard James SchuchmannHurst

Eleanor Ann Sedgwick

Abdullah Al-Mamun Shaikh

Amelia Charlotte Shepherd

Rosemary Ann Sherriff

Yehwon Shin

Matthew Simpson

Freddie Ray Singleton

Helena Skelly

Hannah Smith

Hannah Marie Louise Smith

Katherine Smith

Russell Smith

Katherine St Clair

Saskia Stafford

Hannah Stimpson

Rebecca May Storey

Isabel Swift

Sophie Annabel Taylor-Denton

Sarah Frances Tennyson

Anelka Tokley

Lauren Rebecca Tolley

Jordan Catherine Turner

Hollie Charlotte Walton

Lydia Watkins

Sophie Elizabeth Whitcombe

Annabel Philippa White

William White

Rebecca Louise Wilkinson

Philippa Williams

Chloe Louise Wilson

Joe Wilson

Emma Louise Wombwell

Ruth Katharine Wright

Master of Education

Caroline Louise AllenRogers

Sarah Jane Attle

Charles William Bodle

Nathan Cain

Helen Ann Clark

Lucy Victoria Colwill

Sorrel Dominique Cookson

Jamie Culkin

Francis Curran

Leo Dudin

Deborah Margaret Eills

Fatima Faisal

Rebecca Green

Carly Guppy

Steven Huckfield

Jennifer King

Christine Philippa Lethbridge

Fergal Patrick Lynch

Rowan Elizabeth Newland

Lucy Ann Prosser

Hannah Rapp

Joanne Marie Reading

Marisa Kate Rodin

Toni Erica Lucy Sherrington

Daniel Summers

Charlotte Emma Swinburne

Rachel Trafford

Jane Elizabeth Unsworth

Urszula Woodhouse

Master of Law

Thanchanok Engrisawang

Marie-Luise Herkenhoff

Alexander Michael Ivan Hpa

Oscar Otterstrom

Master of Finance

Yu-An Chang

Master of Music

Harold Joseph Jackson

Thalange

Master of Studies

Antonia Jean Scaffali Chiappi

Genomic Medicine

Gareth Davison

Genomic Medicine

Libby Faye Evans

Applied Criminology, Penology & Management

Mark Anthony Gormley

Genomic Medicine

Karen Hamer

Applied Criminology, Penology & Management

Tuomas Taneli Hanhikangas

Applied Criminology, Penology & Management

Nicola Jane Jeffcote

Applied Criminology, Penology & Management

Beverley Rebecca Julius

Applied Criminology, Penology & Management

Michael Edward Lowe

Applied Criminology, Penology & Management

Helen Louise Lund

Applied Criminology, Penology & Management

Christopher James McGuire

Applied Criminology, Penology & Management

Craig Nethercott

Applied Criminology, Penology & Management

Mark Nightingale

Applied Criminology, Penology & Management

Danielle Frances Prentice

Applied Criminology, Penology & Management

John Richard Reading

Applied Criminology, Penology & Management

Stephen Brian Robertson

Applied Criminology, Penology & Management

Billy Grant Rossi

Applied Criminology, Penology & Management

Aki Pekka Saarinen

Applied Criminology, Penology & Management

Abigail Sloan

Applied Criminology, Penology & Management

Michelle Louise Smallwood

Applied Criminology, Penology & Management

Amy Thornton

Applied Criminology, Penology & Management

Ingrid Suzanne Wheeler

Applied Criminology, Penology & Management

Graham Wines

Applied Criminology, Penology & Management

Master of Philosophy

Kana Aizawa

Education

Alexandra Grace Barnes

Education

Harry Charles Bickerstaffe

Therapeutic Sciences

Nicola Blasetti

Environmental Policy

Stefan Alexander Bogensberger

Management

David Buterez

Advanced Computer Science

Emma Mary Carson

Education

Helena Cristina Cássio Fernandes

Education

Yuege Chen

Education

Chun Sing Cheung

Education

Caitlin Beth Dobson

Education

Yan Du

Education

Diego Luis FernandezPages

Public Policy

Celine Fournier

Education

Si Min Amelia Gan

Education

Marta García Gamón

American Literature

Daniel Thomas Hissey

Modern British History

Christos Kakouros

Architecture & Urban Design

Lukas Konstantin Jakob

Kramer

Industrial Systems, Manufacture & Management

Zi Qi Lin

Education

Domnick Ochieng Okullo

Education

Yu Yin Law

Education

James Lee

Translational Biomedical

Research

Bronwen Paul Lynch

Early Modern History

Jie Mei

Economics

Ian Chun Ng

Education

Leopold Johannes Florentin

Max Peiseler

Engineering for Sustainable Development

Noah Poulson

Music

Zhan Shi

Education

Chaewon Sohn

Education

Meredith Densmore Sullivan

Asian & Middle Eastern Studies

Emily Nola Sundquist Epidemiology

Eva Szentgyorgyi

Education

Song Tang

Modern South Asian Studies

Imran Visram

Modern South Asian Studies

Xiaowei Zhang

Real Estate Finance

Xueni Zhang

Education

Yanyun Zhou

Education

Master of Advanced Studies

Jonas Finke

Applied Mathematics

Graydon James Kilgour Flatt

Applied Mathematics

Julien Gagnon

Mathematical Statistics

Wilfred Woolf Earth Sciences

Xi Yao

Applied Mathematics

Honghao Yu

Applied Mathematics

Doctor of Education

Min Du

James Edward Knowles

Doctor of Medicine

Martina Mason

Doctor of Philosophy

Razan Omar M Aboljadayel Physics

Eman Faisal S Al Sahan Education

Elias Allara Public Health and Primary Care

Thomas Samuel Bellfield Education

Stephen Bevan Biological Science

Julie Blake Education

Huseyin Burak Caliskan Engineering

Stefano Luca Giandomenico Biological Science

Richard Hinrich Goerke Engineering

Pedro Filipe Rebelo Guiomar Medical Sciences

Dylan McDermott Computer Science

Xiaodao Meng Engineering

Gonçalo Pizarro

Madureira Salgado

De Oliveira

Biological Science

Jennifer Rice Education

Luke Stephen Roberts Education

Giuseppe Sanitate

Engineering

Leila Shelley Engineering

Andreas Wagner Chemistry

Junlin Yu Education

Danyang Zhang Education

Jiangbin Zhang Physics

NEW MEMBERS

The College welcomes the following students, who have joined Homerton in 2020.

Undergraduate

Ayush Agarwal

Engineering Tripos

Arel Akaunu

Natural Sciences Tripos

George Akerman

English Tripos

Muhammed Al-Diraa

Medical Sciences Tripos

Mazin Ali

Engineering Tripos

Christos Antonopoulos

Engineering Tripos

Tamsyn Olivia Baker Cuddihy

Music Tripos

Jack James Henry Barnish

Geographical Tripos

María del Carmen Barroso

Carmona

Natural Sciences Tripos

Camille Kathleen India

Barton

Geographical Tripos

Freya Scarlett Beard

English Tripos

Amelia Sophie Beauchamp

Engineering Tripos

Leah Belson

Natural Sciences Tripos

Callum Berry

Modern and Medieval

Languages Tripos

Shakshum Vinod Bhagat

Economics Tripos

Dayna Bhudia

Psychological and Behavioural

Sciences Tripos

Max Birley

Law Tripos

Buck Blake

Natural Sciences Tripos

Augustus John Brimacombe

Classical Tripos

Jacob Edward Alan Brown

Computer Science Tripos

Harry Matthew Buckle

Natural Sciences Tripos

Harry Bull

Natural Sciences Tripos

Blendi Bylygbashi

Engineering Tripos

Katie Marie Campbell

Historical Tripos

Molly Carswell

Historical Tripos

Caitlin Hannah Cavallucci

Education Tripos

Jason Yee Yin Chan

Psychological and Behavioural

Sciences Tripos

Lauren Charnley-Parr

Psychological and Behavioural

Sciences Tripos

Xinran Chen

Engineering Tripos

Tabassum Chowdhury

Linguistics Tripos

Louis David Cohen

Natural Sciences Tripos

Matthew Collins

Computer Science Tripos

Aimee Cooper

Medical Sciences Tripos

Alicia May Cox

Natural Sciences Tripos

Amber Coxill

Music Tripos

Thomas Harrison Craig

Natural Sciences Tripos

Phoebe Crofts

Historical Tripos

Lawrence David George Cutler

Natural Sciences Tripos

Alfred Edward Davis

Education Tripos

Jianping Deng

Human, Social and Political Sciences Tripos

Matteo Di Scipio

Mathematical Tripos

Rosaline Kate Dickins

Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos

Tamsin Dodsworth

Veterinary Sciences Tripos

Thomas Kevin Doherty

Medical Sciences Tripos

Fabio Cristovao Dos Santos

Barbosa

Natural Sciences Tripos

Anna Duff

Geographical Tripos

Marcus Xavier DunfordCastro

Land Economy Tripos

Gabriel Jean Pierre Duval

Psychological and Behavioural

Sciences Tripos

Lauren Natasha Ettrick

Law Tripos

Kasia Fallan

Education Tripos

Charles Favell

Natural Sciences Tripos

Ciara Fleming

Architecture Tripos

Milo Tadhg Tobin Flynn

Music Tripos

Daniel Fry

Historical Tripos

Jozef Fulop

Mathematical Tripos

Xiaolong Gan

Mathematical Tripos

Kalyani Ganesharuban

Human, Social and Political

Sciences Tripos

Bangyi Gao

Engineering Tripos

Ryan Paul Garnett

Mathematical Tripos

Vanesa Gigova

Law Tripos

Thomas James Gledhill

Engineering Tripos

Rohan Ani Gopinath

Economics Tripos

Alexander Boris Grantham

Education Tripos

Matthew Benjamin Grassby

Education Tripos

Thomas Gregory

Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Tripos

Molly Elizabeth Griffiths

Theology, Religion and Philosophy of Religion Tripos

Benjamin Stephan Pax Grischeff

Human, Social and Political

Sciences Tripos

Zhihan Guo

Natural Sciences Tripos

Anya Gupta

Economics Tripos

Rayhannisa Haji

Natural Sciences Tripos

Edward Harris

Natural Sciences Tripos

Esah Hayat

Natural Sciences Tripos

Haaris Amir Herzog-Khan

History of Art Tripos

Aahuti Hindocha

Land Economy Tripos

Liam Matthew James Holland

Natural Sciences Tripos

James Arthur Brounger Holt

Classical Tripos

Colin Andrew Adam Hood

Modern and Medieval

Languages Tripos

Nicolas Husic

Engineering Tripos

Eve Imbuye

Human, Social and Political Sciences Tripos

Folami Iyiola

Historical Tripos

Anchit Jain

Engineering Tripos

Jemima Constance Jones

Human, Social and Political Sciences

Jude Devon Jones

History and Modern

Languages Tripos

Laura Mei Jones

English Tripos

Ugne Judickaite

Psychological and Behavioural Sciences Tripos

Bonna-Lisa Maria Kabir

Economics Tripos

Kacey Keary

Historical Tripos

Lewis Kelsall

Engineering Tripos

Neve Kennedy

Philosophy Tripos

Dewan Nidhnesh Keswani

Land Economy Tripos

Roma Kiddy

History and Modern Languages Tripos

Si Heon Kim

Engineering Tripos

Daniel David Kittmer

Human, Social and Political

Sciences Tripos

Charles Maximillian Kornberg

Law Tripos

Helena Olivia Natalja Kruder

Education Tripos

Cyprian Kucaj

Psychological and Behavioural Sciences Tripos

Aaron Lennard

Engineering Tripos

Anne Levai

History and Modern Languages Tripos

Maksymilian Litwin

Linguistics Tripos

Katherine Elizabeth Mary Logie

Law Tripos

Inès Elizabeth Marie-Anne Magré

Human, Social and Potical

Sciences Tripos

Amy Louise Ffion Mallows

Education Tripos

Alexia Manea

Education Tripos

Sophia Marine

Classical Tripos

Oluwafunto Masha

Land Economy Tripos

Vincent James Mastin

Modern and Medieval

Languages Tripos

Megan Maties

Medical Sciences Tripos

Alexander George Matthews

Computer Science Tripos

Thomas McCarter

Chemical Engineering via Natural Sciences Tripos

Katherine McCullagh

Modern and Medieval

Languages Tripos

Lauren Hope Medway

English Tripos

Rohail Singh Millan

Natural Sciences Tripos

Abel Joseph Miller

Mathematical Tripos

Dhillon Mistry

Engineering Tripos

Eleanor Tess Mitchell-Thomas

English Tripos

Aleksandra Mleinik

Economics Tripos

Joshua Moreton

Asian and Middle Eastern

Studies Tripos

Dominic John David Morgan

English Tripos

Alicia Moyo

Law Tripos

Asad Naqvi

Natural Sciences Tripos

Kyle Narey

Engineering Tripos

Bence Nemeth

Psychological and Behavioural Sciences Tripos

Ka Chun Jason Ng

Mathematical Tripos

Emily Jane Nixon

Veterinary Sciences Tripos

Theola Ojo

Human, Social and Political

Sciences Tripos

Daniel Okafor

Law Tripos

Michael Olatunji

Theology, Religion and Philosophy of Religion Tripos

Anuoluwapo Olayebo

English Tripos

Morayooluwa Ibidunni Omotesho

Education Tripos

Tavy Oursin

Modern and Medieval

Languages Tripos

Samuel Thomas Owen

Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Tripos

Bosede Palenius

Philosophy Tripos

Charles Jonathan Michael

Palmer

Asian and Middle Eastern

Studies Tripos

Priyanka Pandya

Natural Sciences Tripos

Ashley Park

Land Economy Tripos

Riya Devi Parshad

Historical Tripos

Rhys Sheldon Peacock

Natural Sciences Tripos

Holly Anne Pearce

Education Tripos

Mia Perrott

Veterinary Sciences Tripos

Kepler James Mackenzie

Petzall

Natural Sciences Tripos

Alicia Powell

English Tripos

Dylan Andrew Pritchard

Medical Sciences Tripos

Dylan Peyton Protiva

Computer Science Tripos

Yunli Qi

Mathematical Tripos

Ronan Dass Ragavoodoo

Computer Science Tripos

Niamh Nora Redmond

Human, Social and Political Sciences Tripos

Amy Elizabeth Reid

Asian and Middle Eastern

Studies Tripos

Cameron Round

Computer Science Tripos

Cara Natalie Rowland

Education Tripos

Zara Dabeer Salaria

History and Politics Tripos

Rhea Sarawgi

Historical Tripos

Meherwaan Sayyed

Engineering Tripos

Ellenoor Shameli

Human, Social and Political

Sciences Tripos

Rehan Sheikh

Engineering Tripos

Xiaorui Shi

Natural Sciences Tripos

Julian Shirnia

Classical Tripos

Georgia Sibley

Modern and Medieval

Languages Tripos

Harrison Micheal Silver

Natural Sciences Tripos

Charley Simpson

Geographical Tripos

Kabir Singh

Law Tripos

Emma Lily Skerry

Historical Tripos

Laurynas Skirgaila

Economics Tripos

Conall Stanforth

Natural Sciences Tripos

Leonard Carl Steffens

Natural Sciences Tripos

Olayinka Tanaliyah SterlingBadmus

History and Politics Tripos

Laura Grace Stevens

History and Modern

Languages Tripos

Jingqian Sun

Engineering Tripos

Mohan Sun

Natural Sciences Tripos

Lewis Wei Hao Tang

Engineering Tripos

Ahmed Fathi Mohamed

Abdelbari

Chemical Engineering via Natural Sciences Tripos

Eleanor Rose May Thornely

Education Tripos

Isabella Wilson Todini

Human, Social and Political

Sciences Tripos

Filip Trenkic

Mathematical Tripos

Kasia Truscott

English Tripos

Jude Howard Tyrrell

Computer Science Tripos

Atul Vadlamani

Medical Sciences Tripos

Joseph Asher van den Bos

Natural Sciences Tripos

Zephyr Verwimp

Mathematical Tripos

Liberty Rae Vincent-Lloyd

English Tripos

Kogulan Vipulan

Chemical Engineering via Natural Sciences Tripos

Erin Visaya-Neville

English Tripos

Hexiang Wang

Engineering Tripos

Zehao Wang

Computer Science Tripos

Benjamin Charles Ward

Education Tripos

Jordan Waters

Engineering Tripos

Kuangyi Wei

Natural Sciences Tripos

Elizabeth Widdowson

Theology, Religion and Philosophy of Religion Tripos

Alexander Wilkinson

Engineering Tripos

Eve Willett

English Tripos

Elizabeth May Willey

Education Tripos

Harvey Williams

Natural Sciences Tripos

Lucy Ruth Williams

Education Tripos

George Christopher Wise

Music Tripos

Jiayue Yu

Economics Tripos

Adam Tadeusz Zaluski

Archaeology Tripos

Yunfei Zhai

Engineering Tripos

Ruoyun Zhang

History and Politics Tripos

Mingyuan Zheng

Natural Sciences Tripos

Shutong Zhou

Natural Sciences Tripos

Yasi Zhu

Archaeology Tripos

Zeyang Zhu

Mathematical Tripos

Certificate of Postgraduate Study in Computer Science

Stefanos Sotirios Bakirtzis

David Buterez

PGCE

Sarah Jane Acton

Safia Ahmed

Fabiha Alam

Oliver Joseph Gerald

Alexander

Mohsin Alidina

Hayley May Juan Allen

Richard Avadanutei

Insaa Shafiq Awan

Zoe Barber

Emily Ruth Barker

Niamh Elizabeth Bell

Sophia Myriam Benmoussa

Nicole Biggins

William John Mark Blackaby

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IN MEMORIAM

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In Memoriam

OBITUARIES

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MIRANDA HARRIS

CertEd 1972

Miranda Harris trained as a teacher at Homerton from 1972–1975. She was killed in a terrible road accident in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, on October 28th, 2019.

After graduating she taught at Tanbridge House school in Horsham, before moving with her young family to Bristol in 1978, where her husband Peter trained for the Anglican ministry. In 1983 they moved to Portugal where they bought, established and led a field study centre and bird observatory. This was the first expression of the environmental charity A Rocha, which they founded. Over the years, A Rocha (www.arocha.org) has become a global Christian conservation movement, dedicated to communicating the relationship between the Christian faith and commitment to the environment and the planet.

In the years that followed they oversaw the establishment of two other centres in France and travelled extensively to resource the rapidly growing number of Christians active in nature

conservation, which now has teams in 21 countries, and centres in many of those.

In 2010, Peter and Miranda moved back to the UK for family reasons but continued their work of sharing A Rocha’s Christian approach to conservation with many across a wide range of backgrounds around the world.

Miranda was raised in a cultured family and carried her fine sense of beauty and poetry into everything that she became involved in. She was musical, artistic and deeply creative in everything she undertook. But of her many gifts, probably the greatest was her capacity to make the other feel listened to and loved, whether she was interacting with someone very familiar or a complete stranger. That A Rocha has succeeded in becoming a relational and family orientated movement, despite the constraints imposed by its global nature, is in large measure due to Miranda’s ceaseless investment in all those who belong to it. Her enormous creative capacity bore its greatest work in the lives of many, both in and beyond A Rochafruits which of course cannot be measured, unlike the book she longed to write but was never able to. She was an outstanding communicator, in both spoken and written word, often lecturing with Peter at Regent College Vancouver among other places, and writing literally thousands of cards and letters to those she loved and cared about. The premature death of a person so vibrantly alive is a lasting loss.

Miranda is survived by Peter, her four children and eight grandchildren.

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BARBARA POINTON Music Department 1963–1993

Barbara Pointon was a Homerton fixture for generations of students, whom she taught, befriended and to a certain extent adopted. As Emeritus Fellow Professor John Hopkins put it, “the overall ethos that Barbara cultivated was that of an extended family.”

As a lecturer in the Music Department from 1963–1993, for much of which she was Head of Music, Barbara shaped the musical aspect of the four-year BEd degree and the one-year PGCE. Taking a practical approach to the subject, the Music Department staged its own concerts and recitals and maintained a choir, orchestra and steel pan group, as well as ensuring that Homertontrained teachers were equipped to bring enthusiasm and energy to the teaching of music in schools across the country for decades to come.

Barbara and her husband, Malcolm, also a lecturer in the Music Department, regularly hosted social events at their house in Thriplow for students, many of whom stayed in touch.

Malcolm was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s in 1991, at the age of just 52, and retired from the department. Barbara took early retirement a year later to care for him, and became a hugely influential campaigner for dementia care.

Two documentaries made by the film-maker Paul Watson for ITV, Malcolm and Barbara: A

Love Story (1999) and Malcolm and Barbara: Love’s Farewell (2007) demonstrated movingly yet unsparingly the impact of Malcolm’s illness. The programmes gave Barbara a platform from which to advocate for patients with dementia and their families, and in 2004 she won a landmark case that the NHS should fund nursing care at home as well as in care homes and hospitals.

Barbara worked for more than two decades as an ambassador for Dementia UK and the Alzheimer’s Society, as well as advising the Government and contributing to the national dementia strategy. She fought tirelessly for a more sympathetic approach to the care of dementia patients, for free access to the necessary care and for support for families. In 2006 she was made MBE for services to dementia.

Following Malcolm’s death in 2007, Barbara returned to Homerton as Director of Music for two years. She remained a member of the RSMA until her death, and numbered countless former students and colleagues among her friends.

In 2018 Barbara began to develop dementia herself, and was looked after in the purpose-built Denbigh ward at Fulbourn Hospital, which she had helped to design in the 1990s. Barbara died on 21 June 2020, aged 80.

JEAN MARY ROBINSON

(CertEd 1943)

Jean was born in West Runton, Norfolk, the only child of elderly, but wonderful parents. They later moved to Torrisholme, near Morecambe and then Warton, near Lytham. Her childhood was happy and secure and her schooldays enjoyable and successful.

War was declared on Jean’s 14th birthday, 3rd September 1939. The outbreak of war limited educational opportunities for Jean in her teenage years. Jean had always loved history and dearly wished to read history at university. Instead, she found herself training to be a teacher at Homerton.

Although Jean’s experiences of Cambridge were disrupted, there was still a great deal to enjoy. She spoke fondly of punting on the Cam, tea at Grantchester, and Evensong at King’s, albeit without the stained-glass windows, which had been removed to keep them safe. Jean also had fond memories of watching the boat race, which was moved to the Ouse at Ely. She was enthralled by the lectures of Lord Beveridge and Sir Richard Livingstone on the Butler Education Act of 1944, heralding the ‘brave new world’ ahead. Jean and her contemporaries celebrated VE Day at Parker’s Piece.

From 1945 to 1960 Jean worked in schools in Wembley, Harrow, Acton and Hayes,

teaching Nursery, Infant, Primary and Secondary children. During this time, she studied at London University and attained a First-Class Honours degree in History.

In 1960 she was appointed as Head of Minet School in Hayes and then moved to Worcestershire in 1965 as Inspector of Schools, work she found stimulating, interesting and varied.

Jean retired in 1982 and her attention turned to enjoying reading and gardening, joining the Malvern Horticultural Society. She particularly enjoyed visiting famous gardens, National Trust properties and the theatre at Stratford. She also retained her lifelong interest in education as a Governor of the Wells School from 1983 to 1995. Jean loved walking and could often be seen walking from Malvern along the Wells Road to visit the school.

Jean was always something of a crusader and when she thought something was wrong or unfair, she went into battle with great determination to try to put things right. The Freckleton air disaster of 1944, where an American Bomber crash landed into the local school, happened at Wharton airfield, very close to where Jean was living and deeply affected everyone. On visiting the National Arboretum in Staffordshire, Jean was amazed to find that there was no mention of this tragedy amongst the numerous memorials. Jean set about campaigning and was instrumental in having a fitting memorial tribute erected there.

During her retirement Jean lived at Morgan Court, a retirement property, for 27 happy years, before moving to Perrins House, Malvern in 2019, where she was blissfully happy. Jean loved her room, looking out onto the fabulous gardens and spent many happy hours enjoying the vista, whilst she read her extensive collection of books. Jean was thankful for many things in her life, particularly her good education and her close circle of friends.

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CARMEN CLARKE (NÉE JONES)

CertEd 1958

Everyone who knew Carmen remembered her with a smile. She was warm, funny, creative and adventurous. Born and brought up in Bridgend in South Wales, she entered Homerton in 1958 to study for a Certificate in Education, majoring in Mathematics.

Shortly after graduating, she married her first husband, David, whom she had met in Cambridge. His work took them overseas, and they lived for some years in Singapore, bringing up three daughters. Back in the UK in the 1970s, they bought an old property in Somerset,

HELEN SLADE (NÉE ORNA)

CertEd 1962–65

After leaving Homerton, Helen moved to Canada in 1966 and married Christopher, whom she had met at Cambridge. After several years in Toronto and Vancouver, they moved to Victoria and raised their family there. Helen worked as a teacher and, in later years, devoted herself to her art and poetry. Helen is survived by Christopher, her husband of 51 years, her children Jonathan (Renee) and Catherine, and her two young grandchildren Isabel and Macleay.

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turning it into a guest house for expatriates on leave. Carmen cooked, and raised goats.

Some time afterwards, the marriage broke up, and Carmen returned to teaching secondary school Mathematics in the area. In the late 1980s, ever adventurous, Carmen moved to the Canary Islands, working as a cook/manager of a restaurant, and later turned up in Brussels, where she took up a teaching post at The British School. We happened to be living there at the time, as was another old Homertonian, Wanda Kieblinska (née Wachowicz) and the three of us had many happy times together.

Eventually Carmen returned to Somerset, where she lived surrounded by numerous grandchildren, and even great-grandchildren. As well as doing supply teaching, she taught summer courses for overseas students at Millfield School. In 2008 she married Joe Clarke, a retired businessman. Joe adored Carmen, and together they travelled widely and happily on holidays. Sadly, Carmen began to show signs of dementia, and in 2019 she moved into a nursing home. She died of a brain haemorrhage on April 19, 2020, deeply lamented by her large family and many friends.

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BARBARA JEAN GREGORY (NÉE BAKER)

CertEd late 1940s

After training as a teacher at Homerton in the 1940s, Barbara went on to teach until she retired in 1988. She always spoke very fondly of Homerton and recommended it as an excellent place to train.

Barbara taught in the UK and abroad as her husband, John, was an officer in the Royal Air Force. She lived and taught in Malaya, Germany and Singapore. She fully embraced life abroad, participating in many activities and integrating herself into life as a busy officer’s wife. She was also a great mother and enjoyed bringing up her three daughters. On their return to the UK, they settled back in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. Barbara taught at a junior school in Amersham where she worked her way up to the position of deputy head teacher.

As well as teaching, Barbara’s passion was always music. Alongside teaching a class she was also in charge of school choirs. She was highly involved in the musical life of her local area and particularly enjoyed singing, being an active member of the local choral society up until her early 80s. She was also highly involved in local church life, from delivering parish magazines to playing the organ for services.

Barbara was a sparkling personality who enjoyed being surrounded by children and music throughout her life. She passed away very peacefully aged 92 in December 2020, after suffering from Alzheimer’s disease for a number of years. She is survived by her three daughters, two grandchildren and one great-granddaughter. Her granddaughter has recently followed in her footsteps by also training as a teacher at Homerton.

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IN MEMORIAM

We were saddened to receive news of the deaths of the following Members.

Mrs Doris Bannard-Smith (née Knappet) CertEd 1940

Died 10 January 2021

Mrs Gayatri Basu (née De Sakkar) BEd 1981–85

Died 13 March 2020

Mrs Heather Bracewell (née Key) CertEd 1951

Died 26 May 2020

Mrs Amelia Deborah Brewer (née Hibberd) CertEd 1947

Died January 2021

Mrs Margaret Campbell Smith (née Greenhalgh) CertEd 1943

Died 26 October 2020

Mr John Chapman Head Porter 1980–94

Mrs Gillian Liddell Fuller (née Tindale) CertEd 1955–57

Died 19 June 2020

Mrs Lillian Harding (née Campbell) CertEd 1946

Died 8 October 2018

Mrs Eleanor Harper (née Kirkby) CertEd 1947

Died 16 February 2020

Mrs Margaret Hawkins (née Sykes) CertEd 1949

Died 20 May 2020

Mrs Dorrie Margaret Ann Jones CertEd 1966

Died 17 December 2019

Mrs Margaret Montague (née Pilgrim) CertEd 1956

Died 19 June 2020

Mrs Janet Richards (née Gravell) CertEd 1954

Died March 2020

Helen Slade (née Orna) CertEd 1962–65

Died 2 April 2019

Mrs Hilary Tomlinson (née Williams) CertEd 1946

Died 13 February 2019

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As a lifelong member of Homerton and the University of Cambridge, you are entitled to a number of benefits. Although the College is currently closed to visitors, in normal times you are very welcome to visit Homerton and use our College Library, Dining Hall, Buttery and Bar. Overnight College accommodation is also available at a special alumni rate.

Accommodation

Alumni of Homerton are able to book accommodation at the College at a discounted alumni rate. Outside of term time, you can book a single room by emailing alumni@ homerton.cam.ac.uk.

During term, we cannot guarantee a room will be available, as the needs of current students must take priority. However, if you enquire 5 to 10 working days in advance, we should be able to advise you on availability. Unfortunately, during term time, we cannot accept bookings further in advance.

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Alumni are welcome to eat lunch in Hall at their own expense; no prior notice is necessary. Please be aware that you will need to pay in cash for your meal.

Alumni are also entitled to dine at Formal Halls where space permits. If you would like to dine, please contact the Development Office (alumni@homerton.cam.ac.uk or 01223 747251); the Formal Hall price for alumni is currently £18.50, with non-alumni guests costing £22.50. Formal Halls are on Tuesdays in term time. If you wish to attend, please let us know by the preceding Wednesday.

On occasions, alumni will be invited to dine at High Table; these occasions will be advertised in advance.

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Alumni may use the College Library for reading purposes (we regret that at present it is not possible for alumni to borrow items). If you wish to use the Library, please notify the Librarian in advance (library@homerton.cam.ac.uk).

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If you hold a Cambridge BA, you may proceed to the MA not less than six years from the end of your first term of residence, providing that you have held your BA degree for at least two years. The College will contact you approximately two months before you become eligible. You may then register to receive your MA degree in person or in absence. The Tutorial Office organises the MA ceremony and the Development Office organises the MA lunch. Please ensure your contact details are up to date with the Development Office so you receive your official invitation.

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The University Alumni Relations Office can provide you with a CAMCard which grants privileges and discounts to alumni when visiting Cambridge. The card provides membership to the University Centre and entitles you to discounts from Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Wine Merchants, local hotels, bars and restaurants. The CAMCard also entitles you and up to three guests free entrance to all Colleges when they are open to the general public (but not during closed periods). Please note that fewer guests are permitted at King’s College, St John’s College and Queens’ College (see their websites for details). A full list of benefits can be found on the College website: www.homerton.cam.ac.uk/ alumni/alumnibenefits n

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