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Dublin Appointment
Theological Promise
Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell has been appointed Pro-Chancellor at the University of Dublin (also known as Trinity College, Dublin). Jocelyn, a Professorial Fellow in Physics at Mansfield, comments: ‘This means I have to pretend to be a competent Latin speaker (with Protestant not Catholic pronunciation – did you know there was a difference?) and preside at some degree ceremonies (called Commencements in TCD) when the Chancellor, Mary Robinson, is absent.’
In May of 2013, Dr David Lincicum, who in 2012 was elected to the G.B. Caird Fellowship in New Testament Theology vacated by the retiring Rev Dr John Muddiman, travelled to Heidelberg to receive a Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise. The award is given annually to an international selection of ten young scholars, and was on this occasion awarded for dissertations on the topic of ‘God and Spirituality’. As a part of the award, David will be offered the chance to propose an interdisciplinary colloquium on a relevant theological topic.
RGS Award
Accolades for the Principal At the 2013 AGM of the Royal Geographical Society, held on June 3rd, Dr Richard Powell, Tutorial Fellow in Geography at Mansfield, received the Gill Memorial Award for research on historical and polar geography. Richard is in the final year of his second term as Chair of the Society’s ‘History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group’.
Reporting Environmental Change Mansfield’s Dr Pam Berry, Senior Research Fellow at the University’s Environmental Change Institute, is part of the group of senior scientists that has begun work this year on a series of ‘Report Cards’. These cards summarise emerging themes from the body of recent scientific studies, to provide an overview of key trends. The work is being produced for the Living With Environmental Change Partnership, a group of organisations concerned with the funding and use of environmental research. The online, click-through Report Cards will advise policy makers, environmental consultants and researchers about current evidence. www.lwec.org.uk/resources/report-cards
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Our Principal, Baroness Helena Kennedy, was this year elected to an Honorary Fellowship of the British Academy. The Honorary Fellowship is the highest honour that the British Academy awards for service to scholarly learning. Baroness Kennedy was also voted 2013’s ‘Peer of the Year’ by the national newspaper Asian Voice’s Political and Public Life Awards panel, which praised her report on Human Trafficking for the Equality and Human Rights Commission. Asian Voice is the major news weekly for British Asian communities, with a circulation of over 200,000.
Yale Fellowship Dr Michèle Mendelssohn, University Lecturer in English, and Tutorial Fellow at Mansfield, has been awarded the 2014 Donald C Gallup Fellowship in American Literature at Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. The award is in support of her research on the legacy of 19th-century British decadence for early 20th-century African American artists and writers, especially during the Harlem Renaissance.
