Homerton College Annual Review 2021

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COLLEGE NEWS

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

From the Library 2021 News Highlights

FROM THE PRINCIPAL

Lord Woolley of Woodford

When I arrived at Homerton on 1 October 2021, I was politely informed during one of the many gatherings I had that day, that in following Professor Geoff Ward, the outgoing Principal of eight years, I had ‘big shoes’ to fill. I nodded, knowing that it was both true, and untrue.

True in the sense that as the outgoing custodian of Homerton, Geoff had set the excellence bar really high. During his time Homerton had not only become a fully-fledged Cambridge College, offering the full range of subjects from Architecture to Veterinary Science; it

had also made some of the shrewdest investments to ensure a stable financial footing. But, I would guess, Geoff is most proud to have continued the Homerton legacy of being the friendliest College in Cambridge, indeed Oxbridge.

In truth I neither can nor want to fit in Geoff’s or anyone else’s shoes. I can only fit into my own shoes. We can only be ourselves.

Learning to be our greatest self is a particular challenge, but one that’s worth the endeavour.

One of the distinct elements of Homerton, beyond its North Star principles of academic excellence and teeming diversity, is wanting our

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students not just to be the very best they can be, but also to develop a sense of purpose. A purpose that, of course serves their individual development, but also a wider endeavour too. One that wonderfully serves our society to ensure that it is fairer, more equal, but at the same time one that bursts with creativity, ingenuity, and energy.

My role, as was Geoff’s before in this ongoing challenge, is often to be its facilitatorin-chief. My role is to support everyone who comes here to flourish.

I think, even as we juggle with COVID past, present, and future, the College has flourished. Students, researchers, Fellows, and all our wonderful support staff have had a spring in their step. The visit of the future King, His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, along with that of Civil Rights icon Reverend Jesse Jackson, helped many to see that something special is occurring at Homerton.

All I can say is thank you. Thank you for making my first term here so wonderfully special n

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SENIOR TUTOR’S REPORT

Dr Penny Barton

2021 was another year of strange and shifting landscapes for academic institutions.

We had a very difficult term in Michaelmas 2020, with the whole of West House being isolated by Public Health England after a COVID outbreak in the block, but we waved off our students in December 2020 expecting them back in January to something more like normal.

Sadly that didn’t happen, and we all went into the big second lockdown over the Christmas period. This led to extensive correspondence with students who did or didn’t want to come back into residence, some in dire and serious need to be living and studying somewhere other than their family home, and others just thinking it might be more fun to be in Cambridge. All teaching was online throughout Lent 2021, and as always some students coped with everything more or less unscathed, whilst others gradually began to slip out of our grasp.

By the time we got to the Easter vacation we were allowed to have students back in College for a broader range of reasons, and there was a general gradual return. Everything was kept quite low key through the Easter term – most meals were takeaways and very few social events were possible. Students were pretty much focused onsite for a long term of revising and then exams – for the second year running almost no exams took place in conventional exam halls. Different Faculties experimented with a number of different assessment formats, and a number of lessons were learnt. For instance if you tell a student they can do their open book exam any time in a 24 hour period (to allow for students in other time zones), but are not recommended to spend more than

three hours on it, then it turns out that many students will work continuously for 24 hours and keel over as a result – especially if another 24 hour period begins immediately afterwards.

Sadly the main graduation ceremony, General Admission 2021, had to happen without guests in College or in the Senate House, but as some exam results were late some students had a later ceremony with limited College guests. By September we were able to have a couple of

nice catch-up celebrations for students who finished in 2020, but still without guests in the Senate House.

The late results had knock-on effects in terms of finishing one academic year before the next began, and it felt like we spent the whole summer playing catch up. We were careful not to over-offer for the 2021 A level results, as we are still coping with the very large cohort admitted in 2020 as a consequence of the Government vacillations about A level grades. Our 2021 Freshers arrived in good form and genuinely happy to be at university at last, and the College has had a rather pleasant, calm, industrious atmosphere through Michaelmas 2021.

The other great change over 2021 was the transition to a new Principal. The Fellowship worked hard under the leadership of our VicePrincipal, Dr Louise Joy, culminating in our choice of Lord Woolley. We had a great line-up of candidates, whom we put through a gruelling ordeal by multiple Zoom interviews, and in the end Simon was elected without us ever meeting him in real life. However, he has completely lived up to expectations and we have had an extraordinary Michaelmas term. It was frustrating not to be able to give Geoff the send-off we would have liked, although in the end we managed both a large garden party and a Fellows’ Dinner, the end of a remarkable Principalship n

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BURSAR’S REPORT

Deborah Griffin OBE

As I write this report it does not feel that we have moved much further forward since this time last year. We have just enjoyed a term with most of our students back in residence, some normality in terms of face to face teaching and Formal Halls – albeit reduced in number – and very few COVID cases amongst students and staff. It feels as normal as it can be with sanitising, ventilation and mask-wearing top of everyone’s agenda. However, we do not know what awaits us next term. How many of our students will be able to return, will we be able to continue dining together and can we provide our students with an enjoyable university experience?

Our staff have once again come to the fore this past year. We have a well-practised procedure for supporting students in quarantine and isolation – it is nice to get the odd email thanking us for that support from students who are restricted to their rooms to isolate. Once again with our students’ arrival and departure dictated by changing regulations and travelling requirements, there has been a mammoth task to ensure belongings are packed up, stored or transported overseas.

The new Dining Hall – with kitchens and new Buttery – has developed before our eyes and we hope to move in over the Easter vacation. It shimmers in the sunshine reflecting the surrounding trees, and the spaces created for our students to study, dine and socialise will be very welcome. We cannot wait to show it to you!

Our catering and conference teams are very much looking forward to moving into the new Dining Hall and working in kitchens with natural daylight! During the Easter term, they made great use of Homerton branded picnic boxes to provide

meals for College events, culminating in a College picnic in June for over 500 where we were able to enjoy music and entertainment provided by Homerton members in the beautiful grounds of the College. It was also an opportunity to say goodbye, in strange circumstances, to Professor Geoff Ward on his retirement from the College after eight years as Principal. This past term, we have had more dinners then ever as we undertook matriculation dinners for all this year’s and last year’s first-year undergraduates and postgraduates. We also had two dinners where previously there would have been one to reduce numbers dining in the Hall.

We also completed an architectural competition for a new building at the front of College on Hills Road, which was won by Alison Brooks Architects who were appointed in July. The “lantern” on Hills Road has been well received by local residents and the city Urban Design team. As well as a welcoming Porters’ Lodge with a highly functional back-of-house, the building will house an exhibition space, activity rooms for groups of students to use for study and storage for our collection of children’s literature and annuals with an associated research study space. We are hoping to submit planning by the end of January 2022.

The accounts for the financial year to 30 June 2021 were approved by the Governing Body on 3 December. The main impact on revenues was a loss of a whole year’s conferencing and events income. We kept a tight control of costs over the year although I am pleased to say we did not make any redundancies. The operational loss we made at £1.78m was the highest loss for at least the last 30 years and would have been even higher without the increase in donations as a result of

the legacy investments from Miss Jean Robinson. Fortunately 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 £25.5m.

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FROM THE LIBRARY

Liz Osman, Librarian

Ihoped in 2021 my report would not contain much mention of COVID, but unfortunately we continue to be doing our best to support students in the Library through challenging times. But happily I do have much else to talk about as well.

In January our Deputy Librarian Rosie Austin welcomed her daughter Edith and we welcomed Alina Wanitzek to cover her maternity leave. Alina’s arrival coincided with a decision to close the physical Library for a period, offering remote support and a click and collect service. Not the welcome I wanted to give Alina, but one she jumped into wholeheartedly.

Click and collect enabled us to continue providing books to students whilst protecting all Library users and staff. It also allowed all staff members to spend some time on site each week, which made working from home much easier.

When we did reopen the Library in March we moved back into staff bubbles, with each bubble working in the Library two to three days per week. We finally ‘popped’ these in August and it has been a joy to have the whole team working together again. We have learnt a lot from remote working, particularly around communication and cooperation – there are definite bonuses to be seen from what we have undergone. But for the staff to be together alongside the wider Homerton community was a real homecoming. One thing we were able to continue with throughout the disruptions was purchasing of new stock. Primarily this is, of course, material from reading lists, but we also began purchasing a few items for our rare books collection with

a view to increasing diversity. This is a hot topic and one which is a real challenge when looking at a predominantly British and American collection spanning 18th – mid-20th centuries. The colonial spirit is exceptionally strong in much of the material. We are not seeking to censor issues of race, class, disability, gender etc. in the material we hold; it is important that these books can be studied in full. However, we do want to acknowledge, for example, some of the underappreciated works of the same period by authors of colour. This rebalancing work will continue, but in parallel still with collecting material that does not sit so well with modern sensibilities. The strength of our collection should be to reflect all aspects of children’s literature: the good, the bad and the ugly.

The second half of the year, and particularly Michaelmas term, has felt like getting back to (nearly) business as usual. Masks and social distancing have still been in place, but running in-person inductions for Freshers and seeing the Library alive again has been cheering, whilst at times a little unnerving. I think we all felt a little rusty after a year without inductions, but it soon came back to us and we really value these short, early interactions to get to know the new students and be seen as friendly, helpful faces.

I was fortunate to be involved in the recruitment of our new Principal, as one of the search panel. The time and effort put in by all has been amply rewarded with the arrival of Simon Woolley. I found the whole process fascinating, having never been involved in such high-level recruitment before. I also found it so heartening to be part of a community with such great hopes and ambitions. The calibre of all the candidates was phenomenal.

Original film reel of ‘The New School’

New developments are also on the horizon for Library space. The plans for the new Porters’ Lodge contain space for rare book storage and consultation, an exhibition area and study rooms. Whilst there is a long way still to go, not least planning permission, the possibilities that this will open up for the Library are exciting. The rare books provision will provide proper storage for material currently scattered around College and off site. It will also offer a dedicated space for researchers to consult our material. The exhibition space will be available for all of College to use and will provide a facility more easily accessible to the public. I can’t wait to mount our first Library exhibition there.

It’s been a busy year for the Archive too, with a Homerton alumna featuring on A House

Through Time, the BBC History programme with Davis Olusoga (series 4, episode 3). Svetlana, our Archivist, has also been supporting research on another alumna who arrived in England via the Kindertransport which will hopefully result in a book. Material from the Archive was also featured at the Venice Biennale. Svetlana has also been undertaking a digitisation project of the Archive’s oral history collection, encompassing cassettes, VHS tapes, cinefilm and some negatives, to ensure their future preservation.

Amber Akaunu, an MA Film Studies student from Goldsmiths College, London approached the Archive for help researching early African, and in particular Nigerian students, who studied at Homerton. The culmination of her project was a 20-minute film Homerton 2 Homerton. It follows the story of her family’s journey from Nigeria to Homerton in Hackney, and then her brother’s gaining of a place at Homerton College. Amber has been awarded Arts Council funding to continue with her research.

However, another 20-minute film has been the highlight of the year, and the culmination of continued effort from Svetlana over the course of a number of years. The New School is a wartime film starring Peter Cushing.

The College had been aware of the existence of the film for many years, owing to still photographs taken at Homerton and held by the archive. But the film itself was feared lost. Now thanks to Svetlana’s herculean efforts we have the film reel kept safe by Yvonne Rory’s family for nearly 80 years. We look forward to being able to screen the film in 2022 n

2021 NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

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Lord Woolley installed as Principal

Lord Woolley of Woodford was officially installed as Principal of Homerton College on Friday 1 October. In a ceremony shared in person with Fellows, staff and student representatives, and via livestream with the student and alumni communities, he made the following declaration:

“I, Simon, Lord Woolley of Woodford, accept the office of the Principal of Homerton College, and promise that I will fulfill the duties of that office to the best of my ability; and that I will loyally observe the statutes and ordinances and good customs of the College; and that I will in all things endeavour to promote the peace, honour and wellbeing of the College.”

He then spoke movingly of his intention that the College should be “a beacon” for young men and women of all backgrounds to aspire to, and a place where everyone should feel a sense of belonging. Acknowledging the significance of the fact that he became the first Black man to lead a Cambridge or Oxford College, on the first day of Black History Month, he echoed the words of Dr Martin Luther King, stating that Homerton has both “a dream, and a plan” to support its students to do “great things.”

Farewell to Geoff

On Friday, 10 September, staff and Fellows gathered to bid farewell to Professor Geoff Ward as Principal.

The first such gathering since pre-pandemic, it was both an opportunity for colleagues to reconnect, and a chance to recognise Geoff’s enormous contribution to Homerton. As Vice-Principal Dr Louise Joy noted in a heartfelt speech, Geoff’s personal warmth and approachability have shaped the atmosphere of the College, while his determination and ambition have seen it grow in confidence, stature and reputation.

Poet-in-Residence Dr Mariah Whelan read her poem, written for the occasion, The Cut-leaf Beech, and presented Geoff with a parting gift of the poem, beautifully illustrated by College Porter Alastair Meikle.

Geoff was sworn in as an Honorary Fellow of Homerton on Friday, 3 December. The same day saw Homerton College Boat Club launch their new boat, ‘Geoff’.

“Having served the College for eight years as Principal, I am honoured and excited to join Homerton’s small and very distinguished group of Honorary Fellows,” he said.

“I will aim to be an ambassador for, and enthusiastic supporter of this wonderful place, which under my successor Lord Woolley’s leadership goes from strength to strength. I am also touched to have had a new boat named after me. I wish our excellent rowers many years of success and pleasure on the water with ‘Geoff’.”

Launching ‘Geoff’

Geoff is presented with a farewell poem

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Farewell poem by Dr Mariah Whelan, illustrated by Alastair Meikle

A Royal Visit

His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales visited Homerton on Tuesday, 23 November, in a celebration of the College’s vision to welcome and support students from all ethnic and social backgrounds, and to gain an understanding of the Black experience at Cambridge.

The visit came at the personal invitation of the Principal, Lord Woolley. Lord Woolley has previously collaborated with The Prince’s Trust on addressing disadvantage among minority ethnic groups.

His Royal Highness attended a private discussion of Black students’ experience at

Cambridge with the Principal, admissions staff, students and alumni. Students from BAME backgrounds made up 35% of Homerton’s intake last year, and the College works hard to ensure that students of all ethnicities and social backgrounds feel welcomed and able to call Homerton home.

He also met directors and participants of Homerton’s unique co-curricular Changemakers programme, from whom he heard of its capacity to change lives through applying interdisciplinary skills to real-world situations.

His Royal Highness was introduced to staff and Fellows who have supported students

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through the pandemic, who described the College’s focus on student wellbeing.

Unveiling a plaque, His Royal Highness said:

“It really is inspiring to hear of all the initiatives that are taking place, such as the Changemakers who are being prepared to provide the selfless, visionary leadership that we so desperately need. For our society to meet successfully the huge challenges before us, we will need all our talents and all our contributions... so I simply want to congratulate Lord Woolley for the leadership he is showing, and to wish him and all of you the greatest success as you seek to build a society which works for all our people.”

Lord Woolley said:

“I am personally honoured that His Royal Highness is excited about what we’re doing here at Homerton at this stage in our history, which is to be a beacon both of academic excellence and of teeming diversity.”

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Civil Rights icon Reverend Jesse Jackson sworn in as Honorary Fellow

On Tuesday, 14 December, Reverend Jesse Jackson was sworn in as an Honorary Fellow of Homerton College, Cambridge.

A lifelong civil rights campaigner, who worked for Martin Luther King Jr in the 1960s, Reverend Jackson founded Operation PUSH (People United to Serve Humanity) in 1971, and the National Rainbow Coalition in 1984. The two operations merged in 1996, becoming the Rainbow PUSH Coalition (RPC), which today is an international human and civil rights organisation, working to empower people through grassroots advocacy.

Born in Greenville, South Carolina, in 1941, he was ordained as a Baptist minister in 1968. He stood as the Democratic candidate for the Presidency in 1984 and 1988 and gave speeches which cemented his reputation as a powerful and passionate orator.

Jesse Jackson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bill Clinton in 2000, and this year the French President

Emmanuel Macron awarded him the Légion D’Honneur.

Lord Woolley, Principal of Homerton, said:

“This, no doubt, will be one of my greatest professional honours, to induct civil rights icon, Reverend Jesse Jackson to Homerton College as an Honorary Fellow. For more than 60 years Reverend Jackson has been at the forefront in the struggle for social and racial justice, not just in the US, but across the world. This Honorary Fellowship sounds out a clear statement of intent: as a College we’re ambitious, and we want our students and researchers to believe that they, like Reverend Jackson, can change our world.”

Homerton undergraduate Frankie Richards (BA Education 2019) demonstrated the intergenerational power of Reverend Jackson’s work and reputation, addressing him directly in a moving speech.

Alluding to her grandparents, of a similar age to Reverend Jackson, who moved to the UK

Reverend Jackson is sworn in as an Honorary Fellow

Reverend Jackson with student Frankie Richards

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from St Kitts and Nevis, she spoke of how their hard work and his passion prepared the ground for her and her sister to reach academic heights.

“I was not born when the Reverend and many other prominent civil rights leaders…first fought for educational provision and equity of access… The Reverend is here today representing those generations who paved the way before us. And that is why I am a hopeful young person, because I can only hope that when I am fortunate enough to be in Lord Woolley’s position, that another young person, another young woman of colour, is here to say thank you.”

Frankie also sang with the Homerton Jazz Orchestra (HoJO), during a lunch with Reverend Jackson and College Fellows.

During the ceremony, Fellows and guests watched a video montage of Reverend Jackson’s speeches, including those to the Democratic Conventions in 1984 and 1988. Dr Fernanda Gallo, Director of Studies in History and Politics, provided an overview of how Reverend Jackson’s faith and ministry inspire and ignite his politics.

“When, 10 years ago I was teaching political communication in the middle of the Swiss Alps at

the University of Lugano and showing the students Reverend Jesse Jackson’s speeches, I would have never imagined having the opportunity in my life to honour and celebrate his work as we are doing here today,” she said.

“In those classes, I discussed with my students the movement of black emancipation in America and the key role of the black church and of black pastors in conceiving sermons that were political speeches, and political speeches that were sermons, as they both are different approaches to achieve the same thing: conveying the good news, conveying hope – as Jesse Jackson said.”

Fellow in Politics Dr Robin Bunce then described the impact Reverend Jackson has had on British politics, and his support of black representation in Parliament in the 1980s.

“Reverend Jackson’s career stretches from the era of Civil Rights, to the era of Black Lives Matter. As an opponent of segregation in the US, War in Vietnam, and Apartheid in South Africa, he has been a tireless campaigner for social and racial justice. As leader of the Rainbow Coalition he has been a champion of the dispossessed and the marginalised.”

Reverend Jackson is welcomed by Lord Woolley

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New Porters’ Lodge

In July, Homerton announced that Alison Brooks Architects had been selected to design the new Porters’ Lodge and Principal Entrance to the College, creating the main access point from Hills Road.

The challenge posed to the competitors in this two-stage competition was to create a new entrance appropriate to the size and ambition of Cambridge’s newest College; including a new Porters’ Lodge which both welcomes first-time visitors and meets the needs of resident students; and to expand the College Library, allowing it to host exhibitions as well as provide study space.

Professor Geoff Ward, the then Principal of Homerton College, said:

“Submissions were received from a number of well-known architectural practices who would undoubtedly have produced eye-catching and highly functional answers to the questions posed.

Alison Brooks have produced a compelling design concept, based on a new ‘beacon’ building, which will through dialogue and consultation result in a beautiful, multi-purpose and future-facing answer to the College’s needs. We look forward to working closely in partnership with Alison and her team on this exciting, flagship project.”

The design is described by its architects as the ‘College lantern’ and takes the form of a threestorey pavilion positioned within a new College Square, in front of the Mary Allan Building. The

ground floor accommodates the Porters’ Lodge, which includes a large foyer and exhibition area on its northern side, a new glazed link connecting the new foyer to the existing Library and a broad verandah to welcome visitors from Hills Road. A large copper clad structure rising above the Lodge will house the Children’s Literature Resource Centre on the first floor, above which is a storey of research rooms and a large storage area for books.

Alison Brooks Architects is a distinguished architectural practice with many recent successes, including new buildings in Eddington, Cambridge and the Cohen Quadrangle, a reinvention of the Oxbridge quadrangle for Exeter College, Oxford. Among their many awards for design excellence, Alison Brooks Architects is the only UK practice to have won the RIBA Stirling Prize, the Manser Medal and the Stephen Lawrence Prize.

Alison Brooks, Founder and Creative Director of Alison Brooks Architects, said:

“We’re delighted with this opportunity to design Homerton College’s new Entrance Building and Children’s Literature Resource Centre as a welcoming ‘lantern’ and multipurpose hub for the College’s communities. We’re very much inspired by Homerton’s campus, its Arts and Crafts legacy and we look forward to producing its first net zero mass timber building.”

Image of the new Porters’ Lodge as seen from Hills Road

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A new era of Homerton sport

Homerton celebrated the opening of the new pavilion at the College’s Long Road sports ground on 26 October, marking the completion of a two-year building project which has continued throughout the pandemic.

The site, which is shared with St Mary’s School, includes facilities for rugby, football, hockey, netball, tennis and athletics, on floodlit all-weather pitches and courts. The pavilion provides changing areas as well as a multi-purpose event space.

The pavilion was officially opened by Judge Jeff Blackett, President of the Rugby Football

Union 2020-21. Judge Blackett and his wife, Sally, were in Cambridge as part of 150 mile walk undertaken over 15 days, to raise funds for the Injured Players Foundation.

Homerton Bursar Deborah Griffin spoke of the importance to students’ mental and physical health of having the opportunity to participate in sport during Cambridge’s intense terms, and said that she was proud that Homerton now has “the best sports facilities of any College in Cambridge.”

Judge Jeff Blackett presents the Bursar with a plaque to mark the opening of the pavilion

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The Lost Film

Unseen for 80 years, a wartime film starring Peter Cushing has been tracked down through the determination of Homerton archivist, Svetlana Paterson.

Filmed at Homerton, which was then a teacher training college, the film was made in 1944 to highlight plans for an overhaul in the education system. It follows an idealistic trainee teacher, played by Yvonne Rory, as she studies at Homerton, learns to manage classroom discipline, and enjoys building a first connection with a pupil.

The College had been aware of the existence of the film for many years, owing to still photographs taken at Homerton and held by the archive. But the film itself was feared lost, with appeals to the British Film Institute and the Peter Cushing Society yielding no results.

Svetlana has maintained ‘the search for the lost film’ as a side project for much of the past decade. But this year saw a breakthrough when she received a DVD of the film from Yvonne Rory’s extended family in Scotland.

Not only did this allow Svetlana to view the film for the first time, but it was the first clue that an original film reel must have survived long enough to be transferred to the relatively new technology.

A few months later she made contact with the immediate family, now living in Devon, who had inherited a film reel among their late father’s belongings.

“Yvonne Rory died young, and it appears that her widower asked the Central Office of Information for a copy of the film after her death,” says Svetlana. “Without that, there might not have been a surviving copy.”

The film appears never to have been shown to a contemporary audience, perhaps because its vision for post-war education clashed with the reality. But it has solid cinematic credentials, with not only Cushing’s involvement, but also a musical score by the well-known film composter Benjamin Frankel, and provides a fascinating insight into the educational ambitions of the 1940s.

Homerton plans to screen the film in the spring of 2022.

Still from ‘The New School’, filmed at Homerton in 1944

COLLEGE LIFE

HUS President’s Report

Sport

Charter Choir of Homerton College

HUS PRESIDENT’S REPORT

Phoebe Hardingham, President of the Homerton Union of Students

We like to say we are the friendliest College, and the pandemic saw our community pull together from wherever in the world we were based. I salute the previous year’s committee for their tireless work to support the community, holding outdoor events such as petting zoos and food trucks, and online ones such as welfare drop in sessions and quizzes. While this was a difficult period for us all, perhaps particularly for our Freshers (the West House lockdown springs to mind) and my fellow finalists, I’m continually impressed at the resilience and community spirit that saw us through those times. While the pandemic remains at the forefront of our minds (our weekly COVID committee

meetings attest to that) we have been able to have a return to more than a semblance of a normal Cambridge term: we’ve run an actionpacked Freshers’ Week, successfully held our first Bops since even before the pandemic, and have a vibrant term card of events planned for Lent. We want to do more than simply return to normal, instead looking at how the pandemic has really placed community and connection at the centre of what we do, and how we can promote and nurture this.

This is a really exciting time in Homerton’s history. There’s a sense of entering a period of renewal as we begin to emerge from the long winter of the pandemic, with our new and wellloved Principal Lord Woolley (or Simon, as he is already known among students), our newly unveiled sports pitches, our new Dining Hall is soon to be in operation, and we are also holding consultation on a new Porters’ Lodge. It’s not just our site that is growing and expanding, but also our community, as the admissions and outreach team welcome the best and brightest from all backgrounds to College.

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SPORT

Folami Iyiola – HUS Sports Officer

Homerton + Emmanual College AFAB Football Team

The team began this year in Division 1 after a well-deserved promotion last season. We started strong, winning our first two games by a margin of two goals each. Our third game was a close one, with the opposition clutching a win in the final 10 minutes. Not deterred, we continued to win our next League game and are currently undefeated in Cuppers. We have had an excellent turnout from Homerton freshers who have performed exceptionally in training and on the pitch. This term we expect to hit the ground running and continue to work hard, running head-first towards the finals. As the first Cambridge University team to actively recruit transgender and non-binary teammates, we are always open to new players, experienced or not. The team’s success this year is a testament

to their continued and unrelenting hard work and camaraderie, and the rest of the season should be exciting indeed.

Homerton Men’s Badminton

At the turn of the academic year, Homerton assembled two teams to be entered into the College Badminton League. Following impressive showings during the last full season (Lent 2020), both the Men’s and Women’s teams were set to resume proceedings in the very highest tier of competition.

The Men’s team were resigned to losing some of our strongest players from prior seasons but spirits were high going into what would be many of our shuttlers’ first experience of inter-College badminton. The team battled hard throughout

Men’s Badminton team

and put in a valiant showing in all six matches that Homerton competed in. Sadly, it was not to be, as despite our performances, we fell into one of the relegation spots at the business end of the competition. We will seek promotion during the Lent 2022 season and a return to the promised land! Our players have gained a lot of experience throughout the last three months, and we thank them all for their commitment and dedication. Congratulations also to the Women’s team who finished in a very commendable second place amongst tough competition in Division One. Led superbly by Paula Suchantke, we believe that they will make a strong push towards claiming the crown this upcoming season.

The Badminton Society would like to extend our thanks to Hills Road Sports Centre for allowing us to host training sessions and matches at their venue, as well as the HUS for their financial backing.

Men’s Team Roster: Phupha Amornkijja, Bartek Formela, Naomi Izatt, Anchit Jain, Lewis Kelsall (Captain), Shumpei Kimura, Binglun Li, Meherwaan Sayyed, Jake Stewart, Kogulan Vipulan (Vice-Captain), Jordan Waters, Kofi Wilkinson, Adam Wood.

Lewis Kelsall & Kogulan Vipulan Homerton Badminton Society Co-Presidents 2021/22

Homerton Women’s Badminton

In October, it had been exactly one year since the last matches in the intercollegiate badminton league were played so the team this year is entirely made up of new members, mostly comprising first and second year undergrads and a couple of postgrads. At the Freshers’ Fair the interest in the casual badminton sessions we host twice a week at Hills Road Sports Centre was great and so it was relatively straightforward to put a team together. It’s been great to provide a platform for players of different abilities and experience to give proper badminton matches a go for the first time or give it their best to move Homerton up the league table, respectively.

We started as team No 7 (out of 8) in the 1st women’s division and were able to play six out of our seven scheduled matches (our week 8 opponent was unresponsive). We won three out of these games, with the other three being tight matches. Our league rank should be 3/8 –each match consists of nine games and we won a whopping 26 overall! It has been great to meet players from other Colleges and the atmosphere at most games has been super friendly!

Paula Suchantke

Women’s Badminton team

Netball

Netball has been really great this term, with lots of enthusiasm for both mixed and women’s netball, and lots of team bonding including two socials! The mixed team won four of their matches and had lots of players turn up to play and support them in some of their final games. The women’s team won their division and will be promoted to division 2 for next term!

Ultimate Frisbee

A group of veteran players and rookies reassembled in Easter term for what would turn out to be the only competitive frisbeeing of 2021. Nonetheless, the team showed excellent spirit and enthusiasm throughout. With limited preparation, Homerton re-entered into the College league, mostly hoping to gain experience for the newer members as well as ultimately having some fun! Our determination paid dividends as two impressive wins followed against the St Catharine’s College team, dubbed the Thundercatz, and a local club, Frisee Rascals. The highlight of these was a 13-1 victory over the latter. These were interspersed amongst some close defeats, but it was overall a thoroughly enjoyable time for everyone involved.

We would like to thank Kai Junge and James Booth for their fantastic leadership and service to the Ultimate Frisbee society during their time at Homerton. We wish them, and all our alumni disc throwers, best wishes in their future endeavours!

Louis Cohen & Kogulan Vipulan Homerton Ultimate Frisbee Society Co-Captains 2021/22

The Netball team in action

Ultimate Frisbee team

CHARTER CHOIR OF HOMERTON COLLEGE

Dr Daniel Trocmé-Latter, Director of Music

There are a number of striking College mottos in Cambridge, and Homerton’s Respice finem is probably one of the more memorable ones. Translated as ‘look to the end’, or ‘consider the end’, it is generally interpreted as a caution to consider actions and their consequences. The Charter Choir’s first commercial recording in 2014 parodied this motto in its title: Audite finem, enticing listeners to keep going until the very end (where we had intended to include a hidden track on the CD; unfortunately it never came to fruition).

Fast-forwarding to the COVID pandemic, there have been times over the last two years when it has felt like the end of the road for the Charter Choir, which has built itself up to such a strong position over the last decade. However, now is not one of those moments, and it is great to be able to write a more positive report than that which appeared in last year’s Annual Review!

Apart from a handful of fourth-years, none of our current singers has yet experienced a complete year of choral singing here at Homerton. The third-years were mere Freshers about to take their first-year exams when the pandemic hit; for our second-years, the year 2020–21 was a write-off in terms of choral and most other extra-curricular activities; and our new first-years have only just settled in after their first term of university life.

This has meant that many of the musical skills that would normally be acquired through a nearconstant cycle of rehearsal and performance have been missed out on, and the social and health benefits of being in a choir went out of the window with them. However, we are well on the

road to recovery. What the choir lacks in terms of experience, it more than makes up for in terms of enthusiasm, drive, and desire to be involved.

Following on from last Easter term when we sang in smaller groups, and a choir tour to the South West of England (singing in Portsmouth, Truro, and Wells Cathedrals), this Michaelmas term saw a return to a full choir – though still socially distanced – singing Evensong every Tuesday. Lord Woolley, recently sworn in as Principal, attended the very first Evensong of the academic year. The Choir was filmed singing two Christmas carols, and the carol service was a fitting culmination to the term (although we were sorry that the Principal was forced to abandon his plans to attend, having been called away to attend the ceremony in Barbados for the country’s transition to a republic!).

This level of enthusiasm can actually be felt buzzing through Homerton’s music-making community at large. In fact, I would go so far as to say that we currently have one of the most passionate groups of musicians that I have seen during my time as Director of Music. The HCMS Michaelmas term concert was a resounding success, featuring ensembles that have not so much lain dormant during COVID but that had disappeared and since been re-founded.

Frankie Richards (Choral Scholar and now also our first ever Conducting Scholar) led the Homerton Orchestra in one of its best performances in a decade. Regular in-person recitals have also returned, largely thanks to HCMS President Joe Solomon and the HCMS Committee. Among the groups that met for the first time in 18 months were the Homerton Singers, with Dr Douglas Coombes MBE at the helm. Jazz in the Buttery has also made a return after Formal Hall on Tuesday evenings, and a small

group of jazz musicians were able to play in the presence of HRH The Prince of Wales during his visit to the College in November.

As I write, I am reviving plans for our choir tour to Northern Italy in July 2022 – postponed from 2020. It is true that there is no telling what the New Year will bring, and whether the Omicron variant will prove to be yet another fly in the ointment. But for the Charter Choir, and for Homerton music in general, this still feels like a new beginning – not the end, but nevertheless focussed on the end-goal: making music for the enjoyment of all in College.

Respice finem n

SCHOLARSHIPS

Choral Scholarships:

Angelus Blank

Gus Brimacombe

Lucas Churchill

Amber Coxill

Alfie Davis

Amy Elder

Rebecca Gell

Charlotte Horner

Lizzie Howe

Neve Kennedy

Curtis Lam

Morgane Lapeyre

Sophia Marine

Max McGarrigle

Frankie Richards

Georgia Sibley

Jo Skinner

Thomas Slater

Joe Solomon

Bridget Tiller

Nat Warren

Adam Wolowcyzk

Roger Green Senior

Organ Scholarship:

Matthew Walters

Junior Organ Scholarship:

Mark Englander

Accompanist Scholarship

Jason Ng

2020 Omitted from the 2020 Annual Review:

Choral Scholarships:

Angelus Blank

Amelia Calladine

Ollie Carr

Anna Cooper

Amy Elder

Rebecca Gell

Madeleine Green

Charlotte Horner

Lizzie Howe

Emily James

Curtis Lam

Morgane Lapeyre

Max McGarrigle

Frankie Richards

Nicky Ross

Catherine Skinner

Thomas Slater

Joe Solomon Bridget Tiller

Adam Wolowcyzk

Alumni and friends are most welcome at Charter Choir services and concerts, full details of which can be found on our website at www.homerton.cam.ac.uk/charterchoir. Alumni are also encouraged to follow the Charter Choir on their Facebook page, at www.facebook.com/homcharterchoir

A service of Carols and Readings, 30 November 2021

Dr Roberto B. Sileo

RESEARCH

Research Roundup

RESEARCH ROUNDUP

Director of Studies in Archaeology, Dr Katherine Boyle has completed extensive work this year on investigating Upper Palaeolithic adaptation to climate change.

“This work has looked at the impact of deteriorating climate conditions on variability in the archaeological record around the time of the Last Glacial Maximum. It addresses adaptive tradeoffs triggered by this general climatic downturn in North-Western Europe, investigating the impact of local climate and habitat on behavioural variability in Gravettian technological organisation compared to the previous Aurignacian. It looks at two assemblages from Walou Cave, Belgium, one of few well-stratified sites in NorthWestern Europe with evidence for multiple occupation events accompanied by a fine-grained palaeoenvironmental record.

Combining well established and new analytical techniques (AMS, LA-ICP-MS and ZooMS) to evaluate questions concerning hunter-gatherer adaptations, results suggest that Gravettian technologies are unlikely to be solely a result of heightened risk in relation to a significant reshuffling of food resources compared to the Aurignacian, but that the period is a significant, if frequently underestimated, episode in longterm development of prehistoric hunter-gatherer behavioural complexity.”

Luc Moreau, Christelle Draily, Jean-Marie Cordy, Katherine Boyle, Michael Buckley, Erik Gjesfjeld, Peter Filzmoser, Valentina Borgia, Sally A. Gibson, Jason Day, Robert Beyer, Andrea Manica, Marc Vander Linden, Marjorie de Grooth & Stéphane Pirson (2021) Adaptive Trade-offs Towards the

Last Glacial Maximum in North-Western Europe: a Multidisciplinary View from Walou Cave. J Paleo Arch 4, 11 (2021).

Fellow in Politics

Dr Robin Bunce has contributed to various film and television projects over the past year.

“October 2020 saw the premiere of Mangrove, a film by Oscar award-winning director Steve McQueen. I had been working on the film as a historical consultant since 2017, so it was a real thrill to see the movie complete. COVID meant that the film only had a limited run in cinemas, but I was really pleased with the reception it got when it aired on television, and the BAFTA nominations that followed.

Following the film, Steve McQueen wanted to showcase the research on the British Black Power movement that went into the movie, so I collaborated with Rogan Productions on the documentary Black Power: a story of British resistance, which aired on BBC 2 in March. The documentary was subsequently picked up by Amazon, and is now reaching an international audience. I’m glad to say it has been nominated for a prestigious IDM award.

Since the spring, I‘ve been working with BBC Studios and SKY Documentaries on a film about the British black radical Michael de Freitas.

Michael X: Hustler, Revolutionary, Outlaw. came out in October, and was well received by audiences and critics.”

Robin has also contributed a chapter, in collaboration with Samara Linton, to the book Rethinking Labour’s Past: Rethinking the History of the Labour Party. The essay explores the campaign to get black and Asian MPs elected to Parliament

in 1987, and the book will be published by Bloomsbury in the New Year.

Dr Stephen Burgess leads a research group based on the Addenbrooke’s campus divided between the Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit and the Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit. His work uses large datasets that combine information on genetics with medical records of diseases and other medicallyrelevant traits.

His research this year has provided evidence supporting a specific effect of body fat on digestive cancers, rather than a generic effect of body size on all cancers, and a beneficial effect of vitamin D supplementation on mortality risk that is isolated to those who are vitamin D deficient.

He has also provided input to the national debate on the pandemic, including work together with Homerton’s Dr Julia Kenyon on the relationship between viral dosage (i.e. the amount of virus that an individual is exposed to at the point of infection) and severity of illness, and on the relationship between COVID-19 and acute cardiovascular disease.

Dr Ross Cole, Fellow in Music, saw his book The Folk: Music, Modernity, and the Political Imagination published by University of California Press in September 2021. The book traces the Janus-like politics of folk song in Britain and the US from 1870 to 1930, and beyond to the contemporary alt-right. It has been described as ‘gracefully written and compelling’.

Ross’s article Vaporwave a e s t h e t i c s: Internet Nostalgia and the Utopian Impulse’(ASAP/ Journal, 2020) received an honourable mention for the Royal Musical Association’s Jerome Roche

Prize 2021. He has been invited to speak at New York University and was awarded a Fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University.

Led by colleagues at the University of Copenhagen

Professor Matthew Collins, McDonald Chair in Palaeoproteomics, has been part of an innovative project devised by Luise Øersted Brandt and funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation, which brings together high school students and archaeologists to explore the vast amounts of leather recovered during urban redevelopment.

So much leather is recovered from these wet dark deposits that archaeologists are faced with problems of conservation and identification. Luise’s idea is that one person’s problem could be a great teaching tool for someone else. In her Next Generation lab these pieces of dark unrecognisable leather are the starting point for new stories uncovered by school pupils. Brought into the lab, they are first shown examples of modern leather prepared from many different animals and are asked to carefully examine the skins for evidence of hair follicles and the pattern of the grain. They then get to analyse an ancient leather object. Having examined this carefully, they don lab coats and pull on gloves to extract proteins from the object ready for analysis by mass spectrometer. Once back at school they are shared into the data output and identify from peptide masses which species the objects were made from.

Next Generation Lab gives pupils exposure to history, archaeology, fashion as well as protein biochemistry and mass spectrometry, demonstrating the diversity of a discipline, archaeology, rarely taught in schools. The data is then shared with the museum, for whom it can pose unexpected questions. What was this thick belt used for, and why was it made from horse leather, when use of horse skins was banned?

College Research Associate in Geography, Dr Shreyashi Dasgupta was named runner-up in the Bayly Prize 2021 by the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland for her PhD thesis The Accommodation City: Private low-income housing and urban space in Dhaka and Mumbai.

The prize, which commemorates Professor Sir Christopher Bayly’s outstanding contribution to the study of world history, is awarded each year to a distinguished thesis in Asian studies. The award ceremony was held on 11 November at the Royal Asiatic Society, London.

Professor Mary DixonWoods, Professorial fellow and Director of THIS Institute in the Department of Public Health and Primary Care, was named as one of the 100 most influential and powerful people in healthcare by the Health Service Journal. Under her leadership, THIS Institute was commissioned by the Department of Health and Social Care in a unique partnership with the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the Royal College of Midwives to co-design new, evidence-based approaches to reduce brain injury in childbirth.

Her work on adapting clinical processes for COVID scenarios has been endorsed by major professional and NHS bodies. Her research with co-authors has been cited in a Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology briefing on the mental health impacts of the pandemic. She has participated in “Doctor Informed”, a new joint BMJ/THIS Institute podcast. She gave this year’s Otto Wolff lecture at UCL, the annual public lecture for the Mercer Institute at Trinity College Dublin, and a Grand Rounds presentation at Massachusetts General Hospital, as well as 12 other invited presentations.

Dr Amelia Drew, Junior Research Fellow in Theoretical Physics, provided a talk with Dr Will Fawcett, Research Associate in Particle Physics, as part of the Alumni Festival. Their talk, which they had also given exclusively to Homerton alumni earlier in the year, explored the impact on fundamental understanding of physics of recent findings at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago. She also recorded a podcast with Cambridge University science magazine Bluesci, called Mysteries of the Early Universe

Amelia is also part of GRChombo, a collaboration of numerical relativists developing open source code, which published a paper in The Journal of Open Source Software entitled An adaptable numerical relativity code for fundamental physics.

Library assistant Gabriel Duckels is a Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholar at Hughes Hall, where he is completing his PhD in HIV/AIDS and Queer Youth in Young Adult Fiction and Nonfiction. His collection of young adult fiction reflecting the HIV/AIDS crisis was awarded the Rose Book-Collecting prize by Cambridge University Library this year.

Professor Doug Easton, Homerton Fellow and Director of the Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, has led a study described by Cancer Research UK as ‘the most ambitious research ever conducted on the inheritance of breast cancer.’

Published in the New England Journal of Medicine in January 2021, the study analysed samples from 113,000 women using research

undertaken by 250 researchers from more than 25 countries. The findings reveal the most important genes increasing the risk of breast cancer, and will be used to develop risk prediction tests and to help improve prevention programmes.

Fellow in Engineering

Dr Shery Huang was part of a multi-disciplinary team developing a 3D microvessel-on-a-chip device for the study of glioblastoma – a fastgrowing and aggressive form of brain tumour that develops chemo-resistance over current treatments.

“We look forward to seeing engineering tool kits making an increasing impact on clinical treatments,” she said.

Shery also co-led research into the ‘upsizing’ of organoids, miniature collections of cells which mimic the behaviour of various organs for research purposes. “Mini-organs are very small and highly fragile,” she said. “In order to scale them up, which would increase their usefulness in medical research, we need to find the right conditions to help the cells self-organise.”

In addition she was part of a cross-disciplinary team of engineers and clinicians using 3D printing to create intricate replicas of human cochleae –the spiral-shaped hollow bone of the auditory inner ear – and combine it with machine learning to advance clinical predictions of ‘current spread’ inside the ear for cochlear implant (CI) patients.

Homerton Junior Research Fellow in Economics, Dr Ines Lee, has won the Bracken Bower Prize 2021 with her book proposal Failing the Class. Supported by the Financial Times and McKinsey, the prize is awarded to the best

business book proposal by an author under 35, “that provides a compelling and enjoyable insight into future trends in business, economics, finance or management.”

Ines is working on the book in collaboration with Dr Eileen Tipoe, Senior Lecturer in Economics at Queen Mary University of London. The pair will share prize money of £15,000, and attend a session with publishers where they will receive guidance on making the book a reality. The book will explore a perceived transition in the purpose of education from an inherent benefit in itself, to a tool for employment, and the impact of this shift on the nature of learning and social cohesion.

Dr Ros McLellan, University Associate Professor in Teacher Education and Development/Pedagogical Innovation, gave a keynote entitled ‘Supporting wellbeing in school: Enabling young people to fulfil their potential’ to an audience of over 1200 international teachers, organised by Cambridge International as part of their Cambridge Schools Conference.

Linked to this, Ros published an article ‘Prioritising Wellbeing’ in Cambridge International’s in-house magazine, as well as writing a blog on the same subject.

Ros is now Chair of the Publications Committee at BERA, the British Education Research Association.

Homerton Research

Associate Dr Jwalin Patel took up the ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Faculty of Education in 2021. He has been awarded the University’s Public Engagement Starter Grant, and published the following articles:

• The Zoo Task: A novel metacognitive problemsolving task developed with a sample of African American children from schools in high poverty communities (in the journal of the American Psychological Association);

• Learning to Live Together Harmoniously: a conceptual framework (in the Cambridge Journal of Education);

• and The role of dissent, conflict, and open dialogue in learning to live together harmoniously (in the Cambridge Journal of Education).

Dr. Roberto B. Sileo, the College’s Fellow and Director of Studies in Linguistics, was appointed as the Academic Director of the new MSt. in English Language Assessment, a blended learning programme delivered by the University’s Institute of Continuing Education in collaboration with different faculties and departments. Roberto also joined the Scientific Committee of the Global Council for Anthropological Linguistics at SOAS, University of London and the Editorial Board of Intercultural Pragmatics, a fully peer-reviewed journal for cross-disciplinary research in theoretical and applied pragmatics.

Dr Beth Singler, Junior Research Fellow in Artificial Intelligence gave a research seminar at KU Leuven: “Blessed by the Algorithm: Artificial Intelligence and Religion in Online and Offline

Discourse”; a public talk at Homerton entitled “Preparing for the Robopocalypse: the Real Dangers of Artificial Intelligence and Robots”; a talk at CHAIR on “The Dreams our Stuff is Made of: Trust, Agency and Super-agency”; and the Annual Digital Religion Research Award Lecture.

She was also announced as the 2021 Digital Religion Research Award Winner by the Network for New Media, Religion and Digital Culture Studies.

Homerton Research

Associate and Newton-Kavli Fellow at the Kavli Institute for Cosmology, Dr Sunny Vagnozzi, has led research on a new study suggesting that unexplained results from the XENON1T experiment may have been caused by dark energy, and not the dark matter the experiment was designed to detect. The study was widely reported and is listed by Wikipedia as one of the most important scientific discoveries of 2021.

Sunny was awarded the Symmetry 2020 Young Investigator Award, in acknowledgement that his “research at the interface of cosmology, astrophysics, and particle physics has provided remarkable insight into the composition and fate of the universe”.

He also received the Alfredo di Braccio award, given by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei for his important contributions at the intersection of cosmology, astrophysics and particle physics. The prize was awarded by this year’s Nobel Prize winner in Physics, Giorgio Parisi n

Giorgio Parisi presents the Alfredo di Braccio award to Sunny Vagnozzi

Paintings for These Times: March 2020 – July 2021

Philip Stephenson, Fellow in Education

On 23 March 2020, Boris Johnson announced to the nation that there was to be a full lockdown commencing the next morning. There had been an initial lockdown-lite announced on 16 March but on the Sunday that followed immediately after, with the non-essential shops closed as well as pubs and restaurants, everyone headed for the park in their thousands.

This event gave me an idea that also gave me the opportunity to promote the wonderful Fitzwilliam Museum with which I’ve had a longstanding association. The idea of people in the park reminded me of a painting in the Fitz by French impressionist Georges Seurat entitled A Sunday on the Island of La Grande Jatte. Using this as the springboard, I put together a 1500 word article that began with the news item and then went into a description and analysis of the painting.

As I recall, the opening lines were:

“Well there’s nothing for it, the pubs are closed, the cinemas are closed, the coffee shops are closed – let’s head for the park … and so they do, in their droves.

And from Whitstable to the Wrekin, from Southwold to Snowdonia en masse they go - into the wide-open spaces for a communal close encounter. It’s the end of course, it couldn’t last and at 8.30 the following evening they hear their leader’s command.

From this evening I must give the British people a very simple instruction - you must stay at home.

In today’s painting, we have a lingering reminiscence of that last day of freedom, this time in a riverside park in Paris, 1884”.

A Sunday on the Island of La Grande Jatte, by Georges Seurat

I concluded with some appropriate music choices linked to the relevant YouTube videos. This got circulated to staff, Fellows and the Retired Senior Members initially as a one-off. However, some positive feedback filtered in and, encouraged, I found another news item a few days later. This told of the locked-down people of the Italian city of Sienna singing to each other across the street from their balconies.

The ideal painting sprung to mind, a beautiful early renaissance altarpiece of an enthroned Virgin and Child by Sienese artist Lucca di Tomme. Made in 1368 at a time when Siena was being ravaged by the Peste Negra or Black Death it served as a source of salvation for those who attended the church where it was installed.

And so it went on: every few days, another news item, another painting so that by 19 July 2021 on what was supposedly Freedom Day, I’d reached number 100. This seemed an appropriate time to stop. It was also about time that I gave Clare Ryan in the Bursary a break as she was the one who had to circulate these for me.

Looking back, the series gives quite a good personal account, inadvertently becoming some sort of Journal of a Plague Year for contemporary times. As I peruse the final article (The Martyrdom of St Sebastian by Tomasso di Piero, since you ask) I see that I wrote in conclusion:

“So, at this point, we’ll call it a day. My every best wish to all you readers out there, and many thanks to those of you who have responded with such enthusiasm. However, my final words are simply an expression of heartfelt thanks to Leslie Stephenson, the man who introduced his seven-year-old little boy to the divine representations of truth and beauty that are to be found in art galleries everywhere”n

The Martyrdom of St Sebastian by Tomasso di Piero

GOOD COP, BAD COP

In the build-up to November’s climate conference in Glasgow, we talked to members of the Homerton community working on finding sustainable solutions.

Liam Cawthorne: Building a career around climate

Alumnus Liam Cawthorne (BA Geography 2014) has been interested in the challenges of climate change since watching Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth as a child. As an undergraduate studying Geography at Homerton, he focused his final year dissertation on the impact that climate change is having on winter tourism in the Swiss Alps.

“You’ve got whole communities that are dependent on the winter weather for tourism and the infrastructure set up to service it, and I was interested in how they are responding to not being able to rely on favourable snow conditions.”

After graduating, he took some time out to work in Switzerland, before completing an MSc in Climate Change, Management and Finance at Imperial College, London.

“It’s a very new course – we were only the third intake. Climate change has really picked up in the public discourse over the past few years, and

government, industry and the private sector are really realising that they need to respond.”

The course brought together graduates from a range of academic backgrounds, including Economics, Geography and Natural Sciences, providing a useful diversity of perspectives. Despite the disruption to the course itself caused by the pandemic, Liam believes that the sector has taken inspiration from the example of COVID to demonstrate that big global changes can be tackled when we really need to.

“When COVID hit, jobs in sustainability and renewable energy grew. Everyone in my course found a job soon after finishing.”

An internship at Ikigai Capital has expanded into a full-time role as Junior Associate at the consultancy, which works with investors, large energy consumers and operators in the energy sector. Founded in 2017, the company combines consultancy, funding and co-development expertise in support of decarbonisation projects, acting also as a clean technology accelerator, supporting companies to scale up and deploy their solutions.

Liam is currently working on the investment plan for the decarbonisation of Ellesmere Port in Cheshire, an area whose concentration of industry currently consumes around 5% of the UK’s energy. He is also involved in Ikigai’s work to deliver a Hydrogen Investment Strategy for the Thames Estuary.

“I’ve always been pragmatic in my approach to climate change,” he says. “It’s a difficult task and there are lots of challenges to overcome, but you should only worry about the outcomes that are in your control. It’s very exciting to see the response to climate change picking up the pace.”

Following the conference Liam said: “A positive result from COP26 is the agreement reached to cut down methane emissions, whose contribution to global warming is often underrated. However, overall, disappointing results: there is still no accountability on pledges to cut down emissions, language tweaking to ‘phase down’ rather than ‘phase out’ on coal, key emitters setting net zero targets for 2070 (well beyond 2050), no global alignment on carbon pricing – all of this signals we are very far from hitting 2°C. I would expect more global leadership from global leaders at future COP events.”

Dr Elsa Lee: An environmental education

Dr Elsa Lee spent 10 years as a secondary school science teacher in the UK and Mexico. But, having originally been drawn to science herself because of her passion for the environment, she became frustrated by the lack of opportunity to explore sustainability within the curriculum.

“Science and Geography in England (and elsewhere) do cover climate change and other environmental matters, but it’s very disjointed,” she says now. “There’s not much recognition of the importance of the social aspects of environmental

degradation: the way that the problems we are encountering are intersectional and largely an outcome of our social and economic activity is somehow lost in the emphasis on the science of it all.”

After undertaking a Masters in Environmental Education, and a PhD exploring how young people learn to become active citizens through working on environmental problems, both at the University of Bath, Elsa joined the Faculty of Education as a Research Associate, becoming a Bye-Fellow at Homerton. She now leads a multi-stranded, inter-disciplinary academic career, focused on environmental sustainability education.

Recently, this has included acting as Principal Investigator of an ESRC funded study called Connecting Water to Global Citizenship via Education for Sustainable Development, a project working with young people to regenerate waterways in England and South Africa, and explore how this kind of activity supports young people’s sense of being part of a global community.

Elsa also works as a part-time Research Fellow at Anglia Ruskin University, where she has investigated how children and artists working together in natural outdoor spaces can influence wellbeing. She recently sat on the advisory board for the development of the Natural History GCSE. However, despite her concern that climate change and sustainability should be interwoven into the curriculum, she is resistant to suggestions that children themselves hold the solution to the environmental crisis.

“So many people turn to schools to solve social problems, in the hopes that the next generation will come to the rescue. But these problems have to be solved now, by adults. Children deserve an education that enables them, when they’re ready, to contribute. But eco-anxiety can be overwhelming, even for adults, so we need to be extremely cautious about burdening children with knowledge about problems they have very little power to effect change over.”

In higher education, however, Elsa believes that more can be done to integrate the principles of environmental sustainability education across all disciplines. She is currently working on plans for a training module for Homerton academics, to support them in applying these approaches in their own subjects, and hopes to launch a pilot programme next year.

As COP26 draws closer, Elsa acknowledges that “lots of people who’ve been working in this field feel a bit cynical about these high level intergovernmental processes.” However, her hope is that, regardless of what is agreed at the conference itself, it will provide the impetus for action at the grass roots level by amplifying the conversation around climate.

“Over the past five decades these conferences have been the source of very significant policy developments and intergovernmental cooperation and collaboration. Alongside that they provide focus and energy for a lot of things to happen around them. We need to harness as much of that energy as we can to contribute to the intensifying efforts that are being made at local, national and international levels, to effect positive change in this area, and to give children a sense that we are all working together on these issues that are of immense importance to us all.”

Following the conference Elsa said: “I loved watching young people have an opportunity to engage and participate. The meeting of education ministers was also very exciting, and I am looking forward to seeing how the proposals for a Duke of Edinburgh style award for schools and children works out. When we engage young people in these sorts of initiatives we give them a voice, and that is so important, but now they need to know that they have been heard. That relies on actions being taken that address their concerns, and validate their participation so I look forward to watching the impacts unfold.”

Craig Bennett: A very sustainable Fellow

When Craig Bennett was 16, his careers advisor asked him whether he had any idea what he wanted to do with his life. Unusually for a teenager, he was absolutely clear.

“I told him I wanted to be an environmental campaigner. But that didn’t appear on his list, so he put down the code for school career advisor instead.”

That clarity of focus, which had developed over a 1980s adolescence filled with concern about CFCs and setting up a Green Group at school, has never faded. He studied Geography at Reading University before completing an MSc in Conservation at UCL and began his career by volunteering for an environmental NGO. After eight years as a Campaigner at Friends of the Earth and three as Deputy Director at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainable Leadership, he went back to Friends of the Earth, first as Director of Policy and Campaigns, and then as Chief Executive, before taking up his current role running The Wildlife Trusts last year.

“The Wildlife Trusts felt like the perfect next step,” he says. “I’m frustrated by the way that climate change and biodiversity get talked about so separately – you can’t solve one without the other. They’re both part of the same problem,

which is that humanity needs to learn to live fairly within environmental limits.”

The Wildlife Trusts brings together 46 local trusts dedicated to restoring nature and bringing people closer to the natural world. Craig sees this grassroots approach as a crucial factor in encouraging wider participation.

“If you want to bring about big change it has to happen at a local level, within local communities. It’s a very powerful model for achieving scale.”

The Wildlife Trusts’ headline ambition is to return one third of the UK’s land and sea to nature by 2030, an aim which Craig describes as “completely achievable.”

“We have more nature reserves in this country than branches of McDonald’s – by more than a thousand! We’re brilliantly placed to mobilise change. That means connecting existing reserves by creating wildlife corridors, but it also means making sure that we make more space for nature when new development happens, like at the Trumpington Meadows site in Cambridge, where new housing development was coupled with the creation of a brand new nature reserve. It also means that, if agriculture is going to be subsidised, it should be supported to protect nature. Over the past 50 years 41% of British species have declined. We need to not just halt that trend, but completely reverse it. Our vision is to see an increase in all those species by 2030.”

As the human impact on the environment becomes ever more disturbingly apparent, it’s easy for people to feel powerless in responding to it. But Craig sees The Wildlife Trusts as a way for people to connect, tangibly and locally, with a powerful collective effort. He is championing the concept of ‘Team Wilder’, supporting groups of people to take action which makes sense to them, and also plans to build up the organisation’s youth movement, including creating youth positions on its board.

“Solutions need different perspectives,” he says. “To have conversations about the future of the planet without involving young people would be a bit odd.”

He recognises that the scale of the sustainability challenge can be overwhelming, but emphasises the impact of small changes.

“The important thing is to take action and do something. It doesn’t have to be all or nothing. Try to reduce your meat consumption, don’t fly so often, etc. I don’t think we should be flying domestically within the UK, but actually I’m not sure high-speed rail is the answer either. We should be investing in high speed broadband, and rethinking how much domestic work travel is needed. And we should be thinking about comfort rather than speed when it comes to trains. A long train journey with decent WiFi and a comfy seat is a wonderful thing.”

Professor Greg Clark: Two weeks on the Clyde

Glasgow in November is not always balmy. For most of the two weeks of COP26 the skies were clear and dry, mirroring both the warmth of the welcome of the UK’s friendliest city, and the serious agenda that was under discussion. Warming is a complex word. A veneer of comfort laced with a hideous threat.

For those, like me, who were in Glasgow for the summit, the balance sheet reads clearly. Progress was made on important agendas: methane, deforestation, the global financial system,

national transparency, and measurability. There was progress in the revived US-China dialogue, a clear commitment from India with an ambitious next decade, and simply superb evidence from the community of scientists, ecologists, economists, and behaviouralists. In addition to this, at COP26, there was a swarm of technology innovations in renewable energy production, carbon capture and storage, circular economy, food production and agritech, nature-based solutions, construction processes, mobility systems, battery storage, smart digital platforms, and waste reduction. One of the conversations I had was with a Japanese vet who is a world leader on reducing flatulence in cattle!

But there were also glaring gaps. The absence of Russia and China represented at the highest level was much discussed in the first week, though China was very visible in all dialogues. The absence of any serious discussion of carbon pricing and taxing which many believe is critical to tip the balance of incentives towards models that fully capture the planetary cost of all options. The hesitancy, by China and India, to agree a wording that commits to the elimination of coal as a fuel. The lack of a full commitment to pay for the loss and damage for those countries most impacted by existing and already unavoidable effects. For many, the stark conclusion is that the 1.5 target is just barely alive, and only if everything else comes good quickly. The risk is that 1.5, 2.0, and even 2.5 degrees of global warming are unleashed with all the consequences for habitat devastation, biodiversity loss, and climate refugees they will bring. The stakes are the highest they could be.

I was at COP as Chair of the UK Cities Climate Investment Commission, a collaboration platform between cities and financial institutions, with business and Government, aimed at accelerating net zero investing in our urban systems. Cities

have a special role in the climate emergency. They are the concentrations of population and the hubs of infrastructure and commerce. Cities produce high levels of CO2, but well-run cities that invest in their carrying capacity can be environmentally efficient compared to other forms of settlement. Cities are also key victims of global warming. Five hundred cities are at risk of flooding if we exceed the 1.5 degrees that would bring a 0.5m rise in sea levels. If we have 10 billion people on our planet, the only way to house them effectively is well-run low-carbon cities.

We must manage de-carbonisation in a better way than we mismanaged de-industrialisation. Our cities know that deeply. The NetZero City will be a healthier, more affordable, innovative, job rich, and fairer city, IF we can sequence together the de-carbonisation path with remodelling and reinvesting. We can focus now on proactive transformation to achieve better connected, more compact, and cleaner cities, underpinned by electrification, circularity, reformed land uses, green innovation, revised consumer choices, citizen empowerment, and cost/benefit fairness for just transition. This will ensure positive outcomes for people through healthier and more affordable homes, lower fuels bills, improved nutrition, wider transport options, and a long cycle of new green job creation. The net zero city is not just an environmental goal, it is the path to better connected places and rewarding lives.

Professor Greg Clark CBE FAcSS is Group Advisor at HSBC, Chair of the Connected Places Catapult and a Board member of Transport For London and the London LEP. He is a Civic Leader, writer, NonExecutive Director and Board Chair, who works with Businesses, Governments, and Cities to help navigate this disrupted century, inspire new collaborations, and forge new futures n

DEVELOPMENT

From the Development Director

Our Donors

FROM THE DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR

Matthew Moss MVO, Director of External Relations and Development

Keeping the Development team together and in good heart has felt like its own victory this year.

Over the COVID period, one critical post was vacant, another for a time furloughed. Every member of the team has caring responsibilities of one sort or another, which had to take priority at unpredictable times. Like most of the country, we all spent many months working from home, with all the emotional and practical swings and roundabouts that brings. (We saved some commuting time, for example, but lost it again tackling databases with moody remote connections, failing to read body language on Zoom, watching mesmerised as webcams turned on and off as if controlled by poltergeists.)

The greatest loss for a department that thrives on connecting people has been the cancellation of most in-person events, from MA graduation ceremonies to alumni reunions and social events in Cambridge and elsewhere. Around us, too, the rhythm of student comings and goings was pulled apart, and we lost our usual sense of closeness with the student body. And fundraising without face-toface meetings, it turns out, is a real challenge!

But the frustrations were more than balanced by the glories. Staff and Fellows were able to gather in Easter term to say farewell to Geoff Ward, our Principal since 2013 – all the more moving because seeing colleagues in real life was such a treat – and to take stock of how the College had matured into a confident, ambitious and purposeful organisation under his leadership. Those Homerton attributes, always so well articulated by Geoff, were at the forefront of the College’s thinking as we recruited his successor (hold that thought).

Also among the glories was the discovery of the power of online seminars for alumni. Having launched our first in 2020, we continued to develop the series throughout 2021. It seems extraordinary that two years ago we would have scorned this format as second-best. Now, we as producers and our alumni as audiences are so comfortable with online events that viewing numbers dwarf what we might expect for an inperson event – and as the latter return, the former will most definitely stay.

And of course, these webinars give us the chance to show off our exceptional academic Fellows. Over the year we heard Dr Will Fawcett and Dr Amelia Drew on new challenges to the Standard Model of physics; Dr Beth Singler on AI and machine learning; Professor Kamal Munir on racial diversity in institutions and corporations; and Dr Alison Wood on the future of education. I had the great pleasure of interviewing Professor Ravi Gupta and Dr Julia Kenyon on COVID-19 and HIV for the Cambridge Alumni Festival, in an empty lecture theatre, for an online audience of nearly 300 – which we discovered in Q&A included the head of the Clinical School at Oxford. They have been superstars throughout the pandemic: Ravi as a near daily expert voice in the global media, and Julia as an authoritative voice on how we handle COVID safety in our own College community. We are hugely fortunate to have such brilliant colleagues.

As for fundraising: as Cambridge’s newest College and with a young Development Office it’s fair to say that Homerton’s best fundraising days are ahead of us. We don’t yet have the reliable income stream from philanthropy that other Colleges can count on for student support – but this year we received the most extraordinary shot in the arm. Miss Jean Robinson, whose obituary appeared in last year’s Annual Review, studied

at Homerton in the last years of the Second World War. Her career mirrored that of many of our alumni: a teacher, school leader and later HM Inspector of schools. She had few needs and lived modestly; and died leaving an estate of £2 million, of which she directed half to Homerton and half to her old school. It really is the most extraordinary and emotional legacy, and a tribute to the transformative effect of a Homerton education on Jean’s life and career.

We continue to strive for that impact, in the Development Office as in every other part of the College’s activity. The student mentoring programme, managed by the Development team with Homerton Changemakers, goes from strength to strength, with 39 new matches created between students and mentors this year.

Tarquin Bennett-Coles (BEd 1989), one of our dedicated alumni mentors, says of the programme: “I wanted to put something back into the College that helped positively shape my career path and choices. I believe the talent of the future has so much to offer and, as mentors, we can help prepare them by focusing on the skills that they will need to adapt to our rapidly changing working environment – and also help open some doors that would otherwise be closed to them.”

This acute sense of engagement with the world around us is part of what makes Homerton distinctive, and it has been turbocharged by the arrival of Simon Woolley as our Principal (did you hold that thought?). Even before his installation on 1 October, he was making plans to invite HRH The Prince of Wales, and soon afterwards he seized a passing opportunity to bring the Reverend Jesse Jackson to Homerton. The Development Office was in the forefront of organising both these ‘pinch me’ visits – the most senior royal to visit Homerton ever in our history, and a civil rights campaigner who has enriched countless lives.

“Give me a lever and a place to stand, and I will move the world”, said Archimedes, and Simon brings that same ambition, and that same appreciation of good tools.

In that quotation, Archimedes the mathematician surely did not intend to glorify himself as the person who moves the world, but to draw attention to the power of levers. Homerton’s community – students, alumni, donors, staff, and Fellows – are the lever here, and through it – through you and with your help – we will change the world n

The Development Office team: Laura Kenworthy, Christopher Hallebro, Matthew Moss, Joseph Saxby and Sally Nott

David Johnson

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 2021. 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

1943 Mrs Kathleen Hayward

Miss Jean Robinson*

1944 Miss Margaret Rishbeth

1947 Mrs Mary Warne

1948 Professor Joan Chandler

Mrs Irene Cole

Mrs Brenda Elliott

Mrs Jane Farley

Miss Elizabeth Rainsbury

1949 Mrs Wendy Cannon

Mrs Mary Dowse

Mrs Coral Harrow

1951 Mrs Heather Bracewell*

Mrs Shelia Duncan*

1952 Mrs Shirley Haslam

1953 Mrs Janet Edgar

Dr Alison Littlefair

Mrs Elizabeth Tunnicliffe

1954 Mrs Diane Bilson

Mrs Pauline Curtis

Mrs Sheila Mackenzie

Mrs Ruth Orr

Mrs Wynne Thorndike

1955 Mrs Gwenda Ackroyd

Mrs Christine Grainge

Mrs Gillian Hewin

Mrs Doreen Hobbs

Mrs Rachel Lewington

Mrs Wendy Oakley

Mrs Loraine Schorter

Mrs Hazel Thornley

1956 Mrs Elizabeth Benning

Mrs Marguerite and

Mr Norman Donkin

Mr Gordon Gaddes in memory of

Mrs Pamela Gaddes

Mrs Alice Severs

1957 Mrs Gillian Figures

Mrs Jacqueline Fleetwood

Mrs Joan Hollinghurst

Mrs Shena Jones

Mrs Pam Judge

Mrs Christine Lincoln

Mrs Val Read

Mrs Doris Stephenson

Mrs Josephine Sutton

Mrs Joan Taylor

Mrs Rosemary Viner

Mrs Rita Wardle

1958 Mrs Christine Carne

Mrs Nancy Cook

Mrs Diana Hadaway

Mrs Jill Hicks

Mrs Vivien Ivell

Mrs Beryl Izzard

Mrs Wanda Kielbinska

Mrs Rachel Macdonald

Mrs Judy Manson

Mrs Beatrice Pryce ARAM

Mrs Patricia Stott

1959 Mrs Dora Beeteson

Ms Madeleine Gair JP

Mrs Ann Hardie

Mrs Ruth Jerram

Mrs Diana Lucas

Mrs Annmarie Mackay

Miss Gill Rogers

1960 Mrs Rosemary Allan

Dr J. Norman Bardsley in memory of

Mrs Jacqueline Bardsley

Mrs Patsy and Mr John Blythe

Mrs Jean Clarke

Mrs Sue Dickinson

Mrs Jenifer Freeman

Mrs Jill Fuller

Mrs Rosemary Hill

Mrs Christine Kershaw

Mrs Jennifer McKay

Mrs Jacqueline Swegen

Mrs Hillary Young

1961 Mrs Jan Campbell

Mrs Marilyn Clare

Mrs Anne Hulse

Mrs Joy Kohn

Mrs Susan Lovett

Mrs Sue McFarland

Mrs Jill Niblett

Mrs Caroline Sykes

Mrs Jean Thorman

1962 Mrs Adrianne Ashcroft

Mrs Carol Bowen

Mrs Diana Dalton

Mrs Lynn Dowson

Mrs Marion Foley

Mrs Carole Girdler

Mrs Carole Nolan

Miss Esme Partridge

Mrs Gwendolyn Williams

1963 Mrs Andrea Caish

The Revd Dr Anthea Cannell

Mrs Christine Macpherson

Mrs Erica Rigg

Mrs Kate Ryder

1964 Mrs Elizabeth Maycock

Mrs Maggie Meredith

Mrs Sue Rescorla

Mrs Jill Taylor

Ms Marjorie Thorley

Mrs Jane Woodford

1965 Miss Sue Bates

Mrs Lorna Cordell-Smith

Dr Tricia Cusack

Mrs Wendy Dunnett

Mrs Annie Illingworth

Lady Ann Ricketts

Mrs Janet Webb

Mrs Dilys West

1966 Mrs Elaine Beale

Mrs Wendy Farmer

Lady (Marilyn) Fersht

Mrs Margaret Funnell

Mrs Judy Martin-Jenkins

Mrs Judith Queripel

Mrs Joy Voisey

Miss Lorraine Welch

Mrs Linda West

Mrs Jan Wilkinson

1967 Mrs Marjorie Caie

Mrs Miriam France

Mrs Avril Growcott

Mrs Marion Pogson

Mrs Netti Smallbone

1968 Mrs Kathy Down

Mrs Valerie Hart

Mrs Lesley Marriott

Mrs Anne Martin

Mrs Robyn Mitchell

Mrs Lynne Parsons

Mrs Pemma SpencerChapman

Mrs Alison Syner

1969 Mrs Patricia Colyer

Mrs Tricia Coombes

Dr Vicky McNeile

Ms Anne Reyersbach

Ms Hilary Stokes

Mrs Sarah Taylor

1970 Mrs Jean Addison-Fitch

Mrs Patrica Bradley

Ms Fiona Cook

The Revd Sheila Crowther

The Revd Claire Heald

Mrs Denise Mitchell

Dr Roz Sendorek

Mrs Denise Shakespeare

Mrs Helen Wood

Mrs Mary Wyatt

1971 Mrs Denise Few

Mrs Mary McCosh

Ms Anne Sparrowhawk

Mrs Mal Reid

1972 Ms Catherine Beavis

Mrs Sarah Flynn

Mrs Margaret Howell

Mrs Fiona and

Mr Michael 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 Marilyn Thomas

Mrs Maureen Weston

1973 Mrs Fran Comley

Mrs Sheila Martin

Mrs Anne Mellor

Mrs Dilys Murch

Mrs Heather Wilkinson

1974 Mrs Elizabeth Rose

1975 Mrs Alyson Baker

Mrs Judith Davidson

Mrs Helen McRoberts

1976 Mrs Judy Clarke

Mrs Joan Gibson

Ms Jill Grimshaw

Ms Sarah Jacobs

Miss Amanda James

Mrs Alison Roberts

Mrs Ann Kirkby

Mr Tony Little

Mrs Ann Muston

Mrs Jo Newman

Mrs Vera Sklaar

Mrs Zena Tinsley

1977 Miss Sheila Berry

Mrs Jane Bishop

Mrs Lalli Draper

Ms Jane Edwards

Mrs Ann Jackman

Ms Clare KenistonCooper

Ms Brenda Meek

Mrs Helen Mitchell

Mrs Louise Mursell

Mrs Clare Myers

Mrs Jane Pearson

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 Caroline Hanton

1979 Mrs Oyinkan Ade-Ajayi

Ms Elizabeth Dickinson

Mrs Lizzie Habashi

Mrs Leonie Hyde

Mrs Deborah Moss

Mrs Amanda Renwick

Mrs Brenda Thompson

1980 Mrs Rachel Bond

Ms Victoria Brahm

Mrs Jo Broughton

Mr Ian Copeland

Mrs Sarah Holmes

Mrs Rachel Linfield

Mr John Turner

1981 Mrs Susan Cains

Miss Anna Chapple

Professor Greg Clark CBE

Mrs Cordelia Myers

Mr Graeme Plunkett

1982 Mr Stephen Bell

Lady (Katharine) Bryan

Mr Mark Hanley-Browne

Mr Brian Howarth

1983 Mrs Alison Brinklow

Mr Jeremy Crook

Mrs Susan Hill

Mrs Karen Miranthis

Ms Linda Slade

Mrs Frances Surridge

1984 Ms Alison Mesher

Mr Peter Ventrella

1985 Dr Kirsty Byrne

Mrs Karen Coombs

Mrs Rosemary Gwinnett

Mrs Sally Jaspars

Mrs Anna Williams

1986 Mrs Fiona ColvileBradley

Mrs Keren Cooke

Ms Nansi Ellis

Miss Samantha Taylor

Mrs Yvonne Wiggall

1987 Mrs Kim Chaplin

Mrs Michaela Khatib

Mrs Elizabeth McCaul

1988 Mr Phil Coldicott

Mrs Katie Mayne

Mr Andrew McNeil

Mrs Sarah McWhinnie

Ms Phillipa Rushby

Ms Adrienne Saldana

Mr Giles Storch

Miss Jen Svrcek

Mr James Thomson

1989 Miss Lucy Bradley

Dr John Dodsworth

Mrs Helen Duffy

Mr Carl Howarth

Mrs Charlotte 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

Dr Helen Price

Mr Robert Tucker

1991 Mrs Joy Bensley

Mr David Chapman

Miss Claire Corkran

Miss Helen Diggle

Mrs Elizabeth Sartain

1992 Mrs Claire Brooks

Dr Simon Camby

Mrs Sarah Haines

Miss Caroline Mander

Mrs Diane Rawlins

1993 Dr Steven Chapman

Mrs Helen Morgan

Ms Sara Stanley

1994 Mrs Jenni Trafford

Mrs Torie True

1995 Mrs Carol Carlsson

Browne

1996 Mr Ian Bettison

Mrs Victoria McLafferty

Mrs Serena O’Connor

Mr Christopher Shephard

1997 Ms Caroline Bell

Mr Matt Buck

Mrs Lindsey Davey

Miss Emily Jones

Mrs Amy McDonnell

1998 Mr Alastair Chipp

Mrs Elisabeth Hackett

Mrs Victoria Harvey

Mr John Moore

Ms Julie Seplaki

1999 Dr Neil Hennessy

Mr Paul Jones

Mrs Susan Lyons

Mrs Laura Penrose

Dr Louisa Tipler

Mrs Zoe Yeomans

2000 Mrs Sue Aldred

Mrs Robyn Brown

Mrs Abby Deeks

Dr Rekha Elaswarapu

Dr Tom Kitchen

Mrs Cheryl Smith

2001 Mr Laurence Ball

Mrs Lesley Crooks

Miss Lidia Fesshazion

Mr James Frecknall

Mrs Nadine Lloyd

Mrs Kimberley Rayson

Mrs Sandra Stapleton

Mrs Mandy WarnerBradshaw

2002 Mrs Katy Coles

Mr Sam Farmer

Mr Sutherland Forsyth

Mrs Carys Gladdish

Mr Chris Kellaway

Mr David Lawrence

Miss Sian Mawditt

Mr Remi Moynihan

Miss Krista Pullan

Ms Henni Saarela

Mr Tim Scott

Dr Lisa Sessions

Mrs Helen Smith

Mrs Angela Woodruffe

Mrs Rhiannon WynneLord

2003 Ms Susanna Bellino

Miss Katherine Bluck

Mr Louis Budworth

Mr Philip Chapman

Dr Wing Chuang

Mr Raymond Cilia

Mr Gregoire Hodder

Mrs Anne Howell

Mr Jonathan Levine

Mrs Aleishia Lewis

Dr Feilong Liu

Dr Miranda Malins

Mrs Elizabeth Mansfield

Mr Daniel Roberts

Mr Tim Rothwell

Dr Tovah Shaw

Mr Jean-Paul Skoczylas

Mr Tristan Stone

Miss Stephanie Tillotson

Mr John White

2004 Mrs Emily Davies

Mr Chris Gerdes

Miss Natasha Gray

Mr Richard Hopkins

Miss Charlotte Pocock

Mr Ravi Raichura

Mr Adam Sergeant

Mrs Nina Sever

Mrs Sian Shaw

Miss Jennifer Sneyd

Dr Harald Stoffels

Mrs Alexandra White

2005 Dr Enyi Anosike

Mrs Lisa Beacom

Mr Nicholas Bebb

Mr Nick Clark

Mr Andy Gard

Mrs Rebekah Perry

Dr Oliver Rupar

Mrs Liz Sharp

Mrs Jessica Shingfield

Ms Nadia Syed

Mr Han Tu

Mrs Emma Turner

2006 Miss Aniko Adam

Dr Theresa Adenaike

Mr Andrew Blackburn

Mr Thomas Dix

Mr Vlad Hanzlik

Dr Joshua Jowitt

Mrs Chrissie Kelby

Dr Zhaoru Lin

Miss Afaf Nourallah

Mrs Dawn Pavey

Mr Luke Shepherd

Miss Rosie Shimell

Mr Tom Robinson

Mrs Liza de Uphaugh

Miss Elizabeth Wadsworth

2007 Mr George van der Blom

Mrs Tracey Harjatanaya

Mr Ben Hayward

Mr Tom Horn

Mr Joshua Jenkins

Mr John Keene

Mr Jyoe Lee

Miss Teresa Li

Mr Duncan Loweth

Mr Michael Lynch

Dr George Mak FRAS, FRHistS

Mrs Pippa Pennington

Miss Nic Pollard

Mr Jonathan Prestwich

Mr Joseph Randall-Carrick

Mr Matthew Thomas

Miss Beth Wattleworth

Dr Susan Wishart

2008 Mr Luke Clarke

Mrs Kim Dorset

Miss Helen Etheridge

Mr Mike George

Mr Matthew Linsell

Mr James Lugton

Mr Philip McNerney

Miss Lucinda Moore

Miss Amy Munro-Faure

Mr Ikenna Obiekwe

Mr Gershwinder Rai

Mr Vin Rajendran

Mrs Emily Roberts

Mr Luke Robins

Mrs Sarah Talland

Miss Rebecca West

2009 Mr Adarsh Bala

Miss Sophie Bell

Mr Daniel Beresford

Mr Bhavin Bhatt

Miss Ratna Bhusal

Mr Lohith Bommireddipalli

Miss Shruti Chaudhri

Miss Alice Esuola

Mr Jack Euesden

Miss Christine James

Mr Chris 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

Mr Johann Kamper

Mr David Kennedy

Miss Suzie LangdonShreeve

Dr Dirk Mersch

Mrs Helen O’Hara

Mr Stephen Pates

Mr Richard Peach

Mr Peter Phillipson

Miss Heather Plumpton

Mrs Jessica Taylor

Miss Megan Trimble

Ms Yuanjia Yin

2011 Mr James Atkins

Mr James Chicken

Mr Jack Hooper

Mr Cuong Kasperzyk

Mr Benjamin Lauwers

Mr Ted Levermore

Dr Nikolas Pontikos

Mr Thorben Schaefer

Miss Angela Stevens

Miss Abigail Thurgood-Buss

Miss Vicki Waller

2012 Mr Josh Cozens

Mr Radley Cunliffe

Dr Caia Dominicus

Ms Louise Holyoak

Mr Tim Hubener

Ms Samantha Kellow

Dr Peter Marber

Mr Hansley Narasiah

Mr Douglas Porter

Dr Samantha Spratley

Mr Theepan Tharmarajah

Mr Dmytro Tupchiienko

2013 Dr An Bao

Mr Mark Boother

Mrs Tricia Lennie

Mr Hachimi Maiga

2014 Mrs Alexandra Annett

Mr Ivan Dimov

Mrs Melanie Hardcastle

Mr Nigel Ironside

Mr Alan Kaydul

Dr Jiun-Lin Yan

Miss Vicky Zhao

2015 Mr Adam Dobson

Professor Vincent English

Miss Jacqueline VyrnwyPierce

Miss Sarah WitkowskiBaker

Dr Zamir Zulkefli

2016 Mlle Cloe Dugrillon

Mrs Ruth Eaves

Miss Mille Fjelldal

Mr Mitch Hayden-Cook

Mr Graham Robertson

2017 Mr Matthew Rihan

2018 Major Rohan Bate

Friends of Homerton

Dr Graham Arnold

Mrs Frances Barrett

Miss Pat Cooper

Mr Timothy Edwards

Mr Fabio Galantini

Mr Roger Green

Dr Lesley Hendy

Mrs Leslie Lemonick

Dr Anthony Metcalfe

Mr Matthew Moss MVO

Mrs Barbara Pointon MBE*

Dr Peter Raby

Dr Peter Warner

Dr David Whitebread

1768 Society

Miss Aniko Adam

Mrs Vicki Addey

Dr Theresa Adenaike

Mrs Rosemary Allan

Dr Enyi Anosike

Dr Norman Bardsley

Ms Catherine Beavis

Miss Sheila Berry

Mr Ian Bettison

Mr Andrew Blackburn

Mrs Mandy Warner-Bradshaw

Mr Mark Hanley-Browne

Mr Matt Buck

Mrs Sandra Burmicz

Dr Kirsty Byrne

Mrs Marjorie Caie

Dr Simon Camby

Mrs Jan Campbell

Mrs Kim Chaplin

Dr Steven Chapman

Miss Shruti Chaudhri

Mr Nick Clark

Mr Nahum Clements

Mr Phil Coldicott

Mrs Patricia Colyer

Ms Clare Keniston-Cooper

Miss Pat Cooper

Mr Josh Cozens

Mr Richard Craven

Mrs Pauline Curtis

Mrs Diana Dalton

Mrs Clare Danielian

Mr Norman Donkin

Mrs Lynn Dowson

Mrs Sheila Duncan

Professor Vincent English

Miss Mille Fjelldal

Mr Sutherland Forsyth

Mrs Miriam France

Mrs Karen George

Mrs Carole Girdler

Mr Gabrielius Glemza

Mrs Christine Grainge

Miss Natasha Gray

Mr Roger Green

Mrs Fiona Gruneberg

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 Joshua Jenkins

Miss Sian Jones

Dr Joshua Jowitt

Mr John Keene

Mr David Lawrence

Mr Jonathan Levine

Mr Matthew Linsell

Mr Tony Little

Mrs Susan Lovett

Mrs Diana Lucas

Mr Michael Lynch

Mrs Sheila Mackenzie

Mrs Christine Macpherson

Mr Hachimi Maiga

Mrs Lesley Marriott

Dr Vicky McNeile

Mrs Helen McRoberts

Mrs Sarah McWhinnie

Mrs Caroline Melrose

Mrs Maggie Meredith

Dr Anthony Metcalfe

Mrs Karen Miranthis

Mr John Moore

Mr Chris Morgan

Mr Remi Moynihan

Mrs Ann Muston

Mr Matthew Moss MVO

Mr Ikenna Obiekwe

Mrs Rebekah Perry

Mr Douglas Porter

Mr Gershwinder Rai

Mr Ravi Raichura

Mrs Diane Rawlins

Lady Ann Ricketts

Mr Graham Robertson

Mr Tom Robinson

Miss Gill Rogers

Mrs Elizabeth Rose

Mr Tim Rothwell

Mrs Kate Ryder

Mrs Sian Shaw

Mr Luke Shepherd

Mrs Netti Smallbone

Ms Jane Lewin Smith

Mrs Cheryl Smith

Mrs Helen Smith

Mr Tristan Stone

Mrs Alison Syner

Mrs Sarah Talland

Mrs Jessica Taylor

Mrs Lesley Thomas

Mrs Brenda Thompson

Mr James Thomson

Mr Michael Thorp

Mr Han Tu

Mr John Turner

Miss Beth Wattleworth

Mrs Janet Webb

Mrs Dilys West

Mr John White

Dr David Whitebread

Ms Rhiannon Williams

Mrs Helen Wood

Cavendish Circle

Dr J. Norman Bardsley

Ms Victoria Brahm

Mrs Annie Illingworth

Macaulay Circle

Ms Catherine Beavis

Mr Gordon Gaddes

Mrs Coral Harrow

Mrs Bridget Killick

Mrs Karen Miranthis

Mrs Kate Ryder

Miss Samantha Taylor

Mrs Deborah Walker

ALUMNI

Alumni Weekend

Alumni News

Retired Senior Members’ Association

ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND

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One of the joys of Alumni Reunion Weekend, Homerton-style, is its scale. Rather than hosting year group reunions spread throughout the year, our tradition has always been more of a free-for-all. While year groups are encouraged to return en masse to mark significant anniversaries, the weekend is open to everyone, resulting in a cheerful inter-generational mingling of precisely the kind that COVID has put a stop to. As a result, and because it runs over an entire weekend, it is not an easy event to pull together at short notice, and we sadly had to take the decision early in 2021 that the situation was too unpredictable for an in-person event to be viable. However, the scale of the weekend was undiminished. What we lost in food, wine, familiar faces and nostalgic rediscoveries, we made up for in a celebration of the astonishing diversity of Homerton life and pursuits.

• Participants heard from virologists Professor Ravi Gupta and Dr Julia Kenyon how their expertise in HIV had equipped them to respond to the challenges of understanding the emergent COVID-19 virus.

• They joined a discussion on the pros and cons of online teaching and learning, led by alumnus and Head of the University of Cambridge Primary School Dr James Biddulph, Director of Studies in Geography Dr Francesca Moore, and MA student Elle Rose Hoskins, who is combining her own studies with a teaching career.

• The inspiration behind Homerton’s newest and possibly most dramatic building, the emerging dining hall, was revealed in conversation with its architects, Edmund Fowles and Eleanor Hedley of Feilden Fowles.

• Alumnae Louise Chater and Lise-Marie Biez unpicked how the teaching skills they had gained at Homerton had been put to use through the twists and turns of careers in the film industry and HR.

• English graduates enjoyed their inaugural book club, discussing Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet

• Dr Will Fawcett and Dr Amelia Drew stretched the limits of human understanding with their talk on ‘A revolution in Physics’, while Poet-in-Residence Dr Mariah Whelan fostered our creative instincts by hosting a poetry workshop.

• Alumni also had the opportunity to bid farewell to Professor Geoff Ward, and welcome Lord Woolley

Thank you to Alumni Relations Manager Sally Nott for overseeing a wonderfully varied programme, and to everyone who joined us and all who contributed n

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.

1950s

Gillian Erskine (née Wilson) (CertEd 1954–56) wrote to us in her capacity as a justly proud grandmother. “Our seven-year-old granddaughter Wrenny Erskine recently astonished us by landing a part in the West End musical Les Miserables. She plays ‘Little Cossette’, dressed in rags, and enters sweeping the floor of an inn. All alone she puts down her broom, comes to the front and sings a solo called Castle on a Cloud, then a scene with the leading man, her stage father, in which they do a little dance together. Aged 85, I think I’m more proud of this than anything in my entire life!”

1970s

Deborah Hofman (née Brass) (BEd 1979–83) and her husband Martin (St John’s), sold their holiday cottage business in Earl Sterndale, Buxton, and look forward to an active retirement in Winster, Derbyshire.

Mary Powles (née Underwood) (BEd 1978–82) has published her third novel, Misplaced Fortune, which explores themes of love and loss with gentle humour.

1980s

Jo Browing Wroe (BEd 1981–85) will see her first novel, A Terrible Kindness, published by Faber early next year. The novel, which was shortlisted for the Bridport

Peggy Chapman-Andrews Award, tells the story of a 19-year-old embalmer’s

response to the Aberfan disaster in 1966. Louise Joyner, Associate Publisher at Faber, said:

“Spending time with the characters in Jo’s astonishing debut was one of those unforgettable encounters. A novel with deep emotional truth at its heart, and wit, honesty and resilience pulsing through every paragraph. It is a very special debut and one we all feel really honoured to be publishing.”

Jo is Creative Writing Supervisor at Lucy Cavendish College.

Mary Powles

Liz Clifford (BEd 1981–85) has completed her MA in Fine Art at the University for the Creative Arts.

Emma Haggas (BEd 1982–86) held a solo exhibition of her recent paintings entitled Living Landscape at Cricket Fine Art, Chelsea in September.

Dr Claire Saunders (née Escott) (BEd 1988–92) achieved her Doctorate in July 2020. An EdD thesis, entitled ‘Building a community of writers in a university: an ethnographic study’ was examined in an online viva and passed with minor corrections, which were completed within six weeks.

In the same month, Claire was appointed Director of the Scholarship and Innovation Centre in the Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies at the Open University. The centre oversees the faculty’s research into teaching and learning in higher education.

2000s

Wonderful news of a trio of first-born sons for Homerton alumni of the 2000s!

Congratulations to Kayleigh Brooks (née Owen) and Ryan Brooks (both BA Law 2008–11), who welcomed Owen Brooks, in October 2020.

Congratulations to Kirsty Daws (née Ballard) (BA Education with Geography 2006–9) and her husband Will Daws (Queens’ College, BA Economics, 1997) whose son, Jesse William Daws, was born at the end of 2020.

Congratulations to Jasmine Heaton (née Humphries) (BA Geography, 2009–12) whose son, John Heaton, was born in February 2020 in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Afolabi Alli, by Xanthe Burdett

2010s

Xanthe Burdett (BA Education, 2015–18) found that lockdown gave her the time and space to focus on her long-term ambitions in oil painting. She quickly found herself juggling multiple portrait commissions and, over the past year, has been selected for the Royal Institute of Oil Painters exhibition at the Mall Galleries and the Green and Stone Summer Exhibition, at which she won a Highly Commended Award. Her portrait of a friend, actor Afolabi Alli, is currently on display as part of the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition, and sold on the second day.

Olivia Choudhury (BA Law, 2014–18) has achieved tenancy at Deans Court Chambers in Manchester, where she commenced pupillage last year.

“I’m very excited to be taken on as a tenant and

move forward with my career as a family law barrister! If it weren’t for everyone at Homerton, especially the members of the Law Faculty, I know I would not be where I am today.”

James Hayes (BA Land Economy, 2017–2020) has published his debut novel, The Lies Behind Cambridge Minds, an exploration of the pressures of Cambridge life, through The Conrad Press. The book is available to buy in paperback and on Kindle via Amazon. James recently completed his Masters in Sociology at St Cross College, Oxford, and works as a corporate banker at Santander.

Danielle Keohane (BA Psychology and Behavioural Sciences, 2014–17), discussed her experience of being born with a cleft lip and palate, and the challenges of undergoing 28 rounds of facial surgery, on BBC Radio 4’s New

Storytellers in July. Danielle is a researcher at the University of the West of England, where she is studying the psychology of those affected by craniofacial conditions.

Alistair McMaster (BA Natural Sciences, 2013–16) and Rüdiger Schlossnikl (BA MEng Chemical Engineering 2013–17) travelled to Russia to climb Europe’s highest mountain Mount Elbrus which stands at 5642m. The five-day expedition went smoothly and both successfully summited. The trip raised over £2,500 for Anthony Nolan, a UK-based blood cancer charity.

Helena Cassio Fernandes (MPhil Education, 2019–20) moved to Switzerland in 2021 to take up the role of Artisan of Education at Rosenberg International boarding school, where she teaches Spanish, English and Italian.

Alistair McMaster and Rudiger Schlossniki, on the summit of Mount Elbrus

RETIRED SENIOR MEMBERS’ ASSOCIATION

Libby Jared

‘Same and Different’ is a term frequently heard in mathematics curriculum sessions. If ‘x’ changes what is the same and different for ‘y’ – a memory stirred as I sat down to write this report.

Peter Warner bowed out as RSMA Chair at our delayed AGM last April and I found myself apprehensively following in the footsteps of several, as I would view them, lovely giants. Trish Maude also ‘retired’, having somehow managed 20 years with constitutional breaks in between, as Secretary. We are indebted to both of them, as we are also to Clare Ryan who continues to look after us so efficiently and kindly. ‘Onwards and Upwards’ – well maybe. Onwards definitely as the new committee begins its work. Upwards? – the bar has already been set very high but we promise to try.

Peter mentioned in his report last year that our name might be changing to reflect the evolving structure as more Fellows from the ‘new’ Homerton retire and choose to join our ranks. However we have decided to keep the original name. After all, everyone is (allegedly) ‘retired’, our grey-haired appearance places us squarely into the ‘senior’ category and we remain definitively proud to have our ‘member’ connection with Homerton,

Pandemic life is not without its changes. ‘Have you been able to get your vaccination appointment yet?’ became, three times over, the most important of questions, asked of course virtually and not in person. Online events (including two AGMs, two talks and several committee meetings) increase our technical expertise and allow members who live further away a chance for greater participation. The Newsletter (available on Homerton’s website) remains a constant. The September 2021 edition was full of an eclectic range of articles, an opportunity to share reminiscences of Homerton life and a place where we can record the amazing and treasured lives of those no longer with us. There is a glimmer of hope that we may soon be able to resume our much missed in-person monthly coffee mornings, the termly talks and Formal Halls.

Actually RSMs did meet in person once this year. Adhering to all the rules, we were invited to join College staff on Queen’s Wing lawn, to say farewell to Geoff Ward. I well remember my first RSM coffee morning as it coincided with Geoff coming along to introduce himself and tell us about his vision for the College.

Some seven years later Geoff is about to join the RSMs, and College now has its next Principal, Lord Woolley, whose own vision will continue to shape and change Homerton.

As RSMs, we feel a valued part of College life, always made welcome and included. Equally we never lose our affection for, or interest in, how ‘our’ College develops and thrives under its current, more youthful staff. Whatever remains the same and whatever becomes different, underlying it all are common ideals n

MEMBERSHIP

Principal and Fellows

Student Achievement

Blues Awards

Graduates

New Members

PRINCIPAL AND FELLOWS

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Principal

2021 Lord (Simon) Woolley

Fellows

2002 Dr Penny Barton Senior Tutor

Dr David Clifford

2005 Mr Philip Stephenson

Dr Elaine Wilson

2006 Dr Louise Joy Vice-Principal

2007 Dr Bill Foster

Dr Simon Wadsley Secretary of Council and Governing Body

2008 Dr Theo Hacking

Dr Ros McLellan

Dr Olivier Tonneau

2009 Dr Melanie Keene Graduate Tutor

2010 Dr André Neves

2011 Dr Thomas Graumann

Professor Simon Gregory

Dr Yan Yan (Shery) Huang

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 Georgie Horrell Admissions Tutor

Dr Julia Kenyon

Dr Timos Kipouros

2014 Dr Christopher Brooke

Dr Joel Chalfen

Professor Doug Easton

Professor Tim 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 Mary Dixon-Woods

Professor Simone Hochgreb

Dr Maja Spanu

2017 Dr David Belin

Dr Stephen Burgess

Dr Ross Cole

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 Ravi Gupta

Dr Kathelijne Koops

Dr Ines Lee

Dr James Manwaring

Dr Miles Stopher

Dr Carmen Ting

2020 Dr Timothy Brittain-Catlin

Professor Matthew Collins

Dr Amelia Drew

Dr Karen Forbes

Dr Fernanada Gallo

Dr Meredith McLaughlin

Dr Sofia Singler

2021 Dr Robin Bunce

Mr Bob Dillon

Dr Will Fawcett

Dr Jo Haywood

Dr Diana Kudaibergenova

Dr Roberto B. Sileo

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

2021 The Rev’d Jesse Jackson Civil Rights campaigner

Professor Geoff Ward Principal of Homerton College 2013–2021

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

Associate Fellows

Dr Jim Blevins

Mr Craig Bennett

Dr Douglas Coombes

Dr Neville Dean

Dr Karthik Depuru-Mohan

Dr Rose Grey

Mr Mehdi Kadhim

Dr Tyler Kelly

Dr Deborah Kronenberg-Versteeg

Dr Tom Leppard

Dr Claire Lestringant

Dr Michelle Oyen

Professor Stephen Rennard

The Rev’d James Shakespeare

Professor Ventsislav Valev

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 2021 and the College congratulates the recipients.

UNDERGRADUATE PRIZES FOR FINALISTS

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

Ziyi Kang

James Roberts

Evans Rozario

Rosie Schofield

Bridget Tiller

Tin Wai Tse

Pavel Turek

Jenny Wang

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

Jenny Wang

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

Raza Zaidi

The Simms Benefaction Prize awarded to the student graduating with the best First Class result in the History Tripos

Rebecca Hawkins

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

Sasha Abrahams

Ariwan Addy Suhairi

Daniella Adeluwoye

Farid Aletomeh

Cora Alexander

Samuel Bird

Philip Brown

Robert Brown

Lance Burn

Constance Chamberlain

Tharisata

Charoenvasnadumrong

Ersi Christodoulou

Yonah Citron

Harriet Clark

Jun-Ling Clarke-Ng

Jonathan Collins

Abigail Crane

Sophie Dawson

Gigi Dunn

Jack Golden

Anna Gray

Madeline Hammond

Joseph Hansell

Kanako Hara

Emily Harris

Hayley Hilson

Zara Ireland

Kai Junge

James Keay

Tarek Khatib

Georgio Konstandi

Maël Laoufi

Christian Madla

Chloe Marschner

Josie McPherson

Dylan Mogford

William Moss

Mihir Natu

Oliver Nick

Eden Maddix Odeniyi

Rahul Patel

Sara Pocher

Sandaleen Qaiser

Aryaman Reddi

James Roberts

Rosie Schofield

Kieron Spoors

Graeme Stephens

William Taylor

Dilan Thiara

Bridget Tiller

Isobel Wilkins

Rowan Wright

Kayden Xie

Thea Zijlstra

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

Aditi Chidambaram

Anna Haas

Curtis Lam

Amelia Tan

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

Jack Golden

Ethan MacDonald

Kaloyan Nikolov

Bridget Tiller

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)

Milo Flynn

Homerton Second Year Scholarships awarded to the highest performing second year students in Tripos

Alice Grundy

Sana Khullar

Chang Ni

Jennifer White

Zixin Zhang

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

Olivia Allen

Rhianna Bangham

Elizabeth Castell

Lucy Cole

Teofisto Consistente VI

Thomas Crabtree

Alexander Cumming

Xiaoxi Deng

Isaac Dixon

Joshua Dranesas

Marcus Dunford-Castro

Aaron Fokinther

Kalyani Ganesharuban

Rohan Gopinath

Benjamin Grischeff

Lena Guertler

Iona Harrison

Charo Havermans

Rishit Jain

Joseph Johnson

Jemima Jones

Marcus Jones

Neve Kennedy

Shiyoun Kim

Daniel Kittmer

Hana Konig

Miranda Lam

Dongchan Lee

Jiasi Li

Ming-Shau Liu

Joseph Lockhart

Ethan MacDonald

Joshua Martin

Katherine McCullagh

Yoav Nir

Theola Ojo

Niamh Redmond

Claire Riesterer

Stella Rousham

Jamila Rowland-Chandler

Shadab Shahid

Ellenoor Shameli

Mollik Shamimuzzaman

Thomas Sheppard

Georgia Sibley

Thomas Slater

Joseph Solomon

Paula Suchantke

Sophia Till

Isabella Todini

Dalma Vatai

Erin Visaya-Neville

Elizabeth Widdowson

Florence Winkley

Boyan Yu

Jiayue Yu

Ruoyun Zhang

George Peabody Scholarship awarded to students achieving a First in Part IA or Part IB of the Education Tripos

Laurene Blanchard

Caitlin Cavallucci

Inés Cropper De Andres

Matthew Grassby

Helena Kruder

Alexia Manea

Morayooluwa Omotesho

Cara Rowland

Ellis Turton

Elizabeth Warr

Lily Wilkinson

Helen Morris Scholarship awarded to the student gaining the best First Class results in the English, Drama & the Arts track in Part 1B of the Education Tripos

Chloe Bond

Lindsay Robinot-Jones

Mandawewala Prize

awarded to the student with the best First Class result in Part IIA of the Engineering Tripos

Samuel Schaefer

Senior Tutor Prize awarded in recognition of achieving the highest marks in Part IB Engineering at Homerton

Adam Wood

ACADEMIC PRIZES FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS

The Homerton College Charter Graduate Award awarded on academic merit to a student embarking on a new course of graduate study

Amelia Calladine

Harriet Clark

Abi Crane

Samantha Kwok

Kelly Liles

Beth Reeves

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

Cathy Bamford

Joanna Botten

Edward Brewer

Yixin Chen

Chau Yi Cheung

Pranav Dandawate

Stephanie Flack

Frankie Frangeskou

Lixinhao Gao

Andrew Halliwell

Kairan Huang

Charlotte Husnjak

Melissa Jane

Nathan Johns

Spencer Kaplan

Mollie Legg

Samuel Lewis

Emily Loud

Fay Mackenzie

Rebecca Myers

Olivia Parr

Laura Rogers

Rebecca Sands

Fabian Sedlmayr

Tianning Shao

Sara Stanley

Chris Sutherland

Gazey Umweni

PRIZES FOR CONTRIBUTING TO COLLEGE LIFE

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

Lucy Dayer

MUSIC AWARDS

The Accompanist Scholarship awarded to Jason Ng (2020–21) Xinman Yoyo Liu (2021–22)

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

Angelus Blank

Joseph Solomon

Conducting Scholarship awarded to Francesca Richards

Roger Green Organ Scholarship awarded to Lorenzo Bennett

BLUES AWARDS

‘Blues’ are awarded in recognition of sporting excellence in representing the University of Cambridge. During the 2020–2021 academic year, Blues were awarded to the following Homertonians.

Full Blues

Charles Favell Rugby Union

Carmen Lim Swimming and Water Polo

Danielle Ball Karate

Emily McStea Hockey

Esah Hayat Lawn Tennis

Ella Hordern Hockey

Fergus Jemphrey Rugby Union

Jack England Hockey

Jack Wilson-Smith Lawn Tennis

James Chaudhry Rugby Union

Marcus Jones Hockey

Tatiana Kasujja Football

Temilola Adeyemi Football

William Taylor Hockey

Half Blues

Eve Hull Swimming and Water Polo

Omar Khassal Table Tennis

Students at the new Long Road sports grounds

Stephen Bond

GRADUATES

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

Bachelor of Arts

Sasha Abrahams

Economics Tripos

Isabella Naa-Kaile Addo

Human, Social and Political Sciences Tripos

Ariwan Kai Addy Suhairi

Linguistics Tripos

Daniella Mary Adeluwoye

Human, Social and Political Sciences Tripos

Temilola Ojuolape Adeyemi

Economics Tripos

Ilaeira Leto Agrotou

Georgiou

English Tripos

Daniya Ahmed

Historical Tripos

Seyed Farid Aletomeh

Economics Tripos

Cora Alexander

Historical Tripos

James Harry Alexander

Engineering Tripos

Lucia Algara Bradshaw

Natural Sciences Tripos

Hija Ali

Human, Social and Political Tripos

Verity Hanifa Ali

English Tripos

Millicent Grace Allatson

Modern and Medieval

Languages Tripos

Jonathan Andrews

Theology, Religion and Philosophy of Religion Tripos

Hazel Laura Archer

English Tripos

Jake Armstrong

Natural Sciences Tripos

Sidharth Shankar Asnani

Law Tripos

William Azubuike

Engineering Tripos

Aamina Bashir

Education Tripos

James Gregory Beedle

Geographical Tripos

Miriam Maya Bengougam

Geographical Tripos

Alice Moira Bennett

Engineering Tripos

Xahra Batrisyia Binti Mohamed

Ashraf

Education Tripos

Patrick Bird

Law Tripos

Angelus Franziskus Blank

Music Tripos

James Calvin Arnold Booth

Modern and Medieval

Languages Tripos

Oliver Charles Wilson

Bowbrick

Human, Social and Political Sciences Tripos

James Andrew Bradley

Natural Sciences Tripos

Philip Brown

Natural Sciences Tripos

Robert Lindsay Brown

Human, Social and Political Sciences Tripos

Lance Burn

Natural Sciences Tripos

Nathan Michael James

Butler

Classical Tripos

Constance Madeline Mary

Chamberlain

History and Politics Tripos

Jaspal Singh Channa

Economics Tripos

Tharisata

Charoenvasnadumrong

Engineering Tripos

James William Henderson

Chaudhry

Engineering Tripos

Mohammed Chhabu

Engineering Tripos

Aditi Nalini Chidambaram

Education Tripos

Ersi Christodoulou

Natural Sciences Tripos

Yonah Abraham Citron

Linguistics Tripos

Harriet Margaret Clark

Historical Tripos

Jun-Ling Clarke-Ng

Asian and Middle Eastern

Studies Tripos

Sophie Sarah Cliff

Historical Tripos

Jonathan Collins

Engineering Tripos

Benedict Cradick

Geographical Tripos

Abigail Crane

Natural Sciences Tripos

Sophie Jane Dawson

Human, Social and Political

Sciences Tripos

Georgina Deri

Education Tripos

Marios Sokratis Dimitriadis

Computer Science Tripos

Lucy Kate Doig

Human, Social and Political

Sciences Tripos

Madeleine Ross Dunbar

Philosophy Tripos

Gigi Dunn

Natural Sciences Tripos

Guillem Duran Gené

Computer Science Tripos

Jack Edward England

Natural Sciences Tripos

Saffa Fatima

Chemical Engineering Tripos

Ho Cheung Clement Fong

Natural Sciences Tripos

Elinor Grace Burns Fowler

Natural Sciences Tripos

Isabelle Glover

English Tripos

Reuben Goh

Geographical Tripos

Jack Golden

Economics Tripos

Rory Angus Robert Gordon

Engineering Tripos

Anna Maria Gray

Modern and Medieval

Languages Tripos

Anna Miranda Frances Haas

Education Tripos

Elizabeth Mary Haigh

Modern and Medieval

Languages Tripos

Madeline Hammond

English Tripos

Joseph Hansell

Natural Sciences Tripos

Kanako Hara

Land Economy Tripos

Phoebe Grace Hardingham

Human, Social and Political

Sciences Tripos

Emily May Harris

Natural Sciences Tripos

Rebecca Jane Hawkins

Historical Tripos

Yicong He

Land Economy Tripos

Emily Rebecca Heron

Natural Sciences Tripos

Hayley Piper Hilson

Linguistics Tripos

Charlotte Elinor Robertson

Horner

English Tripos

Elizabeth Florence Howe

Law Tripos

Jonathan Charles Anthony

Huang

Philosophy Tripos

Andrew Francis Hughes

Engineering Tripos

Eve Sophia Hull

Economics Tripos

Zara Helen Ireland

Human, Social and Political

Sciences Tripos

Yujia Jiang

Natural Sciences Tripos

Kai Christian Junge

Engineering Tripos

Ziyi Kang

Mathematical Tripos

Shengxian Ke

Natural Sciences Tripos

Jonas Patrick Keavney

Management Studies Tripos

James Keay

Natural Sciences Tripos

Omar Khassal

Geographical Tripos

Tarek Khatib

Natural Sciences Tripos

Sebastian Kobler

English Tripos

Georgio Konstandi

Modern and Medieval and Languages Tripos

Olivia Elise Kumar

History and Modern

Languages Tripos

Shun Yan Kung

Education Tripos

Mantra Kusumgar

Mathematical Tripos

Curtis Yu Ching Lam

Education Tripos

Natalie Lam

Law Tripos

Mael Laoufi

Mathematical Tripos

Martha Laundy-Blair

Natural Sciences Tripos

Zhanna Levitina

Geographical Tripos

Jintai Li

Economics Tripos

Dominic Iain Littlewood

Computer Science Tripos

Matthew Logue

Law Tripos

Jo An Ma

Management Studies Tripos

Flora Jane MacAngus

Education Tripos

Thomas Peter Leonard

MacKinnon

History of Art Tripos

Eden Alice Maddix

Odeniyi

Historical Tripos

Christian Madla

Land Economy Tripos

Swathi Nachiar Manivannan

Natural Sciences Tripos

Hunainah Mansuri

Education Tripos

Marianna Marcopoulou

Philosophy Tripos

Chloe Elizabeth Marschner

Psychological and Behavioural Sciences

Rebecca Jane Mayer

Education Tripos

Hannah McCombs

Natural Sciences Tripos

Clare McKenna

Classical Tripos

Fiona Genevieve Anna McNally

English Tripos

Josie McPherson

Natural Sciences Tripos

Joanna Louise Mead

Natural Sciences Tripos

Raj Mehta

Mathematical Tripos

Weston Metzler

Computer Science Tripos

Olivia Sydney Mills

Education Tripos

Kojin Minorikawa

Human, Social and Political Sciences Tripos

Thomas Misson

Natural Sciences Tripos

Stephen Vincent Logan Mitchell

Mathematical Tripos

Dylan Mogford

Human, Social and Political

Sciences Tripos

William James Moss

Economics Tripos

Mahnoor Mufti

Engineering Tripos

Simonas Mulevicius

Computer Science Tripos

Mihir Natu

Land Economy Tripos

Brendan Benedict

Yue-En Ng

Natural Sciences Tripos

Oliver Nick

Engineering Tripos

Kaloyan Martinov Nikolov

Engineering Tripos

Isaac Ong Law Tripos

Andrew Michael Osipov

Human, Social and Political Sciences Tripos

Alexandra Kelsey Oxford

Modern and Medieval

Languages Tripos

Yuchen Pan

Mathematical Tripos

Holly Sophie Parsons

Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Tripos

Rahul Deven Mukesh

Patel

Historical Tripos

Romil Patel

Economics Tripos

Andreas Patsalides

Philosophy Tripos

Mary Frances Peachey

Human, Social and Political Sciences Tripos

Sara Pocher

Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Tripos

Sandaleen Qaiser

English Tripos

Aryaman Devinder

Reddi

Engineering Tripos

Chengjie Ren

Engineering Tripos

Lucie Richardson

Education Tripos

James William Roberts

History and Politics Tripos

Maria Rosner

Natural Sciences Tripos

Evans Anthony Rozario

Mathematical Tripos

Rosie Schofield

Archaeology Tripos

Laura Sheppard

Natural Sciences Tripos

Richard Charles Slaney

Engineering Tripos

Aaron Smith

Natural Sciences Tripos

Kieron Michael Spoors

Law Tripos

Graeme Grattan Stephens

Mathematical Tripos

Katarina Sullivan

Music Tripos

Zoe Swanwick

Modern and Medieval

Languages Tripos

Amelia Ling Tan

Education Tripos

William Taylor

Natural Sciences Tripos

Dilan Arjun Singh Thiara

Economics Tripos

Max Thomson

English Tripos

Bridget Kathleen Tiller

Geographical Tripos

Daniel Trickov

Human, Social and Political

Sciences Tripos

Tin Wai Tse

Mathematical Tripos

Pavel Turek

Mathematical Tripos

Stavros Tzikas

Natural Sciences Tripos

Samuel Walker

Natural Sciences Tripos

Matthew Walters

Classical Tripos

Anran Wang

Human, Social and Political

Sciences Tripos

Jenny Wang

Education Tripos

Xudong Wang

Natural Sciences Tripos

William Oscar Weatherill

Engineering Tripos

Isabella Franziska Weber

Natural Sciences Tripos

Archie David Wheeler

Computer Science Tripos

Isobel Anne Wilkins

Modern and Medieval

Languages Tripos

Daniel Elixander Williams-Ruiz

Natural Sciences Tripos

Rowan Wright

Mathematical Tripos

Kayden Xie

Natural Sciences Tripos

Syed Muhammad Raza Ali

Zaidi

Land Economy Tripos

Xinuan Zhang

Psychological and Behavioural Sciences Tripos

Thea Jennifer Zijlstra

Archaeology Tripos

PGCE

Sarah Jayne Acton

Safia Ahmed

Fabiha Alam

Oliver Joseph Gerald

Alexander

Mohsin Alidina

Hayley May Juan Allen

Richard Avadanutei

Zoe Barber

Christopher Peter Barton

Niamh Elizabeth Bell

Sophia Myriam Benmoussa

Nicole Biggins

William John Mark Blackaby

Thai Braddick

Erin Bradley

Glenn Scott Briscoe

Chloe Brown

Katherine Brown

Lauren Brown

Gwyn Ivy Browning

Oliver Cairns

Pietro Cannatella

Hannah Carroll

Luke Michael Champion

Tsz Kiu Nicole Cheung

William James Andrew

Christofi

Brendan Chung

Joshua Laurence Clarke

Clara Cockerton

Lauren Sophie Colbert

Ella Collins

Alfie Cook

Helen Isabel Coutts

Sophie Ellen Crawley

Elizabeth Curno

Ana Teresa D’Escrivan-Nott

Ruby Daniels

Samuel Rees Davies

Gabriella Louise Davis

Vinkita Dhawade

Eleanor Doggart

Kerry Douthwaite

Harriet Driscoll-Geeves

Elliot Elstob

Serena Esiri-Bloom

Daniel de Falbe

Isabella Farsides

Abigail Francesca Ferstman

Tara Finn

Brianna Fowlie

Rebecca Lucy Fryza

Ciara Jodie McKay Furlong

Larnie Garner

Paloma Carmen Gaywood

Keziah Lodhi Gibson

Maria Giraldo-Perez

Daniella Yasmine Golden

Paul Matthew Greenhalg

Megan Grootaers

Ceara Haddu-Walters

Brittany Paige Halpin

Elizabeth Hammond

Annabel Harvey

Edward Harvey

Victoria Louise Harvey

Charlotte Rebecca Hill

Daniel Thomas Hissey

Olivia Sophie Grace Hitching

Ee Ann Ho

Elle-Rose Hoskins

Gabrielle Roberta Hudson

Sophie Hudson

Tobias Edward Hunt

Hassan Hussain

Rino Iida

Michael Benedict Jacobs

Thomas Jacobs

Isabelle James

Catherine Jones

Jade Keating

Mandy-Jane Keenoy

Adrian Lawless

Hadarm Lee

Emma Rose Lees

Hannah Teresa Lewsey

Xiaochen Lin

Samuel Alexander Lockhouse

Jessica Emily Long

Vanessa Lopresti

Emily Lygo

Christopher James Lynch

Lily MacDonald

Rebecca Martin

Gracie Matthews

Louise Mayne

Alice McCaughern

Grace McClean

Alice Maureen McDougall

Diarmuid Richard McGowan

Jack McLean

Emily Claire McStea

Chloe Elizabeth Miles

Emma Celeste Miller

Eleanor Mocatta

Alex Elaine Morgan

Owen Morris

Thomas David Leigh Mottershead

Lucy Anne Moxham

Bronte Munro

Genevieve Newbitt

Catherine Anne Newman

Amy Natasha Noon

Chloe Louise Oliver

Luke Owen

Katharine Page

Charlotte Palmer

Sam Joshua Parker

Jane Paterson

Mark Patrick

Charlotte Payne

Zoe Perks

Jessica Louise Phillips

Madeleine Phillips

Eleanor Pickett

Rahim Pirani

Madeline Platt

Christopher Mitchell Price

Hannah Priory

Sara Prising

Lucy Jayne Readman

Hannah Charlotte Reavey

Lucy Rockliffe

Sally Elizabeth Rose

Rebecca Rutter

Felicity Grace Sanders

India Gursimrit Sandhu

Oliver Scott

Insaa Shafiq

Hannah Elizabeth Shakespeare

Daniel Shipp

Hanna Simmons

Thaddaea Simon

Amy Elizabeth Ann Slack

Stephanie Lauren Slater

Angela Marguerite Smith

Thomas Smith

Laura Stewart

Leah Helen Isobel

Stewart

Robin Sukatorn

Joe Surl

Lucy Jane Sweeney

Fenella Louise Symes

Bin Tang

Fern Molly Teather

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Sonja Stiebahl

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Sharmila Amarnani Parmanand

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Luke Stephen Roberts

Education

Parousia Rockstroh

Applied Mathematics

Assel Gabitovna Sharimova

Education

NEW MEMBERS

The College welcomes the following students, who have joined Homerton in 2021.

Undergraduate

Tawab Abdul

Medical Sciences Tripos

Sohail Ibrahim Ahmed

Land Economy Tripos

Jesimiel Akinsuyi

Natural Sciences Tripos

Tola Temitayo Alake

English Tripos

Jack Samuel Alexander

Mathematical Tripos

Mohammed Yasin Ali

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Ali Alizadeh

Engineering Tripos

Nancy Dorothy Armstrong

Twigg

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Ailish Astrid

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Elizabeth Banner

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Mallory Beechey

Music Tripos

Lorenzo Bennett

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Anna Bevan

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Caio Bezerra

Engineering Tripos

Imaan Bhaiji

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Fiona Birch

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Human, Social and Political

Sciences Tripos

Rebekah Lily Bryant

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Alp Gerardo Bustos Armagan

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Engineering Tripos

Katie Marie Campbell

English Tripos

Bugra Ceylan

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Deesha Chopra

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Rony Chowdhry

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Saqif Mohammad Chowdhury

Historical Tripos

Alisha Cole

Geographical Tripos

Peter Crookes

Engineering Tripos

Morgane Gilberte Annie

Croquet

Natural Sciences Tripos

Kata Csiba

Medical Sciences Tripos

Emile Tadek Patton

Czernuszka

Engineering Tripos

Isobel Charlotte Dann

Human, Social and Political

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Muhammad Imran Darr

Medical Sciences Tripos

Nicholas Alexander

Herculis Davis

Human, Social and Political Sciences Tripos

Misha de Fockert

Natural Sciences Tripos

Lily Ruth de Lacy

Historical Tripos

Jack Deasley

History and Politics Tripos

Kira Dhariwal

Mathematical Tripos

Yann Akira Divet

Engineering Tripos

Emma Charlotte Dixon

Modern and Medieval

Languages Tripos

Hari George Doorga

Natural Sciences Tripos

Marco Vincent Dupuis

Rodriguez

Medical Sciences Tripos

Samuel Louis Eastoe

History and Politics Tripos

Divna Maya Edrovska

Modern and Medieval

Languages Tripos

Faris El Kholy

Philosophy Tripos

Deborah Esan

Modern and Medieval

Languages Tripos

Eoin Finn

Modern and Medieval

Languages Tripos

David Forcada

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Gregor Fowler

Medical Sciences Tripos

Samuel Archie Jonathan Frith

Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Tripos

Senara Gambhir

Natural Sciences Tripos

Minhong Guo

Natural Sciences Tripos

Yimin Guo

Natural Sciences Tripos

Alexandre Thomas Hahn

Human, Social and Political Sciences

Isabella Haines

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Callum Halton

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Maysie Haynes

Education Tripos

Constance Hemmings

Psychological and Behavioural Sciences Tripos

Frankjel Hernandez

Natural Sciences Tripos

Alexander Matthew

Highland

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Matthew Hipkin

Historical Tripos

Bhavini Hirani

Psychological and Behavioural Sciences Tripos

Aimee Hobley

Human, Social and Political

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Shenglin Hou

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Naomi Hunter-Epson

Human, Social and Political

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Naomi Izatt

Natural Sciences Tripos

Ananya Jain

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Katja Jeffery

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Katy Grace Jewell

Education Tripos

Anton Jiang

Mathematical Tripos

Jiayue Jiang

Education Tripos

Haeden Johnson

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Fitzroy David Jolly

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Heledd Eleanor Jones

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Angela Isha Kanu

Chemical Engineering via Natural Sciences Tripos

Andrew Yanzhe Ke

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Emilia Keavney

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Shahla Khandcar

Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Tripos

Shakila Khandcar

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Nikita Khomich

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Yuna Kim

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Leon Elias Kollar

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Navya Kumar

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Shakira Lahbib

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Benjamin Langabeer

Natural Sciences Tripos

Sophie Langdon

Engineering Tripos

Yelyzaveta Levytska

Modern and Medieval

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Binglun Li

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Junshen Li

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Ruili Li

Land Economy Tripos

Tairan Li

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Yiwen Li

Education Tripos

Benedict Little

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Haoxuan Liu

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Xinman Liu

Education Tripos

Sophia Irenee Liversidge

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Shukri Lloyd

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Kate Janet Anne Lucas

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Valentina Majolo

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Matthew Marshall

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Isha Mati

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Ka’Shan McFarlane

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Michaela Mensah

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Zayaan Merchant

Land Economy Tripos

Tomos Miller

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Sophie Miricola

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Isobel May Mitchell

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Abbie Leigh Moorcroft

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Ayesha Murphy-Jallali

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Dhaneal Nagra

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Tin Ho Ng

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Lydia Rose Noble

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Afopefoluwa Deborah

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Sulanya Pallewatte

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Kanyanat Panyasong

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Stephen Papillon

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Samir Patel

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Denis Pavlov

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Vita Aaron Pearl

Education Tripos

Samuel Penny

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Lorena Piedrahita-Lopez

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Rui En Pok

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Fung Wa Poon

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Ruby Rose Power

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Eleanor Pressdee

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Ramim Rahman

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Mariia Ramazanova

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Callum Mark Reid

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Max Roberts

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Anastasia Mikhailovna

Sandigurskaia

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Julien Scardigli

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Hannah Louise Senior

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Jaimin Manish Shah

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Armaan Zahir Shaikh

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Rachel Catherine Sheldon

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Ayan Shoaib

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Aryan Shrivastava

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Katie Smith

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Wenbo Song

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Xian Stewart

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Anna Stricevic

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Jiawei Sun

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Mohan Sun

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Benjamin Michael Syiek

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Kei Yee Tong

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Millie Clare Trsic

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Lauren Marie Tucker

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Olivia Darcy Twiss

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Gianluca Vartan

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Liliana Kimball Walker

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Siyu Wang

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Yiyang Wang

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Tammie Waplington

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Maya Weekley

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Joshua James Welling

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Shona Rebecca Whelan

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Victoria Marie Sarah

White

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Salvador Widdicombe

Asian and Middle Eastern

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Kofi Solomon Wilkinson

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Mei Kiu Wong

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Ke Wu

Mathematical Tripos

Yuan Xue

Natural Sciences Tripos

Yu Xuan Yao

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Kishan Minell Zala

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Ruby Zhang

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Yi Ran Zhang

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Zhiyu Zhang

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Hongji Zhao

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Alastair Amos

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Rebecca Arr Woodward

Kitty Bailey

Peter Jonathan Balderstone

Callum Charles Banks

Georgia Barnwell

Emma Barron

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Patience Blanchard

India Carole Boyle

Jack William Brooker

Rachel Burns

Jodie Cameron

Artur Miguel Cassio Fernandes

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Parco Cheng

Jodie Alice Mitchell Clare

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Georgia May Clark

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Charles Luis Fernandes

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Amy Ingram

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Lydia Louise Jones

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Adam Robert Keenan

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Stephen Paca Kennedy

Annabel Keoghane

Junaid Mohammad Khan

Salman Khan

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Madeleine McDonald

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Matthew Mordue

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Isobel Alice Wilson

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Jeremy Woods

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Hardika Kukreja

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Daniel Jukes

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Catherine Brown

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Ariwan Addy Suhairi

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Syed Adil

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George Allison

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Belgin Belici

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Adrian Black

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Daniel Brooks

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Eleonore Buffet Heuser

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James Butcher

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Amelia Calladine

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Sarah Chaudhry

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Hayoon Cho

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Harriet Clark

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Isobel Clegg

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Abigail Crane

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David Crowther

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Aleksandr Demidov

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Yunhan Dong

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Winston Gan

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Numertha Geisinger

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Julia Guerrein

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Siya He

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Kayla Hollingsworth

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Yurui Huang

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Alexandru-Andrei Iacob

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Akhilesh Issur

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Yichen Jiang

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Zofia Kaczmarek

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Andrea Komova

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Angeliki Koufali

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Ji Lan

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Jintai Li

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Huijian Liao

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Tianrui Liu

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Yicheng Liu

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Howard Lukk

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Shirui Luo

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Camilla Lyons

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Holly Monkhouse

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Ugonna Nwankpa

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Jemima Obeng

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Rebecca Olvera Leon

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Jana Phillips

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Vittoria Realbuto

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Bethanie Reeves

Education

Jesus Rodriguez Badell

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Rosie Schofield

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Omar Shakir

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Marcel Shelton

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Laura Sheppard

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Heerali Singh

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Yuhan Song

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Benedict Summers

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Zhongjiang Sun

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Ching Sung

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Catherine Sutherland

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Husain Taibjee

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Sarah Underwood

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Nana Ababio

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Daniel Glazer

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Frances Gorka

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Victor Huynh

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Alice Evans

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Ellie Bunce

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IN MEMORIAM

Obituaries

In Memoriam

OBITUARIES

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MRS PATRICIA STOCKDALE (NÉE SHIPLEY)

CertEd 1951

Patricia joined Homerton in 1951 to train as a teacher. She loved her time in Cambridge, describing it as a “whole new world.”

She sang with the University Music Society and remembered being conducted by Sir Malcom Sargeant, and particularly enjoyed being a member of a small madrigal group at Peterhouse and singing with Emmanuel Congregational Church choir.

Of course there was punting on the Cam and tea at Grantchester, even in the days of post-war rationing. But I particularly remember her telling me about the mad cycle rides out of town to get back to College before the doors were locked at 10pm!

After Cambridge Mum taught for two years in Norwich before marrying and teaching in an American mission school while living in Muscat. In the 60s she found herself in Staffordshire and was involved in the experimentation with teaching reading through the ITA (initial teaching alphabet) and then spent several years working in a specialist team working on the teaching of reading. Mum loved her work, finally giving up fulltime teaching in 1985.

She continued her interest in young people and education in general as a committee representative of several local educational charities.

In the months before she died she had returned to live in her native Yorkshire, where she was enjoying exploring her old haunts. She was fit and active right up to becoming ill in February 2020, and died in May that year.

Supplied by Sally Woods (née Stockdale), PGCE 1982

MRS IRENE EDITH GRACE SMITH (NÉE FORSDIKE)

CertEd 1937

Irene was born in London and educated at Homerton, where she qualified as a teacher in 1939. She had a special aptitude for music, and went on to hold several teaching posts in London.

In 1954, Irene married Dr Alec Smith, a tropical entomologist. She joined him in Tanzania, where she lived for nearly 20 years, and where their two daughter, Linda and Diana, were born. While Alec worked at the Tropical Pesticides Research

MRS GILLIAN JAMISON (NÉE MASON)

CertEd 1948

At Homerton, Gillian was a keen associate member of the Jesus College Rooster Debating society, hosted at the time by Freddy Brittain, and often recalled her happy memories.

She had a long and varied teaching career, starting in Melton Mowbray, followed by The Paris English School (in Alexander Dumas’ old home); Birmingham; Aylesbury and Barcelona, where she taught the children of the American 6th fleet. In 1975 she was appointed Head of Pre-Prep at Weirfield School in Taunton, where she taught until her retirement in 1990.

Gillian leaves her husband, Monty Jamison, daughter Elizabeth, and two grandchildren.

Institute, of which he was appointed director in 1967, Irene ran a nursery school from home and also taught at Arusha school. She was also actively involved in the church and ran the Sunday school.

Alec joined the World Health Organisation in 1973, leading to further moves across southern and west Africa until 1980, when he was sent to the Geneva headquarters. Wherever they were based, Irene taught both children and adults and led Sunday school activities in the local churches.

In 1986, Irene and Alex retired to Bexhill-OnSea, Sussex, where they enjoyed ballroom dancing, holidays in Europe and the UK, and spending time with their daughters and granddaughters. After Irene became ill in 2008 her family looked after her at home until Alec’s death in 2014, when she moved to Peterhouse Care Home, Bexhill. She died on 6 January 2021 aged 101.

Supplied by Linda Thomas (née Smith)

Supplied by Jane Gray (BEd 1975)

MRS (DORRIE) ANN JONES (NÉE STEWART)

CertEd 1966

Ann passed away peacefully at home in December 2019 aged 87 years. She is remembered for her vivacious character, her practical approach to life and her courage. Ann attended Homerton College from 1966–1968 with a group of mature students known as Group Seven.

Ann Stewart was born in 1932 in St Helier, Jersey in the Channel Islands but grew up in Withersfield, Suffolk, after losing her father in a tragic accident at the age of four.

In her teenage years she attended high school in Ipswich and Stoke College in Clare. Ann was the highest achieving student in the Higher School Certificate in the County, which won her a place at Bedford College, part of the University of London, to study history.

Before taking up her place, however, Ann was offered a one-way trip to Brazil by a relative. To earn her fare home, she was forced to learn Portuguese and get a job. While working as company secretary for a coffee firm she met and married British engineer Colvin Jones in 1956. They had three children, Stephanie, Clive and Douglas.

Tragically Colvin died in April 1963, seven years into their marriage, leaving Ann widowed at 29 years old. She had the huge task of relocating her family back to the UK, with Brazil in the throes of political uncertainty.

As a single parent she needed a new career that would accommodate raising three young children so she chose teaching, majoring in Art and Geography at Homerton. After graduating she taught at several schools in Cambridge, before settling at Queen Edith Primary, where she developed a specialism in remedial teaching.

Ann loved languages, and spoke Portuguese, German and Spanish, sometimes helping out as a court interpreter. After her children left home, Ann she hosted students from all over the world, helping them settle into life in Cambridge. The walls of her hallway are covered with postcards from those students who, years later, still wrote and remembered her support.

She would not be restricted by age. At 60 she made it to the Hobart newspaper for cycling 600 miles through the steep hills of western Tasmania, while in her 70s she climbed Adams Peak in Sri Lanka, rising in the night to get to the top at dawn.

Ann remained an active member of Homerton’s alumni community, and enjoyed Formal Hall dinners and numerous lunches and social events, such as garden tours, and choral concerts. She was proud to have had the opportunity to study there and enjoyed catching up on news in the Homerton magazines till the end.

Ann died on 17 December 2019 in her home of 50 years, having been cared for by her family after two strokes. It was a full life and it was Ann’s determination, courage and view that anything was possible that opened up a world which in return gave her so much.

Supplied by Stephanie Jones

MISS SHEILA MCGIVERING

CertEd 1946

Sheila’s years at Homerton were transformative for her.

Arriving immediately after the war, she studied under Betty Meredith Jones at a time when dance was still an emerging field in the world of education. Sheila embraced it with a passion. Dance and movement became a central part of her life and teaching.

She found a fresh focus for that passion when she read Rudolph Laban’s book, “Modern Educational Dance”. While attending a summer school and weekend course, Sheila met Rudolf Laban and was invited to spend a year studying at the Laban Art of Movement Studio in Manchester. She described the year as intensely practical, with movement and dance drama each day and preparations in the evenings. Few books on the subject had been published at that time.

Joining the Laban Guild in 1949, Sheila stayed actively involved with its teaching, as a dancer, teacher, examiner and mentor. She served twice as a member of Council and as Chairman for six

years and, at the time of her death, was one of the Honorary Vice-Presidents.

Sheila was also a Moderator for the Laban Guild Creative Dance Leaders training scheme. Students have spoken warmly of her knowledge and experience but also of the extent to which she invested herself in their learning, giving endless encouragement and support. Many remember her as a major presence, sometimes sharp and occasionally intimidating on first acquaintance but with a dry wit and sense of fun, a generous heart and, always, a passion for dance.

Sheila’s teaching career also spanned physical education, drama and religious instruction. She took increasingly senior posts at a range of schools, starting in Stratford where she taught PE with dance, then moving to teach movement, speech and drama in a Secondary Modern School in Manchester where she rose to become head of department. In Cheshire, she served as the deputy headmistress for a residential girls’ school for children from challenging backgrounds.

Her final move was to Eaton Hall College in Retford where she lectured in dance and drama until the college closed in 1980. At news of her death, her students have paid tribute to the way she influenced their lives.

“There are certain individuals you meet in life who leave an indelible impression on you,” wrote one. “Sheila was one such.”

Another wrote simply: “Sheila was the match that lit the flame.”

Sheila had a strong sense of social justice and of morality. Her Christian faith, which inspired her quiet but powerful commitment to loving and serving others, was central to her life. She was an inspiring, supportive and towering presence who is much missed by her former colleagues and students, close friends and family.

Supplied by Jill McGivering

MRS FELICITY HOWL (NÉE HOLLINGWORTH)

CertEd 1956

Felicity’s early life was spent the tiny Kent hamlet of Underriver, near Sevenoaks where she went to school at Walthamstow Hall. From there she went to Homerton to do the Certificate of Education course, followed by a one-year science specialism course. At Homerton she became close friends with Jenny Howl (née Pollard), who was taking the same course and who after a few years became Felicity’s sister-in-law by marriage. Jenny had married David Howl (Selwyn, 1956–58) and, several years later, Felicity married Michael Howl (St John’s, 1951–54). So, not surprisingly, the two Homerton alumnae saw quite a lot of each other throughout their lives.

As Michael was by then on the academic staff at Imperial College, they lived within commuting range of South Kensington – initially for two years in Sutton, and then in Ewell – for the rest of

Felicity’s life. They had two children, a daughter Nicky who now lives in Reigate and a son Andrew now living in Dorking, so the family have remained in close contact.

After Homerton, Felicity taught for three years, first at the Elisabeth Allen school in Barnet and then at a new school in Doncaster. She then took a break from formal teaching and, after brushing up her spoken French at the Alliance Française in Paris, worked as an au pair for a ski instructor and his wife in Chamonix for two years, followed by a spell in Cordoba teaching English (and at the same time learning some Spanish). Felicity was a natural teacher and once her children were past primary school age she took another teaching job, this time at a local pre-prep school where she worked until retirement.

Felicity had a warm and outgoing personality and she soon made a lot of friends in Surrey, many of whom remained close throughout her life. She was a good tennis player and played at the Sutton Hard Courts Club for many years, switching to golf at Banstead Downs Golf Club when her friends persuaded her of its attractions.

Felicity was diagnosed with coeliac disease in her early sixties but she managed this condition well and was careful with her diet so she was able to continue to live as before – until the last two years of her life, which were blighted by illness, which was thought to be probably linked to her coeliac disease and which in the end proved incurable. She died peacefully in hospital on 26 May 2021.

Supplied by Dr Michael Howl

IN MEMORIAM

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

Mr John Nicholas Ball Lecturer in Education

Died 26 October 2021

Mrs Judy Barham Housekeeper 1976–2008

Died October 2021

Mrs Muriel Betty Bridge (née Claxton) CertEd 1947

Died 1 April 2021

Dr Brenda June Buchanan (née Wade) CertEd 1948

Died 2019

Mrs Jane Aline Charman (née Paterson) CertEd 1948

Died 8 April 2021

Mrs Sally Joanna Charter (née Longbottom) BA Education with Geography 2003; PGCE 2006

Died 1 May 2021

Mrs Linda May Clare (née Bray) BEd 1971

Died 20 February 2021

Mrs Zoe Margaret Coombe (née Richards) CertEd 1946

Died 19 February 2021

Ms Ann Farquharson (née Tanner) CertEd 1951

Died 7 April 2020

Dr Gloria Gillham-Abaza CertEd 1949

Died 28 September 2021

Mrs Dorothy June Herbert (née Middleton) CertEd 1948

Died 26 September 2021

Mrs Margery McCarthy (née Gilder) CertEd 1953

Died 21 September 2021

Mrs Hazel Patricia Pierce (née Herriott) CertEd 1948

Died 5 July 2021

Mrs Margaret Joan Punt (née Cole) CertEd 1959

Died 2019

Mrs Heather Riley CertEd 1952

Died 2020

Mrs Gillian (Jill) Mary Sallis (née Chapman) CertEd 1969

Died 1 February 2021

Mrs Pamela Maud Emily Saxton (née Toms) CertEd 1948

Died 9 May 2021

Ms Christine Wilcock CertEd 1971

Died February 2021

Mrs Jean Wealthall CertEd 1948

Died July 2021

Mrs Jean Elizabeth Weekes (née McCallum) CertEd 1957

Died November 2021

Mrs Eileen Winter (née Gillett) CertEd 1955

Died 7 July 2021

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As a lifelong member of Homerton and the University of Cambridge, you are entitled to a number of benefits. 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.

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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). Formal Halls are on Tuesdays in term time. If you wish to attend, please let us know by the preceding Wednesday.

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Alumni may use the College Library for reading purposes. 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.

Benefits provided by the University of Cambridge

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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