Lucy Cavendish College Annual Review by Lucy Cavendish College

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ANNUAL REVIEW 2018/2019

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Contents Welcome from the President

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SECTION ONE: THE COLLEGE YEAR Senior Tutor’s report Admissions Director’s report Development Director’s report Librarian’s report Bursar’s report Domestic Bursar’s report Our gardens in numbers Staff news Other College news

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SECTION TWO: THE STUDENT YEAR Students’ Union report News from our students College Research Day Celebrating Graduations

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SECTION THREE: SPECIAL EVENTS Visiting speakers Fiction Prize and Festival

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SECTION FOUR: SPORTS AND MUSIC Sports report Rowing report Our year in music

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SECTION FIVE: FELLOWS Fellows’ news

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SECTION SIX: ALUMNAE News from our alumnae

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SECTION SEVEN: IN MEMORIAM

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SECTION EIGHT: DONORS Thank you to donors

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SECTION NINE: PHOTO ALBUM

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Annual Review 2018/19 Editor: Rachel Hill Contributors: Kate Coghlan, Georgia Good Photographers: Claire Borley, Kate Coghlan, Lottie Ettling Cover photo: Halimatou Hima Moussa Dioula (PhD Developmental Studies, 2015) taken by Lottie Ettling Design: Cameron Design Ltd Print: Ciconi

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Welcome from the President Professor Dame Madeleine Atkins, 9th President of Lucy Cavendish College

I was honoured to be elected President of Lucy Cavendish College at the beginning of this academic year, and I have enjoyed getting to know the College’s vibrant social and intellectual community. I have also been impressed by the outward-looking approach, which leads to productive and long-lasting relationships between the members of the College and our many external partners, friends and benefactors. Academically, we have had some excellent successes. This year two of our undergraduates came top of their entire Triposes and 81% received Firsts or 2:1s. Our students continue to engage and excel in a wide range of extra-curricular activities including: volunteering and fund-raising for various charities, such as the Cambridge City Foodbank, Home-Start, and breast cancer charities; giving uplifting musical performances in venues including the Oxford and Cambridge Club in Pall Mall; co-directing a play at the ADC; releasing a debut album; and excelling in a range of sports, including fencing, sailing, volleyball, rowing, real tennis, and football. And it was a Lucy Cavendish undergraduate team captain, Linnea Gradin, who led Cambridge to victory at the women’s Varsity football match, the first time the Light Blues had won in four years. One pervasive theme this year has been that of leadership: students, Fellows and alumnae have been recognised for excellence in teaching; for acting as inspirational role models; for coaching young people; and for engaging the public in their areas of expertise. Our students benefitted from visits and talks across the year from an excellent range of inspiring people (see more on page 24). In particular, I would like to thank our Senior Tutor, Dr Jane Greatorex for arranging the ‘Coercion’ series of talks, with participation from colleagues in Medicine, Veterinary Science, Politics, Literature and Law. I am grateful to our alumnae and supporters for your thoughtful, ongoing commitment to the College. Thank you for your generous financial donations and for sharing your skills and knowledge with our students through mentoring and work placements. As many of you will know, the past academic year has been a time of transition. In March, the Governing Body of the College voted overwhelmingly to amend our admissions criteria so that from October 2021 we will be a mixed, standard-age entry college, particularly focusing on those groups which are currently under-

represented in the University. The decision followed wide consultation amongst stakeholders including alumnae, current students, Fellows, donors, Associates and staff (over 2,600 people in total). The vast majority of respondents supported the change, especially our efforts to become much more representative of society as a whole, both in the UK and internationally. We have a considerable task ahead of us now, preparing the College for this exciting new future. Our plans for admissions, outreach, marketing and communications are in progress (look out for our new website). Plans to develop our estates are being drawn up and donors are being asked to support us as we grow. A number of students have asked to get involved in planning for 2021, and I know that their ideas and input will be very valuable. For over 50 years we have been the college that admits talented individuals from non-traditional and under-represented backgrounds. As we enter the next chapter in our history, we will be giving more such people the opportunity to come to Cambridge and be part of Lucy Cavendish. We hope that you will support us in making a success of this exciting challenge.

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THE COLLEGE YEAR

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Senior Tutor’s report Report by Dr Jane Greatorex

The past academic year has been a whirlwind of events, new initiatives, new staff and has, of course, been dominated by the decision to change our admissions policy. More of the latter later, but first I’d like to mention some of the year’s highlights. One exciting initiative has been the introduction of an academic theme for some of the Thursday night talks which precede Formal Hall. The theme for this inaugural year was ‘Coercion’. My thanks to Sarada Chattajee for help finding speakers and organising the events. We had discussions on domestic violence and animal abuse, coercion and development, fake news, criminology, consent, and coercion in crime literature. The success of this initiative has led us to take a fresh theme forward for 2019–20 – ‘Connections’. College Research Day expanded again this year. The new, longer event was chaired by Dr Sarah Morgan, and included the whole College community, with prizes for the best talks. The diverse range of subjects covered included mental health, education and materials science. In future, we plan to open the meeting up to the whole University, to showcase to a wider audience the brilliant people who study and work at this College. I could go on talking about events such as the Fiction Prize, sporting successes, and solid academic performances. Instead, I’d like to mention a student story which makes me proud to work here. Over the past seventeen years, many stories stand out. Students who have coped with great difficulties, given birth during the middle of exams, even taken their exams at the maternity hospital! There is greater recognition now that more can be done to ensure that students are not disadvantaged because of personal circumstances, disability or ill health. This year, one of our students with a chronic health issue was able to apply to the newly created Exams and Mitigating Circumstances committee, and we implemented an ambitious plan to help her to attempt her exams and manage the workload. The flexibility given to our student over timing of exams, rest periods and papers allowed her to achieve the best possible result and progress on to graduate education. It’s important to mention that this was a team effort involving the University Committee, the Tutorial Office, Tutors and Director of Studies. Going forward, we are planning an innovative and exemplary Academic Skills programme. In 2018–19 we trialled many of the skills classes and events we wish to incorporate, enabling us to set out a programme for 2019–20 which is tailored to the type of student (undergraduate, masters or PhD) and aligned to key events within the academic year for each cohort. The same skills

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are being used to create a new bridging programme for all incoming undergraduate students. I am grateful to the Assistant Senior Tutor, Dr Annette Mahon and the Librarian, Suzanne Tonkin, for their input and hard work. College continues to emphasise well-being and community, supporting weekly yoga classes, hosting University mindfulness courses, encouraging the uptake of cycling, and working with the SU to promote social and community events. We continue to increase the number of academic staff and bring teaching in-house. We have a new University Teaching Officer, Dr Deborah Talmi, who is a joint Lecturer appointment between College and the Department of Psychiatry. Deborah has taken over as Director of Studies for Part I PBS. We have a number of new Bye-Fellows and I am concentrating on building up the staff in subject areas which we hope will attract larger student cohorts from 2021. As academics, the Tutorial and Admissions teams are involved in research, some of which is directly relevant to recruitment and student experience. My Assistant, Dr Mahon, was awarded funding to explore the experience of MPhil students at Cambridge and provide insights for improving student support, and our Admissions Director, Dr Harvey, was supported by the other mature colleges to develop an HE+ programme specifically for mature students. These are exciting times. Our College has the opportunity to build on its strengths, and the years of experience supporting mature women to study and succeed, applying those skills to encourage and assist a wider range of students, from all backgrounds, to make the very best of their time at Cambridge and to have a positive impact in society.

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Admissions Director’s report Report by Dr Victoria Harvey

2018-19 has again been an exciting year in Admissions at Lucy Cavendish. Aside from the ‘big news’, much of the year has been spent engaging with FE colleges in East Anglia and North London. Our new President incorporated some of these trips into her busy schedule and she was very well received. Listening to the FE college principals, it became clear that students on Access courses, one of our traditional pathways to tripos, were becoming younger each year. The average age is now 19, which leaves Cambridge applicants too young to matriculate at a mature college. With our new admissions criteria of standard age and mixed, we are now in a much better position to cater for those leaving FE, as well as those coming through the A Level system. Following the visits with FE colleges, we now have a strong new programme of academic engagement to offer students on Access to Humanities and Access to Social Science programmes: HE21+ is an evolution of the University’s HE+ scheme for Year 12 students. During the academic year, Lucy Cavendish will host a programme of events for those students who are considering progression to university. The students will have access to lectures and supervisions during their day trips to College and to online mentoring for a set period leading up to applications and exams. In November we hosted a teachers’ conference to encourage FE colleges to sign up for this initiative. This entire programme, including transport and refreshments will be free of charge to the students, teachers and their colleges.

The Admissions team has been strengthened by the arrival of Lucy Bunker, our new Outreach and Recruitment Officer. Lucy comes to us after a good number of years in widening participation, both at the Cambridge Admissions Office and at Fitzwilliam College. Lucy has been integral to the implementation of the HE21+ scheme and is now working on adapting our calendar of events to embrace all students, whilst retaining FE at the heart of the process: our admissions clinics and skype clinics, for example, will remain exclusively for non-traditional applicants. Further to these, Lucy is carving out a unique place for Lucy Cavendish amongst the well-established Cambridge outreach initiatives. Gaby Jones has also enjoyed a busy year at the helm of admissions queries, applications and offer holders. In addition to business as usual, running successful admissions clinics and open days, she has been assessing the logistics of a tripling of our numbers. At the last count, Gaby reports that we can expect to conduct up to 780 separate interviews to achieve a good cohort from direct applications. Under normal circumstances, I would interview every candidate; however, I think my days of undertaking this task are numbered.

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Development Director’s report Report by Jo Ryan

It’s been an exciting and historic year at Lucy. Our team, like our College, has seen changes and growth and we’ve been involved in exciting events, rewarding visits, crucial fundraising, and so much more. Under an inspiring new President, Professor Dame Madeleine Atkins, we’re embarking on a programme of major transformation which will build on Lucy’s firm foundations. As ever, we will be guided by the core values that make Lucy special: inclusion, equality, and a shared commitment to providing access to a Cambridge education to as many deserving students as possible, regardless of background and despite the boundaries they may face. We are not doing this alone; already, a growing number of alumnae and friends have been inspired to invest in our future, thus endorsing our aim to prioritise even more groups of underrepresented students, alongside mature women. As we enter a new phase in the College’s life we hope that you will be there with us. A Cambridge education is, undoubtedly, outstanding, but life at Lucy offers so much more. We are working to enhance our students’ extra-curricular experiences by running programmes on personal development, professional skills and increasing employability; we are grateful to all those who have offered to lend their support to these initiatives, especially our Honorary Fellows and Fellow-Commoners who are such tremendous ambassadors. Please get in touch if you would like to know more. This year, we’ve fostered partnerships within Cambridge and beyond. Our valued partnership with AstraZeneca goes from strength to strength, providing work-shadowing and mentoring opportunities for our students. Looking forward, we’ll stay ambitious, building transformational partnerships with our alumnae and friends, such as with the Asian University for Women (AUW) in Bangladesh. A wonderful donation will enable us to welcome MPhil students from AUW from 2020. The academic theme of ‘Coercion’ shaped a year of diverse and engrossing talks, on a myriad of topics from politics and criminology to feminism, ethics and psychology. Professor Catherine Barnard, esteemed legal scholar specialising in EU Law, delivered a fascinating talk on Brexit. Another highlight was a talk by Pat Gallan QPM, former Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, and the most senior female ethnic minority police officer in British history. Evening talks at Lucy are free and open to all. The year ended on a high with our annual Lucy in London series, as we welcomed broadcaster, writer and economist Ed Balls, who spoke candidly on politics – and, of course, Strictly Come Dancing – with our Former President, Jackie Ashley.

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We are excited to be launching a new regional alumnae events series, starting this autumn in Oxford and Manchester. Our annual Lucy Lawyers networking reception in London is now a permanent fixture, and our thanks go to alumnae Dr Michelle Chen and Hedy Xu. We will be adding to this programme, with more subject-specific events planned – please visit the website for full details. The Lucy Cavendish Alumnae Association was equally busy this year; the Committee supported us at the Carol Concert and Garden Party, produced the Nautilus newsletter and welcomed new alumnae at graduation ceremonies. We appreciate their continued hard work and dedication. If you would like to join the Committee, please let us know. One of my great pleasures is to meet our diverse and inspiring alumnae – people who, in different ways, are instrumental to our success. This year, the President and I visited New York, Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong. It was a privilege to connect with so many amazing members of the College. As we begin our new chapter we would be so grateful for your help. You can support Lucy in many ways – by mentoring our students, volunteering, giving a gift, or considering mentioning Lucy in your will. Doing so is invaluable and has the power to transform lives. Even after graduation, the College has lots offer so please keep in touch. We’re always looking for new ways to engage with you so please let us know if you have any feedback or suggestions on how we could enhance your Lucy experience. Finally, a huge thank you from all of us in the Development Team. We’re truly grateful and couldn’t do it without you.

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Librarian’s report Report by Suzanne Tonkin

Photo: Sara Rawlinson

Our first task of each year is of course introducing the services that we offer to our new students during induction. We ran numerous tours and demonstrations this year, including an extra session for early arrivers and also accompanied groups to the University Library, which proved to be a good opportunity to meet and get to know some of our new students. Skills have been a particular focus this year and in collaboration with the Tutorial Office, we have worked towards establishing a programme of academic skills sessions. Our initial programme has included, among others, sessions on presentation skills, dealing with quantitative data and revision techniques, and we look forward to expanding the range and number of events over the next two years. We have also continued to collaborate with colleagues across the wider Cambridge library network. This is a valuable way for us to keep up to date with service developments in other libraries and also allows library staff here to play a part in new projects and initiatives. Such a collaborative approach often leads to larger and more ambitious projects and better outcomes than would otherwise be possible to the benefit of all college libraries. Lucy Cavendish Library staff have this year been part of groups that have developed new online resources for incoming undergraduates, made recommendations to better co-ordinate induction practices across Cambridge libraries, updated introductory documentation to support new college librarians and sat on committees with colleagues from other college libraries. Library staff have ongoing work to ensure the book collections support our students, particularly our undergraduates and taught graduates. The whole of the main collection was stockchecked during the summer of 2018, which allowed staff to identify missing items and rectify data anomalies left over from our migration to the new Library Management System earlier in the year. Staff also checked dozens of reading lists and responded to book requests from students and Directors of Studies, all of which goes to ensure the collections fully reflect our students’ academic needs. Our leisure collections also carry on growing and this year we have purchased an initial set of board and card games, which are available for students to borrow from the Library Lounge in the usual way.

Lucy Cavendish Library was one of 26 Cambridge college libraries to feature in a photographic exhibition by Sara Rawlinson, entitled “Illuminating Cambridge Libraries”. Elevenses and threeses continue to thrive and are just one of the ways the Library Team works to support the College community. Events help with this too and in February we ran a Love Your Library themed week including library love and break-up letters, themed helpdesks, heart-shaped cakes and a library themed haiku competition. As one entrant said:

A library comp what an exciting new way to distract myself This year also saw the highest number of entries ever for our annual Art and Photography competition. The judging panel, chaired by Library Assistant Gill Saxon had a particularly tough time deciding on our three prize winners and we were incredibly grateful to all our judges for their deliberations. First prize this year went to Fellow Jane Goodall with her atmospheric photograph Connections with the landscape: the bathing pool, which the judges commended for its beautiful composition. All three prize-winning entries will be on display in the library throughout the coming year.

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Bursar’s report Report by Lesley Thompson

Another year has flown past and the life of the College goes on – apace! I wrote last year about how change is a constant, and developments this year have certainly borne this out. I am always mindful of the privilege of being a trustee of this wonderful institution. As a Governing Body Fellow, I know I am part of a chain, entrusted, with my fellow trustees, with the well-being of the College, that we will in turn hand on, hopefully in even better shape, to future trustees. And of course, as Bursar, I feel a particular responsibility to seek to facilitate and encourage the strategic development of the College in a way that improves its underlying financial position and overall sustainability. With the arrival of our new President, it has been an immensely busy year and there has been no let up over the summer as we start implementing the plans to deliver the next phase of the College’s life. In March, the Governing Body decided to change our admissions policy, which means from 2021 we will be a mixed, standard-ageentry College, particularly focusing on those from groups which are currently under-represented in the University. Allied to this is an ambitious plan to more than double the size of the student body over the next five years or so. The combination of this expansion together with admitting different kinds of students means that we are currently working very hard on estates and facilities planning. We want to have attractive, inclusive accommodation and facilities, fit for purpose for the future – so environmental sustainability is also central to our considerations. How is all of this to be funded given that we are still a College with very modest assets? In a number of ways: we are working hard to get the best possible value for money on any developments; we are planning to sell some of our existing properties, furthest away from College; we are looking to lease accommodation where this makes

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sense; we are investigating the capacity that the College has to borrow funds to contribute to some of the requirements; and, critically, philanthropy will also be key to our being able to develop and deliver what we need. These strategic developments are centre-stage, time-consuming and important, but in the meantime the College continues to run as usual and our dedicated team work with great commitment in their respective roles. Sometimes their work can be relatively unseen, but it is all crucial to the success of the College so I want to acknowledge and thank them here. As I have explained before, all Cambridge colleges make a deficit on educational activities as the full cost of provision is not covered by fee income. Colleges therefore rely on donations and return from endowment/investments to fill the gap. We are steadily growing our endowment (about £14m at 30 June 2019) but this is still tiny compared with most other colleges. This is why we are always grateful for the Colleges Fund, a mechanism whereby the richer colleges give funds for endowment to the poorer; in June 2019 we received a very welcome £876k from this fund. We are also particularly grateful to those supporters who donate funds to boost the endowment as this supports the long-term sustainability of the College. Indeed, thanks are due to all who so generously support the College – every donation makes a real difference, especially as we seek to develop over these next few years. Rest assured that we work hard to manage the College’s resources efficiently, care for all our assets and investments and also to generate income for the College, particularly through conferences and partnerships. If you wish to know more about the College finances I am very happy to answer questions, and the accounts, including the Trustees Annual Report, are available on the College website: https://www.lucycav.cam.ac.uk/about-us/freedom-of-information/reports-accounts/

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Domestic Bursar’s report Report by Christine Houghton

It has been another busy and productive year at Lucy Cavendish. We were very pleased to prepare Marshall House for our new President, Professor Dame Madeleine Atkins, and to welcome her to the College. We look forward to an exciting future, and to the challenges and changes ahead! The catering team have worked hard this year to entice students and College members to dine in Hall, and our new café/bar, The Nautilus (pictured), has proven to be a popular addition to our catering provision. We are committed to being as sustainable as possible, and have been focusing particularly on vegetarian and vegan meals. Formal Halls have been very well-attended, and we are always pleased to welcome all guests. We encourage our members to dine in College as often as possible! Hall is open to all College members for lunch daily during the week (October – June), for brunch, Sunday lunch and Formal Hall in term. The Nautilus café is open from Monday to Friday until noon, from October to June, and stocks a selection of breakfast items, bean to cup coffee, cakes and snacks. Please come in and support us when you can. It’s a great opportunity to meet students and other members. As well as catering provision, the Domestic Bursary is responsible for co-ordinating a lively programme of conferences, summer schools and events, plus refurbishment projects and general maintenance. Some of our clients have been with us for over a decade – this repeat business is testament to the excellent relationships we have fostered with a number of organisers and companies. We are also always looking for potential new business relationships and this year we welcomed some new clients to our portfolio. The income from this business has increased significantly over the years and I am very proud of the contribution it makes to College. We are always looking to enhance students’ time at College by upgrading and adding new facilities, and this income really helps. During the summer of 2018, we undertook a number of refurbishment projects:

n Several redecoration projects, internal and external, including the entrance hallway and cloakroom in Warburton Hall.

n New pathway laid between College House and Warburton Hall to make access to Warburton dining hall easier. n Replaced wooden floor in Warburton Hall and tiled entrance and ground floor hallway in Oldham Hall. n Carried out a number of refurbishment projects in Marshall House in preparation for our new President.

In addition, our maintenance team, John and Andres, and our Housekeeping team have carried out a number of smaller projects, including reupholstering some furniture, replacing furnishings, and other maintenance items from a list we compile after carrying out an Annual Maintenance Inspection in Lent term, organised so that we keep our estates up to date and in good order. My Assistant Katie Clarke has been very involved in keeping occupancy levels in accommodation up and she is helping to project manage the creation of event and booking modules. I could not have better support.

n Refurbished a further 7 bathrooms in Oldham Hall, taking out baths and turning the rooms into modern bathrooms with stand-alone showers. All ‘sets’ now have new facilities.

My thanks go to the teams that help make it all happen, without whose support and help the many facets of ‘domestic bursary’ would not be so successful: Katie, Catering, Housekeeping, Gardeners, Maintenance, Porters and IT.

n Replaced radiators in 13 rooms in Bertram, where they were under window seats and very hard to access. The new ones are tall and fitted to the wall, so they are easier to control.

Finally, do please remember that we host celebratory events, conferences and business meetings throughout the year, so get in touch if you are looking for a venue for a family event, conference, meeting, or a special dinner.

n Created The Nautilus café/bar in Oldham Hall Paul Paget/ Conservatory.

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Our gardens in numbers 10 years since we first participated in the National Garden Scheme open days, and this year we were presented with a special trowel to celebrate! 1,360 spring bulbs were planted during September and October 2018 including 420 tulips, 300 crocuses, 100 scillas, 200 daffodils and 300 anemones. 280 people gathered for our Annual Garden Party in June. We enjoyed prosecco, strawberries, ice-cream, live music and a visit from a petting zoo. 100s of birds visited the gardens including chaffinches, blue tits, great tits, green finches and jays. 83 mature trees grow in our College gardens including weeping ash, a tulip tree, a black walnut tree, quince, medlars, Persian ironwood, dawn redwood, limes and a Judas tree. 68 herbs are growing in our Anglo-Saxon Garden, which was created in 1987 and brings to life the research of Dr Jane Renfrew and Dr Debby Banham. 3 gardeners and 1 trainee are employed to work Monday to Wednesday in our gardens (led by Vince Lucas, who has been here for 13 years). 24 bags (50 litres each) of peat-free manure used on the gardens, along with 3 tonnes of compost made on site. 1 peahen visited for several days, drawing students out of the Library and staff out of College House. Other wildlife included hedgehogs, squirrels, muntjac deer, grass snakes, foxes, and in the pond: newts, frogs, water boatmen, back swimmers and damselfly and dragonfly nymphs.

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Staff news Report by Alison Burmby, HR Manager

The priorities for HR this year have been supporting the workforce and responding to changing College requirements. At the heart of our people-focused approach is delivering effective recruitment strategies, providing appropriate training and development, and successful performance management.

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Andy Bell has joined the College on a permanent basis after working for some time as a Relief Porter. In his new role as Senior Porter, he will work alongside John Morley and have responsibility for management of the Porters’ Lodge. Brendan Coe has also transferred to the permanent team after working as a Relief Porter. Alumna Catherine Quinn (English, 2012) has joined as Events Officer supporting the Development team with a range of events and initiatives.

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Bolette Pedersen is working under the WRAGS garden scheme supporting Vince and his team to make our gardens look as beautiful as they do.

Susan Barrett, Shaun Bestwick, Elena Gemaldin and Jude Arnold have joined our Housekeeping team maintaining our high standards across the College. Lucy Bunker has joined as Outreach and Recruitment Coordinator supporting the team with new Admissions.

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As Administrative Assistant to the Bursar and Domestic Bursar, Paris Tague has a varied role which also includes accommodation, conference and events bookings and HR administration. Mario Chacon joined as Front of House Manager working with the Hall and Kitchen teams.

Jenny Ridge has joined as Head of Communications and Marketing, working on a wide range of activities. Jenny will be supported by Flavia Bartoletti in her role as Communications and Marketing Officer. Flavia joined us earlier this year and has been supporting a number of departments since her arrival.

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Beatriz Crispino, Bruno Crispino and Kam Leung have left the Housekeeping team. Kate McCombe has left as Hall Manager. Neil Curtis, Senior Porter, retired after 11 years at the College.

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Summer Creedy was promoted to Housekeeping Supervisor. Andrew Cleland was promoted to IT Projects and Infrastructure Manager.

Kate Coghlan and Tim Arnold left as Joint Heads of Communications and Marketing. Scarlet Wang, IT Manager left following an IT department restructure. Callie Vandewiele left the Development Office to take up her first academic post in New Zealand.

OTHER A range of training has been arranged to support the changing College needs including Change Management and Project Management together with ongoing Mental Health training and other soft skills development The College has introduced a Death in Service benefit for members of the NOW! Pensions scheme who did not have this benefit.

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Other College news The inaugural Lucy Cavendish Creative Writing Course In 2018, we held our first residential Creative Writing Course. Participants spent the week learning from published authors, fellow writers and industry experts in a relaxed and inspiring setting: the perfect way for writers to boost their creativity, confidence, and writing skills, guiding them towards publishing success. The fully-residential option included staying in en suite accommodation on the peaceful College campus, and guests enjoyed delicious meals including a special three-course dinner and drinks reception. Each day featured a writing workshop, a talk by an author, editor or agent, and free time for writing. Guests received feedback on their work in group sessions, and in one-to-ones with experts. Speakers included published authors who have discovered success through the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize, Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott (Swan Song), Laura Marshall (Friend Request, Three Little Lies) and Emily Midorikawa (A Secret Sisterhood: the Hidden Friendships of Austen, Brontё, Eliot and Woolf), and Fiction Prize judges, editor Gillian Stern and literary agent Nelle Andrew. The course was directed by authors and creative writing teachers Jo Browning-Wroe and Miranda Doyle.

£1,000 raised in Pink Week

Lucy Cavendish College turned pink in February, to raise money for breast cancer charities. As part of Cambridge Pink Week, MPhil Student Holly Elgood-Curtis organised a talk by Professor Lynne Berry OBE, Fellow-Commoner and Chair of the charity Breast Cancer Now. The talk was followed by a Pink Formal Hall and a bop, raising money for seven charities through voluntary donations. Holly said: “I am thrilled that we raised an amazing £1083.88! I'm so grateful to, and proud of, the whole Lucy community for supporting such a worthy cause – not least to Lynne Berry for her insightful and emotive talk. Raising over £1,000 in one night is incredible, and I hope it will help make a huge diﬀerence to the work of these amazing charities.”

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Art exhibition for the Boat Club In September, the College held a public art exhibition in aid of Lucy Cavendish College Boat Club. Work was donated by professional local artists, as well as those not primarily known as artists, such as students, staff, Fellows, former College President Dame Veronica Sutherland, and Senior Associate Andrew Marr. Our thriving Boat Club engages 12% of the College population, and fundraises to maintain and improve on its success. The exhibition was a wonderful part of this, showcasing talent, and demonstrating a great deal of goodwill for the College. College Fellow and Curator Dr Sarah Gull said: “This exhibition is the brainchild of former College President Dame Veronica Sutherland, a supporter of both sport and visual arts at Lucy Cavendish. Putting it together has shown the diversity of talent in several generous local artists and in people who are not normally thought of as ‘artists’, but who do it anyway, and are brave enough to share their work.”

New Post-doctoral Research Associates Lucy Cavendish welcomed nine Post-doctoral Research Associates to its community this year. Selected following a competitive application process, the associates are actively engaged in research at the University (or one of its affiliated institutions), and play an important role in the College, attending academic and social events and taking part in subject communities across Lucy Cavendish. Our new Post-doctoral Research Associates are Dr Bridget Bannerman (Biochemistry), Dr Laetitia Chauve (Biomedicine), Dr Polytimi Frangou (Neuroscience), Dr Eva Hellmann (Botany), Dr Maria Cristina Rodgriguez Rivero (Engineering), Dr Rachel Smith (Social Anthropology), Dr Jessica Taylor (Biomedicine at Cancer Research UK), Dr Clare Worley (Astronomy) and Dr Shuya Zhong (Engineering).

New Lucy merchandise We launched some new and unique College merchandise this year, with Lucy pet lovers in mind. Designed exclusively by one of our students, the new mugs and t-shirts feature our four famous guinea pigs, introduced to Lucy Cavendish last year (named Emmeline Squeakhurst, Virguinea Woolf, Ruth Bader Guineasburg and Oreo). The mugs and t-shirts are now on sale in the Porters’ Lodge, along with all our other lovely merchandise – a great way to support the College and show off Lucian pride!

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College President receives a DBE We are delighted that our President, Professor Madeleine Atkins, was awarded a DBE (Dame Commander of the British Empire) in the New Year’s Honours List. She received the honour for her outstanding contribution to the field of higher education, which she continues at Lucy Cavendish College. Lately Chief Executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England, and Vice-Chancellor of Coventry University, Professor Atkins has a long and distinguished career in higher education; having joined Lucy Cavendish in October 2018, she is committed to widening access to Cambridge for applicants from non-traditional backgrounds, and creating a dynamic, inclusive environment at the College.

Lucy Cavendish wins Gold Award for going green Fellows and staff from Lucy Cavendish College were among 50 teams from across the University who came together for the Green Impact Awards in June. Established by the NUS, Green Impact is an award-winning behaviour change programme which empowers participants to raise awareness and reduce impact on the planet. College commitment to environmental sustainability was recognised by auditors for the Awards, who noted how much action had been taken within the first year of involvement. The Gold Award is the scheme’s second highest, and our sights are set on Platinum next year. Katie Clarke, Assistant Domestic Bursar, said: “As a College, we’ve worked hard over the past twelve months to reduce our impact on the environment; it’s great to have that recognised with a Gold Award. We’ve made lots of small but important changes around College, including introducing the ‘can the can’ bins, signing up as a water refill station and moving to biodegradable products for the conference season, such as recyclable bath mats, and lots more. There’s much more we can do, and we’re fully committed to being a leading green College.”

Graduate Talks series Organised by the Lucy Cavendish Students’ Union, the Lent term featured a new programme of Tuesday evening talks, given by Lucy graduate students on a diverse range of topics, including the rights of surrogates, fourteenth-century church paintings, early Chinese feminism, and self-determination theory. The talks were a great opportunity for speakers and attendees alike, enlightening students on new topics, while helping others to showcase their research.

News from Fellow-Commoners Professor Dalia Leinarte promotes women’s rights Professor Dalia Leinarte chaired the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) Committee. Adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1979, CEDAW has been ratified by 189 states, recognised as an international bill of rights for women. As its Chair, Dalia has spoken on abortion rights as women’s rights this year; she sees the issue as part of a broader commitment to liberating women. Dalia’s background, as a Professor of History born in the Soviet Union, informs her beliefs; she spoke to Varsity magazine about the lack of progress in Eastern Europe during second wave feminism, and the continued entrenchment of traditional gender roles. Through CEDAW, she is committed to legal and cultural change, for a future of gender equality.

Dr Ann Limb on 2019 Power List Dr Ann Limb CBE DL was named on the Northern Power Women 2019 Power List. Northern Power Women is a campaign to accelerate gender diversity in the North of England, by showcasing role models like Ann; the honour celebrates her as an inspiring female agent of change. Ann is Chair of the London Stansted Cambridge Consortium, the board of ENTRUST and the Landfill Communities Fund, as well as several major organisations in Milton Keynes; she set up and chaired the South East Midlands Local Enterprise Partnership, and is the first woman to chair the Scout Association UK. During a 25-year career in further education, Ann founded the Helena Kennedy Foundation, which promotes social inclusion in further and higher education by awarding bursaries to students from disadvantaged backgrounds. This conveys her lifelong commitment to education equality, reflected in her Fellowship at Lucy Cavendish College.

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THE STUDENT YEAR

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Students’ Union report by Co-Presidents Emma Sims and Emma Hopkins

for the Christmas holidays. The SU also hosted Bridgemas (Cambridge’s answer to Christmas), laying on a feast of mince pies, satsumas, cheese boards and other Yuletide fare. A Lucy Cavendish Secret Santa, with participants exchanging gifts over hot chocolate and marshmallows, was a heart-warming ending to a challenging term.

Our year as co-presidents – the first co -presidency in SU history – has flown by, jam-packed with events, elections and initiatives. We were privileged to lead such a dynamic and hands-on committee, to whom we are eternally grateful for their unending hard work.

The famous weekly grad talks were revived – complete with dinner and wine afterwards – and included titles as impressive and diverse as “Early Chinese Feminism: 1897-1911” and “A Reassessment of the 14th Century Chancel Wall Paintings in St Mary’s Church Chalgrove, Oxfordshire”. For those wanting a more interactive experience, the Ents team introduced their wildly successful Apéros, where Lucians congregated over wine, cheese and nibbles to unwind from work and embrace the College community.

Keen to continue the legacy of our predecessor Ida Svenonius, we laid on a Freshers’ Week in October filled with ice breakers, a societies fair, an afternoon tea, an international karaoke night, a gargantuan welcome dinner and the all-important Lucy Cavendish initiation ritual – where incoming students impress a handprint on a welcome banner, signifying Lucians’ unifying bond. The week was seen out with a Cambridge rite of passage: a famous Lucy bop, flocked to by students from Colleges as far afield as Hughes Hall.

Lent term brought with it a ceilidh, with all the merriment Scottish dancing provides, plenty of pizza-fuelled SU open meetings and a welfare evening, complete with fresh fruit, face masks and a screening of The Breakfast Club. Women’s Officer Kirby marked International Women’s Day with a charity quiz of feminist general knowledge, with proceeds going to the Cambridge Rape Crisis Centre. Welfare Officer Holly raised a four-figure sum for a host of breast cancer charities as part of her Pink Week initiative, including a formal dinner and bop afterwards. She joined forces with fellow Welfare Officer Annika to host an Easter egg hunt around the beautiful Lucy gardens, much to the delight of participants, world-weary after a high-energy term.

We welcomed a new non-executive SU committee in November, with the particularly indefatigable Ents team bringing new zeal to the job. Their meticulously planned and perfectly executed “Through the Wardrobe” bop brought plenty of Narnia-esque wonder to Lucy Cavendish, giving students the perfect send-off

It was bittersweet to elect a new executive committee; saddening to let the office of co-presidency go, but very exciting to welcome in the next generation of the SU – students of 2019–20, you’re in very capable hands. It has been a privilege to serve; thank you for having us.

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News from our students Rabia Nasimi continues charity work Graduate student Rabia Nasimi has been appointed as a Trustee of Home-Start, a charity which supports struggling families with children under five years old. Through home visiting, its volunteers offer emotional and practical support to parents, providing guidance and building resilience. Rabia is also Strategic Development Manager of the ACAA (Afghanistan and Central Asian Association), a charity aiming to support refugee integration in the UK; Rabia herself came to the UK as a refugee aged five, fleeing war in Afghanistan. For her role at the ACAA, she was shortlisted for the Women of the Future Awards this year, in the Community Spirits Award category.

Bonnie Samuyiwa selected as Future Leader

Mary Ononokpono shortlisted for Morland Writing Scholarship Mary Ononokpono was shortlisted for the Morland Writing Scholarship this year. The scholarship is a prestigious award for African writers, to enable them to complete a full length work of fiction or non-fiction. Mary, a PhD student born in Calabar, Nigeria, has been shortlisted twice before. She also had a short story, “Inyang” republished online, by the women writer’s platform For Books Sake.

Elisabeth Gill shortlisted for Trinity Bradfield Prize PhD student Elisabeth Gill was chosen as a finalist for the Trinity Bradfield Prize. The prize, created by Trinity College and Central Working, honours student entrepreneurship; it helps students develop their innovations, and transfer research from the lab to real-world applications. Lizzie’s research is in the use of 3D printing to create a 3D cell culture tool, which has potential in drug screening applications. She was one of five finalists for the prize, reflecting her commitment, novel idea, and plan for its development.

Clarissa Hjalmarrson presents poster at national conference In October, Powerful Media selected English undergraduate Bonnie Samuyiwa as one of its “Future Leaders” in a list of the UK’s top 100 outstanding undergraduates and recent graduates from an African or Afro-Caribbean background. Bonnie was chosen for her high academic grades and exceptional roles outside her studies; she is a Campus Ambassador for the Civil Service Fast Stream, a Young Leader for the US Embassy in London, a Youth Delegate for the Royal Commonwealth Society and a member of Young Professionals in Foreign Policy. Bonnie attended an award ceremony with guest speakers, skill-building workshops, a three-course lunch and an after-party. She was also invited to a reception at 10 Downing Street, hosted by the Prime Minister, to mark Black History Month. Bonnie has featured on Cambridge 105’s “Women Making Waves” radio show, talking about her achievements.

Medical student Clarissa Hjalmarsson presented a QI poster at the BPNA (British Paediatric Neurology Association) Annual Conference. Clarissa’s poster was entitled “Audit of Paediatric MRI Under Oral Sedation at West Suffolk Hospital”; it reported on an audit project that she assisted on during a summer placement at West Suffolk Hospital. As part of the project, Clarissa worked on data extraction and analysis, focusing on paediatric oral sedation for MRI and CT scans. At the conference, she showcased the important work taking place at West Suffolk Hospital; she also had the chance to learn more about neurology, and meet other students and researchers.

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Marina Gilic chairs HBA European Leadership Summit Marina Gilic, MPhil student in Strategy, Marketing and Operations, is an HBA (Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association) Leader. In this role, she chaired the HBA’s annual European Leadership Summit. The event celebrates female leadership, to advance gender equality, and enable organisations to realise the potential of female talent. More broadly, the HBA is a global non-profit organisation for the development of women in the healthcare industry.

Hollie Wells wins Mrs Claude Beddington Prize for English Shameera Lin co-directs Malaysian play Shameera Lin co-directed the first Malaysian play to ever be performed at the ADC Theatre, Cambridge. The play, Atomic Jaya, is a political satire; it takes on racial issues, national hubris, tenuous relationships between the East and the West, and the post-colonial hangover. Shameera directed alongside Corpus Christi’s Jonathan Chan, in a Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Society production. The play was a great success, with glowing reviews and tickets selling fast. An English student, Shameera plays a major role in Cambridge theatre, both on and offstage: she’s been involved in dozens of productions, as an actor, director, writer and comedian. She mostly works on comedy, drama and Shakespeare, with a thematic focus on intersections this year.

Oyin Johnson releases debut album Oyindamola Johnson, known as Ms Eva Johnson as an artist, released her first album last year. At Lucy Cavendish, she is a Law student (LLM); she is also a spoken word artist, actress, dancer, and a qualified lawyer. Oyin released From A Diﬀerent Cloth alongside an Afrobeats x Spoken Word single, “Infamous Lady”, last summer. Passionate about social reform, human rights and education, she strives to propagate these in her art. She refuses to be categorised, defining the arts as a spectrum, and herself as a “walking oxymoron”. Oyin spoke on Cambridge magazine Varsity’s flagship podcast, Switchboard, about her many identities. Under the theme “Speaking Out”, she discussed female success in a male-dominated world.

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Hollie Wells graduated this year, coming top of her English Tripos year group for 2019. She won the Mrs Claude Beddington Prize to honour this. The prize is a University award; each year, it goes to the candidate who shows the greatest distinction in the examination for Part II of the English Tripos. Part II is taken in the third and final year of the degree: an exciting, intense year of study. Since joining the College in 2016, Hollie has been Editor of the Cavendish Chronicle, the student-run College magazine, launched the Cavendish Chronicle Creative Prize, supported admissions, and taken part in the Lucy telephone campaign, which raised funds for student support. Having received the Mrs Claude Beddington Prize, Hollie is embarking on her Master’s here at Lucy.

Emma Carpenter and colleagues win Connecting Science Public Engagement Project Prize Emma Carpenter (PhD, Biological Science) and her colleagues at the Wellcome Sanger Institute won this year’s Wellcome Genome Campus Connecting Science Public Engagement Project Prize for their malaria-themed summer placement scheme for 16–18 year olds. This week-long research experience explores how diverse scientific backgrounds come together to tackle antimalarial drug resistance. The scheme, which is in its second year after a successful launch in 2018, aims to show how big biological problems in infectious diseases are approached by providing students with an immersive experience of genomics research that includes a combination of field work, innovative lab experimentation, tours of Campus labs, and other education and engagement activities. You can watch videos about all the prize winners at https://publicengagement.wellcomegenomecampus.org/ connecting-science-public-engagement-prizes-2019

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Marta Beneda presents her research in Australia and the USA Marta Beneda, who is studying for her PhD in Psychology, had the opportunity to present her research at conferences in the USA and Australia this year. In October, she attended the Gender Development Research Conference in San Francisco to speak about “Young children’s preferences for dolls and trucks. Does doll gender or child’s nationality play a role?”. Her attendance was made possible by a contribution from Lucy Cavendish. Marta also travelled to Newcastle, Australia in April to attend the 2019 SPSSI-SASP meeting on Intergroup Contact and Social Cohesion, where she presented her research on “Increasing openness to contact after intergroup conflicts: The moral-exemplars approach”. She has also found time this year to coauthor an article entitled “Fostering contact after historical atrocities: The potential of moral exemplars” which was published in Political Psychology, the journal of the International Society of Political Psychology.

College Prizes awarded in special Formal Hall Donors, students, Fellows, alumnae and staff gathered on Thursday 7 February 2019 to celebrate student achievements and the generosity of the donors who support them through College Prizes.

Berti Sapir Medical Prize for the student with the best results in Clinical Stage Three (Final year) Dena Ettehad Jackie Ashley Prize for best results in Politics Linnea Lagerqvist (Human, Social & Political Science)

Professor John Thoday Prize

Alumnae Association Prize for Contribution to the Arts Marion Beauchamp, Julia Salonen Annabelle Dixon Prize for the student who has made the most of her time at Lucy Cavendish Molly Biddle, Hamizah Haji Haidi

Ira Chadha Sridhar (LLM), Devina Malaviya (LLM), Tanaya Shah (LLM), Sofia Zhidkova (Mathematics)

Dame Veronica Sutherland College Prize(s) for Sporting Blues

Natasha Bragoli (English), Rebecka Nordenlow (English) Marie Lawrence Prize(s) for First Class Results in Tripos Yi Ting Chew (Natural Sciences), Isabelle Higgins (Human, Social & Political Science), Julia Koziel (Psychological & Behavioural Sciences), Joelle Ng (Land Economy)

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Kate Bertram Prize(s) for First Class Results in non-Tripos exams

Madeleine Jörgensen Prize for First Class Results in Tripos

COLLEGE PRIZES

Connie Buettner (Football), Kimberley Callaghan (Archery), Anouschka Fenley (Rowing), Lara Gibson (Rugby), Annika Gompers (Athletics), Ollie Linnea Gradin (Football), Olivia Jamrog (Cycling), Lenka Janik Blaskova (Volleyball), Bridget Larman (Cricket), Stasa Tumpa (Fencing) Emmeline Pankhurst Prize for Contribution to College Life Emma Hopkins, Sabine Matysik, Emma Sims

Gyll Moore Prize for a Student Gaining a First Class Degree, preferably in Arts or Humanities Hollie Wells (English)

Myson College Exhibition for Personal Achievement Isabelle Higgins, Katarzyna Zych

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College Research Day Free and open to all, the annual College Research Day presents an opportunity for research ideas or outcomes to reach a wider audience. A short Q&A session after each talk enabled participants to dig deeper into specific areas of interest.

Five diverse topics from the day, from dementia as a social justice issue to the application of turbine coatings in the aerospace industry, have been distilled into our Research Day 2019 Podcast Listen online from our website at https://www.lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk/ news-blog/latest-news/2019-lucy-cavendish-research-day-review Our thanks to Fellow-Commoner Boni Sones OBE for producing it.

Lucy Cavendish Research Day 2019 Marta Beneda, Department of Psychology Young children’s preferences for dolls and cars: Does doll’s gender or child’s nationality play a role? Sarah Naima Roller, Sociology A changing idea of financialisation? An interpretative analysis of discourse as a reflection of ideas about new finance and society Pamela Combinido, Sociology Digital Politics and Disinformation: Lessons from the Philippines as ‘Patient Zero’ Mélanie Bay, Chemistry Roll-to-stroll: Touch-responsive cellulose photonic laminates Dr Clare Worley, Institute of Astronomy Galactic Archaeology: Disentangling the formation history of the Milky Way

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Dr Christy Hung, Gurdon Institute The Human Brain in a Dish: A New Approach to Study Alzheimer’s Disease

Joanna Walker, Archaeology Mapping the Past: Reconstructing landscapes of the Indus Civilisation in NW India

Tessa Morgan, Public Health Experiences of oldest-old carers whose partner is approaching end-of-life: a systematic review and narrative synthesis

Dr Leticia Lerner, PNAC - MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Replication of structured DNA

Kelly Power, Faculty of Education Changing Discourses of Childhood and Educational Policy in the 1860s Catrin Darsley, Faculty of Education Shaping education for an uncertain future: Models of education for sustainability Eleonore Poli, Materials and Metallurgy Development of corrosion resistant thermal barrier coating for gas engine turbine blades

Rebecca Trollope, Faculty of Education Learning Through Play in Key Stage One and Key Stage Two: Exploring Teacher Understanding and Use of Continuous Provision Nadezda Volkova, European Bioinformatics Institute Deciphering cancer genomes with mutational signatures Dr Shuya Zhong, Department of Engineering, Institute for Manufacturing Maintenance scheduling for offshore wind farms

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Prizes were given in recognition of outstanding presentations: Emma Carpenter (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute) won the prize for best poster, Kelly Power (Faculty of Education) the prize for best Master’s talk, Mélanie Bay (Chemistry) the prize for best PhD talk and Clare Worley (Institute of Astronomy) the prize for best post-doc talk.

The day was organised by Henslow Research Fellow Dr Sarah Morgan, whose own research focuses on using MRI brain imaging to study schizophrenia.

Organiser Dr Sarah Morgan said: I’m hugely grateful to everyone who helped to make the day a success. It’s important to give a platform to the work being done across the College, by students and Post-doctoral Research Associates, and encouraging that it is so eagerly received. Events like this help to further people’s understanding of research, from methodologies to the application of outcomes. It’s clear from the Q&A that people want to know: What next? How does what you’re doing make a diﬀerence in your field?

Dr Annette Mahon, Assistant Senior Tutor (Graduates) said: This was a great opportunity to hear about the fascinating research taking place at the College. The standard of presentations was very high and we look forward to hearing from all the speakers again on their next steps. Many thanks to all presenters and to Dr Sarah Morgan for organising a successful event.

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Celebrating Graduations By Dr Annette Mahon, Assistant Senior Tutor (Graduates)

Graduation is a special occasion and the culmination of many years of work. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a joy to help our students don their hoods and meet their parents and friends who have given so much support and encouragement to them throughout their studies. All of us at Lucy Cavendish wish our newest graduates every success for the future.

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SPECIAL EVENTS

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Visiting speakers We welcomed an impressive array of visiting speakers, hosting talks almost every Thursday evening during term time on subjects as diverse as the silk trade across the ages, people trafficking, the prison service, fashion retail and promoting female role models.

Many of our students, Fellows and alumnae attend these talks regularly, and we are always delighted to welcome back our friends and supporters. The talks are open to the general public too, and are sometimes booked up quickly by groups from the University Departments who come to hear from experts and famous names in their fields. Thank you to all of our speakers this year!

1 November: A panel discussion on animal abuse and its link to domestic violence with Dr Jackie Brearley, Dr Fiona Becker, Dr Sean Butler and Dr Sarah Gull. 8 November: A panel discussion on politics, development and coercion with Dr Shailja Fennel, Dr Marissa Quie and Dr Naysan Adlparvar. 20 November: Honorary Fellow and internationally bestselling writer of psychological crime, Sophie Hannah discussed her new book How to Hold a Grudge. 1

22 November: Inge Relph and Karen Downes discussed Leadership and the Feminine in an interactive workshop. ---------------------------------------------------------

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2 24 January: Dr Sander Van Der Linden and Dr Cecile Olesen talked about coercion and fake news.

6 21 February: Fiction Prize writer (winner 2013) Catherine Chanter talked about her novels and her poetry.

3 31 January: Fellow-Commoner and Director of Dulwich Picture Gallery, Jennifer Scott, talked about the concept and research behind her exhibition, Rembrandt’s Light.

28 February: A panel discussion on criminology and coercion with Dr Jane Dominey, Fellow-Commoner Julie Spence OBE and Lu Liu.

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5 14 February: Professor Catherine Barnard discussed Brexit – how did we get here and what next?

--------------------------------------------------------7 7 March: Dr Lea Taragin-Zeller reflected on religious authority in contemporary Judaism in a talk called A Rabbi of One’s Own: Reproductive Decision Making, Gender & Ethical Freedom in Contemporary Judaism.

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Anna Bidder Research Evenings The Anna Bidder Research Evening give early career academics an opportunity to share their current research with the College and University community. Thanks to our speakers for their fascinating talks:

7 November: Dr Sarah Gull described her experience of a pilgrimage to Santiago.

13 February: Dr Amber Ruigrok discussed recent theories and research on sex differences in autism prevalence rates.

8 14 March: Professor Nicola Clayton and Clive Wilkins discussed the psychology of cognitive illusions.

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10 6 June: Founder and Chair of Harriet Kelsall Bespoke Jewellery, Harriet shared her story and advice for business success.

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9 25 April: Pat Gallan QPM, Assistant Commissioner Specialist Crime and Operations of the Metropolitan Police, spoke about her career and life tips.

--------------------------------------------------------2 May: Honorary Fellow and internationally bestselling writer of psychological crime, Sophie Hannah joined us to talk about coercion in literature. 9 May: Bye-Fellow Sarada Chatterjee talked about coercion and the illegal organ trade.

Out and about We celebrated the 70th anniversary of women being admitted as full members to the University of Cambridge at a joint event alongside Girton, Newnham and Murray Edwards Colleges We joined Lucy Law alumnae at Canary Wharf for a special event with current students 8th President Jackie Ashley interviewed Ed Balls at a fundraiser in London

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Fiction Prize and Festival We enjoyed the biggest year yet for our annual Fiction Prize, with a total of 602 entries. The winner for 2019 was Sarah Brooks, with her novel The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands.

Sarah Brooks completed her PhD on seventeenth-century Chinese ghost stories, and now works in East Asian Studies at the University of Leeds. She attended the Clarion West Writers’ Workshop in 2012, and has had stories published in magazines including Interzone, Strange Horizons and Strix. She won the 2017 Bare Fiction Short Story Prize, and the Walter Swan Short Story Prize 2017-18. She’s grateful for the exciting and supportive literary scene in Leeds, and is a member of the Leeds Writers’ Circle and the Northern Short Story Festival Academy. She is co-editor of Samovar, a bilingual online magazine of translated speculative fiction. The first chapters and synopsis of her winning novel can be read on our website.

women’s fiction. Agents and publishers pounce on the long list, which is a huge testament to the quality of the talent that the Prize uncovers. We had seven fabulous authors on this year’s shortlist. Nearly all of them have already secured representation as a result of the fruitful partnership between Lucy Cavendish College and the literary agency, Peters Fraser Dunlop. This year’s winner, 'The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands' is a remarkable and magical book which blew away the judges with its maturity and originality. We feel confident that Sarah Brooks is another literary star in the making.” College President, Dame Madeleine Atkins said,

Chair of the judging panel, Allison Pearson commented on this year’s winner: “2019 has been another phenomenal year for the Lucy Cavendish Prize with a record number of entries from every genre. It is now the premier prize in the UK for unpublished

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“Many congratulations to Sarah for this outstanding success. We are delighted to help new authors on their journey to publication, and can’t wait to see copies of her novel in bookshops and the Lucy Cavendish Library in the future!”

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LUCY CAVENDISH FICTION PRIZE The judging panel included Jackie Ashley, political journalist, broadcaster and Honorary Fellow of the College (after leaving the College as its eighth President). Also new to the panel was Katy Loftus (Editorial Director at Viking). Returning to the panel was literary agent Nelle Andrew from sponsor PFD, editor and ghostwriter Gillian Stern, Emeritus Fellow Dr Lindsey Traub and poet, crime writer and Honorary Fellow, Sophie Hannah. Now in its ninth year, the Fiction Prize has developed a formidable reputation for uncovering new talent and draws significant interest from the publishing industry. It has been a catalyst for numerous literary careers. Recently, Gail Honeyman (2014 Shortlist) has topped the fiction charts with her novel Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine (published 2017) with accolades including the British Book Awards ‘Book of the Year 2018’, Waterstones Fiction ‘Book of the Month’ for February 2018 and the 2017 Costa Book Awards ‘First Novel’ Award. Catherine Chanter (2013 Winner) published The Well in 2015, selected as a favourite by The Richard and Judy Book Club, and more recently The Half Sister. Sara Collins (2016 Shortlist) launched her debut The Confessions of Frannie Langton in March to immediate acclaim. Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott released Swan Song last year and it was chosen as one of the Times‘ books of the year and longlisted for the Womens’ Prize. Laura Marshall (2016 Shortlist) reached the Sunday Times Top 10 list with her first novel Friend Request. Laura has also released Three Little Lies, which was listed by iBooks as a ‘Book of the Month’. Since being shortlisted in 2017, Lesley Sanderson has

published The Orchid Girls and The Woman at 46 Heath Street. Claire Askew (2016 Winner) has recently published All The Hidden Truths, which was chosen as ‘Book of the Month’ in September 2018 by The Times. Frances Maynard (2016 Shortlist) has published The Seven Imperfect Rules of Elvira Carr and Maggsie McNaughton’s Second Chance. Emily Midorikawa (2015 Winner) and Emma Claire Sweeney published A Secret Sisterhood to wide acclaim.

The Fiction Prize Festival In January, we held our first Fiction Prize Festival. It was a sellout success and generated lots of positive news coverage of the Prize. The day involved talks, workshops and panel discussions, book signings and networking drinks; it ended with a dinner, in the tradition of a Cambridge Formal Hall. Guests were also invited to book one-to-one mentoring by literary agents, editors and publishers. The Festival returns on 11–12 January 2020. Save the date!

This year, the Florence Staniforth Prize was made part of the Fiction Prize. It was awarded to student Tript Kaur Mehta for her piece of writing entitled The Woman in Red.

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Sports report Football This year, undergraduate Linnea Gradin was promoted to Captain of the women’s Blues football team – the first team of the Cambridge University Association Football Club. She was ViceCaptain last year, has been on the team since she arrived in Cambridge, and has been a footballer since she was six. She captained the Blues through lows and extensive highs both on and off the pitch, offering strength and support, and attributing her own academic success and wellbeing to football. In the spring, Linnea’s leadership and talent resulted in victory for the Light Blues when, for the first time in four years, Cambridge won the women’s Varsity football match. Linnea was joined on the team by another Lucian, PhD student Connie Buettner. The match, which took place in London, was a 3-1 win to Cambridge. The Cambridge Blues defeated Oxford in a thrilling fixture which, despite a cautious start, erupted into life in the second half, brought home by a stunning hat-trick. This is Linnea’s third year on the team, and Connie’s second – and is sure to be a highlight of both their athletic careers. The Lucy-Christs’-Churchill football team had a fantastic season – and won the CUAFL Plate Finals! Three Lucians were on the victorious team: Josefina Weinerova, Lu Liu, and Connie Buettner. The CUAFL (Cambridge University Association Football League) is the primary league for College football. It involves about 900 players, with 58 teams competing across six divisions; competition can be fierce, and the standard high – especially in the first division, which the team rose up to this year. In May, the team’s victory was decisive: the final score was 4-0, against the John’s-King’s team, after a 2-0 lead at half time. The team has won its league for three years in a row, and only continues to improve.

Sailing Karen Thomas, a PhD student, had an amazing year on the water. She sails for the Blues in the Cambridge University Cruising Club, for which she has a Full Blue. Karen’s team sailed to victory in the Varsity race in July – for the seventh consecutive year (a record number), and Karen’s third time since joining the team! Her successes don’t stop there: she also sails for the Cambridge University Yacht Club Blues, with whom she also won Varsity this year. Days later, her team came second in the national British University Sailing Association’s Trophy Championships. As a result, Karen received a Half Blue. Beyond Cambridge, Karen is a Team GB Sailing Coach, and supported the national team at the Abu Dhabi World Games last month, with the team bringing home three medals. She is also a Special Olympics medical team member. Karen is more than equipped, therefore, to train new sailors in the Cambridge Cruising Club, which she began last year. Off the water, she was recently elected as Chair of the British University Sailing Association.

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Real Tennis She did it again! Dr Victoria Harvey was named Ladies Club Champion at the Cambridge University Real Tennis Club this year, for the second year in a row. Sometimes known as ‘the king of sports’, real tennis prizes strategy and subtlety over sheer power. Modern tennis is derived from real tennis, which was originally a medieval sport – which is fitting, since Victoria is Director of Studies in Modern and Medieval Languages, and also College Tutor and Admissions Director at Lucy. As well as being a regular competitor (and champion!) on the court, Victoria is the Welfare and Health and Safety Officer at the Cambridge Real Tennis Club.

Volleyball Lenka Janik Blaskova played volleyball for the Cambridge Blues this season. She isn’t new to volleyball: she played for the Cambridge city team, in the First Division of the UK National Volleyball League, before joining the Blues. In total, she’s spent fifteen years on the court. While completing her PhD, Lenka won a University Sports College Award from Lucy Cavendish College; having been selected by the CUVC (Cambridge University Volleyball Club), the College grant allowed her to play, covering all costs. The CUVC is one of the most successful sports clubs at Cambridge, consistently ranked among the UK’s best university teams – while the Light Blues didn’t win Varsity this year, they did beat Oxford in the Premier League, and are confident of victory next year. Lenka is playing her part in their success, as the Blues take her athletic career in a new, exciting direction.

Fencing Stasa Tumpa, a graduate medic, fenced for the Blues this year. She’s well qualified to do so: as a teenager, Stasa fenced at national level, and was one of the top young fencers in her country, having been fencing since she was seven. Now, Stasa is an invaluable part of the Cambridge University Fencing Club. In competitions, she often doubles and triples on weapons, and fences with all three (foil, épée and saber). Stasa trains five times a week with the Blues, and represents Cambridge competitively across the year; she attributes her academic success to fencing, too – with all its highs, lows, adrenaline and injuries, she says she couldn’t live without it.

Sports Formal Hall At our annual Sports Formal Hall, we honour all our students’ sporting achievements – a celebration of athletic talent and diversity from the year. The following students were awarded Dame Veronica Sutherland College Prizes for Sporting Blues: Farah Alimagham (Karate), Iulia Comsa (Karate), Catherine Dobson (Ice Hockey), Lara Gibson (Rugby), Sarah Godlee (Netball), Myriam Goudet (Rowing), Ollie Linnea Gradin (Football), Alice Middleton (Rugby), and Marta Tomaselli (Dance).

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Lucy Cavendish College Boat Club launches Lucky Lyda The Lucy Cavendish College Boat Club (LCCBC) celebrated the launch of its third boat on the Cam on 25 April 2019, at a naming ceremony for ‘Lucky Lyda’. The purchase of the new boat was made possible by a large gift from a generous anonymous overseas donor, made in response to a fundraising appeal last year.

The fundraising appeal marked the return of LCCBC as an independent club on the river Cam, after a sixteen-year-long partnership with Hughes Hall. So far the club has raised almost £30,000 in total over only eighteen months, including many donations from friends, family, alumnae and supporters. Engaging over 12% of the College's student population, the Lucy rowing community thrives through the Boat Club’s excellent training programme. In the past two years, the club has won three sets of University Blades in the Cambridge University Bumps Races and has been in the top 100 crews in the Women's Head of the River Race in London, the largest sporting event for women in the world. Rowers of any ability are welcomed, taking women from never-having-rowed-before to racing on the Thames in under six months.

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LCCBC President April Bowman said:

We have been overwhelmed by people’s generosity towards the club this year. The number of donations reflects the wide participation and engagement in the sport at Lucy Cavendish. So many College members (students and Fellows!) try rowing, and many more turn up to cheer us on. On behalf of the club, I’d like to say a huge thank you to all our donors. This funding makes a huge difference to the club as we plan our growth in the future and bring this amazing sport to future Lucy rowers.

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The End and the Beginning By outgoing LCCBC President April Bowman

May Bumps success for Lucy By Abbey Child (Public Health, 2014) I’ve been privileged to be involved in the Lucy Cavendish College Boat Club ever since joining as a novice rower. LCCBC taught me the basics, and I’ve done my best to return the favour, coaching various crews over the last four years. This Easter term, I had the honour of coaching the LCCBC W2 crew. The terms at Cambridge are short, so there isn’t much time to take a crew from novice to May Bumps ready. If you’d asked me a couple of weeks into term, I wouldn’t have anticipated the success that they had this May Bumps. But what never failed to amaze me was the attitude of the rowers, not just in W2, but the whole Boat Club. The community of support and spirit was soon rewarded in boat speed.

From the physical pain of pushing one’s body too far – hands covered in calluses, muscles screaming – to the joy of winning or, finally, to the sadness of it all coming to an end after years of hard work, ‘blood, sweat and tears’ sums up my life as a Cambridge rower. As I prepare to hand over the Presidency to a new set of enthusiastic Lucy rowers, allow me to reflect on this amazing journey. LCCBC is at the very heart of Lucy Cavendish College. We welcome rowers of all ages and abilities (the vast majority have never set foot in a racing boat when they join the club) into a supportive, encouraging – and yes, competitive – family; it’s quite simply the best feeling of camaraderie you can imagine. I will miss this team and the College she belongs to, but I am confident that the coaches, staff, current members and alumnae will continue to keep the spirit and success of LCCBC alive!

Fast forward to June 2019, eight weeks since our first session. Watching my crew row up to the start of May Bumps, and hearing mutters of “Lucy Cav are looking good” from strangers on the bank, I felt huge pride in what we had achieved. We soon proved we were a force to be reckoned with, bumping up on day one into second place in our W4 division (in less than 500m no less). Another day and another bump followed, this time taking us to top of our division, and offering the chance to secure a place at the bottom of the W3 division. As is the way with bumps, luck wasn’t on our side in that race, and we were faced with a battle the next day to avoid capture at the top of W4 division, before having a second chance at the W3 division. LCCBC W2 had one of the best rows I’ve seen from them, and on the third day, they managed to secure a place in W3 division with a great bump on Grassy corner. Three days in, and three bumps secured, we moved into the last day with hopes of winning blades and making it four for four. Bumps is hugely psychological, and attitude and focus can make or break a crew. On the final day of bumps, I watched as the captain gave a pep talk. The gist of it was this – Lucy Cavendish is small, and people sometimes underestimate us. But we know that if we perform to the best of our abilities and utilise the hard work and early mornings, we have the chance to succeed. LCCBC W2 are the first crew to win blades since the Boat Club split from Hughes Hall, a testament to the hard work the rowers and the College have put in over the last year. All of this perfectly embodies the spirit of the amazing people I have met during my time at Lucy Cavendish, and I am so grateful that I made the decision to join the Boat Club on my first day. LCCBC has helped me make lifelong friends, and shaped my time in Cambridge more than I could have known.

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Our year in music Carols around the tree In December, we held our annual family-friendly programme of music and readings around the Christmas tree in Warburton Hall. Musical entertainment was provided by Cavendish Chorale, and musicians Chloe Allison, Molly Biddle (HSPSS, 2018), Joanna Martino-Boulton (Veterinary Sciences, 2018), Alice Pilkington (Law, 2017) and Abigail Tan (Education, 2018). The audience joined in with rousing renditions of Hark the Herald Angels Sing, Ding Dong Merrily on High, and We Wish You a Merry Christmas, and enjoyed a special performance of Jingle Bells, led enthusiastically by our very youngest guests. Festive readings were supplied by our President, Professor Dame Madeleine Atkins, and by students Mary Ononokpono (History, 2018), Lottie Payne (Environment, Society and Development, 2013) and Andrea Trozzo (Law, 2017). The event was supported by the College Catering Team and the Development Office, and our special guest was, of course, Santa Claus.

Cavendish Chorale By Nicole Quesada Torelli (PhD candidate in Biological Sciences, 2019) The Cavendish Chorale is a non-auditioned choir for female voices that welcomes students from all colleges, with the majority being from Lucy Cavendish. This year, the choir had a boom in the number of members, reaching almost 30 students during Michaelmas term. This very welcome increase meant that we had to change our rehearsals to Warburton Hall, because we no longer fit in the music pavilion! In Michaelmas, our repertoire focused on the holiday season, and included classical and secular pieces. We had our own concert late November, and had the honour of leading the College’s ‘Carols around the tree’ again, early in December.

During Lent, we prepared a varied repertoire for our Spring Concert in March, which ranged from Bohemian Rhapsody to Disney to Mendelssohn. One of the perks of the Chorale is that our members get to suggest songs they’d like to sing.

I strongly recommend joining a choir if one likes to sing. Being in the Chorale for four years has led to a drop in my perfectionist tendency (both at singing and at work), and has been a great way to boost my overall wellbeing. Amy Hamizah For Easter term, we performed songs by Abba and hits like Never Enough at our own concert and at the College’s Garden Party. We had a wonderful time! Many of the senior members of the choir, myself included, are sadly about to leave Cambridge and therefore had to bid the choir farewell. It was with great pleasure that the current committee handed the reins over to Alice Dearle, Sabine Matysik and Clio Cordier, with special thanks to Marleen Pauls for stepping in as secretary for the last two terms. We know that the Cavendish Chorale is in good hands, and are excited to see what it will be up to next year!

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Lucy Cavendish Singers 2018-19 By Katharina Megli (History 1991), Director It’s always satisfying to strike a balance between the reassuring pleasure of returning to a favourite concert venue and the thrill of venturing into an entirely new one. This past year I think we got it just right. There were return invitations to perform in the lunchtime concert series in the Lady Chapel, Ely Cathedral in October, the Parish Church of St Anne’s in Linton for a packed out Christmas concert, and the University Staff Lessons and Carols at Great St Mary’s for the eighth year running, and then we were back at Emmanuel United Reformed Church for our traditional Lent Term concert.

Gala dinner performances at King’s College in September and Trinity Hall in July began and ended another magical year of singing. In amongst these return engagements we found ourselves singing in some fantastic new settings – the Oxford and Cambridge Club in Pall Mall for one. What a privilege it was to provide the musical entertainment for A Degree of Honour – a celebration of the 70th anniversary of women being admitted as full members to the University of Cambridge, involving Murray Edwards, Girton, Newnham and Lucy Cavendish Colleges. For our sell-out May concert in the splendid new Storey’s Field Centre in Eddington, a spring meadow formed the backdrop, as seen through the huge window that forms one wall of the concert hall. Our June concert in the very special choral acoustic of Sidney Sussex College Chapel raised nearly £1,400 for the Cambridge City Foodbank, with generous support from Julie Dashwood.

The wonderfully harmonious and magical Lucy Cavendish Singers wowed us with their choral dexterity Gala Dinner at King’s College

For more information and next season’s concert schedule, see www.lucycavendishsingers.org.uk Watch past performances online at www.lucycavendishsingers.org.uk/youtube-channel

Concert by Alicja Smietana Alicja Smietana is a Polish violinist, viola player, arranger and composer currently based in London. We were delighted to welcome her for a very special performance in October 2018.

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FELLOWS

Fellows’ news New Fellows Dr Anna Git Dr Jane Goodall Dr Dee McCormack Dr Arathi Sriprakash Ms Suzanne Tonkin Dr Vivien Yiu

New Honorary Fellows Jackie Ashley OBE Sophie Hannah

Honorary Fellow Edwina Dunn awarded OBE

Professor Nirmala Rao OBE

Departing Fellows Dr Mary Brazelton Dr Emma Liu Dr Jenny Gibson Dr Sarah Gull Ms Hanadi Jabado Dr Olivia Will Dr Kate Williams

Edwina Dunn has received numerous honours this year, in recognition of her lifelong commitment to championing women in tech, her trailblazing leadership, and her work as a female entrepreneurial role model. She was named one of the UK’s InspiringFifty 2018; one of B2B Marketing’s Top Women in Tech; and to top it all off, in June 2019 she was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Honours List, for services to Data and Business in the UK. Edwina co-founded the international data analytics company dunnhumby, which pioneered the Tesco Clubcard scheme, and was widely credited with redefining the relationship between retailers and customers worldwide. She also set up the government-backed ‘Your Life’ campaign, to increase STEM uptake in schools, and founded The Female Lead, a non-profit organisation offering alternative female role models, and giving women a platform to share inspiring stories. Now retired from dunnhumby, Edwina is CEO of Starcount, a consumer insights company that combines the science of purchase and intent, and brings the voice of the customer into the boardroom.

Professor Ruth Cameron wins Rosalind Franklin Medal and Prize Professor Ruth Cameron received this year’s prestigious Rosalind Franklin Medal and Prize from the Institute of Physics, in recognition of her outstanding contributions to regenerative medicine and pharmaceutical delivery. The prize celebrates distinguished contributions to physics applied to the life sciences, in honour of pioneering X-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin, whose work was critical to our understanding of DNA. Ruth’s research focuses on tissue engineering, scaffolds and 3D environments. Potential applications of her work include cartilage repair in the knee, cardiac patches, nerve grafts, breast cancer research and bioreactors for the generation of blood products. The Institute of Physics commended her outstanding, innovative record in her field.

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Dr Kate Daniels coaches the Queen’s Young Leaders Dr Kate Daniels was selected as a coach for the Queen’s Young Leaders Awards programme. The awards celebrate young social advocates from all 52 Commonwealth countries; the coaching helps recognise their efforts, in issues from mental health to education and gender equality. Kate coached the winners at a residential programme at Madingley Hall, before they collected their awards from the Queen. Kate is a Senior Teaching Officer for ADTIS (Academic Development and Training for International Students), with over twenty years’ experience, and a qualified psychotherapist; she offers workshops and supervisions across all disciplines, as well as counselling support for Cambridge students. As a coach, she addressed themes also explored at Cambridge: setting goals and improving performance, motivation, and how to navigate change while staying true to ourselves.

Dr Astrid Gall awarded Visiting Professorship Dr Astrid Gall has been awarded a Visiting Professorship by the National University of Misiones, Argentina. Over the course of this academic year, she has delivered bioinformatics training in Morocco, UK, Finland, Germany, India, France, Argentina and Serbia; has spoken at the [BC]2 Basel Computational Biology Conference, and at the Complex Trait and Rat Genomics meeting in Glasgow; and has published papers entitled ‘Ensembl 2019’ in Nucleic Acids Research, and ‘Inferring HIV-1 transmission networks and sources of epidemic spread in Africa with deepsequence phylogenetic analysis’ in Nature Communications.

Dr Sarah Gull wins Excellent Teaching Award Dr Sarah Gull has been awarded an Excellent Teaching Award from the University of Cambridge Clinical Students’ Society (ClinSoc). Supported by the Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine and Higher Education East of England, the awards allow the student-led society to recognise outstanding teaching. This follows a Lifetime Achievement of Excellence Award, which Sarah received from West Suffolk Hospital last year, where she has worked for 25 years. Students from Clinsoc said: Dr Gull is a thoughtful and engaging teacher with astonishing depth and breadth of knowledge, who is never afraid to examine the deeper issues... Thank you for being an inspirational mentor to countless medical students. Your passion for your job is infectious. Loved by students and patients.

Dr Anne-Laura van Harmelen wins award for mental health research Dr Anne-Laura van Harmelen, Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow and Senior Research Associate at the Cambridge Department of Psychiatry, has been awarded the Emerging Leaders Prize by the Medical Research Foundation, recognising her as a talented researcher making strong contributions to her field. She received £5,000 for her research, which focuses on risk and resilience in mental health. Anne-Laura has since conducted a crucial and high profile study, which was reported by several major publications, including the Guardian, the Business Times, and The Conversation. The study suggests that a focus on positive memories can reduce adolescent depression, and build resilience to mental illness over time.

Hanadi Jabado judges for InspiringFifty Hanadi Jabado was a judge for the 2018 InspiringFifty initiative, a non-profit aiming to increase diversity in tech, by making female role models more visible. It spotlights trailblazers, leaders and innovators: women challenging the industry’s norms around the world. Hanadi is one of twelve judges in the UK; like the fifty women chosen, she is a role model, as a female entrepreneur encouraging young women to pursue careers in tech. Passionate about entrepreneurship and innovation, Hanadi founded and directs Accelerate Cambridge at the Cambridge Judge Business School, and is Executive Director of its Entrepreneurship Centre. Having personally helped raise £25 million for start-ups, she is also Director of the Barclays Scale Up programme, was recognised as one of the Maserati 100, and is a director of Pitch@Palace CIC.

Dr Emma Liu wins grants for volcano research Dr Emma Liu has been awarded two major grants this year, to develop the use of drones in measuring volcanic gas. Her project, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the EPSRC Global Challenges Research Fund, involves researchers from seven different countries, across disciplines from volcanology to aerospace engineering. Based at Cambridge Earth Sciences, Emma led expeditions to Papua New Guinea in October and May, with colleagues from the Universities of Bristol and Palermo. Like many of the world’s most hazardous volcanoes, Papua New Guinea’s highly active volcanoes are too remote and active to measure safely from the ground; Emma’s team used fixed-wing and rotary drones with tiny sensors and cameras to collect data from the volcanoes – a new, innovative method of obtaining previously inaccessible data about carbon in volcanic

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gases. Not only do drone-based techniques advance volcanic studies, but they could also help manage volcanic hazards.

I’m delighted that we have this

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incredible opportunity to make a real difference to volcano monitoring in Papua New Guinea. Having visited this amazing country, and seen the challenges that local scientists face, I am inspired to translate our drone research into a significant and sustainable advance for managing volcanic hazard in Papua New Guinea. Dr Emma Liu

Dr Shona Wilson fights childhood fibrosis Dr Shona Wilson won funding to lead a consortium on liver fibrosis in Ugandan children. The fouryear, €3M project, funded by the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trial Partnership (EDCTP), is the first of its kind to be led by an investigator at the University of Cambridge. The eightpartner, multi-disciplinary consortium involves three Ugandan institutions and a clinical trial. Shona’s team are researching the causes, mechanisms and optimal disease control of liver fibrosis, caused by the parasitic worm Schistosoma mansoni, in children in fishing villages on the shores of Lake Albert, Uganda. The project is the first clinical trial in a low income country to run with assistance from the Cambridge Clinical Trials Unit. Through this grant, Shona continues a long-standing research interest in schistosomiasis, its debilitating nature, and its existence as a ‘disease of poverty’. The grant is crucial, allowing Shona’s team to investigate the societal and biological causes of the disease, and implement a clinical trial examining treatment strategies. Ultimately, they aim to prevent schistosomiasis in children progressing to a life-threatening stage. In April, Shona won the College’s Dame Anne Warburton Award, which honours and supports exciting and essential research.

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Dr Sarah Morgan increases diversity in STEM Why has the percentage of women physics undergraduates been stuck at 20% for over twenty years? Dr Sarah Morgan co-organised STEM Gamechangers, a conference that addressed this and other issues; it involved fifty participants from across the UK, who came together to work on evidence-based solutions to create more diversity in STEM. The two-day event opened with keynote talks, followed by group projects, which focused on increasing the diversity of those entering STEM professions, and improving the workplace for those already in STEM. Some are now being developed. Sarah noted the exceptional quality of the projects, as well as the energy and sense of community that came with them; she expressed hope that through a range of disciplines and backgrounds, collaboration and commitment to diversity, the game in STEM really can be changed. You can see the outputs from the event (including a video and a podcast) here: https://stemgamechangers.github.io/ During the year, Sarah also published a paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, entitled ‘Cortical patterning of abnormal morphometric similarity in psychosis is associated with brain expression of schizophrenia-related genes’. She spoke at the Complex Networks conference which took place in Cambridge in December; at the graphSIP Summer School in Aussois last September; and was invited to speak at the OHBM educational symposium on network neuroscience in Rome.

Dr Kate Williams accepts Lectureship at University of York This year, Dr Kate Williams published a paper entitled, ‘Credibility in policy expertise: The function of boundaries between research and policy’ in Policy Studies Journal. She spoke at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting in Philadelphia in August 2018, giving a talk on ‘Evaluative cultures around impact in policy research organisations: Developing a theoretical framework’. Kate has accepted a Lectureship in Public Policy at the University of York (Department of Politics) from September 2019.

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News from our alumnae Alexandra Aldridge wins Manuel López-Rey Graduate Prize Recent Lucy graduate Alexandra Aldridge (Criminology, 2017) won the Manuel LópezRey Graduate Prize this year. The prize, founded in 1991 in honour of Professor Manuel López-Rey, recognises outstanding academic performance, and is awarded to Master of Philosophy students in Criminology. Alex credits Lucy Cavendish with the support and inspiration that allowed her to excel at her degree. Now, she is working on a PhD at Royal Holloway, University of London, researching intoxication and sexual consent.

Ellie Brown makes success of plant-based food business Ellie Brown (Politics, Psychology and Sociology, 2010) founded and runs a successful plant-based food business. Based in East London, Kinda Co makes artisanal dairy-free cheese; it has grown rapidly since its launch in late 2017, and Ellie has big plans for the future. After going vegan, Ellie saw the need for great vegan cheese that equals its dairy counterparts. Developing recipes at home, and holding ‘supper clubs’ to test the products, her quest for the perfect plantbased cheese converged with a longstanding aim to run her own business. Within months, Kinda Co was born. Now a full commercial kitchen, it employs a team of cheese-makers, making nine varieties of plant-based cheese, and trading at markets across London and the South of England. It has a thriving online shop, and has been featured by the BBC, the New Statesman, and twice by the Independent. Ellie’s inventive, nut-based cheeses are made of healthy ingredients, and the packaging is plastic-free. Committed to sustainability, Ellie’s approach is both innovative and entrepreneurial.

Sioned Davies accepted onto Accelerate Cambridge programme to develop ‘Legal Sphere’ Sioned Davies (Land Economy, 2017) came up with her business idea, ‘Legal Sphere’, whilst studying at UCL. Her vision was of a legal service for small business owners who required quality legal support, but had limited funds: an accessible and affordable platform for online legal service delivery. At Lucy Cavendish, Sioned developed her idea further, winning the Santander Student Enterprise competition. This year, she was accepted onto the Accelerate Cambridge programme, a scheme founded by Lucy Cavendish Fellow Hanadi Jabado at the Cambridge Judge Business School. The programme enables venture creation, surrounding start-ups with world class mentors, and providing all the support that young businesses need. Supported by Accelerate, Sioned plans to launch Legal Sphere this year.

Frances Gandy elected Life Fellow of Girton College Frances Gandy (Lucy Cavendish 1981–87; previous surnames Loe and Bygrave) was Fellow Librarian and Curator of Girton College from 1987 until 2015, and successively Tutor and Graduate Tutor between 1990 and 2016. Until 2016 she taught and lectured in English and American Literature across the Cambridge colleges and for the University’s English Faculty. She is now a Life Fellow of Girton College.

Hannah HutchingsGeorgiou launches Lucy Writers’ Platform In October, Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou (English, 2008) was shortlisted for the BBC Radio 4 Student Journalism Awards, for Today Programme Critic of the Year. This places her among the UK’s best student critics; writing as the arts editor of the London Student, she was selected for her features on the Tate’s Joan Jonas retrospective, the V&A’s “Frida Kahlo: Making Herself Up”, and Emma Rice’s Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons: A Reimagining. Hannah is editor-in-chief and founder of the Lucy Writers’ Platform, which was launched in January in association with the College. The online platform is devoted to showcasing the work of women writers and creatives; it aims to challenge and change the culture around online journalism, and provide a safe, inclusive, inspiring space for writers and artists. Already, it has become an invaluable space for women at Lucy Cavendish and beyond; its launch theme was ‘Kooky, Funky’, Radical Women, and both within this theme and far outside it, the quality and diversity of its features are already exciting and inspiring. Alongside other journalistic roles, Hannah is currently studying for a PhD in English Literature at UCL. Her thesis explores the representation of the body in the writing of Mary Wollstonecraft. Hannah said:

I’m extremely proud of all the writers who have contributed to Lucy Writers so far. They've made it an extremely exciting and diversely enriching online space, one which I feel honoured to be part of. We have some excellent contributions from writers in and outside of the Lucy Cavendish College community. Many thanks to everyone who helped make this happen.

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Dr Gita Khalili Moghaddam shortlisted for Techpreneurs Awards The Techpreneurs Awards for Women recognise entrepreneurial women in technology, aiming to inspire the next generation of gamechanging female entrepreneurs. In a fierce competition of top-class applicants, Gita Khalili Moghaddam (Biotechnology, 2012) was chosen as one of six finalists. In February, she pitched her start-up enterprise in the House of Lords. Gita’s enterprise, TumourVue Ltd, is a disruptive medical imaging device for cancer surgery, to facilitate operations and provide precise, objective tumour margin detection intraoperatively. The innovative design won first prize from MedTech Accelerator last year, and continues to go from strength to strength. Gita said:

Dr Anna Lappala’s team creates world’s first simulation of an entire gene Treatment for diseases stemming from defective genes has taken a step forward, thanks to the world’s first atomistic model of an entire gene – a simulation of over a billion atoms. Anna Lappala (Physics, 2011) is part of the international team behind it. Anna is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Sanbonmatsu Lab at Los Alamos National Laboratory, working in polymer and biological physics. She uses molecular dynamics simulations (3D computer “animations”) to study the motions of atoms and molecules in order to understand the structure-function relationships of polymers like DNA and RNA: the building blocks of life. The breakthrough gene model will help researchers understand diseases like cancer, and ultimately help develop cures.

Priya Lele breaks the law! On International Women’s Day, alumna Priya Lele (Law, 2004) and co-founders Christie Guimond (White&Case) and Nicky Leijtens (NaultaDutilh) launched “She Breaks the Law”, a global network for women leaders of legal innovation. Priya is leading this initiative in addition to her day job as the Legal Process Design Lead, UK, US & EMEA at Herbert Smith Freehills LLP in London. The aim of the network, whose Advisory Board includes some of the “top disruptors” within the industry, is to provide female leaders, who are at the forefront of disruptive legal innovation, with a forum to connect with like-minded women, to develop their innovation skills and knowledge through training, mentoring and coaching, to share experiences that can help develop others, and to have a safe space to create, collaborate and test ideas.

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to flourish, through transforming our collective values into unique social and commercial impact.

Ateka Tarajia awarded three sought-after scholarships Alumna Ateka Tarajia (Education with History, 2013) has been awarded three scholarships to study for a Master’s in Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The awards are the Frank Knox scholarship, the Fulbright Award, and the Kennedy scholarship – three of the most competitive awards in the UK. She is the first person to hold the Fulbright and Kennedy Scholarships simultaneously.

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Karen Ordahl Kupperman (PhD, 1973–78) published two books this year. Pocahontas and the English Boys focuses on three young teenage boys in England’s first successful American colony. Colonial officials gave the boys to Native leaders, often in exchange for young American men. Pocahontas, who was ten when Jamestown began in 1607, regularly accompanied official missions to the English in the early years. Then an English ship captured her. In 1616 the Virginia Company decided to bring Pocahontas, now a Christian convert, and her English husband and son to London to show off their success and she died there, age twenty. Pocahontas and the boys lived their lives caught between cultures trying to make both sides understand the realities on the ground, but not completely trusted by either. One boy, Henry Spelman, wrote a memoir of his life with the Powhatans and Patawomecks, and Kupperman has edited a new edition from the original manuscript.

The launch event, hosted in London by LexisNexis, was oversubscribed, and attended by over 100 women. The network has already grown to nearly 1,200 members globally. Two successful inaugural events in New York and Chicago followed the London launch, and by the end of 2019, launches will have taken place in Amsterdam, Sydney, Dubai, New Delhi, Mumbai and Toronto. Priya said: We believe that innovation and disruption in law requires strong leadership, which requires stronger network and collaboration … We want to break down silos between disciplines; between industry players and finally, between geographies – that’s our core purpose and it's at the heart of the network. And we want to shine light on women leaders of legal disruption and celebrate their successes and stories, and change the mostly negative narrative about women’s leadership in law to a positive one.

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New poster displays in Warburton Hall feature students and alumnae who are making a positive impact on society.

Dr Sarra Achouri (PhD Physics, 2013)

Zhu Gong (Mathematics, 2009)

Holly Elgood-Curtis (MPhil American History, 2018)

Chief Marketing Officer and co-founder of CamBioScience, which offers intensive training courses in breakthrough life science technologies and an adaptive knowledge transfer platform: OBRIZUM. She started her company when she was a Post-doctoral Research Associate here.

Joined Goldman Sachs in 2012 as an analyst, and is now a trader on the Global Mortgage Trading desk, responsible for European Asset Financing Trading. Zhu will support current students at Lucy Cavendish College this year by offering career coaching workshops including CV advice and interview skills.

Holly raised over £1,000 for local breast cancer charities by organising a special Formal Hall during Cambridge Pink Week. She was the Welfare Officer for our Students’ Union and also worked for The Times on their Top Graduate Employers guide. Next year, Holly will join the NHS Graduate Training Scheme.

Emma Hopkins (Land Economy, 2017)

Dr Stella Lempidaki (PhD Physiology, Development and Neurosciences, 2013)

Karen Thomas (PhD Public Health and Primary Care, 2017)

Combined her studies here with rowing and ice hockey, and still coaches our rowing club. She carried out a report for Aviva and Lucy Cavendish on ‘Women in Tech’, aimed at encouraging more women to pursue careers in the digital world and become leaders in their field. She is currently Director of Client Relations at techspert.io, a newly funded Cambridge-based startup company which uses Artificial Intelligence to connect businesses with the knowledge expertise that they need.

Karen is a Chartered Physiotherapist. Her PhD research focuses on the treatment of PostStroke Fatigue in the community. She won an award for Best Abstract (copresented with fellow Lucian, Chloe Gamlin) at the NMAHP conference, and this research was published in the British Medical Journal. As Lower Boat Captain for the Lucy Cavendish Boat Club, she contributed to W2’s success in gaining the first set of Lucy Cavendish blades in May Bumps. Karen is also Chair of the British Universities Sailing Association.

Emma was the Co-President of our Students’ Union for 2018-19 and is the College Representative for the Foodbank Society and the Islamic Society. During the summer, she is volunteering with Strive Recruitment to facilitate social mobility within the legal profession, before starting a training contract with Herbert Smith Freehills. She was recently awarded the Emmeline Pankhurst Prize for contribution to College life.

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In memoriam We remember with great fondness members of our College community who have passed away this year and our thoughts are with their families and loved ones.

Dr Anne Stockell Hartree | 11 January 1926 – 15 December 2018 By Dr Jane Renfrew and Dr Clare Morgan Cambridge, and they had two sons. Anne had a Tucker-Price Research Fellowship at Girton College from 1962 to 1965.

Anne Hartree was a Fellow of the College for 25 years. She conducted pioneering research on the biochemistry of protein hormones in the pituitary gland of both animals and humans. Anne was born in Nashville, Tennessee. She was a graduate of Vanderbilt University (BA (Chemistry) 1946, MA (Biochemistry) 1949) and went on to the University of Utah, where she obtained her PhD in Biochemistry in 1956. In 1959 she married Dr Edward Francis Hartree, also a biochemist, who worked for more than 20 years in the University of

She joined the Fellowship of Lucy Cavendish College in 1969 and remained a Fellow until her retirement in 1994, at which point she was elected an Emeritus Fellow. She had a pleasing and enthusiastic personality, always smiling, forward-looking and forthright. In the early years of the College, all aspects of College life were run by committees of the Governing Body drawn from the Fellowship, and Anne did great service on the Nominations Committee, the Needs Committee, the Finance Committee and the Awards Committee. She was also on the Fellowship Committee and served as its Secretary from 1988 until her retirement. From 1980 until 1990 she was Secretary of the Constitution Committee. In the interregnum between the Presidents Lady Bowden and Dame Anne Warburton, when Dr Doris Thoday was acting President, Anne served as acting Vice President between January and June 1985 and helped to entertain Prince Philip, the College Visitor, on his first visit to the College. Anne held a senior research post with the Medical Research Council (MRC) based in

the Department of Biochemistry. She had a very distinguished career in the field of endocrinology, specialising in the chemistry and function of various pituitary hormones in animals and humans, including growth hormone and gonadotropins. This involved developing methods for separating and purifying these proteins, followed by studies of their activity. She was internationally renowned for this work and when she was attending conferences abroad she also acted as an ambassador for the College. She published some 50 scientific papers and was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the British Society for Endocrinology in 1990. She was keen on promoting women in science and in 1980 she participated in a panel and workshop on ‘Women in Science and Technology’ in Copenhagen. Anne’s husband died in 1993. On her retirement in 1994, she returned to Nashville. There she became an active member of the Centennial Club and the Westminster Presbyterian Church. She was a distinguished Bridge player and at the age of 78 achieved the status of American Contract Bridge League Life Member. She died in Nashville on 15 December 2018 at the age of 92, after a long illness. She is survived by her two sons.

Dr Ilse Renate Vickers (née Freiling) | 1 August 1941 – 10 February 2019 By Gwen Clayton (daughter) Ilse was, by temperament and at heart, a scholar. She was born in Germany in 1941, and although she left school at 16, she married an academic (Sir Brian Vickers) and went on to take her first degree in English Literature as a mature student. She completed her PhD on Daniel Defoe and the New Sciences while bringing up two children as a single parent in Cambridge. She subsequently worked for the European Commission in Brussels for several years, fostering links between science and academia and championing multi-national research. Ilse became an Associate of Lucy Cavendish in 1989, where, with the generous encouragement of Dame Anne Warburton, she found the inspiration to continue her academic pursuits.

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From Brussels, Ilse moved to London, where she became a Director of UCLi, now liaising with Brussels and international partners on behalf of UCL. Following retirement, she returned to her studies of Samuel Johnson, serving as Chairman of the Johnson Society of London from 2015 to 2018. Among her other great interests were the work of Carl Jung and the relationship between cave art and depth psychology. Ilse had a great capacity for wonder, often finding beauty in small and ordinary things, and was blessed with extraordinary optimism. She will be deeply missed by all who knew her, in particular her two daughters and their partners, her four grandchildren, her former husband, and her family in Germany.

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Dr Jo Vellacott | 20 April 1922 – 22 February 2019 Material provided by Jo’s daughter Mary Cavendish. She stayed at the College frequently whilst researching her books on Russell and Marshall, and was accompanied at least once by her daughter Soo, and then later by her granddaughter, Siara Isaac, both of whom acted as research assistants. She greatly valued her connection to the College. At the age of 58, Jo earned a PhD in History. Her thesis on pacifists during the First World War was published as Bertrand Russell and the Pacifists. She subsequently published From Liberal to Labour with Women’s Suﬀrage: The Story of Catherine Marshall, and Pacifists, Patriots and the Vote, as well as many articles on women and peace, some short articles on Quaker matters, and a biography of her first 25 years or so, Living and Learning in Peace and War. Jo taught women’s studies at Concordia from 1982 to 1987. She loved this work, and comments from her former students are a testament to her success. One, who is now a university professor, writes:

Jo Vellacott, who died in February aged 96, was a pioneer in the study of women’s history.

Jo was the first professor who believed in me, despite the fact that I simply could not succeed in university. I remember asking her for a letter of reference

Born in Plymouth in 1922, the youngest of three children, she boarded at Downe House in Berkshire and, after graduating from Oxford University in 1943, worked as an air mechanic during the second world war. After the war she taught English in South Africa, where she met Peter Newberry, a medical student. They married, and moved briefly to the UK, before emigrating in 1955 with their three children, Douglas, Mary and Soo, to Canada, where Jo worked as a schoolteacher and lecturer in history and women’s studies. Although Jo lived in Canada for the rest of her life, her work on the early pacifist activism of Bertrand Russell occasionally brought her back to the UK. This led to a rediscovery of the role of the Edwardian feminist and pacifist Catherine Marshall, and inspired Jo to adopt radical alternative perspectives on conventional narratives about how the vote for women was won and on women’s responses to war, including challenging the idea that suffragists had overwhelmingly backed the war effort. In 1976, Jo and Peter divorced. During the same year, Jo was appointed Calouste Gulbenkian Research Fellow at Lucy

when I was transferring from Concordia to York University, and feeling intense shame to even be asking her for a letter. She seemed surprised by my shame, and told me just how bright she thought I was, and when I cried at her kindness, she hugged me. I think a lot about that moment when students now ask me for letters – especially those who struggle.

Thanks to Jo’s scholarship, in 2018 Catherine Marshall’s name and portrait were engraved, with those of other suffragists, on the plinth of the Millicent Fawcett statue in Parliament Square, London. Jo had a long, adventurous life, spanning three continents, and was very happy during her last years. She is survived by her three children, five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

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Betty, Lady Grantchester 8 June 1925 – 2 February 2019 By Dr Jane Renfrew married in 1947. He became the 2nd Baron Grantchester in 1976 on the death of his father. He died in 1995. In 1971 she was invited to join the board of Littlewoods as the company expanded to include retail, mail order, and football pools. She became Director of the Littlewoods Organisation in 1977 and held that position for 20 years. She was credited with turning round the firm’s finances during the 1980s and early 1990s. She was also the Chairman and multimillion-pound backer of Everton Football Club in the 1960s and 1970s. She sold the club in 1994. In 1999 the Independent newspaper listed her as the wealthiest woman in the UK, with a family fortune of over £1 billion. Besides being an excellent businesswoman, she was also a practising Christian and a philanthropist supporting many charities, especially women's education through Newnham and Lucy Cavendish. She supported a wide range of charities in the Liverpool area including youth and sports clubs, the Mersey Forest, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool University, and the Welsh National Opera. She was the driving force behind the John Moores Painting Prize and helped establish the John Moores Painting Prize China. It was always a pleasure to sit next to Lady Grantchester at College dinners. She always looked so elegant, she was so modest and kind, and so interested in the College and especially in the welfare of the students. Through her family's trust, the Fairway Trust, she had been a benefactor to Lucy Cavendish from the late 1970s and established Fairways Trust Studentships for students from the Liverpool area in the 1980s. She was made an Honorary Fellow in 1984.

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Lady Grantchester was the eldest daughter of Sir John Moores, who developed the Littlewoods empire based in Liverpool. As a young child she developed TB and was sent away to a boarding school in Kent at the age of five, on doctor's orders. She continued her education at Cheltenham Ladies’ College and went on to read History and Law at Newnham College, Cambridge. It was in Cambridge that she met her husband, Kenneth Suenson-Taylor and they

In 2015 she received an Honorary Fellowship from Liverpool John Moores University for her outstanding contribution to the arts, business and the community. In her free time she enjoyed being outdoors, walking in Richmond Park and in the Galloway Hills, skiing in the Swiss mountains, and latterly gardening (she knew the Latin names of her plants). She also enjoyed reading.

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Dr Bohuslava Bradbrook (neé Nečasová) 15 March 1922 – 21 February 2019 By Milan Kocourek Bohunka eventually also got a job. She and Frank fell in love, and they married in 1956. Bohunka won a grant to study Czech and Polish at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, wrote a dissertation on Karel Čapek and the western world, and obtained her second PhD. In 1966, Bohunka, together with a few academic friends, founded the British branch of the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences (SVU) in London. It wasn’t an easy life, travelling between Bangor and London, organising and delivering lectures, but Frank was always there to rely on. Theirs was a great love, but it was not to last. In May 1983, just before their retirement, which they had planned to spend in Cambridge, Frank died of cancer.

The death of Dr Bohuslava Bradbrook was a sad loss for all who knew her. A gentle smile, deep interest in English and Czech literature, and friendly attitude were her hallmarks. She was an excellent teacher and an authority on the Czech literary giant Karel Čapek. Her book Karel Čapek, In Pursuit of Truth, Tolerance and Trust is an indispensable text for anyone seriously interested in his works.

Prague, writing her doctoral thesis on George Elliot. On graduating in 1952, she decided to flee the Communist Czechoslovakia. The decision to become a political refugee was exceptionally hard. Bohunka was very close to her mother, whom she could not inform of her plans, as she explains in her excellent autobiography, The Liberating Beauty of Little Things.

Bohuslava Růžena Nečasová, known to her friends as Bohunka, was born in the Moravian town of Valašské Meziříčí, to grammar school teacher parents. She too trained as a teacher, starting her career during the war. After the war, she studied Czech and English at Charles University in

Bohunka’s generation of refugees were not welcomed with open arms in the UK, but she managed to get a British visa with the help of Muriel Bradbrook, a prominent Shakespearean scholar. Muriel’s brother, Frank, a literary historian, taught at the university at Bangor, Wales, where

However, Bohunka did go to Cambridge, where she spent 22 years teaching English and Czech literature at the University of the Third Age. She was also made a member of the Combination Room at Lucy Cavendish (an affiliation now termed ‘Associate’ of the College). When Communism in Czechoslovakia collapsed in 1989, Bohunka offered her services to her homeland, teaching at several Czech universities. In 2007, she moved to the Czech Republic, taking a flat in Strašnice. No longer a youngster, she had to take things more slowly, although on Sundays she still attended church and saw her family. In 2013 the Czech Foreign Secretary Karel Schwarzenberg bestowed on Dr Bohuslava Bradbook the Gratias Agit prize for the promotion of the Czech Republic abroad. At the time of writing, Bohunka’s ashes were to be dispersed at the garden of remembrance, Vokovice cemetery, western Prague. Bohunka’s was a great, fruitful life. We shall miss her.

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Jean Alys Barker, Baroness Trumpington DCVO PC 23 October 1922 – 26 November 2018 By Dr Jane Renfrew Baroness Trumpington was made an Honorary Fellow of Lucy Cavendish in 1980, the year that she was appointed to the House of Lords. At that time she had been a successful wife of the headmaster of the Leys School in Cambridge, and very active in local politics including being Mayor of Cambridge. She took a close interest in the development of the College and often attended the Annual College Dinners in November. When I saw her in the House of Lords, the first thing she would ask was about the welfare of the College. Baroness Trumpington was an extremely characterful person who lived her very varied life to the full. She was the daughter of Major Arthur Campbell-Harris of the Bengal Lancers and later aide-de-camp to the Viceroy of India, and his American wife, Doris, the heiress to a Chicago paint manufacturer, who lost most of her inheritance in the Wall Street crash of 1929.

She was brought up in London and Kent in conditions of considerable privilege. As a child she took dancing lessons at Mme Vacani’s School in Knightsbridge and then with the Ballet Rambert. She was educated at Princess Helena College where she became fluent in French, German and Italian, but left at the age of 15 never having taken an exam. She then went to a finishing school in Paris to study art and literature. She was a very good left-handed tennis player and was coached in Paris by the French tennis champion, Jean Borotra. At the outbreak of World War II she worked as a land girl on Lloyd George’s Sussex farm, and then went on to Bletchley Park to work on cracking German naval Z codes. Work at Bletchley Park was deeply tedious but at weekends she would hitchhike to London to meet her friends at the Ritz, Claridges, or the French restaurant La Bagatelle. After the war she was determined to see America, and so she sailed on the Mauretania to New York with only £4 in her pocket, and got a job with an advertising firm. She became socially much in demand as a party guest, famous for dancing on tables. It was here that she met the historian and Eton schoolmaster, Alan Barker, who had been wounded in Normandy on D-Day and had lost an eye at Monte Cassino. They travelled back to England in 1953, and were married the following year in the chapel of the Chelsea Royal Hospital. By this time Alan had become the Headmaster of the Leys School, and she enthusiastically entered into the life of a headmaster's wife. Outside school they partied with the Astors at Clivedon. She became a Cambridge magistrate, and was astonished to find that the notorious Cambridge Rapist was her vegetable delivery man. Her political career began when she was elected as a Cambridge City Councillor for Trumpington in the 1960s and served as Mayor of Cambridge 1971–2. Her husband suffered a severe stroke in 1982 and died a few years later. She then took up more public service visiting prisons and became UK representative on the UN Commission on the status of women. In this role she led a delegation to Copenhagen to see Dame Anne Warburton, the UK’s first woman ambassador (and later President of Lucy Cavendish College). She was friendly with Willie Whitelaw and Margaret Thatcher and to her surprise was appointed to the House of Lords in 1980. Her imposing presence, loud voice, uninhibited attitude and redoubtable figure made her a most suitable Tory Whip. She became a minister for Health in 1985 and John Major made her a minister in the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. She also served as Baroness in Waiting to the Queen 1983–85, and again from 1992 to 1997, and finally Extraordinary Baroness in Waiting from 1998, a role which involved meeting foreign dignitaries at airports on behalf of the Queen. She retired from the House of Lords in 2017 on the day after her 96th birthday. She wrote a most readable autobiography, Coming up Trumps (2015).

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