Jesus College Annual Report 2022

ANNUAL REPORT 2022

ONE HUNDRED

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EIGHTEENTH EDITION

JESUS COLLEGE • CAMBRIDGE

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ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT

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Contents Message from the Master

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Fellows and other Senior Members 2022-2023

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Articles

Mapping out a career in glaciology Julian Dowdeswell

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Fate of “our sea”: climate change and the Mediterranean John Cornwell

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Improving pollinating plants to feed the world Hamish Symington

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Developing cultivated meat as a sustainable source of protein Lisa Neidhardt

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Mental health and wellbeing James Crockford

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How does social media affect our sense of self and community? Tyler Shores

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Linking alumni and students through our Careers Programme Sarah Richey

College News

Preserving the character of the Dining Hall Nicholas Ray

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Contesting memorials James Crockford

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Resurrecting a tradition: ‘A Type of Christ’ Anika Goddard

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The repatriation of the Benin Bronze Kate Coghlan

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A Life in the Day of a College Gardener Mike Morris

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People Art at Jesus 2021-2022

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The Chapel

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Chapel Music

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The Libraries and Archives

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Books and Articles by Members and Old Members of the College donated to the Libraries 2021-2022

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The Intellectual Forum

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Science and Human Dimension Project

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Bursary

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Domestic Bursar’s Office

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Development and Alumni Relations Office

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Admissions

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Societies

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Sports Clubs Members’ News

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109 People

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Births

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Marriages and Civil Partnerships

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Obituaries

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Awards and Results

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Jesus College Cambridge Society (JCCS)

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Photo by Martin Bond

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Message from the Master Last year, Fellows and staff ensured a safe return to a wide range of intellectual, social, sporting and creative experiences for students. The College’s Pandemic Strategy Group, who supported colleagues throughout the pandemic, disbanded at the end of Lent Term.

It was a privilege to work with such committed colleagues.

We look forward to welcoming everyone back to our Halls and to a refreshed Pump Court, resplendent with York stone, tulip trees and a fabulous new stone staircase giving direct access to the Hall. When I first visited the old kitchen, I marvelled that our chefs consistently produced some of the best food in Cambridge (in my opinion, the best) from such a constricted space. Our chefs will continue this tradition in a transformed space, fit for the next few hundred years.

The new kitchen and Caff are filled with light and are ergonomically designed with meticulous attention to detail. Jesuans will be proud of the project’s environmental credentials, which include ground source heating. Thanks to the team who have overseen this huge project.

The Forum and Forum Upper Hall, our dining home since 2020, will next year be incorporated with the Frankopan Hall to enhance our West Court conference complex, enabling us to attract even more interesting and dynamic thinkers from academia and beyond.

The foundation of intellectual life at Jesus is the large programme of events organised by our Fellows. Dr Julian Huppert leads the Intellectual Forum (IF) team, who have fully embraced the potential to reach a global audience through hybrid events. Highlights of last year included Professor Bill Sherman’s 2022 Lisa Jardine Memorial Lecture on ‘Erasmus and the Reader’s Eye’; a conference about healthcare in

refugee and conflict zones in the Middle East and North Africa (with a live stream from the regions); a conversation with Professor Mary Beard; Lord Bernard Hogan Howe’s lecture ‘Should the police use more facial recognition?’ Visiting Fellow Sharon Dodua Otoo read from her new novel Ada’s Realm, and a symposium on the artistic practice of Shahzia Sikander followed her exhibition in our West Court Gallery. The IF also went on its first road trip, taking over a stage at the Cambridge Club Festival. Campers listened to some of our world-leading academics, alongside other headliners Diana Ross and Nile Rodgers and Chic!

It is a pleasure to be Master of a College which is so dynamic. Last year, one day particularly stood out thanks to three notable events. On 27 October 2021, we hosted the first Universal Ownership Summit which brought together Fund Managers who control investments worth hundreds of billions of pounds, to discuss how to make the world a better place. We also held a launch event for the Jesus College Careers Programme, which this year expanded our mentoring platform Jesus Connect to

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over 2,000 members and 800 mentors, while running a full programme of talks and skills workshops. Finally, on that day, Jesus College became the first institution in the world to hand back a Benin Bronze, at a moving ceremony in the Frankopan Hall. A few months later, I received a film clip of that same Bronze being received at the palace of the Oba of Benin. The best moment was a shot of the cockerel statue in the foreground, with three children in the background looking at their cultural heritage. Since the Fellows of Jesus College decided to “do the right thing”, other organisations and countries have followed suit. I applaud the Fellows for their clarity and vision and for the global change that they have started.

When I wrote my first Annual Report message in 2020, I mentioned the “comfort of the Chapel”. Since then, exploration of the history of our benefactor Tobias Rustat has affected how our Chapel can offer mission and worship to our diverse community. We lost the much-publicised Consistory Court hearing in February, but discussion continues because high-profile members of the Church of England came out to express their deep concerns with the decision made. Thanks to our Fellows – and especially to the Legacy of Slavery Working Party, led by Dr Véronique Mottier and Dr Michael Edwards – for bringing the truth of Tobias Rustat’s capital investments to light.

Events last year included the crucifixion of a student in the middle of the Cloisters (a sentence I never thought I’d write!).

This was the climax of our medieval mystery play, which saw an audience of over 100 Jesuans following actors around the College grounds for an impressive performance. Let me assure you that no students were harmed during the production. After a two-year absence, the Jesus May Ball welcomed over 2,000 guests. I had a fabulous time on the

dodgems and at the silent disco. I lost fake money in the casino and hit a hole-in-one at the crazy golf. I did not make the survivors’ photo, but I have seven more years to try.

Our Fellows have been extremely active this year, as detailed in the news section on page 55. Without repeating the many impressive achievements, I’d like to congratulate Professor Roberto Cipolla for his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society, and Professor Marie-Louise Sørenson for her election to the British Academy. On behalf of all the Fellows, staff and students, I would like to record my profound thanks to Professor Geoff Parks for his ceaseless and tireless efforts as Senior Tutor for ten years. As he steps down, he leaves behind a strong Tutorial Department of staff and Fellows.

I welcome Dr Paul Dominiak as our new full time Senior Tutor.

It is with great sadness that I report the death this past year of Emeritus Professor Ray Freeman, the former John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Magnetic Resonance, and that of Dr Geoffrey Harcourt, former Reader in the History of Economic Theory and President of Jesus College. As you’ll see from their obituaries, they will be greatly missed.

In September 2022, we received the incredibly sad news of the death of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II. We offer our heartfelt sympathies to the Royal Family. Over 70 years The Queen touched the lives of so many people.

We were fortunate enough that she visited the College on two occasions, remembered with pride and fondness by many Fellows and staff members.

Last year, we firmly established ourselves as a College which seeks to do the right thing and explore the art of the possible. I hope these values resonate with all Jesuans throughout the world.

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Fellows and other Senior Members 2022-2023 Master Ms S Alleyne OBE

Fellows Dr C M Burlinson (President, Vivian Cox Fellow in English, Admissions Tutor) Professor P H Nolan CBE (Director of the China Forum) Professor G T Parks Professor R Cipolla FREng Professor S Fennell Professor D I Wilson ScD CEng Dr J W Ajioka Professor J Clackson (Fellows’ Steward) Professor M R Laven Dr T S Aidt Professor T D Wilkinson (Graduate Tutor) Dr V Mottier Dr F M Green Professor I H White FREng Professor J A Dowdeswell ScD (Brian Buckley Fellow in Polar Sciences) Professor N G Berloff Professor S Clarke (Ron Davies Fellow in Natural Sciences) Professor W Federle Professor B Walton Professor O A Scherman Professor C E Chambers (Dean of College) Professor J J Baumberg FRS Professor G N Wells Professor D J Kelly (Keeper of the Plate, Financial Tutor) Professor B M B Post Professor A H Brand FRS Dr M J Edwards (Deputy Graduate Tutor, Keeper of the Old Library, Fellow Librarian, Gurnee F Hart Fellow in History) Professor K S Lilley Professor C Mascolo Professor C-B Schöenlieb Dr R Reich Dr F G Stark Professor S Schnall

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Professor M T Conde Dr D A Cooper Dr T Savin Professor S J Colvin Dr S V Stinchcombe Professor V M P M D Carvalho Professor K A Steemers Professor Y Peleg Dr M Harper (Admissions Tutor) Professor U Schneider Professor C Fenton-Glynn (Admissions Tutor) Professor D Nally Dr S Stacpoole (Assistant Graduate Tutor) Professor H Williams Professor P J Williamson (Fellow Auditor) Professor S Dutton Professor J Green Professor M Elliott Dr J Huppert (Director of the Intellectual Forum) Mr R Pinel (Director of Music) Dr R F Anthony (Bursar) Dr A J Grant Dr J Berenbeim (Curator of Works of Art) Ms E Williams (Director of Development and Alumni Relations, JCSU Senior Treasurer Senior Treasurer of MCR) Dr J Bellingham Professor J Danesh Professor R Evans Mrs M de Vincent-Humphreys Rev’d J Crockford (Dean of Chapel, Welfare Tutor Praelector, JCBC Senior Treasurer) Dr R Barr (Welfare Tutor) Professor N Guyatt (Welfare Tutor) Dr C Cole Dr H McCarthy (Welfare Tutor) Dr S Marino Ms A Goymour Dr M Wilkinson Dr A R Bowden Dr M Arbuthnot Dr A Schultz Mr S Websdale (Domestic Bursar, May Ball Senior Treasurer) Dr D Moulin-Stożek Dr N Buitron (Jessica Sainsbury University Assistant Professor in the Anthropology of Amazonia) Dr G Wilkes (Disability Liaison Tutor) Dr J Tenney

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Dr E Marek Dr S Diener Dr M Long Dr A Chen Dr P Dominiak (Senior Tutor) Prof C Marquis Dr M Brazelton Dr S Zahl Dr A Koronaki Dr B Sheil

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Arts Arts Science Management and Human, Social and Political Sciences History & Philosophy of Science Theology, Religion and Philosophy of Religion Architecture, Design & Engineering Engineering

Emeritus Fellows Dr J A Hudson Dr J E Roseblade Dr W C Saslaw Mr P R Glazebrook MA Professor J T Killen PhD FBA Professor S C Heath LittD (Honorary Keeper of the Old Library) Professor P D A Garnsey PhD FBA Dr S B Hladky Dr D E Hanke Dr M R Minden Mr N J Ray MA ARIBA Professor J B Thompson Dr J R Howlett Professor W J Stronge Professor I Paterson FRS Dr R D Bowers Professor Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn MA ScD HonDLitt FBA FBA (Hon Fellow) Professor M L S Sørensen FBA Dr M P C Oldham Professor J Soskice Professor R Mengham Professor D A S Compston CBE FRCP FMedSci FRS Professor M M Arnot FAcSS Rev’d Dr T D Jenkins Professor Sir Bruce Ponder FRCP FRS Dr A J Bowen MA Professor J C W Mitchell FBA Professor S A T Redfern Professor J M Bacon (Hon) DUniv Mr S J Barton MA Professor Lord Mair CBE FREng FRS (Hon Fellow) Professor H le B Skaer Mr R Dennis Mrs A Künzl-Snodgrass (Welfare Tutor)

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Honorary Fellows The Hon A R Gubbay MA LLM SC HonLLD Lord Renwick of Clifton MA HonLLD HonDLitt FRSA KCMG Professor Lord Rees of Ludlow Kt OM MA FRS HonFREng FMedSci Professor R F Tuck MA FBA Professor Dame Sandra Dawson DBE MA FIPH FCGI HonDSc CIM Sir David Hare MA HonLittD FRSL Sir Antony Gormley OBE MA HonLittD Sir Bernard Silverman MA ScD FRS Lord Watson of Richmond CBE MA FRTS Professor Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn MA ScD HonDLitt FBA FBA (Emeritus Fellow) Mr M Perahia FRCM Professor K E Wrightson MA PhD FBA FRHistS Professor E S Maskin FBAHon MAHon DHL Professor T F Eagleton MA FBA HonDLitt The Rt Hon Sir Rupert Jackson PC Mr J A O’Donnell MA KCSG FRCO FRSCM FGCM FRCM Sir David H Wootton The Rt Hon Sir Colman Treacy PC Sir Richard Long RA CBE Professor Robert Evans FLSW FBA Sir Jonathan Ive KBE Professor Lord Mair CBE FRS FREng (Emeritus Fellow) Professor Sir Alan Fersht The Rt Hon Sir Stephen Irwin PC Professor Roberta Gilchrist DPhil FSA FBA Alison Wilding RA Professor Belinda Wilkes Professor Alison Bashford FBA FAHA Professor Mary Margaret “MM” McCabe FBA Ms Frances Morris Mr Deryck Murray CMT Professor Susan Rutherford Professor Verene Shepherd CD FCCS Ms Veronica Ryan OBE

St Radegund Fellows Mr J W Hudleston Mr R P Kwok MA (1972) Mr P J Yates MA (1978) Mrs S J Yates MA (1980) Mr B N Buckley MA (1962) Ms J M Sainsbury MA (1989) Professor P J A Frankopan MA (1990) Dr L Rausing Professor P Baldwin Mr G F Hart (1994) Mr R F Davies MA (1953)

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Fellow Commoners Rev Dr J Leach Dr S S Saxena Dr J Filling

Fellow Commoners Emeritus Mr J Cornwell MA HonDLitt FRSL Professor B A K Rider PhD Hon LLD

Acting Director of Music Mr P Wright

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Visiting Fellows Ms Yasmeen Lari (Sir Arthur Marshall Visiting Professor for Sustainable Urban Design) Ms N Ali OBE Dr G Casely-Hayford OBE Dr L Collingham Dr C Foster-Gilbert Dr J Mellad Mr A Mitchell MP Ms C Nwanoku OBE Mr L Sissay OBE Ms S Dodua Otoo Rev Dr Rosemarie Mallett Mr Philippe Sands Mr O Yousefzada

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Visiting Scholars Professor Shoshanna Saxe Professor Rob George Professor Dr Janne Nijman Professor Michael Heinrich Mr Dexter Dias Mr Kubra Gumusay Professor Gasan Gusejnov Professor John Wallis Professor Sudan Zhao

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Teaching Bye-Fellows Dr G L Taylor Mr P Fannon Dr C Town Dr M Mihatsch

Dr O Petri Ms K Ollerenshaw Dr C O’Brien Dr J Hirst (Welfare Tutor)

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College Post Doctoral Associates (CPDA) Dr B Bowers Dr A Boys Dr E Buchanan-Worster Dr P Chen Dr F Christie Dr P Cosgrove Dr J Cotton Dr J Dudley Dr S Galasso Dr V Gupta Dr C Henderson Mr T Hollanek Dr F Jephcott Dr T Kara Mr L Lannelongue Dr K Liu

Dr G Markou Dr M Nabugodi Dr J Perry Dr C Platnich Dr A-L Post Dr E Quigley Dr C Rios Rojas Dr S Saxena Dr N Seega Dr R Shojaei (Ethnic and Religious Minorities Welfare contact) Dr A Smith Dr S Soni Dr L Sundaram (Ethnic and Religious Minorities Welfare contact)

Society of St Radegund Charles Rawlinson (1952) David Bennett Firdaus Ruttonshaw (1968) Gurnee Hart (1994) Andrew Sutton (1965) Christopher Rodrigues (1968) Alasdair Morrison (1968) Tomás Carruthers (1986) Richard Briance (1971) David Wootton (1969) Patrick Wilson (1974) Peter Day (1968) Charles Hoare Nairne (1989) Martin Clarke (1975) Adrian Frost (1976) Tony Thorne (1958) Michael Booth (1959) Paul Burnham (1967) Christopher Kirker (1969) Albert Goh (1990) D G Marshall of Cambridge Trust David Hibbitt (1962) Susan Hibbitt

Stephen Heath (1964) Bob Rao (1972) Kay Ian Ng (1986) James de Uphaugh (1985) Edward Ma (2000) Kay Ashton (1982) James Ashton (1982) John Sheldrick (1967) Sandy Rattray (1988) James Marshall (1986) Duncan Martin (1987) Andrew Harbor (1975) John Dugdale Bradley (1961) John Driscoll III (1983) James Rudolph (1965) Wang Minming Gavin Stark Emily Winslow Stark Jan Laubjerg (1992) Max Hadfield (1961) William Burnside (1970) Leigh Collins (1967) Ting-Hway Wong (1992)

Articles

One of the photos taken by Emeritus Fellow, Professor Sir Bruce Ponder, exhibited in College in December 2021

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Mapping out a career in glaciology An interview with Professor Julian Dowdeswell, former Director of the Scott Polar Research Institute, and Brian Buckley Fellow in Polar Science at Jesus College1 The past year has been one of surprises for Professor Dowdeswell. He learned that an Antarctic bay would be named in his honour and, on a personal level, he discovered the joy of grandparenthood and having more time with the family.

Our Editor asked about his career so far, and his plans for further travel, research and teaching.

How and when did you become interested in glaciology?

As a child I loved maps, a passion that continued as an adult – as a young father, I’d pour over Ordnance Survey and road maps in the car waiting for my daughter to come out of ballet class. This interest in maps led me to Geography, and I was encouraged at school by excellent and enthusiastic teachers to apply to Cambridge. Coming up to Jesus 1977, I was taught by scientists from the Scott Polar Research Institute as part of the

Julian Dowdeswell with Prince Albert of Monaco

Geography degree, and I often sought out the quiet space of the Institute’s Polar Library. I became fascinated by the polar regions and as an undergraduate I put together a small expedition to study a part of the Vatnajökull ice cap in Iceland.

One of the expedition patrons was Sir Alan Cottrell, who was Master of Jesus at the time. Another Fellow of the College, Dr Stan Evans, provided training in survey techniques and my Director of Studies, Dr Robin Donkin, applied his usual rigorous eye to my proposal. From the observations gathered on this expedition I wrote my first scientific paper, which was published in the Journal of Glaciology in 1982.

Tell me about your recently published research In 2019, I was Chief Scientist on the Weddell Sea Expedition off the eastern Antarctic Peninsula, in the area where

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Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance was crushed by ice just over 100 years earlier. We aimed to investigate the ice shelves (the seaward extension of inland ice sheets) around the Weddell Sea and, in particular, the Larsen C Ice Shelf from which a giant iceberg broke off in July 2017. We also hoped to locate and survey the wreck of Endurance. Although we didn’t find the Endurance (it was located in early 2022), several articles have been published recently about our scientific work, including one about the rapidity of ice-sheet retreat in Science.2 A further paper in Nature Geoscience used satellite imagery from the past few decades, and the latest ocean and atmosphere modelling predictions, to study the spatial and temporal patterns of ice-shelf change east of the Antarctic Peninsula.3 We found that portions of the ice shelf were in their most advanced position since satellite records began in the early 1960s. That’s counter to what happened in the late 1990s years or so, when ice shelves collapsed catastrophically into the sea. Changes in atmospheric circulation mean that more sea ice is being carried by the wind to the coast, which is acting to buttress the

ice shelves so that they’re much less prone to collapse.

Measuring ice shelves is important because the presence of these floating extensions of the inland ice sheet help to buttress the ice sheet against collapse.

If ice shelves collapse, ice flows more rapidly to the coast of Antarctica, more mass is lost as icebergs, and an increment is added to global sea level.

Conversely, ice-shelf growth slows the flux of ice to the sea, putting a break on the ice-sheet contribution to global sea level.

Thus, the fate of ice shelves is highly relevant to humankind more generally through its effect on sea-level change.

How does your research make you think about the environment and sustainability?

One of the exciting things about glaciology over the past 40 years is that it’s gone from being seen as a somewhat quirky, although intellectually challenging, subject to becoming absolutely mainstream in terms of measuring environmental change. This shift in attitude started in the mid-1990s, around the time that the first

Icebergs, inlet near Rothera Base, Antarctica. Credit: Julian Dowdeswell

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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report was published and shone a spotlight on the importance of the icy world as a driver of global climate change. At that time, I was approached by several NGOs to become an environmental advocate, but I chose to remain a scientist and to contribute by providing quantitative evidence on the changing cryosphere. This includes past and present rates of ice-sheet retreat and their influence on global sea level.

It is becoming clear that the cryosphere is one of the most sensitive parts of the global climate system. Greenhouse gases are clearly the dominant reason for the global warming that we’ve seen in the past few decades; temperatures have risen by more than a degree Celsius relative to the 1960-90 mean.

I think most people are now more aware of climate change. I’m active on both a personal and institutional level in trying to project the causes and implications of environmental change to humankind. The Polar Museum we have at the Scott Polar Research Institute, with its 50,000 or so visitors each year, provides wonderful opportunities to spread the message to wider audiences.

How is Jesus College doing for sustainability?

It's great to see Jesus College making progress with sustainability initiatives.

The infrastructure of the buildings here makes it a complex and difficult job, but the installation of ground-source heating is excellent, both for the environment and for the College economy, too. Long term, it’ll be a win-win situation.

How do you feel about having an Antarctic bay named in your honour?

As part of my role as Director of the Scott Polar Research Institute, I’ve been a member of the Place Names Committee of the British Antarctic Territory, which names

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significant features within the Territory.

At my last place names meeting after almost 20 years as Director of the Institute, the Chair announced that a bay on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula would be named after me – it has a series of glaciers and a floating ice shelf feeding into it. I was grinning like a Cheshire Cat for the rest of the day. A place name has a certain permanence to it when you see it on a map. My father was just about to go into a care home at the age of 102, and it was a wonderful surprise when I told him. He was delighted.

What do you feel have been your greatest career highlights so far?

I love going to new places and trying to understand what is happening environmentally. It was particularly exciting to be one of the first people to go into the Russian High Arctic archipelagos after the collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of the Cold War. It was an incredibly complicated mission and a very significant geophysics project, using Russian helicopters and radio-echo sounding equipment to measure the thickness of the ice. I arrived in Russia with several tens of thousands of US dollars in a money belt, as the banking system there had collapsed. Hiring helicopters was a strictly cash transaction.

That research – because of the difficulties that remain in working in the Russian High Arctic – is still the definitive study of its kind.

I’m also proud of the work I’ve carried out around the eastern and north-eastern fjords of Greenland. The ice conditions make these areas very difficult to get to, even with modern ice-breaking research ships. I’ve been there on a number of ships over a 15-year period, and we’ve managed to get into most of the fjords to read the geological records held in the seafloor sediments. I think that East Greenland is also the most beautiful place I’ve ever visited. Its scale is stunning;

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Sunset, eastern shore, Kangerdlussuaq Fjord, East Greenland. Credit: Julian Dowdeswell

you can be in one of the huge fjords there, 300km from the outer coast of Greenland, right up against the edge of the glaciers. The water is 1,500m deep, and the mountains are about 2,000m high. It’s the biggest fjord system in the world.

Another aspect of my career that has been particularly rewarding has been to develop the field of glaciology in the UK. I established a new research centre for glaciology in Aberystwyth in 1994 with four supporting academic posts. I then went on to found the Bristol Glaciology Centre within the University of Bristol.

Both centres continue to thrive, and the number of research posts have grown, which is wonderful. I was delighted recently to be made an Honorary Fellow of Aberystwyth University in recognition of my work in founding the Centre for Glaciology. It is also great to think of the doctoral and masters students that I have supervised, and also learned a lot from, in Aberystwyth, Bristol and Cambridge.

Over the past 20 years, my primary focus alongside my research has been my role as Director of the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI), which was my ‘Dream Job’ when I was an

undergraduate. SPRI is the oldest polar research institute in the world, and is a unique combination of polar research, teaching, the care of our wonderful historic collections of artefacts, documents and photographs, and public engagement through our Polar Museum. I’m proud of the outreach and public engagement work of the museum, which is also projected through my own books. Together with Evelyn (a fellow polar scientist and also my wife), we have written children’s books on Captain Scott and Sir Earnest Shackleton that are used widely in schools today at Key Stage One. I’ll continue to write more because it’s so important to showcase the environmental significance of the Arctic and Antarctic; I’m working on a book called Arctic Islands at the moment.

What role do you play now at the Scott Polar Institute?

I retired as Director of the Institute in Easter 2021 after almost 20 years, and I’ll continue to support its combination of research, heritage and outreach post-retirement. I’m still very involved in fundraising. We carried out a total refurbishment of our museum spaces about ten years ago, in time for the

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centenary of the death of Captain Scott and his companions on their return from the South Pole in 1912. The museum now welcomes about 50,000 visitors a year including almost 20,000 school children.

A series of large grants from the Heritage Lottery Fund and generous gifts from individuals (including Jesus alumnus Brian Buckley, 1962) supported the refurbishment of the Polar Museum and also enabled the purchase of a number of highly significant polar heritage items including, for example, all 1,700 glass-plate negatives taken by the renowned photographer Herbert Ponting of Scott’s last expedition.

Importantly, earlier this year we received a major donation from Viking Cruises to fund in perpetuity a new Professorship of Polar Marine Geoscience in the Institute.

What’s next for you? Do you plan to visit Dowdeswell Bay? The bay is quite a long way south, on the west of the Antarctic Peninsula below the Antarctic Circle, so I’m not sure I’ll ever get there; however, plans are emerging for a possible visit in 2024! I do intend to travel to the polar regions again though.

From a scientific point of view, I’d like to do more research in Antarctica and continue gathering data on the ice sheets.

A number of tourist ships are now also being used as platforms for polar science, and I’ll take part in some of those exercises using a variety of geological

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equipment, backed up by satellite data sets. I chair the Research Advisory Group for Viking Expeditions and helped to design the laboratories on their two new ice-strengthened ships.

I plan to continue my work on public engagement with science. I also hope to complete my second book on the Arctic within the next year or so. Myself and my co-author, Professor Michael Hambrey, have been able to use almost exclusively our own photographs in this book and our earlier volume The Continent of Antarctica (2018). This is because, between us, we’ve had the great privilege of having visited many parts of the polar world. It was important to make sure that the Antarctic book was printed on high quality paper to do justice to the photographs.

I’ll also continue to teach an annual week-long course on Arctic marine geoscience at the University on Svalbard (UNIS) in the high Arctic. I’ve taught the course almost every year for the past 25 years and will return this September, helping to train young scientists there as part of an international Masters Programme.

I’d like to stay fit and enjoy being a grandparent, too. Evelyn and I enjoy spending time at our cottage in Cornwall with the family when we’re not working.

As you can tell, retirement from the Directorship of the Scott Polar Research Institute is a long way from giving up my polar interests! n

1 Julian has represented the UK on the councils of both the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) and the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) and is also a past Chair of the UK National Committee on Antarctic Research. He has received a number of awards for his scientific work including: the Polar Medal (1994) from HM The Queen for “outstanding contributions to glacier geophysics”; the Founder’s Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society (2008); and the Lyell Medal from the Geological Society of London (2018).

2 Dowdeswell J.A., Batchelor C.L., Montelli S., Ottesen D., Christie F.D.W., Dowdeswell E.K. and Evans J., 2020. Delicate seafloor landforms reveal past Antarctic ice-shelf retreat of kilometres per year.

Science, v. 368, p. 1020-1024.

3 Christi F.D.W., Benham T.J., Batchelor C.L., Rack W., Montelli A. and Dowdeswell J.A., 2022.

Antarctic ice-shelf advance driven by anomalous atmospheric and sea-ice circulation. Nature Geoscience, v. 15, p. 356-362.

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Fate of “our sea”: climate change and the Mediterranean John Cornwell My interest in the state of the Mediterranean, subject of our April 2022 Science & Human Dimension Project workshop, and scheduled conference series for 2023 (see SHDP Report on pages 78-81), was originally roused by an environmental disaster 4,500 miles from the Mediterranean – in North America. Some years ago, flying down towards Toronto airport, I had a view from the aircraft window over Ontario’s great lake, shimmering blue and silver with stretches of golden beaches. In the afternoon fall light the scene was reminiscent of a Mediterranean seascape and beaches. How fortunate, I thought, for the millions of Americans and Canadians living within the watershed of the lake and its 700-mile shoreline shared by the province of Ontario and upstate New York. Yet I was soon to discover that the lake was contaminated. More disturbing, scientists were drawing parallels between the afflicted Great Lakes and the future of the Mediterranean.

I was due to lead a series of classes on Samuel Taylor Coleridge at McMaster University. Lake poet and one of the earliest eco-ethicists in the English language, Coleridge was convinced that unspoilt lakes and rural landscapes promote happiness and wellbeing.

Coleridge and fellow Lake poet William Wordsworth published a manifesto (Preface to the Lyrical Ballads) arguing that creativity and human flourishing thrive when human passions “are incorporated with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature”. Coleridge influenced the poet and public intellectual Ralph Waldo Emerson, who in turn inspired Henry David Thoreau, whose book Nature celebrates the beneficence of American wildernesses; the importance of their preservation for

future generations. “It is the marriage of the soul with nature,” Thoreau wrote, “that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination”.

I was looking forward to exploring Ontario’s “beautiful and permanent forms of nature”; the ancient woodlands of the Niagara Escarpment, the scores of waterfalls and streams amidst glades of native trees; the islands and lagoons where the lake meets the mighty St Lawrence River; the magnificence of Niagara Falls some forty miles south of Hamilton. Yet the scenic beauty and apparent wilderness belied extensive pollution. The lake and its sister Great Lakes, comprising 20 per cent of the planet’s fresh water, were in a poor state. Lake Erie had already been pronounced “dead”. Swimming was dangerous in Lake Ontario; what remained of the fish uneatable.

I had a view from my lodgings over the “The Bay”, an inlet from the lake; the surface was obscured by a thick layer of yellow and green sludge giving off a stench like garlic and rotting fish, a consequence of run-offs from local industries.

The origins of Lake Ontario tell a dramatic geological story. The basin was carved by an Ice Age glacier displacing a land mass that was pushed south, piling up in central and western presentday state of New York. When the glacier retreated, the lake drained into the Mohawk River; the glacier melted from the St Lawrence valley, leaving the outlet below sea level. For a time, the lake became a bay of the Atlantic until the land reasserted itself. The lakebed to this day tilts southward, causing erosion and inundations along the southern New York shoreline.

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Through the 17th and 18th centuries, the lake became a scene of trading operations and French missionary activity bringing conflict, disease and the decimation of indigenous peoples.

The nation known as Wyandots, settled on the shores of Lake Huron, were reduced from 20,000 to some 600 in the course of 50 years. After the American Revolution dealings between the British and Americans settled into fruitful commerce.

The Great Lakes were destined by the 20th century to become the most integrated and expanding commercial hub in the world, based on prolific waterway access including the building of the Erie Canal connecting the Atlantic with the Great Lakes. Cargo shipping saw the growth of industries amidst expanding populations. The region, embracing eight US states and two Canadian provinces, became home to automobile giants – Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler on the US side; mining, agriculture, logging, steel production on the Canadian.

Lake Erie with the growth of its neighbouring cities and populations, some 12 million inhabitants by the 1960s, was polluted by shoreline heavy industries and intensive farming within the watersheds involving mass run-offs of fertilizers and pesticides. The lake was a dump for acids, oil spills, car batteries,

truck and car wrecks.

At McMaster, a Lake Biologist led a series of evening seminars on the Great Lakes for people in the humanities.

He spoke of phosphates, ammonia, cyanide and phenols in the waters; and eutrophication – an increase of nutrients causing harmful blooms of algae creating dead zones and the mass death of fish. One evening he surprised us by digressing to talk about the Mediterranean Sea, far larger than any of the lakes – 2,500 miles in length, east to west, 500 miles wide at its greatest distance, north to south – approximately 970,000 square miles, and up to three miles deep. Yet the Mediterranean, he explained, is like the Great Lakes, a virtually enclosed sea, renewed mainly by the flow of water eastwards from the Atlantic across the ocean-bed sills in the approach to the Strait of Gibraltar.

Another source of replenishment comes from rivers, many of which are polluted.

The Atlantic current forms an upper layer of water; the lower, flowing westward, known as the Mediterranean Outflow, is slower, heavier and saltier.

The incoming waters from the Atlantic flow in anti-clockwise currents, taking some 80 years to arrive back at their departure point. He spoke of over-fishing, the dumping of petrochemicals, the dirty

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refining of oil in the sea; eutrophication; and of climate change. He outlined the theoretical history of the geology of the Strait of Gibraltar and its profound significance for Mediterranean. Once an inlet of the Atlantic, the basin forming the Mediterranean Sea ran dry six million years ago as a massive tectonic event sealed off the inward flow from the mightier ocean. Scientists were modelling what might have occurred. After the Atlantic ceased to flow into the basin it became a massive dust and salt desert with mountain ranges and deep ravines.

The basin remained in this condition for some 700,000 years until the natural dyke fractured once more. The Atlantic roared over the rim into the desert basin, the sea level rising at a rate of 30 feet a day.

Given the cultural perspectives on nature and the environment I was discussing in my classes on Coleridge, the notion of ‘climate’ addressed a wider significance than the preoccupations of scientific measurements and modelling.

The prospective death of the Mediterranean struck me as an event fraught with tangible and imaginative significance for the hundreds of millions who inhabit those regions; tragic beyond words for all who recognise the Mediterranean as a homeland of the body, mind and spirit. As early as 1985, Sir David Attenborough reiterated at a conference in Rome what the celebrated French oceanographer Jacques Cousteau had forewarned in 1972: “By the early 1970s it was clear that the Mediterranean was dying”.1 Today, scientists are arguing that the sea, known in Ancient Rome as “Our Sea”, forms a microcosm in which the environmental future of the planet is being played out in advance.

It is the canary in the climate mine.

Observing the fate of the Mediterranean enables us to see into the future state of the planet, and how the world at large is likely to respond. Unlike other tipping points across the globe – melting polar glaciers, inundated Pacific islands,

vast Baltic ‘dead zones’ – the Mediterranean is a complex, highly populated meeting point of diverse histories, ecologies and climates hospitable and harsh; the cradle of civilizations, the crucible of cultural heritages, the holy places of the religions of the Book. Bordered by 21 countries, with collective populations of 540 million and 300 million annual visitors, the Mediterranean is a wealthy industrial, agricultural and marine powerhouse, albeit marked by striking inequalities, geopolitical and humanitarian crises. The Mediterranean is representative in many senses of the planet at large. The 2020 1st Report on Climate and Environmental Change in the Mediterranean Basin declared the region the “main hotspot in the world”, warming up 20 per cent faster than the global average. Some 250 million of its peoples are projected to be “water poor” within 20 years. Temperatures are expected to increase by 2.2°C (compared to pre-industrial level) by 2040. NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies found that the current drought that began in 1998 in the eastern Mediterranean, appears to be the worst of the past 900 years.

In September 2021, a meeting of EU heads of state in Athens were told that the city (with a history of human presence originating between the 11th and 7th millennia BC), was destined to become the world’s first uninhabitable capital.

As temperatures reached an unprecedented 47.1°C (116.8°F) that July, vast areas of farmland and forests were plagued by wildfires, prompting mass evacuations. Scientists calculate that sea temperatures could rise by 3.5°C by 2100, increasing salinity and density to unprecedented levels, while the sea could rise by 2.5 metres putting at risk the habitations of the 20 million people that live below the current 5 metres above sea level.2 Researchers across the Mediterranean continue to monitor and model climate

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change and associated environmental woes due to human activity: including carbon emissions, plastics and petrochemical pollution; overfishing, deforestation – with knock-on consequences: unseasonal intense heatwaves, proliferating wildfires, water contamination, marine eutrophication, flash floods. The social, economic and political consequences are already evident: water and food insecurity, refugee and migration crises, terrorism, heightened tension, armed conflict.

Constituencies of Scientists, Social Scientists, and Policy Makers, hold regular meetings with law makers aimed at international collaboration. Collective decisions are hampered by short-termism, piece-meal strategies, ideological divides, and the sheer magnitude of the problems.

Archaeologists and Climate Historians have recorded the many environmental impacts on Mediterranean societies down the centuries, including volcanoes, earthquakes, drought, plague – from the Late Bronze Age and Antiquity to the late medieval Little Ice Age; from the Industrial Revolution to our fossil-fuelled polluted era

of high growth technologies and rapidly expanding populations. Can the past come to the aid of the future? A profound imaginative and moral shock at the prospect of a devastated Mediterranean may yet provide impetus for radical action needed to save the planet at large. By the same token, reflections on historic catastrophes may offer grim reassurances of resilience, adaptation, and survival.

And yet, the consideration – “this too will pass”, a consolation for stoics down the millennia, offers scant philosophical comfort in the face of irreversible ruin.

If the peoples and governments of the Mediterranean cannot halt the slide to environmental disaster in their own limited habitat, what hope for the rest of the planet? On the other hand, the shock of the loss of “Our Sea”, as the people of Ancient Rome called it, an epochal transgression against nature, may constitute a desperate yet salutary advantage despite the local catastrophic consequences. It may take the death of the Mediterranean to prompt the world into late, combined action to save what is left. n

References 1 David Attenborough, BBC TV documentary First Eden, 1985.

2 First Mediterranean Assessment Report. Union for Mediterranean Plan Bleu. UNEP/MAP, 2020.

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Improving pollinating plants to feed the world Hamish Symington A PhD student in Plant Sciences explains how research into insect pollination can improve food production

Six years ago, I gave up my job as a software developer, with the aim of returning to science and researching something that might leave the world a slightly better place for my daughter.

Five years’ experience in beekeeping had given me a deep interest in bees and flowers, and I was fortunate to gain a PhD place funded by Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) looking at improving pollination of crops in the Department of Plant Sciences.

A rising global population will need more food, and about a third of our crops by volume depend on insect pollination to some extent – but, around the world, insects are generally in decline. How do we reconcile that conflict? Alongside options such as reversing insect decline or breeding crop varieties which rely less on pollination, might it be possible to make it easier for insects to find flowers (meaning the same number of insects could visit more flowers per day), or to improve the nectar and pollen reward that those

flowers offer (giving insects more energy to take back to their nests)? Selection for improvement in these traits could then be included in breeding programmes, without any need for GM techniques.

I set out to tackle these approaches in strawberry plants, for which fruit quality is improved by insect pollination.

To see if I could make it easier for insects to find flowers, I focussed on petal shape, which is known to be involved in how insects perceive flowers.

The approach I took was to characterise variation which already exists between different varieties, then use that information to test bee responses to the extremes of variation. A friendly strawberry farmer in Norfolk gave me access to a field where he grows 20 different varieties, and I spent several months photographing flowers and measuring them on a computer.

This enabled me to make plastic flower models with which I could ask bees questions.

Testing how fast bees can find flowers involves training laboratory-reared bees (who’ve never seen a flower) to visit the plastic flowers and giving them a small sugar-water reward each time. With plastic flowers at known distances apart, I can then time individual bees’ flights between them; if one flower shape is easier to find than another, then the bees will fly between them faster. Similarly, we can test if bees have an innate preference for flower shape by releasing a bee in a flight arena in which are flowers of both shapes, each containing a sugar-water reward, and watching which

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of the two she visits; if we test enough bees, we can get a picture of bees’ preferences in general. Disappointingly, changing flower shape gave no significant increase in speed, and bees displayed no preference for either shape – but at least we know that now, which we didn’t before I did the work.

I’ve also been looking at nectar.

When bumblebees forage, they fly from the nest to a flower, drink, then keep flying between flowers and drinking until they’re full, then they return to the nest and offload the contents of their honey-stomach in a wax holding cell for their nestmates to drink. Bee drinking is relatively well studied, but nobody had ever timed offloading before, so I spent an enjoyable summer feeding bees sugar-water of different concentrations and timing them vomiting it back up in the nest. I showed that drinking and offloading are both affected by the viscosity of the sugar-water (which is

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affected by the concentration of sugar), and that offloading is faster than drinking – but that it is also much more strongly affected by viscosity. These measurements allow us to build a full model of energetic intake and expenditure during a foraging bout, fine-tuning the calculations of which nectar concentration maximises energy return to the nest (which, it turns out, heavily depends on the distance between nest and foraging patch).

Different plant species produce nectar with different sugar concentrations.

But what sugar concentration do bumblebees prefer, and what sugar concentration maximises the rate of energy return to the nest? Previous work in our laboratory has shown that bees prefer more-sugary over less-sugary nectar up to about 55% sugar/water, but with relatively large quantities of sugar-water; I showed that this preference holds true when there was only one cubic millimetre of sugar-water per flower.

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Low-tech fieldwork

This is important as it shows our laboratory results hold true in the real world, where some flowers produce very little nectar.

All through my PhD I’ve struggled with the fact that my work is pretty low-tech: friends of mine work with incredibly expensive bits of equipment at temperatures a smidge above absolute zero, or use satellites to measure global CO2 concentrations, while I measure flowers and time bees with a stopwatch, one by one. But this approach has so much to offer: traditional breeding programmes have focussed on consumer-relevant traits such as yield,

disease resistance and shelf life, with no regard for characteristics which are relevant to pollinators. Improvements such as those I’ve described here can be combinatorial – we could improve search speed and nectar sugar concentration and nectar quantity and pollen quantity – and these approaches can go hand-in-hand with developing higher-yielding plants, as well. So, even though it’s low-tech, I genuinely believe that techniques such as these might help improve food production in the years to come. And, if it turns out that that’s not the case, at least I can look my daughter in the eye and tell her that I tried. n

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Developing cultivated meat as a sustainable source of protein Lisa Neidhardt A PhD student at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research discusses how cultivated meat could help to feed a growing population with Dr Inanna Hamati-Ataya, Principal Research Associate at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) and founder of the Centre for Global Knowledge Studies (gloknos) at the University of Cambridge Initially proposed as food for astronauts in space, cultivated meat has turned from a science fiction fantasy to a source of hope for a more sustainable and animal welfare-conscious meat production method for the world’s growing population. Cultivated meat aims to replicate conventionally produced meat by harnessing stem cells that multiply and form skeletal muscle and fat tissue.

Therefore, it has the potential to marry the consumer’s desire for meat with a more secure and sustainable global food production.

The following is based on an interview with Dr Inanna Hamati-Ataya, evaluating the social and ethical implications of this novel technology. We started by acknowledging that other innovative technologies like precision farming (e.g. satellite crop monitoring) also aim to increase agricultural production to face the planet’s growing demand for food.

However, they act within the traditional paradigm: the continuation of the Green Revolution. This term refers to the drastic increase in the productivity of global agriculture as a result of introducing high yielding crop varieties, new chemical fertilisers and synthetic pesticides in the mid- and late-20th century. Hamati-Ataya points out that cultivated meat approaches the same problems with a completely different framework: it is far removed from land-based food production and agricultural labour.

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Just like language, food is a vehicle to express culture. It has the power of being both a biological necessity as well as a deeply symbolic cultural artefact, that connects us to one another. Despite increasing attempts to raise awareness about where our food comes from, for many people “food comes from the supermarket”. In fact, determining the origin of our groceries can be a difficult task; the food supply chains are long and complex. Hamati-Ataya believes that we have already crossed a crucial threshold: since 2007, for the first time in human history, more people have been living in urban than in rural areas.

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She said, “The production of food is something completely alienated from our day-to-day life. We buy most of our food in supermarkets rather than directly from the producers. As we have become accustomed to processed food, there is no great leap of imagination required for people to accept a drastically different form of food appearing on supermarket shelves as long as it looks familiar to other products, like burgers and sausages, and is priced affordably.”

Studies have shown that a major barrier towards consumer acceptance of cultivated meat is its unnaturalness.

Hamati-Ataya brings up an intriguing paradox: “Cultivated meat is high-tech in terms of its production process, but at the same time, it is not unnatural regarding its composition. It is not processed in the way most food products or ready-made meals are. The cultivated meat industry is transitioning from ground to whole cut meat products, like a chicken breast or beef steak: when this is achieved, I think that our definition of what is artificial and what is natural will be profoundly shaken.

One area in which such conversations are likely to emerge early on is secular and religious legal doctrines, where these definitions are important and have

wide-ranging implications on people’s behaviour and what counts as permissible or taboo.”

Thinking ahead, Hamati-Ataya raises concern about the asymmetry of technological innovations, the potential for monopolies, and of discrepancies in consumer markets. An urgent priority, she believes, is to put on the public agenda how cultivated meat is going to impact the global structures of food production and the producers themselves.

Hamati-Ataya emphasises that it is essential to agree on rules that will protect the livelihoods of current producers and help them to transition.

Another important aspect is the current lack of a university curriculum to open up the field of expertise and ensure that large numbers of people are trained in the new technologies and their societal aspects.

Moreover, academic research laboratories are needed to generate open-access data.

Hamati-Ataya highlights the importance of this step as the current technological innovation universe is governed by the private sector with growing interest from the big food industry and high-tech investors. Therefore, there is a lot of economic interest whilst the societal aspects are neglected. The current lack of public involvement together with little reflection from governmental institutions or international organisations leaves the main arena to actors who are profit-oriented. At this point, it is essential to interlock these economic interests with public interests to allow a fair and inclusive way of revolutionising our food system.

The prominent vegetarian and socialist Henry Salt predicted in the 1880s that, “future and wiser generations will look back on the habit of flesh-eating as a strange relict of ignorance and barbarism”. Being the addressee of his prediction, how would we respond?

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humanity has fostered an extremely aggressive way of exploiting other species, even in ways that seem excessive and not always justified to satisfy our basic needs. Cultivated meat has the potential to further abstract our relation to food from our relation to nature, the landscape, and the animals we identify as sources of subsistence or as culinary taboos. At the same time, it could be part of a moral awakening to re-define our role in the ecosystem, a pivot from

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needing to harm other beings to sustain our needs. Together with the evolving plethora of other alternative protein sources, such as plant-based alternatives, cultivated meat can pave the way for us to be more pacified with our environment and with other species.

You can find out more about the Cambridge University Alt. Protein Society by visiting our LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cual tproteins/ n

Further reading M. Wilks, M. H. (2021). What does it mean to say that cultured meat is unnatural?

Appetite.

Mattick, C. S. (2018). Cellular agriculture: The coming revolution in food production.

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 32-35.

Neil Stephens, A. E. (2019). Making Sense of Making Meat: Key Moments in the First 20 Years of Tissue Engineering Muscle to Make Food. Frontiers in sustainable food systems.

Young, P. (2019). The Victorians caused the meat eating crisis the world faces today – but they might help us solve it. The Conversation.

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Mental health and wellbeing James Crockford, Dean of Chapel and Lead Welfare Tutor Jesus College is, we all hope, a place where each member of our community can thrive. A key priority to enabling this is taking mental health seriously, and giving our students the tools and support to look after themselves and know where to turn when concerns arise about their wellbeing, or that of another student.

With the right support in place, students are empowered to give their best academically and achieve their potential in all sorts of other ways.

It is often mentioned that there is a big rise in mental health concerns among young people, only exacerbated by the effects of the pandemic. We are increasingly fluent in speaking about our wellbeing, and capable in finding ways to approach personal challenges through self-care and support. We are also increasingly aware of how mental health intersects with other aspects of our lives –

like relationships, finances, leisure and social life, or educational background.

Student years can be a huge time of transition – often the first major life change someone experiences – and that can bring challenges in all sorts of ways, as well as chances to grow and learn about ourselves.

At Jesus, we are always improving how we work with students to help them look after their mental health and wellbeing, and a whole ecosystem of College and University resources and contacts provides support for our students, whatever they may be facing. This is a constantly evolving part of life at Jesus, and across the University, and I want to, as it were, give you a quick tour of at least some of the landscape.

Jesuans of all ages will no doubt remember their College Tutors, and this support, provided by trained academics

Welfare and Tutorial team, left to right: Dr Rebecca Barr, Professor Geoff Parks, The Rev’d James Crockford, Mrs Jenny Jenyon, Professor Nick Guyatt, Ms Eleanor Lancelot, Ms Rachel Michel and Mrs Jacky Poskitt

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A welfare yoga session held in the Chapel

from ‘within the system’ is still a key cornerstone of College pastoral care.

Our Welfare Tutors (as they are now called) cover a range of ages, disciplines, and experiences, and students are welcome to seek help from whichever of the team they feel most comfortable approaching, at a daily drop-in or by appointment. Each Welfare Tutor now also acts as a designated contact for different constituents of students who may face distinctive issues or experiences, such as international students, LGBTQ+ students, or those seeking support about an experience of discrimination or harassment. This year we also welcome to the team two Ethnic and Religious Minorities Welfare Contacts, associate academics at the College who will be a port of call and source of support on any relevant matters.

Our Disability Liaison Tutor works alongside the Welfare Tutors, ensuring arrangements are in place to support the educational, examination and other needs of students with disabilities or specific

learning difficulties. This includes referring students to the Disability Resource Centre where they can access trained advisors and mentors. All this support helps every student be able to give their best, as well as equipping them with skills and self-knowledge that will stay with them for life.

Students, Fellows and staff are also able to access a range of health and wellbeing support through our College Nurse, Jacky Poskitt; College Mental Health Nurse, Rachel Michel; and physiotherapist, Luke Bowman, all based in our Health and Wellbeing Centre in Library Court. It might be a short-term problem like a sports injury or back pain from those long hours in the library, or a long-term condition that needs managing throughout someone’s time at College; College members can be sure that friendly and professional support is on hand to help.

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coming into play. All students have access to free sessions at the University Counselling Service, where a variety of therapists work with them individually over a number of sessions as needed, and can refer on to specialist or longer-term therapy if needed. I have seen first-hand, countless times, the difference it can make to get a student swiftly to suitable professional help, and how immensely grateful students (and parents) are to know the University and College have been there when needed. Alongside individual sessions, the Counselling Service also run a series of termly workshops and groups to help students develop key personal skills or understand a challenge they may be facing, like bereavement, panic, or ‘imposter syndrome’.

Not all wellbeing provision comes in such formalised ways, though. I am sure each Jesuan can speak of the difference it makes to your headspace to get away from the books – whether putting in the hours on the river, being part of a musical production, just letting your hair down at a Formal, or taking a turn around the College nature trail. The grassroots of looking out for each other happens peer-to-peer, with the guidance of College ‘parents’ and kindness of staircase mates, as well as the support of designated JCSU and MCR Welfare Officers. The latter are now a large, diverse team of committed, compassionate students wanting to do their best to care for our student community, with a listening ear and knowledge of the further resources and contacts that students can be encouraged and supported to access.

Each year, thanks to a generous donation from outgoing Senior Tutor, Professor Geoff Parks, the College celebrates students who have made exceptional contributions in the area of welfare, rewarding them with Jesuan

Welfare Awards. They may have been the friend on hand to help in a crisis, or developed student welfare provision in creative and fruitful ways. It is always heartening to see the huge difference that students are making, and this committed compassion from our own students is the glue that holds together the mental health and wellbeing of a College community.

Last but not least, the students wouldn’t forgive me if I left out one very special member of the Welfare Team – Pippy, the College Welfare Dog (pictured above), my little pastoral assistant. A very adorable beagle, she makes visits to College, including exam season ‘Pippy and Popsicles’ ice-cream gatherings, and leads weekend dog walks (‘Walk and Wag’) off down the river and over the fields to help students get out for much-needed fresh air and a change of scenery. She reminds us – staff, Fellows, students, alumni alike – of the wellbeing value of stopping, eating, sleeping, and being in good company! n

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How does social media affect our sense of self and community?

Tyler Shores, Manager of the ThinkLab Program at the University of Cambridge and Senior Research Associate at the Intellectual Forum, Jesus College During the pandemic, social media became our lifeline to the rest of the world. It helped us feel connected, allowed us to express ourselves and gave us the group hug we needed. Has this reliance on virtual networks affected our real-life relationships though? Now that we can meet again in person, has it changed our face-to-face interactions or our perception of community? I’ve been researching digital distractions for the better part of a decade now, and recently my interests have focused on how social media might be changing us and making us see ourselves and others differently.

Our habits The apps that we check throughout the day influence how and where we receive news and information, who we spend time with, what we buy, and ultimately even how we think and feel.

Think about our everyday routines and habits: What do you think the very last thing most people do at night is, as well as the very first thing in the morning? By some estimates, about two-thirds of us use the alarm clock on our phones to wake up every morning, then spend our first waking moments scrolling through email, news, and social media. (Full disclosure, sometimes I do it, too). But the next time that you get a chance, do a mental check-in with yourself in the morning.

Does the start to your day seem different if you don’t use your phone first thing in the morning? What else do you find yourself doing instead?

Not all social media use is the same,

of course. For example, one of the aspects of social media that has other researchers and myself particularly concerned is the infinite scroll, which allows users to mainline content without effort or reflection. If you’ve used Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, TikTok or YouTube on your mobile device then you’re quite familiar with how infinite scroll works and how it removes even the additional small step of needing to find a ‘next’ button to tap or click. It’s easy to zone out when you’re scrolling, but how much of the content is what we even want to see, and what longer term harm could mindless scrolling be doing to our brains and our mental health? Part of my work is looking at how we can develop healthy habits to protect ourselves mentally when absorbing content this way.

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Social media and ourselves We are social creatures who seek affirmation and belonging. That’s why social media has become so embedded in our everyday lives. But when we step back and think about it, it can be helpful for all of us to think: what do ‘likes’ on social media mean to us and how many are enough to satisfy us when we post online about a new baby or a new job? It’s at least possible that our reliance on virtual affirmation through followers (oftentimes anonymous internet strangers) and ‘likes’ reduces our need for the approval to those closest to us. Do you post online about an achievement first or call your partner or family to tell them? Most of these questions don’t have a ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ answer, but can be a good opportunity to think about how our habits have changed over the years.

And here is an even more fun thought experiment: if all of your social media profiles were to permanently disappear tomorrow, would this affect your sense of self and how would you express yourself to the world? For starters, we’d be stumped how to register our outrage to a wide, anonymous audience. What would you miss if social media blipped out of existence? And what wouldn’t you miss?

This is an ideal time to remind all of us that we should back up our social media accounts at least once. Sometimes our favorite photos only exist online.

You can find some tips to safeguard your memories here: https://www.wired.com/2014/07/ archive-social-networks/ There are more subtle, gradual ways that social media influences how we present ourselves online. More accurately, we choose and curate what aspects of our lives we present to the world.

When all we see are highlights of other people’s lives, our everyday offline lives can seem comparatively dull. But real life is not made of just highlights. Has anyone seen Andy Warhol’s Empire (1965)?

It’s an eight hour film of the Empire State

Building, and very little happens other than time’s passage. In a way, it’s the opposite extreme of the impression of online life nowadays which is sampled in 30 and 60 second video cuts.

Social media and others Research suggests1 that using social media does affect our interpersonal relationships. Physically, we might be right in front of a person, but our minds are somewhere else entirely. Researchers such as Sherry Turkle from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found that we might be less engaged in real life social interactions when a smartphone is visible – perhaps because of the ever present possibility that we can be interrupted at any time. It’s safe to assume that in terms of quantity, we are having more conversations with more people online than ever, but we still have a finite amount of time and attention spans, so we may be trading depth of conversation for breadth.

One inevitable consequence of communicating on social media is the binary nature of how we can register our reactions. On many platforms, a ‘like’ is our only option. (Or on Facebook, we might have the additional options of Love, Haha, Wow, Sad, and Angry).

But what’s really in a ‘like’, anyway?

Agreement, support, or acknowledgement that we skimmed the words of a post?

We can’t help but lose some of the nuance and back and forth of real-life conversations, where issues can be discussed as having grey areas and people can be ambiguous or undecided in their opinions.

Finding and connecting with new communities and those we have shared interests with are part of the wonderful serendipity that we can experience from online platforms, yet there is a danger this can swing too far in the direction of only finding and surrounding ourselves with people very similar to ourselves.

For more information on how this might play a role in our lives, here is a

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fascinating link from the Reuters Institute on filter bubbles: https://reutersinstitute. politics.ox.ac.uknews/truth-behind-filterbubbles-bursting-some-myths Does your own experience vary?

Do you find that online bubbles can be as diverse as our real-life ones, or are we simply recreating online the groups we gravitate towards every day?

Social media benefits Social media has changed our day-to-day lives in a number of ways, including positive ones. The best way I can sum up social media’s benefits is that it has brought an overall increase of serendipity into most of our lives. Its inclusive nature means that conversations can be opened up to new and unexpected contacts and sources of information. Conversations and discussions aren’t limited to what occurs in a bound, physical space but can include participants from almost anywhere and the online nature of those kind of discussions give us that extra processing time to pause and reflect. Conversations in-person happen during one point in time and in one place, but I’m fascinated about the half-lives of conversations on social media. Sometimes we see conversations revived from months or years ago with new information and new participants.

From a teaching perspective, I often find myself using social media to share and include people from far beyond the classroom (or, Zoom room). I use social media alongside real-life events to share what’s happening live as well as to gather audience opinion using polls and open-ended questions as a means to open up a discussion. When I spoke at the Hay Festival a few years ago, I ran a poll every day to reach out to a wider audience.

Thanks to using hashtags and tagging different accounts, it can be fascinating to see the kinds of responses and insights that are shared from a wider online audience.

Online interactions like this can bring surprises as well. One thing that strikes me is that people are often more likely to share more personal information such as their struggles with mental health or depression online as opposed to in person. Social media can be a means of creating deeper, and more meaningful connections.

Mindful browsing So how do we enjoy the benefits of social media whilst protecting our mental health and preserving our real-life relationships?

Below are some of my favourite tips; there is no one way that works for everyone so feel free to experiment.

Do you have any favourite tips?

Please do share on Twitter @tylershores

Tyler’s tips Out of sight, out of mind: If you had to guess, what percentage of the day do you spend with your phone or a digital device within arm’s reach?

Try placing your phone in another room, or at least out of your immediate sight.

Or at the very least, try having your phone screen faced down. Try it out for a week or two – does that small behavioral nudge change how often you check things online?

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Tyler Shores at the Hay Festival

Less screen time at bedtime: Can you live without your phone on your nightstand? If you use your phone as your alarm, try an actual alarm clock!

Phone time right before bed gives us the double whammy of blue light exposure and (probably) checking social media and news which in turn might make it harder for us to fall asleep.

Try a social media budget: If you use an Apple or Android device, the built-in Screen Time (iOS) and Digital Wellbeing (Android) can give us quite useful information, which can be found in

your device’s Settings. Whatever your current numbers might be, if you wanted to tweak your social media habits, consider a social media time budget of 30 or 60 minutes allocated for whatever your favorite app might be, but make an effort to stick to that time only. Try it for a week. Does that change your online habits?

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1 Przybylski, A. K., & Weinstein, N. (2013). ‘Can you connect with me now? How the presence of mobile communication technology influences face-to-face conversation quality’. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 30(3), 237–246.

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Linking alumni and students through our Careers Programme Sarah Richey, Careers Mentor Digital platform We launched Jesus Connect in October 2021 to create opportunities for more students to research careers and make useful connections with alumni in their area of interest. It is an online mentoring and networking platform that matches students and alumni, and it is part of the career development programme, running alongside other initiatives.

The platform works by allowing alumni to complete a profile about their experience and how they can help current students.

This feeds into a searchable database, which allows students to filter by profession and type of support on offer. Sometimes alumni offer a one-off coaching session and sometimes the relationship develops into a long-term partnership. We offer guidance for the initial conversation, then allow people to agree on how to continue.

Students often want to be certain of their career choice before signing up, but that isn’t necessary. Our alumni are happy to answer questions about whether their own career is a good fit and not. They can also help students to develop soft skills, such as CV writing or delivering presentations.

We work closely with the University of Cambridge Careers Service, who provide excellent resources and careers advisors.

Our added benefit is that we can tailor support by offering one-to one introductions.

In the Business of...

Our programme of events includes internships workshops, CV clinics and regular “In the Business of...” talks, which introduce expert speakers from different industries. One recent visiting speaker was Kemal Shaheen (1995), Director of Paper Boat, a UK-based charity

Jesus Connect in numbers

1965 members

59 countries

73 matriculation years

813 mentors available

45 internships/work experience available

313 student members

116 mentoring requests

394 connection requests

21 career groups established

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working with children in some of the poorest communities in India and Thailand. He returned to the College in November 2021 to speak about careers in the charity and voluntary sector alongside Claire Leigh (2000) from Save the Children.

He said, “The power of networking is that you don’t know what may come out of it. When I spoke at Jesus College, I didn’t have a specific vacancy in mind for internships. One student, Jezz Brown, approached me and showed that he shared some of my passions and was willing to get involved. His questions and ideas led to an internship project, which I hope will unite young people in the UK and in India through creative learning.

As a student at Cambridge, I didn’t take the opportunities available to prepare for the world of work. I didn’t run a society or get involved in the recruitment milk rounds. I became skilled at sitting long exams but had never given a presentation. I had passion, conviction, and willingness to go the extra mile, but I had to develop work and leadership skills on the job.

There’s an opportunity with Jesus Connect to reach out to students in a structured way to support them to develop their skills to become strong, sustainable leaders in the future. We need to reach the students who might bypass the normal routes into careers. That’s why I look forward to seeing the network grow.”

Jezz Brown (HSPS, 2021) said, “I attended the event with Kemal Shaheen because I’d like to work in NGO/ charitities and in education in the future.

I have also attended CV/LinkedIn workshops and peer-peer internship and further education sessions. I am signed up to Jesus Connect and I think it is a fantastic platform. I remember attending the launch of Jesus Connect and being positively impressed by the concept.

Having now used the platform a few times I can firmly say that it is of great use.

Meeting Kemal and discovering the work of Paper Boat really helped me fuse together two possible future paths I was passionate about: development work and education. Since, I have investigated various International Educational Policy programmes and charities that work in these areas. Working with Kemal has given me a great insight into possible next steps beyond University. One of the most significant things I have taken from the work of Paper Boat is the power of creative opportunities and non-traditional learning in empowering young people.

Paper Boat has really inspired me to think beyond my preconceived understanding of education and think about how education can best be delivered and improved in the future.”

As we go to press, Kemal is taking up a new role at Caplor Horizons, a charity that works with other charities to inspire and enable leaders to deliver a sustainable future. Jezz and Kemal plan to continue their collaboration by working together on a ‘Next Generation Changemakers’ programme.

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Subject dinners One opportunity for alumni and students to meet is at subject dinners hosted by Directors of Studies. Dr Jim Bellingham is Director of Studies in Natural Sciences (Physical Part IA and Physics Parts IB) and Secretary of the School of the Physical Sciences at the University. He also sits on the College Careers Committee.

He recently organised a dinner for students with three alumni guests in attendance. He said, “Inviting alumni to dinner was an easy way to introduce them to our students. Our guests work in the fields of space science, technical consultancy, and hedge fund management. They spoke for five minutes each about their specialisms before leading a more general discussion.

Students feel more pressure to plan their careers these days and there’s a danger of being rushed into making decisions.

The support that we offer needs to be informal and easily accessible.

It’s important that our career programme reaches out to as many students as possible.”

Entrepreneurship clinics Visiting Fellow, Dr Jason Mellad (pictured right), is a scientist entrepreneur, CEO of Start Codon and co-owner of the LAB cocktail bar. He has met around 20 students at monthly entrepreneurship clinics, a service he’d love to expand in the future. He said, “I’ve received mentoring throughout my life, through introductions by great teachers then through colleagues. Now I’m passionate about paying that forward by meeting students and hearing what they’re really interested in. They have some phenomenal ideas, which often start with, ‘Nobody knows that I’m passionate about…’

Career discussions should happen early and often, and they should branch into alternatives to normal employment, because people want flexibility now.

Instead of applying for a job, people should feel able to approach a potential investor and say, ‘I’ve got a great idea, can you help me with it?’

My top tips for students are: 1. Know yourself. What kind of person are you and what do you want in a career?

2. Talk to as many people in professions as possible because the reality is very different to what you see on paper.

3. Nurture your relationships.

Most of my jobs have come through my connections, so make the most of every opportunity to meet people then stay in touch.” n

How to sign up?

If you have an opportunity you would like to promote to students, please do not hesitate to contact Sarah Richey, careers-mentor@jesus.cam.ac.uk

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Preserving the character of the Dining Hall Nicholas Ray An Emeritus Fellow and Architect describes past decisions about the architecture and design of the Hall, in advance of a full archaeological report

Members of the College will be aware of the substantial building programme nearing completion, effectively extending the kitchens for the first time in more than six hundred years. We will describe the results in a future Annual Report, including exciting archaeological findings – yet to be fully analysed and written up – which cast new light on the history of the Convent of St Radegund and the College that was founded on its site. This short piece acts as an introduction to the topic, concentrating on the work undertaken to the Hall when we anticipated the quincentenary of the College’s foundation, in 1996.

The major building project of the period was of course the construction of the Quincentenary Library, where the architects were appointed following a limited architectural competition. It was also decided to refresh the appearance of

the Hall and the Bursar at the time, Professor John Killen, asked me to “prepare a colour scheme”. Older College members will recall that the Hall was a uniform chocolate brown, re-painted many times, with minimal gold leaf gilding on the flat face of the pilasters.

I told John it was not a matter of just a colour scheme: decisions had to be taken as to what period the decoration would refer to and that would involve some specialist investigation. The brown colour scheme probably dated from 1875, when Alfred Waterhouse repaired the north-facing oriel window, repaired the chestnut roof, re-arranged the west end screen, and constructed the Little Hall, subsequently demolished in the 1960s.

The panelling itself, however, was early eighteenth-century, dating from 1703 to be precise.

A Committee was established, and we interviewed several architects working in historic building conservation, appointing Richard Griffiths for an early job in a career which has subsequently involved major conservation work in London and elsewhere. Paint layers were carefully scraped to try and find evidence of the original decorative scheme, but Waterhouse appeared to have stripped it all very thoroughly, so the committee considered alternative schemes from the early eighteenth-century – the heyday of English Baroque. The one we chose was based on that used in a room at Windsor Castle.

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Left to right: mock-ups of the panelling with a door case and a pilaster capital

Society by means of two-dimensional illustrations or simple colour panels and so we had two mock-ups constructed, one of the panelling with a door case and one of the pilaster capitals (somewhat simplified) and entablature at the High Table east end. A husband-and-wife team, who were going to undertake the decoration, painted and gilded the sample panels: the gilding was placed in the grooves of the pilasters to ensure a certain glitter from whichever angle the light falls. I displayed them at an evening meeting of the Society in Upper Hall, explaining the reasoning behind the Committee’s choice.

The reception was mixed. Some members of the Fellowship felt that the Hall had always been chocolate brown and ought to remain that way. Others, while agreeing with the general decorative scheme, objected to the theatricality of the false marbling in the frieze and the amount of gilding, saying it

might feel like Disneyland. I said that Baroque taste was indeed theatrical but that its character suited a room where Fellows ritually wore gowns and recited a Latin grace. The scheme passed by a narrow margin and an attempt, orchestrated by a Fellow of the College to interest those who hadn’t attended in vetoing it, also failed.

The Hall has been re-decorated in accordance with the colours we chose in 1994, before being handed back at the end of the current kitchen development contract. It is impossible to say whether the present scheme reflects its appearance in the early eighteenth century. If it was as ‘theatrical’, it is very probable that later in that century, when the influence of Lord Burlington’s Palladian taste predominated, the decoration would have been toned down: we know it was “new painted” in 1801. However, it seems that members of the College have become fond of the present scheme, and a

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The redecorated Hall

proposal that changed the Hall’s character might now meet with considerable resistance.

Along with the decoration work, improvements have been made to the heating and ventilation. The 1994 lighting scheme has been enhanced on several occasions and that has been reinstated and improved further. However, the most noticeable alteration to Hall is the removal of the High Table dais. Now that a dignified access for wheelchair users has been created, thanks to the new kitchen work, there is a compelling reason to allow everyone entitled to dine at what can remain as a High Table (simply by the re-orientation of the furniture) and proceed thence into the Combination Room. How precisely to achieve such a distinction, down to the orientation of the floor boarding, was debated by the

Kitchen Development Working Party (a sub-committee of the Buildings Committee), and alternative proposals were presented for discussion by the Society, which recommended one of them to Council.

Decisions on how to proceed in the Hall thus mirror in miniature the many issues with which members of the College have been involved in the recent major kitchen works. The results at a larger scale, as I mentioned, will be the subject of a later more detailed report, which will not only summarise archaeological discoveries but also describe the way in which this contract furthers the College’s long-term ambition to be exemplary in how we re-use and re-interpret the precious fabric we have inherited in the light of the compelling need to be environmentally responsible. n

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Contesting memorials James Crockford, Dean of Chapel How we remember the past is a topic that with renewed attention now faces churches, civic spaces, and public institutions. Many memorials, monuments, statues, road names, and building titles are facing the scrutiny of an awakened awareness of their presence and the histories they may signify, and a questioning of what values and virtues may be promoted by their visibility and publicity. This consideration concerns the shape of the common narrative in which we seek together to live, and how our awakened awareness of the past may at times challenge our public life, including the spaces and places that we seek to share together and call our common home.

Public memorialisations have come into particular view within such debates.

‘Contested memorials’, as we have now learned to call them, are those where, to quote Historic England’s statements on the matter, ‘the associated stories or meanings have become challenged’, memorials which effect a representation of history in the public realm which ‘can cause offence’ or which act as ‘symbols of injustice’. Such memorials signal a moral commendation of some person or attribute or event that seems, so interpreted, to be at odds with contemporary civic values, and perhaps to hinder the inclusion that public, educational or religious spaces seek to foster.

Over the past couple of years, as a College, we have been considering one specific instance of so-called ‘contested heritage’: the large memorial to Tobias Rustat on the west wall of the College Chapel. Rustat (1608-94) was one of the College’s most significant historic benefactors and founded funds at the College for distribution to poor clergy

families, including bursaries for accessing education at the College. Rustat was a close courtier of Charles II, serving as Yeoman of the Robes and Page of the Backstairs. He was also an investor, lender and ‘Assistant’ (akin, in some ways, to a Director) in the Royal African Company (RAC) over an extended period. During his involvement, RAC engaged in enslaving and transporting people across the Atlantic, of which Rustat was doubtless aware. He commissioned his memorial, displaying it in his house for several years, before it was installed in Jesus Chapel after his death. Its inscription celebrates and commends Rustat’s financial activities and generosity.

The memorial has been relocated several times within Chapel over the centuries since. The College resolved in November 2020 that the memorial should be relocated to a suitable educational exhibition space on the College site, and in time petitioned the Consistory Court of the Diocese of Ely (under which jurisdiction the Chapel’s fabric falls).

Following a three-day hearing of the Court held in the Chapel in February 2022, the College’s petition was rejected.

In a truly remarkable development, the case received public comment during and after the judgement from the Archbishop of Canterbury. The rejection of the petition prompted a joint letter in resistance signed by over 160 clerics and church leaders, including a former Archbishop of Canterbury and leading Bishops, Deans and Archdeacons of colour.

Many of our College community and beyond have engaged with or observed the process, and it has been clear that many important and difficult issues are at stake in such considerations. How do public memorials relate to our

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understanding of history? How do monuments shape the values of contemporary communities? How should we live honestly and critically with the shadow sides of our history? How should heritage concerns relate to issues of pastoral concern? What roles do sacred spaces have in providing safe sanctuary, and in recognising the realities of human failing? How can we best understand and interpret buildings of moral and spiritual significance? These questions are not only being asked within our College setting; the College’s deliberations about the Rustat memorial happened in parallel with the Church of England’s developing approach to addressing the heritage concerns and pastoral implications of contested monuments, and this work will continue over the next few years.

In the area of its stewardship of historical buildings, the Church of England’s Buildings Council and Cathedrals Fabric Commission produced their first guidance report, Contested Heritage in Cathedrals and Churches, just as the College submitted its 2021

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petition. This report explored the relation of contested memorials to the pastoral and missional purposes of churches and cathedrals, highlighted key questions for consideration, and emphasised the need for local dialogue in exploring options and opportunities, and developing the right solution for a particular context, bearing in mind the needs of the community at hand. This initial work will be continued by a recently appointed Contested Heritage Committee, drawing together diverse expertise in heritage care, visitor engagement, worship curation, and racial justice. We look forward to seeing the fruits of their reflection and work over the coming year or two.

In exploring the church’s own commitment to racial justice and inclusion, further work is also ongoing.

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equally, and which works against the realities of racism in our own day.

Contested monuments, the report commends, should be engaged ‘to use the built environment for repentance, reconciliation and as a spur for social action in the present’. More recently, in June 2022 the first report of the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice offered comment and challenge on the Rustat case itself, and some areas to address in the Consistory Court processes.

It notes the need for greater diversity among ecclesiastical judges, with training in diversity and racial justice, as well as the possibility for a Bishop to appoint suitable assessors with pastoral or theological expertise to advise such a judge on the concerns arising from a particular case. The report also recommends addressing some of the financial barriers that the average local parish church will face in bringing a case for change in their own communities and churches, and for more sensitive and compassionate formats for allowing pastoral concern and distress to be articulated and explored within the court by those who may be affected most personally. All these recommendations, in fact, would bring the Consistory Court processes more in line with standard best practice in other legal courts. Whatever one’s conclusion about the particular case of the Rustat memorial, these seem considerate ideas for developing and modernising a process such that it can serve contemporary communities appropriately.

It is, in a sense, no surprise that there are lessons to be learned – this was the first case of its kind, and one of the most high-profile church cases in decades.

There will no doubt be other cases, quieter cases, that help to fill out the parameters and conditions for how communities and churches make their responses to monuments, statues, or other parts of their fabric that signify historical realities that we no longer wish to celebrate. It is in this

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context that the College will continue to learn how to respond best to the challenges and sensitivities arising from the memorial, and how we live with and engage our histories as a diverse, inclusive community.

What was evident from the engagement of both supporters and opponents was how much this all matters.

We are careful over our Chapel because it is loved and valued, because it is the heart of our College community, a place of exceptional beauty, sanctuary, creativity and care. It connects us to 800 years of our past – a past that matters deeply – from chanting nuns and medieval parishioners to Cranmer and the inheritance of the Reformation, to the spirituality of enchanted and practical design by Pugin, Morris and Burne Jones.

And yet we insist that we each have a place there too, that its history is not over.

Rooted in that history, we open it out that all may have space to flourish, and that the whole of human life and our shared enquiry for truth and justice have their home in Chapel. Far from being a quiet corner for religious enthusiasts, Chapel is there to welcome all, of any faith and none, for civic ceremonies, concerts, creative activities, community life, and pastoral care. This inclusive witness speaks volumes to our students – and, I hope, to all who have ever known religious spaces and communities to be anything less than inclusive, accessible, and accepting.

As we move forward as a Chapel and as a College, we continue in this work of inclusion, building a community that challenges indignity and inequality.

The College’s work on relocating the Rustat memorial has been just a part of that. As the Master says, we own our past, but we shape our future. Whatever the particular fate of the memorial, I hope that a shared commitment to the College’s future where openness, welcome, diversity and equality are embedded is something that can unite all Jesuans. n

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Resurrecting a tradition: ‘A Type of Christ’ Undergraduate student in English, Anika Goddard (2021), writes about the challenges she faced directing the Jesus College Mystery Play this year Directing the Jesus College Mystery Play came with the peculiar terror of 700 years (give or take) of performance history.

Most of the plays we eventually settled on had been part of the fabric of English theatrical tradition hundreds of years longer than Shakespeare and would have had a significant impact on how their medieval audiences experienced faith.

We knew, too, that we were reviving an old College tradition, and had the gorgeous costume designs and effective set design of the 1956 production of Felix Culpa to live up to, so no pressure at all, really!

Costume designers Megan and Lily noted that, “We tried to pay homage to the designs for the last Jesus College Mystery Play as well as incorporating our own ideas. It was so much fun looking at medieval paintings for inspiration.”

Having such a rich history to draw on also helped us as Directors to put our all

into organising the plays, both creatively and logistically. Co-directing as a team of three not only helped with the workload, but ensured that all three of us brought different, but cohesive passions to the table. Niamh Bradshaw had picked up on the fascinating prevalence of women in the plays of the Chester cycle, particularly in times of mourning, and wanted to amplify those voices further.

Nathan Brooks was interested in the way in which the York Crucifixion is framed as four men at work – until they raise the cross and you realise that they’re casually crucifying Jesus – and spliced it into the other Chester plays. I focused on the divine motif of God gradually coming closer to the audience throughout the cycle, beginning as a disembodied voice for Noah’s Deluge and ending as Jesus directly serving the audience drinks after The Resurrection.

We had always planned to perform the

Angel (Tom Chandler) and God (Zahra Shaikh) in Abraham and Isaac

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Jesus (Angus Harron) and the Ensemble in The Crucifixion

play as a promenade – that is, moving around the College as mystery plays traditionally move around the city that they are performed in. The generosity of the Jesus College grounds staff enabled us to construct a logistical chiasmus, where prevalent themes were linked to location (a bonus being that we were able to showcase four separate locations of our lovely College to the audience).

Noah’s Deluge, our first play (directed

by Nathan) began in the Orchard, with the Roost bar functioning as an ark.

We also offered local schoolchildren the opportunity to take part in a free ‘Art in the Ark’ workshop beforehand and then act as animals processing into the ark for the real thing. This workshop, led by Francesca White, was a remarkable success and we hope that next year we’ll be able to expand it by working with the Red Hen charity. After Noah, the audience was drawn by drum across First Court and into Cloister Court, which works well as a natural theatre, for Abraham and Isaac (directed by me).

Though this was tonally one of the darkest

plays, the sacrifice of Isaac was saved at the last minute by the appearance of an enormous stuffed sheep to act as a stand-in. A type of Christ, indeed.

Then we were into our beautiful College Chapel for The Nativity and The Adoration of the Magi/Slaying of the Innocents (all directed by Niamh Bradshaw), where pieces sung by the choristers, soloist Ella Curry and the entirety of the female cast brought the themes of mourning and female fellowship to life. Music Director Imogen Aley, who composed the melody for the lullaby A Baby ys Born us Blysse to Bring, said, “Seeing actors gain confidence with their singing and interpret my music to fit with their characters was a deeply rewarding experience”. Another highlight of this section of the play was a demonically camp and fabulously dressed King Herod, who was taken down to hell, Faustus-like, by a devil as punishment for his villainy.

Following our chiasmus back out from its centre, we returned to Cloister Court for another sacrifice of a son in The Crucifixion (directed by Nathan).

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The real spectacle was a cross three metres tall and loaned from professional Roman reenactors at The Passion Trust.

“Both the biggest thrill and the biggest challenge of pulling it off was the cross”, says Nathan, and it was certainly a precarious task to raise and lower it with the eyes of one hundred and fifty audience members on us, “but the struggle played right into the script’s focus on the manual labour behind the crucifixion”.

After the choristers had sung Elgar’s Ave Verum, the audience headed to the Fellows’ Garden for the sixth and final play, The Resurrection (directed by me).

Biblically, Jesus’ resurrection was supposed to have taken place in a garden, and fortunately for us the sunny day made the flowerbeds in particular look appropriately seasonal. A drinks reception afterwards, in which costumed cast and audience ate together, brought back our central theme of fellowship one final time in an echo of the Last Supper.

A particular challenge was in how to frame the play: ‘mystery play’ initially left people expecting a medieval Agatha Christie, and we were careful to

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emphasise that our interpretation was faithful in the sense of loyalty to tradition rather than religion. Rachel Gardner’s striking posters, and regular Instagram updates by our publicity team helped to overcome these misconceptions and fill every one of our one hundred and fifty available places. I think I can speak for all three of us Directors in saying that this has been an exhausting, but fantastically rewarding, experience. We were lucky to have the financial support of the Judith E Wilson Fund, enabling us to re-establish a College tradition that we hope will continue to develop next year.

As with all drama, our careful preparations would have been for nothing if our wonderful cast hadn’t shown up on the day and given it their all.

Thanks to the collective efforts of around thirty talented Jesuans, as well as some students from other colleges, we were able to bring A Type of Christ to life.

Niamh summarises the value of collaboration well in a piece of advice to next year’s directors: “Co-ordination is key… there are so many parts which make up the whole. The most important thing to remember? Use your voice”. n

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The repatriation of the Benin Bronze Kate Coghlan, Editor In 2015, several undergraduate students noticed a bronze statue of a cockerel displayed in the College Hall. The Latin plaque on its plinth explained that the statue had been “captured” during the 1897 British Benin Expedition and gifted to Jesus College by George William Neville, the father of a student. Nadine BachelorHunt wrote in The Guardian1 that as an undergraduate, she started the campaign to return it: “As I began to investigate, I learned of its bloody history and, as somebody of Jamaican descent, my interest in returning the okukor to its rightful home was immediately piqued.” Another student, Ore Ogunbiyi, described her reaction in her co-authored book The Black Girl’s Manifesto for Change: Taking Up Space:2 “I remember feeling shocked that this cockerel had been there and I hadn’t noticed it. More shocking, though, was knowing that it was being displayed as if it were a trophy to be proud of, despite the knowledge of its history.”

The 1897 Benin Expedition was a British-led military operation to capture Benin, the capital of an independent kingdom, now part of Southern Nigeria.

Over 5,000 soldiers entered Benin, destroying the city, and looting its treasures. Several thousands of artefacts including bronzes were taken from Benin City and were scattered across museums and collections around the world, including the British Museum.

Led by Amatey Doku, who had recently finished his tenure as JCSU President, a group of students campaigned for the statue be removed and returned to Nigeria. They formed the Benin Bronze Appreciation Committee, and raised a motion at an Ordinary General Meeting (OGM) of the JCSU in February 2016, where they argued that the Benin Bronze should be returned. Some students protested the statue’s removal, but the

JCSU took a vote, and the motion was passed. The College removed the statue from public view but by the time the students graduated, the question of repatriation was still unresolved.

In May 2019, the College set up its Legacy of Slavery Working Party (LSWP) chaired by College Fellow and HSPS Director of Studies, Dr Véronique Mottier.

The group, which comprised ten Fellows and several staff and student representatives, committed to lead a rigorous examination of our College’s possible links with the slave trade and with colonial violence. As part of the latter, the group explored the historical, legal and moral status of the College’s ownership of the Bronze. The LSWP reported its findings to the College Fellowship and the new Master during the first Society meeting of Michaelmas Term 2019. It said there was no doubt that the statue was looted directly from the Court of Benin and had been given to the College in 1905 by the father of a student (Neville). Furthermore, archival evidence showed that the gift was accepted by the College in full knowledge of its origins; the College’s Conclusions Book for 22 May 1905 stated: “Agreed gratefully to accept Mr G W Neville’s gift of the bronze figure of a cock which formed part of the spoil captured at Benin, West Africa and to thank Mr Neville for making this appropriate gift to the College”.

The LSWP recommended that the College should return the statue, a proposal that was discussed by the Fellowship before agreement by Council.

Jesus College was the first institution in the world to announce its intention to return a Benin Bronze, a ground-breaking decision that attracted worldwide media interest; an estimated 1,000 articles were published on the issue between 2019 and 2022. The Spectator3 called it a

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“world first’ but argued that this was “nothing to be proud of” because the decision “didn’t right past wrongs”.

The Times4 wrote that the decision “marks a turning point in the debate” on the future of such artefacts. The Daily Mail5 was critical, calling the decision “woke-washing” and “an apparent bid to right wrongs”. International news outlets including Al Jazeera, BBC, CNN, The New York Times and The Washington Post covered the story, with discussion about its impact on museums around the world. The Lagos Review6 quoted Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, as welcoming the decision but saying it was “only a drop in the ocean”.

The Benin Bronze was returned on 27 October 2021 at a ceremony held at Jesus College. It was presented to Nigeria’s National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM) in front of an audience, including several of the alumni involved in the original campaign. Professor Abba Isa Tijani, the Director-General of the NCMM said: “It’s an honour to be here at Jesus College and to be part of this ceremony to do what’s right. We are very happy to be part of this process. We want to enable Nigerians to see what belongs to them – objects of their history, of cultural and religious importance, that have been away for so long. We would like other museums and institutions across the world to take this opportunity and follow suit.”

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His Royal Majesty, Oba of Benin, Omo N’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Ewuare II said: “We are indeed very pleased and commend Jesus College for taking this lead in making restitution for the plunder that occurred in Benin in 1897. We truly hope that others will expedite the return of our artworks which in many cases are of religious importance to us.”

Dr Mottier said: “This is a moment of mixed emotions. We are all thrilled at seeing this day arrive, when the Bronze is finally returning home, but we are also painfully aware of having deprived its rightful owners for so long of its presence and offer our heartfelt apologies for this historic wrong.”

Sonita Alleyne, Master of Jesus College, said: “This is the right thing to do out of respect for the unique heritage and history of this artefact. Since we took the decision to return the bronze following the College’s Legacy of Slavery Working Party’s extensive research, many organisations have followed in our footsteps.”

In April 2021, German officials announced that they planned to return 1,100 Benin Bronzes from various museums. In July 2022, the world’s largest complex of museums and research institutions, The Smithsonian in the USA, approved the return of 29 bronze sculptures to Nigeria. The full legacy of the College’s decision is yet to be known, but many believe that a precedent has been set with long-lasting, worldwide impact. n

Nadine Bachelor-Hunt, ‘How I helped a Benin bronze get back home’, The Guardian, 29 November 2019. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/29/benin-bronze-sculpture-home-jesus-college-cambridgereturn Oye Ogunbiyi, Ch 6 Blacktivism, The Black Girl’s Manifesto for Change: Taking Up Space (2019) London, Merky Books, Penguin Random House.

Michael Mosbacher, 27 October 2021, ‘Why Jesus College shouldn’t have returned its Benin Bronze’, The Spectator. https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-jesus-college-shouldn-t-have-returned-its-benin-bronze Richard Assheton, 11 March 2022, ‘Oxford and Cambridge lead the way in return of Benin bronzes’. The Times. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/oxford-and-cambridge-lead-the-way-in-return-of-benin-bronzes-td7jxfnxp Glen Owen and Georgia Edkins, published 7 November 2021 and updated 22 November 2021, ‘Cambridge University’s Jesus College which accepted cash from a Beijing tech giant is accused of 'woke-washing' after returning a colonial statue to Nigeria’. The Mail on Sunday and online at: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article10173509/Jesus-College-accepted-cash-Beijing-tech-giant-accused-woke-washing.html 20 September 2022, ‘Looted artifacts to be returned to Nigeria by British University’. The Lagos Review. https://thelagosreview.ng/looted-artifacts-to-be-returned-to-nigeria-by-british-university/

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A Life in the Day of a College Gardener Mike Morris My name is Michael Morris, most know me as Mike, Mick, Mickey or Mikey, or just by my blue Giants cap. I started here as an apprentice gardener in 1980.

I love being outside, and when I was looking for work it was my dad’s suggestion to ask around the colleges.

When I came for my interview, I couldn’t believe how big the gardens were. I was interviewed by Dr McKee, the College Steward, and afterwards by the Head Gardener at the time, Graham Payne.

People were so kind and welcoming that I felt at home straight away. The team was Graham Payne, Neil Shaw, Mark Leavens, Nick Kingston and Ken Miller. Chris Mumford did the offsite properties and Albert Jolly was a groundsman. We got on well working together as a team. The first task I carried out alone was weeding the conifer beds along Pump Court (I guess they thought I couldn’t pull up anything I shouldn’t!).

I went to Milton Farm School every week, but I found it difficult to master the theory side and to mix with other students.

I’m happiest doing practical work, looking after nature and watching it flourish over the seasons. Over the years, I’ve learnt what needs to be done when.

There are things to do all year round.

Major jobs include the transition of the beds, mowing lawns and cutting edges.

The shrubs need pruning, and the hedges need cutting. My favourite time of year is my birthday month of April. The bulbs come up and everything blooms; it’s a fresh start to a new year. I love the daffodils and the cow parsley in the woods. The wisteria in First Court is amazing when it comes into flower.

The events keep us busy in June and July. It was great to have the May Ball back after three years. We work with the

May Ball committee to assist and help create a beautiful landscape for their event. One particular member of the May Ball committee this year was an absolute gem.

After the Ball it’s time to clear up ready for Graduation Day. Visiting parents are always full of praise for our work, which is nice. They say how much they appreciate the grounds and environment and how lucky their children are to study here.

My favourite areas are the Master’s Garden and West Court because they are private and enclosed, and have a nice, safe feel to them. The best part of the job is mowing stripes in the lawn. The roller pushes the nap of the green one way and then the other, which creates the illusion of light and dark green when the light catches it. It’s a skill you learn with experience. I was delighted when someone told me I’d been caught on camera this year mowing circles in First Court, then making a Union Jack in Chapel Court to celebrate the Queen’s Jubilee. I don’t use social media myself,

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but I was pleased by the reaction of thousands of people on Facebook and Twitter ‘liking’ my work.

Autumn is one of the hardest times in the gardens because of the constant fight with leaves. Honestly, the first few thousand are okay but then it gets a bit repetitive. It takes forever to clear them up and is an ongoing task, even though we have leaf blowers and snappers to help pick them up.

Outside work, I listen to music and like films. My biggest passion is American football. My team is the New York Giants and I’ve watched them play twice in the UK in the National Games in 2007 and 2016. It was an incredible experience to see them live. I’ve played a six-aside version here with the students.

I keep my garden at home simple; just a lawn and shrubs round the sides.

I also write about my feelings and let my thoughts out on paper; it’s a useful way to

express myself and try to keep healthy mentally.

I haven’t spoken much in College about my hereditary health condition, but it has affected me a lot. It’s called Neurofibromatosis NF1. It has impacted on my self-confidence and held me back in many ways from a young age.

My brother at home is a great support to me.

Being outside and keeping busy physically and mentally helps, and I try not to dwell on things. The people I’ve worked with over the years have all helped me. Paul Stearn was always supportive to me in and outside work.

Now Lee de Grammont has taken over as Head Gardener and has settled in well.

The current team consisting of Colin, Callum and Danny are all great.

I couldn’t imagine working with better people, and after 42 years, I consider myself incredibly lucky to be here. n

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People Awards, honours, projects, significant lectures Fellows and other senior positions Professor Jeremy Baumberg, Professor of Nanoscience, led a multidisciplinary team to create a new type of detector for mid-infrared light that should improve prospects for biomedical sensing and imaging. The results were reported in the journal Science.

Professor Clare Chambers published a new book Intact: A Defence of the Unmodified Body (Allen Lane). You can hear her interviews about the book on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour and BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking and read about it in iNews.

Dr Frazer Christie, alongside co-author Professor Julian Dowdeswell, led work published in Nature Geoscience showing the sensitivity of Antarctica’s ice shelves to fluctuations in offshore sea ice. He also co-authored a ground-breaking new study revealing, for the first time, seasonal variations in the speed at which the Antarctic Ice Sheet flows towards the ocean. The findings of the study, published in The Cryosphere, imply that current estimates of Antarctic ice mass loss to the ocean may be significantly mis-estimated.

Professor Roberto Cipolla, Professor of Information Engineering, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. The Fellowship of the Royal Society is made up of the most eminent scientists, engineers and technologists either from or working in the UK and the Commonwealth.

Dr Elizabeth Coker, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, lead the world’s largest published study to date exploring effective drug combinations in breast, colon and pancreatic cancer. The resulting paper in Nature has been read over 58,000 times since February and describes multiple promising new treatments for these cancers.

Professor Sarah Colvin, Schröder Professor of German, published her latest book, Shadowland: The Story of Germany told by its prisoners.

Professor Rachel Evans was awarded the 2022 McBain Medal by the Joint Colloids Interest Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Society of Chemical Industry.

This is an annual award given to recognise an early career researcher’s contribution to colloid and interface science.

Dr Julius Grower, Yates Glazebrook Fellow in Law, was appointed to an Associate Professorship at the University of Oxford, along with a Fellowship at St Hugh’s College.

Professor Nicholas Guyatt published a new book about a prisoner-of-war camp in Dartmoor during the British-American war of 1812. Published in April 2022, the title is The Hated Cage: An American Tragedy in Britain's Most Terrifying Prison (New York and London: Basic Books/Oneworld, 2022).

Dr Sebastian Marino was awarded a University Research Fellowship by the Royal Society. This fellowship is given to outstanding scientists in the early stages of their research careers. In addition, he was awarded 150 hours of telescope time by the ALMA observatory, the largest observatory in existence, to study exocometary discs and search for evidence of Neptune-like exoplanets.

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Dr Harry McCarthy, Junior Research Fellow in English, published a new book Boy Actors in Early Modern England: Skill and Stagecraft in the Theatre (Cambridge University Press 2022).

Dr Olga Petri, a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Research Fellow, Bye-Fellow and Director of Studies in Geography published a book in June 2022 entitled, Places of Tenderness and Heat. The Queer Milieu of Fin-de-Siècle St Petersburg.

Mr Richard Pinel, Director of Music, has been made an Associate of the Royal School of Church Music. This is an honorary award, made for ‘achievements in church music and/or liturgy of nationally recognised significance’ and is a result of both his work at Jesus College and also as director of the Edington Festival of Music within the Liturgy.

Dr Saumya Saxena, Postdoctoral Associate in Legal History, published her first book in May 2022, titled Divorce and Democracy: A History of Personal Law in Post-Independence India.

Professor Marie Louise Sørensen, Director of Studies in Archaeology, was elected to the British Academy. She was one of 85 distinguished scholars to be made a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) in 2022. She also recently won The Prehistoric Society’s R.M. Baguley Award (2022) for best paper.

Professor Benjamin Walton, Professor of Music History, was elected a Fellow of the Academia Europaea, a Pan-European Academy of Humanities, Letters, Laws and Sciences.

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New Fellows Dr Ewa Marek obtained her BA and MA degrees from the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow and her PhD (on carbon capture technology) from the GIG Central Mining Institute in Katowice. Dr Marek is an Assistant Professor who has been a University Teaching Officer in Cambridge for over three years.

Prior to taking up her appointment in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, she was a Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) in the Department of Engineering, Cambridge, for four years. Dr Marek’s research interests centre on transforming the chemical industry through the development of methods of production of green, bio-derived chemicals and ‘energy vectors’ that can be operated on a small (distributed) scale intermittently (on demand), in contrast to the established large-scale, continuous operation paradigm of the petrochemical industry. Production processes can be made more efficient and safer through the use of chemical looping approaches.

An example is the development of a process for producing ethylene oxide, a chemical widely used in the healthcare sector, that is now being deployed in South America and Africa, continents which previously had to import all the ethylene oxide they used.

Dr Paul Dominiak has been appointed as Senior Tutor.

He completed a BA (Hons) degree in Early Modern Studies and Philosophy at the University of the South in the United States.

He then came to the University of Cambridge, completing Tripos and then MPhil studies in the Faculty of Divinity while he trained for Anglican ministry at Westcott House. After serving his curacy in the Diocese of York, Paul spent eight years in higher education chaplaincy in Cambridge, first as Chaplain at Trinity College and then as Dean of Chapel at Jesus College. During those years, he completed a PhD from Durham University in Systematic and Philosophical Theology, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. His contribution to university life was recognised in 2019 with an award from the Cambridge University Students’ Union for exemplary partnership with students. For the past three years, Paul has worked as Vice Principal of Westcott House.

Professor Christopher Marquis has an MA in Sociology and a PhD in Sociology and Business Administration from the University of Michigan, an MA in History and an MBA in Finance from the University of Pittsburgh and a BA in History from the University of Notre Dame. He worked in the financial sector between his studies at Pittsburgh and Michigan and held faculty positions at Harvard and then Cornell before joining the Cambridge Judge Business School. Professor Marquis’s research focus is on the interactions between corporations, government bodies and society, and how these interactions can lead to socially and environmentally beneficial outcomes, with a particular focus on these interactions in China. His research is primarily quantitative, based on archival databases and analysis of survey data, although he also commonly uses qualitative methodologies such as interviews with stakeholders. Professor Marquis is already working with the Intellectual Forum (IF) and the Global Issues Dialogue Centre (GIDC). He is Senior Research Associate at the IF and will be contributing to a forthcoming GIDC event on Technology and Investment Solutions to Climate Change.

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Dr Mary Brazelton is an Associate Professor in Global Studies of Science, Technology and Medicine in the HPS Department and has been a University Teaching Officer since 2015. She is an Associate Member of the World History Group in the History Faculty and teaches and helps on selection committees in the Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES). Dr Brazelton’s first degree was in History and Science at Harvard, and she subsequently studied for Masters and PhD degrees in History at Yale. Dr Brazelton’s research interests lie in historical intersections of science, technology and medicine in China and around the world. Her first book, Mass Vaccination: Citizens’ Bodies and State Power in Modern China, published in 2019, examines the history of mass immunization in 21st century China. Her current projects include a study of the Sino-French Institute in Lyon, the first higher education institution to bring Chinese students to Europe, a collaborative exploration of the history of transportation technologies, and the early history of penicillin development in China. She served as a member of a Pandemic History Think Tank organised by the World Health Organisation West Pacific Regional Office, where she observed a marked difference in the interest shown by the media in the questions of how epidemics start and of how epidemics can be controlled.

Professor Simeon Zahl’s first degree was in History and Literature (Germany) at Harvard, and he subsequently studied for a PhD in Theology & Religious Studies at Cambridge. He was a Junior Research Fellow at St John’s College, Oxford, and then Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Nottingham for two years before taking up his present appointment. Professor Zahl’s recent research has focused on the doctrine of the Holy Spirit (culminating in the publication of The Holy Spirit and Christian Experience (OUP) in 2020), the contributions to theology of affect theory and cognitive science, the place of experience and emotion in Christian religious life, and the theological legacy of the Protestant Reformation. He is working on a new book on the theology of sin and its contemporary relevance. From 2018-22 he was Principal Investigator on the project Affect and Knowledge-Production in Theology and Religious Studies, funded by the Templeton World Charity Foundation.

Dr Antiopi Koronaki’s first degree was in Architecture and Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens.

She then did an MSc at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London and a PhD at the University of Bath.

Dr Koronaki is an Assistant Professor in Design Computation and Fabrication in the Department of Architecture at the University of Cambridge. Dr Koronaki’s research interests lie at the intersection of architecture, engineering and materials with a focus on advanced fabrication and computational analysis methods for the design and construction of efficient structures. As a researcher in the Centre for Natural Material Innovation she has explored the potential of engineered timber for off-site manufactured schools in the UK to reduce the environmental impact of the construction industry through the promotion of natural construction materials and modern methods of construction. Since 2014 she has been heavily involved in teaching

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at higher education institution internationally and she has led several international workshops focusing on digital fabrication and design computation.

Dr Brian Sheil’s first degree was in Civil Engineering and his PhD in Geotechnical Engineering at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He moved on to postdoctoral appointments at the University of Oxford, including a highly prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship, for which Professor Lord Mair was his mentor. Dr Sheil’s research focuses on the development of new science and technology to optimise the efficiency, sustainability and safety of civil infrastructure construction. This involves the use of advanced numerical modelling, sensing systems, machine learning and real-time field monitoring to inform construction processes and improve design.

Junior Research Fellows Dr Albert Chen obtained their PhD thesis through the Department of Biology and Biochemistry at the University of Bath.

They graduated with a MSc from the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol in 2017, and prior to that with a BS with Honours from the Department of Geology at the University of Maryland in 2016. Since 2019 they have been a Visiting Researcher at the Department of Earth Sciences here in Cambridge. Dr Chen’s research is concerned with the reconstruction of the evolutionary history of major animal groups using a so-called ‘total evidence’ approach. This uses advanced analytical methods to combine anatomical data from living and fossil animals with genetic data from the living to obtain a much clearer picture of a group’s evolution than could be gleaned from either strand of evidence alone. They applied these techniques to great success in their PhD studies to reconstruct, among other pathways, the evolutionary history of a diverse group of birds called the Strisores, which today includes hummingbirds, swifts and nightjars.

Dr Chen’s work won them the Paleontological Society’s Allison R. “Pete” Palmer Award in 2019, and has made them, in the words of one of their assessors, “one of the go-to peer reviewers in [their] field” – a remarkable achievement for one at so early a stage in their research career. Dr Chen now proposes to continue their exploration of bird evolution, and in particular to assess how this unique and ubiquitous group of animals has responded to the major upheavals that have afflicted Earth over the last 100 million years or so, including the end-Cretaceous mass extinction event. Aside from the contribution this project will make to our understanding of birds, it also promises to give new and timely insight into the impact of climate change on biodiversity.

Dr Samuel Diener completed his PhD thesis ‘The Maritime Travel Book and the Collective Imagination’, carried out under the supervision of Professor Deidre Lynch at Harvard University.

He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2015, with the highest honours major in his year. He was awarded the Charlene Conrad Liebau Library Prize for best undergraduate research project in any university field of study for his final year project on fictionality in the work of Nathaniel Mist. During his

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doctoral study he received many awards and accolades, including the 2018 Derek Bok Center Award for Distinction and Excellence in Teaching, the 2020-21 Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies dissertation research fellowship and the Bowdoin Prize for his article ‘Eighteenth-Century Pipes and the Erasure of the Disposable Object’ published in Eighteenth-Century Fiction. Dr Diener’s research draws on English, Portuguese and Spanish accounts of maritime exploration to examine the ways in which such books act as a material site for imaging national, racial, and gender identity anchored in collectivity. He specialises in early modern and eighteenth-century literature, culture, and history of the book. His research examines practices of reading, writing, and commodity consumption through which people imagined their identity from the early colonial period through Romanticism. His current book project, The Maritime Travel Book and the Collective Imagination, considers maritime exploration narratives from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries, focusing on the ways that readers articulated collective identity both on and with the books they used. Dr Diener's new project, ‘Unacknowledged Things’, will use new materialist thinking and psychoanalytic object-relations theory to investigate quotidian material practices (such as pipe-smoking) and the link between commodities and an early-modern sense of selfhood.

Dr Max Long completed his PhD in History here at Cambridge, having previously completed the BA in History at Oxford (finishing in the top ten in his year) and the MPhil in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Cambridge (for which he was awarded a distinction). Dr Long works at the interface of science, education, entertainment and empire, and frames questions about these subjects in novel and exciting ways. His doctoral dissertation explores the transition from Victorian-era natural history to the emergence of a mass market for ’nature’ programming after World War II. Focusing on early nature films and radio broadcasts from the interwar period, including the natural history output of the early BBC, Dr Long explains how scientists, teachers and broadcasters captured a predominantly urban mass audience for nature programming, and he tells us what this meant both for the direction of science and education and for the popular understanding of the natural world. Work from this first project is already appearing in journals, and one of Dr Long’s articles was named runner-up in the Royal Historical Society’s Alexander Prize in 2021. Dr Long’s next book project, which he will develop during his Research Fellowship, explores the production and circulation of agricultural knowledge throughout the British empire from 1880 to 1960. Rejecting the framing of this period as one of decline for British agriculture, Dr Long emphasises the centrality of agricultural development (and boosting) to the British imperial project, and the British government’s careful role in linking the agricultural prospects and interests of ‘domestic’ and colonial spaces – especially through institutions like the Empire Marketing Board.

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New Teaching Bye-Fellows Dr Catherine O’Brien Dr Chris Town

Outgoing Fellows Dr Jonathan Linebaugh Dr Rebecca Flemming Professor Eyal Benvenisti Dr Julius Grower

Outgoing Research Fellows Dr C Eigen Dr E Robson

Outgoing Teaching Bye-Fellows Dr R Fasel Dr A Vohra

Outgoing College Post Doctoral Associates (CPDAs) Dr H Becker-Lindenthal Dr L Coker Dr C Jeppesen Dr L Marshall Dr M Scroggs Dr E Stoakes Dr M Young

Outgoing French Lector M. T Seguy-Loubradou

Some of our new Fellows and academic staff (from left to right): Dr Ewa Marek, Dr Catherine O’Brien, Dr Brian Sheil, Dr Chris Town, Dr Max Long, Professor Simeon Zahl, Dr Mary Brazelton and Dr Albert Chen

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Art at Jesus 2021-2022 Dr Jessica Berenbeim, Fellow and Curator of Works of Art Exhibitions This year’s exhibition programme in the West Court Gallery has seen a successful continuation and development of the curatorial themes of visible language, archival inspiration, and the intersections of text and image. Following from Art & Language: Now They Are, at the end of the last academic year (Summer 2021), we had two further exhibitions in the gallery this year: Shahzia Sikander: Unbound (Michaelmas Term 2021 to Lent Term 2022) and Casting Letters: Art, Books, Chance (Easter Term to Summer 2022). The exhibition Unbound, a collaboration with FAMES, brought together work by Sikander in a wide range of media – including sculpture, painting, mosaic, and animation – all engaging, in one way or another, with the written word and the continuing presence of the past. Casting Letters exhibited the work of fifteen artists, again in a wide range of media – print, sculpture and installation, film – and again engaging with the nature of writing, visible language, and the enduring (indeed, ever-expanding) afterlife of the great experimental work A Roll of the Dice Never Will Abolish Chance, which celebrated its 125th anniversary in May 2022, when the show opened.

In addition to the West Court Gallery exhibitions, this year’s programme also included Svalbard (Michaelmas Term 2021 to Lent Term 2022), an exhibition of Professor Sir Bruce Ponder’s photography of the artic islands of Svalbard (Spitzbergen).

You can see an example of his work in the Articles section of this Report.

Loans The academic year 2021–2022 saw the departure of several important works that had been on loan to the College. After several years, the Coleridge Maquette came to the end of its loan to College, and Anselm Kiefer’s Lasst Tausend Blumen Blühen left the place it had occupied since 2018 in the Quincentenary Library. The College was

Promiscuous Intimacies 2020. Patinated Bronze. 42 x 24 x 18 inches.

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extremely lucky to have the benefit of these loans and is grateful to the lenders.

We will especially miss Tooth & Claw, a work by Honorary Fellow Alison Wilding RA; this is a sculpture with particular meaning for the College, which returned to the artist’s studio this summer.

We have, however, reached an agreement to renew the loan for Roger Hiorns’s Untitled (pictured below), and we are very happy that we will be able to enjoy its continued presence in College.

Financial The financial position of the College’s arts programme has significantly improved over the last year. Most recently – to everyone’s great delight and immense gratitude – our situation was further improved by a gift from an extremely generous benefactor, who wishes to remain anonymous. As this gift is particularly directed toward Works of Art exhibitions, it could hardly be more welcome, and will make a critical difference to supporting the development of the College’s distinctive exhibitions programme. n

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The Chapel Eleanor Lancelot, Assistant Chaplain This academic year has seen the life of the Chapel return to its usual pattern of in-person services and events, while continuing to engage a wider community via online streaming of Sunday Evensongs. It has been a pleasure to open our doors again to members of the public and to alumni, who form an integral part of our community, to join our rhythm of worship.

The year has seen a diverse group of visiting speakers for our Sunday evening addresses.

Former Archbishop of Canterbury, The Rt Revd and Rt Hon The Lord Williams of Oystermouth began our Michaelmas series entitled ‘Money, Sex, Power’, which drew a congregation of over 200 people. We seek to maintain an ethos of welcome and flourishing, and our mission is always that the Chapel is a space in which students, Fellows and staff can explore life’s big questions, their identity, and their place in the wider world. Our recommended read for the term was The Book of Queer Prophets, and a group met weekly to explore the relationships between sexuality, religion, identity, power, vocation and belonging. In November, the College’s faith societies came together for an interfaith dinner to get to know each other, and build understanding and awareness. Michaelmas also saw the return of our Tuesday Evensong ‘Nanosermons’: short, punchy talks delivered by a range of students on a topic of their choice.

In Lent Term, we were joined by speakers who work in charity and the Third Sector, who explored the work of a number of charities linked to the College and to Cambridge (including Abbey People, Red Hen and Lyn’s House) and reflected critically on the history and future of the charitable sector. It was also a pleasure to meet members of the Salmon Youth Centre for discussion and dinner, and to learn more about this organisation that seeks to inspire young people living in inner city London to reach their potential and contribute positively to the communities in which they live. The Term culminated with two services of Choral Evensong recorded for broadcast on BBC Radio 3 – it was a privilege to share our worship with the programme’s broad following.

The Chapel seeks to be a ‘community within a community’; a space which engages with a broad range of the College and the wider public. Easter Term saw two joint events: with Muslim students for Iftar, the breaking of the daily Ramadan fast, and with Jesus College Jewish Society for Lag B’Omer, coming together for food and fellowship by the light of a bonfire. Earlier in the term, we gathered for a Vigil in Chapel for the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBiT).

Our year of Sunday Evensong addresses culminated with a series entitled ‘Scandalous’, in which speakers of Jewish and Christian faiths explored some of the most unfamiliar and difficult texts from the Scriptures, and offered ways of reading them which engage with real-world contemporary issues. Claire Foster-Gilbert, Visiting Fellow at Jesus and Director of the Westminster Abbey Institute, led an illuminating discussion on how Julian of Norwich, a 14th century mystic, can influence our ecology. Students took a breather

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from revision and embraced beautiful green spaces with Easter’s Chapel outing to Wimpole Hall. It was also a pleasure to welcome back members of the College’s Livings, and to continue building on these connections as we seek to support parishes and their local ministry in East Anglia and beyond. Towards the end of term, the Bishop of Ely, The Rt Revd Stephen Conway, presided at a service of confirmation and baptism in Chapel at which we celebrated this step in faith made by students and choristers, some of our youngest members of the Choir.

Chapel collections have raised money for UNICEF, Catholic Association for Racial Justice (CARJ), Abbey People (Cambridge), The Children’s Society, Red Hen (Cambridge) and Lyn’s House (Cambridge), many of whom we learned more about in Lent’s address series. We are grateful for all donations, which enable us to fulfil our vocation to care for those who are vulnerable and in need.

This year’s pattern of worship and welcome offered by the Chapel would not have been possible without the commitment and camaraderie of the Chapel team.

Our thanks go to our brilliant Chapel Clerks and Secretaries, who are fundamental in maintaining the Chapel’s ethos of care and community. Grateful thanks go also to the Secretary to the Dean, Owen Elsley; former Choir and Chapel Office Coordinator, Alice Kane; to Richard Pinel, Director of Music; to our organ scholars Drew Sellis and Christopher Too; and last but by no means least to the Choir. n

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Chapel Music Richard Pinel, Director of Music

Photo by Andrew Wilkinson

Whilst the spectre of COVID-19 hasn’t quite left us, we were able to begin the year very much in the spirit of ‘business as usual’. The choristers resumed rehearsals in early September and were joined by the adults towards the end of September ready for services in the Chapel to begin.

It has been such a pleasure to sing to an in-person congregation again and, in particular, to welcome back our Chapel regulars from the city now that Chapel is once again open to all. The numbers are back to pre-pandemic levels and, if anything, are even larger than before. We have also continued to live-stream our Sunday Evensong and have maintained our regular viewers from around the world.

We welcomed some twelve new adults to the choir at the beginning of the academic year – a mixture of new undergraduates and graduates and one or two more experienced singers. I think that this might be the third year in a row that I have been able to comment that this was the strongest intake to date; long may this trend continue!

In addition to our regular round of Michaelmas Term services, it was important to the Choir to be able to lead the memorial service for Professor Waring, to whom the Choir and Chapel meant so much. The Choir of Clare College joined us for a joint evensong and some bonhomie and, before COVID-19 reared its head and caused the cancellation of our Christmas Carol Services and Christmas Concert, we managed to give the world premiere of O Lord support us by Isaac Adnii (runner up in our composition competition). Following this slight bump in the road, the College Choir were suitably recovered to accompany Britten Sinfonia for their annual tour of Handel’s Messiah.

This included singing to a packed Barbican Centre in London, alongside concerts in Norwich and Saffron Hall. The final engagement of the term saw us return to Epworth Court, to sing Christmas Carols to the residents there. In contrast to our previous visit, we were even able to enjoy some mulled wine and mince pies with them after we had sung!

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Lent Term kicked off with a bang, in the form of a week of services sung jointly with students from the University of Delaware and their director Duane Cottrell. This was a musical and social treat for us all, and I hope signifies the beginning of a lasting collaboration with Duane and his students. Later in the term we gave the world premiere of I will hearken by Philip Moore and our boy choristers were hosted by the girls’ choir of St Catherine’s College for a joint service, joyfully resuming this long-standing partnership.

The choirs stayed in residence for just over a week following the end of Lent Term.

We performed Fauré’s Requiem in concert and were then joined by the outside broadcast team from BBC Radio 3 for two services of evensong – one broadcast live and one recorded for broadcast in July. Sadly, the projected concert tour of The Netherlands had to be cancelled due to the pandemic situation on the other side of the channel, however the College Choir were able to spend a weekend in Devon singing at Ottery St Mary’s and a joint evensong with Exeter Cathedral Choir.

Returning refreshed from the Easter Vacation, we enjoyed an exciting term of music-making in the Chapel. The Choristers premiered Oculi Omnium by celebrity composer Nico Muhly (written for them during the pandemic) and the College Choir gave the first performance of The Living Fire, written by two choral scholars: Ella Curry (text) and Mary Offer (music). We were pleased to sing joint services with the boy choristers of Coventry Cathedral and the choirs from Godolphin and Latymer School and Langley Primary Academy. The choristers also spent an enjoyable Sunday in Ely Cathedral, singing evensong together with the Cathedral Choir followed by a game of rounders.

After exams and May Week were over, we gave a concert performance of and subsequently video recorded Vaughn Williams’ Five Mystical Songs with CantiaQuorum! (strings) and Andrew Thompson (baritone soloist). The Chapel Choir rounded off the year with a weekend singing in Paris, as guests of St George’s Anglican Church and Église St-Eustache (with some welcome down-time spent at Disneyland Paris!).

This marked the final bits of music making for me with the choirs before I move on to pastures new – a bittersweet few weeks.

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Aside from the Choir’s core activities, we were pleased to be able to restart The Cambridge Chapels Youth Choir which meets each half term and gives former boy choristers from Jesus College and former girl choristers from St Catherine’s and Pembroke Colleges and Great St Mary’s Church the opportunity to meet and sing services in the Chapels of Jesus and St Catherine’s Colleges. I also spent Easter Term making weekly visits to Park Street Primary School to do some singing with the children there.

Future plans will be largely in the hands of my successor; however, I leave having arranged an outreach project jointly with our choristers, the children of Sancton Wood Preparatory School and The Galfrid School. This will be delivered jointly by our choristers and former Hadfield-Rawlinson Graduate Choral Scholar, Hannah Grigg.

This year Jesus College Music Society (JCMS) has bounced back from COVID-19 stronger than ever. Under the leadership of Megan Robinson and Mary Offer it was a real joy to see the larger-scale orchestral concerts return to Jesus Chapel. They leave the Society in fine fettle and George Monro-Davies takes over the mantle of JCMS President in the autumn.

After ten years of very loyal and devoted service as Choir Administrator, Alice Kane has moved on from Jesus College. She is much missed, and our heartfelt thanks go out to her. We also say farewell to Christopher Too, our Senior Organ Scholar. Alongside them, I would like to thank James Crockford, Owen Elsley and Eleanor Lancelot for all their support. In addition to her sterling work as Assistant Chaplain, Eleanor has also taken over from Alice Kane and has been invaluable in the Choir Office.

Finally, I must thank everybody at Jesus College for their friendship and support these last five and a half years. I’ll spend next term on sabbatical and then will be moving on.

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The Library and Archives Michael Edwards, Fellow Librarian and Keeper of the Old Library; Rhona Watson, Quincentenary Librarian; and Robin Payne, College Archivist The Old Library Post-pandemic, the Old Library has reopened fully and is now welcoming a higher number of research scholars than ever, ranging from PhD students to senior scholars, many from beyond the UK. Amongst other topics, researchers have used the Old Library’s collections to work on early modern book bindings, the publications of the Dutch philosopher and jurist Hugo Grotius (1583-1645), and book ownership by women in the 17th and 18th centuries. An increasing number of researchers are interested in the recently identified books from the library of the philosopher Anne Conway (1631-1679). As Keeper, I am working on a research project to identify more of Conway’s surviving library. I hope to connect the Conway books in the Old Library to fragments of her collection elsewhere in the world.

Supporting research of this kind depends on accurate and detailed catalogues of our holdings. Put simply, researchers cannot use what they, or we, cannot easily find.

The current card catalogue is helpful, but no longer ideal. The project to catalogue the Old Library’s holdings of printed books online, carried out by Assistant Keeper Chris Barker, is continuing. It is revealing new and important information about our printed collection and its provenance that will be of immense value to current and future scholars. Chris’s cataloguing work is opening the library to new scholarly perspectives, and we hope that it will encourage greater use of the Old Library’s collections in the future.

Librarians and researchers are interested in books not only as texts, but as material objects that bear the traces of reading and ownership. Marginalia, annotations, and other evidence of who owned and who read our books are increasingly attracting readers to the Old Library. For this reason, in a digital world where scans of many 16th and 17th century books are readily available online, rare books and manuscript collections like ours continue to have a crucial role. Despite a proliferation of online resources, every copy of an early modern book is distinctive, and the unique evidence it holds will remain important.

The cataloguing project, and the Old Library’s recent focus on exploring the provenance of our books, continues to reveal interesting stories about the paths they took before they reached the Old Library. Two examples show the value and interest this kind of collection exploration can have.

The first is of a prolific early18th century donor to the Old Library, Lionel Gatford.

Gatford was a London cleric, Rector of St Dionis Backchurch from 1680-1715, and Treasurer of St Paul’s from 1714. He left his large theological and philosophical library of more than 1600 volumes to the College on his death. Gatford’s books are still identifiable by the distinctive printed paper labels pasted into them. In one sense, Gatford’s books are a monument to his generosity to the College, but they also tell other stories. Earlier in his career, in the 1690s, Gatford served as a chaplain of the Anglican Church in Hamburg (set up in part to cater to English merchants). Some of his books were acquired during his time in Germany, often through gifts or second hand.

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Gatford’s surviving letters show that he corresponded with German scholars.

One book in particular, a copy of the 1697 Amsterdam edition of Joannes Clericus, Ars Critica, an erudite work of biblical scholarship, bears a formal but friendly inscription from the medic John Brown. Gatford’s time in Hamburg and the friendships and intellectual connections he made there long predate his gift to the College, but evidence of them survives in the Old Library.

The second example concerns Lynford Caryl, Master of Jesus from 1758 to 1781, who took a keen interest in the College Library. Caryl was an efficient administrator rather than a scholar, who worked to order and inventory the Lynford Caryl, Master of Jesus 1758-1781 College and University archives. His neat handwriting is still evident throughout the College Archives. Caryl’s main impact on the Old Library was to remove large numbers of books from it, either on grounds of space or taste and relevance. We still have his list of ‘Books removed out of the Library, 1772’. Perhaps regrettably for later Keepers of the Old Library, the books Caryl removed were some of the oldest (and now rarest) in the collection. As well as duplicates, his list includes 15th century books from the earliest decades of printing. Caryl’s motives were probably good; space was tight in the Old Library, particularly after Gatford’s monster donation, and the books on his list were, to his mind and that of the Fellows, no longer relevant. Modern sensibilities are somewhat different, and we no longer discard early printed books from the Old Library… It has been less well recognised that Caryl also donated some of his own books, chiefly collections of sermons and theological treatises.

All bear his neat inscription, often with his name crossed out. His impact on the current collection is, happily, not just negative.

Caryl and Gatford are just two former owners whose stories will be revealed as the printed collections are catalogued in more detail. The recent discovery of Anne Conway’s books shows that the owners we will identify will not all be men, or people with a direct connection to the College. Through its books, the Old Library is a quiet meeting place for books, and past lives, from across Inscription in Lionel Gatford’s copy of time and space.

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The Quincentenary Library The Quincentenary Library has continued to support students’ learning and research in College, as well as providing advice and light reading. The library team – Rhona Watson, Chris Barker, Alex Perkins and Adam Williams – have worked hard to bring books and other learning resources to the College community. In-person visits to the Quincentenary Library are back to pre-pandemic levels, although electronic books are becoming a key part of student reading lists.

Alex Perkins retired this summer after more than 30 years’ service in the Quincentenary Library, and an association with Jesus that dates back to his student days.

His commitment to the Quincentenary Library will be hard to replace. Georgiana Datcu, who joined the College in August, will take over Alex’s role in classifying new books and focus on providing study skills support to undergraduate and postgraduate students.

We welcome her to the College and look forward to a new chapter in the Quincentenary Library’s history.

College Archives In May we said goodbye to the Archivist, Robert Athol, who left to take up the position of Archivist for Chivas Brothers. Robert made a massive contribution to developing the Archive in his time here and we are very grateful for all his hard work and wish him well in his future career. The new Archivist started in August and will be a familiar face to some. Dr Rob Payne joins us from Cambridge University Hospitals (Addenbrooke’s) where he has been the Archivist for three years and before that he was the Assistant Archivist and Estates Cataloguer here at Jesus. Katy Green, the Assistant Archivist, continues to work part-time and we thank her for covering in the short absence between Archivists.

Volunteers have continued to catalogue the 18th-20th century receipts relating to goods and services provided to the College. This gives valuable information about the history of the College and is also proving to be a rich resource for local studies. A special thanks go to Roisin Donohoe and Grace Whorrall-Campbell who are the longest serving volunteers. With the changeover in staff, the number of volunteers working in the Archive has reduced but the project will be relaunched again in Michaelmas Term. One new volunteer has been taken on this year, Katarina Corovic, who is a professionally qualified paper conservator. She has been cataloguing architectural plans of the College site, particularly North Court. We are very grateful for all her work this year.

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Over Summer 2022, Rose Asquith and Sophie Beckingham, two student interns, have focused on the Works of Art section of the College Collections database. They have enhanced catalogue entries by drawing on information found in the Archives, and adding images of many of the College’s works of art. This will greatly assist the Curator of Works of Art in her role and will give us a more complete history of our collection.

Katy Green, the Assistant Archivist, continues to catalogue the College estate papers.

Her focus this year has been on the streets around the College – Park Street, New Square and Jesus Lane. The history of Jesus Lane has been particularly interesting as the College Archive holds records dating back to the 15th century.

We have continued to receive donations, including photographs of the football team from the 1950s, programmes from musical performances and an athletics medal for the long jump from 1922. Archives turn up in all sorts of places; in October 2021, we were alerted to a photograph album with Jesus College embossed on the cover on sale in the Oxfam shop in Bridge Street. After some investigation we were able to identify the owner of the album as Ronald Godfrey Morrell, a Classics student during the Second World War, and resident of C1 First Court. For more information on this album please see the Archive of the Month: October 2021: ‘Whose Album is it anyway’ on the Archive page of the College website: https://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/articles/archive-month-whosealbum-it-anyway The Archive has completed the digitalisation of a number of old recordings (reel to reel, cassette and vinyl) in collaboration with Essex Record Office. These recordings include performances by the Musical Society from the 1950s and 1960s which have not been listened to for a long time. The Archive also holds files, scores, costume designs and some photographs for these productions, and the addition of these new sound files has really brought the whole performance to life. You can hear one such recording here: https://collegecollections.jesus.cam.ac.uk/index.php/recording-2 Gifts to the Archive are always hugely appreciated, and any further donations of College-related items from alumni are always greatly received. The catalogue descriptions for the collections and documents above mentioned can be viewed on the new online archives catalogue at: https://collegecollections.jesus.cam.ac.uk/index.php n

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Books and articles by Members and Old Members of the College donated to the Libraries 2021-2022 The donations acknowledged here are those received before the end of June 2022.

Any items received after that date will be listed in next year’s Report.

ADKINS, C.J. (Fw 1957-99; EFw 1999-2020) Expedition to Salmon Glacier May-August 1957. A diary by John Adkins (Privately published, 2021) BATTEY, R.D. (1960) The Church of St Martin of Tours, Exminster, Devon: The Tower, Clock and Bells (Exeter, Diocese of Exter, 2021) BEASLEY-MURRAY, P. (1963) i) Make the Most of Retirement (Abingdon, The Bible Reading Fellowship, 2020); ii) Retirement Matters for Ministers: A Report on a Research Project into how Baptist Ministers Experience Retirement (Chelmsford, College of Baptist Ministers, 2018); iii) Entering New Territory: Why are Retired Baptist Ministers Moving to Anglian Churches? What are the Underlying Theological Issues (Chelmsford, College of Baptist Ministers, 2018); iv) There is Hope: Preaching at Funerals (London, Inter-Varsity Press, 2021) BROOKE, T. (1957) Letters From the New Africa 1961-1966: Sixty Years On (Tim Brooke, 2021) CASSIMATIS, A.E. (1989) Public International Law (Victoria: Australia, Oxford University Press, 2021) CELLAN-JONES, R. (1977) Always On: Hope and Fear in the Social Smartphone Era (London, Bloomsbury Continuum, 2021) COATES, J. (1962) Kipling the Trickster: Knowingness, Practical Jokes and the Use of Superior Knowledge in Kipling’s Short Stories (Oxford, Peter Lang Ltd, 2021) CULLEY, C. (1984) The Essentials of Financial Modelling (London, Camilla Culley, 2020) DATE, C.J. (1959) Database Dreaming: Relational Writings Revised and Revived, Vols I & II (Sedona, Technics Publications, 2022) DE LACEY, G. J. (1957) de Lacey & de Viveiros: A Family History (Bath, Brown Dog Books and The Self-Publishing Partnership, 2022) DURRELL, M. (1961) Hammer’s German Grammar and Usage (7th ed) (London, Routledge, 2021) FLEMMING, R. (Fw 2006-) i) Medicine and Markets in the Graeco-Roman World and Beyond: Essays on Ancient Medicine in Honour of Vivian Nutton edited by Laurence M.V. Totelin and Rebecca Flemming (Swansea, The Classical Press of Wales, 2020); ii) Reproduction: Antiquity to the Present Day edited by Nick Hopwood, Rebecca Flemming, Lauren Kassell (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2020).

GILLETT, J.E. (1958) Jumble: a Collection of Thoughts and Treasures (Taunton, Mirandor Publishing, 2020)

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HAMLEY, D.C. (1956) The Second Person from Porlock (Oxford, Fairlight Books, 2021) HEARD, T. (1960) The First Master: John Allen Giles and The City Of London School (London, Terry Heard, 2021) HOATH, R. (1981) i) A Naturalist’s Guide to the Birds of Egypt and the Middle East (Oxford, John Beaufoy Publications Ltd, 2021; ii) The Birds of Egypt and the Middle East (Cairo, The American University in Cairo Press, 2021) HUPPERT, J. (Fw 2016) Prime Minister Priti: and Other Things That Never Happened edited by Duncan Brack and Iain Dale (London, Biteback Publishing Ltd, 2021) JARDINE, L. (Fw 1976; Hon Fw 2006) The Reputation of Sir Constantijn Huygens: Networker or Virtuoso? (Wassenaar, NIAS, 2008) KAUDERS, D. (1964) The Financial System Limit: Britain’s Real Debt Burden (Southampton, Sparkling Books, 2021) KEMP, R.H. (2021) As Far as I Remember (Ronald Kemp, 2021) MAGUIRE, M. (2003) White Magic: Russian Émigré Tales of Mystery and Terror translated by Muireann Maguire (Montpelier, Russian Life Books, 2021) MCCALLUM, A. (1974) i) A Guide to the Winter’s Tale (Berwick, Upstart Crow Publications, 2019); ii) A Guide to Measure for Measure (Polegate, Upstart Crow Publications, 2019) PARR, D. (1955) The GHP Archive (David Parr, 2017) RAY, N. (Fw 1979-) i) Philosophy of Architecture/C. Illies and N. Ray, [Chinese translation by Lina Tao] (Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2018); ii) “Prática reflexive e uma questão de confiança” in Considerações Sobre a Obra de Rafael Moneo/ Edição a cargo de Francisco González de Canales (Madrid, Fundación Arquia, 2019) ROBERTS, C. K. (1974), British Extraterritoriality in Korea, 1884-1910: a Comparison with Japan. (Folkstone, Renaissance Books, 2021) ROWLAND, C. (Fw 1979-1991) “By an Immediate Revelation”: Studies in Apocalypticism, Its Origins and Effects (Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck, 2022) SHERIDAN, M. (1977) The Gate to China: A New History of the People’s Republic & Hong Kong (London, William Collins, 2021) STARK, F. (Fw 2012-) Simester and Sullivan’s Criminal Law: Theory and Doctrine, 7th ed./A.P. Simester et al (Oxford, Hart Publishing 2019) STERNE, L. (1733) A Sentimental Journey illustrated by Martin Rowson (Coxwold, Shandy Hall Press, 2018) STILLMARK, A. (1958) The Incorruptible Servant by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, translated by Alexander Stillmark (Cambridge, Modern Humanities Research Association, 2021) STUART, I. (1979) Practical Intrapartum Obstetrics: A Companion for Trainees (Cambridge, I.P. Stuart Amazon Fulfilment, 2022) THEAKSTONE, W.H. (1955) Norway’s Largest Glacier: 150 Years of Change (Svartisen Research Project, 2022) WEST (née Wilson), J. (1989) The Faithful (London, Mantle, 2017)

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WHITEHOUSE, A. (1987) Pull Back Your Power: The Ground-Breaking Code to Unlocking Profound Confidence and Soaring Success for Aspirational Women (Gorleston, Rethink Press, 2019) WILKINSON, M. (Fw 2020) Biodiversity Monitoring at the King’s College Wildflower Meadow by Cicely Marshall, Duncan Mackay, Stewart Rosell, Rhona Watson, Matt Wilkinson and Sky Wallis, in Nature in Cambridgeshire No. 64, 2022, pages 64-70 (Cambridge, Cambridge Natural History Society, 2022) WINNICOTT, D.W. (1914) i) Conversations Ordinaires translated by Brigitte Bost (Paris, Gallimard, 1988); ii) The Child and the Family: First Relationships (London, Tavistock Publications, 1957); iii) Sulla natura umana Italian edition edited by Renata De Benedetti Gaddini (Milan, Cortina, 1989); iv) Clinical Notes on Disorders of Childhood (London, Heinemann, 1931); v) Det ar hemifran man startar: en psykoanalytikers essaer/oversattning och forord av Kia Sjostrom (Ludvika, Dualis, 1991); vi) Der Anfang ist unsere Heimat: Essays zur gesellschaftlichen Entwicklung des Individuums/aus dem Englischen ubers. von Irmela Kostlin (Stuttgart, Klett-Cotta, 1990); vii) Holdings and Interpretation: Fragment of an Analysis (London, Hogarth Press, 1986); viii) Therapeutic Consultations in Child Psychiatry (London, Hogarth Press, 1971); ix) Thinking about Children (Reading, Addison-Wesley, 1996); x) Leg og Virkelighed/padansk ved Søen Aagaard (København, Hans Reitzels Forl., 1990); xi) Los Bebes y sus Madres traducción de Laura Turner (México, Paidós, 1990); xii) Manniskans natur oversattning av Ebba Hammelberg; granskning och forord till den svenska upplagan av Barbro Sandin (Ludvika, Dualis, 1991); xiii) Lettere/ a cura di F. Robert Rodman; trad. di Renata De Benedetti Gaddini. (Milano, R. Cortina, 1988); xiv) La Nature Humaine trad. de l’anglais par Bruno Weil (Paris, Gallimard, 1990); xv) 抱えることと解釈: 精神分析治療の記錄 (Tokyo, Iwasaki Gakujutsu Shuppansha, 1989); xvi) Jeu et réalité: l’espace potentiel; traduit de l’anglais par Claude Monod et J.-B. Pontalis (Paris, Gallimard, 1975); xvii) Babys und ihre Mutter/aus dem Englischen ubers. von Ulrike Stopfel (Stuttgart, Klett-Cotta, 1990); xviii) Winnicott: introduction à son oeuvre/Madeleine Davis, David Wallbridge; traduit de l’anglais par Robert Pelsser (Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 1992); xix) Natureza humana / tradução de Jayme Salomão (Rio de Janeiro, Imago Editora, 1990). [all Given by Professor Davis, Peterhouse College] YEANDLE, D.N. (1974) It’s All Academic: Memoirs of a Mostly Academic Life (Beavering Books, 2021) Other gifts, given by the following: LAZARUS, R. The Rule of Five: Making Climate History at the Supreme Court (Cambridge Mass., Balknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020) n

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The Intellectual Forum Dr Julian Huppert, Director The last year has seen a very welcome return to in-person Intellectual Forum events.

Alongside welcoming people back into West Court in person, we have continued to livestream many of our events, using the state-of-the-art camera equipment in the Frankopan Hall.

The equipment has enabled our online audiences to interact with speakers by asking questions via Zoom, and also means that we have been able to record most of our public events. The recordings can be found on the College’s YouTube channel – https://tinyurl.com/JesusCollegeYouTube We have researched where our online audiences are watching from and can see that we have reached every continent but Antarctica.

There have been many exceptional talks and events over the year. Highlights include the very well-attended In Conversation with Mary Beard; Nick Pickles, Twitter’s global head of public policy who joined us just after the big announcement from Elon Musk; and Lisa Jardine Lecturer Professor Bill Sherman. We organised a set of events for ‘Space Month’ followed by a one-day workshop on Communities in Space, featuring the College’s own astronaut, Dr Jenni Sidey-Gibbons (PhD Engineering, 2015).

Continuing with the space theme, we partnered with the Our Place in Space team to screen a film by the artist and children’s author Oliver Jeffers, followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker. The screening was part of a series of events centred around an epic-scale model of the solar system, starting with the Sun on Midsummer Common, stretching all the way to Pluto in Waterbeach.

In October we co-hosted a celebration of the Yidan Prize going to CAMFED, which included speakers such as Julia Gillard, former Australian Prime Minister and current Chair of the Wellcome Trust, and Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands.

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We also hosted a complex international conference for the Research for Health in Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa (R4HC-MENA) project looking at the lessons learned in the development of research and policy capacity strengthening in conflict affected areas in the MENA region. This involved live-streams in English and Arabic, speakers and attendees from across the world, both in-person and online, providing a fantastic showcase of the College’s hybrid event capabilities.

Last year we partnered with online course provider edX to provide courses across the world. Our first course focusses on the ‘Active Bystander’ approach to responding to sexual harassment. It covers the history of the #MeToo movement and explores the evidence from several disciplines about what individuals can do when they see poor behaviour taking place – and what works to tackle the problem whilst staying safe.

The second, Managing conflict and polarisation in the workplace and beyond, explores the causes of polarisation and the part that we all play (often subconsciously) in exacerbating it. The course equips learners with tools to heal and handle these divisions in the workplace, at home and beyond. These courses are accessible by anyone in the world with an internet connection and are free to take.

We have started work on two more offerings on edX to be published next year; a course on digital productivity and wellbeing, and a professional certificate in sustainable finance and systemic risk. The professional certificate, developed with Dr Ellen Quigley, is aimed at asset owners. By introducing the concept of Universal Ownership and equipping finance professionals with tools and tactics to mitigate systemic risks through responsible investment practices, we hope that it will have a significant impact. You can access our edX courses at https://www.edx.org/school/jesuscollege Over the summer we were joined by two student interns, Kefeshe Bernard and Lewis Westwood-Flood. Kefeshe’s research investigated the cultural and ethnic biases and inequality of universal school lunch provision in UK primary schools, whilst Lewis’s project focused on fundraising and ‘transparent’ disbursement platforms and the legal and operational risks they could present to the parties involved.

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Science and Human Dimension Project Jonathan Cornwell, Executive Director In 2021-22, the project has focused on public understanding of climate change in the Mediterranean. A constituency of climate scientists, backed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), sees the virtually enclosed Mediterranean, and its bordering countries, as a microcosm of the planet in peril. The consequences of climate change are destined to hit the Mediterranean in advance of other populated regions.

Comprising populations of 500 million in its neighbouring countries and 300 million visitors every year, the Mediterranean is an environment of outstanding beauty, ecological richness, and cultural scope. Historically, there are long and deep chronicles of environmental impacts, showing how communities and societies have reacted – with resilience and at times with despair and conflict. The world has much to learn from the Mediterranean as the climate crises unfold.

We convened a workshop on 26 May 2022, to discuss the shape of a future two-to-three-day conference. John Cornwell emphasised the Science and Human Dimension Project (SHDP founded 1990 at Jesus College) as a public programme to enhance scientific understanding, and the importance of involving journalists in proceedings to achieve outreach. He also discussed the crucial importance of accessibility of material and presentations.

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Tel Aviv, Israel, where new builds are at an all-time high

The aim of the SHDP contribution to climate change studies was to introduce perspectives from the humanities – History, Anthropology, Literature, Philosophy, Religion; and the Social Sciences. More workshops were planned ahead of a conference in 2023.

The workshop was hosted and chaired by Professor Alan Short, President of Clare Hall, Professor of Architecture, and author of Recovery of Natural Environments in Architecture. Tom Spencer, Professor of Coastal Dynamics, and Director of Cambridge Coastal Research Unit opened with a discussion of ‘Risks’, a product of hazards, vulnerability and exposure. Hazards can be progressive, chronic (sea level rise) or episodic and acute (flash floods, storm surges). Landscapes can respond to both climatically driven processes and non-climatic changes, and all these changes need to be accommodated in a space for nature. Micro-tidal systems are particularly vulnerable to sea level rise, and the Mediterranean is a collision zone between the northward moving African plate (2cm per year) and the Eurasian plate, characterised by sediment starved, rocky coast. The rivers and deltas – the Ebro, the Rhône, the Po and the Nile – have reduced sediment supply so we have a relict delta, with coastal retreat at times reaching 50m per year and increasing saltwater intrusion with implications for groundwater security. The risks include: • Impacts of heatwaves – on human health and morbidity, on ecosystems – risk of forest fires • Losses in agricultural production (from heat and drought) • Water scarcity • Impact of floods on people, economies and infrastructure Professor Alan Short spoke on the importance, especially in the Mediterranean region, of designing buildings for natural air conditioning. He described how he and colleagues

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used wind catchers and stone in the design of early zero-carbon buildings. He cited a brewery in Malta in which they managed to drop the temperature 14°C below the peak temperature outside. In China, they used wind tower-inspired methods to make air circulate in modern 25-storey buildings. He said, “We’ve tried to build back into the towers the advantages of these traditional houses in the Middle East,” adding that the COVID-19 pandemic underlined the need for natural ventilation in buildings to help flush viruses out of buildings.

Dr Emma Boland, a Physical Oceanographer at the Cambridge Centre for Climate Science, warned that the Mediterranean region is heating 20 per cent more than the average across the planet, and the waters are become increasingly salty. Dr Alison Ming, a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Research Fellow in the atmosphere-ocean dynamics group at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, focused on modelling of the stratosphere and how the expanding and moving dry zone, the Sahara, could be moving north.

Dr Fernanda Gallo, from the Department of History and the ‘Mediterranean History Cluster’, spoke of the current interest in climate history and the influence of Fernand Braudel. There are deep and wide records on reactions to climate and environment change, and it is tempting to see trends from the past applied to the present and the future. She recommended reading the work of Pierre Charbonnier including Affluence and Freedom: An Environmental History of Political Ideas. Charbonnier aims to show that political ideas, whether or not they endorse ecological ideals, are informed by a certain conception of our relationship to the Earth and to our environment. Political categories of modernity are founded on the idea that we could improve on nature, that we could exert a decisive victory over its excesses and claim unlimited access to earthly resources. Hence modern thinkers imagine a political society of free individuals, equal and prosperous, alongside the development of industry geared towards progress and liberated from the Earth’s shackles.

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Dr John Sellars of the Philosophy Department, Royal Holloway, University of London, discussed the ‘Mediterranean’ thought of the Stoics. Referencing the ideas and work of Posidonius and Marcus Aurelius, he discussed the ancient idea of nature as an organic unity – a change in one part will affect the other (similar to Lovelock’s Gaia). Posidonius, moreover, believed it crucial to understand the physical origins of earthquakes, volcanoes and adverse weather, in order to face them with resilience.

Dr Rebecca Watson of the Cambridge Theological Federation talked of the relationship between the Bible and expectation of major environmental events. She said that ‘chaos’, the language of cosmic instability, was a framework through which to debate the necessity, extent and causation of threat and disorder in the world.

It recognises that at times our experience may be one of good order, but at other times we might feel under threat. This imagery offers a spectrum of models for understanding the relation of religion, spirituality and humanity, to the presence or absence of order in the world. Although certain passages are vulnerable to being utilised to justify the abrogation of human responsibility, this is not a fair reading. She mentioned the role of world faiths in caring for nature and climate change, citing Pope Francis’s Laudato Si’ as a major contribution in caring for the environment.

Dr Tugba Basaran, Deputy Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement at the University of Cambridge (with special interest in migration in the Mediterranean), proposed a focus on governance of the Mediterranean Sea – as counterposed to the Mediterranean region as a formation of states that share a coastline. This is a shift of emphasis from separate political powers on land to the common resource of the sea, constituted through nature, politics and law. At the centre of many engagements on governance is state authority and jurisdiction as the starting point, triggering queries on the state’s boundaries and borders, meticulously drawn lines that separate and define exclusive territories. This leads to questions of power, mechanisms for cooperation and/or the role of international institutions within a system of states.

Professor Brendan Simms, Director of theCentre for Geopolitics and Professor of the History of European International Relations, expressed his interest in the topic from the point of view of Geopolitics, especially at the eastern end of the Mediterranean.

He reminded us that conflict gives impetus to significant environmental damage, hence contributing to lasting climate change. The Centre for Geopolitics, which had been focussing on the Baltic, is planning to take the Mediterranean into its scope, and we are now considering how they could contribute to the project.

Matters raised in discussion included the need for involvement of Marine Biology, Anthropology, Literature and the travel industry. A two-day conference was proposed for 2023, potentially as a joint venture with Clare Hall, and in close collaboration with Mediterranean Institute for Marine and Terrestrial Biodiversity and Ecology at Aix-en-Provence (IMBE) under the direction of Professor of Global Ecology, Wolfgang Cramer.

In separate consultations and meetings relating to the workshop, we discussed the Late Bronze Age Collapse with Professor Lord Renfrew; the work of Amitav Ghosh and A Politics of Climate Change with Professor Duncan Kelly; how our project might relate to other climate change initiatives in Cambridge with Dr Mike Rands, Master of Darwin College and former Executive Director of the Cambridge Conservation Initiative; plastics pollution with Professor Tony Riley, University of Sheffield.

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Bursary Richard Anthony, Bursar

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It was with some trepidation that we started the past academic year. Back in October 2021 uncertainty around COVID-19 was still raging and we were not sure how the Term or the year was going to pan out. Luckily, there were no further lockdowns or major outbreaks, which meant that we were gradually able to ease the restrictions and get back to ‘normal’. By Easter Term, there was a distinctly familiar feeling to life, with the first half focused on revision and exams, followed by the exuberance of the Bumps and the May Ball. Of course, for those undergraduates in their final year of a three-year degree, this was their first normal year-end of exams and parties The restrictions and lockdowns that we experienced during COVID-19 were incredibly challenging for the College. I want to thank all the Fellows and staff for their incredibly hard work at getting the College back on track, something that was clearly appreciated by many of our students. We are conscious of the toll the pandemic has taken on young people in particular, and we have been continually investing in support of them. As part of this we welcomed the College’s first Mental Health Nurse, working alongside the rest of our fantastic Tutorial Team, led by Professor Geoff Parks, our Senior Tutor. Geoff is stepping down after 10 years. He is the most dedicated individual at the College, who works tirelessly for the benefit of the students, and has been a fantastic source of advice and support to me.

The financial effect of the pandemic on the College was very significant, much more so than for the University. Fortunately, during the current year students were back in residence which meant that accommodation and catering income recovered. Hardest hit was the College’s conferencing business, which almost disappeared during the pandemic. I am delighted to report that Jesus was probably the most proactive College in restoring this key source of revenue and, whilst we are not there yet, I am hoping it will recover and even exceed pre-pandemic levels.

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I was pleased to work with the JCSU President on a restructuring of catering and accommodation charges which resulted in the abolition of the Kitchen Fixed Charge (KFC). Many alumni will remember that there is a fixed catering charge to undergraduates. With an increasing range of diets and choice of catering, KFC has become increasingly outdated. From 2022-23, new students will not be charged KFC and we have managed to maintain affordable food prices in the ‘Caff’.

In October 2021, Jesus became the first institution in the world to return a Benin Bronze. Being the first meant that we had to establish what was an appropriate legal process in handing back such an important object. This involved seeking the formal permission of the Charity Commission and entering into a legal agreement with the Nigerian National Commission for Museums and Monuments and the Royal Court of Benin. The ground-breaking nature of this decision became apparent when I received a phone call from the Department of Culture, Media and Sport on the day of the handover asking me how we had done it.

The other major legal event was the petition to relocate the Rustat memorial, resulting in a three-day court hearing in the College Chapel in February 2022. This involved a significant amount of work in relation to the legal aspects, the operational challenges of organising the hearing (which took place in the Chapel), and in dealing with the media.

All at a time when there were still concerns over COVID-19. I want to thank my colleagues and members of staff for the incredible efforts they made to ensure the process ran smoothly, and, whilst we were disappointed with the result, our running of it reflected well on the College and drew plaudits from all those who attended, including the Judge.

A key part of my responsibilities involves managing the endowment to ensure that it provides a constant source of financial income to the College, without which we could not support our students and academics in the way that we do. This became even more important during the pandemic, where the stability of the endowment income helped us to steer the College through the financial challenges. After some fairly extreme volatility in the financial markets at the start of the pandemic, our financial investments performed well with a return of 20.1% for the year ended 30 June 2021. Although some of our investment properties were affected in terms of rental receipts, the College saw substantial rises in the values of its residential and commercial properties. As a result, the return on property was 11.1%, which with the financial investment provided an overall return on the endowment of 15.4%, well above the CPI+5% (7.6%) target that we set.

As part of managing the investment property, we sold an industrial property in Leeds and some land in Cambridge at well above historic valuations. We received planning permission and are now in the process of constructing eight 1-2 bed residential units in Elm Street (just to the south of New Square). The College is also working with a developer to develop a redundant farm site in Harston, and we are investing significantly in one of our major properties on the corner of Hills Road and Station Road. All of these include significant sustainability features, which are now a standard part of our approach to managing our property.

As regards sustainability, we continue to implement the College’s Responsible Investment Policy, which is regarded by many in Cambridge as a leader amongst the Colleges. This includes becoming fossil-fuel free in the largest part of the financial portfolio by the end of 2022, and we are working towards establishing a carbon emissions baseline against which we can measure future progress. The College is active in engaging, singularly and jointly with other Colleges and endowments, with its fund managers and banks regarding their own actions on sustainability. Most exciting has

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been the work done in conjunction with the Intellectual Forum on Universal Ownership, bringing together some of the world’s largest pension funds and the academic expertise available in Cambridge to address key areas of systemic risk that will affect long-term investors. This demonstrates the convening power of Cambridge and Jesus College, and our ability to have an impact that is much greater and well beyond our own operations and investments.

I must return to a regular theme of my annual reports, which is the range of risks and challenges facing the College in terms of maintaining its ability to fund its ongoing operations in the future. There remains a constant and large deficit on the College’s educational account, with figures shown above from the last set of published accounts in 2020-21. This was made worse that year by a dramatic drop in revenue for accommodation, catering and conferencing, which in previous years was moving close to covering its costs, a direct consequence of the pandemic.

The previous decade saw significant rises in the financial and property markets from which the College has benefitted and has helped us fund the deficits. During 2022 we have seen financial investments fall in value. This has come at a time when inflation has risen rapidly impacting on staff, energy and food costs in particular, whilst many of our sources of revenue are either static (undergraduate tuition fees) or increasing at a lower rate (for example student accommodation). Now more than ever, donations and endowment income are the key to maintaining the College’s services today and in the future.

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Some of the staff members who received long-service awards this year

One of the more pleasurable duties of my position is to write to members of staff, who have been given long-service awards: Ten years Mandy Collis – Housekeeping Ian Gilchrist – Porters’ Lodge Sue Jermakow – Housekeeping June Sadler – Housekeeping Joana Vilemaite – Housekeeping Nikki Williams – Development and Alumni Relations Fifteen years Xiao Yan Liu – Housekeeping Nicola Simpson – Catering Renata Szarfranska – Housekeeping Malcolm ‘Toby’ Wingfield – Maintenance Twenty years John Baker – IT Damian Kramer – IT n

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Domestic Bursar’s Office Stuart Websdale, Domestic Bursar

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The scope of my role covers Housekeeping, Gardens, the Boathouse, Maintenance, Housing, the Porters and the Catering, Conference and Events departments. I’m supported by a team of strong managers, who have worked together to achieve several major projects this year while adjusting to the new normal after the pandemic.

Our Housekeeping team is led by Sonia Horton, whose biggest challenge has been recruiting staff to allow greater flexibility, including weekends. A recruitment event in the spring targeted new Ukrainian residents, and we are delighted to welcome two of the attendees to the team. Sonia has recently been promoted into the role, replacing Claire Andrews, who started here as a cleaner 20 years ago. Many thanks to Claire for her long service.

The restricted access to rooms during the pandemic increased our focus on efficiency, and we encouraged students to become more self-sufficient including engaging with the new recycling facilities to separate waste contributing to our ongoing sustainability drive.

Our gardens continued to reflect the move towards sustainability on the site.

Our wildflower meadow was remarkably successful this year and we drew up plans for a second meadow in Library Court. As we replace gardening equipment, we try to select battery-powered over petrol machines. In April, the whole College community gathered to say a fond farewell to Paul Stearn, who retired from his role as Head Gardener after 33 years of service to the College. We are incredibly grateful for the care he has taken to develop the gardens and the team during this time. In recent years he made vital contributions to our sustainability work, including creating the woodland walk in 2006, the wildlife meadow, the pond (pictured below) and the compost bays.

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We welcomed his replacement, Lee de Grammont, who came to us from a role as Grounds Manager for the Cambridge University Sports Service, and prior to that worked at Trinity Hall. Lee will bring with him a strong understanding of both traditional College gardens and sports turf management. He is looking forward to further developing the grounds and gardens and the team’s skills. We offer congratulations to Callum Norrie, who passed his apprenticeship exams with excellent results.

Rowing Coach and Boathouse Manager Jonathan Conder successfully completed his studies, graduating with a Master of Science (MSc) in Sports Coaching from the University of Gloucestershire. Work on the Boathouse included upgrading the alarms and adding four CCTV cameras to provide full footage and improve security.

We installed a hardwired fibre internet connection to make the building fully IT compliant, which allowed us to upgrade the fire alarm system to communicate more reliably with the Porters’ Lodge.

Everybody who visits the site regularly will be aware of the building work on the kitchen project and the dining halls. I offer my sincere thanks to members of the College for their patience during this period of disruption, including Fellows, students and staff impacted by the noise and by the loss of the cricket ground while we install ground source heat pumps to contribute to our sustainability targets. We look forward to opening our amazing new facilities in the autumn; you can read more about them in the spring edition of Jesuan News.

The maintenance of our properties on and off site is a continuous process, overseen

by Richard Secker. Our off-site, College-occupied buildings include Lower Park Street, Malcolm Street, Jesus Lane and New Square. All are designed in line with our ambitious sustainability policy, including double glazed windows, LED lighting and high-grade electrical appliances, subject to local planning authority approval.

On site, we have continued to replace light fittings across the buildings and most are now exclusively LED. We have also been fitting secondary glazing and draft exclusion doors across the site, subject to local planning authority. Staff training and development successes this year included Mehmet Osman, who started at the College six years ago and recently passed his electrician qualifications. Jason Badcock, who joined the team under an apprenticeship, has now gained his full qualifications in general maintenance.

We continue to invest in the Chapel annually and this year our focus has been on the roof. We replaced rotten timber and some of the lead roofing. Improvements were made to the access points to make them safer, and the lightning protection was strengthened.

This has been a major project and we look forward to taking the scaffolding down before the start of the next academic year.

The Housing team welcomed an organisation called AccessAble to audit accessibility across the whole site. They analysed every detail from the width of doorways to the height of light switches and door handles to ensure that our site is as compliant as possible with recommendations. The information has been mapped out and made available online to help people plan their visits. The audit will be updated in autumn 2022 once the kitchen and dining rooms are completed, and then ongoing annually.

We also invested in measuring and analysing household energy ratings; a huge project carried out in response to new regulations for rental properties. These findings will help us plan further improvements for sustainability.

We are also adapting our transport options to encourage carbon friendly journeys, including plans to increase the number of spaces for secure, undercover bike parking.

One of my responsibilities as a member of the University Transport Working Party is to learn from other Colleges and share best practice.

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Left to right, Jo Dell'Orto, Manager of the Roost café bar and Jesus resident Justine Lancelin at a waste recycling point in Chapel Court

we have only recently made full use of it as a greeting place and a sanctuary for our students. Head Porter, Simon Durrant, was delighted to welcome students with a hot chocolate event to promote the support offered by his team. He was delighted to see the return of the Bumps event, where he rowed alongside our crews and cheered them on.

The Porters were crucial in supporting our big events again, including Degree Day and the May Ball with 3,000 guests, our first since 2019. They also helped to manage several film crews, including one returning for another series of Professor T broadcast on ITV. Our Porters carried out a thorough fire safety compliancy programme including inspecting the 2,347 doors on the site and checking and replacing fire sensors.

New maps showing the exit points of each building are in production. Site security remains a priority; we are vigilant about maintaining and installing CCTV cameras and we staff the Lodge continuously 24/7, 52 weeks a year.

Our Manciple, Alexis Moreau, saw an encouraging return of demand for the conference and catering facilities. Accommodation bookings were the first to recover, while the conferencing and events business adapted numerous times to changing COVID-19 requirements. I am proud that we kept catering services running throughout the pandemic, which encouraged staff retention. Despite this, many casual staff moved back overseas and have been replaced by enthusiastic local sixth form students, who require higher levels of training and development to maintain excellent standards of service we are striving for.

Alexis and his team led the way in sustainability by encouraging changes in everyone’s behaviour including meat-free days, recycling and sustainable purchasing.

We thank Jo Dell’Orto, Manager of the Roost Café, for her commitment in this area.

Our work was recognised by the University, who awarded the College two Green Impact Awards (including the Platinum Award). This is testament to the work of all our staff and the wider College community. We are delighted that our Decarbonisation Plan received a significant boost with the award of funding from Salix Finance, which paid for a site-wide consultation to eliminate fossil fuels and modify buildings. This information will guide our plans in the years ahead. n

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Development and Alumni Relations Office Emily Williams, Director of Development and Alumni Relations This academic year we were happy to move ever closer to resuming our usual Development and Alumni Relations routine after two years of disruption.

Before the start of Michaelmas term in September we ran a very successful Telephone Campaign, during which the efforts of our seven student callers resulted in a remarkable pledged total of £125,505, with an extraordinary 45 per cent participation rate. We were then delighted to welcome almost 100 alumni and friends for the JCCS Annual Dinner, and later in November, over 120 alumni for their 50, 60 and 70 Years On lunches.

In early December, the by-then familiar government instruction to work from home was reissued and we once again became a remote team, with our events and fundraising programmes interrupted until late February.

Following this interlude, we were able to get back on track thanks to the efforts of the team and the enthusiasm of our alumni, and since then have had success with our usual schedule of events – albeit with reduced capacity in some cases. It was particularly wonderful to host the 1496 Society Lunch in May, the Society of St Radegund Dinner at the end of June, and the Donors’ Garden Party in July having missed these events since 2019. If you came to College for a visit or event this year – thank you. We always enjoy welcoming you back.

Earlier this year the College was host to a Consistory Church Court hearing regarding its application to relocate a memorial to Tobias Rustat from Chapel to a more suitable educational space elsewhere within College. Despite losing the case, especially amidst an abundance of one-sided press coverage painting the College in a poor light, the College remains committed to championing diversity and inclusion in all aspects of its activity.

The College is thankful to our alumni community, supportive or otherwise, for their interest in this matter.

Jesus hosted its first ever Giving Day at the end of March, seeking to encourage our alumni to support their College. This new initiative was a resounding success,

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raising funds for undergraduate bursaries, students from underrepresented backgrounds pursuing Master’s degrees, and mental health support – amongst other causes to improve the student experience. We were delighted when 370 members of the Jesus College community joined together to pledge a total of over £150,000, including 103 donors who had never given previously. We are incredibly grateful for this outpouring of support for our deserving students.

Last September we were fortunate to recruit an additional Development Assistant, Gracie Breen – who had just graduated with a degree in Geography from Durham University. Not long after, we said goodbye to Alice Holohan who left for an exciting position as Director of Development at Exeter School. Maisy Smyth (2013) returned to her College in December 2021 to take up the vacant Development Officer – Legacies and Stewardship post, and at the end of May we were joined temporarily by Ciara Omo to cover a period of parental leave. The production of the Annual Report now takes place within the Development and Alumni Relations Office, ably managed by the new Editor of Publications, Kate Coghlan.

My fourth year in the role of Director of Development and Alumni Relations continues to be rewarding and it is a pleasure to steward the lifelong relationships our members have with their College. I am grateful to the College for its support of our endeavours, and to the team of Nikki, Ryan, Yulia, Teddy, Gracie, Maisy and Ciara for their dedication this year.

Recognition of Major Benefactors We were delighted to induct three new Members – Mr Leigh Collins (1967), Mr Max Hadfield (1961) and Mr Jan Laubjerg (1992) – into the Society of St Radegund at a ceremony this June. We were also honoured to induct Mr Ron Davies (1953) into his St Radegund Fellowship in recognition of his outstanding generosity.

Bequests The College wishes to record its great gratitude for the following bequests received during the year 2021-22: Mr Albert Parsons (1947); Mr Roger Straker (1955); Dr Cyril Bernstein (1942); Dr Gweneth Gresham; Professor Sir Roger Scruton (1962); Dr Peter Happé; Mr Nicholas Horner (1956); Mr John Rees (1948); Mr John Greenacre (1954). n

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Admissions Dr Christopher Burlinson, President and Admissions Tutor Jesus College’s Admissions Office plays a fundamental part in our educational mission, and the admissions process is a painstaking and meticulous one. Every year we get applications from around 1,000 students from the UK and beyond (977 in 2021-22, 904 in the previous year), and interview the great majority of them in December.

It’s our job to select the students with the greatest potential to flourish at Cambridge, regardless of their educational, financial, ethnic or religious background. More broadly, we’re committed to playing our part in the University’s Outreach and Widening Participation work, raising the aspirations of students from across the UK to study at Cambridge (and other universities like it), and making sure that students from all backgrounds are equipped and prepared to make competitive applications if they decide they want to study here. We have always looked for academic potential in our applicants and will continue to do so; but we also want to ensure that our field of applicants is as broad and diverse as it possibly can be, and to recognise that excellent students from different backgrounds might show their potential in very different ways.

At Jesus, this work is overseen by three Admissions Tutors, currently me, Professor Claire Fenton-Glynn, and Dr Matthew Harper; Professors Geoff Parks and Shailaja Fennell have stood in at different points during the 2021-22 year. They form a team with our Admissions Co-ordinator, Rachel Chiodo, and Schools Liaison Officer (SLO), Molly Wilson-Smith (who took over from Katie Mountford in the summer of 2022).

Our SLO oversees our links with schools and colleges across the country and manages the day-to-day running of outreach events. The final part of our team is equally important: dozens of Undergraduate Ambassadors, all of them current or recently graduated students from the College, who are often the first point of contact for students and prospective applicants visiting the College, and often best placed to persuade these students that they should consider applying to Cambridge or to Jesus College, and that they would thrive here.

This work pays off. Our most recent cohorts of students have been increasingly diverse, with around 75-80 per cent of our UK-educated students coming from state schools, a growing number from parts of the country with greater economic disadvantage or lower rates of participation in higher education, and more than ever before from ethnic and religious minority (ERM) backgrounds. And these are more than just figures: the diversity of our student body is something that the entire community of Jesus College benefits from, and something that we celebrate. We’re proud of the work that we have done in recent years to increase this diversity, and we are committed to continuing it – reaching schools and potential students from all backgrounds and all areas of the country.

Currently, the University’s Area Links Scheme assigns each College to particular areas of the country; Jesus College collaborates particularly with schools and colleges from Tyne and Wear and from the London boroughs of Ealing, Brent, and Westminster, and with some schools from Peterborough. We don’t work exclusively with these schools and colleges, but the scheme means that we’re often their first point of contact in Cambridge, and often the first taste of Cambridge life and university study for their students. A lot of our Outreach and Widening Participation events focus on these schools, and throughout the year we’re visited by groups (from Year 9 and Year 10 upwards, sometimes much younger than that) from these areas. In January, a group of Jesus students travel to Tyne and Wear for a tour of schools in that region, meeting several hundred teachers

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and students over the course of a busy week. Over Easter, as part of the University’s HE+ scheme, groups of students from the north-east visit Jesus for a residential event with academic taster sessions. Then, in July, we host further residentials for Year 10 students from London and the north-east (when we can talk about GCSEs, A-Level choices, and study skills, and more generally raise aspirations about studying at a university like Cambridge) and Year 12 students from those areas (helping to demystify and explain the application process). And finally, in September, we receive groups of Year 13 students from our link areas who are on the point of applying to Cambridge or other universities, and make sure that they are properly prepared for that process.

This is a busy programme, but the pandemic has made us realise how important it is – and how important that we continue to develop it. COVID-19 brought changes to our admissions process: all our interviews, for example, now take place online. But it also changed how we could engage with potential students; for much of the two years after March 2020, we could only meet these students online. This did bring some small advantages: some online events, for instance, can make it easier for students from different parts of the country to meet us and hear from us. But we missed the personal contact with potential students and the opportunity to show them around the College; and we realised, too, that we needed to work doubly hard to support and encourage potential applicants who had been isolated during the pandemic. Our challenge now is to make sure that we take forward the lessons that we’ve learned over the last two years.

We are working on subject-focussed events and masterclasses for Year 12 students, which we began online in the summer of 2020. And we want to develop more events in the coming year for students from ERM backgrounds, to complement and contribute to the work of organisations like Target Oxbridge. We continue to rely on the support of our academic and non-academic staff (including the Fellows and College Post-doctoral Associates who come to these events to talk about their research), and to all our undergraduate and postgraduate students who contribute to them. Our aim remains to inspire prospective students about the thrill of academic study, and about the prospect of coming to Cambridge and studying at Jesus College. n

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Societies Student Union The Jesus College Student Union (JCSU) has been working incredibly hard since their election. My Committee and I were elected in November 2021 and hit the ground running with several immediate improvements and points of action around College.

The 2022 JCSU were born into an unusual environment. In the beginning we worked hard to reinstall a sense of College spirit, attempting to rebuild a true social experience at Jesus as we transitioned out of COVID-19 restrictions. To this end, Friday Night Jesus (FNJ) returned in full force with weekly events arranged between the JCSU and the MCR. These included a creatively attended ‘Anything but Clothes’ bop, a Pink Week quiz to arrange money for breast-cancer charities, an ‘Où est le poulet?’ event with King’s and Robinson Colleges, and a farewell ‘Friday Night John’ for the retiring Deputy Head Porter, John Morris. The ENTS Officers also organised a highly competitive darts tournament followed by a 5-aside football tournament later that term.

The Freshers’ Officers organised an amazing ‘Refresher’s Week’ that saw students engaging in many activities from paintballing to pizza and movie nights. Themed Formals also returned, dotted throughout the Lent calendar, including a superbly organised May Ball Launch Formal. Rohit Kale and his May Ball colleagues put together an outstanding event after two years’ painful absence. The JCSU also organised a more low-key event to bring a conclusive and celebratory end to the Term.

The JCSU has been working hard to install a central hub for social life at Jesus by working to transform the Brewery Room (the room below the Roost) into a student bar with a more casual, student-aimed atmosphere.

Student welfare has served as a top priority for the 2022 JCSU. The Welfare Officers ran a welfare week in Lent Term, which included a chocolate pidge drop, stress ball handouts, blue formals and cake decorating. In Easter Term the Welfare Officers planned a ‘Wel-fair’, which included fun races, activities, and a BBQ. They have also implemented and organised daily welfare drop-ins since the beginning of Lent in the new JCSU office, as well as welfare teas in the main JCR. The JCSU also worked hard to implement important changes around College.

The Ethnic and Religious Minorities Officer has been instrumental in the plans for the introduction of a prayer room at Jesus soon. Initially sparked by the LGBTQ+ officer, a proposal was taken to College Council by the President to alter the Flag protocol to fly the transgender flag and increase the number of occasions that the Progress Pride Flag is flown. The President has worked with the Women’s Officer to have the ‘blue door’ onto Park Street improving access to the College by providing a faster and safer entrance.

The JCSU was also successful in petitioning the College for a £150 reimbursement per student for the Cambridge University Language Programme, as well as for funding towards an anti-spiking provision. Other key wins include guaranteed vacation accommodation, a Green Week organised by our Green Officer, the introduction of Kosher food, cheaper gowns, and much more.

It has been a pleasure working with the 2022 JCSU thus far and I look forward to all that is left to come. Each member of the JCSU has worked incredibly hard this year to ensure the changes students want to see around College and I am immensely proud of each committee member and their achievements this year Jezz Brown *

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Middle Combination Room (MCR) This year, the MCR Committee has worked hard to offer students the best of Jesus Postgraduate life after a tumultuous few years of study. We are pleased to report progress on a number of areas, thanks to the dedicated work of Committee members and much support from College.

The academic year began with a successful Freshers’ Fortnight, with the College welcoming around 150 new students to the postgraduate community for two weeks of events including formals, wine tasting, Grantchester trips, pottery making and film nights.

The social calendar remained busy throughout the academic year, culminating in our MCR Garden Party and Summer ‘Superhall’. With many postgraduates remaining in Cambridge over the summer, we hope to continue events through the long vacation.

We are excited to have postgraduates working behind the bar at Jesus, and with opening hours now extended.

The MCR’s newly named Ethnic and Religious Minorities Officer, Reem Abbas was an active member of the College’s Legacy of Slavery Working Party this year, supporting many a historical event – the restitution of the Benin Bronze, and in February, trial proceedings for the proposed relocation of the Rustat memorial from the College Chapel. More recently, Reem has been informing the design and establishment of a multi-faith prayer space, in line with nationwide efforts to raise awareness of and tackle Islamophobia within higher education institutions.

In March 2022, we were pleased to see the in-person return of the Postgraduate Conference, organised by Amelia Ford, the MCR Academic Officer. The Conference saw presentations from over 20 postgraduate students from diverse disciplines, and a keynote address from Dr Rebecca Flemming on ‘Pandemics, genomes and medicine in the ancient Mediterranean world’. After the success of last year’s summer postgraduate seminar series, we also brought back our informal postgraduate research talks during Easter Term, this year themed around food. These were held every Thursday evening of Easter Term in the Webb Library, with speakers from a diversity of disciplines including plant sciences, public health and history. Over summer, Amelia worked with the Master to coordinate a media and communications workshop for our postgraduates, which several prolific journalists supported, and launched a video essay competition for postgraduates to showcase their newfound skills. We were also pleased to be able to support several postgraduate students run their own conferences through our (revived) MCR Conference Fund.

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The MCR have recently purchased a punt for postgraduate use after local punt providers withdrew their much-loved punting passes for our students. A competition to name the new punt yielded some interesting suggestions(!) but we come away with ‘The Rooster’ as a strong favourite, with a nod to the Jesus crest and within character limit (alas, the first-place winner of ‘The Punt of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint John the Evangelist and the glorious Virgin Saint Radegund, near Cambridge’ proved too long to paint onto on a punt).

The MCR consists of a thriving community of students interested in sustainability and ethical responsibility. With the College Sustainability Strategy and Responsible Investment Policy published in Lent Term 2020, the MCR Green Officer, Georgia Nixon has been working hard with College on the soon-to-be released Transport Strategy, which we look forward to seeing.

Whilst sad to see familiar faces move on, we are looking forward to a new academic year – and welcoming a new cohort of postgraduates to the College in September.

As ever, we are grateful for the ongoing support provided by College staff and members, and the cooperation of the JCSU, that makes our postgraduate community the vibrant and friendly place it is.

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Christian Union The Jesus College Christian Union (JCCU) is a group of students that meet regularly with the aim of making Jesus known in the College that bears his name. We are a part of the University-wide Cambridge Intercollegiate Christian Union (CICCU).

Before the year commenced, CICCU’s ‘Freshers-Getaway’ was a great opportunity to welcome some of the new freshers by spending a few days together at The Poplars in Ledbury.

Michaelmas Term began with ‘Church Search Breakfasts’ on Sunday mornings which allowed older students to support freshers in finding and settling into a new Church.

We met once per week for a Bible study where we explored Luke’s Gospel together, as well as a morning prayer meeting on Fridays. Around the middle of term, CICCU’s ‘Thought Festival’ gave students from Jesus and across the University the opportunity to explore the hope Christians have in Christ, and whether the claims of Christianity are rational through a series of talks as well as an acoustic night. Following on from this, we ran a ‘Text-a-Toastie’ event in college giving students in College the chance to ask any questions they had about the Christian faith. The term ended with the CICCU carol services at Great St Mary’s church which gave us the chance to reflect on the Christmas story and why God brought his Son, Jesus, into the world for us.

During Lent Term, we continued to meet each week to pray for our College, the wider University, and the nation. We also gathered in Caff each week for a time of food and fellowship. As well as a successful ‘Call-a-cookie’ event the annual CICCU events week was held this term – this year entitled ‘Pursuit. What are we searching for?’. Students at Jesus and throughout the University were welcomed to explore the meaning of life, the claims of Jesus and the salvation God offers through him.

The beginning of Easter Term saw a change of hands, with us taking on the role of representatives. We began with a social on Jesus Green accompanied by Trinity Hall Christian Union, and then continued to meet each week as a College group for a time of Bible study and prayer. To conclude the year, we held another social, this time joined

by Clare Christian Union. We were also privileged to be joined by Mike Hood,

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church evangelist at Eden Baptist Church Cambridge, who gave a talk on ‘How to enjoy failure just as much as success’. This was a timely post-exam reminder that our worth is found in Jesus Christ, and a reminder that we receive forgiveness by trusting in him.

We’d like to give our thanks to the many Jesuans who continue to support our mission, both financially and through prayer.

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Eliot’s Face Hello there, dear reader! You meet Eliot and his famous face after a long year that has passed quickly, and much has moved along. This has certainly been a year for our little magazine, with a new set of Editors: Millie Slack (2020), Joe Smith (2020), and Grace Copeland (2018) on board attempting to make their little mark on such a wonderfully creative establishment.

We opened the year with Spectacle. We were hoping for submissions from our community which were jocularly ocular and comically cosmic, and we were reliably met with the most outrageously gorgeous submissions we could imagine.

These included, but were certainly not limited to, many photographs, poems, and paintings as well as an entire symphony which was accessible from the magazine via scannable QR code.

For first-time Editors, we were astonished at the quantity of creative juice that lubricates the minds of those friends and strangers that surround us in Cambridge day to day.

In Lent Term, our precious literary package teamed up with the John Hughes Arts Festival headed by Rose Asquith (2019) and Sophie Beckingham (2019) for a limited-edition version of our magazine, being the first time Eliot’s Face (EF) has released a Termly edition in a long while. The edition celebrated the amazing talent showcased in the exhibition room itself, bridging the gap between the conceptual and the physical which so often plagues our creative endeavours. It is always so fulfilling to touch art.

For this dream, we brought on board the wonderful Isabella Cederstrøm Palliotto (2021) as graphic designer – her talent knows no bounds. The Festival was a hit and thanks to the efforts of many, we managed to give away all the copies of EF 1.5 within one evening – something we never expected to happen.

As always, Easter Term is busy. As such, our final edition of the year, Dustsceawung, has had its release postponed until Michaelmas next year – a shame for us all, and I’m sure especially to you, dear reader (particularly because I know how brilliant it looks).

However, be not afeared, for whilst it may be late, it will be BIG, for having received the biggest number of submissions that we have received all year, we plan to throw a party in celebration of all things EF in Michaelmas next year, so keep an eye on our social media for updates on the launch and for all the info on our new yet-to-be-announced Michaelmas 2022 edition.

Be all this fun as it may, we still have to say goodbye to those who move beyond Eliot.

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copy of this slice of art will be yours whenever you want it. We have so enjoyed proudly serving under the ever-loving Face of Eliot and look forward to a wonderful-er (and, more importantly, wiser) year ahead.

Joe Smith, Millie Slack, Grace Copeland and Isabella Cederstrøm Palliotto

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Feminist Society The Jesus College Feminist Society had another great year. We were particularly excited to meet in person once again, after eighteen months of mostly socialising over Zoom.

This meant the return of our well-loved snacks and treats that are intrinsic to cultivating the welcoming and open space present in FemSoc. When meeting in person, the shared solidarity and support was deeply felt by everyone; it was good to be back.

We kicked off Michaelmas Term with our usual varied discussion topics led by members of the committee, beginning Isabella Despositos (2020) on how COVID-19 affected prevailing gender inequalities in society. Other topics included the climate crisis

by JCSU Green Officer Ellie Doran (2019), the harmful ‘girl boss mindset’ by Daphne Pleming (2020), the effect of the media on body image by Niamh Bradshaw (2020), feminist African literature by Tonye Igali (2020) and a discussion of the ‘femme fatale’ image. To truly celebrate the return to in-person events, we had a FemSoc mixer with the Feminist Societies of Caius College and Christ’s College, allowing like-minded individuals to meet in a joyful environment.

Lent Term followed with more discussions, including a joint session with the College LGBTQ+ Society on Compulsory Heterosexuality, led by Alex Vardill (2019). We also discussed the issues of sex work, maternity leave, and policing complex. We had an exciting creative crafting session from Alia Dulcibella (2020) and shared cookies and treats provided by Ellie Doran (2019), a reminder that the FemSoc space is one of welfare as well as activism.

In Lent, we held an exciting International Women’s Day Formal Hall, which was one of many activities, talks and events celebrating the annual ‘Week of the Woman’, organised by the JCSU Women’s and Non-Binary Officer.

Easter Term brought the usual pause in our activities for finalists to complete their exams, but with committee applications opening for next year, I am so excited to see how the community grows and thrives under the leadership of the elected JCSU Women’s and Non-Binary Officer, Isabella Despositos (2020).

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Film @ Jesus This year Film @ Jesus brought together an exciting crowd of talented and enthusiastic filmmakers who are collaborating on longer and more ambitious film projects, balancing developing skills in producing, acting, directing, camera work, sound recording and post-production with their academic studies.

We ran two University-wide short film competitions, with a huge variety of submissions that were ambitious and technically skilled. Like last year’s entries, they were entertaining and at times, moving.

The Summer Film Challenge held over the long vacation was won by PhD student Daniella DeVinter, with her entry Perfectly Undone, which she wrote, directed, and performed in herself (available to view on the Society Facebook page:

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www.facebook.com/filmatjesus). Jo McGrath, one of the guest judges of the competition and CCO of Eagle Eye Drama, spotted her talent for screenwriting and is now working with Daniella on a script for a major UK television production company.

One of our biggest events this year was the ‘Finding Your Voice’ programme at the 40th Cambridge Film Festival (CFF) which is the third longest-running film festival in the UK. This was produced by Anja Diel (Society Co-ordinator) and the Intellectual Forum.

During the event, the Master introduced a screening of a selection of 20 films that were entered across all of the film competitions. Anja interviewed some of the winners, including Nathan Brooks, Mojola Akinyemi, Daniella DeVinter and Aurelia Eulenberg, who each gave excellent advice on making films as a student in Cambridge. The event showcased the many different approaches to filmmaking.

Screenwriter, James McCarthy, hosted an industry panel with film directors Stefan Stuckert and Elizabeth Vogler, in a bid to help new filmmakers work towards making their first feature. The day ended with a screening of Just the Two of Us, a Japanese drama that premiered as part of the CFF, which was introduced by Hitomi Shinozaki.

Across the Lent and Easter Terms, the 4th Film Competition (‘Winter Film’) was held, and was won by Adedamola Laoye with his three-minute short Stay With Me, which he also wrote, directed, and performed in himself. The guest judges of the competition were Jina Jay (Casting Director for Dune, Black Mirror, Spider Man: Far From Home among many others) and Shaheen Baig (Casting Director for Peaky Blinders, Black Mirror, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie).

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Graduate Conference The MCR hosted its annual Graduate Conference on Saturday 12 March 2022.

The event was hosted in person for the first time since 2019, and both PhD and Masters students gave oral presentations and made posters on a wide array of topics.

The entirety of the MCR and all Fellows were invited to attend the event.

The day started with registration (including tea and coffee which was subsequently available throughout the day). There were two oral presentation sessions which took place in the Frankopan Hall (one in the morning and one in the afternoon) with 16 speakers giving talks ranging from Dutch comparative religion to understanding the electronic behaviour of crystalline lattices. Each talk lasted eight minutes and was followed by a Q&A which led to a lot of robust discussion!

There was a poster session which took place in the Webb Library over an hour and a half between the sessions, during which attendees were provided with a free lunch and invited to peruse the 10 research posters and ask the students questions. These posters were equally diverse: examples of topics included looking at amphiphilic surfactants as model additives for engine friction, and research on queer exploration and education in Tiktok.

A keynote speech was delivered by Dr Rebecca Flemming – Jesus Fellow and University Senior Lecturer in Classics, and author of several books on ancient medicine – on ‘Pandemics, genomes and medicine in the ancient Mediterranean world’.

All the presentations (oral and poster) were judged by a panel composed of the Graduate Tutors (Professor Tim Wilkinson, Dr Jonathan Linebaugh and Dr Michael Edwards) and prizes were awarded to first, second, and third place for both poster and oral presentations.

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For the oral presentations, Jonny Ball came first with a talk on ‘The Diversification of Jewish Identity in the Poetry of Max Czollek’, Lauren Maggs came second for her talk on ‘Drugging autotaxin in cancer – does it matter where it comes from? The role of tumour cell-driven and tumour microenvironment-driven autotaxin signalling in cancer’, and Sebastian Tyrrall came third with his talk on ‘Thucydides’ inclusion of natural phenomena in his history of the Peloponnesian War suggests an interest in hidden causal connections between human history and the natural world’.

For the poster presentations, first prize was awarded to Tobias Freidling for his poster on ‘Sensitivity Analysis with the R^2-Calculus’, second prize was awarded to Reem Abbas for her poster on ‘Basil Bunting’s Late Persianisms’, and third prize went to Emily Lau for her poster on ‘Dissecting and Synthesizing Dramatic Speech’.

The day ended with a drinks reception and a formal dinner, the menu of which was themed around Dr Flemming's talk. A huge thanks to the Graduate Tutors for not only acting as the judging panel but also for paying for free formal tickets for all the presenters and for the drinks reception and wine, and for reimbursing the cost of poster printing. Special thanks to Professor Tim Wilkinson for his invaluable advice. I could not have run the event without the Manciple, Alexis Moreau for all his work throughout the day. Thank you to Thomas Heywood for printing the programmes and Rhona Watson for binding them. Thanks to former Academic Officers, Hannah Copley and Laura Taylor, for their invaluable suggestions throughout the year. Finally, I am very grateful to Charles Parry, Ottilie Young, Hannah Comfort, and Hayley Gilbert for their help chairing on the day.

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Green Initiatives This year exiting the pandemic, we have seen some very impressive and exciting student and staff-led green initiatives. In her latter Michaelmas Term, JCSU Green Officer Ellie Doran created the transport survey, which we sent to students in Lent Term, and which will strongly influence the College’s Transport Strategy to address and reduce Scope 3 emissions. This has been an exciting time for discussions on the environment, with a grassroots study ranking Jesus College as the leader in environmental action amongst all Oxford and Cambridge Colleges. However, we have not been complacent; we have been working tirelessly to ensure that all discussions about the College’s future consider the very real and strong influence we have on the world around us.

By way of student-facing initiatives, we founded the Jesus College Green Society.

This is a space for postgraduate students, undergraduates, staff and Fellows to come together to discuss the nuances and key topics shaping environmentalism today. In Easter Term, the Green Society saw some fantastic conversations including: ‘Climate Apocalyptic Discourse’, a discussion facilitated by Imran Mulla; and ‘Creative Writing, Prose and Poetry in the Anthropocene’, facilitated by Clara Grosz, the incoming Green Officer.

Following on from a fantastic College-wide Green Week and ‘Green Formal’ in Michaelmas Term led by Ellie Doran, we have also had the pleasure of enjoying two further Termly ‘Green Formals’. Showcasing a delicious array of plant-strong food and desserts inspired by Caribbean and Latin American cuisine, I planned and organised these as the incoming JCSU Green Officer Lent 2022. Overall, it was a fantastic year for student engagement and conversations around the environment and sustainability.

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The Jambassadors Our adaptations over the past few years of the pandemic have been swift and I’ve been thoroughly impressed with the number of access events that we’ve been able to host online. The distance from Cambridge, particularly for our link area in the northeast of England, can be a barrier for potential applicants so providing more information online is a massive step in the right direction of proving that our College, and Cambridge in general, is indeed welcoming for all.

Online events of note included the shadowing scheme organised by the Cambridge Student Union, where our Ambassadors in collaboration with Christ’s, worked as mentors to those thinking of applying here. This was a fantastic opportunity to work with another College to improve access across the University.

Although we had planned for the northeast schools’ tour to be in person, the Ambassadors very quickly adapted to an online version with an extremely high turnout of both students and Ambassadors. It was lovely to see such an excellent job being done.

Our transition back to in-person events has been exciting to see. The tour of our link schools in London, our tours of the College and our residential at the end of the year were all a massive success, so well done to everyone who made them possible.

Being a Fresher but also the Access Officer has certainly been strange due to my lack of experience. I would like to thank the more senior Ambassadors who helped me, and all the other new Ambassadors get to grips with how to run successful events.

Furthermore, congratulations to all the new Ambassadors for learning so eagerly, and for swiftly becoming a real part of the Society. A special thanks to Katie Mountford, our Schools Liaison Officer who is leaving this year, without whom none of this would have been possible.

The collaborative effort that we’ve all put in is something we should be immensely proud of, and I hope that with this new combination of online and in-person events, we can continue to work towards making our College as accessible as it can be. It has been a pleasure working with you all.

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Jews for Jesus College Society Michaelmas Term was full of simcha (joyous celebration); it began by giving a friendly Shalom to new members and old with kosher snacks offered at our College Freshers’ Fair stall. Membership surged to over 20 members, providing a minyan (congregation) for the varied events we ran, including the weekly tisch (religious choral singing) hosted by Sylvie Hodes, and bi-weekly chabura (study group) organised by Natan Maurer and Hannah Benaim.

One highlight of Michaelmas was the Chanukah celebrations in the Brewery room, open to all members of College, wherein dreidels (traditional festive toys) were used in celebration and doughnuts were eaten. Dean of Chapel James Crockford, and University Jewish Chaplain Elazar Symon each gave a shiur (lesson) appropriate to the holiday, and the Master, Sonita Alleyne, as well as others, were given a Chanukiah to light.

Traditional songs such as Ma’oz tzur and HaNerot Halalu were sung to give praise to Hashem and express the holiness of the day. Celebrations continued afterwards in our annual Jews for Jesus Chanukah Party, where members of the society enjoyed further kosher foods and traditions.

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by Dean of Chapel James Crockford. Many members, such as Samuel Lachmann and Zev Menachemson noted to the Presidents how meaningful this event was to them, and the kosher food provided was greatly appreciated by all the members of Jews for Jesus. We also offered members free tickets to a Black Tie Shabbat dinner (a traditional meal celebrated on Friday nights), in celebration of Shabbat UK; a day intended to bring together Jewish people of all denominations around our common beliefs and culture. We also celebrated Tu B’Shevat a holiday representing the birthday for trees, by setting up a stand providing exotic fruits and vegetables.

Easter was an eventful term for Jews for Jesus, beginning with Lag Ba’omer celebrations, hosted by the Master, Sonita Alleyne in her garden.

Lag Ba’omer celebrations in the This traditional day celebrates the middle of the Master’s Garden Omer (counting of days) and the death of Shimon Bar Yochai, writer of the Zohar; the most important scripture on Kaballah (Jewish mysticism). We celebrated it in the traditional manner, by lighting a bonfire and providing kosher foods. University Jewish Chaplain Alissa Symon also gave a wonderful shiur on the meaning of the day. The year was rounded out by a free garden party provided to members after exams, to celebrate the Halakha (religious practice) and Emunah (spiritual faith) we had learned and enjoyed over the year.

We would like to finish by wishing a Mazal Tov on the marriage of Jews for Jesus members Shimon and Rebeccah Ellerman and a BeHatzlacha (good luck) to the incoming presidents Zev Menachemson and Joshua Kaye. Toda Raba (many thanks).

Zev Shirazi, Sylvie Hodes & Rafi Levy

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John Hughes Arts Festival After last year’s online festival, the John Hughes Arts Festival was back with a bang for 2022! The theme for this year was ‘Enchant’, evoking sentiments of storytelling, mystery, magic and hope. Remembering the beloved Dr Reverend John Hughes was a principal focus of the directors, Rose and Sophie, as well as bringing the festival back as one of the College’s most important artistic and creative events, after a year and a half of COVID-19 disruption and almost an entirely new set of students to ‘enchant’! As fewer and fewer people in College remember John Hughes, keeping his legacy in the nexus of the College and the minds of its members was of paramount importance.

The opening night in February took place in the heart of the College, with an open-hang gallery in the Marshall Room, exhibiting over 70 works by Jesuan students, staff members and the wider Cambridge community. Seeing the gallery come together with collaborations between Jesus students and societies – and connecting the College to the thriving art scene in Cambridge – was magical, a feeling we hope was shared by our visitors. This was accompanied by an open-mic night in the Prioress’s Room and collaborative drawing in the Chapel. Despite the inclement weather, all events across the weekend – including a student-run pottery session, drink and draw in the Bar and an

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Art Fair for local creatives in the Frankopan Hall – were well attended; a testament to the hard work of all our committee and to the importance of the arts at Jesus.

We leave the festival in the highly capable hands of its new directors and can’t wait to see how its legacy develops.

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Law Society Jesus College Law Society has had a successful year, both in building rapport between students and in hosting career events. Michaelmas Term is always the busiest for the society, as firms tend to host events during or before their application cycle. We met with representatives from Slaughter and May, Debevoise, Davis Polk and Freshfields. We were incredibly lucky to be treated to a variety of different events, ranging from social meals to in-depth presentations about law careers post-university. Students benefitted greatly from all information provided and from meeting and talking to firm representatives. It was also lovely to see multiple third-year law students attain training contracts with these firms and continue to build Jesus College’s relationship with them.

Post COVID-19, we felt it was important to focus on the relationships between undergraduate law students at Jesus College. Student life during the pandemic was especially challenging, making it difficult for students to meet one another. Therefore, we felt it was even more pertinent to ensure law students established friendships and were able to access both emotional and academic support. We held many social events throughout the academic year and were extremely pleased to see friendships develop along the way. We ensured that first year students were guided through their opening year and always had a point of contact. We were extremely pleased with the progress made and hope that it continues.

A highlight for Jesus College Law Society was the annual moot and dinner, with guest speaker and Jesuan, Sir Stephen Irwin. The evening commenced with the moot, with first year mooters and student judges taking part alongside Sir Stephen.

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The moot was followed by a drinks reception and dining in the Upper Hall, where we were joined by Law Fellows and Directors of Studies. It was a lovely return to normality and celebration of Law at Jesus College, and we were all touched and charmed by Sir Stephen’s after dinner remarks.

We would like to thank all firms and alumni who reached out and offered current students a valuable insight into the paths law can lead to. Jesus College Law Society is also supported by Law Fellows and Directors of Studies, and we are grateful for their continued assistance and interest in our society. Please do not hesitate to reach out if you would like to share your experiences of studying law or working in the legal sphere; our students of law and other subjects find these conversations incredibly useful.

I am really excited to see what the future holds for the Law Society and its members.

Jesus College will continue to see many successful and wonderful students and I know that the Law Society will remain a valuable part of their experience, as it was for mine.

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LGBTQ+ Jesus College’s LGBTQ+ Society continued to provide a space of discussion and socialisation for Jesus’ queer community and its allies this year. Throughout the year we have run a wide variety of different events, from thought-provoking discussion of Jason Okundaye’s article ‘The Narcissism of Queer Influencer Activists’, to a more relaxed card and board games night. Other events included interesting talks entitled ‘Was Ancient Greece Actually a Queer Utopia’, ‘Relationship Anarchy, Polyamory and Sex Positivity’, and ‘Love, Sex and Romance: The Asexual/Aromantic Perspective’.

These talks were all run by incredibly passionate Jesus students and hopefully as the Society continues to grow and develop, we will be able to get in some guest speakers to complement these student talks. We also held an incredibly enjoyable LGBTQ+ Formal in Lent Term organised in honour of LGBTQ+ history. This review would not be complete without recognising Clara Grosz’ extremely hard work in organising many of these talks and events.

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Medical & Veterinary Society We are thankful that this year things have mostly returned to normal after the pandemic.

We kicked off with Safari Supper, the annual induction event for our medic freshers at the start of the year. This was followed by an event at Raja, allowing the whole community to interact. Throughout Michaelmas Term, there were a host of events to keep the medical and veterinary community engaged. Highlights included our annual Jim’s Mince Pies and Mulled Wine event where the students and Directors of Studies shared some Christmas spirit.

Lent Term was even better as we had our biggest event of the year, the Annual MedVet Dinner. It had been two years since the previous one, and it was a chance for students, supervisors, alumni and Directors of Studies to come together as a community. This term also saw the return of our speaker events, one of which included a talk by a prominent YouTuber ‘Medlife Crisis’ on balancing medicine and an online brand. Other talks were led by students in our Clinical Cases series. We are thankful to the clinical students for organising these for the preclinical students.

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We rounded off the year with our annual Pimm’s and Pizza event, allowing us to enjoy the nice weather post exams. Special thanks to our wonderful committee: Heather Jones (Vice-President), Ansh Tandon (Treasurer), Kiran Kang and Raunak Khanduja (Social Secretaries), and Fatima Eshani (Graduate Representative).

We would also like to thank our Directors of Studies Jim Ajioka, Sybil Stacpoole and Ramsay Bowden for their continual support of the MedVet community. We are excited to see what the future Committee will do next year!

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Music Society Jesus College Music Society (JCMS) had a very successful year bouncing back from pandemic restrictions and presenting a full and varied range of events. This year, we hosted three outstanding orchestral concerts, an excellent recital series, live music events at the Roost Café Bar and, a highly impressive New Music Festival.

Our Michaelmas concert began the academic year with a bang, presenting an evening of Russian orchestral music. We have returned to some familiar favourites, including a hugely popular performance of ‘The Snowman’ featuring Ella Curry, Drew Sellis and Jeremy Weinstein. The Chapel was filled with students new and old, and it was certainly one of the highlights of the year. As part of attracting a wider range of students to musical events, we introduced the JCMS Christmas Festival, featuring a Christmas Blues & Chill and Carols at the Roost, filling the bar with mince pies and festive students.

Lent Term featured two significant projects for JCMS: The David Crighton Concert and the introduction of the New Music Festival. The Crighton project involved a concerto competition which took significant interest across College. The joint-winners of the competition and soloists for the concert were; Drew Sellis, who performed Glazunov’s Saxophone Concerto; and Jeremy Weinstein, who performed Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto. We were delighted to have a range of student conductors in this concert, including some taking the podium for the first time. In February 2022, we pioneered the JCMS New Music Festival, involving a composition masterclass with Diana Burrell, and a concert featuring chamber works composed by Cambridge University students. We also had a composition competition judged by world-renowned composer, Nico Muhly, and Director of Music, Richard Pinel. It was a wonderful experience to be able to premiere a range of original works and allow students across the University to let their talents shine.

Easter Term featured a brand-new initiative to perform jazz and a cappella events in the Roost bar. This attracted talented performers across the University, including Cadenza, Trinity Brass and The Taming of the Shrimp, a well-known band around College. We also thoroughly enjoyed our film music orchestral concert, performing music from Jurassic Park, Pirates of the Caribbean, Harry Potter, The Sound of Music and Lord of the Rings. This event was followed by the first ever JCMS garden party in the orchard, led by James Whelan-Smith. We also returned to our recital series, organised by Drew Sellis, and featuring talented performers across the University and beyond, and our traditionally popular Blues & Chill.

We have been delighted to contribute to JCMS this year and are pleased to pass the baton to George Monro-Davies.

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2021-2022 Reports Amazons The women’s sports society at Jesus College, The Amazons, has celebrated huge success across the board in terms of University sport, College sport and even in May Bumps (pictured below)! This year’s achievements include Blues in hockey, netball, rowing, football, skiing and sailing, and many other members competing to University colours level and across multiple College sports.

Amazons have led College teams to impressive victories, with women’s football taking both league and Cuppers victory, and ladies netball and mixed hockey both winning their Cuppers. In January, we held the Amazons and Rhadegunds Dinner to celebrate the sporting achievements of both societies, which was a great opportunity for everyone to get to know each other across the years in a way that wasn’t possible during the pandemic.

A particular highlight came at the end of the year with an Amazons boat being entered into May Bumps. After completing the minimum number of training sessions required amid hectic exam and revision schedules, the Amazons took to the Cam in the newly repaired Muriel and achieved the following results: bumped, row-over, bump, double bump.

After a very impressive, yet tiring, post-Hawks-event double bump on the final day, the Amazons finished a successful Bumps campaign two positions up and were promoted to Division 4. This capped a very fun year for the Amazons and we can’t wait to hold even more events (including for alumnae!) next year.

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Athletics Jesus is a college full of athletic talent, and this year was no exception. We’ve had a good number of members train with either Cambridge University Athletics Club (CUAC) or Cambridge and Coleridge AC, in addition to representing the University in the 147th Annual Varsity Match in which we won the Men’s Blues match and drew the Women’s Blues match. Athletes who competed in the Varsity match this year included: Chizute Ogbedeh (100m and 200m) and Jamie Edgerton (3000SC) in the Men’s Blues match, Kefeshe Bernard (100m) in the Women’s Blues match, Tim Andrew (100m), Matt Sutcliffe (800m) and Ilya Carey (Pole Vault) in the Alverstones’ match and Charlotte Ellis (Long Jump and Triple Jump) in the Alligators’ match.

We hope that next year we can add to the existing pool of talented athletes to maintain dominance over Oxford.

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Badminton This year has been spectacular for College badminton. Despite the challenges of fewer players and a loss in momentum following the pandemic, I am proud of the quality of teams we were able to present to both league and Cuppers. A special thank you to Harrison Mitchell for helping me run the club this year.

Our teams have had a great season in the College league. This year it has been particularly difficult to get matches organised and played, so I am extremely grateful to the Captains for all their effort – a massive thank you to Michael, Simon, Harrison, Molly, Anisha and Min Xuan. Jesus 1s had an impressive performance in Division 1 in Michaelmas, only dropping one match. However, a struggle to pull together enough players in a rather rushed Lent league meant forfeiting several matches to finish seventh.

Jesus 2s have had phenomenal success being undefeated in Michaelmas to be promoted and fighting hard in Division 2 in Lent to finish third. Jesus 3s have had some terrific matches with many players enjoying the thrill of playing competitively for the first time.

The women’s team had an impressive run in division 1 in Michaelmas, with strong victories against Caius, Murray Edwards, Homerton and Hughes-Lucy!

We had an exciting time at Cuppers finals day this year, bringing both our open and mixed teams. The mixed team performed especially well with an amazing semi-final against Hughes-Lucy, leading to a difficult final against Churchill, when they finished second. Congratulations to Thomas, Anisha, Michael, Hannah, Rohit and Min Xuan for this impressive performance. The open team also played some incredible games but faced a tough battle in the semi-final against Churchill, who were the eventual winners.

We thoroughly enjoyed playing in Oxford for the Jesus-Jesus Varsity Match and had great success in both singles and doubles, overall defeating Jesus Oxford 10-7.

It has been a pleasure to run club nights this year which have had a friendly and social atmosphere, and it has been amazing to see new players find their love for badminton.

It is sad to see several of our wonderful and committed players leave this year – thank you to Harrison, Rohit, Thomas, Shikhar, Anisha, Molly and Fred for everything you have contributed to the club over the years. I am hopeful for a strong cohort of new players for another fantastic season next year.

Nikith Thummalapenta

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Boat Club Like much of the world, JCBC was rebuilding from the disruption caused by the pandemic. Our focus was maximising development, including recruitment and small boats. Highlights were the Fairbairn Cup, Jesus-run and the largest College-run sporting event, and the annual training camp in Peterborough (the pandemic preventing travel further afield); unusually, we were the only Cambridge College to hold a training camp outside Cambridge before Lent Term. Thank you to the Trust and its supporters for enabling this to be affordable without requiring JCSU or College money. We finish the year in a much stronger position to build for the future.

At the beginning of the year, the women’s squad was predominantly made up of athletes with just one term’s rowing experience. Starting second in both the Lent and May races, it was clear that W1 would have a hard year ahead. However, they were determined: taking 20 seconds off their 2k time in Michaelmas alongside very strong novice recruitment. Despite a disappointing performance in the Fairbairn Cup, this provided a strong base going into the Lent Term. Another term of committed training, amongst the disruptions of coronavirus and injury, was rewarded in the Lent Races with W1 finishing third on the river. W2’s high starting position meant they were unable to avoid spoons. W3 unfortunately did not get on, although they did win the Talbott Cup at the end of the term.

The crews then got into a good training rhythm in Easter Term, joined by a W4 consisting of members of the Amazon sports society. W1 fought hard on the final day of the May races, after suffering a bump on each of the previous days, rowing over convincingly in front of Lucy Murray Edwards BC to stay 5th. W2 achieved their best performance in many years (down two); W3 were in a tough position with many second boats around, finishing down three. W4 bumped twice on the last day (rowing as sandwich boat) to leave them up two.

The men began the year in a stronger position, having retained many of the previous year’s M1 rowers. This, combined with consistent training through Michaelmas Term, led to some early successes: winning Uni IVs and the Fairbairn Cup, the latter for the first

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time in a decade. M2 showed promise here, defeating several other College’s M1 crews.

Many novices were recruited, going on to bolster M2 and form M3. The momentum continued into the Peterborough training camp but was disrupted on our return to Cambridge. Nevertheless, the crews persevered with M1 going up three in the Lent Races, M2 level, and M3 narrowly missing out on getting on.

Consistent training continued into Easter Term whenever exams allowed, with an M4 made up of members of the Rhadegund sports society starting-up and some Easter Term novices joining with some of the women to form a mixed-sex crew racing as M5.

M1 started well in the May Races, bumping on each of the first two days before being bumped by Queens’ on the final day to leave them up one on the week. M2 gradually improved over the week, being bumped on the first three days before rowing over as sandwich boat at the top of the third division. M3 got their first taste of Bumps, unfortunately being bumped each day. M4 had an eventful week, being bumped twice but also overbumping to leave them net up 1. M5 put in an extremely strong time in the getting-on race given the crew’s lack of experience but missed out on qualifying.

In the University squads Casey Shepheard and Freya Sutcliffe competed in the Women’s Lightweight Blue Boat, with Olivia Alliot as a spare; they beat Oxford by a record-breaking 15 lengths. Seb Benzecry, Elena von Mueller, and Jenna Armstrong were all selected for the reserve boats, with Blondie beating their Oxford counterparts.

Joshua Blake

Boat Club Trust Last year I began by congratulating the JCBC on their irrepressibility, and the Club leadership on keeping things going in the most difficult circumstances, a year of very little rowing and, accordingly very few learning to row. Recovery from events over the last two years brings its own challenges: we returned this year to a full rowing programme but felt the impact of the previous two years on the number of Club members available to row.

My congratulations again, to this year’s leadership: Josh Blake, President and Coxing Captain; Arianna Cox, Women’s Captain; Rhys Williams, Men’s Captain; the other officers, and Jonathan Conder – JCBC Head Coach and Boatman – for bringing about that recovery so that Jesus crews took an active and competitive part in all College, and in other, events.

Results on the river suggest that JCBC recovered more quickly than other Colleges, with striking successes in the Michaelmas Term, not least the men winning the University Fours and M1 recording its first win in the Fairbairn Cup in fifteen years. Both W1 and M1 did well in the Lents, and particular credit goes to W1 as they started the year with hardly any returning rowers, but in general the effect of the pandemic came into sharper relief as the year went on and, of course, a reduced number of experienced athletes creates opportunities for newcomers. Recovery was helped by a training camp in January involving 32 rowers, five coxes and four coaches, and this year prudently held in Peterborough rather than Spain. As usual, this was part-funded by the Trust, and by the support in the first part of the year of a novice, Learn to Row (L2R) coach, Isabella Mahoney. JCBC also made a significant contribution to CUBC crews: Casey Shepheard was President of the Women’s Lightweight Blue Boat and was joined

by Freya Sutcliffe and Olivia Alliot in their defeat of Oxford; Elena von Mueller and Jenna Armstrong rowed in the victorious Blondie and Seb Benzecry in Goldie…less so.

The Trust continues its investment strategy of ‘inflation + 4’ as our only rolling 12-month benchmark for capital growth and income. Over the medium term, we have significantly exceeded this target in capital growth, but in income growth – the more

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JCBC alumni before the Dinner on the final day of the May Bumps

important of the two – we have been running at about I+3½ %. With inflation currently at over 10% in the UK, we have not achieved (and are not likely to achieve) the target this year in either measure. However, we have built up a significant capital buffer over past years and have a sensible investment policy, which means we do not believe changes are needed. With income growth currently below inflation, we do have the facility to divert some capital to fund the JCBC should that become necessary.

Our investments are managed solely by CCLA for the time being. They performed well up to the end of 2021, where a new record for capital under management of over £1.64m was reached, a combination of good fund performance and further generous donations and bequests: our huge thanks to all our donors. Over the first six months of 2022, returns have been limited to 10% negative, due to a well-diversified and defensive portfolio. Our plan is still to switch some capital into Infrastructure to pick up yield and better match our liability profile when that becomes possible. CCLA have continued to pay out steadily rising cash dividends at an acceptable yield; that is the source of our funding for the JCBC. We continue to meet our core commitment to provide a new VIII every three years.

We acquired a new Men’s VIII this year, funded entirely by a bequest from the late Michael Waring, former Emeritus Professor and Trustee. We continued to fund other equipment needs and to support training camps. In 2021 we experimented by contributing to the College’s funding of a coach for novices. This was largely successful, so after a healthy discussion the Trustees agreed to support the College’s funding of a novice coach for a second year, and Callum Bland joins us from University of East Anglia in this capacity in September.

The JCBC community lost a true friend in February 2022, when Lieutenant Colonel Peter Blaker died aged 85. He had been a supporter and inspiration to crews and alumni alike for many years. We gathered in January this year to celebrate the enduring contribution of another rowing alumnus, Joe Fraser, who died in 2019.

We are very grateful to those alumni who have, in increasing numbers, coached JCBC crews. We continue to need more alumni to help. To volunteer, please contact Jonathan Conder on boatman@jesus.cam.ac.uk, or Trustees Sheena Cassidy Hope on sheena.cassidythope@mishcon.com or Matt Jones on mattjones@cantab.net

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We also encourage all supporters to contribute to the JCBC by joining the Friends of the JCBC. Further information about the Trust can be found on www.jcbc.jesus.cam.ac.uk/trust; about the Friends on www.jcbc.jesus.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/JCBCFriendsSO+GA and, for younger supporters, our graduate donor scheme: www.jcbc.jesus.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/JCBCTrust_GraduateDonation.pdf In any event David Reid would be very pleased to hear from you on judgedreid@sky.com The Trustees and their responsibilities are: Chairman Treasurer Investments Secretary College Links The Friends:

David Wootton Danny White Ewan Pearson Louise Couch James Crockford Richard Tett David Reid Helen Boldon Women’s Club/London Link Sheena Cassidy Hope Training/Coaching/ Quality of Rowing Matt Jones Boat Club Strategy/ Boat Club Strategy/ Boatman/Boathouse Jon Hutton

dhwootton@gmail.com danny.c.white@hotmail.com e.pearson@gpb.eu louisecouch@gmail.com j.crockford@jesus.cam.ac.uk richard.tett@freshfields.com judgedreid@sky.com helenboldon@gmail.com sheena.cassidyhope@mishcon.com mattjones@cantab.net

jon_hutton@hotmail.co.uk

Finally, we wish the incoming leadership – Dominic Hey, Men’s Captain and President; Phoebe Penfold, Women’s Captain; and Rachel Gould, Coxing Captain – all success, with our full support, as they take the JCBC forward.

David Wootton, Chair of Trustees

JCBC Bicentenary 2027 Following the reset of COVID-19, a productive meeting between the Trust, the College and the Club renewed consideration of the broad aims and strategy of the JCBC's Bicentenary. Further meetings aim to produce a structured working group that will develop important aspects of the project over the coming years. In due course, the input and assistance of the club’s community, past and present, will be gratefully received to help take this forward.

If you would like to remain in touch with the club and its recent endeavours, a termly rowing report is emailed to the club’s mailing list. If you are not receiving these and would like to, you can sign up at the following link: https://www.jesusboatclub.co.uk/mailing-list This will also be the mailing list used by the bicentenary’s working group to publish information and details of any events.

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social climbing attracting new people to the sport, and we have seen the start of large swaps with the other climbing clubs across Cambridge – all seem to have doubled in size since 2019! At University level, the termly Cuppers competition has returned in person after two years of creative online challenges, which the Jesus team managed very well. Varsity, BUCS and regional-level events have returned, allowing the top climbers a stage on which to perform.

The huge pool of talent at Cambridge has led to a far more competitive Cuppers.

Gone are the days when a couple of Colleges vied for the trophy; now over a dozen Colleges put in quality climbers. With top individual scores from Ilya Carey and Ria Bacharach in the men’s and women’s competitions, Jesus kept up well, finishing 8th and 6th in Michaelmas and Lent Term Cuppers. It has been great to see Jesuans who have been around for a couple of years continue to score and improve since pre-pandemic times. Several of our members have also competed for the University at top levels, at the London University Bouldering Events, Varsity and even BUCS where they scored amongst the top few University competitors.

The new Cuppers scoring system is weighted for large participation as well as high individual scores. This will benefit Jesus next year, because although we will lose some experienced members, we have gained lots of new ones. Those leaving include the rest of this year’s Committee – Ilya, Ismaeel, Rafi and Hugo – who have all been significant in the running of the club during their time here, so a huge thanks to them! They leave the club in a strong position, with an enthusiastic membership that looks set to continue as we grow and thrive.

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Cricket Following on from our position as Cupper’s runner-up in 2021, Jesus College Cricket Club (JCCC) were hungry for a win. We recruited four new Jesuans to the team at the start of the year, and our chances looked good.

After destroying the group stages and quarter finals, we were into finals day with no discernible trouble so far. Our first match on finals day was against the tournament favourites, Downing. With some class batting, amazing fielding and tight bowling we managed to beat Downing by 10 runs. The finals versus Fitzwilliam was a very tight match throughout, with the JCCC managing to pull through victorious, winning by one run, meaning the JCCC were Cuppers champions for the first time in over eight years!

There were many factors which helped our win, but the support of the College members and dedication of the players were certainly a large part, and I am extremely thankful.

Other highlights of the season included the Jester’s match and Old Boys’ match, which were both very entertaining games of a good standard. Unfortunately, we have several long-serving Jesuans who are leaving this year, and I’d like to thank them for their service to the JCCC over the past three or four years – especially Matthew Griffiths, Dougie Dolleymore and Alex Forster, though many others have lent a hand.

The captaincy and vice-captaincy will now pass on from myself and Raunak Khanduja to freshers Krish Nanavati and Billy Hughes respectively, both of whom have an immense love for cricket and I’m sure will lead the team to many more JCCC wins in the future.

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Football This season was exceptional for JCFC’s 1st team. With a strong, experienced core and a world class fresher intake, the whole squad was eyeing up trophies and glory. A famous treble of the league, Cuppers and Jesus-Jesus Varsity promised on the horizon.

The league season started with a comfortable 3-1 victory over Trinity, with a debut goal from Alex McDonald and a double from Alex Landell-Mills. However, we subsequently drew to Girton and Emmanuel and suffered a 4-3 defeat against King’s.

Sitting on 5 points after 4 games, promotion looked unlikely. However, after 3 wins on the trot in Lent we faced Trinity Hall on a wet windy morning, where promotion beckoned. A horrible game which dearly lacked quality was only saved by a moment of pure magic from Angus Harron where, some delicate footwork to beat 4 defenders and a lovely finish from the edge of the box gave us the lead. We held on through a desperate second half where we were penned in our own box; 3 points secured; promotion guaranteed, the title still to be decided?

Our Cuppers run started magnificently. We saw Trinity off in a 6-0 win, where we netted 4 before the 20-minute mark. Next came Lucy Cavendish who crumbled on the Jesus turf as Will Zeng netted a marvellous hat-trick in a 7-0 thrashing. Then came a 9-3 demolition of King’s, where Fortina Oshasha and Cai La-Trobe Roberts both added 3 each to their tallies. As the end of Lent Term approached, we faced Fitzwilliam in the semi-final. It was a thrilling encounter against a side that had won Cuppers 5 years on the trot. However, with 5 minutes to go, Fitz’s strength showed, and they scored a vital third to win 3-1.

The Varsity match against Jesus Oxford saw us take an early 2-0 lead against a side packed with University players. Both goals coming from Cai, the ‘Welsh Wizard’, showing that a hilly Oxford pitch was no match for a man raised in the Brecon Beacons.

However, our opponents drew one back before half time and netted another after the break. At 2-2, trouble stirred; Alex McDonald went down in a nasty clash of heads, leaving just two fit defenders. Our determination however led to an unlikely counterattack, with a third goal from Cai restoring our lead. However in the last minute, we conceded a penalty that was duly converted and was swiftly followed by the full-time whistle. We went straight to penalties, and our hero James Hardy, fresh from an incredible fingertip save sixty minutes prior, made the deciding save to give us our first taste of silverware.

In Easter Term we played our 13th game of the season, against Long Road College for the division 2 title. We fought hard in a gutsy 2-1 victory; league secured, and division 1 status reinstated. Being a JCFC captain was an absolute honour and it’s with a heavy heart that I pass on to Alex McDonald. I never thought College football could take a man’s heart, but this season proved me wrong. May the next prove others wrong . . .

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Moving on to the question of Cuppers. Due to COVID-19, last year’s tournament had been a much smaller affair, but not so this year. Cuppers had returned and so had the defending champions.

From 0-1 down we would come back to beat the Johns 2nd team 5-1 in the first round. The second round was a much tighter contest. We faced off against a combined team of Clare, Queens’, St Edmund’s, Wolfson, and Sidney Sussex which could have very well been the greatest 7-side team to play in a Cuppers tournament. On paper; because after a very tight game, it would be the Jesus team who would take the match 8-7, having never been behind.

Onto finals day, we would be facing the John’s 1st team in the semi-final. At this point some may have described us as the favourite to win the tournament, but John’s provided a great challenge, pushing us all the way, with the final score being a 4-3 victory for Jesus.

In the other semi-final, the team of Christ’s and Pembroke would narrowly beat the Catz team in a penalty shoot-out to take the other space in the final, and a thrilling final it would be. Jesus would take the early lead 1-0, however would appear to relax in the second half allowing Chembroke to fight back to take a 2-1 lead with around 5 to play.

With attacking urgency restored, Jesus would come back at them scoring quickly after to level the game. With mere seconds to play, Jesus would launch one final attack and off the final touch of the match the ball would find itself in the Chembroke goal. 3-2 Jesus.

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Mixed Lacrosse The Jesus College Mixed Lacrosse team initially found themselves in a tough situation at the start of the year. It was the first season back since the pandemic, so teams remained in their divisions from the last played season. This meant that Jesus faced some tough teams in competition, many of whom would later be promoted to the top division.

A valiant effort across the seven matches left Jesus in a respectable 6th place in the division at the end of Michaelmas, in prime position to strike during Lent.

Lent Term saw more success for the team. The combination of a more intense training regime, a more accurately spread division, and the return of some of our more experienced members, made us a force to be reckoned with. A series of closely fought victories left Jesus at an improved 4th place in the division.

Cuppers supplied the final opportunity of the year for the squad. After a strong recruitment drive, Jesus was able to enter two teams made up of a range of abilities and although both found themselves within touching distance of progressing through to the playoffs, sadly this was not to be. On behalf of Charlotte and myself, I would like to say a big thank you to all of those who helped with Jesus Mixed Lacrosse this year, from the players to the supporters on the side-line. We would also like to wish the incoming captains, Georgia King and Nadia Chadirchi, the best of luck for next year!

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Netball The past year has been excellent for Jesus College Netball Club. After a highly successful Freshers Fair, we found ourselves with so many new players that we set up Jesus College Netball Mixed 2 team which started in Division 4 as a new team. We also founded the Instagram account @jesuscollegenetball2022 where we keep our followers up to date with match results and our favourite action shots from the week. But our favourite thing that we introduced this year was a physical scoreboard to bring to matches so everyone could see the score and it featured heavily on our Instagram!

Having lost only to Hughes Hall in Michaelmas Term, Jesus Mixed 2 were quickly promoted to Division 3 in Lent. The Jesus Mixed 1 team also had a successful season and placed first in division 1 after an unbeaten season and the Jesus Ladies came 3rd in division 1. In Michaelmas, we were also fortunate enough to bring a mixed netball team to Oxford to compete against Jesus College Oxford. Armed with our scoreboard and face paint we were able to beat the other place on their own courts!

After such a promising season we were very excited for netball Cuppers. Mixed 2 put on an impressive performance, even beating a division 1 team but unfortunately did not make it past the group stages. Mixed 1 were able to win their group and played their way to the final where they narrowly lost to Pembroke by only 1 goal. Jesus Ladies also won their group and after beating Queens’ and Fitzwilliam, we found ourselves in the final against St John’s. After a close and tough match, Jesus Ladies beat John’s 8-7 to win the Ladies Netball Cuppers for the first time in over 10 years.

I am so proud of everything the Club has achieved this year and we are so excited to hand over captaincy and the @jesuscollegenetball2022 l Instagram to Liv Fitzpatrick, Harry Marsh and Lucy Thompson and to see what the Club can do next year!

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Rugby

Photo by Dik Ng

After over a year without playing any proper rugby, many of the boys were very excited to finally get back to the pitch. There was a huge amount of talent in the squad and the season looked very promising, however JCRUFC were consistently faced with a lack of players. A combination of an increasing number of Blues squad players (who can’t play College league games), a small fresher intake and falling numbers due to pandemic-related absences made it impossible to put a team together.

After being unable to field a team for the first two games of the season, Jesus combined with Queens’ to form ‘Quesus’ for the remainder of the league season.

Captaincy was handed over from Bo Beynon to Tom Hardman and Quesus went on to go unbeaten in division 2 for the rest of Michaelmas.

The last week of Michaelmas saw the beginning of the Cuppers campaign, with Jesus playing as a stand-alone team. The first two rounds were played as a double header; two 40-minute games played back-to-back. In gruelling conditions, Jesus cruised past Trinity-Christ’s and went on to play Fitz-Sidney, who got a bye through the first round.

Jesus was at a disadvantage after already playing 40 minutes of rugby and failed to produce anything in a scrappy first half that ended 0-0. Fitz had the wind in their favour in the second half and eventually capitalised to go one try up. A second try from Fitz put them out of reach and ended Jesus’s hopes of Cuppers glory, putting them into the Plate competition.

At the beginning of Lent, the league structure was reformed and Quesus were part of the 4 teams in division 2. After a 48-0 win against Catz and a forfeit from Churchill, Quesus went into the final game of the league cycle in a battle for promotion with Trinity-Christ’s; the winning team would be promoted to division one. Due to illness with COVID-19, Quesus only managed to produce a team of 12 players, while Trinity-Christ’s turned up with a full 23 (15 and 8 subs) and decided in a very unsportsmanlike fashion

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that they would not lend Quesus any players. After 30 minutes, Quesus were inevitably 17-0 down and it seemed promotion was out of reach. However, a dominating and entertaining second half display saw Quesus win 25-22 in the last minute, and promotion was secured. A notable mention goes to LXs (University second team) player Charles Kantolinna who put in an inspiring performance and seemed to make up for the three-man deficit at the breakdown almost entirely himself. A gritty 7-0 win against Fitz followed by a 52-7 win against a weakened John’s side meant that Quesus went into the final week of Lent with the chance to win division one. A hard fought 19-7 win against Pirton with huge performances from Sam Brookes and Tom Xu sealed the division one title.

The first two weeks of Easter Term saw the final two rounds of Cuppers played.

After four Jesuans (Max Loveridge, Tim Andrew, James Wright and David Holdroyd) played in the Varsity match over Easter, it was clear that there was a huge amount of talent in the squad and silverware was on the cards. Jesus breezed past CCK (Corpus Clare King’s) 56-7 in the Plate semi-final, with Max Loveridge and David Holdroyd dominating the midfield. The game finished with an outstanding solo try from last minute call-up Olly Doggett, who posed a threat every time he got the ball. Jesus began the Plate final against Caius with a furious intensity and after four tries were 26-0 up at the break. Caius came out all guns blazing in the second half, however Jesus fought well to hold them off for a 26-5 win.

Overall, it was a highly successful season, winning division one of the leagues and the Cuppers Plate. JCRUFC hope to go one better next year with Cuppers in their sights.

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Squash Despite organisational problems at the University level, College squash this year was very successful for Jesus. An Inter-College League ran intermittently through Michaelmas and Lent, with no Cuppers this year, but Jesus was able to field three teams of varying ability and was highly successful with each of them. It was particularly enjoyable to see so many new players getting involved in the sport, and the traditional Jesus sporting ability came through in full, ensuring that many new players were formidable on court.

Our first team performed well across its matches and was able to move up two league divisions across the year (though whether this was because of our sporting prowess rather than a reorganisation of the league structure is something best left unanswered).

The second team, captained by Bruno Truben, also performed excellently with a crushing victory in Michaelmas that saw them end with 57 points and promotion to the fifth division, comfortably ahead of second-placed Christ’s on 39 points. This was followed by a similar victory in the Lent league. The third team, captained by Nikith Thummalapenta rounded off a thumping season for Jesus. The 3rds came top of their division in both Michaelmas and Lent league, despite consisting mostly of new players.

Many members of the first team will depart next year, but the performance of Jesus in this year’s squash suggests the College is in good stead to do well in Cuppers and the League next year. Special thanks to Bruno and Nikith for their tireless organisational efforts, overcoming the difficulty of navigating recalcitrant opponents and general administrative reshuffles.

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Ultimate Frisbee This year has been a fantastic one for Jesus Ultimate Frisbee. After more than a year of disruption due to COVID-19, we were pleased to see the College League beginning again in Michaelmas. Despite having a small team this year, we persevered and went on to win many of our matches. In one memorable game against Anglia Ruskin University (ARU), we were two players down and had no subs, but still went on to win 7-6, battling rain, hail, sunshine and a lot of wind.

Training also returned to a new normal and – with the slight addition of hand sanitiser and wiping down each frisbee a few times during the sessions – our discs have never been cleaner! In preparation for Indoor Cuppers in Michaelmas we had one indoor training session, and we enjoyed it so much that we are hoping to make indoor training a more regular occurrence (especially for those cold, rainy winter afternoons).

During Summer Cuppers, we had to contend with another weather extreme: 30°C blazing heat. After a strong 6-2 win against ARU, we went on to lose to the Oxford team ‘Bod Squad’ and Downing College, but despite this we all enjoyed our day. We were proud to come in joint 3rd place for spirit (scores that rate how knowledgeable teams are of the rules, as well as their respectfulness, good manners and lack of contact) with 4/5 – just 0.5 point between us and 1st place!

Thanks to all our brilliant members. We look forward to welcoming Edwin Jarratt Barnham, Peter Ondus, Miles Alfrey, James Legrand, Aldric Goh, Andrew Te Water Naude, Jay Wardropper, Nikith Thummalapenta and Tim De Goede back next year, along with many new faces. And, to our players who have graduated this summer – Phoebe McDonnell, Emma Perfettini, Max Tkocz – thank you for your incredible commitment and we wish you all the best. You are always welcome to come back and play with us next time you’re in Cambridge.

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Waterpolo This season has been a great success for Jesus College Waterpolo, coming out on top at College League in Lent Term. College League took place at Parkside Pools, with the University players dispersing to their own Colleges. This year, Jesus was the only one to put up a single College team, with a core of five University players fresh from Varsity, five Jesuans new to the sport, and returning alumna, Lara Tritton.

Our first match was against the Addenbrookes team, the first match of the day.

We started defending the shallow end, and gained an early lead before half time, enabled by strong swims from Yuval Weiss. Strong defending in the second half led to a 5-3 win in this match.

Our second match was against a team from Trinity Hall, Peterhouse and Queens’; one similar in composition to Jesus with half the players being with the University squad.

New PhD student Alex Norcliffe held the team together in the first half, giving us an impressive 4-0 lead, but this was brought back to 4-4 by a determined fightback from Trinity Hall-Peterhouse-Queens’ following his self-imposed retirement to the bench.

Following a penalty shootout, we made it through to the final, against alumni from the university team.

The final match was the tightest match of the day, with time constraints reducing the playtime and both teams tired from the afternoon of matches. With goals from Alex Norcliffe, assisted by Alastair Horn, and Angus McIntosh (new to the sport), we won this close match 2-1.

Looking ahead to next year, we look forward to bringing much the same squad to College League and continuing the undefeated streak, under new captain Dan Gilbey.

We hope to run a taster session in Freshers’ Week.

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Members’ News People S BAILEY (1977) has retired from parochial ministry in the Anglican Church of Australia and is happily supporting his wife, Jane, in her continuing teaching career.

H BEVAN (2011) was awarded The Princess Royal Silver Medal for 2022 for her outstanding contribution to UK engineering. Heba founded and runs UtterBerry Ltd, a wireless sensor system that consists of a collection of miniature, artificially intelligent, ultra-low-power sensors. Its technology has been used in a variety of major national infrastructure projects including London’s Crossrail and Thames Tideway, with customers including Network Rail, London Underground, Thames Water, Laing O’Rourke, Costain, BAM and BFK. R CASALE (1986) organised an event in the name of climate action with The World Relay, called Running Out of Time. It’s the longest non-stop relay ever attempted and a world record. The mass participation run covered 7700 km and 18 countries from Scotland to COP27 in Egypt. With over 250,000 participants, the relay has inspired more people to take steps together to accelerate local climate action (www.carboncopy.eco).

J R BOWEN (1998) was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for his work in Public Service. Mr Bowen is a Director for International Agreements and Trade at the Department for Exiting the European Union.

G S COLE (1985) was appointed Team Rector of Leominster in the Diocese of Hereford in October 2021.

T A DARNTON (1986) has published a YA thriller, Ready or Not. This is her third book following her Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize shortlisted The Truth About Lies (2018) and 2020’s The Rules. Ready or Not is published by Little Tiger Press Group.

J I DUNNETT (1967) held an exhibition of stone carvings, paintings and bronze sculpture that explored the potential of the human figure for spatial and votive expression entitled ‘Of Geometry and Gods, Side by Side’. Supported by the Arts Council, the exhibition ran from 7 April to 1 May 2022 at the National Trust’s Sandham Memorial Chapel in Berkshire.

M W FINNIS (1968) was elected to Fellow of the Royal Society. He is the Chair in Materials Theory and Simulation at the Faculty of Engineering at Imperial College London, and co-founder of the Thomas Young Centre, the London Centre for Theory and Simulation of Materials and Molecules.

R C J FLEMING (1971) retired to Cornwall in 2016 where he is now Captain of the Cornwall over 60s cricket 1st XI who won the ECB National Vase Competition in 2021 and also won the South West Regional group in 2022 before losing in the knockout stages of the Senior Cup Competition.

M A GREEN (1983) was received by The Prince of Wales (pictured), on behalf of The Queen in March 2022 (upon his appointment as Justice of the High Court when His Royal Highness conferred upon him the honour of Knighthood and invested him with the Insignia of Knights Bachelor in November 2020).

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J HAROUNOFF (2013) co-authored an op-ed with the deputy mayor of Jerusalem, Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, on how momentum for the Abraham Accords is soaring. This is based on a litany of new business and defence cooperation agreements being signed, and how new signatories of the accords from the Arab world, including the UAE or Morocco, might play a bigger role in brokering peace between the Israelis and Palestinians.

A C HARVEY (2006) won the Prix Pierre Verne Prize at the 7th Paris Opera Competition. The Competition, which took place this year at Paris Opera’s Palais Garnier, exists to uncover and promote the opera stars of tomorrow. One of nine finalists, she sang her favourite roles in the final: Sesto (La Clemenza di Tito), Hänsel (Hänsel and Gretel), and Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier).

S IQBAL (2018) was awarded The Diana Award, a prestigious accolade for young people aged 9-25 years for their social action or humanitarian work. He is the founder of Team UPside, a youth-led community organisation based in Ealing, West London, which works to widen access to higher education for less-advantaged students.

S J IRWIN (1972) retired as a full-time Justice of Appeal in October 2020, although still sits as a deputy. He has been appointed as the first Chair of the House of Commons Independent Panel of Experts, ruling on discipline cases for Members of Parliament.

He has also become Chair of the Slynn Foundation, a charity providing support and training to judges around the world.

I C KEMP (1978) became Mayor of Ware in May 2021 for one year. He has also published an expanded third edition of his book, Pinch Analysis for Energy and Carbon Footprint Reduction: A user guide to process integration for the efficient use of energy. He retired from GSK in 2019 as a Scientific Leader and is now working as an independent consultant.

G C KILLINGWORTH (1968) has published a collection of poems entitled Emptying Houses (Dempsey & Windle Poetry Press, 2022).

L KLIMAS (1986) was appointed a personal Chaplain to the Queen. Rev Canon Klimas was one of the first women to be ordained as a priest and joins a select group of up to 35 chaplains who make themselves available to the Queen.

L M LINKLATER (1991) was appointed Queen’s Counsel in December 2021.

H H C Y LONGWORTH (2013) became Editor of the Schubert Institute UK’s quarterly journal, The Schubertian, in September 2021. Founded in 1991, the journal contains Schubert-related news items, articles, reflections, reviews and more.

S J MILLER (1961) and his wife Judy celebrated their Golden Wedding anniversary on 17 July 2021.

D R RAAB (1997) was appointed Deputy Prime Minister, Justice Secretary and Lord Chancellor in September 2021.

M RADIVIOJEVIC (2015) was main author and lead editor of The Rise of Metallurgy in Eurasia: Evolution, Organisation and Consumption of Early Metal in the Balkans.

It is published by Archaeopress and is fully open access.

P A RAY (1965) was awarded an OBE for services to the community in Cambridgeshire.

I H SAMUEL (1991) was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for services in Heritage. Dr Samuel is an Historic Environment Director at the National Trust and Acting Chair of The Heritage Alliance.

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V F P SEIDEL (1997) was promoted to Professor and Metropoulos Term Chair in Innovation Management at Babson College in Massachusetts, USA. S H SHAHEEN (2004) was re-elected to Hounslow London Borough Council in the May 2022 elections and promoted to Cabinet Member for Parking, Parks and Leisure in the new administration. He also began a new role as Director of Communications at T4 Education.

R L M SHEPTON (1955) is a highly experienced Arctic explorer who has led several sailing and climbing expeditions to Greenland and Arctic Canada in his yacht, the Westerly 33 ft sloop ‘Dodo's Delight’. He has written three books, Addicted to Adventure, Addicted to More Adventure and High Latitude Sailing. He has been awarded the Blue Water Medal, the Tilman Medal (twice), the Goldsmith Medal for Exploration, the Barton Cup (twice), Vasey Vase (three times) and the Vice Commodore’s Medal (three times). He was voted Yachtsman of the Year (UK) 2013 and received a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2020 and has just been made an Honorary Member of the Ocean Cruising Club.

R G STEWART-LIBERTY (2013) has taken sabbatical from the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and is studying for a Masters in Global Thought at Columbia University, New York.

M W L TOOMBS (1996) was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for his work in Public Service. Mr Toombs is a Director of Campaigns and Engagement, COP26 in Cabinet Office.

J W TREMBERTH (1962) became custodian of his families’ archives when his brother M F TREMBERTH (1957) died in 2016. Certain aspects of their family history were of general interest beyond the purely family context including their paternal grandparents' Methodist missionary service in China and their father’s artworks, particularly those with Cornish subjects. Since 2019, he has been a regular contributor to the publications of two Cornish historical societies, namely the Cornish Methodist Historical Association and the John Harris Society.

M H I TURNER and R LEVY (both 2019) launched BlueProof, a web design agency focussing on marrying functionality and aesthetics. For further information contact them at: https://www.blueproof.online N C WICKRAMASINGHE (Fw 1963-1973) was awarded an MBE in the 2022 New Year’s Honours for his contributions to science, astronomy and astrobiology.

A M YOUNG (2004) was one of six women in STEM to be awarded the first ever COVID Unsung Hero crowns by the Women in Science and Engineering Campaign.

The awards were presented by HRH Princess Anne, in recognition of women who helped to improve lives and communities during the pandemic.

S J YOUNG (1970) was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for his work and contributions to software engineering. Professor Young is Emeritus Professor in the Information Engineering Division at Cambridge University. His research interests lie in the area of spoken language systems, including speech recognition, speech synthesis and dialogue management.

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Births Hannah FENTON GRIFFIN (née Fenton, 2001) and her husband Rupert have a son, Gabriel Michael Fenton Griffin.

Patrick and Sarah KNIGHT (both 2007), have a daughter, Lyra Mae, a sister to Leo James.

James OSBORN (2001) and his wife Ailsa have a daughter, Henrietta Audrey Osborn.

Salman SHAHEEN (2004) and his wife Anna have a son, Alexander Samad Ward Shaheen.

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Marriages and Civil Partnerships Sapphire ARMITAGE (2014) married Nic Walker on 16 July 2022 at Old Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church in Edinburgh.

Sarah BATE (2015) married Matthew Kinton on 31 July 2021 at St Andrew the Great Church in Cambridge.

Joshua BLANCHARD LEWIS (2006) married Laura Walker on 22 August 2021 at Jesus College.

Ewen CHRISTIE and Maria KENNEDY (both 2007) married on 24 July 2021 in Elgin.

Ruth COVERDALE (2009) and Edmund BRADBURY (2011) married on 10 July 2021 at Jesus College.

Ella JOHNSTON (2009) and Thomas WOOD (2010) married on 31 July 2021 at Notre Dame de France in Leicester Square.

Luke MARRIS and Harshnira PATANI (both 2010) married on 9 August 2021 at Hampton Court House.

Sophie MORE (2010) married James Conway on 14 April 2022 at Jesus College.

Sophie NAIRAC and Matthew PARKER (both 2012) married on 7 April 2022 at the Cambridge Register Office.

Salman SHAHEEN (2004) married Anna Roxelana Ward on 25 September 2021 at Strawberry Hill House, Twickenham.

Benjamin SHANKS-ST JOHN and Rachel O’MEARA (both 2007) married on 14 August 2021 in Jesus College.

Sameer SHEKAR and Brioney GEE (both 2007) married on 11 September 2021 at Morden Park House.

Pranav SOOD (2008) and Olivia SEDDON-DAINES (2007) married on 30 July 2021 at Old Marylebone Town Hall.

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Obituaries Emeritus Fellows Professor Geoffrey Harcourt was born on 27 June 1931 and died on 7 December 2021 aged 90.

Geoff was a Fellow and College Lecturer in Economics at Jesus College from 1982-1998.

He was President of the College from 1988-1989 and again from 1990-1992 and became an Emeritus Fellow of the College on his retirement in 1998.

He was a University Lecturer from 1982-1990 and Reader in the History of Economic Theory from 1990-1998 in the Faculty of Economics at Cambridge. Geoff was committed to alleviating poverty and fighting against social and racial discrimination through his work. In later life, he became one of Australia’s most eminent economists.

Geoff authored or edited 29 books and published over 380 articles, chapters in books and reviews. His publications included The Structure of Post-Keynesian Economics and the two-volume The Oxford Handbook of Post-Keynesian Economics. His most celebrated work was Some Cambridge Controversies in the Theory of Capital, published in 1972 and about an argument between economists from the University of Cambridge and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA over the nature of capital. Cambridge University Press recently published a 50th anniversary edition, and his preface was the last thing he ever wrote, dedicating the edition with “immense gratitude” to his wife, Joan.

Geoff was born in Melbourne, Australia into a warm-hearted secular Jewish family.

His paternal grandparents Israel and Dinah Harkowitz had moved to Australia from Romania (Transylvania) and Poland in the 19th century. His maternal grandparents Daniel and Edith Gans came from Germany and originally Lithuania. Geoff’s father, Kopel Harkowitz, changed the family name from Harkowitz to Harcourt, in order – the family says – “to ease access into sports and social clubs”.

Geoff struggled at school and received support from his very academic twin brother, John. He won a place at the University of Melbourne, however, where he excelled in his studies as an undergraduate in the Commerce Department and then as a postgraduate student at Queen’s College (where he was tutored by eminent Labour Economist, Joe Isaac). It was in Melbourne that Geoff met Joan Bartrop, who was from Ballarat and who worked for the Melbourne Institute on their research into poverty and social housing policy. They married straight after Geoff’s graduation in 1955.

The first decision made by Geoff and Joan as newlyweds was for Geoff to accept a PhD scholarship to study at King’s College at the University of Cambridge, the College of the eminent British Economist John Maynard Keynes. In Cambridge, Geoff immersed himself in ‘Keynes’s Circle’, the students and heirs of Keynes himself, famous economists like Nicholas Kaldor, Richard Kahn, Piero Sraffa and Geoff’s personal hero, Joan Robinson.

He later co-wrote the definitive intellectual biography of her, and argued, like many others, that she should have been the first woman to win the Economics Nobel Prize (Joan later offered him one of his first lectureships at Cambridge). It was during this period at King’s College that he became aware of the debates between the economists of Cambridge,

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England, and the emerging intellectual force of Cambridge Massachusetts at MIT. After receiving his doctorate in 1958, Geoff was offered a lectureship back in Australia at the Economics Department of the University of Adelaide. He became a Professor, also playing for the Adelaide Cricket Club and captaining the Adelaide University Football Club. The couple enjoyed living in Adelaide, and in 1962, Geoff helped found the Australian Economic Papers (AEP) with his colleague Hugh Hudson as the first Editor. After Hudson left the University to go into politics in 1967 (he was Education Minister then Deputy Prime Minister), Geoff became joint Editor of AEP and served in that capacity for nearly two decades.

During the 1960s and 1970s, Geoff continued to visit Cambridge to give lectures and to fulfil temporary roles as the first ever Teaching Fellow in Economics at Trinity Hall, then as a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall. It was the offer of a permanent role as a Lecturer and the invitation to join the Fellowship at Jesus College that tempted the couple back to Cambridge on a long-term basis in 1982. He liked to say that “Jesus called”.

Geoff was a popular Tutor and Lecturer thanks to his kindness and sense of humour.

Professor Sriya Iyer from the Department of Economics at Cambridge wrote, “Geoff was a much-loved colleague – a kind and considerate person who always made time to talk to students and colleagues about their research, and to offer valuable advice on books and papers. He was immensely loyal to Cambridge Economics and to Jesus College, and he was a benign presence in the Faculty. Like other former undergraduate and graduate students, I remember with fondness his ‘Bible-reading’ classes on Keynes’s General Theory and his Part 2A Macroeconomics lectures on economic growth.

A knowledgeable, witty and widely-read communicator of economics, we all still miss him greatly.”

Professor Peter Nolan is a Fellow at Jesus and the China Forum Director. He was the Director of Studies in Economics from 1980-1997 and worked closely with Geoff during this time. He wrote: “Geoff was a dedicated researcher and teacher. Throughout his time as Fellow at Jesus College he combined a rich stream of publications with dedication to teaching, both in lectures and supervisions. His lectures in the history of economic thought were meticulously prepared, based on his encyclopaedic knowledge of a vast array of literature. They were delivered with great enthusiasm and distinctive humour.

“His research and teaching were enriched by his close personal contact with economists across the whole range of the discipline. Almost every day while he was a Fellow, he hosted a guest at lunch in College. During this time, almost everyone in the Faculty of Economics and almost every visitor to the Faculty dined in Jesus College thanks to Geoff’s unfailing generosity.

“His personal knowledge of a huge array of economists across the world imparted a distinctive character to both his writing and teaching. Geoff was a rare species of economist, who linked the history of ideas with the personalities behind the printed word.

Few economists could match Geoff’s ability to bring the ‘dismal science’ to life in writing and teaching.

“Geoff was extraordinarily generous with his time, writing copious notes on drafts of books and articles sent to him from other scholars. His hand-written comments ranged from small details of punctuation and expression to the wider philosophical landscape, and always included invaluable bibliographic references. ‘My thanks to Geoff Harcourt for his comments’ appears on the first page of countless books and articles.”

Jesus College held a memorial service in the Chapel on 11 June 2022 at which Professor Avi J Cohen spoke about Geoff’s influence and support as a student and a colleague. Avi was introduced to Geoff’s book, Some Cambridge Controversies in the Theory of Capital as a graduate student at Stanford, USA. He said, “His book spoke to

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me in a language I could understand, about ideas that seemed important, and with a passion that was inspiring.”

Avi and Geoff met in Toronto and then in Cambridge and the relationship evolved from one of mentorship to becoming colleagues and friends. Avi said, “What’s remarkable about my story is how unremarkable it is. Geoff befriended, encouraged, supported, championed, literally thousands of students and colleagues over his career.” He added, “A defining feature of Geoff Harcourt’s work and life is his generosity – helping so many, influencing many more, and shaping, coalescing and connection disparate scholarly communities.”

Geoff’s beliefs about the societal benefits of political economy are illustrated in one of his autobiographical essays titled, Political Economy, Politics and Religion: Intertwined and Indissoluble Passions. In this, he wrote that the purpose of political economy is, “To make the world a better place for ordinary men and women, to produce a more just and equitable society. In order to do that, you have to understand how particular societies work and where the pockets of power are, and how you can either alter those or work within them and produce desirable results for ordinary people, not just for people who have the power. I see economics as very much a moral as well as a social science and very much a handmaiden to progressive thought.”

Geoff’s outstanding career was recognised by numerous awards and prizes. In the 2018 Queen’s Birthday Honours list he was awarded a Companion (AC) in the General Division of the Order of Australia, for eminent service to higher education as an academic economist and author, particularly in the fields of post-Keynesian economics, capital theory and economic thought. In 1996, he was made a distinguished member of the Economic Society of Australia. He felt these awards were great recognition for the Economics profession itself as well as for him personally.

Geoff lived in Sydney in the last years of his life, although he returned to visit Jesus College on many occasions. He and Joan celebrated their 40th, 50th and 60th wedding anniversaries in the Fellows’ Garden of the College.

Geoff is survived by Joan, his wife of almost 67 years, and their four children – Wendy, Rebecca, Robert and Tim. The College was honoured to welcome Wendy and Rebecca back for the recent memorial service. Geoff also leaves behind four grandchildren and his twin brother John.

Written by the Editor, with thanks to Professor Avi J Cohen, Professor Stephen Heath, Professor Sriya Iyer and Professor Peter Nolan for their contributions. You can read many more tributes and obituaries, and a full bibliography of Geoff’s work at a website set up by his friends and family: www.geoffharcourt.com

To Dr G.H., On the anniversary of his 80th birthday O diem praeclarum!

Thou, Muse, must guide my errant pen To praise sufficient of this best of men, He skill’d so deeply in th’economic Art Possess’d so truly of a noble Heart.

Fam’d Son of that Australian land Whose Denizens inverted stand, Fair Fortune sent him to our shores instead, Setting here his Feet, where there his Head.

Transported thus to grace our learned Halls,

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Our Cloister quiet, our ivy’d Walls, His curious mind was soon our pleasing light, His gen’rous spirit our most rich delight.

Blest College that has Geoffrey for its friend, Blest Fate that him to us did haply send.

O Muse, how may I sing his great renown, Who studies markets going up and down, Who tracks the wiles of aggregate demand And has Pigou effects at his command, Whose work on capital and Maynard Keynes Is dusty matter for our lesser brains?

I rest content with lower theme, Of bat and ball and Fellows’ cricket team; For Geoff’s enamour’d of the noble game, That gave us Bradman, and his Nation’s fame.

Oft is he found upon the summer field, Urging his men to win and never yield.

No mean a player he, our captain too, A worthy batsman and a bowler true: His arm slow rising in a gentle arc, The batsman fearful trembling at the mark, The ball is tossed with dreadful spin That parts the Æther, swerves, curves in, The timorous willow vain seeks some defence, The watchers fall into a hush intense, The ball is careless struck with bat distraught, Sure hands are there, the cry goes up: ‘Har-Caught!’

What verses, Muse, express this Fellow’s measure, Say all in him that ever is our pleasure?

Adorn’d with Virtues, and with Judgement strong, Loyal to us all, incapable of wrong, Promoting concord and composing strife, Lord of himself, and bless’d with such a wife, On whom this day our thoughts do also run: To his erractick Orbit, she the steadfast Sun. Words once my stock are wanting to commend So sure a Scholar and so good a Friend, Who studying peace and shunning civil rage Enjoy’d his youth and now enjoys his age* *As he did until sadly taken from us some few months after the achievement of his 90th year. Certain it is that he will live on in the memories and affections of those many Jesuans who knew him.

The above tribute was delivered to a celebratory gathering in the Fellows’ Garden in the presence of Geoff and Joan.

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Professor Raymond Freeman was born on 6 January 1932 and died on 1 May 2022 aged 90.

Professor Freeman was known as ‘Ray’. He was the former John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Magnetic Resonance, a Fellow of Jesus College from 1987 and Emeritus Fellow from 1999. He was a popular mentor to students and colleague to his peers. His career was dedicated to the investigation of new techniques in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. He had a significant hand in many of the techniques which are now used on a day-to-day basis in NMR facilities around the world, and which revolutionised NMR as an analytical technique. NMR is today the prime analytical tool for the study of molecular structure and dynamics.

Ray was born in Nottingham and attended Nottingham High School, where he won an open scholarship to Lincoln College, Oxford. He deferred his admission to complete his military service in the Royal Air Force as a radar instructor. In 1951, he resumed his studies under the tutorship of Rex Richards, who was later knighted for services to magnetic resonance. Sir Rex, who became Vice-Chancellor of Oxford, was a father figure and mentor to Ray. It was during Ray’s doctoral research under Rex’s supervision that he first encountered NMR. Post-war, large quantities of surplus electronic equipment were available for adaptation into NMR transmitters and receivers. Ray’s doctorate was on the spectra of less common nuclei, and included making measurements on explosive materials. In later years he told the story of disposing of potentially dangerous samples by burying them in the grass bank outside the laboratory window.

Initially, Ray’s research focused on the theory and application of double resonance and double-quantum effects, using them to determine relative signs of the coupling constants between nuclei, and also worked on spin relaxation. He was one of the dominant forces in the great flowering of NMR techniques that was enabled by the advent of Fourier transform methods and computer-controlled spectrometers. Ray was also a great creator of tongue-in-cheek acronyms for new experiments. Techniques developed in his group included the 'INADEQUATE' pulse sequence for tracing out the structures of organic molecules through the bonds between carbon atoms, the ‘INEPT’ pulse sequence for enhancing the sensitivity of weakly magnetic nuclei, and the ‘DANTE’ and ‘BURP’ methods for selectively exciting chosen ranges of resonance frequencies. Ray was one of the first to investigate the methodology and applications of two-dimensional NMR, a technique now routinely exploited for molecular structure determination.

Multidimensional experiments using the INEPT module are central to modern structural biology in solution, allowing the three-dimensional structures of proteins to be mapped out in exquisite detail. He also made major contributions to the development of broadband decoupling methods, enhancing their efficiency by orders of magnitude using intricate cycles of composite or adiabatic radiofrequency pulses, and to novel data sampling methods. Every commercial NMR spectrometer uses techniques pioneered by Ray, and his work played a major part in making NMR an essential tool for synthetic chemists both in academia and in industry.

After his DPhil, Ray joined the magnetic resonance group of Anatole Abragam at the CEA Saclay in France in 1957. He carried out research on the super-regenerative oscillator under the supervision of NMR pioneer Robert Pound (of Harvard University).

He then joined the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, UK, for three years.

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In 1961, Ray took leave of absence to spend a year working on double irradiation techniques with Wes Anderson at Varian Associates in Palo Alto, California. He was fascinated by the research and his young family was happy there; they ended up staying for 12 years. At Varian, he researched double resonance, double-quantum effects, spin-lattice relaxation and Fourier transform NMR, and contributed to the development of new Varian NMR spectrometers.

Returning to Oxford as a University Lecturer and Fellow of Magdalen College, Ray started his own research group focused on high-resolution NMR methodology.

Ray was a superb communicator and was often the 'star turn' at NMR conferences – his presentations were characteristically littered with wry jokes and self-deprecating remarks, and illustrated by his beautiful hand-drawn slides and cartoons. He was a great mentor to his students, who remember him very fondly. Many have gone on to achieve significant success in their own right, and all acknowledge Ray as a significant influence on their careers.

Professor Paul Attfield first met Ray at Magdalen College, Oxford, when Ray was his tutor. By coincidence, the two men crossed paths decades later as Fellows at Jesus College. Paul said, “He was a very good tutor, very patient and well-informed. Although he was already very distinguished, he always spent time with us and provided a good reading list. When it came to teaching his favourite subject of NMR, we’d receive a longer reading list than normal! He was modest and unassuming. He loved the science for its own sake, never for personal glory.”

Professor Gareth Morris was also an undergraduate student of Ray’s. He said: “Ray was a wonderful tutor, absolutely on the ball. It was his first year of teaching and he took it very seriously, mugging up on every subject the night before, so he had everything at his fingertips. I chose him as my supervisor in the fourth year because I knew and liked him and liked his research area. For me, as it was for many subsequent students, this was the best academic decision I ever made, and one that changed the course of my life. For those of us who had the good fortune to work with him, it is not the great scientist that we remember, but rather the man: warm, humane, generous, devoid of self-importance, full of life and dry humour. He enriched lives as well as science.”

Another of Ray’s students, Barbara Domayne-Hayman added, “More than anything, I remember how, for someone like me who was never gifted at Physical Chemistry (I went on to do a DPhil in bio-organic!), Ray managed to make even the most daunting of subjects approachable, interesting and fun.”

Professor Geoffrey Bodenhausen joined Ray’s Oxford laboratory as one of his first postgraduate students, in 1975. He wrote: “There are many famous scientists who advised numerous PhD students and post-docs, but I do not know any who inspired such a strong sense of shared values […] Ray had a unique sense that research should be a source of fun. Although, wisely, none of his followers tried to copy his unique style of lecturing, his sense of humour, his love for cartoons, his calligraphic script, his memorable acronyms (like INEPT and INADEQUATE), all of us were deeply impressed by his imagination, his unobtrusive manner of advising his students, and his sense of humour.” Geoffrey also remembered the Ideas Book that Ray encouraged in his research group saying that Ray once wrote: “The Ideas Book made it clear that everyone was involved. Every proposed new experiment could blossom through the operation of the Ideas Book, and the entire group could take credit.”

Ray received the degree of Doctor of Science in 1975 and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1979. He received the Leverhulme Medal in 1990, for the introduction of new techniques in high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, particularly the development of two-dimensional Fourier transformation methods.

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He received a Queen’s Medal from the Royal Society in 2002 in recognition of his seminal contributions to the development and understanding of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) methods. After a sabbatical in Pasadena he published A Handbook of Magnetic Resonance (1987, Longman), followed by Spin Choreography (1989, OUP) and Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry and Medicine (2003, OUP). During his time in Cambridge, he published a huge number of papers, continuing into his 80s. Much of his work was carried out in close collaboration with Ēriks Kupče, who was based first in Cambridge and then at Varian. Topics included selective excitation, quantum computing, new sampling methods for multidimensional NMR, Hadamard spectroscopy, radiating damping, and parallel acquisition with multiple receivers.

Ray was devoted to his wife of 64 years, Anne-Marie Freeman. She was born in the Haute Savoie region of France. She describes Ray as having, “A passion for science and a great sense of humour”. They first met in Oxford through a love of jazz music; he was President of the University Jazz Club, and she was an exchange student studying English. They married in Paris and had five children, and now five grandsons. Ray loved listening to traditional jazz all his life and was also a keen swimmer and cyclist. The College held a memorial service in the Chapel for Ray’s family and friends on 15 October 2022.

Written by the Editor with thanks to Anne-Marie Freeman, Professor Geoffrey Bodenhausen, Professor Paul Attfield, Professor Gareth Morris and Dr Barbara Domayne-Hayman for their contributions.

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Old Members ASHFORD, John Gordon Charles (1959) died on 16 January 2022 aged 81.

Charles Ashford was born on 4 February 1940 in Bermuda. Educated at Sherborne School he came up in 1959 to read Natural Sciences, graduating BA 1962. He moved abroad at the first opportunity, first to Canada and then to the USA, where he thrived in the rapidly developing computer industry. After some years in the flight test department of Boeing in Seattle he moved to California and worked as a consultant, finding his skills as a systems analyst in great demand. He was a fan of motor racing, from competing with his beloved Mini in the 1950s to off-roading in the Californian desert, but his greatest passion was hang-gliding – abruptly curtailed by a catastrophic accident that he was lucky to survive. In later life he enjoyed hiking in the Santa Monica mountains.

He is fondly remembered by his sister, his nephew and niece, and four great-nieces.

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Anthony Barton, the younger brother of Christopher (1945), was born on 6 July 1930 in County Kildare, Ireland. Educated at Stowe School he came up in 1948 to read Modern & Medieval Languages. After graduating he returned to the family wine making business in Bordeaux and worked for the merchant business of Barton & Guestier. Following the firm’s acquisition by Seagram he remained as export director before setting up his own company, Les Vins Fins Anthony Barton, in 1967. In the 1980s he inherited the family wine estate of Château Langoa and Léoville Barton and subsequently developed its

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reputation. In 2007 he was named Decanter’s Man of the Year. He remained involved in the business for the rest of his life but latterly passed over control to his daughter and her family.

He married Eva Sarauw in 1955; they had a son, Thomas (sadly he died in 1990), and a daughter, Lilian.

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BAXTER, Samuel Paul (1960) died on 13 October 2021 aged 79.

Sam Baxter was born on 30 April 1942 in Leeds. Educated at the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe, he came up in 1960 to read Natural Sciences with a view to qualifying as a doctor. He graduated BA 1963; MB BChir 1966. His clinical and specialist training was undertaken at University College Hospital and the Maudsley Hospital. He joined Charing Cross Hospital as a consultant psychiatrist; later he was Medical Director in West Wales.

He married Linda in 1964; they had one son.

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Peter Blaker, the son of Guy (1922) and great nephew of Richard (1898), was born on 10 November 1936 in London. Educated at Lancing College he came up, after his National Service with the British Army, in 1958 to read Law. He graduated BA 1961; MA 1968; LLB 1981. After Jesus he returned to the Army, to the 1st Green Jackets 43rd and 52nd where he served for a further 23 years rising to be a Lieutenant Colonel.

While in the army he completed five tours of what was Malaya and Borneo, including serving during the Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation and its aftermath and later he became Commanding Officer of the Cambridge University OTC (1979-1982). After a brief period working for the Foreign & Commonwealth Office and then Newdata Publishing Limited, he became the Secretary of the General Council and Register of Osteopaths. He ended his working life with two part-time jobs, first as administrator of the Blackie Foundation Trust and second as co-ordinator of the British Southern Slav Society. After retiring he bought a green Volkswagen long wheelbase van and turned it into his and his wife’s mobile country cottage and during the next decade they went all over Europe. He remained very loyal to his prep school, Broxgrove, his College and the army; he supported them throughout his life, arranging lunch parties for his fellow former pupils, coaching and cheering on the College rowers and serving as President of a branch of the British Legion.

He married Hiltegund Maria Bastian, the sister-in-law of Basil Barbour (1958), in 1969; they had a daughter, Alexandra, and two sons, Dominic (1999) and Nicholas (1994).

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COLLIER, Richard Tregonwell (1951) died on 15 January 2022 aged 91.

Richard Collier was born on 17 August 1930 in Oxford. Educated at Wellington College he came up in 1951 following National Service with the Royal Engineers. He read Mechanical Sciences, graduating BA 1954. He went on to enjoy a career as a Civil Engineer, and to establish Collier & Henry Concrete Limited. During his spare time, he and his wife travelled extensively, including cruising in their catamaran Tinkerbell

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around the UK, in the North Sea, the Baltic, the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. He married Anne Senior in 1956; they had three sons, Neil, Roger and Anthony, and lived near Manchester for 57 years.

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COOK, Malcolm Roy (1952) died on 11 June 2021 aged 89.

Roy Cook was born on 27 March 1932 in Carlton, Nottingham. Educated at Nottingham High School he came up in 1952 following National Service. He read History, graduating BA 1955. He went on to pursue a career as a teacher and taught at Watford Grammar School and then for 32 years at Kingswood School, Bath, for the last 15 years as Second Master. Until the end of his life his passion was music, particularly choral singing.

He married Audrey May Carter in 1957; they had two daughters and two sons including Timothy (1981). After being a widower for five years, he married Susan Margaret Harding in 1987 and gained three step-sons.

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COUSINS, John Stewart (1963) died on 7 August 2021 aged 81.

John Cousins was born on 31 July 1940 in Brentwood, Essex. Educated at Brentwood School he came up in 1963 after five years in the Royal Navy. He read English and Law, graduating BA 1966; MA 1974. After graduating he joined Kleinwort Benson. He was their Far East representative, opening the Kleinwort Benson office in Tokyo in 1970 and the Hong Kong office in 1973. Following a brief period at Porodisa Group (Indonesia), he joined De Zoete & Bevan and later became a partner. Following De Zoete & Bevan's merger with Barclays Merchant Bank he became Managing Director of the newly formed BZW Equities Ltd and then President du Directoire of BZW Puget Mahe in Paris.

He was also a non-executive director of the city wine merchants, Corney and Barrow.

Latterly he divided his time between London and the Lot Valley in France.

He married Anne Elizabeth O’Leary in 1970; they had one daughter. He married Geraldine Anne Bowers in 1979.

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Jerry Day was born on 19 December 1936 in London. Educated at Rugby School he came up in 1957 to read History. He graduated BA 1960. He went on to pursue a career as a prep school master.

He married Diana Huntly in 1971; they had a son and a daughter.

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Martin Drury was born on 18 April 1954 in Godalming, Surrey. Educated at Christ’s Hospital, Horsham, he came up in 1972 to read Classics. He graduated BA 1975; MA 1979. In 1982, after a period as a lecturer in Classics at the University of Birmingham, he moved to Merchant Taylors’ School where he remained for the next 34 years and was admired for the mix of gravity and levity that he brought to both the classroom and the Common Room. Following his retirement to Islington, the London Library became a regular haunt, as did the Globe and Almeida theatres and the British Film Institute.

He married Rose in 1978; they had two children. His long-term partner was Gill Lonsdale.

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EVANS, Christopher John Gillingham (1956) died on 2 January 2022 aged 86.

Chris Evans was born on 10 February 1935 in Tamworth. Educated at Bristol Grammar School he came up in 1956 following serving as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Corps of Signals for his National Service. He read Natural Sciences and graduated BA 1959; MA 1963. He spent his working career as a plant and site manager in the smelting and chemical refining industries which took him all over the world. Throughout his life, he was an avid sportsman playing rugby for Bristol RFC and Gloucestershire and running. He competed in the inaugural London Marathon finishing in a time of 3 hours 37 minutes and 51 seconds as well as completing 50 Gwent league races as a veteran runner. As a keen sportsman he enjoyed seeing others thrive and volunteered at the Salford Triathlon and the 2002 Manchester Commonwealth Games supporting the South African team. In his later years, he joined the Bowdon Croquet Club and became an avid player. He was a vibrant athletic coach and latterly he gained his level 1 coaching certificate so he could pass on his knowledge of croquet.

He married Patricia Mackenzie in 1960; they had a son and a daughter and five grandchildren.

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Martin Evans was born on 28 April 1950 in Lusaka, Zambia. Educated at the City of London School, he came up in 1969 to read Geography. He graduated BA 1972; MA 1976. He went on to take a qualification in town and country planning at Manchester University. He worked in Kent and the London Borough of Waltham Forest and ended his working career as the strategy manager for Portsmouth City Council.

He married Pamela Stratton in 1977; they had a daughter, Katherine, and a son, Thomas.

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EVERITT, James Edmund (1956) died on 1 February 2022 aged 85.

Jim Everitt was born on 25 February 1936 in London. Educated at Haileybury he came up in 1956 after completing National Service in the Royal Air Force. He read Mechanical Sciences, graduating BA 1959; MA 1969. He pursued a career in business and was Chief Executive Officer at Vickers plc and Chairman of a number of bodies including the Microbiological Research Authority and Summit. He was appointed OBE in 1998.

He married Deidre Stanbridge in 1959; they had two sons and a daughter.

He married Christine Prince in 1980. He married Nicola Saunders in 2012.

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GILES, Roy Curtis died on 11 July 2021 aged 88.

Roy Giles was born on 6 December 1932 in Barnet. Educated at Queen Elizabeth’s School, Barnet, he came up in 1953 to read Modern & Medieval Languages.

He graduated BA 1956; MA 1960. After graduating he worked as a teacher at Dean Close School. Four years later he was appointed a Lektor at the University of Hamburg. Whilst in Germany he met Christine von Alten; they married in 1963 and soon after they returned to England. Roy spent the next 14 years teaching at Eton College, latterly as Head of Modern Languages. In 1974 he was appointed Headmaster at Highgate School. He remained in the post, until he retired in 1989.

Throughout his life he was engaged in voluntary work; he sat on the House of Bishops’

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Panel for Marriage Education and worked with the Busoga Trust, a charity which supports water sanitation in Uganda. Friends remember him as a person in whom one could safely confide and seek advice.

He and Christine had two sons and a daughter.

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GREAVES, John Peter (1952) died on 16 December 2021 aged 89.

Peter Greaves was born on 26 March 1932 in Cardiff. Educated at Kingswood School, Bath, following National Service he came up in 1952. He read Natural Sciences, graduating BA 1955; MA 1959. He subsequently undertook a doctorate at the Royal Free Hospital Medical School, London, graduating PhD 1959. He went on to pursue a career in public health and in particular nutrition; he worked all over the globe and at retirement was the Senior Nutrition Adviser for UNICEF. He helped create the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding (Innocenti, 1990) that became the basis for the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative which continues to be the global standard for maternity care.

He married Claudine Anne Morgan in 1958; they had a son and a daughter.

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GRINDLEY, Alan John (1950) died on 19 December 2021 aged 89.

Alan Grindley, the younger brother of Peter (1947), was born on 27 December 1931 in Stone, Staffordshire. Educated at Charterhouse he came up in 1950 to read Mechanical Sciences. He graduated BA 1953; MA 1960. His career started with an apprenticeship at the engineering firm, British Thomson Houston. Afterwards he joined Coalville’s, a steel company, later amalgamating with other firms to become British Steel. He moved to Scotland in the 60s; here his life revolved around Ravenscraig, but in his last two years, he worked on the creation of Hunterston, the deep-water port. In 1978, he joined Ewbank and Partners, in Brighton. From then onwards, he remained there, as it became Ewbank Preece, then part of Mott McDonald. He specialised in Hydro-Electric Power generation and worked on projects in Kenya, Uganda and Sri Lanka.

He married Flora May Dallas in 1968; they had two sons.

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HAPPÉ, Peter died on 3 February 2021 aged 88.

Peter Happé was born on 22 June 1932 in Kent. Educated at: Palmer’s School, Essex; Queens’ College, Cambridge; and Birkbeck College, London; he undertook his doctorate in medieval English Literature at the University of London, graduating PhD 1966.

He went on to pursue a career in teaching rising to become Principal of Barton Peveril Sixth Form College, Eastleigh. Alongside his teaching he continued his interest in medieval drama and his first book, English Mystery Plays was published in 1975. In 1978, he was appointed a Schoolteacher Fellow Commoner at Jesus College. Following his time with the college his book Four Morality Plays (1979) was published; his other work includes Medieval English Drama (1984), John Bale (1996), Towneley Cycle: Unity and Diversity (2007), as well as scholarly editions of plays of Ben Jonson.

He was awarded the Medal of Honour by the City of Tours in 2002 and elected a Visiting Fellow at the University of Southampton. Professor Emeritus John McGavin of Southampton University said: “Former postgraduates and colleagues speak uniformly

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of his kindness, his encouragement, and his exemplary decency in questions and discussion. In medieval drama circles, he was one of the most significant landmarks.”

He had three children. His long-term partner was Glenda Leeming.

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HAYTHORNTHWAITE, Richard John (1948) died on 6 January 2022 aged 92.

Richard Haythornthwaite was born on 2 September 1929 in Hemel Hempstead.

Educated at Epsom College he came up in 1948 to read Natural Sciences with a view to becoming a doctor. He graduated BA 1951; MA 1955. He trained at Westminster Hospital, London, graduating MB BChir, 1954. After four years as a Medical Officer in the Royal Army Medical Corps he became a general practitioner. He worked in Bloxwich, near Walsall, and Loughborough, before emigrating to New Zealand; he met his first patient, who had been injured whilst shearing sheep 45 minutes after he arrived at his new home. He was very proud to have completed his 50th year as a general practitioner before finally retiring. He was passionate about the importance of nutrition for health and about first aid training, receiving a long service medal for the latter from St John’s Ambulance. He was a keen lawn bowler and was President of the Cheviot and United Bowling Clubs. He was also deeply involved in the Weka Pass Railway Society.

He married Joan Rachel Heath in 1956; they had three sons: David, Philip and Andrew.

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JACKSON, Brian Donald Leonard (1945) died on 14 May 2022 aged 95.

Brian Jackson was born on 27 January 1927 in Coventry. Educated at Bablake School, Coventry, he came up in 1945. He read English, graduating BA 1948; MA 1952.

He pursued a career in teaching and was Head of English at Kenilworth Grammar School and then Kenilworth School Sixth Form Centre. In retirement he was Deputy Chairman of Kenilworth History and Archaeology Society.

He married Zena Nuttall in 1952; they had two sons and a daughter.

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JORDAN, Robert Hamilton (1958) died on 29 December 2021 aged 82.

Robert Jordan was born on 19 February 1939 in Dublin. Educated at Bristol Grammar School, he came up in 1958 to read Classics. He graduated BA 1961; PGCE 1962; MA 1966. After graduating he pursued a career as a teacher and taught at Sevenoaks School, Kent, and the Methodist College, Belfast. He enjoyed writing and performing in the staff pantomimes as well as singing in the Belfast Philharmonic Choir. Whilst teaching he became fascinated by Byzantine Monastery documents and undertook an MA and began his doctorate at Queen’s University, Belfast. In 1994, he joined the Institute of Byzantine Studies at Queen’s as Assistant Director. He graduated PhD from Queen’s in 1997. His published work includes The Synaxarion of the Monastery of the Theotokos Evergetis (2000) and The Life and Death of Theodore of Stoudios (2021). As well as contributing to academic life at Queen's he also spent much of his spare time translating for Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and helping students from around the world.

He married Margaret Kay Patterson in 1964; they had a son and a daughter.

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KEMP, Ronald Hugh (1950) died on 28 August 2021 aged 91.

Ron Kemp, the younger brother of Alan Kemp (1945), was born on 22 March 1930 in London. Educated at Chigwell School he came up in 1950 following National Service.

He read Natural Sciences and English, graduating BA 1953; MA 1972. He went on to undertake Forest Research for the Colonial Service and the Federal Government of Nigeria. In 1969 he returned to the UK and took up a post at the University of Oxford rising to be the Senior Research Officer at the Unit of Tropical Forestry Silviculture in the Commonwealth Forestry Institute. From 1977 he was Forestry Adviser in the Official Development Assistance section of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office then Senior Forestry Adviser till retirement in 1990. After that he did the same work on a consultancy basis for several years whilst also serving as the Chairman of the UK Tropical Forest Forum.

He married Elizabeth Ann Hughes in 1971; they had a son and a daughter.

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KITSON, Stephen Richard (1974) died on 15 July 2021 aged 66.

Stephen Kitson was born on 31 January 1955 in Morley, West Yorkshire. Educated at Batley Grammar School he came up in 1974 to read Medicine. He graduated BA 1977; MB BChir 1980; MA 1981. He went into general practice and was the principal doctor at Kingswood Health Centre, Bristol.

He married Denise in 2008. He had three children, Sean, who sadly predeceased him, Emily and William.

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LANGLEY, Richard Leslie (1952) died on 18 December 2021 aged 89.

Dick Langley was born on 25 July 1932 in Bradford. Educated at Sedbergh School, following National Service, he came up in 1952. He read Modern & Medieval Languages and Law, graduating BA 1955; MA 1962. He went on to become a careers adviser, working first in London and then, after the arrival of his daughters, he and his family moved to Exeter where he was Head of the University’s Career Service.

In semi-retirement he ran a picture framing business in Ottery St Mary, Devon.

He married Elizabeth Leigh in 1962; they had two daughters.

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LEIGH, Norman Fleming (1949) died on 30 August 2021 aged 91.

Norman Leigh was born on 9 July 1930 in Preston. Educated at St Bees School, Cumberland, he came up in 1949 to read Natural Sciences with a view to becoming a doctor. He graduated BA 1952; MB BChir 1957; MA 1982. He went on to become a general practitioner and was the senior partner at a practice in Preston. He was also a Medical Officer for Lancashire Polytechnic and Medical Officer for St Catherine’s Hospice, Preston.

He married Virginia Eastwood in 1959; they had a son and a daughter.

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LOVELESS, John Alan (1938) died on 28 June 2021 aged 102.

Alan Loveless was born on 16 June 1919 in Hampshire. Educated at Wellington College he came up in 1938 to read Natural Sciences with a view to becoming a doctor.

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He undertook his clinical training at the Middlesex Hospital, London, and from there worked as a junior doctor in the Midlands. Working long hours, he encountered daily challenges particularly dealing with the high mortality rates on the children’s ward. At the end of the Second World War, he was stationed in the Far East. One of his patients was a young Japanese officer sentenced on death row in Changai jail for war-crimes.

Alan took a huge interest in this man and helped him find faith. In later years he regained contact with the man’s family. In 1949, he joined his father in practice in Ramsgate. He married Mary Rayson in 1951 and together they established a lovely home for their six children. In retirement he took on the post of hospice chaplain to the Pilgrim’s Hospice in Margate. From its early years, Alan was a keen supporter of the Christian Medical Fellowship. His enthusiasm for both medicine and his Christian faith is illustrated in his appointment as a medic at a Christian hospital in North India (at the age of 88) where he brought great encouragement to both patients and staff.

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MACDOUGALL, James Douglas (1950) died on 6 February 2018 aged 84.

James Macdougall was born on 12 June 1933 in Cheam, Surrey. Educated at Tiffin School, Kingston, he came up in 1950 to read Mathematics. He graduated BA 1953; MA 1991. He went on to pursue a career as a scientist for the UK Atomic Energy Authority at AEE Winfrith, Dorset .

He married Barbara Koterla in 1961; they had a son and two daughters.

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MACKENZIE SMITH, Peter (1964) died on 20 August 2020 aged 74.

Peter Mackenzie Smith was born on 12 January 1946 in Great Yarmouth. Educated at Downside School he came up in 1964 to read Classics. He graduated BA 1967.

He spent the majority of his career in the British Council and left after 28 years to work for Marconi. When that collapsed, he set up GetEnergy, which subsequently became FieldReady Ltd which he chaired.

He married Sandra in 1973; they had three daughters and one of their sons-in-law is Richard Evans (2003).

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O’NEILL Malcolm Henry (1954) died on 16 October 2019 aged 86.

Malcolm O’Neill was born on 26 August 1933 in Westcliffe-on-Sea, Southend, Essex.

Educated at Northgate Grammar School, Ipswich, he undertook his National Service in Kenley, Surrey, as a Radar Operator, before coming up in 1954. He read History, graduating BA 1957; MA 1963. He spent his career in teaching and was both head of History at Sheldon Heath Comprehensive School, Birmingham, and the Chief Examiner in History at what was then the East Anglian Examinations Board. He wrote Vietnam and her Neighbours (1970) and in retirement was a Steward and Trustee at Beccles & District Museum.

He married Doreen Ellen Dockerill in 1957; they had a son and a daughter.

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PATTINSON, John Lawrence (1948) died on 8 December 2021 aged 95.

John Pattinson, the son of Lawrence Pattinson (1909), was born on 17 June 1926 in London. Educated at Rugby School he came up in 1948 following service in the Royal

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Artillery. He read Agriculture, graduating BA 1951; MA 1958. After initially pursuing a career in agriculture and then agricultural sales he moved to financial planning, first with Sunlife of Canada UK, and then setting up his own firm, Calkin Pattinson Co Ltd. He married Katharine Johnston in 1952, they had two daughters and a son.

He married Mary Cragoe formerly Ratcliff née Quirke in 1978. After being widowered, he married Sarah Blanche Birkle née Horne in 2003, and in so doing made his godson his stepson and gained two stepdaughters as well.

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PHILLIPS, Nigel Godfrey (1953) died on 17 July 2021 aged 87.

Nigel Phillips, the son of Edward (1919), was born in Jinan, China, on 15 March 1934.

Along with his family, he was interned by the Japanese in Longhua camp near Shanghai from March 1943 until September 1945. On the family’s return to the UK, Nigel boarded at Mill Hill School. He came up to Jesus in 1953 to read Classics, graduating BA 1956; MA 1974. After Cambridge, he undertook National Service in the Navy and was selected to study Russian. His first jobs were at the Bank of England (starting in 1958) and the Central Office of Information (starting in 1962). In 1964, he was taken on by the School of Oriental and African Studies to learn Malay and join the teaching faculty.

He began teaching Malay and Indonesian language and literature at SOAS in 1967 and continued until his retirement in 1999. In 1974 he went to West Sumatra on study leave, focusing his interest on sijobang, a form of sung narrative performed on festive occasions and learned mainly from oral sources. His work in transcribing one of the main West Sumatran stories formed the basis of his doctorate, awarded in 1979.

His life was considerably affected by illness. His wife suffered from multiple sclerosis and he was for many years her main support. His son suffered from both MS and schizophrenia. Nigel himself was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2000 and suffered a slow but inexorable decline in health, the most difficult aspect of which was that his lifelong stammer became very much worse, making speech all but impossible.

He faced all these challenges with courage, patience and even humour.

He married Elizabeth Hazel Chesterman in 1957; they had two daughters, a son, and two grandsons. A great-grandson was born just three days before Nigel’s death.

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PINES, Malcolm Irvin Manoah (1943) died on 3 July 2021 aged 96.

Malcolm Pines was born on 25 April 1925 in Whitechapel, London. Educated at the City of London School, he came up in 1943. He read Natural Sciences with a view to qualifying as a doctor and graduated BA 1945; MB BChir 1948; MA 1951. He went on to work as a consultant psychiatrist latterly at the Maudsley Hospital and then the Tavistock Clinic. Over his career is practice evolved and his work overlapped with psychotherapy. His published work includes Circular Reflections: Selected Papers on Group Analysis and Psychoanalysis (1998).

He married Evelyn Iris Mary Lavender in 1957; they had two sons and a daughter.

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Dai Rees was born on 30 November 1949 in Bristol. Educated at Watford Grammar School he came up in 1968 to read Mathematics. He graduated BA 1971; MA 1975.

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After graduating he went to University of Keele and trained to be a teacher. He then taught Maths and Statistics in different secondary schools from 1972 until 1978. He went on to take his doctorate and then in 1980 started working for the Open University as a systems programmer, a research adviser and in the academic Computing service.

In 1984 he began to work for National Semiconductor. Two years later he moved to Germany and became a Senior Staff Application Engineer. In 1989 he was appointed at the European Patent Office as a Patent Examiner.

He married Sally Witts in 1973; they had a son and a daughter. He married Marion Heegner in 2019 although they met in 1996.

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REES, John Louis (1948) died 3 July 2021 aged 93.

John Rees was born on 29 July 1927 in Tunstall, Staffordshire. Educated at Felsted School, following National Service, he came up in 1948. He read Modern & Medieval Languages, graduating BA 1950; MA 1955. He went on to pursue a career in international haulage and was the chief executive of Transcontainer Express Limited for eighteen years.

He married June Rosamond Lloyd in 1953; they had two sons.

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Brother Teilo was born on 31 March 1931 in London and grew up in Carmarthen.

Educated at Harrow School he came up in 1950 to read Modern & Medieval Languages.

He graduated BA 1953; PGCE 1954; MA 1957. After graduating he joined St Mary’s College, Llandeilo, to teach French. He was subsequently ordained and served as an assistant priest before leaving the priesthood. In 1964 he joined Dexion Ltd, working as an Overseas Companies Administrator. He moved to the Wellcome Foundation and worked in various posts until 1988. He joined the Cistercians at the Abbey of Our Lady and St Samson, Caldey Island, Tenby, Pembrokeshire, in 2000. He was interested in language and the work of Lord Byron; in 2002 his translation of Lord Byron’s Life in Italy

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REILLY, Stephen Hugh (1980) died on 20 July 2021 aged 61.

Stephen Reilly, a cousin of Ian White (1977) and Janet White (1981), was born on 9 December 1959 in Belfast. Educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and following two years studying and working in France, he came up in 1980 to read Modern & Medieval Languages, graduating BA 1983; MA 1987. Following teaching studies at Stranmillis College, Belfast, he trained as an accountant, working with PWC in Bristol. From there he moved to Severn Trent Water, becoming Finance Director.

He retired in 2006 and then lived in Wales.

He enjoyed his later years living in Wales and France with his wife, Tina Alwyn.

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Mike Richards was born on 17 October 1933 in Falmouth. Educated at Falmouth Grammar School, he came up in 1954 following National Service with the Royal Navy,

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during which he was seconded to the Joint Services School for Linguists and became a Russian interpreter. He read Part I History and Part II Law, graduating BA 1957; MA 1961. After a brief period with Proctor & Gamble and then teaching History, he practised as a solicitor from 1962 to 1993, becoming Senior Partner of C Vincent Downing in Falmouth. In 1982 he was appointed to chair tribunals (principally Medical Appeals and Disability) in the South-West, a position he held until retirement in 2005.

He was chairman of the Board of Governors of Falmouth College of Arts from 1988 to 2000, overseeing its transformation into University College, Falmouth, the foundation of the present Falmouth University. In 2001 he was awarded an Hon DLitt by Plymouth University for services to Higher Education. He was elected a Younger Brother of Trinity House (a lighthouse authority).

He married Jennifer Hodge in 1963; they had one daughter and two sons.

He married Catherine Dinn in 1991; they had two daughters.

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ROBINSON, Kenneth Francis (1944) died on 12 August 2021 aged 96.

Ken Robinson was born on 5 February 1925 in Reigate, Surrey. Educated at Charterhouse he came up in 1944 to read Natural Sciences with a view to becoming a doctor. While at Cambridge he met his future wife Jane Callow. He went on to do his clinical studies at Guy's Hospital, London, qualifying in February 1950. After house jobs at Guy's, he did his two years National Service in the RAF. His chosen specialty was General Practice and in 1955 he became a partner in Repton, Derbyshire. He was medical officer to Repton Preparatory School and then Repton School. Outside of his medicine he was a keen gardener and enjoyed travelling widely often on birdwatching trips.

He married Jane in 1950; they had three children: Elizabeth, John and Philip, all of whom followed both their parents into medicine.

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SHAW, Peter Nicholas (1972) died on 26 February 2022 aged 68.

Peter Shaw was born on 24 February 1954 in Norwich. Educated at Norwich School he came up in 1972 to read Architecture. He graduated BA 1975; MA 1979. He played rugby for the college and in the Easter 1975 term rowed for the rugby boat in the Bumps. He was delighted to win his oar. After Cambridge, he moved to London and went on to pursue a career as an architect and was a partner at RHWL Architects.

During his career he designed and built concert halls and office buildings in the UK and around the world. On retiring he pursued his hobby of fine art with drawings of university and college buildings, cathedrals and churches, ‘the Chimney’ being a favourite.

He married Sally Rutherford in July 1979; they had three children: Clare, Jane and John.

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SILVER, Harold (1949) died on 3 August 2021 aged 92.

Harold Silver was born on 25 October 1928 in Hull. Educated at Hull Grammar School, following National Service, he came up in 1949 to read English and Russian.

He graduated BA 1952; MA 1956. After graduating he worked as a translator and

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interpreter in Vienna, Geneva and west Africa. Back in the UK in 1956, he taught at Hull College of Commerce, and then Huddersfield College of Technology. In 1961 he joined Chelsea College of Science and Technology in London, where, after the college became part of the University of London, he was reader and professor in social history and education. In 1978 he moved to Bulmershe College, Reading, as its principal.

He worked with numerous universities in the UK and US, in later years as a freelance consultant, supervising post graduate students, supporting research and receiving many honorary awards. He was commited to opening up educational opportunities and removing barriers and worked with organisations such as Ravenswood (now Norwood-Ravenswood), Cued Speech and Deafax. His published work includes A Social History of Education in England (1973), An Educational War on Poverty (1991) and Tradition and Higher Education (2007). He was also a columnist for the Times Higher Education Supplement for several years.

He married Pam Cutler in 1950; they had two daughters, Claire and Vicki.

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SOLOMONIDES, Panos Demetriou (1945) died on 1 July 2021 aged 97.

Panos Solomonides was born on 14 May 1924 in Famagusta Cyprus. Educated at Famagusta Secondary School he came up in 1945 to read Economics. He graduated BA 1947; MA 1952. He went on to study Astronomy at the University of California and Economics at University College London. He was President of the Astronautical Society of Cyprus and an elected member of the International Astronautical Federation.

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STRAVROU-LONG, Xavier (2019) died on 3 October 2021 aged 20.

Xav Stavrou-Long was born on 15 May 2001 in Brent. Educated at Merchant Taylors’ School, Northwood, he came up in 2019 to read History. The College Junior Common Room President Jacob Powell (2019) paid tribute to him saying, Xav was ‘an amazing friend to many, we will remember him for his wit, intelligence and humour’. His Director of Studies, Dr Michael Edwards said: ‘Xavier was a bright and incisive student who wrote thoughtful and very intelligent essays at great speed. Outside of work, I particularly remember his vocal enthusiasm for both American football and eighteenth-century Hapsburg monarchs, a combination not often found in Cambridge. He was always in exuberant motion, rushing from supervisions and meetings to musical and sporting commitments; Xavier fitted a great deal into his time at Jesus, but never at the cost of his friendships and his work.’

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Matt Taub was born on 16 June 1926 in Leipzig, Germany. Educated at Christ’s College, Finchley, St Paul's School, London, and at what was then University College, Nottingham, he came up 1946 to undertake post graduate studies in Electronic Engineering.

He graduated MSc 1950; PhD 1982. His early career included work for the Ericsson Telephone Company in Beeston, Nottingham, and LEO computers, followed by a move to IBM Hursley in 1957, from where he retired in 1987. Throughout his career he was involved in research on various aspects of computing hardware, including magnetic core logic circuits and the design of microcomputer bus systems. He had a wide range of interests, including playing flute and bassoon and, towards the end of his

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life, he helped regularly as a volunteer teaching assistant in a primary school near where he lived.

He married Vera Martynoff in 1958. Sadly, Vera died following giving birth to their son, Nick. He married Mildred Griffiths in 1971.

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THOMAS, Redmond Eric (1962) died 14 May 2021 aged 76.

Eric Thomas was born on 20 May 1944 in Fulmer, Buckinghamshire. Educated at City of London School, he came up in 1962 to read Mathematics. After gaining his BA in 1965 he went on to do the Diploma in Computer Science. He started work at the Atlas Laboratory, Chilton, which later merged with the Rutherford Laboratory. He stayed there all his career, working on numerous projects including the operating system for Sigma2, graphics and office automation. He played rounders and cricket for local teams, but his great love was table tennis, playing in the Didcot and District Table Tennis League.

He obtained a qualification as a County Umpire for the English Table Tennis Association.

He was a committed Christian and had a long association with Grove Methodist Church.

He was the church treasurer for many years, overseeing two major church extensions.

He was also the church organist. Ill health dogged him for the latter part of his life.

He married Judy Bowers in 1967; they had two children and two grandchildren.

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THORPE, Warren George (1974) died on 13 October 2021 aged 66.

George Thorpe, the son of W F H Thorpe (1940), the grandson of A F Thorpe (1910) and the great nephew of W H Thorpe (1930), was born on 14 March 1955 in Uganda. Educated at Bournemouth School, he came up in 1974 to read Geography.

He graduated BA 1977; MA 1981. After graduating he worked for Arjuna Wholefood Workers Co-operative and there, he met Viv Tribe, who he later married. He went on to study horticulture at the College of St Gregory and St Martin at Wye graduating MHort.

He was for a decade head gardener at Trinity College. After retiring from Trinity, he set up his own business called Bush Doctor. He and Viv moved to Girton in 1989 and George became a significant member of Girton village life.

He married Viv in 2021 after 42 years together.

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TILLETT, Jonathan Paul Kingsland (1961) died on 29 May 2020 aged 77.

Paul Tillett was born on 15 November 1942 in Oxford. Educated at Christ’s Hospital, Horsham, he came up in 1961 to read Mathematics. He graduated BA 1964; MA 1968; PhD 1969. He was elected a Research Fellow at Queens’ College in 1967. Two years later he joined the stockbrokers Fielding, Newson-Smith and Co. as an investment analyst. From 1976 until 1993 he worked for the British Bankers Association, rising to be a director. In 1993 he left the banking world, and came back to Cambridge in 1995.

He trained as a Citizens Advice Bureau advisor and meanwhile revised his Maths.

He returned to supervising undergraduates, first at Jesus then at Newnham, where he became Director of Studies in Maths. He finally retired in 2003 and devoted himself to learning foreign languages especially Russian.

He married Rachel Ellaby in 1970; they had two sons.

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TOOZE, John (1958) died on 19 May 2021 aged 83.

John Tooze was born on 16 May 1938 in Birmingham. Educated at Handsworth Boys' Grammar School, he came up in 1958 after his National Service with the Royal Army Educational Corps. He read Natural Sciences, graduating BA 1961. He received his PhD from King’s College, London, in 1965. After two years of post-doctoral work at Harvard University, he returned to King’s as a lecturer. He left to join Nature as an Assistant Editor and then in 1968 became the Deputy Editor. In 1973 he was appointed as Executive Secretary of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) and was the Scientific coordinator of the European Molecular Biology Conference, serving both for 21 years. In 1982 he founded the EMBO Journal. He also served as Scientific Coordinator (1982-1993) and Acting Director General (1993) of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory. In 1994 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and in the same year was appointed Director of Research Services at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund. From 2002-2005 he worked for Cancer Research UK, latterly as Director of Research Services. In 2005 he became Vice President for Scientific and Facility operations at The Rockefeller University, New York. His published work includes Molecular Biology of Tumour Viruses (1973); DNA Tumour Viruses (1980) (jtly w J D Watson); and Introduction to Protein Structure (1991) (jtly w C.I. Branden).

He married Sarah Margaret Wynn in 1962; they had two sons and one daughter including J. Adam (1996). He married Sharon Anne Queally in 1983; they had one son and one daughter.

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TOYE, John Francis Joseph (1961) died on 13 November 2021 aged 79.

John Toye was born on 7 October 1942 in Wisbech. Educated at Christ’s College, Finchley, he came up in 1961 to read History. He graduated BA 1964; MA 1968.

After a year at Harvard he took up a post in the Treasury and met his wife Janet Reason on a course for newly appointed Assistant Principals. He left the civil service to undertake a doctorate at the School of Oriental and African Studies. After carrying out research in India he became a Graduate Assistant at the Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge from 1972-74, followed by other roles in the Overseas Studies Committee: Research Officer, and Assistant Director of Development Studies from 1975-80 and a Fellow and tutor from 1972-80 at Wolfson College. Whilst at Wolfson, he continued as treasurer for the Wandsworth Community Relations Council and also took on the role of Chair for the Cambridge Community Relations Council. From 1976 to 2006 he was Chairman of the Board of the Journal of Development Studies. In 1980, he joined the Commodities Research Unit Ltd working in London and New York as Director of Research Coordination and later as a Non-executive Director. He was appointed in 1982 as Director of Development Studies at Swansea University of South Wales. It was during this time that he undertook research into Aid and Trade Provision (ATP) a policy that was intended to increase British trade at the same time as helping poor countries. In 1987, he was appointed Director of the Institute of Development Studies and Professorial Fellow of the University of Sussex, a position he held until 1997. From 1998 to 2000 he was Director of the Globalization and Development Strategies Division of the UN Conference on Trade and Development in Geneva. From 2000 to 2003 he was Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies at Oxford and Visiting Fellow of St Antony’s College.

He returned to Africa to study the operation of aid conditionality in Ghana, in the context of structural adjustment programmes. He also worked on aspects of poverty reduction policies in Tanzania, Zambia and Ethiopia. He was Chair of the Advisory Panel of the

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Department of International Development, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, and Professorial Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.

He married Janet in 1967; they had two children, Eleanor and Richard.

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WANDER, Georges Charles Andrew (1972) died on 8 March 2022 aged 68.

Georges Wander was born on 19 November 1953 in Berne, Switzerland. Educated at Malvern College he came up to read Medical Sciences, graduating BA 1975; MB BChir 1978; MA 1979. He went on to work as a General Practitioner in Torbay, Devon.

Georges was a gifted mechanic and developed an expertise in pre-war BSA motorcycles.

He married Deborah Mackay in 1981; they had three sons, Andrew, William and Edward. In 2002 he married Felicity Mansfield. Georges had since welcomed two grandchildren, Arlo and Lowenna.

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WATSON, William Peter (1964) died on 17 March 2022 aged 76.

Peter Watson was born on 30 May 1945 in Barrow-in-Furness. Educated at Dulwich College, he came up in 1964 to read Economics. Whilst at Cambridge he volunteered with the Children’s Holiday Venture (CHV), a project providing holidays for children from refugee families in Germany and Austria. He graduated BA 1967; MA 1971.

After graduation, he taught in Malaysia for two years with VSO, and then worked for Children’s Relief International, the charity in Cambridge that oversaw CHV. He later took up a post as a Community Worker for Manchester City Council before returning to Cambridge to work for Pye Telecom. In 1976 he joined the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators, where he remained until he retired in 1995. During retirement he served for some years as secretary and then chair of his local MS Society, having lived with multiple sclerosis since 1984. In 2013, along with fellow Jesuans Gordon Edwards (1961), Philip Seddon (1964), Mervyn Bramley (1964) and David Beeby (1962), he began a project to reunite with other former Cambridge students who had volunteered with CHV in the 1960s and 70s. The project gathered written memories from alumni at several colleges, which were published online and in a book that was presented to the college library during a reunion in 2019.

He married Cynthia in 1975; they had two daughters, Alice and Hannah, and a son, Daniel (1998).

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Julian Wethered was born on 9 November 1929 in Alverstoke. Educated at Eton College he came up in 1949 following National Service with the Royal Marines. He read History, graduating BA 1952; MA 1957. He worked across Asia and Africa before returning to the UK to take up the post of Director General of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents. From there he moved in 1990 to be Director of the International Division of the United States Banknote Corporation. He was Chairman of the Riding for the Disabled Association of Singapore. After retiring he undertook an Open University degree and wrote a book of poetry.

He married Britt Hindmarsh in 1952; they had a son and a daughter. He married Antonia Roberts in 1973; they had two sons.

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WHEATLEY, Nigel (1989) died on 19 November 2021 aged 48.

Nigel Wheatley was born on 17 February 1973 in Keelby, Lincolnshire. Educated at Caistor Grammar School he came up to Jesus in 1989 to read Natural Sciences.

He graduated BA 1992; MA 1996. He went on to undertake a doctorate at the University of Essex. He was appointed a Research Fellow at the École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Toulouse, then at Leiden University, and later at the Universität Zürich. After leaving Zürich he worked at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, before teaching at a secondary school in Northern France. Following a move to Spain, he learnt Catalan and Spanish while also acting as a literary agent. Upon returning to the UK, he set up his own business, Vis Verborum, offering medical translation services.

His partner was Jeanette Brickner-Wheatley.

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WILLAN, John Curwen (1949) died on 24 May 2020 aged 93.

John Willan was born on 29 May 1926 in Taiping, Malaysia. Educated at Marlborough College he served as a Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery from 1944 to 1948. He came up in 1949 to read Natural Sciences with a view to becoming a doctor. Following his training at St Thomas’s Hospital, London, he went on to specialise in general practice in London and Wiltshire, combining his medical skill with his genuine compassion and interest in people. In retirement he particularly loved the Jesus alumni events where he could catch up with old acquaintances and new.

He married Ann Chambers in 1975; they had a daughter and two grandchildren. n

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Awards and Results University Prizes, Grants and Scholarships, and External Awards The Edward S Prior Prize (Architecture Part II) The Dept of Middle Eastern Studies dissertation prize The Wace Medal (Classics Part II) The Mars Lander Project Prize (first prize) (Engineering Part IA) The Austin Dobson Prize (joint) (English Part II) The William Vaughan Lewis Prize for outstanding dissertation (Geography Part II) The EMDF Prize (Land Economy Part IA) The Clifford Chance Prize for European Union Law (joint) (Law Part II) The Clive Parry Prize for International Law (LL.M) The 3 Verulam Buildings Prize for International Commercial Litigation (LL.M) The Volterra Fietta Prize for International Investment Law (joint) (LL.M) The Clinical School Leadership Prize The Marsh Prize for best optional dissertation in German The Lusophone Prize for greatest distinction in one or more papers in Portuguese The TB Wood Prize for Plant Sciences A Winifred Georgina Holgate Pollard Memorial Prize (Plant Sciences Part II) The Microsoft Research Award (Physics Part II) The Junior Scholefield Prize (joint) (Theology, Religion & Philosophy of Religion Part II) The Theological Studies Prize (joint)

Fern D Acheson Madeleine Lempert Amelia K Quayle András O Foldes Alexander D Haydn-Williams Eleanor R Kirkland Harvey V R Logan Eloise Wilkinson-Rowe Thomas I Wolff Samuel Thomson Hugh Whelan Hugh Whelan Hugh Whelan Reece Patel Isabella M Gee Anisha A Bakhai Christie P K Patel Christie P K Patel Oliver C Normand Robert Hawkins Robert Hawkins

University Instrumental Awards Jeremy J H Weinstein (violin)

College Awards, Elections and Prizes The Gurnee Hart Scholarship 2021-2022 Benjamin Francis studying for the MPhil degree in Modern British History (from October 2021) The Albert Goh & Elizabeth Coupe Scholarship 2021-2022 Oddur Snorrason studying for the MPhil degree in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (from October 2021) The Embiricos Trust Scholarship 2021-2024 Alex Norcliffe studying for the PhD degree in Computer Science (from October 2021) The Gurnee Hart and Hogwood Scholarship 2021-2024 David Austen studying for the PhD degree in History (from October 2021)

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The Nick Mills Memorial Scholarship 2021-2022 Marija Jurčević studying for the MPhil degree in Conservation Leadership (from October 2021)

The John Killen Memorial Scholarship 2021-2022 Hugo Burgess studying for the MPhil degree in Classics (from October 2021)

The Brian and Janis Buckley Scholarship 2021-2022 Hugo Burgess studying for the MPhil degree in Classics (from October 2021) The Brian and Janis Buckley Scholarship 2021-2022 Sebastian Tyrrall studying for the MPhil degree in Classics (from October 2021) The Brian and Janis Buckley Scholarship 2021-2022 Sólveig Hrönn Hilmarsdóttir studying for the MPhil degree in Classics (from October 2021) The Schröder Scholarship (2021-2024) Phyllis Koehler studying for the PhD degree in German Studies (from October 2021) Postgraduate Scholarship (discretionary extra award) 2021-2024 Kishen Kudur Shastry studying for the PhD degree in Economics (from October 2021) Postgraduate Scholarship (discretionary extra award) 2021-2024 Benjamin Rhodes studying for the PhD degree in Chemistry (from October 2021) Postgraduate Scholarship (Cambridge Trust UK Masters matched funding College contribution) 2021-2022 Sebastian Tyrrall studying for the MPhil degree in Classics (from October 2021) Postgraduate Scholarship (Cambridge Trust UK Masters matched funding College contribution) 2021-2022 Hannah McKay studying for the MPhil degree in Human Evolutionary Studies (from October 2021) Postgraduate Scholarship (Cambridge Trust UK Masters matched funding College contribution) 2021-2022 Benjamin Willstead studying for the MPhil degree in Classics (from October 2021) Ng Fund 2021-2022 Clare Mulrooney, Darcy Winchborne Jesuan Welfare Awards 2022 Eoghan Butler, Aldric Z K Goh, Elizabeth C Jack Organ Scholarship Drew E Sellis (2020-2022), Christopher Too (K – 2021-2022) Lady Kay Scholarship Robert Hawkins (2020-2022) Dunne Fund Mary A Yasini Bernard Mortlock Fund Clemency D Flitter, Robert Hawkins, Olivia Scales Zelie Timins Fund Gioia Barnbrook, Natalie Davies, Mary A Yasini, Melissa G Dickinson, Sarah R L Cotterill Choral Scholarships Charlie Abbott, Matthew K-H Chan, Ella C Curry, Mika H Curson, Caitlin Cutts, Elin Devine Douglass, Oliver M T Doggett, Jack E Lawrence, Mary E R Offer, Annie Stedman

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Rawlinson-Hadfield Graduate Choral Scholarship George Butler, Benedict J Gibson, Ellisse Dixon (MUR), Freya Kalus (CTH), Connor Wood (T) Instrumental Exhibitions Imogen Aley (’cello), Alice T Y L Barbe (piano), Matthew K-H Chan (’cello), Mika H Curson (’cello), Oliver M T Doggett (conducting), Rowan Fox (violin), Sharese A Gayle (flute), Ernest M-H Lok (piano), Archie Mackintosh (piano), Olivia Mortimer (clarinet), George M Monro-Davies (flute), Mary E R Offer (violin and conducting), Nicholas Power (trumpet), Rebecca I Revie (flute), Megan Robinson (flute and conducting), Ze’ev N Shirazi (trombone), Sebastian J Tyrrall (’cello), Jeremy J H Weinstein (conducting) Edward Daniel Clarke Travel Bursary Sebastian J Tyrrall James Baddeley Poole Bursaries Ria E I Bacharach, Aidan R S A Crowson, Jennifer K de Blaquiere-Tosh, Cian J Fielden, Cai R La Trobe Roberts, Ruari J McColl, Harrison G W Mitchell, Benjamin Z Sobel, Tor J Tonnesen, Shogo Washio, Lewis Westwood Flood, Isma’Eel Zia Sir Moses and Lady Finley Travel Bursaries Elizabeth R Brown, Carlotta M Ehrenzeller, Ayesha R R Landon-Browne, Elizabeth Martin, Helen Trenkic Jesus College Cambridge Society Travel Bursaries (retrospective for 2020-2021) Sophie E Beckingham, Jamie Brannigan, Isaac C Castella McDonald, Bethan A Hall, Benjamin W James, Scott R Jeen, Zuzanna Klikowicz, David Pattison, Alisa Santikarn, Daniel A Starkey, Laura M van Marrewijk, Shogo Washio, Melissa W Yuan, Isma’Eel Zia Jesus College Cambridge Society Travel Bursaries Isaac Akinduro, Ilya I Carey, Ignacio De Solminihac Sierralta, Luca Donini, Benjamin J Fisk, William J Fleming, Benjamin Francis, Sólveig H Hilmarsdóttir, Thomas E Howarth, Kristopher T Jensen, Zuzanna Klikowicz, Hannah Y Lin, Samuel Myrtle, Joseph J Pett, Amir H Rafati Fard, Molly L Richmond, Oddur Snorrason, Benjamin E Thurlow Sir James Knott Bursaries Robyn M Briggs, Jake Moscrop, Alexandra K Vardill Rustat Bursaries David C R Austen, Simon J Billett, Peter S Blandford-Baker, Robert D Walden Sir Robbie Jennings Fund Kayla K Bernard, Jamie Brannigan, Natalie Davies, Benjamin W James, Edwin C Jarratt Barnham, Jack Jones, Julianna C Kardish, Elspeth A N Mathau, Sophie M Niang, Ronald O Omuthe, Dalia Pratali Maffei, Maximilian A Priebe, Antoine B A Sander, Leah S B-T Yeger Osborne Maths Study Grant Arianna Cox Livermore Fund May Hawkings

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Alan Pars Theatre Fund Mojolaoluwa I Akinyemi, Isabella Cavicchi Douglas Timmins Grants for Sports Elizabeth Bacon (Hockey), Alice M Bennett (Cricket), Elizabeth R Brown (Cross-country), Katherine I Cartlidge (Ice Hockey), George Crane (Korfball), Molly B Desorgher (Sailing), James M Edgerton (Cross-country, Athletics), Cai R La Trobe-Roberts (Football), Amelia Leyland-Craggs (Cheerleading), Elizabeth Martin (Basketball), Chizute N Ogbedeh (Athletics), Fortina Oshasha (Football), Reece Patel (Tennis), Amelia K Quayle (Netball), Remi M Rufus-Toye (Powerlifting), Olivia M Shears (Hockey), Harriet Slator (Clay Pigeon Shooting), Katherine G Sparling (Football), Max A Stacey (Football, 2020-2021), Samuel Tull (Korfball), João A Vicente Pinho Ribeiro Da Silva (Volleyball), Carl-Magnus Von Behr (Clay Pigeon Shooting), Harry J Woodage (Korfball) Exhibitions Sheymae F Abdulkader, Martins D Apsitis, Isabella C Armitage, Joshua A J Barton, Hannah M B Benaim, Lyra C Christie, Joseph Cosgrave, Aidan R S A Crowson, Luca De Flammineis, Mason Frudd, Rachel Gardner, Lucy E Halfacre, Max H Higgs, Helena Howard, Madeleine Jones, Leona J Kurihara-Allen, Olivia McKittrick, Clare Mulrooney, Tian Ern Nga, Oisin O Feinneadha, Benjamin L Revie, Samuel J Roughley, Noah Rouse, Annie Stedman, Tor J Tonnesen, Nathan J Williams, Patryk Wisniewski, Emily Wynne Additional Scholarships (awarded in Michaelmas 2021 for 2019-2020 results) William P Dallman, Ailie Donaldson, Charlotte Fletcher, Hugh E K Lawson, Michael Pears, Jacob Teal, Carl-Magnus Von Behr Scholarships (awarded in Michaelmas 2021 for 2020-2021 results) William R A Andrews, Toby B Ashworth, Sebastian L R Benzecry, Jamie Brannigan, Jessica E Campbell-May, Ilya I Carey, Lydia L V Cawley, Vikhashansingh Doorga, Elias P Forneris, Harry Freeman, Lavinia Gambini, Rebecca E L Goldsmith, Joseph P G Grehan-Bradley, Hanna Hacker, Antonia Hamilton, Malin E Hay, Lily J Howells, Edward R B Hyde, Joseph Jollans, Vanessa G Keller, Anin Luo, Luke McCarron, Patrick J Merchant, Ursula B Meyer, Samuel Myrtle, Remi M Rufus-Toye, Hannah R Sanderson, Helena Trenkic, Sophie Turbutt, Hantian Wang, Yuxuan Wang Scholarships Charlie Abbott, Zoe A Abrams, Fern D Acheson, Roland Adams, Frances J X-L Amos, Timothy J Andrew, William T Ashton, Rose B Asquith, Elizabeth Bacon, James Bacon, Anisha A Bakhai, Mia G Barnes, Faheem I Bhatti, Anne-Rachelle Boulanger, Niamh Bradshaw, Jamie Brannigan, Robyn M Briggs, Thomas Brookes, Nathan Brooks, Harvey M R Brown, Laura Brown, Alice R Buckley, Evelyn R Burrows, Edward B Carr, Katherine I Cartlidge, Alexander J Cartwright, Isaac C Castella McDonald, Thomas Cay, Matthew K-H Chan, William D-Y Ching, Estelle Cho Lin Wing, Amina Chowdhury, Arda Civelekoglu, Lewis Clabby, Isobel R Clarke, Ellis Collins, Victoria E P Connolly, Grace C Copeland, Harry Crook, Lyle Cross, Benedict Davies, Timothy De Goede, Oliver H Dennis, Molly B Desorgher, Melissa G Dickinson, Anja F Diel, Douglas P Dolleymore, Alessia S Farr, András O Foldes, Alexander J Forster, Dan Gilbey, Anika Goddard, Claire Goldring, Clara Grosz, Santosh Guru, Angus A Harron, Robert Hawkins, Alexander D Haydn-Williams, Omar A Helmy, James A Hill, James Hirst, Min Xuan Ho, Jack Hollingworth, Tara Hughes, George Irving, Nandini Jadeja, Benjamin W James, Adam L Jenkins, Tamanna Jithesh, Jack Jones, Dea Jusufi, Rohit U Kale, Isobel Kaufman, Joshua O Kaye, Raunak Khanduja,

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Eleanor R Kirkland, Liam Kristoffy, Shikhar Kumar, Samuel J Lachmann, Madeleine Lempert, Justin J Leung, Yu Hang Leung, Matthew L Levine, Raphael Levy, Amelia Leyland-Craggs, Shengyang Lim, Shanghan Ling, Harvey V R Logan, Max H Loveridge, Cosmo Lupton, Yan Maria Mak, Robert H Matthews, Natan Maurer, Luke McCarron, Phoebe J McDonnell, Karris L McGonigle, Angus R McIntosh, Benjamin Millard, Sophie Minns, Matthew J Mulcahy, Katy Munford, James M Newnham, Oliver C Normand, Mofesolamisi-Oluwa Owolabi, Isabel Painter, Isabella C Palliotto, Amber B C Parsons, Christie P K Patel, Reece Patel, David Pattison, Phoebe E R Penfold, Daphne C D C Pleming, Jacob Powell, Amelia K Quayle, Alexandria J Rakowska, Bhiramah Rammanohar, Rebecca I Revie, Molly L Richmond, Octavia H Rooks, Niamh S Ryall-Taylor, Reza Sair, Jai A Sanyal, Drew E Sellis, Theodora J X Shipway, Ze’ev N Shirazi, Sui Ning Sim, Daniel Simms, Anya A Sims, Daniel Siromani, Joe F Smith, Benjamin Z Sobel, Devavrata Soni, Daniel A Starkey, Moe Takenoshita, Andrew D te Water Naude, Juliette E Thomas, Samuel Thomson, Isabella Tosato, Alexandra K Vardill, Henry J Wall, Laurie Ward, Shogo Washio, Lewis Westwood Flood, Hugh Whelan, Eloise Wilkinson-Rowe, Stanislaw Wolanski, Thomas I Wolff, Tiffany C T Wong, Christopher N C Woolley, Mutian Xu, Chentianyi Yang, Leah S B-T Yeger Prizes Senior Keller 2021 Keller – 2021

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Sir Leslie Martin (Architecture) Farrell (Greek Studies) Brereton (Classics Part IA) Carruthers (Computer Science Part II)

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Malthus (Economics) Malthus (Human, Social & Political Sciences) Evans (Engineering Part IA) Engineers’ (Engineering Part IB) Derek Taunt (Engineering Part IIA) Samuel Taylor Coleridge (English) Newling (History Part I) Schiff (History Part II) Kapuvári (Land Economy Part IA) Glanville Williams (Law Part II) Glanville Williams (LLM) Ware (Mathematics Part IB) Sir Harold Spencer Jones (Mathematics Part II) R A Watchman (Mathematics Part III) Eliot (MML Part II) James Perrett (Medical Sciences Part IA) Hadfield Anatomy (Medical Sciences Part IA) Duckworth (Medical Sciences Parts IA and IB) Stacpoole (Medical Sciences Part II Neurobiology) Hadfield Medical Science (Part II) – 2021 Hadfield Medical Science (Part II) – 2022 Waring (Final MB Part III) Roberts (Pathology) Wellings (Natural Sciences Part IA) Longden (Natural Sciences Part IB) Eric Cliffe (Biological Sciences Part II) John Gulland (Natural Sciences Part II) – 2021 John Gulland (Natural Sciences Part II) – 2022 Sir Alan Cottrell (Natural Sciences) – 2021

Sir Alan Cottrell (Natural Sciences) – 2022

Duncan McKie (Natural Sciences) – 2021

Duncan McKie (Natural Sciences) – 2022

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Mofesolamisi-Oluwa Owolabi Benjamin Z Sobel Henry J Wall Benedict Davies Daniel Siromani Alexander D Haydn-Williams Nandini Jadeja Estelle Cho Lin Wing Thomas I Wolff Samuel Thomson Hugh Whelan Joshua O Kaye Daniel Simms Ze’ev N Shirazi Juliette E Thomas Mia G Barnes Mia G Barnes Bhiramah Rammanohar Santosh Guru Michal Chinn Kieran Smith Santosh Guru Omar A Helmy Theodora J X Shipway Shengyang LIm William D-Y Ching Christie P K Patel Physics: Edward B Carr Chemistry: Oliver H Dennis Physics Part III: Lee C Reeve Astrophysics Part III: Hannah R Sanderson Physics Part III: Oliver C Normand Physics Part III: Edward B Carr Materials Science Part III: Ella Inwald Earth Sciences Part III: Cara B G James Biochemistry Part III: Harry Crook Earth Sciences Part III: Amber B C Parsons Materials Science Part II: William Davison

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Corrie & Otter (Theology) Valerie Tyssens (French Part I) Educational Board Prize G F Hart (History Prelims to Part I) Gilbertson – 2021 Gilbertson – 2022 Hamilton Prize (Social and Economic History) Russell Vick (Law) Reid-Henry (Geography) Sir Peter Gadsden Crighton (Music) Gray Reading Prize James Hadfield (for contributing most to medical and veterinary studies in the College)

Margaret Mair Choral Prize Wohl Prize (books, travel or study for History) Kapuvári Grant (books, travel or study for Land Economy) Morgan Prize (English Essay) Marcus Prawer (Dramatic criticism essay) Edwin Stanley Roe (outstanding dissertation)

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Sir Denys Page Award (for Classics students to travel to Greece) Renfrew (for the most significant contribution to the musical life of the College) Waring Award (sporting achievement)

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College Prizes: Archaeology Part I Archaeology Part IIA Architecture Part II Asian & Middle Eastern Studies Part II Chemical Engineering Part I Chemical Engineering Part IIA Chemical Engineering Part IIB Chemical Engineering Part IIB Classics Prelims to Part IA Classics Part II

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Economics Part IIA Education Part IA Education Part IB Engineering Part IIB English Part IA English Part IB Geography Part IA Geography Part IB History & Modern Languages Part IB History & Politics Part IA History & Politics Part IB History of Art Part IIB Human, Social & Political Sciences Part I Human, Social & Political Sciences Part IIA Human, Social & Political Sciences Part IIB (Politics & International Relations) Land Economy Part IB Land Economy Part II Law Part IA Law Part IB Master of Corporate Law Linguistics Part IIA Linguistics Part IIB Management Studies Manufacturing Engineering Part IIA Final MB Examination Part I – 2021 Final MB Examination Part II Modern & Medieval Languages Part IA Music Part IB Natural Sciences Part IA (Biological) Natural Sciences Part IB (Chemistry) Psychological & Behavioural Sciences Part IA – 2021 Psychological & Behavioural Sciences Part IA Psychological & Behavioural Sciences Part IB Psychological & Behavioural Sciences Part II Theology, Religion & Philosophy of Religion Part I Theology, Religion & Philosophy of Religion Part IIA Bachelor of Theology for the Ministry, First Exam Veterinary Sciences, Part IB

Thomas Brookes Annie Stedman Laurie Ward Anya A Sims Anika Goddard Harvey M R Brown Clara Grosz Phoebe E R Penfold Amina Chowdhury Joshua A J Barton Matthew L Levine Rose B Asquith Sheymae F Abdulkader Alessia S Farr Cosmo Lupton Leah S B-T Yeger James M Newnham Isabella Tosato Clare Mulrooney Jack Hollingworth Justin J Leung Charlie Abbott Rowland Adams Rohit U Kale Jacob Powell Jamie Brannigan Jamie Brannigan Victoria E P Connolly (Slavonic & German) Drew E Sellis Nathan J Williams Timothy J Andrew Shanghan Ling Madeleine Jones Shanghan Ling Sophie Minns Noah Rouse Joe F Smith Melissa G Dickinson Jack Jones

Tripos Results As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, in 2019 and 2020 a number of Jesus College undergraduate students sat their exams as pass/fail or were allowed to proceed to the following year of their course. Those in their final year were all classed based on the results of their assessments. In contrast, in 2022 all Tripos exams except Prelims were once again classed. The table below compares the results achieved by Jesus College students in 2022 with the results in the last two pre-pandemic years.

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This year the College had around 900 students (no two ways of counting them gives the same number). There were approximately 500 undergraduates in residence, 32 of whom came from other countries in Europe and 30 from other overseas countries. There were around 150 in each of the first three years and around 40 in the fourth. There were around 450 students in the postgraduate community at 1 October 2021 (including clinical medics and vets) of whom 41 PhD students completed their courses during the 2021-2022 academic year.

2022

2019

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Number of Examinations taken

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511

512

Number obtaining First Class (or stars)

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136

152

Number obtaining Second Class (Upper)

212

229

229

Number obtaining Second Class (Lower)

44

49

34

Number obtaining Second Class (Undivided)

18

18

24

Number obtaining Third Class

9

8

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PhDs Frederick Alford, A mathematical study of Hawking radiation on collapsing, spherically symmetric spacetimes Maddalena Alvi, The flood: the European art market and the First World War, 1910-1925 Jonathan Barnard, Experiments on stratified multiphase plumes Benjamin Biggs, Animal reconstruction with 3D morphable models Matthew Birchall, Company colonisation and the settler revolution, 1820-1840 James Coxon, Towards smart molecular biosensors modulation of DNA strand displacement reactions with transcription factors for robust and tunable arsenic quantification George Crane, Fostering populations of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal fungi through cover crop choices and soil management Frederick Crofts, Seeing the world through Marcus zum Lamm’s Thesaurus Picturarum, c. 1564–1606 Thomas Crowley, To change is to be: the Kalasha of Pakistan’s Afghan frontier and the age of heritage Alexander Davies, New features in the phase diagrams of the cuprate high-Tc superconductors mapped using strong magnetic fields Qiaosheng Dong, Embryo, body and generation: a comparative study of embryological thought in Ancient Greece and Early China Stefano Falco, Shape optimization of thermoacoustic instability with an adjoint Helmholtz solver Tamara Fernando, Of molluscs and men: pearling labour and environments in the Indian Ocean 1880–1925 Emilio Garciadiego Ruiz, A reign of burnt wounds and crowded cells: exploring how

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political power is upheld at street level through observations of the municipal police in Mexico City Rhys Goodall, Accelerating materials discovery with machine learning Michael Hall, Examining bacterial variation with genome graphs and nanopore sequencing Kevin Heffernan, Problem-solving recognition in scientific text Sophie Ip, Dynamics of the innate immune response to infection: a mathematical modelling approach Michael Jenkyn Bedford, Keeping it together and taking it apart: structural investigations of replisome complexes involved in DNA replication fork protection and termination Rajesh Jethwa, A study of novel nitrogen containing quinoidal electrolytes for redox flow batteries Kirill Kalinin, Unconventional computing platforms and nature-inspired methods for solving hard optimisation problems Alasdair Keith, Anaerobic, NADH-Dependent Haem breakdown in a family of haemoproteins Katherine King, Exploiting the ‘complex’ relationship between Cucurbit[7]uril, peptides and gold nanoparticles for the development of biomaterials suitable for delivery Iek Man Lei, 3D printing of soft and biological materials: Applications to human cochlear modelling and beyond Louisa Mayer, The role of Nbeal2 in the homeostasis and retention of granules in haematopoietic cells Alice O’Driscoll, Women, gender, and siege during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1639-52 Michael Pashkevich Jr., The effects of replanting and restoration of riparian buffers on arthropods in oil palm systems Jessica Rigley, The origin and evolution of warm exozodiacal dust Thomas Roddick, Learning birds-eye-view representations for autonomous driving Julius Rogenhofer, Decisiveness and fear of disorder: rethinking Germany’s response to irregular migration Remkes Scheele, Strategies to roam enzymatic fitness landscapes in ultrahigh-throughput Jasper Sim, Phonological acquisition in a multidialectal and multicultural context: the case of bilingual preschoolers in Singapore Dimitrios Spathis, Machine learning to model health with multimodal mobile sensor data Robert Spencer, Improving turbomachinery loss prediction using high fidelity CFD John Staunton Sykes, The impact of volcanic halogens, climate change, and sulfate aerosol geo-engineering on the atmospheric effects of volcanic eruptions Ben Stoddart-Stones, Spin transport through nanopillar superconducting spin valves Laura Taylor, Investigating the role of the circadian clock in the physiology of wheat Sophia Wild, Clonal deconvolution of transcriptomic signatures and their spatial organisation in a mouse model of breast cancer Chun Yui Wong, Simulation-based design with polynomial ridge approximations Zhe Xu, Optimising cardiovascular disease risk assessment: application of dynamic prediction tools and risk stratification strategies using electronic health records Florence Young, Molecular mechanisms of axonal transport impairment in C9orf72-associated neurodegenerative disease n

JCCS

Photo by Martin Bond

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Jesus College Cambridge Society Committee as of 1 October 2022 President and Chair Ms S ALLEYNE

(Sonita)

Trustees 1969 1980 1982

C I KIRKER G R W SEARS E S MORRISS

(Christopher) (Guy) (Susanna)

First elected 2012 2018 2018

J P HALSEY (Hon. Secretary) M C BIENFAIT (Hon. Treasurer) M P HAYES (Hon. Dinner Secretary)

(John)

2019

(Mary)

2018

(Mark)

2014

College Council representatives 1998 S R L STACPOOLE E WILLIAMS

(Sybil) (Emily)

2016 2018

Year representatives 1996 J HILTON 1996 K T D EAMES 1999 F A R BARRATT 2000 N P H KING 2006 H I MADUKA 1996 N S SINHA 1977 R M ALLON-SMITH 2011 C L SMALL 2001 P J TWISS 2015 R L R SEAWRIGHT 1981 M D SMITH 1980 T D HUCKLE 1987 O HIWAIZI 2012 V D HERRENSCHMIDT 1987 C J LEWIS 1971 J G MORGAN

(James) (Ken) (Felicity) (Nick) (Helen) (Narveshwar) (Richard) (Claire) (Paul) (Reginald) (Mark) (Theo) (Omaid) (Victoria) (Clive) (Guy)

2019-2023 2019-2023 2019-2023 2019-2023 2020-2024 2020-2024 2020-2024 2020-2024 2021-2025 2021-2025 2021-2025 2021-2025 2022-2026 2022-2026 2022-2026 2022-2026

Officers 1977 1988 1976

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Annual General Meeting 2022 The Annual General Meeting of the Jesus College Cambridge Society took place on Saturday 24 September 2022 in the Webb Lbrary, Jesus College at 6.30pm.

The Master, Ms Sonita Alleyne OBE, was in the chair and welcomed everyone to the meeting. 34 Jesuans were in attendance, 15 of whom were Committee members (12 current, 3 incoming).

Minutes of 2021 AGM The meeting accepted the minutes with no amendments.

Secretary’s report John Halsey reported that, since the 2021 AGM: • The Trustees reviewed JCCS investments and rebalanced the Society’s portfolio for more geographic diversity and to remove under-performers, consistent with the objective to support reserves and provide income for grants and bursaries.

• The committee met by Zoom on 16th March 2022.

• Hamilton Faber was appointed Independent Examiner for the year.

• A £6,500 donation from the Society to the College was agreed by the committee; this was transferred in June, to be split £2,500 JCSU, £2,500 Travel bursaries, £1,500 Hardship funding, with detailed allocation to be made at the discretion of the Tutorial Office; feedback on how the money is being spent will be communicated during Michaelmas Term 2022.

• The 2021 Annual Accounts were finalised and signed.

• The Master presided at the Society’s Spring Dinner on 9 April at the Oxford and Cambridge Club; this dinner was well attended, as was the Welsh Dinner on 7 May and the Summer Buffet on 18 June 2022.

• Mark Hayes and the Department of Development and Alumni Relations have worked successfully to prepare for this evening’s Annual Dinner.

In response to a question from Adrian Greenwood about the 2021 donation to the College, which was lower than in recent years, Emily Williams (Director of Development and Alumni Relations) confirmed that the donation had been gratefully received. The Committee will carefully consider the 2022 JCCS donation, having regard to both resources and needs.

Treasurer’s report and annual accounts to 31 December 2021 Mary Bienfait presented the annual accounts which had been signed by herself and by the Independent Examiner, and approved by the Executive Committee on 16 March 2022. The accounts reflected the agreed changes to the Society’s investment portfolio and donations to the College, as well as a share portfolio trading and management fee required by the London Stock Exchange, the 2021 figure representing two years of fees. The 2021 year-end market value of JCCS investments was £94.5k. The 2021 Annual Dinner had generated a surplus of £366. The meeting accepted the annual accounts.

Election of Honorary Officers for 2022/23 The three serving JCCS Honorary Officers were willing to continue for a further year. Each were proposed and seconded: Secretary, John Halsey (1977); Treasurer, Mary Bienfait (1988); Dinner Secretary, Mark Hayes (1976). The Master declared the three officers elected.

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Appointment of Independent Examiner for 2022 Mary Bienfait proposed Hamilton Faber to serve for a further year, and this was approved by the meeting.

Election of new members of the Executive Committee The Master thanked members of the committee who completed their term in September 2022: Carolina Gonzalez (1979), Anush Newman (2001), Tom Slator (1971) and Sir David Wootton (1969). The following had been nominated to serve for a term of four years until the AGM in 2026: Victoria Herrenschmidt (2012), Omaid Hiwaizi (1987), Clive Lewis (1987) and Guy Morgan (1971). The Master declared these four elected.

Spring and Annual Dinner arrangements Mark Hayes (Dinner Secretary) expressed great thanks to the College and especially to Mrs Nikki Williams of the Development and Alumni Relations Office for her work on the Annual Dinner 2022.

An early evening Reception would be held in College in early December, including a tour of the refurbished kitchen and College Halls. Details would be circulated shortly. Accommodation would be available. The Spring Dinner would be held on Saturday 25 March 2023 in the Oxford and Cambridge Club. Ticket prices would be significantly higher than in 2022. Members were invited to subsidise ten reduced price tickets open to Jesuans who had graduated in the past five years.

The Annual Dinner 2023 would be in College Hall on Saturday 23 September.

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Old members gather for a row before the JCCS Annual Dinner 2021

Over Five Hunded Years of History & Eight Personalities

JESUS COLLEGE HISTORY AND PERSONALITIES

by Peter Glazebrook Emeritus Fellow This fully illustrated 64 page booklet is available for those who want to know something, but not too much, about the College and its more notable members.

Copies are only £5 (free P&P in the UK) by emailing development@jesus.cam.ac.uk

VISIT OUR ONLINE GIFT SHOP www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/alumni/gift-shop

We are very pleased to be able to offer a wide range of gifts and mementoes including cufflinks, silk ties, silver pins, coasters, tote bags, paper weights, tea towels, prints and books, embossed Moleskine notebooks, cuddly teddy bears, the College flag, and CD recordings of the Choirs of Jesus College.

You can also purchase any of these items by phone on +44 (0) 1223 339301 or by dropping into the Porters’ Lodge when you next visit College.

Please contact the Development and Alumni Relations Office at development@jesus.cam.ac.uk for information on overseas posting or bulk orders.

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The Jesus College Works of Art Committee is proud to offer:

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A special price for College members of £3600 inc. VAT for the full portfolio.

A limited number of individual prints are also available for sale separately – please contact the Development and Alumni Relations Office for further details.

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Thirty Years of Contemporary Art: Jesus College, Cambridge 1988-2018

by Jean Bacon and Jim Roseblade

This is a richly illustrated photographic memoir of three decades of Sculpture in the Close biennials at Jesus College and the development of the permanent sculpture Available from Jesus College Porters’ Lodge, collection. online at www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/chapel-and-choir/choir-shop £12 plus postage and packing - available at the online shop: or from Amazon, iTunes and major retailers https://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/alumni/gift-shop

CARDS AND PRINTS by NAOMI DAVIES Well known Cambridge artist Naomi Davies (née Williams, 1987) has created these pen and watercolour paintings of the College which are now available as greetings cards, tea towels and limited edition giclée prints.

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Please return to: The Development and Alumni Relations Office Jesus College Cambridge CB5 8BL e-mail: development@jesus.cam.ac.uk

Data Protection Statement How we use your personal information This statement explains how Jesus College (“we” and “our”) handles and uses data we collect about alumni (“you” and “your”). In broad terms, we use your data to manage the ongoing relationship between the College and you as part of our lifelong community of scholars, including keeping in touch with you, keeping up to date on your achievements, and engaging with you on how you can continue to contribute to College life and otherwise support the College.

We will retain your data indefinitely or until you request us to do otherwise. When changes are made to this statement, we will publish the updated version to our website and notify you by other communications channels as we deem appropriate or necessary.

The controller for your personal data is Jesus College, Cambridge CB5 8BL. The person responsible for data protection at the time of issue, and the person who is responsible for monitoring compliance with relevant legislation in relation to the protection of personal data, is the Bursar, Dr Richard Anthony (bursar@jesus.cam.ac.uk).

The legal basis for processing your personal data is that it is necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests, where we have concluded that our interests do not impact inappropriately on your fundamental rights and freedoms, except where elsewhere in this statement we have indicated otherwise. You may ask us to explain our rationale at any time.

How your data is used by the College We collect and process your personal data, as specified below, for a number of purposes, including: A.

maintaining a formal record of your academic progress and achievements at the College and the University of Cambridge and elsewhere;

B.

retaining a formal record of your career or other life achievements in order to promote and improve the reputation of the College and help you to network with other College members effectively;

C.

engaging you in College and University events that we believe will be of interest to you, including alumni and open events, volunteering opportunities, and other ways you can contribute to the life of the College;

D.

providing you with information about College life and the development of the College, including major initiatives and programmes relating to either the academic endeavour or the provision of services and facilities to members and the wider public;

E.

encouraging you to make a financial contribution to the College and/or the University, and processing any such contributions;

F.

assessing the likelihood that you will, now or in the future, make a financial contribution (gift) to the College;

G.

promoting third party services we believe will be of interest to you:

Further details are provided in the Annex. If you have concerns or queries about any of these purposes, or how we communicate with you, please contact us at the address given above.

Communications If you are a new contact for our Development and Alumni Relations Office, we will ask you at the outset how you would like to receive news and other communications from us. If you are already receiving such communications, you may change your preferences or ask us to stop sending you news and other communications completely by contacting the Development and Alumni Relations Office (development@jesus.cam.ac.uk). You may request changes at any time.

How we share your personal data We believe that most alumni understand in detail the complex and many interactions of the College with the University of Cambridge. Personal data of our members is shared with the University routinely throughout any course of study, and it is our strong preference to continue such collaborative working thereafter.

The University and its partners (including the College) have a data sharing agreement to govern the sharing of personal data of alumni and other supporters. This is necessary because they are distinct legal entities.

The agreement outlines that, depending on constraints set by you, and which you may change at any time, the University and College may share any of the above categories of personal data with the University, and can be viewed in full (https://www.alumni.cam.ac.uk/data-protection).

Any transmission of data to or from the University is managed through agreed processes which comply with UK data protection legislation.

For clarity, the College has a separate database from the University, but has access to the University’s database: additionally, we maintain other electronic and paper records.

The University has its own data protection statement and procedures – see: https://www.alumni.cam.ac.uk/data-protection Additionally, we share data on a considered and confidential basis, where appropriate, with: • Cambridge in America (the University’s affiliate alumni office in the US); • selected companies who provide College-branded or College-endorsed products and services, as outlined above; • volunteer partners closely related to us (e.g. College trustees, development board members, alumni group representatives); and • contractors providing services to you on our behalf or services to us (our “data processors”), as outlined above.

We also facilitate communication between individual alumni (of the College or the University), but in doing so we do not release personal contact details without prior permission.

Any transfers of your data overseas or to international organisations, as set out above, are protected either by an adequacy decision by the European Commission or by standard data protection clauses adopted by the European Commission (which are available from our Data Protection Officer) or, before 25 May 2018, by a self-assessment of adequacy.

Your rights You have the right: to ask us for access to, rectification or erasure of your data; to restrict processing (pending correction or deletion); to object to communications or direct marketing; and to ask for the transfer of your data electronically to a third party (data portability). Some of these rights are not automatic, and we reserve the right to discuss with you why we might not comply with a request from you to exercise them.

Where you opt out of all future communications or exercise your right to erasure, we will continue to maintain a core set of personal data (name, subject(s), matriculation and graduation details, unique University identification number and date of birth) to ensure we do not contact you inadvertently in future, while still maintaining our record of your academic achievements.

We may also need to retain some financial records about you for statutory purposes (e.g. Gift Aid, anti-fraud and accounting matters).

You retain the right at all times to lodge a complaint about our management of your personal data with the Information Commissioner’s Office at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/

ANNEX We collect and process your personal data, as specified below, for a number of purposes, including: A.

Maintaining a formal record of your academic progress and achievements of the College and the University of Cambridge and elsewhere: We retain personal data (provided by you or by the University of Cambridge, or created by us), including: i) ii) iii) iv) v) vi) vii)

B.

your current name and any previous names you have had; unique personal identifiers (e.g. student number, CRSID, date of birth, photograph); your current and previous contact details; your application details, our assessment of your application and the details of any offer(s) of study we have made; records of your academic provision from the College (including supervisions, College examinations and other academic support); matriculation and graduation details and records of your academic qualifications (including those prior to becoming a member of the College); other details of your academic progress or achievement (e.g. College or University awards or prizes).

Retaining a formal record of your academic, career or other life achievements in order to promote and improve the reputation of the College and help you to network with other College members effectively: We retain personal data (provided by you), including: i) ii) iii)

details of your achievements since you completed your course(s) of study; membership of College and external clubs and societies (including alumni groups); your previous and current employment status (including retirement), including job title, sector, income and work contact details, dates of employment.

When you provide this information, we will assume (unless you notify us otherwise) that we can promote these achievements in our public literature, and can use this information for other purposes outlined in this statement. We may supplement information from other public sources that we consider to be reliable (e.g. your public social media profile(s), Queen’s Honours List, Companies House, high profile news reports or articles) and may check their accuracy with you from time to time.

C.

Engaging you in College and University events that we believe will be of interest to you, including alumni and open events, volunteering opportunities, and other ways you can contribute to the life of the College: We retain personal data (provided by you or by the University of Cambridge, or created by us), including: i) ii) iii) iv) v)

known relationships with other members (past or present) of the University of Cambridge or any of the Colleges; your previous attendance at College or University events; information about your areas of personal interest; personal data relating to your attendance at events and your personal preferences (e.g. dietary or accommodation requirements or requests); records of any communications (verbal or written) we have had with you, including the purpose and outcome of those communications.

When you provide this information, we will assume (unless you notify us otherwise) that we can use this information for other purposes outlined in this statement. We may supplement information from other public sources that we consider to be reliable (e.g. your public social media profile(s), University publications, high profile news reports or articles) and may check their accuracy with you from time to time.

D.

Providing you with information about the development of the College, including major initiatives and programmes relating to either the academic endeavour or the provision of services and facilities to members and the wider public: We retain personal data (provided by you or by the University of Cambridge, or created by us), including: i) ii)

any communication preferences confirmed by you; ways in which you have supported the College.

By providing us with email addresses and telephone numbers, we have taken this to be consent to use those channels to contact you for this and other purposes outlined in this statement, unless you have expressed your preferred communication channels. When you provide this information, we will assume (unless you notify us otherwise) that we can use this information for other purposes outlined in this statement.

E.

Encouraging you to make a financial contribution to the College and/or the University, and processing any such contributions: The College’s income consists of gifts and benefactions, income derived from prudent investment of any endowment and student fees. We value any financial contribution from our members and, accordingly, retain personal data (provided by you or by the University of Cambridge, or created by us), including: i) ii) iii) iv)

the purposes and amounts of any donations or other support previously provided to the University or the College by you; the method(s) of payments used and related payment references; your bank details (for processing direct debit or other financial transactions); your tax status and Gift Aid declaration.

Some of this financial information needs to be retained for statutory purposes for a number of years (e.g. Gift Aid, anti-fraud and accounting matters). When you provide this information, we will assume (unless you notify us otherwise) that we can use this information for other purposes outlined in this statement.

F.

Assessing the likelihood that you will, now or in the future, make a financial contribution (gift) to the College: The College undertakes research to determine your capacity to provide financial support.

This results in us creating and using personal data including: i) ii)

iii)

your estimated income or asset worth (where this is not provided by you); your potential capacity to make a gift, including our internal classification of you as a major gift prospect which is determined by a combination of your giving history, your attendance at College and University events, and your other interactions with the College since you graduated, including any positive or negative indications from you about your capacity or willingness to give to the College; gifts you have made to other charitable organisations.

Our research includes incorporating information from public sources that we consider to be reliable (e.g. your public social media profile(s), Queen’s Honours List, Companies House, high profile news reports or articles). In using these sources, we have considered the potential intrusion of your privacy. In most cases, our assessment above aims to exclude you from unwelcome or inappropriate approaches so as not to compromise your ongoing relationship with us.

G.

Promoting third party services we believe will be of interest to you: We retain personal data (provided by you), including: i)

any preferences to be excluded from such services.

We do not sell your personal data under any circumstances.If you have concerns or queries about any of these purposes, or how we communicate with you, please contact us. https://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/college/about-us/data-protection

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• Hotel-standard, en suite bedrooms in West Court year-round.

• Up to 240 five-star en suite bedrooms on site during vacations.

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