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Members’ News and Publications

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1945

Daphne Swan (Mrs Sleigh) writes: ‘I did not expect to be bringing out another book at the age of 95, but this one is a 2021 reprint of my 1990 book, The People of the Harrison. It is a history of the early people – both Indigenous and European newcomers – on Harrison River and Lake (in Canada’s Fraser Valley). Out of print for several years, it has now found a new publisher – the Fraser Heritage Society. During Covid’s monotonous spell, I turned to poetry writing, and provided a small distraction in my apartment building by putting up a monthly poem on the notice board in the lobby (and on the internet). Another poet wrote humorous verse. Both our efforts were appreciated.’

1951

Lindsey Miller (Mrs March) writes: ‘I am living in Oxford and active in Extinction Rebellion in London and Oxford, seeking arrest. Continuing to circle dance. Keen to host anyone from my cohort (1951-4).’ Jenifer Weston (Mrs Wates) has had a late flowering of inspiration during the lockdowns, and held two exhibitions of her recent paintings. The ‘Corona’ paintings were shown at the Museum of Oxfordshire in Woodstock in July 2021, and the ‘Magnificat’ series in St Mary Magdalene's church, Woodstock, in March 2022. These abstract and radiant paintings, shown alongside poems and other writings exploring the thoughts behind them, seek to express the turning point we face as a world as a result of the pandemic and the climate emergency, and the vision of peace and justice we need to pursue.

1957

Reziya Ahmad (Mrs Harrison) has a grandson at Somerville about to sit his finals and another about to set off for three months in South America as part of his gap year. Reziya is building up a practice as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist; after battling a certain amount of ageism to get accepted onto a good training course, she qualified in October.

1959

Esther Rantzen writes: ‘My life at the moment seems filled with memorial services – unsurprising perhaps at my age – the two most recent were for Dame Vera Lynn where her medals and honours were formally processed up the aisle of Westminster Abbey and placed on the altar, and Nicholas Parsons CBE, where Dame Sheila Hancock read ‘The Owl and the Pussycat’ by Nicholas’s favourite author, Edward Lear, and on cue a black cat strolled up to the dais, walked across it, and without hesitating, deviating or interrupting the ceremony, disappeared again. I do think we Somervillians have a duty to make our funerals as entertaining as possible. I am torn between “Wish Me Luck as You Wave Me Goodbye” as the final piece of music, or “Come On Baby Light My Fire”.’

1960

Carol Bishop (Dr Morrison) writes: ‘I decided to celebrate turning 80 by starting a new job. I joined an artist collective, Art1274Hollis, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and was the featured artist for the month of March.’ Sally Senior writes: ‘Now, in one’s 80s, the major achievement is being still upright. Even my five grandchildren are virtually adult.... One has just got a conditional place in medical school, which we gather is a virtual miracle this year.’

1961

Maya Bradshaw (Dr Slater) has had the following publications since 2019: Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago, translated by Nicolas Pasternak Slater (The Folio Society, 2019), Editor and Picture Editor, Maya Slater; Ivan Turgenev, Love and Youth: Essential Stories, translated from the Russian by Nicolas Pasternak Slater and Maya Slater (London: Pushkin Press, 2020); Fyodor Dostoevsky, A Bad Business: Essential Stories, translated from the Russian by Nicolas Pasternak Slater and Maya Slater (London: Pushkin Press, 2021); Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Children, translated from the Russian by Nicolas Pasternak Slater and Maya Slater (New York: New York Review of Books, 2022); Review of Le ‘Vieux Magasin’ de La Fontaine by Tiphaine Rolland, in July 2021 issue of French Studies (75.3).

1961

Caroline Pinder (Mrs Cracraft) writes from Chicago: ‘I have happily moved to a “retirement facility”, The Admiral at the Lake, and am loving it. My only complaint, the food is so good that I am putting on weight. I was so very disappointed that Covid-19 restrictions prevented the College from organising a 60th reunion for 1961.’ Cynthia Smith (Mrs Floud) is doing oral history, recording the memories of the 86-year-old ex-milkman in Haddenham, Bucks. To keep him on topic, she records him as they walk his old rounds. Transcripts via otter.ai, with photographs, are to be deposited in Haddenham Museum and available with the audio files on the internet. She is encouraging others to use this method.

1964

Alison Skilbeck writes: ‘2021 saw things open up both in my Communications Skills work for RADA and with acting generally. I trained top managers from Michelin in France, then filmed, quite dangerously, on Honister Crag, above a slate quarry. I also had a nice cameo role in a famous Netflix series about which I cannot speak until

it is shown! I shall be taking my onewoman Mrs Roosevelt Flies to London to Edinburgh this August – her message seems so timely – and trying out my new show Uncommon Ground at the Buxton Festival (Fringe) in late July. Good to be at Somerville for Supporters' lunch.’ Sue Watson (Mrs Griffin) has recently become Chair of the Oxford University Society in Cambridgeshire. They organise events and activities for Oxford alumni who live in Cambridgeshire, including talks, visits and social events. In September they hope to give the local freshers an opportunity to meet up before they start their first term at Oxford. Membership currently includes 15 Somervillians with matriculation dates ranging from 1953 to 2007.

1967

Edwina Brown writes: ‘I am still enjoying work despite the stresses of Covid changing clinical working habits and talks for overseas meetings being delivered from the dining-room table. In August, I become the president of the International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis for two years. Fortunately this is happening as Covid-related travel restrictions are gradually being lifted so I am looking forward to opportunities of meeting colleagues old and new overseas, and in particular being able to improve access for people with kidney disease to have dialysis in lower income countries. At the same time, there is the challenge of “passing on the baton” for various clinical and educational activities. Meanwhile, there is the pleasure of seeing my two sons finish their medical training and approaching consultant jobs, and being involved with increasing numbers of grandchildren.’

1969

Julie Weston (Mrs Baddeley) writes that Chapter Zero, the UK climate network for directors which she founded in 2019, now has more than 2,000 members, and the international movement, the Climate Governance Initiative or CGI, spans 30 countries. She hopes to mobilise these key business influencers to deliver the transition to net zero emissions and help to keep global warming to 1.5 degrees, in line with the Glasgow Climate Pact agreed at COP26. This will require the biggest transformation to the economy in our lifetimes and we have fewer than 2,800 days to halve emissions worldwide. The urgency and current lack of pace of change is terrifying to Julie, as a Somerville zoologist, but there is a huge amount of work going on in Oxford to help tackle the challenge.

1970

Baroness Lucy Neville-Rolfe has been appointed Minister of State in the Cabinet Office Cathryn (Cathy) Higham (Dr Sinclair) has retired from her work as a professional scientist and management consultant and has published a book of poetry about her lockdown experience: A Lyrical Life in Lockdown. Cathy explains that producing the book was totally unintentional. When lockdown began, she decided to keep in touch with friends by writing a few poems about what was happening, but lockdown continued for so long that in the event she wrote 230. Sabina Lovibond has the following recent publications: ‘Wittgenstein and Moral Realism: The Debate Continues’, in Richard Amesbury and Hartmut von Sass (eds.), Ethics after Wittgenstein: Contemplation and Critique (Bloomsbury, 2021); ‘Philosophy, Literature, Politics: The Cases of Rorty and Collingwood’, in Giancarlo Marchetti (ed.), The Ethics, Epistemology, and Politics of Richard Rorty (Routledge, 2022); ‘The Unquiet Life: Salience and Moral Responsibility’, in Sophie Archer (ed.), Salience: A Philosophical Inquiry (Routledge, 2022); ‘Aesthetic and Ethical Attitudes’, in ZEMO (Zeitschrift für Ethik und Moralphilosophie), April 2022 (online).

1971

Hilary Mutton (Professor Winchester) took up the position of University Secretary at Charles Darwin University in April 2021, overseeing governance, regulation, legal, policy, risk and related matters. She also became a Commissioner for Oaths (NT) earlier this year. She is enjoying the beautiful Darwin landscape and climate and has no plans for retirement any time soon. We warmly congratulate Hilary on her award of an AM in the Queen’s Birthday Honours (Australia). Ruth Sillar writes: ‘I have been volunteering at the Bar Convent, York, firstly in the permanent exhibition (pre-Covid) and now in the archives. This feels a reasonably safe activity for someone like myself who was classified as ‘clinically extremely vulnerable’ during the pandemic. Two of us have transcribed the Convent diary for the years 1939-1945. The diary itself was damaged during the “Baedeker Raid” of April 1942, when the Convent took a direct hit, and is now on display. My WEA art class has continued to function online, with the help of our enthusiastic and supportive tutor.’

1974

Sue Barratt (Mrs Williamson) is currently Director, Libraries, for Arts Council England and we warmly congratulate her on her award of an MBE for services to the Library Sector in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list. Frances Crane (Mrs Sinha) writes: ‘I have spent my working life based in India, where I co-founded M-CRIL, a development consultancy that provides research, evaluation and other services for financial inclusion and poverty reduction. One of my last pieces of work for M-CRIL, before I “semi-retired”, was as Team Lead for the Mid-Term Evaluation of UNCDF’s Expanding Financial Access Programme in Myanmar. This has received a 2022 UNDP Evaluation Excellence Reward for Gender Responsive Evaluation. I am not aware that I did anything different in this report from other evaluation reports for the UN. Maybe being in Myanmar attracted attention. But I am pleased, nonetheless! http://web.undp.org/ evaluation/award/evaluations/2022/ uncdf-gender.shtml.’ Felicity (Fiz) Markham is studying Composition for a Masters degree (MMus) at Royal Holloway part-time. She is also enjoying conducting a community choir, singing, and playing clarinet and piano in various groups. She has recently completed a City and Guilds Award in Education and Training. Other activities include learning the duduk for a module on her course and visiting her 104-year-old mother in a local care home.

Jenna Orkin’s new-ish book is out: How to Say ‘F— Your Mother’ in Chinese: A Teacher’s Guide (independently published; available from Amazon).

1975

We are delighted to congratulate Nia Griffith most warmly on her appointment as Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list 2022. Philippa Tudor’s biography of Mrs Gustav Holst: An Equal Partner? was published in March 2022.

1976

Helen Goodman writes: ‘I have been appointed Professor in Practice in the School of Government and International Affairs and my first lecture was on “Parliament is Too Weak!”. I’m also on the Durham Energy Institute Board trying to help with translating their R+D into renewable technologies into practice and I’m very keen to talk to colleagues also working on net zero. I’m a trustee on a few charities: Church Action on Poverty, Zacchaeus 2000 and Banana Link. Finally, or rather most recently, I’m hosting a refugee family from Ukraine.’ Jane Macintyre has for the last five years been volunteering at the Courtauld Institute helping to digitise a collection of million or so architectural photographs. This stirred her interest in architecture and design, and so before lockdown she applied to study for the Masters in History of Design at Oxford’s Continuing Education department. She recently graduated from this thoughtprovoking and very enjoyable course. Next, she will be helping with the John Stuart Mill marginalia project at Somerville library and looking out for more volunteering opportunities that allow her to stay connected to her recent studies. Ellen McAdam writes: ‘I have received a grant from the Art Fund to carry out a survey of civic museum collections in England that have been designated as being of national significance. I am working with the Civic Museums Network to complete this. If you have never been involved with museum collections other than viewing the 2% on display, you cannot imagine how entrancingly weird and diverse they are. Working on this survey is a little like being locked up in an up-market, multi-disciplinary version of the Middle of Lidl. I do not allow myself to have favourites, but the Pinto Collection of Treen will always occupy a special place in my esteem.’ Rosie Rogers (Mrs Oliver) writes: ‘One 2019 highlight was being part of a co-operative of women writers who edited and published a science fiction anthology, Distaff. I was absolutely delighted when one of its stories was included in the Best of British Science Fiction 2019. It was such fun that we’re now in the process of producing a sister fantasy anthology, Femme Fae-Tales. Another highlight was judging handicrafts in my first year as a qualified Nation Federation of Women’s Institutes (NFWI) craft judge. People’s talent never ceases to amaze me. Sadly Covid-19 put paid to this, but has given me more time to do my needlework.’

NIA GRIFFITH

1977

Lesley Gregory is Chair of law firm Memery Crystal, and is proud to have established a 150+ network of ‘Women In Business’ comprising female entrepreneurs, NEDs, mentors and other like-minded professionals who want to support female business founders. They run seminars, events and dinners in London.

1978

Janet Bush writes: ‘Late last year, I was elected to be a public governor of what was until recently the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. The old Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust (RD&E) is merging with the Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust. I was treated at the RD&E some years ago and decided to play a role if I could. I originally signed up to meet and greet at the hospital but then this governorship came up!’ Kamila Ebrahim (Professor Hawthorne) has had a longstanding interest in health inequalities, working with BAME communities in Nottingham, Manchester and Cardiff, and was awarded an MBE for services to general practice in 2017. She is currently Head of the Graduate Entry Medicine programme at Swansea University, while maintaining her clinical interest in general practice in Mountain Ash, in the Welsh Valleys. This year she has been elected as the next Chair of the Royal College of GPs and will serve a three-year term from November 2022. We are delighted to congratulate Kamila on her appointment. Michele Moody-Adams shares two pieces of news: ‘I was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in April of 2021. Here is one version of the announcement from the Columbia University website: https://news.columbia.edu/news/ columbians-who-are-new-2021american-academy-of-arts-andsciences-inductees. I have also just published a new book with Columbia University Press, entitled Making Space for Justice: Social Movements, Collective Imagination, and Political Hope. Here is the page on the Columbia Press website : https://cup.columbia. edu/book/making-space-forjustice/9780231201377. I hope that students, faculty and staff at Somerville

KAMILA EBRAHIM

had a relatively smooth transition to an almost post-pandemic world. I have just ended a three-year term as Philosophy Department Chair at Columbia and the three years have truly felt like “dog years”.’ Tanya Szrajber (Mrs Firth) has been nominated a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (under her professional name, Szrajber) and is Collections Manager for the Goldsmiths Company.

1979

Julia Gasper published her last book, Anne-Marie Fauques de Vaucluse: a Tiger among the Bluestockings, in 2021 and gave a copy to the College library. It is a critical biography of a very neglected 18th-century woman writer. Julia is now on the Advisory board of the group called Academics for Academic Freedom. https://www.afaf.org.uk/ Caroline Rae has been honoured by the French Government for her services to French music and was made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2018. Her most recent book, André Jolivet: Music, Art and Literature, the first on the composer in English, was published by Routledge in 2019. Our warm congratulations to Caroline. Deborah Taylor is this year’s Treasurer of Inner Temple. ‘It is a good year, as the Inn is re-opening after a major building project to provide a new education and training centre. This year is also the 100th anniversary of the first woman to be called to the Bar, so we have much to celebrate. Whilst being Treasurer I am continuing as Resident Judge at Southwark and Recorder of Westminster.’ Jacqueline Watts, writing as J. S. Watts, had her latest novel, Elderlight (the last book in the Witchlight series), published in December 2021 while she was stuck in a hospital bed – ‘not the most auspicious launch for a new publication.’

1980

Jacky Roynon (Mrs Rattue) writes: ‘After many years living in various parts of the UK and in Spain, I found myself moving back to Oxford in 2017. I’m thoroughly enjoying it, and work as a careers adviser at the local Further Education college (City of Oxford College) with young people who are figuring out what they want to do in

1981

Sarah Pope (Mrs Wardle) writes: ‘I am currently living in Truro, Cornwall with my husband Hugh, and two of my five children. I am kept very busy with my full-time job working as a Senior Advisory Teacher of the Deaf within the Sensory Support Service at Cornwall Council. As I have a level 6 qualification in British Sign Language (BSL), a lot of my work is with deaf children and young people using BSL as their first or preferred language in mainstream settings in the county. Outside of work I enjoy walking our two Cairn terriers, swimming and catching up with friends and family.”

1983

Danielle Lux writes: ‘I was awarded a Fellowship of the Royal Television Society in 2021 – which was absolutely wonderful and a huge surprise: https:// rts.org.uk/article/rts-awards-2021fellowships. We won a BAFTA last year for Best Entertainment Programme – for a poetry show we do called Life and Rhymes.’ Danielle and her management team, CPL Productions, were one of a select few ‘indie legends/unsung heroes’ who were honoured and received a special tribute from PACT at their summer party on 24th June. Danielle was applauded for ‘inspiring staff to do better and reminding them why they went into TV in the first place – to produce good telly, have fun and make life better’.

1984

Fiona Forsyth writes: ‘I’m still in Qatar but my news is that I have become a published author. Three novels set in the world of Ancient Rome were published earlier this year and they are all available on Amazon of course!’ Collette Lux has been Executive Director of Communications and Marketing for University College London. In this role Collette has developed advertising campaigns and reshaped the approach to international student recruitment, hiring the first incountry officer in India. The sector has acknowledged the impact of her work, and her team was shortlisted for the THE Award for Outstanding Marketing/ Communications Team, and won Best PR/Communications Campaign Initiative in the HEIST Awards, Marketing Campaign of the Year in the PIEoneer Awards, and Gold in The Drum Design Awards; they were also finalists for Best Education Campaign in the 2020 CIPR Excellence Awards. In 2022, Collette became the first Chief Marketing Officer of the Vocational Training Charity Trust.

1985

Rachel Wright re-joined the BBC World Service in the last couple of years and is now regularly presenting The Newsroom programme and the BBC’s flagship Global News Podcast. Here is one she did earlier: https://www.bbc.co.uk/ sounds/play/p0bzdr6p

1987

Sally Prentice’s main news is that she graduated with an MSc with Distinction in Grantmaking, Philanthropy and Social Investment from the Centre for Charity Effectiveness, Bayes Business School, City University.

1988

Alex Bailey (Mrs Hems) writes: ‘From September 2022 I shall be taking up a new position as the Head of the Aldenham Foundation, a group of independent schools in Hertfordshire. I am very excited to be making this move and looking forward to becoming their first female Head of Foundation.’ Essaka Joshua writes: ‘I’ve been elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, and have joined the editorial board of the book series ‘Cambridge Studies in Romanticism’ and the editorial committee of the journal PMLA. I’m having a great deal of fun as a consultant to an exhibition of the works of disabled artist Sarah Biffin (1784-1850) at the Philip Mould gallery on Pall Mall. The exhibition opens in November.’ See https:// philipmould.com/exhibitions/31-sarahbiffin-1784-1850/

1989

Therese Coffey was appointed Secretary of State for Health and Social Care and Deputy Prime Minister on 6 September 2022. This appointment makes her the first woman to serve as Deputy Prime Minister. Vanessa Panini (Mrs Lawson) writes: ‘Matthew and I are still living in South

Wales and I’m still an accountant working in a small practice founded ten years ago with a colleague. Our sons are 13 and 16 and we do a lot of orienteering as a family. The boys have been selected for their national age group talent camps and are thriving. One is already too quick for me and the other will be soon. I do a lot of open water swimming and have very much enjoyed the challenge of my first winter of swimming. I find it very therapeutic and look forward to more. We still do a lot of hillwalking and fell running and generally love being outdoors in our spare time.’

1991

Marisa Le Masuier (Dr Wray) writes: ‘In 2020, at the start of the first Covid lockdown, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. I have just published a memoir about my experience of navigating cancer services in the NHS during Covid. Cancer, Covid and Me is available on Amazon.’ If anyone would like to contact Marisa, please get in touch with the Alumni Office at Somerville.

1992

Laura Gray writes: ‘I am still based just outside of Siena with Marco and our three children. After twenty years of running a small winery, Il Palazzone, I am on the brink of going freelance and hope to find the time to complete my project, The Magpie’s Guide to Montalcino.

1993

Bourby Norman (Mrs Webster) writes: ‘My news is that ten years from founding and running Perth Symphony Orchestra, we’ve got large enough for me to take Long Service Leave and appoint a new CEO to replace me, to take the orchestra into the next decade. We’ve grown to be one of the largest arts companies in Western Australia and have a unique business model that enables us to innovate, create and sustain ourselves without relying on philanthropy and funding, despite being a charity. Despite the pandemic, we performed to over 100,000 patrons last year, many in rural and remote parts of Western Australia giving work to over 150 musicians and engaging many more suppliers and casual workers in the arts sector.’ Camilla Baker writes: ‘I have been living back in my great-grandfather’s home, and have found myself spearheading a campaign to keep ours and other small National Trust properties open: https://chng.it/fXn5NsHk. Here is an article: https://www.kentonline. co.uk/gravesend/news/family-fightto-protect-herbert-baker-ancestralhome-from-cl-263370/. I have been grateful of support from fellow Somervillians, who have given their time even during this time of global unrest.’

1995

Jane Aspell has been promoted to Associate Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Anglia Ruskin University. In December she was interviewed about her research on the BBC Radio 4 programme All in the Mind. She is still living in Cambridge with her daughter, Isabel, and their two cats.

1996

Eleanor Reid (Mrs Smith) is a consultant commercial property solicitor and very much appreciates the flexibility it brings, whilst keeping her working and thinking and doing something she enjoys. Her boys are 13 and 10 now, growing fast and she is enjoying watching that too. She and her family have recently moved to Tonbridge and she would welcome Somervillian visitors (email via Somerville Alumni Office).

1997

Joanne Clement was this year appointed QC. Joanne specialises in public law and human rights.

1998

Louisa Radice writes: ‘I took part in the latest series of Mastermind: episode 19, transmitted 17 January 2022. My specialist subject was the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.’ https://www.bbc.co.uk/ programmes/m0013nzf

1999

Zoe Cokeliss (Mrs Cokeliss Barsley) writes: ‘After twenty years in London, I am back in north Oxford where I live with my husband and our son. I work at Oxford University Press as Director of Sustainability, so have the pleasure of proximity to Somerville!’

CAROLINE LYTTON NEE SMITH 1999 WITH SIR MATTHEW PINSENT

Caroline Smith (Mrs Lytton) writes: ‘The day before the Boat Race, I was very proud to be asked to umpire the first Veteran Women’s Boat Race held on the same course as the men’s race – roughly the first mile and a half of the traditional Putney-to-Mortlake course. I was even happier that the Oxford women went on to win, even though I’m meant to be impartial as the umpire!’

2000

Alistair Fair was promoted to Reader in Architectural History at the University of Edinburgh in 2020 and completed his latest book, Peter Moro and Partners, for Historic England/Liverpool University Press in 2021. He is now CoInvestigator on a Leverhulme-funded project examining the architectural and social histories of Scotland’s post-war new towns.

2009

Rachel Boakes was very sadly diagnosed last year with an incurable brain tumour. Since her diagnosis, Rachel has been determined to make something positive from her very difficult situation and in particular to raise crucial funds for Brainstrust, a charity researching brain tumours (https://brainstrust. org.uk/). Rachel’s close Somervillian friend, Elie McDaniell (2009), has made a magnificent contribution to these fundraising efforts by undertaking an epic challenge, cycling 190 miles from London to Paris on 2 April before running the Paris Marathon the next day. All funds raised from Elie’s challenge have gone to support the charity. If you would like to support this, here is maker in the world.’ See https:// www.voguebusiness.com/fashion/ british-fashion-on-the-big-screen-aprivate-viewing-uk-department-forinternational-trade

the link to the JustGiving fundraising page: https://www.justgiving.com/ fundraising/rachel-boakes. Anusha Couttigane wrote at the end of May: ‘As the Cannes Film Festival reaches its climax, Vogue Business Head of Advisory Anusha Couttigane (20092012) has led a short film production in partnership with the UK Department for International Trade to celebrate the contribution of British fashion talent to the film and television industry. In British Fashion on the Big Screen: A Private Viewing, she goes behind the scenes with three iconic costume designers: Anna Robbins, designer for Downton Abbey, Sophie Canale, designer for Bridgerton and the eminent Sandy Powell OBE, three-time Academy Award winner for Best Costume Design. The film also features Samata Pattinson, CEO of Red Carpet Green Dress and Jeremy Angel, Production Director and seventh generation leader of family-run Angels Costumes, the oldest costume

2010

Racha Kirakosian is currently a Fellow at the Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study.

2015

Jae Young Park writes: ‘I worked as a Foundation Doctor from July 2021 to November 2021, after which I had left the medical profession to be an investment banker. I am currently working at UBS Investment Bank’s Healthcare Division. At present, I am an Off-Cycle Intern (Long-Term intern), with a signed contract to convert into a full-time analyst in July 2022.’

2019

Devaang Savla writes: ‘Completing my BCL in the year 2020 I have returned to India and resumed my litigation at the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, where I and three other partners have established a law firm, M/s Lawbridge Partners. Apart from our regular practice, we are fighting various pro bono cases helping and aiding litigants who belong to socially backward communities and are also financially challenged. This pro bono work is in furtherance to the objective undertaken and program facilitated by LASDES (Legal Aid and Social Development Educational Society), an NGO founded by me in the year 2017 (www.lasdes.com).”