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Lucy looks forward to welcoming Cambridge Foundation Year students in 2022
REPORT BY ALISON BURMBY, HR MANAGER
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ollowing the success of implementing the online holiday system, the College has introduced a new training platform called iHasco for all staff and stipendiary Fellows. The system contains a wealth of topics with over 120 courses available ranging from Health and Safety Courses and HR courses to Equality and Diversity and Business Compliance modules. The College has also continued to provide in-house training for staff with sessions on Data Protection Awareness, Improving Race Inclusion and Wellness & Motivation. The staff team has as ever shown their positive, can do ‘Lucy’ response to the Pandemic. On site teams worked tirelessly, continuing to provide an excellent service for students, and responded incredibly well to the new ways of working, sometimes with full PPE and often in bubbles or alone. Similarly our office based staff quickly adjusted to working remotely transitioning to this new way of working with ease and professionalism. We were grateful for the additional government support provided by the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (or “furlough”) which enabled us to protect employment for our staff as we look ahead to the future. The College is incredibly thankful to each and every member of the team who contributes in such positive ways to the running of the College. We are grateful to you all.
ARRIVALS: • As Executive Assistant, Natasha Stokes provides administrative support to both the President and Development Director • Dr Rihad Khalid, with support from the Isaac Newton Trust, joined as Research Fellow • Dr Alex Freer joins as Director of Studies and College Teaching Officer in English from Trinity College, Cambridge. Alex studied his PhD at the University of Cambridge • Dr Elizabeth Fistein and Dr Howard Nelson both join our Tutorial Team
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• Working to deliver a high quality, Life Sciences and Technology Programme in collaboration with participating local companies, Rachael Burcher joins as Science & Technology Careers and Enterprise Programme Coordinator • Lili Schwoerer joins the College as Research Project Coordinator for the Student Lived Experience Project. • Hayley Hilson joins the Admissions Team as Outreach Officer • Poorna Mysoor joins as Director of Studies and College Teaching Officer in Law. Poorna has significant experience working as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Law Faculty in the University of Oxford and is also a Tutor in Land Law at Queen’s College, Oxford.
DEPARTURES: • Hayley Welch, Executive Assistant, left the President’s Office • Isobel Maddison has left her role as College Teaching Office in English after 13 years in the post. She remains an Emeritus Fellow. • Summer Creedy, Amy Williams and Matthew Everett left the Housekeeping Team, while Bibiana Balogh’s maternity cover came to an end. Nazare Neves has retired and we wish her the very best in her retirement. • Neil Knight left his role at the Porters’ Lodge after 7 years at the College • Kitchen Porter, Marcin Krzak, left the Catering Team to work on his own business • Lucy Bunker, Undergraduate Admissions Officer left the Admissions Team.
CHANGES: • Jude Arnold and Alicia McGonigle were promoted to Housekeeping Supervisors and Shaun Bestwick as Domestic Porter Supervisor • Development Coordinator, Ella Barrett, was made a permanent member of staff • Carol Peresson changed position and is now Student Finance Accountant (Undergraduate) • Caitlin Law has been promoted to Undergraduate Admissions and Outreach Officer
Lucy Cavendish College is delighted to be among the first Colleges to host students for the Cambridge Foundation Year, an innovative new programme offering talented students from backgrounds of educational and social disadvantage a new route to undergraduate study. The Foundation Year initiative fits perfectly with the College’s historic and future mission and purpose, supporting under-represented and underserved students and those that have suffered significant disruption in their educational journeys. The one-year course will prepare students for further learning and offer them the chance to progress straight to an undergraduate degree at
Cambridge. It is completely free for students to attend; a cornerstone £5 million gift from philanthropists Christina and Peter Dawson will fund the launch of the programme and provide full one-year scholarships for all students who are accepted, covering both maintenance and tuition costs.
US Scholar-elect Christina Meister joins Lucy Cavendish as part of the 2021 Gates Cambridge Class Christina (MPhil in Conservation Leadership) first became interested in the intersection between social and environmental justice while working as an AmeriCorps volunteer for the Ocean State Environmental Education Collaborative. At AmeriCorps, she was responsible for teaching environmental science to young people in hospitals, in assisted living facilities, and on after school programs. Her experience working with underserved groups taught her the importance of community-based conservation and inspired her to study environmental science at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. Today, Christina leads outreach initiatives that help protect human rights and endangered species on a global level. She is particularly passionate about ensuring the health and safety of indigenous communities while working with others to end the illegal wildlife trade.
A Roman metal vessel
Archaeological excavations undertaken at Lucy Cavendish College, ahead of the construction of its new student accommodation development, revealed Roman artefacts Archaeological excavations were undertaken in May at the College, ahead of the construction of its new ‘Passivhaus’ student accommodation development. Works have been producing some interesting results. Lucy Cavendish is located just outside the Roman town in Cambridge - an area that was known to have potential for Roman remains following archaeological investigations undertaken many years ago. Findings during this excavation included cooking pits, human remains and a considerable amount of pottery fragments as well as a variety of coins. The line of a Roman road had also been recorded at the eastern end of the College site. Because of this potential for Roman remains, an archaeological desk-based assessment alongside archaeological evaluation trenching was undertaken to support the planning application for the new student accommodation.
Lucy Cavendish College commits to divestment from fossil fuel companies Lucy Cavendish’s sustainable environmental commitment now extends to its investments, building plans, campus campaigns and study programmes. Environmental sustainability issues have been regularly discussed in the College, and at the Governing Body on 7 October 2020 it was unanimously decided that the College should divest from its direct holdings in fossil fuel companies and instead invest in ‘green funds’ or green technology companies. Over the next year the College will explore how best to continue to address environmental sustainability in all its investments.
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