Mansfield magazine 2016-17 by Mansfield College, Oxford

2016/17

Mansfield

Mansfield 2016/17

Contents Message from the Principal News in brief What you’ve been reading A wonderful, welcoming place to work Hats off to the Hands Building!

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Bursar’s Report

JCR President’s Report

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A year in Development and Alumni Relations

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Access Report 2017

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College life: News from Mansfield’s student community

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Visiting Student Programme

28 – 29

‘You can’t give up – even when you’re losing’

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Constance Coltman: A centenary to celebrate

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Rev’d. Tony Tucker awarded Cross of the Order of Merit

JCR Bench p. 24 (top left), p. 24 (bottom left), p. 24 (bottom right) Oxford University African and Caribbean Society p. 26 (left), p. 27 Oluchi Ezeh p. 26 (right) Ian Walton p. 30 Emily Cameron p. 31 (top left) Graham Avery p. 35 (right bottom) Blue Ventures pp. 38-39 (all images) Courtesy of the authors p. 12, p. 13, p. 14, p. 15, p. 18-19, p. 21 (right), p. 25, p. 28 (top), p. 29, p. 36, p. 41, p. 46 (left top), p. (left bottom), p. 46 (right top), p. 46 (right bottom), p. 47 (left top), p. 47 (left bottom), p. 47 (right top), p. 47 (right bottom), p. 52, p. 54 (top left), p. 54 (left bottom), p. 54 (centre top), p. 54 (centre bottom), p. 54 (right top), p. 54 (right bottom), p. 55 (left top), p. 55 (left bottom), p. 55 (centre top), p. 55 (centre bottom), p. 55 (right top), p. 55 (right bottom). Manuel Harlan p. 46 (right centre) Guy Burt p. 53 Institute of Physics/ Liz Hingley p. 54 (far left centre)

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Senior Tutor’s Report

MCR President’s Report

Photo credits: John Cairns Cover photo, p. 2 (centre) Photovibe p. 2 (top), p. 4, p. 7 (top), p. 16 (top left), p. 16 (bottom), p. 17 (bottom left), p. 17 (far left top), p. 24 (top right), p. 28 (bottom), p. 31 (bottom), pp. 44-45 (all images), Ashwood Photography p. 3 Keiko Ikeuchi p. 5 (top), p. 6 (all images), p. 7 (centre left), p. 11, p. 16 (right), p. 28 (bottom), p. 35 (right top), p. 37 James Shields p. 5 (bottom) Pixabay p. 7, pp. 40-41 (background image) Rotary Peace Chula p. 7 (bottom right), p. 46 (far left centre) Mansfield College p. 7 (bottom left), p. 33, p. 42 Bonavero Institute of Human Rights pp. 8-9 (all images) Richard Chivers p. 10 Dominic Turner p. 17 (left top), p. 17 (left centre) R&R Photos p. 20 (all images) Heather Nelson p. 21 Winston Yin p. 22 Oxford Student Refugee Campaign p. 23

Message from the Principal

In conversation with Marilynne Robinson

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The human challenge of marine conservation

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The arts and beyond

40 – 41

The Caird phenomenon

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Mansfield College Association

44 – 45

Alumni news

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Where the Heart Is – a poem by Serena Arthur

College and University prizes 2017

Examination results 2017

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Obituaries

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Fellows’ news and publications

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Events Calendar

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Baroness Helena Kennedy QC Time has flown by. Here I am saying my farewells after what will be seven years at this wonderful College; it has passed so quickly. I will step down next summer to embrace new challenges in the law and Parliament, but I shall miss you all: Fellows and students, staff and alumni, friends all. It has been great fun.

the Oxford University Dramatic Society when she was 16 and still a pupil at Oxford High School. She played Viola in Twelfth Night to rapturous reviews in the Oxford papers.

When I came and visited the College back in 2010 I had a good feeling about it. With my own long-held commitment to widening participation in higher education, I found the egalitarian ethos of Mansfield College a powerful draw. Education changed my life and I want illuminating opportunities to be shared as widely as possible. Mansfield is poor, I was told. No grand endowment or collections of art or silver, no extensive cellars of wine or lands in north Oxford. But I think I have always known how to measure what matters and indeed have always preferred ‘poor’. I felt I could make a difference and I hope I have.

Dame Maggie graciously accepted our embrace and came Photo: Ashwood Photography to bless the new Auditorium with a witty and very engaging conversation about her career and acting. When asked by a student what she would wish for if she had her magic wand of Harry Potter fame, she impromptu said she would whisk the building away and take us all back to that garden on which our new building now stands and in which she had first performed. Much as I wanted to indulge her every wish, I very indignantly said in pantomime style: ‘Oh no you won’t!’ After three years of constant advocacy to raise the £24 million for the building and the endowment for the Institute, the audience knew that I was not having it swept away even for a few minutes of whimsy!

This final year has started well with the completion of the Hands Building and the start of the first academic session at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights. Professor Kate O’Regan, a former Justice of the South African Constitutional Court, is our inaugural Director. She was the youngest judge on the Court, having been tapped on the shoulder for appointment by Nelson Mandela himself when she was only 37. He knew sheer genius when he saw it. And so did I! When I heard that Kate had just completed her 15-year term of office, I went in hot pursuit and persuaded her to apply for our role as Director of the Institute. It will be a global leader in its field, especially now that she is in the driving seat. But as well as bringing brilliant legal and political scholars into our orbit and providing the whole University with a wonderful Institute, the new Hands Building houses 74 of our students in very swanky rooms on the upper floors, which we can also use for conferences during vacations. This provides a new revenue stream that helps the Bursar sleep easier at night! An additional glory in the new building is the Sir Joseph Hotung Auditorium. This lovely raked lecture theatre has the bonus of opening on to a fine paved terrace and a beautifully planted, banked garden. Those of you who haven’t already seen it must come and visit soon so you can see just how well the new building complements and completes the Quad. Allan Dodd, our Bursar, found us a truly gifted gardener in Caroline Edwards and she really has transformed our landscape – as has the impacted gravel drive that encircles the lawn, with the striking Antony Gormley sculpture at its core. I have a moment of breathlessness every time I come into College now and see how beautiful it looks. I am using my departure to lure grandees to the College before I go. In Michaelmas Term 2017 we made Dame Maggie Smith an Honorary Fellow. I had discovered from the theatre critic, Michael Coveney, that Dame Maggie had given her first performance here in Mansfield gardens for

That evening was glorious, but others have followed including an exceptional Adam von Trott annual lecture by Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch, the great historian on the Reformation, another by the political historian Sir Adam Roberts on terrorism, and yet another by the comedienne, Ruby Wax, on mental ill health and mindfulness. I had especially invited our very own Professorial Fellow, Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, to speak as I still think it is so amazing that here at Mansfield we have the nation’s greatest female scientist in our midst. She gave a brilliant talk about her own field of astronomy and her discovery of pulsars. It was like listening to a thriller being read on the radio. Jocelyn was only a graduate student in her twenties when she began to see through her telescope a sequence of activity that was at first dismissed by colleagues as ‘interference’. She assiduously recorded the recurring evidence, like Hercule Poirot, and eventually could show that there was indeed a pattern of special stars in the night sky that had never before been recognised. Her male supervisor got the Nobel Prize for her discovery. Those were the days! As we enter 2018, there are plans for the grand opening of the Hands Building once the weather is finer. There will be a special summer garden party for me to say my goodbyes, and many opportunities for me to tell you all how much I have enjoyed my stay and valued your friendship. I have learned so much from you all, relished the debates and the sharing of problems and the conquering of obstacles. I cannot express my gratitude adequately for the support you have provided for my grand schemes and wild ambitions. I hope it was worth it for all of you. It was for me. Thank you.

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COLLEGE NEWS

News in brief Mansfield students achieve record-breaking results

Mansfield students come top in NUS Student Switch Off quiz

Congratulations to the Finalists of Mansfield College, who performed outstandingly well in 2017 and have achieved the largest number of Firsts in the College’s history.

In April 2017, the students of Mansfield College came first in the NUS Student Switch Off quiz on climate change, beating Newnham College Cambridge, Willoughby at Nottingham and Arthur Tattersall at UCL.

A total of 24 of the 67 Finalists were awarded Firsts, making up approximately 36 per cent of the year group – the highest proportion of Firsts in Mansfield’s history. Each subject taught at the College has received at least one First – a reflection both of our students’ extremely high level of abilities and also the excellence of the teaching they receive.

Student Switch Off is a not-for-profit campaign encouraging action on climate change from students. Almost 13,000 students in halls of residence and colleges throughout the UK took part in the climate change quiz.

Portrait of poet and novelist Ben Okri OBE unveiled

George Bradford Caird manuscript donated to Library

A new portrait of Mansfield Honorary Fellow Ben Okri has been unveiled in Mansfield’s entrance hall. Ben Okri won the Booker Prize in 1991 for his novel The Famished Road. His work spans novels, short stories and poetry. He is considered one of the leading African writers of the postmodern and postcolonial traditions. The portrait was painted by artist Andre de Moller, a master painter whose many high-profile portraits can be found hanging all over the world.

Pages from Professor George Caird’s New Testament Theology manuscript have been donated to Mansfield College Library by James Shields. Mr Shields worked as a research assistant to Mansfield alumnus, Professor Lincoln Hurst (Dip Theology, 1974) and inherited the pages from Professor Hurst. Professor George Caird is a key figure in the history of Mansfield College, serving first as Senior Tutor and then as Principal from 1970 to 1977. The pages of Professor Caird’s manuscript will be kept alongside Mansfield’s other material relating to our former Principal.

Above: Ben Okri OBE, Baroness Helena Kennedy QC and artist Andre de Moller Right: James Shields

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COLLEGE NEWS

What you’ve been reading

News in brief

Our top five most popular news stories of 2016/17 – as read by you on our website

Honorary Fellowships Dr Marilynne Robinson

1. Mansfield students achieve record number of Firsts July 2017 Across the board, our 2017 Finalists performed outstandingly well in their academic endeavours. www.mansfield.ox.ac.uk/news/mansfieldstudents-achieve-record-number-firsts

On Friday 10th March 2017, Marilynne Robinson received her Honorary Fellowship from Mansfield Principal, Baroness Helena Kennedy QC. She then went on to deliver the last talk in the Hilary Term Mansfield Lecture series – ‘Cromwell and America’ – to an auditorium packed with people eager to hear her speak.

2. In conversation with Dame Maggie Smith October 2017 Dame Maggie Smith was elected as an Honorary Fellow of Mansfield College. She was the first speaker to appear in the Sir Joseph Hotung Lecture Auditorium. Go to the Mansfield College website to watch her podcast. www.mansfield.ox.ac.uk/news/conversationdame-maggie-smith

Dr Robinson is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes, including a 2012 National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Barack Obama, and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2005). Read her interview with Dr Lucy Clarke on pages 36-37.

Professor Carol Sanger

In June 2017 Professor Carol Sanger was awarded her Honorary Fellowship by Mansfield Principal, Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, in recognition of her scholarship in the common law of contract, women’s rights, and research in human rights law. Sanger, the Barbara Aronstein Black Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, has written, lectured and taught extensively on contracts, family law, reproductive rights, gender, and law’s relation to culture throughout her career.

3. Mansfield voted best for vegetarian and vegan food December 2016 Mansfield came top in a college-wide survey of provision of vegetarian and vegan food across the University. www.mansfield.ox.ac.uk/news/mansfieldvoted-best-vegetarian-and-vegan-food 4. ‘Humour can be found in every situation’ July 2017 Mansfield alumna, Dhruti Shah (English, 2000) discusses her Rotary International Peace Fellowship. www.mansfield.ox.ac.uk/news/humour-canbe-found-every-situation

Dame Maggie Smith

In October 2017, the College hosted Dame Maggie Smith in conversation with our Principal, Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, on the conferral of her Honorary Fellowship to Mansfield. The event took place in the Sir Joseph Hotung Auditorium, inside the new Hands Building, and was packed with Mansfield students.

5. 100 years on – Constance Coltman and her legacy September 2017 Revd Dr Janet Wootton discusses the challenges faced by Mansfield alumna Constance Coltman – the first woman to be ordained in a mainstream British denomination. www.mansfield.ox.ac.uk/news/100-yearsconstance-coltman-and-her-legacy

Dame Maggie has worked extensively in theatre, film and television, but few people are aware that her theatrical debut took place at Mansfield College in 1952 where she played Viola opposite John Wood in an Oxford University Dramatic Society production of Twelfth Night. Top: Dr Marilynne Robinson Middle: Professor Carol Sanger (right) Bottom: Dame Maggie Smith

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A wonderful, welcoming place to work Professor Kate O’Regan, the new Director of the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights at Mansfield, recounts the first invigorating few weeks of the Institute’s life in its new home – embarking on a programme that has already attracted world-renowned experts in the field.

It has been a busy start to 2017/18 at the Bonavero Institute for Human Rights. We moved into the beautiful new Hands Building in early October, and though there are a few final snags to be resolved, it is clear that this is going to be a wonderful, welcoming place to work. The Institute comprises five offices, the Gilly Leventis Meeting Room on the ground floor (which has wonderful views of the Cedar of Lebanon on the edge of the Mansfield Quad, and the Chapel), and the Helena Kennedy Reading Room on the lower-ground floor (which will seat up to 28 scholars). We also share the superb new Sir Joseph Hotung Auditorium with the College. Our small team has grown from two (Kate O’Regan, the Director, and Zoe Davis-Heaney, the Administrator) to four. We have been joined by Annelen Micus, the Head of Programmes, and Oliver Butler, a postdoctoral fellow (who has a joint appointment between the Bonavero Institute and Wadham College). In November 2017, Stefan Theil, also a postdoctoral fellow, started and we shall soon be appointing a third postdoctoral fellow, a position generously

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funded by the Legal Education Foundation. In addition, we welcomed three Research Visitors this term: Judge Malcolm Wallis, a senior South African appellate judge working on a paper examining the role of judges in modern democracies; Professor Hurst Hannum, an international lawyer from Tufts University in the USA, working on the future of human rights; and Bob Watt, a retired professor of law from Buckingham University, who is working on election law. We expect to have a further ten Research Visitors before the end of the 2017/18 academic year. On October 12th, 2017, the Annual Global Justice Lecture was held in the Sir Joseph Hotung Auditorium. Together with the Faculty of Law’s Public International Law group, we were delighted to welcome the Chief Prosecutor from the International Criminal Court, Mme Fatou Bensouda. Mme Bensouda was introduced by both Professor Dapo Akande, Professor of Public International Law at the Blavatnik School of Government, and myself. During her address, Mme Bensouda emphasised that ‘it is not only desirable but possible to reach peace without abandoning justice’. She heralded the International Criminal Court as ‘one of humanity’s proudest moments’. The event was wellattended by people from across the University and further afield. A dinner was held afterwards in the Chapel with the generous support of the Planethood Foundation.

On October 15th, we welcomed Yale Law professor, Oona Hathaway, to the Bonavero Institute. Professor Hathaway spoke about her new book The Internationalists: How a radical plan to outlaw war remade the world. A full calendar of collaborative events was planned during Michaelmas, including a seminar by Anthony Dworkin of the European Council on Foreign Relations, entitled ‘Justifying the Use of Force Against Terrorist Groups’ (October 31st), Judge Joan Donoghue (judge of the International Court of Justice) and Judge Theodor Meron (judge of the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals) in conversation (November 2nd), and Anup Surendranath on the campaign against the death penalty in India (November 7th).

for his generous support of this programme, which we see as core to one of our strategic goals: developing career paths for Oxford Law students in the field of human rights and public law.

We were also pleased to welcome back to Oxford many of our summer intern students, who spent the summer at a range of organisations working in the broad field of human rights and the rule of law. We received very positive comments from the host organisations on the work performed by the interns, as well as enthusiastic feedback from the students. We are grateful to Eric L Lewis

We look forward to hearing from you in the months ahead.

If you are interested in the work of the Bonavero Institute, please do not hesitate to get in touch. We can be contacted by email at bonaveroihr@law.ox.ac.uk, and we can be followed on our website https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/centresinstitutes/bonavero-institute-humanrights, and on Twitter (@BonaveroIHR) and Facebook.

ABOVE: Audience at the Global Justice Lecture 2017 BOTTOM LEFT TO RIGHT: Guest speaker Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda Professor Hurst Hannum Judge Malcolm Wallis Bob Watt The Samuel Pisar Travelling Fellowship (2015) - Elena Butti The Samuel Pisar Travelling Fellowship (2016) - Stacy Topouzova

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Hats off to the Hands Building!

Make your mark, play a part: an opportunity to write your name in history

Stuart Cade of Rick Mather Architects celebrates the realisation of the Love Lane project, the latest and most important stage in Mansfield’s building programme – delivered on time and within budget. The Sir Joseph Hotung Auditorium, which spans the two lower floors, can be accessed either from within the Institute or from the new terrace at ground-floor level, and allows for a wide range of opportunities – from presentations and lectures to student film nights. The upper level opens directly to the landscaped terraces, providing abundant natural light and ventilation. By utilising this natural strategy for lighting and cooling throughout, along with the careful choice of materials, the building has been able to achieve a maximum score on Oxford City Council’s Natural Resource Impact Assessment, making it one of the ‘greenest’ buildings of its kind in Oxford. A fundamental issue in the design process was the careful consideration of landscape. By setting the building back and stepping the plan, the amount of space available for open areas and new planting was maximised. The landscaping has been designed to connect the building to the rest of the College, both physically and visually, while creating a series of individually characterised spaces through careful contours and grading. A promenade route extends from the Quad, leading visitors and students directly to the entrance doors. This axis allows views to the new sunken terrace, which echoes that in front of the East Range, and in return provides a perspective back to the Quad and main College buildings. In addition, a ramp winds down through the planted beds and new trees, with an intermediate landing and integrated bench seating looking back across the gardens. We were delighted to see the completion of the Hands Building at Mansfield College in time for the start of Michaelmas Term 2017 and the new academic year. The build has been the product of a rewarding collaboration between many parties, and has provided extensive and much-needed accommodation for the College and the University. The building is a continuation of a phased master plan that has already seen the delivery of the East Range kitchen and café, the refurbishment of the Chapel, and the landscaping of the Quad. Incorporating the newly established Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, the Hands Building forms a western edge to the existing College buildings. It takes a sensitive approach to the site both in form (by stepping back to give space to the Principal’s Lodgings, by maximising the landscaped area in front), and through the use of stone and thinly

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framed windows, taking cues from the existing range of Champney’s buildings. By combining additional student study-bedrooms and accommodation for the Institute of Human Rights, the building enables dynamic occupancy and encourages engagement between students, Institute staff and visitors. The design allows for this engagement while maintaining the required privacy of each group, through separate entrances and carefully arranged offices. By setting the building into the ground it has been possible to create a generous series of spaces, internally and externally, providing six floors of accommodation when only three or four originally seemed possible. This efficient use of space has been vital, particularly given that the plot was one of the last remaining sites within the College.

Works have extended out to the Quad, fully defining the ‘oval’ and improving access to the John Marsh and Garden buildings. The entire project was completed on schedule and within budget – an achievement made possible through the strong relationship between the College and all members of the design and project team. The use of pre-fabricated elements such as the crosslaminated-timber structural panels and bathroom pods, together with the employment of a Building Information Model (BIM) that was shared across the design and construction teams, improved the coordination between structures and services as well as reducing the overall construction timescale. This model was fully embraced by the main contractor, Beard, which engaged with the design of the building fully and earlier than traditional techniques permit. The high level of communication and coordination has been a key element in the success of the project, ensuring that each part of the long-term master plan works together to create a cohesive environment for learning, collaboration and living.

Would you like to celebrate your time at Mansfield, honour or memorialise a special person, or commemorate a special date? Alumni and friends of Mansfield College are invited to make their mark and play a part in history by sponsoring a seat in the 140 fixed-seat Sir Joseph Hotung Auditorium, Mansfield’s first purpose-built lecture auditorium in the new Hands Building.

Why I donated Wangari Maathai (1940-2011), the Kenyan environmentalist, Nobel peace laureate, and founder of the seminal non-governmental organisation, The Green Belt Movement, devoted her adult life to the struggle for democracy, human rights, and sustainable, equitable development. She also became a strong global voice on climate change and forest protection. We were privileged to work with Wangari for more than a decade. Her legacy is enormous, and naming a seat in The Sir Joseph Hotung Auditorium shared with the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights seems like a fitting tribute to her. We’ve also chosen to honour her long-time colleague, Vertistine Mbaya, who, as a professor at the University of Nairobi and board member of The Green Belt Movement, walked side by side with Wangari for many years, through both good times and bad. Mia MacDonald (VSP, 1985) and Martin Rowe (English Language and Literature, 1984) There are many reasons why alumni and friends of the College have chosen to name a seat: some in memory, some in honour, some as a gift, and some to mark their time at Mansfield. For Mia and Martin, it was to honour the founder of The Green Belt Movement. To find out more about naming a lecture seat, please visit our website or contact the Development Office. E: development@mansfield.ox.ac.uk Mansfield 2016/17

Senior Tutor’s Report

Bursar’s Report Allan Dodd In June I completed five years at Mansfield. It has been, to say the least, a challenging and interesting time. As you will read elsewhere in this Magazine, we have just completed the Hands Building (formerly known as the Love Lane project). One consequence of this is that for the first time in those five years I will not be dealing with the planning, design or implementation of a major construction project – the phases of which in some cases overlapped.

Lucinda Rumsey Mansfield’s success shows ‘that the talent is there if Oxbridge colleges make it a priority to go out to hard-to-reach areas and find it’, Mr David Lammy MP told the BBC. He added that the College’s recent results, which are the best in its history, showed that widening access does not lower standards. We are grateful to Mr Lammy, usually one of Oxford’s severest critics, for providing us with our headline. In 2017 Mansfield students did indeed achieve the best set of results in the history of the College. Twenty-four of our students were awarded Firsts in Finals, the highest number we have ever had, and the highest proportion: more than a third of our students got first-class degrees, and there were Firsts in every undergraduate subject that we take. We came 14th in the Norrington Table. Our students were also awarded 15 University prizes in 2017, with several receiving multiple prizes. Lev Chechik won the IoM3 Prize for Best Overall Performance in Materials Science, as well as three other Materials prizes; Benjamin Shi was awarded the Johnson Matthey Prize for best overall performance in Materials prelims, and a further prize for best performance in prelims practicals. Also in Materials Science, Tabitha Jones received an Ironmongers’ Company Annual Award and nomination for an IoM3 James S Walker Award, and Tianhong Bi and Yuxin Yin both won prizes for team projects. Two of our students were awarded Gibbs prizes: Noel Cheong for achieving the highest distinction in prelims in Theology & Religion, and Khazna Chami a Gibbs Book Prize for Prelims in Human Sciences. Emily Roper was awarded a Joseph Schacht Memorial Junior Prize for Prelims in Oriental Studies; and Louis Jamart (Human Sciences) and Christopher Baird (Geography) were both awarded prizes for Finals dissertations. A total of 59 of

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our students are Scholars and Exhibitioners, in recognition of their excellent performance. The BBC website article ‘The Oxford University College Fighting Elitism’ (16/11/17), in which David Lammy celebrates Mansfield’s success, highlights our contribution to widening participation to Oxford. The University as a whole has been criticised for drawing its students from too narrow a pool. Mansfield’s student population is more truly reflective of the talent in the whole of the country, including higher proportions than other Oxford colleges of: students from the North of England; first-generation applicants to university; BME (Black and Minority Ethnic) students; and pupils from non-selective schools. Statistics about the diversity of Oxford’s student population seldom mention overseas students, who make up about 15 per cent of the total. Attracting students from all over the world, who go on to contribute different ways of learning to the scholarly work of the University, doesn’t just demonstrate Oxford’s international reputation, it enhances its excellence. We see this at Mansfield, not only among our undergraduates but in the success of our postgraduate community, a diverse international body. Twenty-five of our graduates achieved distinctions in their Masters work this year and ten of our DPhil students successfully completed their doctorates. Despite the headline, Mansfield isn’t the college fighting elitism; we are very proud to be part of an elite institution and contributing to its reputation, especially by helping to make that elite cohort fully representative of the widest range of talent and excellence available.

First to be finished was the East Range (new kitchens, the Crypt Cafeteria and major refurbishment of the Tower and Hall), then the re-shaping and resurfacing of the north side of the Quad, followed by the refurbishment of the Chapel, and finally the Hands Building. The last is without question the most significant – it is the biggest (74 student rooms, a 160-seat auditorium with 140 fixed seats, and accommodation for the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights), the most costly (£13m), and the most transformative. Why transformative? Well, for the first time the College will be providing accommodation for three full undergraduate years – taking away from students the risks, costs and inconvenience of renting in the private-sector market. This should save each student around £2,000 while simultaneously delivering around £300,000 of new revenue to the College – a classic win-win. In addition, it offers the potential of generating much higher levels of conference income, and summer 2018 will see the first example of this. We have contracted with a US university to bring 160 students to Oxford for a six-week summer programme, all of them living and eating on-site. This scale of opportunity was simply not available to the College previously, and will make a significant financial contribution. And last, but by no means least, it is a great building, which has transformed a rather tired garden space into a fantastic asset, while also enabling us to create a beautiful new garden to compensate for what was lost. Does this mean the College’s financial problems are solved? I wish that were true, but sadly not. Those of you who have read my contributions to the Magazine over the years will know that Mansfield lags way behind virtually every other college in level of endowment. It is endowment income that enables Oxford and its colleges to deliver both the quality of education and the unique experience that

makes such a difference to those who are fortunate enough to benefit from it. This year’s accounts will show an endowment of around £14m, compared with the median position of all colleges of around £60m. So, until or unless we reach that kind of level of endowment (a very big challenge indeed), tight financial management will again be the order of the day as costs continue to rise. This is especially the case given that student fees seem likely to be pegged at current (or even below-current) levels for at least as long as the two main political parties compete for the young vote. But we do now have an opportunity to worry less about immediate financial solvency (my other major preoccupation for the last five years) and to think about the future. We do have one asset that many other central Oxford colleges do not have: land on which we can build. We have just exploited this to great effect with the Hands Building, and I believe that we should now focus on the area between the Chapel and the Lodge, with a view to addressing a number of gaps in our infrastructure. The most important of these is accommodation for our graduate students. Many reading this article may not realise that our graduate population is now around 190 – a huge increase over the past few years. We continue to honour our commitment to provide accommodation for all first-year graduates, but we do so through property we rent and sub-let to our students, rather than property we own. This housing isn’t always of the highest quality, is often fairly remote from the main site, and offers no financial benefit to the College. So, a new building, this time for graduate accommodation, is an important priority. And such a building might also be able to provide a vastly improved Porters’ Lodge, as well as a purpose-built MCR, and even some much-needed administrative space. So, perhaps the College’s respite from major projects will be brief – watch this space…

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JCR President’s Report Joe Inwood History, 2015 It has been a great privilege to lead Mansfield’s JCR during 2016/17. This year has been one of the most exciting in our College’s recent history as it included the completion of the Hands Building (which opened in October 2017). As ever there have been highs and lows, unanticipated challenges and welcome surprises. My only certainty is that this role will remain as consistently unpredictable for my successor. The addition of more than 70 undergraduates to the on-site community is set to invigorate College life – especially as it unfolds in conjunction with our new larger Junior Common Room, and the Crypt café and bar development that has been so popular since it was completed just three years ago. Living out in private accommodation remains an option for second-year students, but as one of the last cohort of Mansfield students to rent a house in the Cowley Road area, I can truly appreciate the financial benefit of the new accommodation. The national picture of continually rising tuition fees, increasing to £9,250 a year for incoming 2017/18 students, makes the financial support that Mansfield offers even more important, both in the direct sense of scholarships and hardship funds, and the significant indirect benefit of the Hands Building. We welcomed the news that the introduction of the new Auditorium could mean the Lecture Theatre in the Main Building will be re-designated once again as the Junior Common Room. Returning to this original, larger space will restore Mansfield’s unique attraction as a small college with a large JCR, and for this we are grateful. As Mansfield becomes ever more diverse, we must make sure not to rest on our laurels. This year’s record intake of state-educated students (nearly 90%) is a remarkable achievement, and JCR commitment to access and outreach remains strong. Changes to the JCR’s constitution have included the introduction of an elected Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) Officer to represent ethnic minority students in view of the particular challenges they can face in Oxford. The establishment of a termly Equal Opportunities Working Group has provided a forum for both discussion and solutions, and JCR members have worked closely with Oxford University Student Union campaigns such as the newly formed Class Act, representing students from working class, low income and state comprehensive backgrounds.

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The JCR was alive with political engagement this year with general elections taking place in both Britain and the United States, producing widely varying reactions to their respective results. In University sport, strong performances were achieved by Mansfield College Boat Club, as well as this year’s Mansfield/Merton cricket team, crowned league champions. Many students were sad to say goodbye to our Hall Manager, Peter Nagy, who has returned to Hungary. Peter was truly a Mansfield legend and we miss him. Our inaugural Staff Appreciation day was held on a beautiful Sunday afternoon in May, and the event looks sure to grow next year as the JCR recognises the special role in our College lives played by scouts, catering and maintenance staff – as well as the vital work done behind the scenes in the College Development, Accounts and IT offices. As we look forward to the future, we also say farewell to the Principal, Baroness Helena Kennedy QC. From the perspective of the JCR, her tenure as Principal has seen major innovations in almost every aspect of student life, from catering to accommodation – and of course our resident Gormley on the Quad. Helena (or ‘BHK’ as she is universally known to students) has been the very definition of a proactive, engaging Principal, whether at weekly brunches in her lodgings, the Friday lecture series, or delivering snacks to Finalists in the Library. To a succession of JCR Presidents she has at times been a robust adversary – and a formidable chair of the Joint Consultative Committee – but her vision for Mansfield was at the forefront throughout her tenure, and her legacy will be evident for generations of students to come. The JCR wishes her the very best with her future endeavours. Every student’s experience of Mansfield is different, but I have been very lucky to have served for a year in this role. I’m also thankful for the support and advice from the many dedicated, selfless volunteers who make up the JCR Bench. In this time of change, our Nonconformist spirit remains very much alive.

MCR President’s Report Jessica Williams Industrially Focused Mathematical Modelling, 2015 Mansfield’s MCR has always comprised a diverse group of fascinating students, and this year has been no exception. From theologians to mathematicians, from those learning the Arabic language, to those studying the English written word – the breadth of collective knowledge shared among the nearly 200 members of Mansfield’s graduate community is enormous. Students hail from all corners of the globe, and each arrives with a distinct story leading to them studying at Mansfield College. I feel so privileged to have the opportunity to meet many of these incredible individuals this year, and in learning about their backgrounds I have realised the immense value in being a member of a college that fosters equality and greatly appreciates diversity. During the past year, the MCR Bench has focused on planning activities to reflect this heterogeneity, and on creating a space that cultivates a senseof-belonging to our College. Events have included bi-termly welfare breakfasts in the MCR, exchange dinners with a variety of other colleges’ Middle Common Rooms, a Christmas party, viewing sessions for the Planet Earth documentary in the bar, the first ever Mansfield MCR bop, afternoon teas, and pizza and board-game evenings, among others. To ensure that our events appealed to the current graduate body, we conducted a survey allowing members to express their opinions on the types of activities they’d enjoy, the results of which were used when planning the forthcoming programme. The Michael Mahoney Graduate Seminar provided the perfect opportunity for the MCR to interact with Senior Common Room members, and we are all thankful to graduate students Katherine Rother and Anna Senkiw for seminars on their individual research topics, and for Justice Kate O’Regan’s fascinating talk, providing us with an insight into the role of South Africa’s constitutional court. The MCR has continued to support both the Reach Scholarship, which enables students from low-income countries to study at Oxford, and the

Refugee Campaign, which is a scheme for asylumseeking students to gain funding to complete their academic studies at the University. I believe these two causes epitomise Mansfield’s ethos of inclusion and its passion for human rights, and I appreciate the cooperation of our community in supporting these endeavours. On a more materialistic note, the MCR has improved its physical space by purchasing a television and a new coffee maker. These items have already helped to brighten our common room, and I hope they will continue to be of use to graduate students over the coming terms. The budget for these was provided by the Small Projects Fund, which was organised last year as an opportunity for MCR members to fund events or items that would benefit the community. In October 2017, the MCR moved into its elegantly refurbished new common room adjacent to the Junior Common Room, which gives our fast-growing community more space to socialise, relax and study. This year’s MCR Committee have also encouraged communication between the Middle and Junior Common rooms, and we’ve instigated a new policy for a termly meeting between the two Benches to increase collaboration among all Mansfield students. Graduate students have also played a significant role in College and University sports, with students participating in athletics, rugby, and rowing. With regards to musical life, there have been MCR members in the College choir, and performances by graduate students in the weekly recitals. Additionally, members of Mansfield’s MCR established a history society, holding an inaugural talk in Trinity term, to the benefit of the entire College. I’m so grateful to the MCR Bench for volunteering their time and for working so tirelessly this year to improve graduate life at Mansfield. I also appreciate the College staff and faculty for their efforts in working alongside us to achieve this goal. Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to be the MCR President this year; it has been an invaluable experience, and I look forward to the continued growth and development of our wonderful graduate community. Mansfield 2016/17

‘We all had a fantastic time, and it was so lovely to be back in College again!’ Feedback from the 10-Year Anniversary Dinner (2007 matric), September 2017

Through your support

A year in Development and Alumni Relations

The Hands Building was completed in October 2017 and is already making a big difference to College life, enabling us to house more students on site and providing a comfortable and modern learning space in the form of The Sir Joseph Hotung Auditorium. In this edition of the Magazine, you will have had the opportunity to read about the activities of The Bonavero Institute of Human Rights in the article by Professor Kate O’Regan (pp.8-9). Thank you to all those who have generously supported the campaign so far to raise £12.8m towards the Hands Building. We now have to raise only £200,000 more to close the gap in funding. There is still an opportunity to support this important project by making a donation or by naming a lecture seat.

From the Team The past year has been an exciting time for Mansfield. As we look back on 2017 and look forward to 2018, we would like to thank you for your support and for being part of the Mansfield community. Mansfield alumni together make a diverse community of former undergraduate, visiting and graduate students based in more than 75 countries worldwide. This year, we have had the pleasure of welcoming a large number of our alumni back to College, be it for a visit, an overnight stay or to mentor students. Many more have attended one of our events, including the 1887 Society Dinner and MCBC Dinner in May, the Summer Garden Party, Commemoration Service and Mansfield Alumni Association Dinner in June, 10 Year Anniversary Dinner and Alumni Weekend Events in September. We are also delighted to have met with so many of you at our events in London, New York, Hong Kong and Singapore. Many of you have been in touch with us this year to share news of your achievements and the exciting things you have been involved with. As you are part of the Mansfield community of students and alumni, we aim to keep you closely engaged with both life at

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Year upon year, Mansfield as a College continues to work hard to encourage students from non-traditional backgrounds to apply to Oxford. This year is no different and (as you may have seen in a November 2017 BBC News report) almost 90% of our most recent intake of students were from a state school background. Such progress is not achieved incidentally or through positive discrimination. It is the result of sustained commitment to seek excellence from across the country and is further enabled through support from Mansfield’s alumni community. Thank you to those of you who have supported our Access work in 2016/17. You can read more about this work in Senior Tutor Lucinda Rumsey’s Report (p. 12) and in Helen Brooks’ Access Report (pp. 18-19).

College and with each other, through this publication, our e-newsletters, social media, telethons and events. If you have an idea for an event that you would like us to arrange, or some news you would like us to share, please get in contact. If you have not had the chance to make it to a Mansfield gathering this year, we hope to be able to catch up with you in 2018. You can check the back cover of this publication for information about our forthcoming events.

‘This event is getting better every year… the family offer was spot on.’ Above: Alumni who Above: Alumni who attended attended events in 2017 by events in 2017 by country. matriculation year Alumni based in Portugal, China, Switzerland, Canada and Spain have also made it to a Mansfield event this year.

Feedback from the Summer Garden Party & Commemoration Service, June 2017

This year we would especially like to offer our congratulations to the Mansfield Finalists of 2016/17, who performed extraordinarily well both at undergraduate and graduate level. Much of it has been made possible by donations to our teaching, student support, student prizes and also our Library. Thank you. It is with immense gratitude that we acknowledge the support you give to Mansfield College, whether this is provided through a donation, organising student mentoring or a careers’ talk, or helping us host an alumni event. Thank you for being part of the Mansfield community and for everything that you do to keep the College an open, welcoming and special environment. If you can help us to do more, or if we can do more to help you, please get in touch. We would be delighted to hear from you. E: development@mansfield.ox.ac.uk Tel: 0044 (0) 1865 270998

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Access Report 2017 Helen Brooks Access & Admissions Administrator

BELOW TOP: Student Ambassadors on a Mansfield Open Day BELOW BOTTOM: Deems, the JCR Access Rep, talking to a packed crowd at All Saints’ RC School LEFT: Lucinda Rumsey leading a session on Old English for visitors on a Study Day BELOW: Student Ambassadors Joe, Claire and Deems on a trip to visit schools in Yorkshire

On our most recent Open Day, I asked our student helpers to give me a few words about what Mansfield meant to them. Because of a redesign to the University prospectus, we needed some quotations under the prompt of ‘Mansfield College is…’, and our fantastic team of Student Ambassadors seemed like the best people to ask. Some responses came straight away: ‘Mansfield is… the best college for vegetarian and vegan food in Oxford.’ Some came after careful thought: ‘Mansfield is… full of new ideas. There is a real energy about Mansfield, and a Nonconformist streak that marks us out from the rest.’ Some were a little less sincere: ‘Do you think they’ll let us use emojis?’ My favourite, however, came from Zeynab, one of our second-year English students: ‘Mansfield is… a small space with a big heart.’ Though Mansfield is a small college, we have made a big name for ourselves in Access. When Oxford and Cambridge recently came under fire from MP David Lammy for the lack of regional, socio-economic and ethnic diversity among our undergraduates, Mansfield was one of just a few colleges to be singled out for praise. This wasn’t unexpected: just under 90% of our new intake of UK undergraduate students this year came from the state sector – predominantly from non-selective schools or FE institutions, with 40% coming from schools with little or no history of applying to Oxford. Students from areas of very low progression to higher education made up nearly 20% of the cohort, as did students from areas of great socio-economic disadvantage. Roughly a third of our new students stated that they identify as BME (Black and Minority Ethnic), including 25% of our UK students. And in the midst of criticism about the disproportionate numbers of students from London and 18 Mansfield 2016/17

ABOVE: Students from Trinity Academy, Doncaster getting a taster of the Chemistry labs

the South East at Oxford, the largest regional group within our new intake was not from the South, but from the North West. Recently, a BBC journalist contacted us to ask why Mansfield was so different from other colleges. Was it that we had a head start on doing outreach? (The FE Access Initiative, formed by Mansfield in the late 1990s, is older than most students applying to Oxford this year.) Was it the kind of outreach we were doing? Was it our Student Ambassadors? Or was it something different we were doing during the admissions process? Our answer was, ‘Well, yes, it’s all of those things.’ We have worked hard for a long time to support young people who have the aptitude and enthusiasm to succeed at Oxford. We build relationships with their teachers, their families, and their communities. Our small army of trained Student Ambassadors (now numbering over 100!) volunteer so much of their spare time to help dispel the myth that Oxford is only for one type of person. Our tutors work tirelessly during the admissions process to make sure that they identify the students with the greatest ability and potential, regardless of their background. All of these elements go into making Mansfield the representative and welcoming community that it is. This year we ran just over 150 events for students from around the UK (and beyond), and supported a further 40 events run by other colleges, departments and outreach staff from across the University. Though the amount of money that we can devote to outreach is smaller than many colleges, we try and direct it towards the places where we think it will have the most impact. Sometimes this might

involve a new initiative, such as the ‘residential’ we ran for the Glasgow branch of the Social Mobility Foundation in August, or the Top Achievers Event we held for Year 10s from across Hull and the East Riding in July. However, the majority of our time and resources are spent not on big one-off events, but on building sustained relationships with students, with schools and colleges, and with the regions that we work with as a whole. One of the most significant ways we engage with young people is through their teachers; many of our applicants choose Mansfield because they find out about us from staff within their school or college. On our Sixth Form College Open Day in June, a teacher visiting from The Sixth Form College Solihull commented that, though she had visited other colleges on open days in the past, ‘Mansfield is unique in its warm and friendly welcome’. By instilling that message in not just one individual student, but in a school or college or a community as a whole, we advertise to everyone that Mansfield is a place where anyone can feel at home. On the evaluation forms I hand out to students at the end of a visit, I always ask them whether the day has changed

their idea of Oxford. It usually has: ‘Yes, I thought it would be stuck up, but it’s actually very friendly.’ ‘Yes, it seems much more affordable and accessible than I thought.’ ‘Yes, I thought everyone would be really boring.’ ‘Yes, it’s possible for someone like me to come here.’ Why do they end up changing their minds? Because they get the opportunity to meet our Student Ambassadors, and discover that they’re just normal people (mostly); they get to find out about all of the academic, pastoral and financial support we are able to offer; they eat lunch in the Dining Hall and discover that people don’t have to wear fancy gowns to all their meals (even if the hall does look a bit like something out of Harry Potter); and they get to wander around the College and feel like it’s somewhere that they could belong. What Mansfield achieves each year can only be attained because every single person here – from the students to the academic staff, to the administrative staff, to the Senior Tutor, to the Principal, to our alumni (many of whom are now teachers) – is invested in making sure that Mansfield is a place that is welcoming to all. To echo Zeynab: Mansfield is a small college with a big heart. Mansfield 2016/17

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Sports Report Cricket

Rugby

What a season for cricket at Mansfield! Captained by Andy Stevens, the Mansfield and Merton combined team came top of Division 2 of the University Cricket League, securing promotion to Division 1. They also managed to reach the final of Cuppers.

It has been a great year for rugby at Mansfield. The men’s team made it to the Bowl semi-final, a fantastic improvement on last year, while the women outdid themselves and made it to the final as part of a multi-college team. The final was an extremely tight game with Mansfielders Kate Gerrand, Violet Smart and Heather McDade all playing, Heather scoring the equalising try to take it to the golden point.

Hockey The men’s hockey team was highly successful this year with our Michaelmas performances earning us promotion to Division 1 of college hockey – and in Hilary term we managed to maintain this elevated position.

Polo Our polo team has been very successful all year against other clubs, and also had a great Cuppers. Mansfield was the only college to field a full Cuppers team (the rest of the teams were formed from multiple colleges) and emerged victorious in first place, with Suzy Cripps taking home the Most Valuable Player (MVP) award. The team consisted of Margaret McGuirk, Suzy Cripps, and Hayes Hagan. We’ve also had individual polo success with VSP Hayes Hagan playing in the seconds Varsity team that defeated Cambridge 9-1. Hayes also contributed to Oxford’s victory in the Atlantic Cup against Harvard, Yale and Cambridge where he was awarded MVP of the tournament.

Swimming

The 1887 Society

MCBC Report

Seth Garley, Geography 2015, and Isabelle Green, Geography 2015

Heather Nelson DPhil Engineering Science, 2014

Ice Hockey

The 1887 Society is Mansfield’s very own geographical association, and hosts guest speakers and social events throughout the year that are open to all College members. The Society is so named because 1887 marked both the formal introduction of academic Geography at Oxford and was the first-year anniversary of Mansfield College.

Mansfield dominated ALTS ice hockey once again, and won Cuppers for the second year in a row. ALTS is a mixed, non-contact form of ice hockey aimed at beginners to intermediates.

Mansfield has a large number of geographers past and present, and the 1887 Society continues to be an important means of bringing together students, Fellows and alumni.

Football

During 2016/17, the Society held a number of social events including a formal dinner in Michaelmas term to welcome the new first years. We also ran our annual wine-tasting evening with ex-tutor Tony Lemon in Trinity term, which was greatly enjoyed by all students who attended.

Five swimmers from Mansfield competed in swimming Cuppers. We may have been small in number, but our mighty team secured a very respectable 10th place. Individually, first-year Zara Ryan was part of the victorious Varsity team and won Swimmer of the Meet.

The women’s M&Ms football team had a great year, going unbeaten in the league and getting to the semi-final of Cuppers – only to lose to the eventual winners. This was a great improvement on previous years. Mansfielder Ella Vickers Strutt has also been representing the University throughout the year as part of the Furies team. The men’s footballers also had a good year, with the M&M’s second team winning their league to secure promotion.

A key event in the 1887 Society calendar is the annual black tie dinner in Trinity term, where alumni, Fellows and students shared a memorable evening. Those who have attended the 1887 Society Dinner will know that a guest speaker is always invited to give an informal talk about their research. This year we welcomed Dr Alex Vasudevan, Associate Professor in Human Geography and Fellow of Christ Church College, who spoke to us about his work on the history of urban squatting. As we moved into 2017/18, a formal dinner was held once again to welcome the new Geography first years to the Society. Towards the end of Michaelmas term our Presidency came to an end; we wish the new holders of the post the very best of luck.

Mansfield College Boat Club had another busy and successful year in 2016/17. Christ Church Regatta saw the novices achieving some good results, with one boat reaching the Saturday of the event for the first time in several years. Success continued in the Isis Winter League with both sides of the club posting fast times. After some hard winter training and difficult weather conditions, the bumps season then started with Torpids. Despite this competition living up to its reputation for carnage and jam-packed action, Mansfield had another successful Torpids campaign. M1 and W2 both won blades, an impressive achievement especially as W2 had an eventful start in rowing-on, requiring them to race again to resolve a three-way tie for a place on the bunglines. M1 are now the highest they have ever been in Torpids and in touching distance of Division 1, being third in Division 2. W2 achieved blades for the first time in their history. W1 moved up to Division 2 and came close to blades, narrowly missing out on a bump on day one in an exciting race to the line – but bumping easily on the other three days. M2 maintained their place in Division 5. Wanting to build on their Torpids success, the crews continued to train hard over the next few weeks, challenging each other over the holidays and attending a training camp on the Isis before settling back into term-time training. Summer Eights soon approached and W2 set out to show they were once more a force to be reckoned with, placing second in rowingon. All crews put in some strong rowing over the four days with W1, W2 and M2 all bumping. M1 had three gruelling row-overs and sadly got bumped once, but still maintain a high position in Division 2. W1 had another very successful Eights campaign, bumping three times to move up the river again, building on last year’s record high. They are now third in Division 2. Not content to end the racing season there, MCBC entered three crews into Oriel Regatta which saw Mansfield putting on another strong show with the MCBC/ Oxford University Lightweight composite crew finishing second. The rowers and coxes would like to say thank you to all those who have supported them throughout 2016/17. We look forward to your continued support during the current academic year.

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Music at Mansfield

COLLEGE LIFE

John Oxlade, Director of Music

This year a record number of students have contributed to the musical life of the College – giving recitals, playing or singing in concerts, or in the Choir. We are very grateful indeed for their participation in the musical events that are promoted by Mansfield. The Jazz Ensemble (masterminded by Alex Oscroft) was a ground-breaking and diverting brainwave; Aondoyima Ioratim-Uba and Matthew Harrington (piano duo) produced a brilliant programme of film music; and Professor Paul Lodge performed a tribute to Bob Dylan. In addition, the realm of classical music has continued to be well-served by many other talented students – Winston Yin (piano), Benedict Turvill (saxophone), Kirstie Bosman and Laura Worman (flutes), George Caddy (piano), Matthew Palmer (piano), Ruth Simms (clarinet), Abigail Peake (oboe), Grace Walker (violin), Harry O’Neill (guitar), Jeremy Beard (oboe), Charlotte Hayden (voice), Nicholas Bushnell-Wye (violin, saxophone and piano). The Choir, which covers a wide repertoire of anthems and service settings in the weekly services as well as in concerts, has been enhanced by the presence of three graduate students this year – Jessica Williams, Liyang Han and Winston Yin – as well as nine firstyear students. Other students have also served on the Organ Appeal Committee: Owen Clarridge and Joe Inwood. From the present Choir we say goodbye to those students returning to the United States – Charlotte Hayden, Madeline Leddy, Margaret McGuirk, Natalie Nicolas and Megan Salerno. Returning to Hong Kong (via a year in the States) is graduate student Winston Yin, who has been a great pianist as well as a sterling tenor in the Choir. Jordan Jones is spending a year away in Jordan pursuing Arabic studies and Owen Clarridge has graduated; he made a very special contribution to the music and life of the Choir as well as holding an Instrumental Exhibition for piano. We wish them all every success in the future. Nicholas Bushnell-Wye deserves a special mention, having made a unique contribution to the College’s music-making as violinist, saxophonist and pianist.

Since 2015 a group of Oxford students have been fundraising and campaigning to create a scholarship at the University for refugee and displaced students. Christopher Smart, a third year historian at Mansfield, was one of those involved from the start. He has seen the project grow from an idea to its completion in 2017, when six at-risk students were able to study at Oxford as a result of the efforts of the Oxford Students’ Refugee Campaign.

“The realm of classical music continues to be well-served.”

He has also encouraged many others and has helped raise the profile of music as an activity. Nicholas was awarded an Instrumental Exhibition (subsequently upgraded to an Instrumental Scholarship), the first in Mansfield’s history. As well as playing in various orchestras in the University, he has been reading Jurisprudence. We wish Nicholas every success in the field of law, and once again, our grateful thanks to him for all that he has done for College music. We have also enjoyed the support of several professional musicians during the academic year: Armand D’Angour (Jesus College), giving a most memorable performance of Bruch’s Kol Nidrei to mark Yom Kippur; the Baroque Ensemble, who led our players in Bach’s 4th Brandenburg Concerto in the Hilary concert; and also vocal coaches Kari Moffatt (Oriel College) and Fiona Dobie (Trinity College Cambridge) and choral specialist Paul Burke from Worcester College and The Royal Academy of Music, who joined the music department after Christmas. Finally, our thanks to all who provide help for our musical activities ‘behind the scenes’: the tireless Catering Department, the Bursar, Jane Buswell, Helen Jones, Lynne Quiggin and the Porters. Their help and support individually and corporately is invaluable.

Grace Green, Charlotte Hayden, Abigail Peake, Laura Worman, Madeline Leddy, Margaret McGuirk, Hanan Natour, Natalie Nicolas, Megan Salerno, Ruth Simms, Violet Smart, Grace Walker, Jessica Williams, Tariq Ali, Liyang Han, Harry O’Neill, Benedict Turvill, Winston Yin, Jonathan Barrow, Jeremy Beard, Owen Clarridge, Jordan Jones.

displacement and the world has been very slow in providing long-term relief, such as education.’

‘The best part about the Campaign was the fact that it was student funded,’ says Christopher. ‘The realisation that we were able to go into meetings with the University knowing we had not just the nominal support but the financial backing of students was fantastic. It meant this was something that the student body was really invested in, and that had a great impact.’

During the past two years the Campaign has corresponded with over 500 individuals in regard to their application, or potential application, to Oxford. Of those, 50 were paired with a student volunteer mentor. The Campaign supported and spoke with individuals from more than 25 countries and collaborated with numerous charities and NGOs as part of the effort to make the scholarship known to potential applicants. The members of the Campaign themselves were often spread around the globe, sometimes Skyping-in from Brazil, Bulgaria, Italy, Ethiopia and France to get the scholarship off the ground.

By the start of Michaelmas 2017 the campaign had raised over £70,000 from more than 12,000 student donors at Oxford. It had also been able to secure generous offers of aid from numerous colleges and faculties to enable at-risk students to study at Oxford. ‘As well as the financial aspect, which was a big logistical barrier to overcome for almost every applicant we spoke with, there were also many other barriers to access education at Oxford, which were particular to at-risk students.’

‘It’s taken a lot of the free time of everyone involved to get to where we are, but I think that we’ve been able to see real change as a result. It’s entirely down to the contribution and support of students that made this happen. I don’t think there’s been an equivalent scholarship of this kind made possible by student fundraising. It’s been hugely significant that Oxford can use its influence to de-stigmatise at-risk students and the provision of education as well as primary needs to at-risk students.’

‘Previously these issues hadn’t been picked up on – not through misconduct, but for the simple reason no one had asked for them, and so many of these refugee and at-risk applicants hadn’t been identified until we looked into the problem.’

Both Mansfield’s JCR and MCR voted to offer their students the opportunity to donate, unless they wished otherwise, and raised considerable sums towards the scholarship funds. Mansfield was one of the first colleges to accept the motion, which went round the majority of colleges at the University, to be part of the fundraising target through battels donations.

To obtain funds, the group used common room support to raise donations of £4 per term from students at Oxford.

Choir

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Refugee scholarships

The Campaign used a student volunteer mentoring system to help potential applicants overcome culturally distinguished barriers in the application process. It worked with the University admissions teams to ensure issues around entry testing and application hurdles were addressed in the particular cases of atrisk students. ‘The provision of education to those at risk from humanitarian crises is a growing problem. Increasingly we are seeing responses of immediate material needs such as shelter and food to disaster-hit areas and people, but these crises have lately meant long-term

A dedicated scholarship for at-risk students has now been set up and will remain a part of the University’s financial assistance programme for the future. The Campaign has also been asked to write a chapter in an academic text on educational responses to the refugee crisis, and continues to collaborate with the University on the future of the scholarship. More information on the Campaign and its work can be found at http://www.oxfordrefugeecampaign.org/

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Chief Judge at Athletics Championships

Mansfield Arts Week In April 2017 Mansfield hosted its first Arts Week in recent years, organised by members of the JCR. The cultural festivities kicked off with music from Mansfield Jazz Ensemble. Other activities included salsa, life drawing, poetry with Alan Buckley, writing workshops and film screenings.

Staff Appreciation Day Sunday May 28th 2017 saw the first ever Staff Appreciation Day. The event was organised by the JCR especially to recognise the contribution that scouts, catering, maintenance and administration staff make to College life. Luckily the weather held out and a sunny afternoon of homemade cake, refreshments, games and activities was enjoyed by all who attended. The day provided a great opportunity to get staff and students together to celebrate College life.

Heather Nelson (DPhil Engineering Science, 2014) was appointed Chief Judge for two major summer athletics events in 2017. Heather, who is heavily involved with Mansfield College Boat Club, was chosen to take on the roles for the first time at both the World Para Athletics Championships and the IAAF World Championships, London. She has 20 years’ experience as an official, having become qualified at the age of 16, and has officiated at a number of high-profile events including the London 2012 Olympics. When asked about her experiences at 2017’s athletics events, Heather told Mansfield Magazine ‘I felt privileged to be back in the Olympic Stadium acting as a Chief Judge at the Summer of World Athletics and it brought back many happy memories from my time there judging in 2012. It was a fantastic opportunity to work alongside international officials, lead a team of some of the best national officials, and play an integral part in delivering an amazing championships for these elite athletes. It was challenging at times, but exciting to be judging on the world stage and is an experience I will cherish for years to come.’

The Old Boys’ Cricket Match 2017 Daniel Rey Theology, 2009 On a cool late-April day the Merton Mansfield Cricket Club took on the Alumni. Astutely observing that the current college team seemed far more prepared than in recent seasons (as evinced by a warm-up), Old Boys’ captain Chris Goodman broke with tradition and elected to field first. After three consecutive victories, it was immediately clear that this year the Alumni were in for a tough game. On one of the best MMCG wickets of recent times, the current team made a brisk start – albeit abetted by some profligate fielding from the Alumni. Indeed, it was more a case of the Old Boys catching up than catching out. The exception to the rule was Kohi Gananandan, who produced an immaculate display from behind the stumps. Openers Ash Prabaker and Andy Stevens put on 50 for the first wicket, with only Daniel Rey bringing control to the bowling in the opening overs. It was Alex Ford, however, who got the reward, taking 3-11, including the wicket of Prabaker, who top-scored with 52. Jack Austin returned at the death to take a deserved pair of wickets as MMCC scored a very creditable 160 from 30 overs. The interval brought further opportunity for current and former students to get to know each other, and although the egg had gone down well in 2016, the trusty cheese and pickle sarnies returned this year after their sabbatical. The tea-time twist in 2017 was the welcome inclusion of shandy as an alternative to infused beverages. Beginning their innings, the Alumni sent in the everreliable Dan Brodie and pinch-hitter Henry Fox. The latter struck a couple of quick blows, before being cleaned up by Andy Stevens. A flurry of wickets brought Daniel Rey to the crease, with the required rate soaring. After sharing a promising partnership with Brodie, Rey was spectacularly caught by a diving Josh Navarajasegaran at cover for 21. Following the

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departure of his namesake, Dan Brodie did well to keep Alumni hopes alive with a very accomplished 80 not out – but he found scant support from the rest of the batting line-up. The Alumni survived the ignominy of being all out, but fell 18 runs short of the target. The King’s Arms and the Duke of Cambridge – welcome cricketing equivalents of golf’s 19th hole – followed, before Alex Ford used his contacts in Oxford’s nocturnal establishments to get a prized spot to watch the Joshua-Klitschko heavyweight bout. It was another fantastic day, and thanks must go to Alumni captain Chris Goodman and the Mansfield Alumni Office for arranging the fixture and for generously subsidising food and drink in the King’s Arms. We look forward to next year’s match, with the current series still in the Alumni’s favour, but with the lead cut to 3-2.

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#BlackExcellence Among the Oxford students to join the inspiring global #BlackExcellence campaign are three undergraduates at Mansfield College. They tell us why they chose to apply to Oxford and why the #BlackExcellence campaign is so important. Zeynab Alwi English Language and Literature, 2016 I decided to apply to Oxford after attending the Oxford Pathways Study Day in Year 12. I really enjoyed the challenging yet personalised teaching style of the tutorials. On the Study Day, we were given a tour of Mansfield College and an introductory lecture by the Senior Tutor (and my English Tutor) Lucinda Rumsey. I chose Mansfield because after seeing it on the Study Day and having met the Senior Tutor, it was a college I felt comfortable in and a place in which I could see myself living for three years (plus, it’s right next to the English Faculty and has great food – what more could you want?!). The message conveyed by the Black Excellence campaign is so important, especially in an age where we are constantly seeing negative images of black men and women in the media. Representation matters, and the campaign highlights that students of colour can, and will continue to, overcome the barriers they face when applying to higher education. Too many black kids grow up thinking they cannot aspire to institutions like Oxford because ‘it’s not for people like me’. The #BlackExcellence campaign suggests otherwise: we did it and so can you! I believe it’s crucial to consider the intersectional

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disadvantages of class and race that black students face when applying to Oxford. Yes, there is the issue of race – manifested either through unconscious bias during the admissions process or simply through fewer students applying due to a fear of ‘fitting in’ – but it is also important to recognise the impact of class on prospective black students. Many Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) students come from lower-income backgrounds, where they may be the first generation from their family to consider university, and they have very little access to information about the application process. This is why Access and Outreach work is so important, and Mansfield College’s Access department is incredible! I think the University needs to do more for prospective BME students by considering these intersections and working with schools to help overcome them. My advice for incoming students to Oxford would be to get involved with all the exciting societies the University has to offer. Whether it’s trying out a new sport, or debating at the Union, make sure you make the most of your time at Oxford. There is so much on offer and you’ll get to meet lots of new and interesting people too. Do not compare yourself to other students on the course. Sometimes you might feel like you’ve only received your offer because you ‘got lucky’, but this is not the case. The tutors put so much time and effort into picking their students – and it’s your hard work and intelligence that have got you this far. You deserve that place as much as anyone else. Serena Arthur English Language and Literature, 2016 I decided to apply to Oxford quite late, and after Lucinda, one of the English tutors at Mansfield, visited my sixth

Serena Arthur, Oluchi Ezeh, Zeynab Alwi and Nazan Osman enjoying the end of exams.

form. She was lovely and Oxford sounded like a great environment for those excited to learn, and so I came to the decision that whether or not I was successful, applying couldn’t hurt.

students in applying to the top universities. We felt it was a significant message and that it was important for Oxford to show solidarity with the #BlackExcellence campaign – and what better way than participating?

Before I got to Oxford I had the preconception that there would be more of a class divide, and also that it would be very competitive. However, no-one here really discusses schools or GCSE/A-level grades at all – everyone recognises that everyone else has worked just as hard to get into Oxford and respects that fact, which is something I love.

The boys gathered in the morning on the steps of the Radcliffe Camera for their photo, and the girls gathered outside the Sheldonian Theatre in the afternoon. Unlike the other universities that participated in the campaign, we felt it was important to include a girls’ photo, as this is an issue affecting the entire Afro-Caribbean community. More than anything we wanted to send the message that there is a place in Oxford for any student who wants to apply, regardless of their skin colour.

I think the #BlackExcellence campaign is extremely important because it shows that there is a greater diversity of students here than many people believe. It also shows there is not just one very specific type of student who gets in. Such preconceptions are, I think, one of the main barriers to African and Caribbean students applying to Oxford. I hope, therefore, the campaign will encourage other students, who might have thought Oxford wasn’t for them because of their skin colour, that the University could actually be the place where they will thrive. My top tip for prospective applicants would be: if Oxford looks like a place where you could both enjoy yourself and be at your best, then apply, regardless of your class, school or race. Oluchi Ezeh English Language and Literature, 2016 Back in May, the Oxford African and Caribbean Society (ACS) organised a meet-up of all its members. The aim was to recreate the photos that the Afro-Caribbean Societies of Yale and Cambridge had taken, depicting the black male students of the respective institutions in order to highlight the barriers that face Afro-Caribbean

Often when the typical Oxford student is thought of or portrayed in the media, a particular image is conjured up: that of a white, upper-class male. We wanted to make it clear this is not the only type of student in Oxford, and that the University needs to take diversity seriously. Although Oxford has more Afro-Caribbean students than Yale and Cambridge, it is important we continue to raise awareness of and effectively tackle the barriers that many Afro-Caribbean students face. Not only do black students often believe they are unlikely to get a place at Oxford because they are not the ‘type’ of student Oxford caters to; if they do apply, they feel pressure to choose subjects they believe will guarantee them jobs after university rather than applying for subjects they are passionate about. This leads to higher drop-out rates among black students. We hope that by participating in the campaign and showing the Afro-Caribbean community in Oxford, we can encourage more students to see themselves here and change the way they think not only of the University, but of themselves and their capabilities.

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VISITING STUDENT PROGRAMME

Mansfield’s Visiting Student Programme, 2016/17 Helen Lacey, Director of the Visiting Student Programme at Mansfield, reports on this year’s developments, including welcoming our first students from two prestigious Chinese universities: Jilin and Tsinghua. Firstly, thanks are due to Dr Chris Salamone, who stepped in to cover my maternity leave this year. Chris steered the class of 2016/17 through an enormously successful academic year, with our Visiting Students achieving outstanding grades across a wide range of subjects. Prizes for academic excellence were awarded to Mazelle Etessami (UC Berkeley), Xiaochuan XU (Jilin) and Wenchang Yang (Jilin). Outside of the classroom, our Visiting Students were an integral part of the College community. A few highlights included: Hili Alden, Katie Mansur, Audrey Putman, and Maddy Leddy rowing in the W2 boat that received Blades in Torpids (the first time in College history!); Lena Mazel teaching a dance workshop at a refugee camp in France during the Winter vacation; Hayes Hagan playing for the Oxford Blues Polo Team and travelling with them to regional and international matches; Janel Pineda performing at an art showcase hosted by Oxford Marxists; and Felix Wimmer rowing in the M1 boat that won Blades during Torpids.

We have welcomed the arrival of the class of 2017/18, with students from universities including: Barnard College, Bayreuth, Boston, Bowdoin, Colorado, Cornell, DePauw, Dickinson, Georgetown, Harvard, Holy Cross, Iowa, Jilin, Maastricht, Northwestern, Santa Clara, Tsinghua, Washington and Lee, Wellesley, Wheaton, William Jewell and Zhejiang. We would love to hear from our Visiting Student alumni about what they are doing now. Do drop us an email with any news: vsp@mansfield.ox.ac.uk Helen Lacey took up the position of Director of the Visiting Student Programme in Trinity Term 2014. She is Supernumerary Fellow in Late Medieval History at Mansfield, with publications including The Royal Pardon: Access to Mercy in Fourteenth-Century England published by Boydell & Brewer in 2009.

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Mazelle Etessami VSP Representative At any significant milestone, whether it is the start of a new calendar year, a birthday, or, as I have recently experienced, the end of an academic year, I play a little mind game with myself. I think back to the person I was at the beginning – what I thought was important, who I had in my close circle, what made me sad and what made me happy, what my hobbies and habits were – and compare this to the person I am at the end. Hoping to have a material representation that would make such reflection easier, I downloaded an app called ‘One Second Every Day’ before departing to Oxford. For the 247 days I was gone, whether I was happy or sad, had the most fun day or the most boring, had been alone or with others, I recorded a video, a one-second snippet of which is added to the ultimate montage of my year. Since each Visiting Student at Mansfield had a uniquely personal experience – with different people, different memories, different emotions – we would obviously each have a unique 247-day montage. But there are so many snippets that, whether literally or figuratively, we also shared. There was the final hug goodbye with family and friends. The videos from Freshers’ week contained new friends and new libraries; and there was the first formal dinner, first tutorial, first bop and first time at Purple Turtle (PT). The rest may seem like a blur, but looking back we’re reminded of a few late-night kebabs from Hassan’s van or early-morning outings. The turning of a page to capture hours spent reading, or a bowl of boiling water to document the making of yet another pasta dinner. There were Wednesday choir

performances and Thursday debates at the Union. We stuffed our faces at the Thanksgiving and Oxmas Formals, at Burns Night and Halfway Hall, and dressed up for Champagne & Chocolates. There’s a second for staying up late watching the Super Bowl, and one for staying up even later dancing at a ball. The days between terms are remembered through snippets taken when we visited friends and family back home or when friends and family from back home visited us, when we skied or snowboarded down mountains on the Varsity trip, when we explored the wonders hidden throughout Europe. There may be a second for punting, and another for Pimm’s, one for a crew date and one for a pub-crawl. And then there is the last snippet, the one that marks the end of our time at Mansfield. In total, 247 days boiled down to 247 seconds. Each Visiting Student had their own set of seconds: the specific events that they have experienced during their time at Mansfield, the moments that we shall look back on for years to come. But it’s not just about the individual memories, is it? It’s when the seconds are compiled together, when you consider the entirety of the time we spent in Oxford, that it becomes clear we have been challenged, that we have changed. And that is something for which we shall always have Mansfield to thank.

Brandon Sanchez (VSP, 2016) sums up his year at Mansfield ‘Mansfield felt almost instantly like a home away from home. I remember stepping into the Crypt and feeling this ineffable wave of calm wash over me.’ When asked about his stand-out memory from Mansfield, Brandon replied: ‘I will never forget watching the US election coverage in the JCR on November 8th, surrounded by students from all over the world. A pivotal moment in the history

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of the United States, in the history of the world – that night bonded us [the American Visiting Students] in ways I didn’t know were possible.’ ‘Before I came to Oxford, I’d hoped the community at Mansfield would be tight-knit, but I wasn’t prepared for how close everyone would be. This is a family, and there is something special about that.’

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‘You can’t give up – even when you’re losing’ Having already had a remarkable career in international rowing for Canada, Emily Cameron, a Masters student at Mansfield, competed in the 2017 Boat Race for Oxford’s Women’s team. The event was both her first Oxford Cambridge Boat Race and the last competition of her career.

equation down to 50% physical ability and 50% mental strength. ‘A huge part of it is also pride’ she adds. ‘As well as wanting the bragging rights, it is also a case of wanting to finish what you started.’

Emily started rowing in 2006 while at the University of Toronto and has since competed on multiple occasions at a national and international level. With a background in genetics and health research, she came to Oxford to study for a Masters degree in Public Policy.

She explains how the atmosphere of the Boat Race was different to anything she had experienced before. ‘Usually the start of the race is silent. But on that day there were 250,000 spectators in the first kilometre. There were people everywhere, cheering the entire time.’

Her interest in health policy and her involvement in sport at a high level has exposed her to the gaps in treating mental health for individuals in elite sports. She argues that successes and losses can become part of a person’s identity. The thought process can be ‘I lost. Am I a loser?’ The knowledge base that helps athletes elevate their game is huge, but when performance falters, there is little support. Emily describes rowing as a team sport made of individual athletes. ‘Each individual is always competing for themselves and their own place in the team. But being on the same page as your team mates physically and technically is crucial. You need to be mentally in tune with each other. You need to be thinking the same thing. ’ Preparation during the week before the Boat Race is always a little different: there is less focus on physical and more on technical training. The team shared a house together in London which, Emily explains, helped with planning and mental preparation as well as concentrating the collective thinking of the team. ‘On the run-up to the race, it definitely gets more mentally intense but physically less so.’

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It was only the third year that the women’s race had taken place on the Tideway. Oxford had won the race in 2015 and 2016, but 2017 was going to be different. ‘For various reasons, it was always going to be a tough year. We knew we were the underdogs.’ An uncertain start for Oxford meant that Cambridge had a significant advantage from the beginning. They made the most of their advantage, securing victory in a record time of 18 minutes and 33 seconds. According to Emily, the Tideway is a ‘relentless and punishing’ course. The length of the rowing course used in the Olympics and the World Championships is two kilometres. The Tideway, the stretch of the Thames from Putney to Mortlake where the Oxford and Cambridge boats do battle each year, is a gruelling 6.8 kilometres. The weather conditions, the currents and the bends are not things that have to be dealt with on a normal course. But Emily believes that in this case, it’s the mental challenge that’s the biggest hurdle to overcome. At the elite level, the levels of physical ability are so similar that mental strength can make the difference between a victory and a defeat. Emily breaks the

The 2017 Oxford Cambridge Boat Race was to be the last major race of Emily’s career and she knew that, win or lose, she would be part of history. In a news item for the Mansfield College website in late March (the week before the race), Emily admitted that as a competitor winning was very important to her. But she also added that ‘It’s about more than just winning. It’s about the process of winning.’ When asked what ‘the process of winning’ meant to her, she replied ‘you have to lose to learn to win and learning from every loss takes you closer to winning.’ For Emily, the Oxford Cambridge Boat Race was one more experience to learn from. It is a reality for most international rowers that they will lose more than they will win. ‘You have to figure out what you’re going to take from your losses. And also remember that it is your losses that make your wins that bit more special.’

The Oxford team continued to work their hardest throughout the race. ‘You can’t give up – even when you’re losing’, Emily asserts. Despite coming second, the Oxford team also beat the previous record with their time of 19 minutes and 5 seconds – an achievement that highlights the extremely high standard of both the teams. Despite knowing people who went to Oxford before she attended herself, Emily believes that she never understood the connection they had to their University. ‘I was unprepared to be made to feel so much like I was part of the family. Rowing has given me a second family but I never thought that I would get that from university until I crossed the finish line and they [the alumni] were all there.’

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Constance Coltman

A centenary to celebrate Mansfield College had a major role in advancing one of the last century’s most significant religious and cultural changes – the ordination of women – and a range of events during 2017 commemorated this fascinating yet relatively overlooked centenary. Revd Dr Kirsty Thorpe (Mansfield Ministerial Training Programme, 1991-95) recounts the training of an important pioneer. It was on September 17th 1917, while the battle of Passchendaele raged on the Western Front in Belgium, that a young couple in their twenties took part in a trailblazing event in a Congregational church just off Oxford Street in London’s West End. On that day, Constance Todd and Claud Coltman were ordained, side by side, at a service in the King’s Weigh House Congregational Church. They had met one another several years earlier while studying Theology at Mansfield, fallen in love, and would be married the next day. Both ceremonies were led by WE Orchard, minister of the Weigh House, whose pacifism, theological outlook and high-church liturgical tastes made him a controversial figure.

‘A tentative experiment was slowly becoming a lasting change in church life, with significance beyond the limits of Congregationalism and these islands.’

had addressed the JCR in November 1914 on ‘The Spiritual Significance of the Women’s Movement’. Constance, as Mansfield’s first woman student, was in the chair on that occasion and the two women became lifelong friends. Both had a strong Christian faith, were pacifists and suffragists, very well educated and from upper-middle class backgrounds. One element of Constance’s time at Mansfield about which almost nothing is known is how she was admitted. She had come to Oxford in 1908 to read History at Somerville College and gained a good second-class honours, though she could not call herself a graduate as women were not yet allowed to take degrees.

It was surely no accident that Constance chose to be ordained before being married. This was a period when, despite the altered expectations of women’s roles caused by the war, marriage usually signalled the end of an independent life beyond the roles of homemaker and motherhood. By choosing to have her ministerial vocation publicly recognised first, Constance was signalling the priority of God’s call on her life.

As a member of the Presbyterian Church of England she first sought recognition of her call to train for Christian ministry there, but the denomination was not yet ready to take this step. Mansfield Principal WB Selbie agreed to her training for Congregational ministry in 1913, knowing that the Congregational Union of England and Wales had not yet formally decided to ordain women. He remarked later on the way the genuineness of her call from God had impressed him.

In the year between completing ministerial training at Mansfield and beginning a pioneering ministry at a small mission church in the East End, she had returned home to care for her mother. Claud Coltman, meanwhile, had spent a year in the Mansfield House Settlement in Canning Town. This centre of educational, welfare, social and recreational service within an economically deprived community represented an ideal grounding for the future ministry he and Constance would exercise in nearby Wapping. In this role they would be assistant ministers of Dr Orchard, as the Darby Street mission was sponsored and supported by the Weigh House.

Constance was a good student, particularly gifted as an Old Testament scholar and in Church History. In common with all her fellow students at the time she lived out, since the College had no accommodation. The positive response to her presence from the other students was shown when, in May 1914, the Junior Common Room passed a resolution supporting women’s place in the College and in the Christian Church. When, two years later, Constance Todd ended her training at Mansfield, the JCR minutes record that she referred to her time there as ‘among the most wonderful in all her experience’.

The young couple’s ideas, beliefs and future shared ministry first took shape during their training at Mansfield. In March 1912 WE Orchard had spoken to the College’s JCR on ‘The Modern Mind and How to Reach it’. Prominent Anglican supporter of women’s ordination, public speaker and preacher, Maude Royden,

Mansfield would train four more women as ministers before Dr Selbie’s retirement in 1932. A tentative experiment was slowly becoming a lasting change in church life, with significance beyond the limits of Congregationalism and these islands.

Revd Dr Kirsty Thorpe is a United Reformed Church Minister in Wilmslow, Cheshire. She was the Preacher at Mansfield’s Commemoration Service where the legacy of Constance Coltman was remembered. She was also a speaker at the 100th Anniversary of the Ordination of Constance Coltman, a special event organised by Oxford’s History Faculty, which took place at Mansfield and Somerville College.

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COLLEGE NEWS

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Reverend Tony Tucker awarded Cross of the Order of Merit

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Adam von Trott

At a ceremony at Mansfield College on November 11th 2016, the Reverend Tony Tucker received the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany from Dr Peter Ammon, German Ambassador to the United Kingdom. Tony Tucker studied Theology at Mansfield from 1951 to 1954, and was Associate Director for Ordination at the College from 1989 to 1996 when he taught students seeking ordination in the United Reformed Church, in which he was a Minister for 35 years.

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‘This honour was awarded by the President of the Federal Republic of Germany in recognition of Tony’s contribution to education, and to reconciliation and understanding between Britain and Germany as Convenor of the Adam von Trott Memorial Appeal at Mansfield from 2011 to 2014. Ambassador Ammon, a Patron of the Appeal, paid tribute to Tony’s work in raising awareness of the resistance to the Nazis. Adam von Trott personified this resistance. He studied at Mansfield in 1929, became a German diplomat, and was executed in Berlin in 1944 in the aftermath of the plot to kill Hitler.’

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Delivering the Adam von Trott Memorial Lecture on “Britain and Europe: A German Perspective”, the Ambassador argued that “the European project is most of all a political project that builds on the experience of a shared history of culture” and “we should all remain aware of the many ties – strategic, economic, and most important, cultural – that bind us together”. After the lecture, a lively discussion was chaired by the Principal.

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On July 20th 2017, a group from Oxford including members of Mansfield’s Adam von Trott Memorial Committee attended a ceremony at Imshausen in Germany. Leonie Janisch (Adam von Trott Scholar at Mansfield) writes: ‘The date of July 20th – the anniversary of the plot to kill Hitler – is remembered throughout Germany, and especially at Imshausen. The ceremony in honour of Adam von Trott took place at the Trottenkreuz, a memorial cross on a hilltop above the manor-house (Herrenhaus), which was the home of the von Trott zu Solz family. It now belongs to the Stiftung Adam von Trott and is used as a conference centre to encourage dialogue and promote sustainable peace.

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The cross, which overlooks the rolling hills of northern Hessia, provided a memorable location for an inspiring ceremony. After speeches by local personalities, and the music of a brass band, we listened to an address by the journalist Gerhard Rein, who spoke of the efforts of Adam von Trott to establish links between the German resistance movement and the British Government. He also reflected on the role of Germany today, and stressed the duty to secure peace (Friedenspflicht) and the need for cooperation between peoples.’

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my books have had, but there’s nothing for me particularly to do with it as information, and if it made me self-conscious in a way that interfered with my writing that would be very problematic.

In conversation with Marilynne Robinson Pulitzer Prize-winning author and essayist, Marilynne Robinson, visited Mansfield in March 2017 to accept an Honorary Fellowship and give a lecture. During her visit, Dr Lucy Clarke had the chance to catch up with her. Congratulations on being offered the Mansfield Fellowship. Were you aware of Mansfield’s history as a Nonconformist college when you planned your lecture on ‘Cromwell and America’? No, it’s really coincidental. My primary interest for a long time has been American history, but if you keep following it back you end up in England, of course, and Cromwell is a very major and very interesting figure in all of that. What has the Dissenting tradition meant to you personally and how has it influenced your work? I came from a rather pensive family. There was a very strong Presbyterian element in the culture of my immediate family and I think I always knew of it as a tradition of thought that I found very fruitful – for as long as things like that have mattered to me. And it continues to be true.

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You have described yourself as a ‘Christian apologist for the secular world’. Can you explain what you mean by that? I am defending secularism very, very often. Maybe it is because I come from the tradition that I do. If people are actually secular and if an environment is actually secular, I think it is a wonderful thing that everyone is equally welcome and everyone is equally a first-class citizen of the community. That seems to me to be Christian. Winning the Pulitzer for your second novel, Gilead, in 2005, it is said, opened up a ‘massive new audience’ to your work. Are there aspects of this era of more public acclaim that have surprised you? Well, you don’t have to notice acclaim [laughs]. I mean, it’s very nice, I’m very grateful for the reception that

Were you intimidated? Oddly enough no… well, because I’d spoken to him before. And he’s a very gracious man. He’s a very kind man. And I just knew he would not let anything go wrong. He’s wonderful. I was just delighted. It was just a pleasure.

You started out as an academic and teacher and In 2016 you were awarded yet last year Time magazine the prestigious Dayton Literary recognised you as one of Peace Prize. Do you see the 100 most influential yourself as peace-making? people on the planet. Can Writing comes from such a you tell us a bit about what complex of impulses that I Professor Joel Rasmussen, Dr Marilynne brought you here from wouldn’t try to sort them out. Robinson and Baroness Helena Kennedy QC there? But what I want to do is really, There is a line in a poem by really, really assert the value of Theodore Roethke, ‘I learn lives. You know the passage in by going where I have to go’. Frankly, I wait to see what Gilead that talks about playing catch in the evening and happens and I have been continuously rewarded by my hearing a train go by? This is like, theologically, the apex circumstance. I find my life to be very surprising and I’m of human experience to me. I mean, just to have a good, happy to be surprised. peaceful life that is not injured by aspersion or class or any of the other things that make external judgements of You’ve made a talent of crossing disciplinary boundaries. life that diminish the value of individuals. That is peace. You’re clearly very interested in history, philosophy, theology and science. Do you find there is any resistance You’ve led a very successful life as a writer and a teacher. to you having this breadth? Did you ever have any ambitions in other directions? I’ve never encountered it. I’m gratified by the receptivity There was a time I was a pretty decent gardener. When of scientists to my work. You know, I try to be careful. my children were little I used to garden all the time Whenever I write something historical, I’ll have done because I could listen to them coming and going and a good deal of research. I go as far back into primary know where they were in the neighbourhood. It was sources as I possibly can. So I feel basically I can make my basically something to keep me busy while I was spying case, whatever it is. And I think that my method of work on my children, but it worked well. is transparent enough that other people know I could I’ve borrowed my last questions from The Guardian make my case. newspaper. Firstly, what is your favourite word? In 2015, you became the first novelist to be interviewed [Long pause] Grace, I think. by a sitting President of the United States – Barack Who would you invite to your dream dinner party? Obama. How did this come about? Barack Obama [laughing]. I have a few follow-up I got an email saying, ‘Ask for POTUS’ and I thought I questions. was going to be asked, ‘please contribute to so-andso’s campaign’ [laughs], but it turned out that it was an When and where were you happiest? invitation to dinner. He had small dinners: eight or ten. That’s very hard to say. I tend to be about equally happy So I went and we had a very nice conversation. He’s all the time. I mean I appreciate it, it means I’m not very, very smart. I think on the basis of that, the White getting in my own way a lot of the time. I’ve enjoyed House or he, decided that it would be good to have a pretty much all my life, certainly my adulthood. Childhood conversation. He wanted certain kinds of thinking to is such a ragtag thing, you know. But, I’m happiest become more a part of the public conversation. At first whenever it occurs to me to think about something that he was apparently going to come to my house [laughs]. is gratifying to think about. Did you get the Hoover out? Finally, what is the most important lesson that life has No actually, I went into despair [laughing]. I started taught you? looking around realising I was surrounded by domestic Learn. Learn. I couldn’t say anything else honestly. It has ugliness. But in any case, because of security reasons or been my great pleasure. maybe just tact, we met instead in a room in a library in Des Moines. Dr Lucy Clarke was a PhD student at Oxford Brookes University. Her PhD was on Marilynne Robinson’s fiction on grief.

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The human challenge of marine conservation

Central to social entrepreneurship, Alasdair explains, is finding financially sustainable opportunities that will have the biggest impact on human populations. Social enterprises also need to have the vision and desire to create a rate of expansion and change that is far ahead of the rate of growth of the organisation. ‘If our impact is growing at the same rate as our bottom line, we’re unlikely to grow our solution to the scale of the problem,’ he argues. ‘For us, social entrepreneurship is about fundamentally redesigning the way in which people, governments and organisations think about “doing” conservation.’ Having had the idea for Blue Ventures in the summer before coming to Oxford, Alasdair founded the enterprise while a student at Mansfield and Chair of the University Exploration Club. During his time pursuing an interest into the effects of climate change on coral reefs, he felt more and more that the traditional methods of marine conservation weren’t working. ‘In many parts of the world, conservation is a human challenge driven by poverty and governance issues,’ he explains. ‘The only way for me to address those challenges 38 Mansfield 2016/17

As well as supporting coastal communities in the creation of some of the largest locally managed marine conservation efforts in the Indian Ocean, Blue Ventures provides regular community health services to tens of thousands of people, including maternal and child health and family-planning services.

In the future, Alasdair sees Blue Ventures becoming an advocate for the various communities it supports, and getting more involved with upholding the rights of communities to manage their coasts and fisheries, in the face of growing outside threats. When asked about what he feels is Blue Ventures’ greatest achievement, he responds with a single phrase: ‘sectoral disruption’.

was to start thinking about interventions in terms of behaviour change, poverty alleviation and livelihood diversification.’ Alasdair realised that there was also a need to start working at a community level. ‘All this was a world away from my experience of academia, in which we wrote reams about conservation but rarely had the opportunity to roll up our sleeves to tackle some of these very human problems.’

‘It’s not just about reducing the number of mouths to feed. Providing these services alongside our environmental conservation efforts means that more children can go to school, families can become wealthier and more women are becoming empowered to play a role in environmental management.’ ‘As far as fisheries are concerned it’s minutes to midnight and we need to do a lot more’ he says. ‘But this frightening challenge is only matched by the excitement that we see in the opportunity of rebuilding fisheries.’ In some areas, he explains, communities are seeing monthly returns of 90% through fisheries management systems that Blue Ventures has helped them establish.

From small beginnings as a venture that Alasdair was running alongside his degree at Mansfield, Blue Ventures is now active in some ten countries. It employs over 200 staff and has helped create national grass-roots movements for marine protection. For instance, in Madagascar 14-15% of the seabed is now under local management using models pioneered by Blue Ventures. In addition, Alasdair believes he has seen the beginnings of systemic change in the broader conservation sector as a result of the enterprise’s core value of putting people first. Alasdair describes his time at Oxford as providing a springboard to talk to people about social enterprise, conservation and international development, and believes the first expeditions he organised as part of the University Exploration Club were ‘an early education in leadership, project management and gumption’. His advice to those embarking on a career? ‘If you’ve got an idea for a business or venture, you owe it to yourself to try to make it happen.’

Interestingly for an organisation aiming to conserve marine habitats, Alasdair asserts that the core value of Blue Ventures is ‘people first’. Initially the enterprise wasn’t launched as a charity. Alasdair set up an ecotourism business (based on the expeditions he ran while at Mansfield), taking clients from all over the world to learn about conservation, and teaching them how to scuba dive. This social enterprise foundation provided the revenue and sustainability needed to develop Blue Ventures’ early conservation programmes in the Indian Ocean. And although the organisation has since become much larger, that original business continues. ‘In my case, the businessbased approach to financing conservation was key.’ This approach also demonstrated to the coastal communities where Blue Ventures worked that there was great value in the existence of the ecosystems they were trying to protect. Today this same commercial model provides thousands of bed nights each year for tourists wanting to experience globally important marine ecosystems in the Caribbean,

‘For us, social entrepreneurship is about fundamentally redesigning the way in which people, governments and organisations think about “doing” conservation.’

Blue Ventures works exclusively in tropical coastal developing states, with the aim of reversing the decline in fish stocks and improving the biodiversity of habitats and the livelihoods of local communities.

There have been challenges along the way and the people at Blue Ventures have had to learn a huge breadth of skills in order to create such an impact. Alasdair himself started Blue Ventures as an ecologist but admits there is far more to conservation than counting corals. ‘Science is vital in understanding the effectiveness of our work, improving our models, and evaluating our impact. But it’s just one of a broad range of skills that we need across the organisation to work effectively in conservation.’

There is an inextricable link between environmental health and human health. Alasdair explains that improving the healthcare of local communities, particularly women, can have a dramatic impact on the engagement of people in marine conservation.

Alasdair Harris (MSc Environmental Change Management, 2002) is the Executive Director of the award-winning Blue Ventures – a social enterprise that works at a grass-roots level to rebuild tropical fisheries. The term ‘social enterprise’ is used frequently in the media and beyond, but many struggle to define it. Mansfield alumnus and Executive Director of Blue Ventures, Dr Alasdair Harris, is very clear about what it means to him, describing a social enterprise as ‘an organisation that fosters innovation to drive systems changes for lasting impact’. ‘In our case’, he continues, ‘we’re doing this at the interface of sustainable development and biodiversity conservation in some of the poorest communities on earth.’ Alasdair is well qualified to offer a definition: in 2015, he won the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship in Oxford.

Indian Ocean and South East Asia. At the same time, it creates a catalyst for economic development in the local communities. The enterprise arrives with a financially viable business model that can employ local people. ‘We have a “no project approach”’ states Alasdair. Instead of coming into the community with a ready-made solution, ‘the solutions come from the local communities we support. We aim to address those people’s un-met needs. We need to make conservation work for people.’

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MANSFIELD COLLEGE ALUMNI LEFT TO RIGHT: Ian Blatchford, John Glen MP, Munira Mirza, Sir Paul Ruddock

The arts and beyond Since the expansion in the variety of degrees Mansfield offers, its alumni have excelled in an ever-wider field of endeavours. Many are now at the top of their chosen professions, including the following quartet of arts supremos. John Glen MP Modern History, 1993 After seven years as Member of Parliament for Salisbury, I found myself taking a late-night call on June 13th 2017 from the Deputy Chief Whip asking me to join the Government as Minister for the Arts, Heritage and Tourism in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. The following day my very first ministerial visit was to the Science Museum where I was met by Ian Blatchford, the Director. Early in my tour he quietly mentioned that we had something in common – Mansfield College! This got me thinking about how the College has evolved. When I arrived in Oxford to study Modern History in October 1993, Mansfield was a Permanent Private Hall (PPH) and, though fiercely proud of its history in the United Reformed Church, there was always a slight sense that we had a different heritage to other Oxford colleges. I always felt this made us determined to ‘punch above our weight’ – both as students and perhaps also after we left. In 1995 Mansfield gained its Royal Charter as a ‘full college’ and the Principal Dennis Trevelyan heralded a new chapter in its development. Upon graduation I was still left wondering precisely what this would mean. As JCR President I was painfully aware of the relative financial challenges of Mansfield and how difficult this would be to resolve given the smaller alumni base and the distinct bias in the career choice of many generations of the alumni population! Only when a former researcher of mine – a recent graduate of Lincoln College – declared: ‘I didn’t realise Mansfield was a PPH,’ did I realise how far the College has evolved over the past 20 years. I am certain this is a tribute to the hard work of the Development Office and successive Principals, who have delivered plans that have constantly sought to build Mansfield’s footprint within Oxford University. My warm welcome from Ian, one of the country’s most distinguished Museum Directors, served to remind me that we Mansfield alumni now reach into many parts of Britain’s national life – and as I explore the world I am now responsible for serving, I should note the presence of many more alumni

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in the arts. Sir Paul Ruddock, a law graduate of Mansfield and successful figure in the City, served as Chairman of the Victoria & Albert Museum from 2007 to November 2015, and he also has numerous roles in leadership and philanthropy in museums across the world. Paul Crossley, another Mansfield alumnus, was a distinguished Artistic Director of the London Sinfonietta from 1988 to 1994; and when I visited my home city of Bath during the summer recess I met a former fellow Mansfield JCR President, Gill Kirk, who is now an acclaimed playwright. In the House of Commons I sit opposite fellow ex-Mansfield student Chris Bryant MP (Labour, Rhondda). He is a former Minister and though we may not agree on everything (!) we do have a solid bond based on our shared history in Oxford. As the College goes from strength to strength I remain very proud of my heritage at Mansfield. I think students of my generation increasingly realise that, in whatever field they serve, there is likely to be another Mansfield graduate nearby. The question for me as I look to the next 20 years is this: what can we give back to the College as it continues to fulfil the potential we all hoped for back in 1995?

Sir Paul Ruddock Jurisprudence, 1977 Mansfield, when I arrived in 1977, was a very small college with only 100 undergraduates. This meant it was easy to get to know people: my two best friends (who later became film and documentary makers) were made in that first week. However, the small size, and the fact the College was still all male, almost forced its students to explore the University as a whole. The upside was that I spent a lot of time visiting friends in other colleges, seeing the beautiful and varied architecture of Oxford. We were blessed to have the Ashmolean on our doorstep: Britain’s first encyclopaedic museum. In my first year I went almost every week and learned so much about art, from the ancient world to the Renaissance.

Mansfield people tended to be very active in the wider University. I was JCR President (pleased to see that John Glen was too), but I was also very engaged in University politics. Music is my greatest passion, and one of the great joys of my time in College was the beautiful Chapel and the College choir. Straight after University I became a banker (it was very fashionable in 1986!) and this provided great training. In fact, I often say to people who want a career in the arts that it might be sensible to start in finance, marketing or another ‘proper’ job first.

Though I studied Law, I ended up with a career in finance for 35 years (I was the first undergraduate that Goldman Sachs hired from Oxford), but I always remained interested in the arts. In the past ten years the arts have come to dominate my life, both as Chairman of the Victoria & Albert Museum and more recently as a trustee of the British Museum and the Metropolitan Museum in New York. It was at the V&A where I met Ian Blatchford, who was the Finance Director before his ascent to V&A Deputy Director and then the Director of the Science Museum where he is doing a magnificent job. My own path shows that you do not need to work in the field in which you study, and that changing direction as you move through life can be very rewarding. My advice as you think about a career is two-fold: first, pursue something that is intellectually stimulating. There is nothing worse than being in a boring job. Second, just because you may not work in the arts, does not mean that you cannot be actively involved. Arts organisations need lots of advice and talent on their boards – legal, accounting, design, academic – and there are a myriad ways to interact and provide input. Get involved: it is great fun.

Ian Blatchford Jurisprudence, 1983 In addition to running the Science Museum Group, I am also Chairman of De Montfort University and often reflect on the fact that in 2017 universities are struggling to achieve openness and diversity, whereas Mansfield College has been doing this brilliantly for decades! I was the first person in my family to go to university, and the College had such a wonderful atmosphere that I could thrive in what might otherwise have been the intimidating Oxford environment. I really do think some of its special character comes from the aspirations and values of its original founders – even now. Some of the colleges struck me then, and now, as self-obsessed and snobby, but anyone adopting airs and pretensions at Mansfield was always mocked back to normality pretty quickly! The College was small in terms of undergraduates and that had two advantages. The obvious is that everyone knew everyone and there was a strong collegiate spirit, emphasised by students being in daily contact with all the staff too. The second is that

Perhaps the greatest legacy of my time at Mansfield is the right sort of confidence about engaging with the world.

Munira Mirza English Language and Literature, 1996 In my first week at Mansfield I was struck by how friendly and unpretentious the College was. Any worries I might have had about not fitting in were quickly dispelled. Mansfield was a small and welcoming place, and there was also a strong sense that it didn’t matter where you came from. A large number of us were state school educated and felt immediately comfortable. We also had a ‘College parents’ scheme that buddied us up with older students who looked after us for the first term, which was a great way of supporting everyone. I made my best friends for life in that first Michaelmas term, all of us from quite different backgrounds. What we shared in common then and now was a curiosity about the world, a sense of humour and a love of learning – as well as hours of debate and banter in the College bar! I have encouraged a number of young people to apply to Oxford over the years, and tried to persuade them that it is a place for them. There are still myths that people will feel excluded. What Mansfield, and Oxford more generally, gave me was the intellectual and emotional confidence to engage with the world. The tutorial system and Finals are highly pressurised, but so too is life, and the experience has helped me cope in my career since. Oxford also gave me the chance to explore the arts. My best friend took me to my first ever classical music concert at the Sheldonian Theatre (a fact I was reluctant to admit at the time). A group of enterprising students set up a Mansfield Arts Festival and I was blown away by their talent. I have worked in the arts and politics since I left university and I’ve never stopped learning or being inspired by others’ creativity. I think the careers service back then was fairly limited in its advice – it was either accountancy, consultancy or banking in those days. It took me a while to realise there were other options waiting for me.

Munira Mirza is an advisor on arts and philanthropy. She is a former Deputy Mayor for Education and Culture of London and was also appointed Cultural Advisor to the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson.

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The Caird phenomenon The year 2017 marked the centenary of George Bradford Caird, one of Mansfield’s most distinguished scholars. Caird was a theologian, humanitarian and biblical scholar and served first as Senior Tutor at Mansfield and then as Principal from 1970 to 1977. Emeritus Fellow Revd Dr John Muddiman reflects on his own memories of one of the key figures in the College’s history. As an undergraduate at Keble in the 1960s, I was introduced to the ‘Caird phenomenon’. In those days the Oxford officeholders in Biblical Studies may have been good scholars, but they were lousy lecturers. They seemed to want to bore their audiences to death, so we would give up by third week and the rest of the course could be cancelled. Hence we turned instead to Dr Caird, who was the Senior Tutor of Mansfield but held no University post. He lectured three times a week and covered the whole New Testament syllabus in a year. The lecture room was always packed out. Promptly on the hour Dr Caird would sweep in with his gown flowing, and would mount that imposing lectern (sadly destroyed in a JCR fire). He carried nothing in his hand except a copy of the Greek New Testament, which in any case he appeared to know by heart. His lecture was entirely in his head and he delivered it directly to his audience looking straight at us; it was pure theatre. Though he did not use notes himself, what he said turned neatly into incredibly valuable revision notes for Schools. His arguments were stated clearly and succinctly, separate from but backed-up by the most relevant evidence. Caird was a master of the classic lecture form in the days before those dubious innovations – handouts, PowerPoint and time for questions. Handouts relieve the student of the task of note-taking – a useful transferable skill itself – or even of paying attention. PowerPoint for all its colourful modern dress is only as good as the intellectual content of the slides. And time for questions Caird never allowed. Questions, he believed, were for the weekly tutorial, for which lectures were a complement not a substitute. I must not give the impression that we were all fervent disciples of the incomparable Dr Caird. There was a group of us, especially from Keble, who formed a party of dissent on one particular issue: the existence or non-existence of Q. No, nothing to do with James Bond, but with the Synoptic Problem, the literary interrelationship of the first three gospels. The similarities of Matthew and Luke to Mark are regularly explained by their direct use of his gospel; but the 42 Mansfield 2016/17

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similarities – some equally close but others more distant – between Matthew and Luke are explained not by the use of one by the other, but indirect use of a now-lost Sayings Source, Q. Caird was a convinced advocate of the Q theory, we Keble people followed the theory of Dr Farrer, the then Warden of Keble, who dispensed with Q and posited Luke’s direct dependence on Matthew. Dr Caird was always sharply focused on the subject at hand rather than ‘interaction with scholarship’ which often turns lectures into little more than an annotated bibliography. But along with the occasional side-swipe at radical Germans, he did allow himself the indulgence of a running battle with the Warden of Keble. It was everything that an academic debate should be: passionate on both sides, conducted with courtesy, acknowledging where necessary the ambiguity of some of the evidence, and forcing us to think first before coming to our own decision. We could learn a lot from this in the current debate about Freedom of Speech in British universities. In an essay I contributed to the memorial volume (The Glory of Christ in the New Testament: Studies in Christology in Memory of George Bradford Caird, OUP 1987, ed LD Hurst and NT Wright) after George’s sad and premature death, I recalled how fond he was of that scene in Alice in Wonderland where Humpty Dumpty, determined to be the master not the servant of the meaning of words, redefines ‘Glory’ as a nice knock-down argument. It so vividly brought to mind the way Caird would come to a conclusion in his lectures after discussing some problem or other – ‘there’s glory for you’ – delivered with the unforgettable sharp exhalation of breath that we called affectionately ‘the Caird snort’. We were, even the Keble dissenters, greatly indebted to the phenomenal Dr Caird. RIGHT: The GB Caird Centenary Concert held in the College Chapel in October 2017, organised by the Caird family. Performers included the Caird family, their friends and students of Mansfield College. A collection was made in aid of the Caird Memorial Trust and the College Organ Appeal.

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MANSFIELD COLLEGE ASSOCIATION Student of the Year Awards TOP: Daniel Seiderer, Student of the Year 2017 Joe Roberts (undergraduate) and Dr Lucy Mahoney and Baroness Helena Kennedy QC. BOTTOM: Daniel Seiderer, Student of the Year 2016 Mary Townsend, Dr Lucy Mahoney

Staying connected Joe Morris (History, 2011), the incoming President of the Mansfield College Alumni Association, remembers his time as part of the Mansfield College community – from student to Alumni Association member.

Daniel Seiderer and Joe Morris

A place of vibrant diversity Daniel Seiderer (MBA, 2007), the outgoing President of the Alumni Association, talks about what he loves most about the Mansfield community. As outgoing President of the Mansfield College Alumni Association, and looking back over the six years of my tenure, the one thing that never fails to astound me is the vibrant diversity our College has to offer. This diversity is especially evident at the various events Mansfield hosts (in some cases with the Association’s support), several of which I have been lucky enough to attend. Take, for instance, the annual Summer Garden Party, followed by our Alumni Association dinner. The event in 2017 provided a prime example of vibrant diversity, with a programme ranging from live bands to improvised comedy for the adults, and an equally fascinating itinerary for the kids, including a magician, a face painter and a mini sports competition. Just as broad were the conversations I had on the day, covering topics such as US politics, Brexit, climate change, inequality within countries and on a global scale, self-driving cars, social media bubbles, London’s theatres and art museums, Oxford’s newest restaurants, sports and many more. Diversity is also reflected in the grant applications the Alumni Association receives. Fortunately, we were again this year able to support the students and the College in their numerous activities – from worldclass research and travel to conferences (or for other purposes), to theatre, music and visual arts activities,

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not to forget the manifold outreach campaigns that ensure Mansfield will remain such a fascinating, inclusive place in the future. I’m sure I speak for everyone on the Alumni Association’s committee when I say that being able to provide this support (in the form of a large number of small grants plus a few larger ones) is among the most rewarding aspects of being part of the committee. I just sometimes wish we could be more generous. In the coming years, I’m sure that – with the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights and the ability to accommodate more students on site – the College will become an even more wonderful, diverse and increasingly interesting place. Although I’m handing over the Presidency of the Alumni Association to Joe Morris, I shall continue to follow our College’s development and to offer my support. I’m already curious what the future will bring. I thank everyone who has supported me and the Association’s work over the past six years and wish Joe (as the Alumni Association’s new President), the College, its students and everyone else involved with Mansfield every imaginable success. Long live this vibrant diversity!

When I arrived at Mansfield as a fresh-faced undergraduate in 2011, I had little intention of getting involved in anything but the odd society. Little did I realise that the Mansfield community would be so welcoming and I would feel so connected that I would stay involved even after my graduation. Now most of those who remember me as a slightly isolated and stressed JCR President will have graduated. My time at Mansfield was a perfect preparation for everything that came after. I’m currently lucky enough to work for a Labour MP in Parliament, and the opportunities I was given at Mansfield have played a huge part in preparing myself for the experience. In fact, the continuous construction at Mansfield is probably the most fitting preparation for working in Parliament. I was thrilled and delighted to be elected President of Mansfield College Alumni Association. As a recent graduate, it’s a real privilege to be able to work with so many familiar faces to enhance our experience as alumni and bring the Association further into the life of the College and of other former Mansfield students.

When I was JCR President, managing the diverse and opinionated Mansfield community was my particular privilege for one marvellous year, and I know that there is more to do and achieve with the Alumni Association. Whether that’s through working closely with JCR officers and Mansfield staff in careers and access, or developing closer links among the alumni, it’s a challenge I’m really looking forward to meeting. I want to thank Daniel Seiderer for his work as President. Since I first came on to the committee, he has been a warm and friendly presence. Daniel has been instrumental in getting more recent alumni to step up and become involved with the Association. Without his encouragement, I would not have put myself forward for the role. Mansfield has had an exhilarating year and has an even brighter one ahead. I’ve attended some fantastic events this year, from the reception at Doughty Street Chambers to the Summer Garden Party. At all of them it has been a pleasure to catch up with old friends, to see the progress Mansfield has made and to meet new people who share a connection to our wonderful College. I hope to see all of you at a future Mansfield event, and look forward to sharing our exciting plans with you.

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ALUMNI NEWS

Anthony Martin PPE, 1977

Grace Wyld English and History, 2012

Suzanne M Wolfe English, 1981

Anthony Martin has opened a new medical museum in the centre of the Waterloo Battlefield in Belgium. The museum was inaugurated by the Duke of Wellington. It is situated in the listed building of the Ferme Brasserie et Musée de MontSaint-Jean, Waterloo, Belgium.

In March 2017, James Nobel and Mansfield alumna Grace Wyld published Beyond Bars: Maximising the Voluntary Sector’s Contribution in Criminal Justice – a report that explores the role charities can play in the justice system. Grace comments: ‘Government consistently under-acknowledges how much charities sustain the criminal justice system.’ Read the report at: http://www.thinknpc.org/publications/ beyond-bars/

In February 2017, Suzanne M Wolfe’s second novel The Confessions of X won the prestigious Book Award for Fiction from the US magazine, Christianity Today. The Confessions of X tells the story of the Father of the Christian Church, Augustine of Hippo, and the woman he loved – a woman whose name has been lost to history. Publishers Weekly has described the novel as ‘a perfect book for history lovers’, while Amy Peterson, Writer and Assistant Director of Honors Programming at Taylor University, has praised the work as a ‘gripping, beautifully written historical novel’.

Dhruti Shah English, 2000 Dhruti Shah is a journalist with over 13 years’ experience covering trauma, terror and violence. In 2017 she took part in the Rotary International Peace Fellowship – a programme that promotes the understanding of peace and teaches conflict resolution. ‘I learned to have confidence in my abilities; I learned humour can be found in every situation – even dark humour has a part to play in order to be able to move forward. I learned that conflict can occur everywhere but what’s key is having a bespoke strategy to deal with it.’

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Recent Mansfield alumna, Tilly Slight, has set up The Art Exchange – a contemporary arts podcast where young artists discuss their research and ideas. When asked what inspired her to start her podcast, she explained ‘I’m interested in how far you can use language to communicate visual ideas… I also wanted to create something that could demystify contemporary art for newer audiences.’ You can listen to Tilly’s podcasts on The Art Exchange: https://soundcloud.com/artexchange

Matthew Putorti History and Politics, 2004

Dr Dana Mills DPhil Politics, 2008 In November 2016 Dana Mills published Dance and politics – Moving beyond boundaries. The book, which was nominated for an American Political Science Association Foundations of Political Theory First Book Award, explores the strong links between two subjects that, on the surface, seem to have little in common. Dana has worked as a professional dancer and before Mansfield studied for two degrees in Politics and Psychology at Tel Aviv University. She explains how her book came to be written: ‘I started to wonder why the exceptional people that I worked with in studios didn’t think of themselves as engaged in politics, although they obviously were. I discovered that there was no core text looking at connections between dance and politics… I thought maybe someone should write that core text and maybe that someone should be me.’

Matilda Slight History and Politics, 2012

Helena Wilson English, 2013 Helena Wilson played Ophelia in Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead at the Old Vic Theatre, starring alongside Daniel Radcliffe and David Haig. The production received fantastic reviews, with extra dates added due to its popularity. Helena tells us: ‘It’s been amazing to be part of the anniversary production, so I feel very lucky to have started my career with this job.’

Mason Lowance English, 1961 We were delighted to welcome Mason and Susan Lowance back to the College this year. Mason and Susan support students of English at Mansfield each year through the three Mason Lowance Prizes that are granted annually. We would like to extend our thanks to both of them for their continued support.

In 2017 Matthew Putorti, an Associate with Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP in New York, was recognised as one of the 40 best Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) lawyers under 40 in the United States by the LGBT Bar. The award recognises those who have ‘distinguished themselves in their field and have demonstrated a profound commitment to LGBT equality’. Read more about Matthew’s award: http://lgbtbar.org/ what-we-do/awards-recognition/best-lgbt-lawyersunder-40/

Rishi Dastidar Modern History, 1996 In March 2017, Mansfield alumnus Rishi Dastidar published his first collection of poetry Ticker-tape. Described as a ‘maximalist take on 21st century living’, Ticker-tape explores everything from politics to pop culture. Rishi comments: ‘I wanted it to be accessible in the sense of being optimistic and inviting people in, especially those who might be new to contemporary poetry or think that it might not be for them.’ Rishi has also kindly donated a copy of Ticker-tape to the Mansfield College Library.

The Revd Dr Peter Jupp Theology, 1966 Peter Jupp, an Honorary Fellow of the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, has recently published Cremation in Modern Scotland: History, Architecture and the Law, which explores how changes in funeral practice provide a window into developments in wider social identity, values and religious beliefs. Cremation in Modern Scotland (2017) is preceded by Death in Modern Scotland, 1855-1955: Beliefs, Attitudes and Practices (2016), which he co-wrote with Susan Buckham (University of Sterling) and Julie Rugg (University of York). Peter is currently co-editing a new collection on Death in Scotland: From the Medieval to the Modern.

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2017 PRIZES

College and University prizes 2017

Where the Heart Is There is a saying at home That home is where the heart is But if home is where the heart is Then I must come from a broken home For my heart is split Across the world Across the sea Half in the cold, familiar land I’m headed to And half in the land that I am leaving The land where I really want to be The land of family and song And of sunlight and sea And I know Of course I know That my heart is beating in my chest But it feels like there are parts of it That are separate from the rest That I’d given pieces away to friends And family, as freely as gifts So if home is where the heart is Then my home is split Because my heart Serena Arthur, English Language Has been given out and Literature, 2016. Young Poet Laureate for Bit by bit. Birmingham in 2015/16.

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SCHOLARSHIPS Jeremy Beard (Mathematics) Kirstie Bosman (PPE) Angus Braithwaite (Materials) Khazna Chami (Human Sciences) Noel Cheong (Theology & Religion) Dennis Christensen (Mathematics) Elizabeth Deane (History) Lukas Dijkstra (Mathematics) Nigel D’Souza (Mathematics) Jiajin Gong (Engineering) Grace Green (Theology & Religion) Isabelle Green (Geography) Ella Grodzinski (Human Sciences) James Harris (Mathematics) Alberto Hernandez Melian (Physics) Zhongyi Hu (Mathematics & Statistics) Joe Inwood (History) Aondoyima Ioratim-Uba (Physics) Jordan Jones (Oriental Studies) Dina Kujundzic (Engineering) Yang Lu (Physics) Charlotte Martin (Engineering) Shezad Mohamed (Mathematics) Carlo Mussolini (Physics) Harry O’Neill (History) Alexander Oscroft (History) David Peters (Mathematics) Emily Roper (Oriental Studies) Henry Sasse (History & Politics) Daniel Scotson (Materials) Joe Seddon (PPE) Troy Sharples (Mathematics) Benjamin Shi (Materials) Christopher Smart (History) Henry Straughan (PPE) Samuel Sutherland (Physics) Marius Todea (Mathematics) Andrew Torr (Engineering) John Wadsworth (PPE) Edwin Watson-Miller (Mathematics) Laura Worman (Geography) Laurent Wu (Mathematics) Yuxin Yin (Materials) Kieran Zielinski (PPE)

INSTRUMENTAL EXHIBITIONERS Owen Clarridge (Geography) Laura Worman (Geography) Kirstie Bosman (PPE) Nicholas Bushnell-Wye (Jurisprudence)

EXHIBITIONS Imogen Brown (Materials) Lucy Coupe (English) Suzy Cripps (English) Kate Gerrand (Human Sciences) Carys Greenaway (Law) Mihai Hrecinuc (Engineering)

Kathryn Jones (Physics) Jorge Lopez Llorente (English) Heather McDade (Human Sciences) Arthur Pander Maat (Mathematics) Aleksandar Ristic-Smith (Engineering) Robert Scales (Materials) Rebecca Sinnott (Geography) Natalie Tan (Materials, Economics & Management) Annabel van der Kooy (Materials) Anna Wald (Physics) Zichao Wang (Mathematics)

Kwabena Osei-Boateng Engineering Science Prize Dina Kujundzic

COLLEGE PRIZES

Tianhong Bi (Materials) Team Design Project

Worsley Prize for Law Carys Greenaway Lynda Patterson Scholarship for best Prelims Distinction performance in Theology or Philosophy & Theology Noel Cheong Grace Green Mason Lowance Prize in honour of John Creaser for best performance in English Language and/or Literature 2nd-year work Suzy Cripps Mason Lowance Prize in memory of Stephen Wall for the best performance in English Finals Katherine Lewthwaite Mahony Prize for best 2nd-year performance in History Madeline Rose Sarah & Peter Harkness Prize for Prelims John Wadsworth (PPE) College Essay Prize Brandon Sanchez (VSP) Principal’s Prize Ellen Hang (Michaelmas Term 2016) Noel Cheong (Michaelmas Term 2017) Henty Prize for outstanding 2nd-year work in Geography Laura Worman Visiting Student Prize for 2016/17 Mazelle Etessami (Berkeley) John Sykes Prize for best Part I Materials results Angus Braithwaite Adam Monk Scholarship (Mathematics) Shezad Mohamed Bob Coates Prize for Mathematics Nigel D’Souza

Andrew Olive Prize for Economics Kirstie Bosman Joe Seddon

UNIVERSITY PRIZES Christopher Baird (Geography) Political Geography Research Group Undergraduate Dissertation Prize

Khazna Chami (Human Sciences) Gibbs Book Prize Lev Chechik (Materials) IoM3 Prize for Best Overall Performance (MS/MEM) Lev Chechik (Materials) Armourers and Brasiers’ Company Prize for the Best Part II Project Lev Chechik (Materials) Nominated for IoM3 RH Craven Award for Best Polymers Graduate Lev Chechik (Materials) Nominated for IoM3 Royal Charter Award for Best Materials Graduate Noel Cheong (Theology & Religion) Gibbs Prize for Highest Distinction in Prelims Louis Jamart (Human Sciences) Wilma Crowther Prize for dissertation Tabitha Jones (Materials) Nominated for IoM3 James Walker Award for Best Polymers Project Tabitha Jones (Materials) Ironmongers’ Company Annual Award for Best Part II Talk Emily Roper (Oriental Studies) Joseph Schacht Memorial Junior Prize 2017 for outstanding performance in Islamic Religion, Law or History Benjamin Shi (Materials) Johnson Matthey Prize for Best Overall Performance in Prelims Benjamin Shi (Materials) Armourers and Brasiers’ Company/Tata Steel Prize for Best Overall Performance in Prelims Practicals Yuxin Yin (Materials) Armourers and Brasiers’ Prize for Year 2 Business Plan Team Presentation

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EXAMINATION RESULTS 2017

DOCTORATE (DPhil) English Pass Jurrit Daalder Geography & the Environment Pass Alexandra Rowell Law Pass Randall Stephenson Materials Pass Alexander Buccheri Mathematics Pass Ainhoa Iniguez Physics Pass Ferdinand van Wyk Shilei Zhang Politics Pass Raphael Heuwieser

MASTER OF SCIENCE BY RESEARCH Engineering Science Pass Chanshu Gao

MASTER OF SCIENCE (MSc) Applied Statistics Distinction Alexis Bellot Nathan Cole Biodiversity, Conservation & Management Distinction Dafna Bitran Sophie Pierce Environmental Change & Management Pass Savitri Kumari Social Science of the Internet Pass Katherine Rother Mathematical and Computational Finance Distinction Joscelin Fieldhouse Pass Zebin Lu Meixuan Lyu Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Distinction Jan Olle Aguilera Pass Weichen Yin Mathematics and Foundations of Computer Science Distinction Ragnar Groot Koerkamp Pass William Murphy Akshar Nair Shreyas Srinivas Medical Anthropology Distinction Cathryn Klusmeier Noelle Rohde

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Water Science, Policy & Management Distinction Angele Cauchois Pass Maria Souza Bosch

MASTER OF STUDIES (MSt) British & European History 1500-Present Distinction Hillary Burlock Pass Marco Ciciriello Daniel Coleman English Distinction Adrienne Mortimer Pass Ciaran Stordy Global and Imperial History Pass Edwin Black Jewish Studies Pass Joshua Margulies Macey Shay Study of Religion Pass Jian Zhi Quek Theology Pass James de Lusignan MBA Pass Farnam Bidgoli Christopher Calkin Anatolii Gasparian Christopher Larson Martin Lee Vladimir Lovric Yan Xue Yiming Zeng

MASTER OF PUBLIC POLICY Distinction Felipe Montoya Pino Pass Emily Cameron

BCL Distinction Pui Lam Chan Pass Abhijay Negi

MASTER OF ENGINEERING (MEng) Engineering Science Class I Wojciech Dziwulski Jack Frigaard Ludovico Lazzeretti Class II.i Shuai Xie Materials Science Class I Lev Chechik Tabitha Jones Class II.i Rusheb Shah Tinger Wen James Zhou

EXAMINATION RESULTS 2017

MASTER OF MATHEMATICS (MMath) Mathematics Class I Pei Wang Mathematics and Statistics Class I Mark Hattersley

MASTER OF PHYSICS (MPhys) Physics Class I

Jordan Juritz Elliot Warriner-Bacon

MASTER OF MATHEMATICAL AND THEORETICAL PHYSICS (MMathPhys) Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Distinction Qianjun Hang

BACHELOR OF ARTS (BA) Engineering Science Class III Hon Lam Yu English Language & Literature Class I Emma-Jane Hampsheir-Gill Katherine Lewthwaite Class II.i Kirstine Dunk Alice King Laura McReynolds Joseph O’Neil Elizabeth Parsons Emily Spiers Geography Class I Christopher Baird Natalie Harrison Ben Nother Class II.i Owen Clarridge Claire Gibson Annie Johnston Madeline Wild History Class I Joseph Dax Joseph White Class II.i Toby Chapman Domenico Cullura James Harrison History & English Class II.i Charlotte Ezaz History & Politics Class I Robert Cheah Class II.i Piers Neill

Human Sciences Class I Louis Jamart Jurisprudence Class I Nicholas Bushnell-Wye Class II.i Polymnia Efstratiadi Mathematics Class I Dennis Christensen David Peters Marius Todea Class II.i Arthur Pander Maat Joshua Vaughan Zichao Wang Mathematics and Statistics Class II.i William An Oriental Studies Class I Emmeline Skinner Cassidy Class II.i Tine Aistrup Ella Davidson PPE Class I Keziah Stephenson Class II.i Eloise Abbott Dillon Lancaster Kiran Modi Joseph Roberts Charlotte Stephens Philosophy & Theology Class I Maximilian Grodecki Physics Class II.i Zachary Keane Theology and Religion Class I Rebecca Freedman Class II.i Stephanie McGuire Mary Townsend

UNCLASSIFIED HONOURS Engineering Science Part B Class I Jiajin Gong Class II.i George Caddy Sam McCumiskey Aleksandar Ristic-Smith Materials Science/ MEM Part I Hon. Pass Angus Braithwaite Imogen Brown Natalie Tan Physics Part B (4 years) Class I Yang Lu Class II.i Timothy Conn Zhiyuan Li Mathematics Part A Hon. Pass Nigel d’Souza Fei Ge James Harris Troy Sharples Edwin Watson-Miller

Mathematics and Statistics Part A Hon. Pass Zhongyi Hu Physics Part A Pass Aondoyima Ioratim-Uba Kathryn Jones Carlo Mussolini Samuel Sutherland Anna Wald

MODERATIONS English Pass Zeynab Alwi Serena Arthur Jonathan Barrow Juliet Garcia Rhian Hamilton Adam Kelly Jorge Lopez Llorente Nazan Osman Ruth Simms Grace Walker Jurisprudence Pass Grace Bowland Andrew Garratt Carys Greenaway Chloe Lettington Daria Lysyakova Jurisprudence (Law Studies in Europe) Pass Zara Ryan

PRELIMINARY EXAMINATIONS Engineering Pass Jeremy Hughes Yifang Liu John Mothibi Henry Williams Geography Pass James Howard Casper Scheible Rebecca Sinnott Anna Valentine History Distinction Harry O’Neill Pass Tariq Ali Sara Harb Lucy McGauran Porter History & Politics Distinction Henry Sasse Pass Georgia Fisher

Materials Science Distinction Benjamin Shi Pass Joshua King Robert Scales Daniel Scotson Annabel van der Kooy Kara Vouilloz Mathematics Distinction Jeremy Beard Lukas Dijkstra Shezad Mohamed Laurent Wu Pass Gabriel Barrueco Timothy Hobson Mathematics and Statistics Pass Timothy Woods Oriental Studies Distinction Jordan Jones Emily Roper PPE Distinction Pass

Henry Straughan Gabriel Bather Jadon Buckeridge Isabel Chalmers Joseph McKenzie Alicia Vidal

Physics Distinction Alberto Hernandez Melian Pass Rohan Nuckchady Andrew Sundin Charles Yin Theology and Religion Distinction Noel Cheong Grace Green Pass Seung Jae Cho Olivia Dwyer Benedict Turvill

Human Sciences Distinction Khazna Chami Pass Heather McDade

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OBITUARIES

Carolyn worked us hard in choir practices, but there was plenty of laughter, especially in the comments from the back row. ‘Gentlemen and basses’ was a favourite of us tenors. ‘Get out your Sweelincks’ for some reason produced ribald laughter from that quarter (Sweelinck was a Dutch baroque composer), while American musical terminology – quarter-notes, fermatas and the like – puzzled us. There were wonderful services. I shall never forget the Advent Carol Service of 1968, soon after the Russian invasion of what was then Czechoslovakia, with carols by Czech composers and readings from the sermons of the pre-Reformation Reformer, Jan Hus (burned at the stake in 1415). Over the years I spent a lot of time in the company of the Brocks, both here and in the States. In spring 1965 we joined the CongSoc annual walking holiday in the Lake District. Hiking up Honister Pass and climbing Great Gable, before descending over Sty Head Pass, was a tall order for those of us who had never done such a thing in our lives – which included Carolyn and I. But the Lakes got to our souls and we kept going back, long after the student trips ceased. There were more New Mexican sayings from Carolyn to treasure. Having climbed one peak and descended into a dip, the steep ascent up Mount Sail lay before us. ‘Are you looking forward to going up that?’ I asked her. ‘I’m just dyin’ to slog up that slope’, was her reply.

CAROLYN BROCK Organist and Choir Director at Mansfield from 1966 until 1998; wife of Mansfield Chaplain, Charles Brock February 17th, 1935 – May 17th, 2017 I met Carolyn and Charles on the first Sunday after I came up to Oxford, in October 1964. My first impression that day is of someone we would now call feisty. She answered back when people said things, in a way ministers’ wives were not expected to do. Charles had recently become Chaplain to Congregationalist students in the University; I was active in CongSoc and a member of the Mansfield College Chapel community. Our organist at home was pretty competent, but listening to Carolyn on the Mansfield instrument, unseen and high above us, was an eye-opener. Carolyn looked after Mansfield music for well over 30 years. She was an extraordinarily gifted musician, as many of us also discovered when we sang in choirs she conducted. She introduced us to a wide range of music, much of it unfamiliar, some of it distinctly modern, and we came to love it. The music of the Reformation era held a particular fascination for her, appropriately so as Mansfield was (and is) unique among the Oxford colleges in its Congregationalist foundation. Whenever I hear a piece on the radio or at a concert that I first encountered through Carolyn, the memories come flooding back.

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People sometimes say Americans don’t understand irony. Carolyn did. Her ripostes were memorable. Other expressions were pure Americana of an earlier age: ‘Gee willikers’ or, in extreme cases, ‘Gee willikers whizz’. In the 1990s I spent two happy vacations travelling with her and Charles in her home state of New Mexico and its neighbour Colorado. We visited Deming, where she grew up, and explored the extraordinary landscapes of that part of the world. We hiked in the Rockies, marvelling at the profusion of wild flowers high up – Carolyn knew all their names. Carolyn’s skills in the kitchen were amazing. She didn’t need the latest fancy gadgets but she did believe in good-quality ingredients and a healthy, balanced diet. Over the years the menus changed, but the food was always wonderful. I wonder how many visitors to the Manse in Wheatley remember her Russian Easter cake, a glorious creamy pyramid studded with flaked almonds. Carolyn was a natural host and I am sure her gifts in that respect made a major contribution to the ministry she shared with Charles over more than three decades, both at Mansfield and in Wheatley. Parties at the Manse were legendary. I’m not sure the theology of hospitality as a means of mission has been much studied, but Carolyn was an expert practitioner. She was a fount of knowledge on what was good for us and what wasn’t. Charles, of course, was always there to provide the liquid refreshment, and could usually be relied on to have more of whatever was supposed to be bad for him. ‘Oh, Charles!’, or ‘Charles Brock!’ was about as far as she would go in response. I always hoped for

more. One day, when I was travelling with them, she was parking the car at a service station and Charles kept telling her what to do. ‘Charles Brock, you are a…’ – I waited for a really bad word, as I’d never heard one from her lips (nor did I ever) – ‘… pip’. And that was that. I always felt that Carolyn underestimated her gifts. Or perhaps it was that she was by nature and upbringing modest. Always thinking of others rather than herself, she never pushed herself forward. Somehow, in the middle of all the raucous laughter and the rambunctious (a favourite word of hers) humour, she managed to be both innocent and knowing. These are at best a few impressions of a friendship that lasted for over 50 years. Whenever I think of her, I smile: all my memories of her are happy ones and many of them full of laughter. She was a natural life-affirmer, a rare spirit, who radiated grace and joy. Mansfield should be profoundly grateful for her long and creative association with it. Dr Colin Thompson (Theology, 1968)

DR ROBERT JENSON Lutheran Lecturer at Mansfield, 1966-68 and 1972-73 August 2nd, 1930 – September 5th, 2017 Robert W Jenson was a leading American Lutheran and ecumenical theologian. He studied Classics and Philosophy at Luther College in the late 1940s, before beginning theological studies at Luther Seminary in 1951. After seminary, Robert taught in the Department of Religion and Philosophy at Luther College from 1955 to 1957, and then moved to Heidelberg for doctoral studies in 1957/58. After receiving his doctorate, he returned to the United States to join the Faculty of Religion at Luther College where he began his career as a Professor of Christian Theology and author of theological books. For two years from 1966-68 and for another year from 197273 Robert was Dean and tutor of Lutheran students at Mansfield College. He then went on to teach at Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg and at St Olaf College in Northfield Minnesota. He was joined in Northfield by his friend and fellow Lutheran Theologian Carl Braaten. Together they founded the conservative Center for Catholic and Evangelical Theology in 1991. Robert continued to teach at St Olaf College until 1998, when he retired and took up a position as Senior Scholar for Research at the Center for Theological Inquiry in Princeton, New Jersey. Before leaving St Olaf College, he completed work on his magnum opus, the two-volume Systematic Theology (199799), which has since been widely regarded as one of the most important and creative recent works of systematic theology.

PROFESSOR PAMELA SUE ANDERSON Philosophy of Religion DPhil, 1989 April 16th, 1955 – March 12th, 2017 Professor Pamela Sue Anderson, who died on Sunday March 12th, 2017, was a distinguished philosopher who specialised in the fields of religious, feminist and continental philosophy. She was official Fellow, Tutor in Philosophy and Christian Ethics, and Women’s Adviser of Regent’s Park College at Oxford. She was educated at Yale University and at Mansfield College. Pamela had been terminally ill with cancer, battling the illness with great courage. Her service of thanksgiving, celebrating her life, was held at Mansfield College Chapel on Saturday March 18th. Having read for two postgraduate degrees here, she was always very attached to this Oxford college and wished that Mansfield could be the venue for celebrating her life. It is a privilege and an honour to have seen that her wish was granted. Pamela leaves behind a student-support fund, the ‘Pamela Sue Anderson Studentship for the Encouragement of the Place of Women in Philosophy’. Our condolences are extended to all her family, friends and students. An international conference in Pamela’s memory will be held at Mansfield College on March 16th-18th 2018, organised by Professor Katherine Morris of Mansfield, among others: ‘Love and Vulnerability: In Memory of Pamela Sue Anderson’. For further information, see http://www.philosophy. ox.ac.uk Rev’d Canon John Ovenden, Chaplain of Mansfield College

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FELLOWS’ NEWS AND PUBLICATIONS Professor Ros Ballaster Professorial Fellow in English In October 2017 Ros took up her post as Chair of the English Faculty Board. Recent publications ‘Classical French Fiction and the Restoration Novel’, R Ballaster, in T Keymer (ed), The Oxford History of the Novel in English, vol. 1 Prose Fiction from the Origins of Print to 1750 (Oxford: OUP, 2017): 382-400. ISBN: 978-0199-5800-33. ‘Secret History, Oriental Tale, and Fairy Tale’, R Ballaster, in R Bullard and R Carnell (eds), The Secret History in Literature, 1660-1820 (Cambridge: CUP, 2017): 134-146. ISBN 9781-107-1504-1. ‘Not Toeing the Line: How to Read Tristram Shandy’, R Ballaster (2016), The English Review 27.3: 26-28. ISBN 978-1-4718-5712-6. ‘Passing Judgement: The Place of the Aesthetic in Feminist Literary History’, R Ballaster, in J Batchelor and G Dow (eds), Women’s Writing, 1660-1830: Feminisms and Futures (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016): 11-32. ISBN 9781-137-54382-0. ‘Enter the Novel: Prose Fiction in the Georgian Theatre’, R Ballaster, in Eighteenth Century Drama: Censorship, Society and the Stage (Marlborough: Adam Matthew, 2016). Web resource for which Ros was one of the Consultant Editors. http://www.amdigital. co.uk/m-products/product/eighteenth-centurydrama/ Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell Professorial Fellow in Physics Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell has been awarded the President’s Medal of the Institute of Physics (IOP) in recognition of her ‘outstanding contributions to physics through pioneering research in astronomy, most notably the discovery of the first pulsars, and through her unparalleled record of leadership within the community’. Dr Pam Berry Supernumerary Fellow in Geography Recent publications High-End Climate Change in Europe, PM Berry, RA Betts, PA Harrison, and A SanchezArcilla (eds) (Sofia: Pensoft Publishers, 2017). ‘An Impact Evaluation Framework to Support Planning and Evaluation of Nature-based Solutions Projects’, CM Raymond, P Berry, M Breil, MR Nita, N Kabisch, M de Bel, V Enzi, N Frantzeskaki, D Geneletti, M Cardinaletti, L Lovinger, C Basnou, A Monteiro, H Robrecht, G Sgrigna, L Munari, and C Calfapietra (2017). Report prepared by the EKLIPSE Expert Working Group on Nature-based Solutions to Promote Climate Resilience in Urban Areas (Wallingford UK: Centre for Ecology & Hydrology). ‘Adoption of the ecosystem services concept in EU policies’, I Bouwma, C Schleyer, E Primmer, KJ Winkler, P Berry, J Young, et al (2017), Ecosystem Services (Science Direct).

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Professor Stephen Blundell Professorial Fellow in Physics In May 2017, Stephen Blundell won the OUSU Teaching Award for ‘Most Acclaimed Lecturer’ in the Mathematical, Physical, Engineering and Life Sciences (MPLS) Division. Recent publications ‘Unconventional magnetism on a honeycomb lattice in -RuCl3 studied by muon spin rotation’, F Lang et al (2016), Physical Review B, 94, 020407(R). ‘Robustness of superconductivity to competing magnetic phases in tetragonal FeS’, FKK Kirschner et al (2016), Physical Review B, 94, 134509. ‘Quantum-critical spin dynamics in a TomonagaLuttinger liquid studied with muon-spin relaxation’, JS Möller et al (2017), Physical Review B, 95, 020402(R). ‘Quantum Griffiths Phase Inside the Ferromagnetic Phase of Ni1-xVx’, R Wang et al (2017), Physical Review Letters, 118, 267202. ‘Coexistence of magnetism and superconductivity in separate layers of the ironbased superconductor Li1-xFex(OH)Fe1-ySe’, CV Topping et al (2017), Physical Review B, 95, 134419. Professor Kathryn Gleadle Professorial Fellow in Modern History Kathryn Gleadle has been involved in an exciting project with Orkney archives. In 1864 a group of children set out to produce a lending library on the island, writing their own novels, plays and poems for the purpose. Proudly entitled ‘The Minervian Library’, their efforts resulted in one of the most extensive collections of children’s writing to have come to light in recent years. Thanks to a ‘Knowledge Exchange’ grant from the University, Kathryn, in collaboration with Orkney Archives and the local museum, has staged an exhibition of the collection in Kirkwall. She has also worked with local schoolchildren and Orkney’s Centre for Nordic Studies to raise awareness of this extraordinary library. Her work with the Minervian Library was featured in a BBC News article in June 2017: http://www.bbc. co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkneyshetland-40247004. Dr Emily Hunter Non-Stipendiary Junior Research Fellow in Chemistry/Physics Recent publications ‘Magnetic properties of the 6H perovskite Ba3Fe2TeO9’, Y Tang, R Paria Sena, M Avdeev, PD Battle, JM Cadogan, J Hadermann and EC Hunter (2017), Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 253: 347. ‘Anisotropic exchange and spin-wave damping in pure and electron-doped Sr2IrO4’, D Pincini, JG Vale, C Donnerer, A de la Torre, EC Hunter, RS Perry, M Moretti Sala, F Baumberger and DF McMorrow (2017), Physical Review B, 96: 075162. ‘Interplay of structural chemistry and magnetism in perovskites; A study of CaLn2Ni2WO9; Ln=La, Pr, Nd’, CM Chin, R Paria Sena, EC Hunter, J Hadermann and PD Battle (2017), Journal of

FELLOWS’ NEWS AND PUBLICATIONS Solid State Chemistry, 251: 224. ‘Ferrimagnetism as a consequence of cation ordering in the perovskite LaSr2Cr2SbO9’, EC Hunter, PD Battle, R Paria Sena and J Hadermann (2017), Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 248: 96. ‘Universality of pseudogap and emergent order in lightly doped Mott insulators’, I Battisti, KM Bastiaans, V Fedoseev, A de la Torre, N Iliopoulos, A Tamai, EC Hunter, RS Perry, J Zaanen, F Baumberger and MP Allan (2017), Nature Physics, 13: 21. ‘Structural chemistry and magnetic properties of the perovskite SrLa2Ni2TeO9’, R Paria Sena, J Hadermann, CM Chin, EC Hunter and PD Battle (2016), Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 243: 304. ‘Structural chemistry and magnetic properties of the perovskite Sr3Fe2TeO9’, Y Tang, EC Hunter, PD Battle, R Paria Sena, J Hadermann, M Avdeev and JM Cadogan (2016), Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 242: 86. Dr John Jarick Lecturer in Theology (Old Testament) After 15 years’ service as Editor of the Journal for the Study of the Old Testament (published by SAGE Publications), one of the flagship journals in this field of study, John has moved from the General Editor’s role to the task of Book Review Editor for the journal. He has also recently been elected to the role of Convener of the Publications Sub-Committee of the Society for Old Testament Study, partly in recognition of his recent editing of the commemorative volume for the Society’s Centenary. Recent publications SOTS at 100: Centennial Essays of the Society for Old Testament Study, J Jarick (ed) (London: Bloomsbury, 2017). ‘A Timeline of SOTS’, in the above volume: 7198. ‘God as Gambler’ (2016), in Lutheran Theological Journal, 50: 146-154. Professor Ian Jones Lecturer in Management Ian Jones is midway through a research investigation of how banks have altered their practice and culture since the financial crisis of 20072008. This research, undertaken with Professor Michael Pollitt of the Judge Business School at Cambridge, involves collecting case-study data from top-level executives at several banks and then cross-referencing with interviews with leading regulators and industry bodies. The micro-level research has been published as Working Paper 482 at the Centre for Business Research, Cambridge ‘How UK banks are changing their corporate culture and practice following the financial crisis of 2007-08’, I Jones and MG Pollitt (September, 2016). The principal findings are that best-practice banks are simplifying their product range (making products easier for the consumer to understand while also facilitating regulation), exploiting technology in order to increase competitiveness – and addressing incentive schemes (though there remain many examples of deliberately confusing reward systems and apparent indifference to the

social impact of pay differentials). The current stage is to interview individuals at the highest level who are responsible for changing bank conduct through regulation, supervision and public enquiries. Professor David Leopold Tutorial Fellow in Politics Recent publications ‘William Morris, News From Nowhere, and the Functions of Utopia’ (2016), D Leopold, Journal of William Morris Studies, XXII, No. 1: 18-41. ‘Helen MacFarlane (1818-1860)’, D Leopold, for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (British Academy online). ‘Marx, Engels, and Some (Non-Foundational) Arguments against Utopian Socialism’, D Leopold, in J Kandiyali (ed), Reassessing Marx’s Social and Political Philosophy: Freedom, Recognition and Human Flourishing (Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy) (London: Routledge, 2017). Dr Dong Liu Postdoctoral Research Fellow Recent publications ‘Damage Tolerance of Nuclear Graphite at Elevated Temperatures’, D Liu, B Gludovatz, HS Barnard, M Kuball and RO Ritchie (2017), Nature Communications, 8: 15942-1, doi:10.1038/ ncomms15942. ‘On the damage and fracture of nuclear graphite at multiple length-scales’, D Liu, K Mingard, O Lord and P Flewitt (2017), Journal of Nuclear Materials, 493: 246-254, doi: 10.1016/j. jnucmat.2017.06.021. ‘Towards Understanding the Influence of Porosity on Mechanical and Fracture Behaviour of Quasibrittle Materials: Experiments and Modelling’, D Liu, B Šavija, G Smith, P Flewitt and E Schlangen (2017), International Journal of Fracture, 205(1): 57-72, doi:10.1007/s10704-0170181-7. ‘Impact of Diamond Seeding on the Microstructural Properties and Thermal Stability of GaN-on-diamond Wafers for High-power Electronic Devices’, D Liu, D Francis, F Faili, C Middleton, J Anaya, JW Pomeroy, DJ Twitchen and M Kuball (2017), Scripta Materialia, 128: 57-60. ‘Deformation and Fracture of Carbonaceous Materials using in situ Micro-mechanical Testing’, D Liu and P Flewitt (2017), Carbon, 114: 261274. Professor James Marrow Professorial Fellow in Materials Science Recent publications ‘A multi-scale threedimensional Cellular Automata fracture model of radiolytically oxidised nuclear graphite’, Y Vertyagina and TJ Marrow (2017), Carbon (in press). ‘J-integral calculation by finite element processing of measured full-field surface displacements’, SM Barhli, M Mostafavi, AF Cinar, D Hollis, and TJ Marrow (2017), Experimental Mechanics, 57 (6): 997-1009. ‘An autonomous surface discontinuity detection

and quantification method by digital image correlation and phase congruency’, AF Cinar, SM Barhli, D Hollis, M Flansbjer, RA Tomlinson, TJ Marrow, and M Mostafavi (2017), Optics and Lasers in Engineering, 96: 94-106. ‘In-situ X-ray computed tomography characterisation of 3D fracture evolution and image-based numerical homogenisation of concrete’, Z Yang, W Ren, R Sharma, S McDonald, M Mostafavi, Y Vertyagina, and TJ Marrow (2017), Cement and Concrete Composites, 75: 74-83. ‘Quantifying yield behaviour in metals by X-ray nanotomography’, M Mostafavi, R Bradley, DEJ Armstrong, and TJ Marrow (2016), Scientific Reports, 6: 34346. ‘In situ observation of mechanical damage within a SiC-SiC ceramic matrix composite’, L SaucedoMora, T Lowe, S Zhao, PD Lee, PM Mummery, and TJ Marrow (2016), Journal of Nuclear Materials, 481: 13-23. Professor Michèle Mendelssohn Tutorial Fellow in English May 2018 will see the publication of Michèle’s latest book Making Oscar Wilde, which will dramatise Oscar Wilde’s rise, fall, and resurrection, combining new evidence and gripping cultural history.

‘Human occupation of the northern Arabian interior during early Marine Isotope Stage 3’, RP Jennings, A Parton, L Clark‐Balzan, TS White, HS Groucutt, PS Breeze, AG Parker, et al (2016), Journal of Quaternary Science, 31(8): 953-966. ‘Rock art imagery as a proxy for Holocene environmental change: A view from Shuwaymis, NW Saudi Arabia’, M Guagnin, R Jennings, H Eager, A Parton, C Stimpson, C Stepanek, et al (2016), The Holocene, 26(11): 1822-1834. ‘Middle Pleistocene vertebrate fossils from the Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia: implications for biogeography and palaeoecology’, CM Stimpson, A Lister, A Parton, L Clark-Balzan, PS Breeze, et al (2016), Quaternary Science Reviews, 143: 13-36. ‘Low‐latitude Holocene hydroclimate derived from lake sediment flux and geochemistry’, AG Parker, GW Preston, A Parton, H Walkington, PE Jardine, MJ Leng, and MJ Hodson (2016), Journal of Quaternary Science, 31(4): 286-299. ‘The Middle Palaeolithic of the Nejd, Saudi Arabia’, HS Groucutt, P Breeze, NA Drake, R Jennings, A Parton, T White, et al (2016), Journal of Field Archaeology, 41(2): 131-147.

Professor Tuomas Mylly Faculty of Law, University of Turku, Finland; Visiting Fellow at Mansfield College and Academic Visitor at the Faculty of Law Recent publications ‘Hovering between intergovernmentalism and unionization: the shape of unitary patents’, T Mylly (2017), Common Market Law Review, 52(5): 1381-1426. ‘Of values and legitimacy – Discourse analytical insights on the copyright case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union’, T Mylly, H Kalimo and T Meyer (forthcoming), Modern Law Review.

Professor Joel Rasmussen Tutorial Fellow in Theology & Religion Recent publications ‘Democratic Tendencies: Liberal Protestantism and the Growth of American Pluralism’, JDS Rasmussen, in Modern Intellectual History (published online on 5 April 2017 by Cambridge University Press): 1-16. Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1017/ S147924431700004X. ‘The Transformation of Metaphysics’, JDS Rasmussen, in JDS Rasmussen, J Wolfe, and J Zachhuber (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century Christian Thought (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017): 11-34. The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century Christian Thought, JDS Rasmussen, J Wolfe, and J Zachhuber (eds), (Oxford: OUP, 2017).

Dr Ash Parton Stipendiary Lecturer in Geography Recent publications ‘Resolving problematic luminescence chronologies for carbonate- and evaporiterich sediments spanning multiple humid periods in the Jubbah basin, Saudi Arabia’, L Clark-Balzan, A Parton, PS Breeze, HS Groucutt, and MD Petraglia (2017), Quaternary Geochronology. ‘Middle Palaeolithic raw material procurement and early stage reduction at Jubbah, Saudi Arabia’, HS Groucutt, EM Scerri, K Amor, C Shipton, RP Jennings, A Parton, L Clark-Balzan, et al (2017), Archaeological Research in Asia, 9: 44-62. ‘Lakes or wetlands? A comment on “The middle Holocene climatic records from Arabia: Reassessing lacustrine environments, shift of ITCZ in Arabian Sea, and impacts of the southwest Indian and African monsoons” by Enzel et al’, M Engel, A Matter, AG Parker, A Parton, MD Petraglia, GW Preston, and F Preusser (2017), Global and Planetary Change, 148: 258-267.

Professor Jennifer Strawbridge Tutorial Fellow in Theology & Religion Jennifer was appointed by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York to serve on a Lambeth commission tasked with conducting a theological review of the Crown Nominations Commission, which was submitted in the summer of 2017. Recent publications ‘How the body of Lazarus helps to solve a Pauline problem’ (2017), J Strawbridge, New Testament Studies, 63, 4: 588-603. ‘Early Christian Epigraphy, Evil, and the Apotropaic Function of Romans 8.31’ (2017), J Strawbridge, Vigiliae Christianae, 71, 3: 315-329. ‘A School of Paul? Pauline Texts in Early Christian Schooltext Papyri,’ J Strawbridge, in M Hauge and A Pitts (eds), Ancient Education and Early Christianity (New York: T&T Clark, 2016): 165177.

Mansfield 2016/17

Events Calendar 2018 Events held at College unless otherwise specified

FEBRUARY MMRFC Old Boys’ Rugby Match and Dinner Saturday 3rd Further information will be sent in due course.

MARCH Friday 2nd Annual Hands Lecture This year’s event will take place in the Sir Joseph Hotung Auditorium. Speaker TBC.

Friday 16th to Sunday 18th Alumni Weekend: Rome Please visit www.alumni.ox.ac.uk/Rome2018 for more information.

APRIL Wednesday 4th Mansfield College New York Drinks Reception Date and venue TBC We would be delighted if you could join us. Friday 6th to Saturday 7th Alumni Weekend: North America The 2018 Alumni Weekend in North America will be held in San Francisco, CA. Please visit www.alumni.ox.ac.uk/north-america-2018 for more information.

Saturday 7th Mansfield College San Francisco Drinks Reception Venue TBC Please join your fellow Mansfielders. Mansfield/Merton Old Boys’ Cricket Match Date and venue TBC Please note that this event is provisional dependent upon sufficient prior interest being expressed. Please get in touch with the Development Office as soon as possible if you are interested in taking part. MAY Saturday 5th 1887 Society Annual Dinner The annual dinner of the Society for current and former Mansfield Geographers. Speaker TBC. Saturday 26th MCBC Eights Week Dinner Cheer the Mansfield crews on by the Isis on the Saturday of Eights Week! Join us afterwards for dinner and speeches from the MCBC captains. JUNE Saturday 23rd Summer Garden Party & Commemoration Service Our annual event to celebrate the end of the academic year and a farewell to our current Principal. Open to all alumni, students, College staff, SCR members, and all family and friends of the College. Mansfield Alumni Association Annual General Meeting & Dinner Our speaker will be John Glen MP (Modern History, 1993). SEPTEMBER Friday 14th to Sunday 16th Meeting Minds: Oxford Alumni Weekend Events held at venues throughout Oxford. Please visit 56 www.alumni.ox.ac.uk/alumni_home Mansfield 2016/17 for more information.

Saturday 15th Gaudy: 1987 to 1997 Join us in College for a dinner to mark your time at Mansfield. Partners and guests very welcome! OCTOBER Saturday 20th Alumni Reunion: 1972-1976 Mark your time at Mansfield with a drinks reception and dinner in College. Partners and guests welcome. Mansfield in Manchester Date and venue TBC A gathering for alumni taking place in the city of Manchester, UK. OCTOBER/ NOVEMBER Mansfield College London Drinks Reception Date and venue TBC Please join us for our annual London Drinks Reception NOVEMBER Saturday 3rd Law Moot and Dinner Join us in College for a thought provoking event. More details will be sent in due course. Friday 16th The Adam von Trott Memorial Lecture & Drinks Reception Our speaker this year will be Thomas Oppermann, Parliamentary Party Leader of the SPD in the Bundestag. Mansfield in Bristol Date and venue TBC A gathering for alumni taking place in the city of Bristol, UK. DECEMBER Saturday 1st 10 Year Anniversary Dinner (2008 matric) Join us for a drinks reception and dinner in College to celebrate the 10th anniversary of your matriculation. MANSFIELD LECTURE SERIES As well as all these exciting events, please don’t forget our regular lecture series every Friday at 5pm during term time. Entry is free and all are welcome to attend. More information on our speakers will be announced on our website. Our events calendar will always be subject to additions, which we shall keep you informed about via our e-newsletter and on our website. For more information about Mansfield events, please contact Alumni Relations Officer, Kathryn Worthington. Email: alumni.officer@mansfield.ox.ac.uk Telephone: 0044 (0) 1865 270 998 We look forward to seeing you!

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