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II The Master and Fellows
II THE MASTER AND FELLOWS
The Master received the President’s Medal of the British Academy, and an Honorary Doctorate from St Andrews University. In November 2013 he delivered the Gifford Lectures in Edinburgh, on the theme ‘Making representations: religious faith and the habits of language’. In April 2014 he gave the Tanner Lectures in Boston USA. He was admitted as Chancellor of the University of South Wales on 14 April. In May he was given an Honorary Doctorate by Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands.
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Professor Boyle has now retired from his University Chair as well as from the Governing Body. His colleagues and former students presented him with a Festchrift, The Present Word: Culture, Society and the Site of Literature, published by Legenda.
Professor Duffy received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the Pontifical Institute for Medieval Studies in Toronto in October 2013. He was made an Honorary Canon of Ely Cathedral on 13 May 2014. He retired from his Official Fellowship in September 2014 and is now an Emeritus Fellow.
Sir Derek Oulton, as a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath since 1989, has been installed in the Chapel of the Order in Westminster Abbey by the Prince of Wales as Great Master of the Order, a stall having become vacant. His banner, crest and stall-plate are now displayed in the Chapel of the Order.
Dr Burchell became the Director of Q-Step (a centre which includes Linguistics, Education, Politics, Social Anthropology, Archaeology, Land Economy, and Sociology and which aims for a step increase on the number of social science graduates), for 40% of his time, in April 2014.
Dr Stoddart has been appointed Deputy Director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research for three years from October 2014. He has edited (with Dr C N Popa) Fingerprinting the Iron Age: Approaches to identity in the European Iron Age: Integrating South-Eastern Europe into the debate (Oxbow, 2014).
Professor Babinsky has taken over as Deputy Head of the Engineering Department with specific responsibility for graduate education.
Dr Jones had been promoted to a Readership in English Legal History.
Dr O’Keefe has been appointed to the Chair of Public International Law at University College London (UCL). He left at the end of August 2014 after fourteen years as Fellow and College Lecturer in Law. He is succeeded as Dean by Dr Jones.
Dr Hadida has been promoted to a Senior Lectureship in Management Studies.
Professor Cooper retired from her Chair and Professorial Fellowship at the end of the academical year and is now a Life Fellow.
Mr Hobday has been awarded a distinction for the research degree of MA by the University of Nottingham.
Dr Bennison was elected a fellow of the Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies (TALIM) for her academic contributions to Moroccan Studies.
Dr Steele has published a monograph in 2013, A Linguistic History of Cyprus: The Non-Greek Languages, and their Relations with Greek, c.1600–300 BC (CUP). In May, she gave the Evans-Pritchard Lectures at All Souls College, Oxford, on the theme of ‘Society and Writing in Ancient Cyprus’. The lectures will later be published as a book. She has also been awarded funding, alongside former ByeFellow Sara Harris, to run a seminar on ‘Multilingualism and Exchange in the Ancient and Medieval World’ at CRASSH during the coming academical year.
Dr Spottiswoode has been awarded a research project grant by the Leverhulme Trust for her research on brood parasites and other curious African birds.
Professor Raven launched in September 2013 ‘Knowing About Meditation’ the first of the Workshops at Magdalene funded by the European Science Foundation.
Dr Halper has published (with Dr Lezlee Halper) Tibet…An Unfinished Story (Hurst, UK. 2014). He is directing an analysis looking at China in 2013 for the US Secretary of Defense.
Dr Rothschild has been made an Honorary Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford and has been awarded an Honorary Degree by the University of Edinburgh. She has been elected to an Official Fellowship for one year, 2014–15.
Dr Bartok-Partay has received a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship.
Miss Wan, Bye-Fellow 2011–12, has been elected a Nevile Research Fellow from 1 October 2014.
Ms Gillies, Royal Literary Fund Teaching Bye-Fellow, has been elected a Fellow-Commoner for one year, 2014–15.
Mr Sbierski , Bye-Fellow 2013–14, has been elected a Nevile Research Fellow from 1 October 2014.
Dr Brown died on 21 January 2014. A memorial service was held in Great St Mary’s in the presence of a large congregation on 24 March 2014. A memorial concert of Ascendens Christus, Victoria’s Mass for the Ascension, was given by the Cambridge Renaissance Voices in the Corn Exchange on 17 May 2014.
Mr Raymont retired as Assistant Bursar on 30 September 2014.
Honorary Fellows
Professor Sir John Gurdon is now an Honorary Member of the Biochemical Society (UK) and has been awarded an Honorary Degree from Rockefeller University, New York, USA. He has been made an Honorary Fellow, Royal College of Physicians on 10 June 2014. On 2 October 2013, he was given a special lunch in Hall by the Master and Fellows to mark his 80th birthday. In his speech, Sir John paid particular tribute to Jean ‘as Mrs Master’, who ensured that every under - graduate was invited to a sit-down lunch in the Lodge once every year, doing all the preparation herself. He emphasized how vital it is develop relationships based on the goodwill of our own members, to make sure that the Endowment is properly preserved and augmented, and to ensure the continuing successful educational function of the College.
Professor Gurdon’s medals as they were displayed at the ‘Masters of Magdalene’ exhibition in the Old Library
Lord (Igor) Judge retired as Lord Chief Justice in April 2014, having reached the age of 72.
Mr Robinson was guest Lecturer at the University of Melbourne, Australia, for two weeks from 20 March, after which he accompanied members of the Cultural Materials Conservation Centre on a visit to the Warmun Art Centre in the Northern Territories.
