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Alumni news Sussex Medical School. She has also been awarded a Wellcome Trust grant and will work with astrophysicists at the University of Sussex to develop statistical models predicting dementia onset using data from general practice patient records. Nathalie Sinyard (2003) has co-founded a consultancy, Jackdaw, to advise on workforce development strategies in response to the accelerating trends towards automation and artificial intelligence.
trends in Trade and Development: An Asia-Pacific Perspective’ at Australian National University (ANU), Canberra. She was invited on a full scholarship for the Asia Pacific Week by ANU from June 25-30, 2017. Nidhi has published three articles on Corporate Laws in a book, international journals and leading newspapers of India. She has also published her work on Competition Law and Trade Law on the blog of King’s College London and Oxford India Policy Blog respectively.
Shawn Anderson (2008) accepted a position with Microsoft Corporation leading their strategy to move to a modern management environment. Previous to this role, Shawn was the Associate Director, Cyber and Space Operations for the Air National Guard. Rhoads Cannon (2009) has graduated from Business School with an Honours MBA from the University of Denver, in Colorado USA. He is pursuing a career in Business Development and/or Management Consultancy. Gunita Bhasin (2013) is delighted to announce the launch of Showcased, her app that connects you to people who share a common passion. The virality of Showcased stems from its unique combination of professional and social networking – it’s a fun and easy place to develop your passions! Gunita introduced the app at her TEDx talk (entitled ‘How You Make a Difference’); speech to Lincoln College students; and interviews with StartupV TV. She has inspired several audiences, and now encourages you to begin your impassioned journey. Showcased is available to download from the App Store, Google Play store, and on www.showcased.org. Nidhi Singh (2015), an alumna of Lincoln College who pursued MSc in Law and Finance as a Weidenfeld Scholar, recently presented a paper on ‘Recent 38 | Alumni
Island of the Blessed: Egon Wellesz’s New Beginnings in Wartime Oxford’, in Sally Crawford, Katharina Ulmschneider and Jas Elsner (eds.), Ark of Civilization. Refugee Scholars and Oxford University, 1930-1945, Oxford, OUP, 2017, pp. 313–324. Paul Crichton (1965) has written, with a former colleague, Steven Greer, a book on the patientdoctor relationship, called When Patient and Doctor Disagree: Autonomous Patient versus Paternalistic Doctor (Kiener Press, 2016) and a collection of poetry called Twin Earth (Kiener Press, 2016). The Australasian Journal of Combinatorics has published (in Volume 68 part 3) a paper written by Fred Rowley (1968) – who now claims the age record for a first academic publication (!). It is entitled ‘Constructive lower bounds for Ramsey numbers from linear graphs’.
PUBLICATIONS Jan Z. Krasnowiecki (1948) published his sixth edition of Krasnowiecki on Real Property Law & Practice, Pennsylvania Bar Institute (PBI) Press. 2017 (962 pp.). Lionel Opie’s (1957) book Living Longer, Living Better; Lifestyle, Exercise, Diet, and Yoga for Heart and Mind (Second edition, 2016; Oxford University Press) should be hopefully be in the Lincoln College Library. Brijraj Singh (1962) published his teaching autobiography, entitled Professing English on Two Continents (Gurgaon, India), in the latter part of 2016. Print copies of the book are available from the publisher and from Amazon.com, and can be downloaded on to Kindles and other devices. Bojan Bujic (1963) has published a chapter ‘Shipwrecked on the
In 2016, the fourth edition of Andrew Waite’s (1969) coauthored book was published by Bloomsbury: Waite and Jewell: Environmental Law in Property Transactions by Andrew Waite, Gregory Jones QC and Valerie Fogleman. In 2017, Andrew joined Prospect Law. Roger Wagner (1975) and Andrew Briggs’s book, The Penultimate Curiosity (OUP 2016), continues
to garner favourable reviews (the Trinity edition of Oxford Today says ‘if you read one book this year read this’) and is to be translated into different languages. The Spanish and Portuguese translations will appear in 2018 and the Chinese translation in 2019. The first instalments of a children’s version of the book called The Great Curiosity Quest are due to be published next year. Peter Ackers (1976) published his fourth co-edited collection in 2016. Ackers & Reid, Alternatives to State Socialism in Britain: Other Worlds of Labour in the Twentieth Century, (Palgrave Macmillan) takes a revisionist approach to British Labour History, which stresses the enduring importance of Liberal-Pluralism, broadly defined. Two articles also appeared: on the writings of Hugh Clegg & Barbara Wootton about post-war Incomes Policy in the Industrial Relations Journal; and on the history and social philosophy of Leicester Worker Co-operation in Labor History. He also edited a symposium on the ‘Oxford School of Industrial Relations’ for Historical Studies in Industrial Relations. During the 2016/17 academic year he was a Visiting Scholar at the Oxford Centre for Life Writing, Wolfson College, Oxford. However, in May 2017, after only 18 months as a Research Professor of Employment Relations at De Montfort University, Leicester, he was put into a redundancy process - with the other 2 Professors in his Department. He retired from full-time academic life at the end of June 2017, but will continue writing on British Social & Labour History and Biographical approaches to this. Juliet Landau-Pope (née Pope, 1982) will publish her first book in September 2017. What’s Your Excuse for not Being More Productive? outlines quick and simple strategies to overcome procrastination.