St Peter's College Record 2023

2023

Editors:

Dr Claire Williams Fellow and Tutor in Brazilian Literature and Culture

Dr Tim Mawson

Edgar Jones Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy

Anne Millard

Executive Editor and Fellows’ Secretary

St Peter’s College Oxford OX1 2DL

Tel: +44 (0)1865 278900 www.spc.ox.ac.uk

In 2022 Tereza Taylor (Accounts Assistant) celebrated 25 years at St Peter’s. Tereza’s hard work and dedication have been invaluable to the College.

To mark this significant milestone, Tereza was presented with a beautiful crystal vase and bouquet.

St Peter’s College Record

Front Cover: The College Mulberry Tree

Editorial

If all goes to plan, readers should be finding this edition of the College Record on their doormats early in 2024. It reports on some of the most notable events and comings and goings at the College in the academic year 22-23 and, as usual, there is much to report on a wide range of topics; the Master’s letter, with which it opens, gives a synoptic overview of the year.

The feature articles in this year’s edition are of course but a sampling of the topics that occupy the attention of members of our community and yet they are indicative of the breadth of our interests. Bob Hilton, Fellow in Earth Sciences, tells us something of the science behind the erosion and weathering of rocks as it pertains to their capacity to store Carbon Dioxide, a subject which is at once one of (pre-)historical interest and also one of contemporary cogency to the climate emergency which we are currently facing. Our Fellow in Music, Sarah Hill, takes us on a wistful trip back in time, to San Francisco in the 1960s and the unique and influential culture with which it has become so famously associated. And then our Archivist, Alison Ray, takes us back a couple of decades earlier than that, but to somewhere that could not be more local to us - telling a story that even many of those who are long-standing members of the College may not have heard, of the period during the Second World War when, with our young men largely absent, St Peter’s Hall (as it was then) was taken over by the ladies of Westfield College, a connection which will be further memorialised in Westfield House, one of the new accommodation blocks which reaches completion as this is typed and should be occupied as you read it.

We wish our readership a Happy New Year and trust that, should 2024 give you the occasion to return to the College, you will find yourselves delighted equally by what you discover has remained unchanged since your younger days and those things which are new.

The Master’s Letter

It is not possible to decant a seventeenth-century Stuart king and his court to a city the size of Oxford without in the process taking over a large proportion of the city. While Oxford was the royalists’ headquarters during the English Civil War, King Charles I and his court resided at Christ Church, Queen Henrietta Maria and her court took up residence at Merton, the Commons of the King’s counter-Parliament sat in the Divinity School and the Great Hall at Christ Church, the Lords sat in Convocation House, and the Privy Council was based in Oriel. Meanwhile, the royal ordnance was quartered in Magdalen Grove, munitions were stored in New College cloister and bell tower, the artillery camped in University Parks and Royalist troops were billeted out around other colleges. And while these other spaces were being appropriated in the cause, what of New Inn Hall, the site where St Peter’s now stands?

New Inn Hall in the Civil War

Requisitioned as the Royal Mint, New Inn Hall became, in effect, the engine room for everything else. No war comes cheap and nor did Charles I run what could be termed an economical household. In the midst of the King’s ongoing and insistent calls for donations of arms, horses and plate during his stay in Oxford, ‘to assist your King in such visible necessity’, equipment was imported from the pre-war mint at Aberystwyth and experienced mint masters Thomas Bushell and Sir William Pankhurst were appointed to run the New Inn Hall Mint. Between January 1642 and May 1646, New Inn Hall repurposed foreign coin and the silverware that other halls and colleges had ‘offered up’ (some more willingly than others) to keep the King financially afloat.

Denominations struck at New Inn Hall in the Civil War ranged from the penny to the pound. The most intricate of these was the Oxford Crown, designed in 1644 by the engraver and medallist Thomas Rawlins.1 The Oxford Crown displays its provenance on the reverse through the word OXON and the triple stamp of the ‘Oxford plume’, and on the obverse through a detailed view of the fortified city of Oxford, positioned beneath and behind an equestrian portrait of the King. Across the history of English coinage, no city has been presented with the intricacy of recognisable architectural detail as that given to the Oxford cityscape, and no coin produced with a comparably emphatic sense of the place of its coining as is showcased in the Rawlins-designed Oxford Crown minted in New Inn Hall.

To say that St Peter’s has never been one of the wealthier colleges is to understate. St Peter’s can cut it with the best of them for friendliness, for vibrant community life, for social contribution,

for the stimulating eccentricity of our architectural mix, for overperforming on the river and in other sports, for a high-quality musical tradition, for the warmth of engagement from alumni, for benign roguishness, for much-vaunted automatic doors (thank you to Gordon Corera (History, 1992) for an early induction into the significance of these) and, yes, for academic excellence. Financially, however, we have always been a minnow. From the perspective of the present, therefore, the history of our site as the place where money used to be minted constitutes a nice irony. While our contemporary estate reliably yields up many good things – a notably warm welcome to all comers, a bunch of highachieving and community-spirited students and a flotilla of fine academics amongst them – a licence to mint money is, alas, no longer one of them.

A 1644 Oxford Crown minted in New Inn Hall, obverse and reverse. Reproduced from a print purchased by Professor Henry Mayr-Harting from Sanders on The High Street and generously gifted to the Master in Trinity term 2023. 1 A surviving Oxford Crown is held at the Ashmolean, having been transferred from the Bodleian Library in 1760.

St Peter’s Trees

College continues to bear fruit in other ways, though – including literally. The five espaliered pear trees up against the south wall of the chapel yield a crop of tasty pears annually with which our fine College chefs, Ave Davies and Tony Baughan, do imaginative things. And a couple of new fruit trees will in due course be planted as part of the re-laid garden to Canal House. For more than two years, there has been no garden to Canal House: portacabins and an enormous crane have necessarily taken over the garden space to help facilitate the ambitious Castle Bailey Quad construction works (on which, see the Interim Bursar’s report). But the restoration of the garden, to coincide with the eagerly anticipated opening of Castle Bailey Quad itself, is happily now imminent. And once the garden is restored, the new fruit trees in prospect should enable future moments of collective picking amongst the College community – just as the mulberry tree that gives its name to our back quad has done for many years.

The College mulberry tree was originally planted where the Besse Building now stands. In the early 1950s, both the young mulberry, and a mature horse chestnut in the north west corner of Linton Quad, had to be removed to clear the ground for the Besse Building works to proceed. Toby Tinne (Bursar, 1930-1956) fought to try and save the condemned chestnut tree, but was over-ruled by the rest of the fellowship. (‘Toby is quite irrational about it,’ reported

Eric Smith in his diary.) Unlike the chestnut, however, the mulberry was still young enough to be uprooted and for a wholesale move to be attempted. On 14 February 1950, Eric Smith recorded in his diary: ‘Today our college mulberry tree was dug up and moved to its new site, in readiness for the new building. Whether it will survive nobody knows, but it had to be moved.’

The young mulberry tree did survive and the ‘new site’ to which Smith referred was the mid-lawn position in front of the Emily Morris Building (Staircase IV) that has been its home ever since.

In its passage down the decades since, the mulberry tree has offered shade and cheer and gloriously sweet mulberries to generations of students and colleagues. It has inspired picking parties from which all have emerged fruit-stained and a little giddy on natural sugars. It has served as the start and finish of whacky race circuits around College and has proved a haven for wildlife. It has witnessed sunny seminars, angst-ridden revision sessions and post-exams celebrations and proved a fine neighbour for St Peter’s first piece of public art, the Tom Stogdon sculpture. In its yearly cycles, it has helped successive generations mark the seasons. And it has done all of this while itself depending increasingly on structural supports as it has taken on an ever more extravagant cant.

Not having extensive grounds, St Peter’s has only a small number of trees. But, in the spirit of former bursar Toby Tinne, we are inordinately attached to the trees that we have. I am therefore very sad to report that, after decades of bravely withstanding wind and weather, and even a mindless attack by students from another college in the early 1970s, in late June 2023, our marvellous old mulberry tree finally said no más and came down in high winds. Mercifully no-one was hurt, but there

has been no mulberrying in St Peter’s this year. I know that many of you will join us in ruing the passing of this fine old tree as both a beautiful entity in its own right and as a wonderful repository of a host of College stories to boot.

In next year’s Record , we will be able to report on the new young mulberry tree that will shortly be introduced to our back quad to give shade and cheer and sweet fruit to future generations of students. In the meantime, all the timber that we could rescue from the old mulberry is currently drying out to be put to other uses in due course. Just as the wood from the felled walnut tree in Linton Quad some years ago was turned by master craftsman Robert Hadaway (PPE, 1984) into beautiful new chairs for High Table, so the rescued wood from the old mulberry tree will remain part of the fabric of our estate in ways on which we will be able to report next year.

The espaliered pear trees

The youngish mulberry tree in its brand new position, 1950. Photographed from the place where the Besse Building would subsequently be built.

The mulberry tree as a haven for birds 2021

The propped-up mulberry tree glimpsed through the Tom Stogdon sculpture ahead of the SPC Ball, May 2022.

The mulberry in summer (spot the fox).

Barron House

In September 2022 we celebrated acquiring the freehold purchase of the Law Centre on New Road (the old Probate Office), and its renaming as ‘Barron House’ in tribute to Professor John Barron (Master, 1991–2003). To mark the moment, we had the great pleasure of welcoming back to College long-standing friend of College, John’s widow Professor Caroline Barron, and family. Seren and Leo, John and Caroline’s grandchildren, unveiled the plaques that proudly remember their grandfather, and the Senior Tutor, Dr Huw Dorkins gave a short speech paying tribute to our former Master.

The plaque in the entrance hall to the old Law Centre now reads ‘Barron House incorporating Evnomia Chambers’. Evnomia is the Greek goddess of good order and good governance and Evnomia Chambers was the name chosen in 2000, as the leasehold was purchased, to describe all the law-related functions of the building (including law library and reading room); Barron House, meanwhile, as the new name for the whole building, includes in its sweep both the law-related and non-law-related functions - the College archives and more - to which the building plays host. College is enormously grateful for the financial help received from gifts, historic and

more recent, that have made possible first the leasehold purchase and now the freehold purchase of this crucial property for College. The welcome combination of owning the freehold on the land on which Castle Hill House used to stand and now also on the adjacent Barron House has enabled us to combine land parcels the other side of Bulwarks Lane (Canal House + Castle Bailey Quad + Barron House) into an integrated whole in ways that can now assure coherent estate planning for the future.

Citizenship and Leadership course

At the end of Michaelmas term 2022, St Peter’s piloted a new optional offering for undergraduates: a three-day Citizenship and Leadership course. The course is premised on the belief that leaving College with some expertise in an academic subject is undoubtedly good, but that knowing one’s own strengths and competences, being consciously grounded in one’s own values and feeling equipped to make one’s contribution in the world is no bad thing either. The course set participants individual and collaborative tasks that encouraged them to reflect on ways of navigating dilemma and challenge, and to consider how to identify, develop and use their personal strengths, skills and passions to make their most productive contribution to the world. I was enormously grateful to the kind and brilliant people who joined me to help deliver this pilot course – including Gregga Baxter, John Latsis and Zahra Latif. And the students who volunteered to help us trial and develop the course were utterly wonderful in throwing themselves honestly and openly into every challenge and activity before them. It was a terrific three days and I am pleased to say that it is something that is now being picked up by other colleges in direct emulation of St Peter’s. St Peter’s has demonstrated a pioneering spirit in Oxford many times across the years, and this latest example of innovation adds to that evolving roster. First up on the agenda for the next roll-out of the course will be how best to be adept and responsible users, creators and moderators of AI, while remaining independent thinkers. It is, of course, a question for all of us in a world on the move: how can we use AI in time-saving, drudge-lightening and imaginative ways that don’t lose sight of truths beyond AI assertion and of human creativity beyond the algorithm-driven aping of creativity?

Arrivals and Departures

New to the fellowship this year is Dr Adam Kirrander who has joined us from Harvard and Edinburgh as our Fellow and Tutor in Physical Chemistry. Composer (and alumnus) Piers Kennedy became part of our community for the year as Composer-inAssociation (generously sponsored by the St Peter’s College Foundation), working with the choir on a run of exciting projects. In a non-precedent-setting move that recognises the unusual breadth and depth of her contribution to the life and work of the College, the Governing Body has elected our Registrar, Catherine Whalley, to an Official Fellowship. From our academic fellowship, two wonderful colleagues retired this year: Professor Mark Moloney, the Syd Bailey Fellow and Tutor in Chemistry, and Dr Robert

Pitkethly, our Tutor and Fellow in Management. I have had the pleasure of working closely with both through their different roles for College and admire them both. When fellows retire, we publish a tribute to each; you can therefore read more about both later in this issue of the College Record

Professor Darius (‘Darek’) Wojcik, since 2007 our Tutorial Fellow in Human Geography, resigned his fellowship this year, to take up a prestigious post at the National University of Singapore. It has been a privilege working with Darek and, having seen him in Master’s Collections with his students, I can report how much his students have loved him – and with reason. He will be much missed. We wish Darek and Anna every joy for the new stage.

Amongst the goodbyes this year was our Bursar, Doug Shaw. Doug has made a major contribution to the life and work of St Peter’s since 2018. He was Bursar of the College through the period of the pandemic which presented unprecedented challenges to how we operated. He was quick to ensure we had a fully functioning financial operation that could work remotely ahead of lock-down and was willing to ask the tough questions about financial prudence when these things became necessary. In his time as Bursar, we took out a private placement on good terms, moved our IT provision into a cross-college consortium, changed the basis on which the Hall’s finances operate and pushed forward on the College’s capital investment programme in the estate. Doug also had oversight for the key developmental phases of our major building project, Castle Bailey Quad, which will shortly make such a difference to our estate and the provision we can offer to students. In social, sporting and alumni-related ways, Doug has been a warm contributor to community life and we wish him well for the next phase.

Our new permanent Bursar will arrive in early 2024, and to see us through the transitional period between permanent bursars we have been fortunate to have Dr Sarah Wilson as our Interim Bursar. Sarah has a Cambridge PhD in Engineering and excellent senior leadership experience with McKinsey’s and Unilever. She has also managed major capital projects through to completion, making her a very fine match for our immediate needs. For St Peter’s, she has picked up the reins on our major projects with lightning efficiency and notable care. You can read her own report on the Castle Bailey Quad development and other bursarial matters later in this issue of the Record

The newly named Barron House on New Road

Caroline Barron with daughters Katie and Helen, and grandchildren Seren and Leo in the Barron House Lobby

Helen Barron catches up with Billy Watson

Professor Caroline Barron returns to College

Baby News

It has been a bumper year for babies across the College community. Our Tutorial Fellow in German, Dr Joanna Neilly, and Tutorial Fellow in Modern History, Dr Steve Tuffnell, and their daughter Aoife welcomed baby Eimear; Junior Research Fellow Mary-Ann Middelkoop welcomed baby Constantijn; Director of Development and Alumni Relations, Brett de Gaynesford welcomed baby Evelyn; Accommodation Officer, Jess Brooker welcomed baby Maeve; Third Chef Robert Townsend welcomed baby Evie; and

our Conference and Events Manager, Charlie Kisiel welcomed baby Nicholas. Charlie and Hanna report that Paddington, their dog, has made heroic strides in overcoming his initial jealousy and is now ardently on-side for baby Nicholas. I am delighted to report that all of these new small people in the wider family of the College have made occasional appearances in College and have all been appropriately feted as the very best and most welcome of distractions to the working day.

Highlight Events

From a busy and interesting year, it feels almost invidious to select highlights, but by means of a countdown of dinners, musical events, breakfasts and a door, I attempt to capture a few indicative ones.

The four dinners I pick (leaving aside gaudies – joyful, all) are:

(1) The Bloomsbury Dinner in which we celebrated the beauty and interest of our wonderful Duncan Grant collection in the company of Bloomsbury scholars from around the world, and with a witty, Bloomsbury-inspired menu to match;

(2) The joyfully unleashed madness of St Peter’s Burns Night, complete with haggis procession, poetic addresses, tartan, pipes, ribald toasts, and one or two reminders of ‘The Rights of Women’;

(3) A memorable dinner organised by Professor Graham Russell, celebrating our friend and colleague Professor Cyrus Cooper, attended by, among others, holders of the distinguished Norman Collison Chair of Musculoskeletal Sciences from across the years. The dinner proved the occasion for a run of personal tributes to Cyrus’s scholarship and his humanity – an inspiring window onto a life extraordinarily well lived;

(4) The College Blues and Blades dinner celebrating another year of marked SPC student success across sports (and furnishing me and other SPC supporters with some exciting moments on river bank and touchline).

Joanna Neilly and Eimear Constantijn Vergunst Brett de Gaynesford and Evelyn

Jess Brooker and Maeve Bradley and Evie Townsend Charlie and Hanna Kisiel with Paddington and baby Nicholas

Burns Night featuring Head Chef Ave Davies, Benji Ming and MCR Piper Angus Phillips.

Professor Cyrus Cooper (centre) with Clive Collison on his left and other distinguished holders of the Chair in Muscoskeletal Sciences.

Blues and Blades 2023 - pre-dinner reception in Canal House

The three musical events of the year I pick are:

(1) the Choir Reunion that brought together St Peter’s singers from across the decades into one powerful cross-generational sound;

(2) a bravura recital by students Maisie Lewis and Alfie Fardell of Piers Kennedy music in Canal House, introduced by a conversation about William Blake between Emeritus Fellow Roger Allen and our Composer-in-Association;

(3) a performance of Haydn’s ‘Nelson Mass’ by College orchestra and choir, with all soloists drawn from College – a remarkable achievement for a College of our size.

It is not often, as Master, that I get to play second fiddle in College but I had the genuine pleasure of doing exactly that for this concert. It was a striking privilege to sit alongside talented students and colleagues for the soul-lifting purpose of making music together, and I loved it.

The two breakfasts I have selected both feature the new ViceChancellor. The first was an occasion to raise a glass to the new Vice-Chancellor, Professor Irene Tracey, with fellow women Heads of House from across Oxford; the second was the first student-centred appointment the new Vice-Chancellor made across colleges – a breakfast with St Peter’s students to seek their views on university matters.

And my countdown comes to rest on one green door – the front door to College. We had a moment in the year when the front door to College needed repainting and the question of colour was briefly raised. Choosing an event of ‘no change’ as my final highlight may seem like a damp squib, but it catches something important. Stewarding an Oxford college through for the next generation is a constant balancing act between what we change in order to continue to serve our students well in a fast-changing world and what we don’t change in order to remain recognisably ourselves despite a fast-changing world. The front door is part of the material symbolism of this ongoing balancing act. It needs repainting at intervals; it acquires update security systems from time to time; and there was an exciting moment in College history when it opened onto the first automatic doors in Oxford (cue song). But I am pleased to report, as my final (low-key) highlight of the year, that for all the up-dates around it, the front door to College remains a beautiful solid green that you will all recognise. And may passing through that green door and on into Linton Quad always represent a version of coming home for you all, no matter how long it has been since your last visit.

Enough now of mints and mulberries, babies and breakfasts and the symbolic importance of a green front door. If any kind friends of the College have any ideas that might help us reconjure a bit of our site’s historic capacity to produce the funds required to meet the needs of the moment, or indeed any influence with others who might be minded to refresh the habit of passing their plate (or equivalent) in the direction of New Inn Hall Street, do please be in touch.

But now the new academic year is calling and, as ever, we cannot wait to welcome in our new cohort of freshers for whom the adventure is just beginning.

Judith Buchanan Master of the College

Roger Allen and Piers Kennedy ‘in conversation’ in Canal House.

Soprano soloist Elizabeth “Fitz” Fitzpatrick for Haydn’s ‘Nelson Mass’ in Chapel.

The Master raises an informal glass with fellow women Heads of House to the new Vice-Chancellor.

The new Vice-Chancellor breakfasts with St Peter’s students early in her term of office.

Breathing Rocks – Carbon Dioxide Exchanges during Weathering and how they are Changing

By Professor Bob Hilton, Tutorial Fellow in Earth Sciences

My research focuses on the natural carbon cycle. I seek to understand how erosion and weathering act to exchange carbon between rocks, where it is a long-term store of carbon, and the atmosphere, where it is present as a greenhouse gas: carbon dioxide (CO2). While these natural carbon transfers are known to steer the evolution of Earth’s long-term climate over millions of years, many uncertainties remain.

An established view considers that the chemical breakdown of rocks can remove CO2 from the atmosphere and help store it in new rock minerals over millions of years. However, weathering of rocks can also release CO2 as ancient organic materials (pieces of plants from past oceans and land masses) are broken down - a “geo-respiration” - as rocks breathe. Until recently, we had limited information on how fast this CO2 release could be and what factors might cause it to change.

My research group and I have developed and applied new methods to measure CO2 release from rock weathering. Most importantly, we have uncovered a temperature control on CO2 release from rock weathering, with more CO2 released as rock warms. This “positive feedback” challenges the existing paradigms of how the long-term carbon cycle works. In this feature article, I outline the scientific background to this research and explain our new approaches and novel findings.

The “textbook” view of rock weathering and the long-term carbon cycle

The carbon cycle helps to control global surface temperatures by controlling CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere, CO2 being a greenhouse gas which plays a major role in controlling Earth’s surface energy balance. For billions of years, the Earth’s climate has varied in temperature within a range that has allowed liquid water to persist at the surface, ensuring our rocky planet is habitable for life. This delicate balance, where the planet is warm enough, not too hot and not too cold, is thought to be brought about by the breakdown of rocks during weathering. This provides a so-called “stabilizing feedback” (or negative feedback) in the carbon cycle (Hilton, 2023).

How does this work? Over millions of years, one major source of CO2 is volcanoes around the world. They release CO2 from the deep interior at a rate of ~80 teragrams of carbon per year (TgC/ yr or x1012 gC/yr). This leak of carbon quickly adds up: in just one million years, a fleeting moment in Earth’s 4.6 billion year life, volcanoes release enough carbon to increase the atmosphere and ocean carbon stores (that are ~44,000,000 TgC) by 3 times. Without any other mechanisms acting, this build-up of CO2 would lead to a runaway greenhouse effect.

It is rock weathering that comes to the rescue. When CO2 mixes with rainwater it forms a weak carbonic acid which can dissolve minerals which make up rocks during chemical weathering. When rock-forming minerals called “silicates” (built from silicon-oxygen bonds) are weathered by carbonic acid, chemical reactions move CO2 into a dissolved form (bicarbonate ions) which is carried by streams and rivers to the ocean. These weathering products are then used to make new solid minerals in the oceans (calcium carbonate). The net impact of silicate weathering is the removal of CO2 from the atmosphere.

More than simply removing CO2 from the atmosphere, silicate weathering rates are sensitive to temperature. The textbook view is that silicate weathering acts as a “negative feedback” that stabilizes climate: if temperatures warm (e.g. if globally volcanoes released more CO2), silicate weathering draws down more CO2. If the planet is too cool, CO2 will build up as silicate weathering is more subdued. In this way, silicate weathering acts as Earth’s thermostat, keeping the climate hospitable for life (Hilton, 2023).

An emerging view – rock weathering as a CO2 source

Alongside silicate minerals, rocks contain other phases which can release CO2 during weathering. The first is ancient organic matter found in rocks, carbon that was removed from the atmosphere in the past and buried in sands and muds for millions of years. This rock organic matter can be oxidized, in what is known as a “georespiration”, and release CO2. Sulfide minerals are also important (e.g. “fool’s gold”). These can be oxidized to produce sulfuric acid, which then attacks carbonate minerals and releases CO2

We’ve known about these reactions for decades, but it has proved hard to measure them. Over the last 10 years, I have developed and applied methods to do this, using modern-day river catchments and soils as natural laboratories. The research formed a major part of a European Research Council Starting Grant - “ROC-CO2” – which has formed an important part of my research since moving to St Peter’s and the University of Oxford in 2021 (http://roc-co2.weebly.com/).

We use radiocarbon (14C) to track rock organic matter. This is because ancient organic matter has lost all of its radiocarbon, and this distinguishes it from the carbon whizzing around between the atmosphere, plants and animals. We have recently used radiocarbon to show that rock organic matter is common in deep soils around the world (Grant et al., 2023). This means we’ve overestimated how old soil organic matter is, with implications for understanding the carbon cycle of plants and soils. It also shows how common rock organic matter is in the weathering zone.

We also use trace elements to track rock organic matter weathering, namely rhenium (Re), which has an association with rock organic matter, and which, when it is oxidized, can be traced in the dissolved load of streams and rivers (Hilton et al., 2021). We’ve applied this technique to rivers around the world and built up a global picture of how much rock organic carbon is being oxidized. A research output that is currently under peer review shows that this flux is as large as CO2 release from volcanoes.

Our final new approach has been to make the first direct measurements of CO2 release from rock weathering. We measure CO2 production from the natural weathering of rocks and trap the CO2 gas and use radiocarbon to fingerprint the source of carbon.

We have applied this technique at a field site in France over 2 years (Soulet et al., 2021) and in New Zealand (Roylands et al., 2022). The new results are striking: when the rocks warm, the CO2 release increases.

These findings challenge the existing paradigm that weathering is a CO2 sink and a stabilizing feedback in the Earth System.

Next steps and rock weathering in the human-modified carbon cycle

Our next steps are to try and understand why CO2 release from rock organic matter weathering increases with temperature. Is it purely an inorganic, chemical process, or is life involved?

Microbial and fungal organisms may use this ancient organic matter as food. We’re using novel organic geochemistry techniques and metagenomics to shed new light on this question. We’ve also recognised that the changing cryosphere may enhance this CO2 release as glaciers recede and permafrost thaws. Field sites in Canada and Svalbard are being explored to assess how these CO2 fluxes are changing.

Rocks at a field site in France (near Draix) which contain ancient organic matter which can release CO2 as it breaks down during weathering. We have developed methods which allow us to measure CO2 fluxes and trap CO2 to measure radiocarbon, determining the carbon source.

Finally, it’s important to put these natural carbon fluxes in context. They exchange around 100 TgC/yr. The carbon exchanges with rocks and the atmosphere are major players when we consider the carbon cycle over 10,000 years to a million years. In stark contrast, human activities release around 10,000 TgC/yr, with a short-cut between rock carbon stores and the atmosphere that happens during fossil fuel burning.

As such, unfortunately, the natural silicate weathering feedback is too sluggish to mop up the very large excesses of CO2 released each year from human activities. However, recent work highlights deliberately increasing silicate weathering by grinding up silicate minerals and applying them at a large scale to agricultural areas. This may provide a tool to help us reach net zero emissions and help mitigate climate change. We’re currently researching the fate of any enhanced weathering products, and the efficiency of carbon sequestration to help understand this process better. This requires us to track carbon through soils to rivers (Harrington et al., 2023).

We’re also exploring how geochemical tools may help verify any carbon sequestration. To assess whether enhanced weathering can have useful carbon cycle impact (and minimal environmental impact), it is clear that we need more research into the fundamentals of mineral weathering and the fate of carbon across landscapes.

References:

Grant, K., Hilton, R.G., Galy, V. (2023), ‘Global patterns of radiocarbon depletion in subsoil linked to rock-derived organic carbon’, Geochemical Perspectives Letters 25, https://doi.org/10.7185/geochemlet.2312

Harrington, K., Hilton, R.G,, Henderson, G. (2023), ‘Implications of the Riverine Response to Enhanced Weathering for CO2 removal in the UK’, Applied Geochemistry 152:105643, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeochem.2023.105643

Hilton, R.G., Turowski, J.M., Winnick, M., Dellinger, M., Schleppi, P., Williams, K.H., Lawrence, C.R., Maher, K., West, M., Hayton, A. (2021), ‘Concentration-discharge relationships of dissolved rhenium in alpine catchments reveal its use as a tracer of oxidative weathering’, Water Resources Research 57(11), e2021WR029844, http://doi.org/10.1029/2021WR029844

Hilton, R.G. (2023), ‘Earth’s persistent thermostat’, Science 379 (6630), 329-330, http://doi.org/10.1126/science.adf3379

Roylands, T., Hilton, R.G., Garnett, M.H., Soulet, G., Newton, J-A, Peterkin, J.L., Hancock, P. (2022), ‘Capturing the short-term variability of carbon dioxide emissions from sedimentary rock weathering in a remote mountainous catchment’, New Zealand Chemical Geology, 121024, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2022.121024

Soulet, G., Hilton, R.G. Garnett, M.H., Roylands, T., Klotz, S., Croissant, T., Dellinger, M., Le Bouteiller, C. (2021) ‘Temperature control on CO2 emissions from the weathering of sedimentary rocks’, Nature Geoscience 14(9):665-671, http://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-021-00805-1

Westfield College – the inspiration for Westfield House

By Dr Alison Ray, College Archivist

To celebrate the opening of Westfield House in Castle Bailey Quad, this piece shines a light on the women students of Westfield College who were evacuated to St Peter’s Hall during World War II and on how they spent those wartime years. From amateur dramatics to creative writing, the archives of St Peter’s and of Queen Mary, University of London hold a rich selection of materials that provide a look at the artistic outlets these remarkable women engaged in during a time of crisis.

As highlighted in the Master’s Letter of the 2022 College Record women students resided in St Peter’s between 1939 and 1945, while the men were away fighting. Their morale reportedly remained high under the leadership of Westfield Principal, Mary Stocks (18911975), economic historian and women’s rights campaigner. In her Principal’s Report dated October 1939, Stocks recorded that her students were showing ‘an adventurous determination to draw from their period of exile all that Oxford has to offer them of beauty, learning, and companionship’.

During wartime conditions of food rationing, blackouts and fire watches, the Westfield students arranged frequent social and sports events with other Oxford colleges, including music evenings and dramatic productions. The Master of St Peter’s Hall, the Revd Julian Thornton-Duesbery made efforts to support these wide-ranging activities, including allowing the use of the Chapel for carol services and the playing of the organ by the Westfield organist.

Mary Stocks and Westfield College had notable literary connections, and in Michaelmas 1939 hosted mystery writer and medieval literature specialist Dorothy Sayers in Oxford, who delivered a lecture entitled ‘Religious Drama’. Best known for her novel Gaudy Night, based on her own experience of studying at the women’s college of Somerville, Sayers also wrote The Devil to Pay, a play centred on the Faustus legend first performed for the 1939 Canterbury Festival. In keeping with Sayers’ work, the Westfield College Dramatic Society marked her visit with a

Bob during fieldwork on the Peel River, in the Mackenzie River Basin, Canada. Returning to work there in 2023 and 2024, the team will be tracking the fluxes and sources of carbon through these major Arctic river systems.

Extract from Principal’s Log Book of entry for Michaelmas Term 1939 at St Peter’s Hall (credit Queen Mary, University of London Archives).

‘Forgetting our worries’: Westfield students with cat Candida, from a scrapbook of St Peter’s Hall dated between 1940-43.

performance of Christopher Marlowe’s Dr Faustus. Stocks wrote the play ‘proved to be a triumph of energy and ingenuity over intimidating technical difficulties, such as the absence of curtains, of back stage entries or exits, and of green-room accommodation’.

Westfield staff occasionally took part in annual performances with students, and performed a ‘hilarious and inspiriting’ variety show with first and second years for finalists in the Master’s Garden (then on New Inn Hall Street) in Trinity 1940, with student Miss McKie’s performance as Queen Victoria noted as long remaining in the memory of those who witnessed it. Westfield further hosted mixed events with other evacuated London colleges and Oxford men’s colleges, such as a mock trial in Hilary 1941 with the Hertford College Debating Society that ‘provided much hilarity’.

During the same term, Westfield students were invited by Nevill Coghill, English Fellow at Exeter College and later theatre director, to perform in the Friends of the Oxford University Dramatic Society summer production of Much Ado About Nothing in the garden of New College. Stocks was concerned that this might breach precedent as Oxford women’s colleges had not yet taken part in OUDS productions, but she believed it ‘was a chance not to be missed’ and gave her permission for Westfield to join the play.

As the course of the war progressed, the Westfield community managed to balance their college activities with gusto alongside precarious living conditions and war service that affected student life. The Dramatic Society continued to perform annually, and produced Sophocles’ Electra in the Taylor Institution on 29 and

30 January 1943. External guests also continued to entertain Westfield, such as classical scholar and playwright Gilbert Murray who read from a new play based on fragments of ancient Greek dramatist Menander in 1944. Author Charles Williams delivered an ‘unforgettable’ lecture to the English Club on the supernatural in Shakespeare in April 1945, which Stocks described as a ‘hobgoblin experience’, especially in light of Williams’ untimely death several weeks later.

The Westfield archives provide an insightful view into the women’s experiences of wartime, and in 1943 one inspired student, Joyce Hawkes, produced a hand-drawn magazine for fellow-student June Ineson’s 21st birthday. Entitled The Pratler, the tonguein-cheek magazine is presented in the style of a contemporary

women’s magazine with sections on celebrity news, wartime fashion, sporting highlights and advertisements relating to Ineson’s agricultural work testing milk. Hawkes made light of their difficult wartime duties, as seen in a piece on the headwear of Westfield’s fire fighters: ‘Be the emergency by day or by night, those on duty are there prepared in at least 30 mins. Some of the members have various devices for overcoming the difficulties of hair-dressing on these occasions. The A.R.P. chief wears a fur cap which not only covers her curlers but looks like hair peeping from her tin helmet which is worn at a becoming angle.’

Having not just weathered, but by all accounts thrived during a long period of evacuation in St Peter’s Hall, the Principal and students of Westfield College were finally relieved to return to their own London home in the summer of 1945 and New Inn Hall St was reclaimed by the St Peter’s men returned from the war. However, on 17 November the same year, a Westfield delegation returned to St Peter’s to plant a magnolia tree and present a silver loving cup to commemorate the six-year evacuation and enduring friendship with St Peter’s. Sadly the magnolia tree has not survived, but the loving cup remains one of St Peter’s treasured possessions.

With special thanks to Gillian Hood for the donation of Westfield College items to St Peter’s College and Florence Dall of Queen Mary University of London Archives for arranging a material viewing.

Front cover of The Pratler, dated 1943.

Milk tester advertisement from The Pratler, dated 1943.

Westfield fire fighters from The Pratler, dated 1943. The Loving Cup

The Haight and 1960s Counterculture

By Dr Sarah Hill, Fellow and Tutor in Popular Music

The Haight was the second district to be established in the city of San Francisco. Initially nothing but sandy dunes, it was gradually levelled off in the late nineteenth century and turned into a haven for weekend beach homes for the wealthy. It was unaffected by the 1906 earthquake, but, as the rest of the city was rebuilt, the Haight became an older, creakier, less desirable, and ultimately funkier area. By the 1960s groups of young people – students, dropouts, musicians – could live in big, ramshackle Victorian homes for next to nothing; and soon there was a community of like-minded people fashioning the Haight into a centre for the psychedelic counterculture. This is the starting point of my book, San Francisco and the Long 60s (Bloomsbury, 2016).

San Francisco has always been a liberal town, embracing all manner of lawlessness and freedom of expression: it was the perfect environment in 1965 for author Ken Kesey and his ilk to submerge into the underground world of LSD in parties which became known as the Acid Tests. Attendant with the Acid Tests was an enormous flowering of artistic expression, musical and visual. Bands at the forefront of the scene – the Grateful Dead, the Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother and the Holding Company – did not necessarily share musical style or values, but they did share a sense of community.

The Haight peacefully existed within the dominant, straight, culture of mainstream America, but it did not go long unnoticed. By late 1966 the San Francisco musical scene was the subject of

imagination and in the summer of 1967 thousands of psychedelic pilgrims descended on the Haight in search of some ineffable magic. Most of the original hippies and all of the local bands soon left the city. The Haight then began to turn ugly and the drugs became harder, their provenance often unknown. The hippie dream of those vital years 1965-66 had become a memory.

For my book, the 1960s exist on two temporal spheres: the period of psychedelic experimentation, c. 1965-67, coincidental with countercultural revolt and musical revolution, is what I called ‘the short 60s’. The exodus of the Haight community to geographically disparate pockets of countercultural activity, and the perpetuation of the hippie ideology beyond the confines of geographical and temporal space, is what I called the ‘long 60s’.

In both the ‘long’ and the ‘short’, what interested me was the balance of fact and fiction, reality and myth, all bound intimately with the consumption of rock culture in the city. To understand the ‘short 60s’ I needed to strip away decades of commentary and focus on the contemporary imagination: I read music criticism in mainstream and underground papers, and the complete 1960s run of the local daily newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner. More importantly, I tapped the memory banks of people who lived and worked in the Haight in the 1960s.

I was able to balance representations of the ‘long’ 60s with an autobiographical understanding of the ways in which the musical and cultural developments of that decade inflected my own experiences growing up in Oakland some years later. I added another layer by conducting many interviews with hippies around the greater San Francisco Bay Area, which provided material for a documentary commemorating the fortieth anniversary of the Summer of Love, A Taste of Summer, which was broadcast on BBC Radio 2. This challenged the popular myths about the Summer of Love – namely that the city was happily overrun with flower children, and that it was all grooviness and light.

I was struck by the detail with which my hippie interviewees could remember their 1960s. One old adage claims that ‘if you can remember the 60s, you weren’t really there’. The clarity of some accounts I heard, however, was extraordinary, which I attributed to the ‘reminiscence bump’, the theory that a subject’s strongest memories will relate to the period of their life between

the ages of 11-30. The hippies I interviewed were generally between the ages of 60 and 70 during the period of my research, so their teens and early twenties coincided with foundational events in 1960s San Franciscan rock culture.

I also wanted to understand the consumption of popular music in the everyday life of the Haight, the memory of which can be mercurial. As the late Dickie Peterson, bassist with local band Blue Cheer, told me:

Haight Street was just packed. I mean, just wall to wall people. And you would hear the drums coming from the Panhandle [of Golden Gate Park], up through the city. You would hear the drums. And this was like the call. People would start filtering down to the Panhandle, and within two hours you’d have a fullblown concert going on, with bands coming up on trucks.

Dickie Peterson was younger than most of the other hippies on the Haight scene in the 1960s, and even in his teens he tended to step back and view the world around him as a kind of outsider. So his memories of life in the Haight, falling squarely in that reminiscence bump, offered a fresh perspective.

These backward glances can be vibrant and compelling, much like contemporary accounts such as the following, of an evening at the Avalon Ballroom:

[It] provides plenty of the ear-splitting sound characteristic of the hippie band. Continuously changing light projections of liquid colours and protoplastic forms bathe the dancers. Their luminescent, striped, and dotted clothes glow eerily amid the flashing lights…. Suddenly, the fast, screaming music dies down to a soft love song and then gives way to a mournful Indian dirge…. Several hundred of the youngsters on the dance floor join hands. They sway back and forth in a trancelike state....1

The ‘ear-splitting sound characteristic of the hippie band’ perhaps conforms to popular stereotype; but the hippies could also play love songs, and could dig a dirge, Indian or otherwise; and the swaying dancers would move to the music regardless of beat or genre. But, just as the community dispersed at the end of the Summer of Love, so nostalgia creeps into the narrative. Early in 1969, critic Ralph Gleason looked back on the ‘magic and mystery’ of hippies gathering together ‘in peace and merely for the purpose of being’, and reminded his readers of the initial purpose of the rock ballrooms, the ‘drive … toward the reaffirmation of the Godliness of man’:

The original attraction of the ballrooms, aside from the deeply felt need to dance, was the creation of an environment in which human beings could simply be. Be themselves.2

Here the beauty of the moment lingers on – the liquid colours, the tie-dyed clothes, luminescent dancers joining hands. The backward glances of memory, looking back five, twenty-five, or even fifty years, can, even now reveal that beauty to us if we let them.

1 Burton H. Wolfe, The Hippies (New York: Signet Books, 1968), 42.

2 Ralph J. Gleason, ‘Religion’s Place in Hippie Scene,’ San Francisco Chronicle, January 19, 1969.

Subject News

Archaeology & Anthropology

By Dr Timothy Clack

It has been another rewarding year for Archaeology & Anthropology. As ever, the undergraduate and postgraduate cohorts worked energetically in their studies.

In Michaelmas, the undergraduates were joined by Snow Wang and Rumina Koike as Visiting Students for the year from Wuhan University, China, and Waseda University, Japan respectively.

In Hilary Term, Dr Elizabeth Ewart returned after her three-year term as Head of the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography. Much to the delight of the students, she was straight back to tutoring on the core anthropology papers.

The four finalists received excellent degree results and researched an inspiring range of dissertation topics. The titles included: ‘Care, compassion, and responsibility: perspectives from community health workers in Plettenberg Bay, South Africa’; ‘The natural health services: an anthropological critique of emerging green therapies’; ‘The archive as subject: constructing culture and recreating home in a remote Antarctic environment’; and ‘Biographies of home: the nature of material domesticity and creation of the spatial imaginary’.

The first years undertook a diversity of fieldwork activities and joined various projects around the world. Fieldwork included: excavations at Tel Hazor, a biblical era archaeological site in Israel; Lorsch Experimental Archaeology Field School in Germany, to research local horticulture and textiles in the Early Middle Ages; excavations at Kostice-Zadní Hrúd, an early Medieval site near Pohansko, Břeclav in the Czech Republic; and the El Campanario

Archaeological Project in Huarmey, Peru, excavating a cemetery and adobe platform from the Late Intermediate Period.

Events during the course of the year included the 1982 Uncovered Exhibition in the College Chapel in November. Linked to a project mapping the conflict heritage of the Falklands War, this saw the exhibition of works by Doug Farthing, Katie Russel, David Pope and various artists from Argentina and the Falkland Islands. Coinciding with the month of remembrance, the exhibition generated plenty of discussion about the materiality of commemoration, art as a communicative and cultural medium, experiences of warfare, and processes of place-making in contested landscapes.

Another rite of passage: the finalists celebrate finishing their exams.

The opening of the exhibition saw talks by Dr Tim Clack, Dr Phil Harding, Richard Osgood and Professor Tony Pollard. The students were delighted with the opportunity to meet Phil, Richard and Tony not least because, in many cases, it was their media work which had first interested the students in archaeology and anthropology. (Phil is best known for his work on Time Team; Richard, Digging for Britain; and Tony, Two Men in a Trench).

In Trinity Term, we learnt that Prof. Amy Bogaard had been appointed to the Professorship of European Archaeology. Given Amy had been an integral part of college tutoring for over 15 years, her departure made for bittersweet news. She is, of course, missed by college students and tutors alike, and we are fortunate she remains in Oxford.

Earth Sciences

By Professor Bob Hilton

The Earth Scientists at St Peter’s had an enjoyable and productive 2022/23 academic year. Bob redesigned and delivered a new carbon cycle module, as part of the updates to the Earth Sciences course, and the St Peter’s students enjoyed new tutorials on a variety of themes, including the impact of the Himalayas on global cycles. We very much enjoyed field trips, where Bob co-led the Dorset field class at the start of the year. This trip introduces a worldclass example of a sedimentary basin along the “Jurassic Coast”, with insight on the Earth’s environment and ecosystems of the Mesozoic. The students are able to build significantly on their skills from the classroom and laboratory. The St Peter’s Earth Scientists were able to enjoy trips to Pembrokeshire, Arran, Assynt, Bermuda, Greece and of course our local favourite, Cumnor. Joe, Bob and Rich also had research trips to some UK (Isles of Lewis and Mull) and far-flung (Greenland) places, investigating carbon cycling, metamorphism and structural and igneous geology.

We held our annual Earth Science Dinner in March which was a lovely occasion. An evening in the College SCR, with Joe Cartwright, Rich Palin and Bob Hilton hosting (with some Choral entertainment from Joe), was very enjoyable, with excellent food and wine, and stimulating conversation on all things geological. Some recent alumni were able to attend, and we look forward to hearing from more over the next academic year.

Chemistry

By Professor Mark Moloney

The year 2022-2023 has been a significant year for Chemistry, as we welcomed Dr Adam Kirrander as Tutor in Physical Chemistry. To have such an accomplished scientist join us as a tutor secures the future of Chemistry within College; and to have now two Fellows in the subject - along with Dr Lydia Gilday, who continues as Stipendiary Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry - places us on a par with what is now considered to be minimum provision in Chemistry teaching, across all Oxford colleges. As part of this expansion in tutor line-up, we will now be seeking to admit 6 undergraduate students per year; and we welcomed the first such cohort this year.

The St Peter’s Earth Scientists had lots to celebrate academically. Our finalists did very well, Ana Pantazopoulou and Amy Wahab were awarded 1st class degrees and Abigail McBain an excellent 2.1. We were also thrilled to see Chris Jones gain their BSc degree. Ana won a prestigious Brewer-Loughham prize for her Master’s thesis on volcanism and environmental change in the Mesozoic, and Ben Webb (3rd year) won a Gibbs Prize for the best extended essay. Other wider news from St Peter’s, includes a Blue for Zoe Guy (2nd year) in women’s rugby union and Ben Webb in football.

Geography

By Professor Gordon Clark

Professor Dariusz Wójcik has been appointed Professor of Financial Geography at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He took up his appointment over the summer 2023 but remains affiliated with St Peter’s College and Oxford’s School of Geography and the Environment. His appointment at NUS is a marker of his outstanding global reputation in the fields of economic and financial geography. The Department of Geography at NUS has global significance in terms of its research, teaching, and engagement with some of the most important issues of the 21st-century.

Dariusz Wójcik came to Oxford and St Peter’s College in 1998 funded by the Open Society Institute, financed by George Soros and the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office. At the time, Soros sought to connect outstanding students and younger academics from central and eastern Europe with the major universities of Europe and North America. The Soros Foundation picked out people with ability, ambition, and the capacity to thrive in Oxford and elsewhere. Dariusz made a big impression! He was offered a

University DPhil scholarship associated with Jesus College and was supervised by Professor Gordon Clark who, at the time, was the Halford MacKinder Professor of Geography in the University and at St Peter’s College.

Dariusz’s DPhil thesis was on finance, financial markets, and European integration. He published papers from his thesis in major international journals, bringing recognition and accolades as regards his originality, rigour, and contributions to the discipline. Having finished his DPhil, he was appointed to a Junior Research Fellowship at Jesus College and then to a University Lectureship at University College London. Two years later, he was appointed as a University Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Oxford’s School of Geography and the Environment with a Tutorial Fellowship at St Peter’s College. He was promoted to Professor of Economic Geography in 2014.

Dariusz is one of the most highly recognised geographers in the world. His research is routinely cited across the social sciences including business studies, economics, and finance. As well, the depth and scope of his research has drawn many collaborators including historians. He is an accomplished contributor to highly rated journals just as he is an accomplished author of books, handbooks, and (now) atlases. He is the lead author and project leader of the forthcoming Atlas of Finance – to be published by Yale University Press in 2024.

At St Peter’s, he has been an inspiring, demanding and diligent Tutorial Fellow, motivating successive generations of undergraduate students. Along with his academic colleagues, he has put St Peter’s on the ‘map’ of undergraduate Geography at Oxford, nationally, and internationally. He is admired by his students, his colleagues, and his peers. He has contributed to the academic standing and culture of the College in ways that will be sorely missed!

We salute our departing colleague for his outstanding contributions to the life of the College and its place in the University and the global community of scholars!

Phil Harding speaks to students, fellows, and members of the public at the opening of the 1982 Uncovered Exhibition in the College Chapel in November.

l-r: Gordon Clark, Anna Zalewska, Dariusz Wójcik, Maria Wójcik, Shirley Clark, Zbigniew Wójcik on the occasion of Darek’s leaving dinner.

Law

By Dr Dorota Leczykiewicz

With Covid restrictions and remote learning a rapidly fading memory, the 2022-2023 academic year began on an upbeat note for Law with six new undergraduates and several new graduates. For the first time in two years, we had the full complement of social events through the year. Our first-years performed creditably in the Mods and our finalists, who arrived masked in the midst of Covid, finished in full splendour.

We are proud of them all for their resilience, good cheer, and their strong performance in the finals – solid 2.1s, and a few strong firsts. We were particularly proud of Weronika Gałka, who finished her degree with firsts in all nine FHS papers and has won the Law Faculty’s Wonker prize for the best overall performance in FHS Jurisprudence in 2023. This is a great achievement for Weronika, who is soon to start the BCL. Among our research students, Alexandra Mogyoros finished her DPhil in intellectual property law, while two of our taught graduates achieved distinctions.

The St Peter’s Law Society had a good year under the presidency of Sanmay Moitra and Evina Yadav. Throughout the year, the Law Society organised opportunities for students to interact with law firms and alumni. A particular highlight was a cocktail-making class with Slaughter and May, during which students interacted with solicitors at all levels of their career progression. The Society also organised support for first-years in preparation for Mods and thereafter. The community of St Peter’s lawyers is as strong as ever and we are happy to see it reaching new heights.

Medicine

By Dr Huw Dorkins

Last year, I reported a partial changing of the guard as some experienced tutors moved on to new posts. This process has continued this year as we say farewell to two systems physiology tutors, Dr Adam Lewandowski and Dr Sanjay Ramakrishnan, and our anatomy tutor, Dr Manu Shrivastava.

Adam Lewandowski joined St Peter’s as a Junior Research Fellow in 2015. He is a cardiovascular physiologist with an interest in the cardiovascular consequences in adult life of preterm birth. He gained his DPhil in the Radcliffe Department of Medicine and continued there on a British Heart Foundation Intermediate Basic Science Research Fellowship. He was subsequently appointed Deputy Director, Oxford Cardiovascular Clinical Research Facility (CCRF) and Associate Professor of Cardiovascular Science. He has taught preclinical students throughout his time at St Peter’s, and also supervised some in their FHS Medical Sciences research projects. He has been a stalwart member of the teaching team, having helped with admissions interviews over several years. Adam is moving to industry; we wish him every success in his future career.

Sanjay Ramakrishnan will be returning home with his family after two very successful years as a Stipendiary Lecturer in Systems Physiology. Readers will appreciate that as a respiratory physician, Sanjay has not been short of clinical work over the past few years. Despite the challenges of the pandemic, he has been able successfully to complete substantial research projects. His research has been recognised with national awards from the British Thoracic Society, the National Institute for Health and Care Research, and Asthma & Lung UK Research (ALUK). Another example of the migration of medical talent from the UK to Australia, Sanjay will doubtless flourish in his new clinical academic post.

Finally, Manu Shrivastava, our highly effective Anatomy tutor for the past two years, has secured a place to undertake his higher specialty training as an ENT surgeon in London. We wish him well.

Our long-term appointees continue to develop the teaching programme at St Peter’s. One new initiative, led by Susanne Hodgson, has been the introduction of a termly evening talk open to our students at all stages of their training. Topics covered by external speakers to date have included physiological research at high altitude and promoting diversity in orthopaedics.

Achievements and Activities of Senior Members

PROFESSOR RANDY BRUNO won a Wellcome Trust Discovery Award that will fund eight years of research into how the circuitry of the cerebral cortex enables our behavior (https://www.spc.ox.ac.uk/ news/prof-randy-bruno-receives-wellcomediscovery-award). He also published a study of how a group of ‘quiet’ cells in the somatosensory cortex that rarely respond to touch have been found to react mainly to surprising circumstances (https://www. dpag.ox.ac.uk/news/researchers-uncovernew-evidence-for-how-our-brains-handlesurprise) and another study of how our brains might be flexible (able to learn many different complex tasks) but still able to generalize (deal with novel problems that differ only slightly from old problems); see https://twitter.com/TheBrunoCortex/ status/1615377498333761539.

At the start of the year, PROFESSOR JUDITH BUCHANAN was made Pro-ViceChancellor without Portfolio, in which role she presides at degree ceremonies and other formal moments in the University calendar, and chairs the University’s Electoral Boards for statutory professorships in the arts, humanities and social sciences.

In April, she gave a guest lecture at Yale University to mark the 400th anniversary of the publication of the 1623 Shakespeare Folio. She spoke about the volume’s composition and its cultural significance, and about the cumulative histories accrued by individual copies in their passage down the centuries.1 While in the US, she also

gave a special lecture at the Grolier in New York (the oldest club of bibliophiles in North America).

Professor Buchanan continues as chair of the Cameron Mackintosh Drama Fund Board and of the Electoral Board for the Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor in Contemporary Theatre and continues to serve on the Council for RADA (The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art).

1 To mark the 400th anniversary of the 1623 Shakespeare Folio, Professor Buchanan will host a Shakespeare Day and Shakespeare Banquet in St Peter’s on Saturday 9 December 2023, alongside some special guests.

understand and mitigate threats to heritage from development, agriculture, climate and conflict.

DR DYLAN CARVER has enjoyed continuing his research into early nineteenthcentury English radical journalism. He has also made progress on his first book, Total Artifice: Neo-Gothic Literature and Art in Britain 1764–1789, and would like to thank the John O’Connor Research Fund for a generous contribution towards image reproduction costs.

DR TIMOTHY CLACK was a co-editor of three published works: Archaeologies of Cultural Contact (OUP); 1982 Uncovered (Archaeopress); and Cultural Heritage in Modern Conflict (Routledge).

He also co-led the set-up in Oxford of the Endangered Heritage of the Global South Hub (EHGS). This attempts to better

Commons Defence Committee (chaired by Tobias Ellwood MP).

Tim also accepted invitations to speak at a number of events: Global Implications of the Russia-Ukraine War Workshop at Lady Margaret Hall (September); Defence Human Security Advisor course at Shrivenham on culture in conflict (May); One Health in Complex Settings Workshop in London (July); and Translating the Climate-Security Nexus Workshop, George C Marshall Center, Garmisch-Partenkirchen (July)

DR HUW DORKINS continues to work as Editor in Chief of the Journal of Medical Genetics. He has completed work on a jointly written and edited textbook, Clinical Genetics and Genomics at a Glance, which was published by Wiley-Blackwell in September. He was pleased to have the opportunity to speak to the Howard Society in May 2023 on the subject of Four decades of medical genetics.

During 2022-23 PROFESSOR DANNY

Tim organised two international conferences. The first was ‘Responding to Climate (In) Security: The Role of Defence’ and it explored themes such as human security and conflict prevention. The second was called ‘Veteran Archaeologies: Dispatches from the Field’ and saw a range of military veterans, researchers, and organisations come to St Peter’s to share experiences and best practice on the use of archaeology as a therapeutic tool.

The Climate Change & (In)Security Project, which Tim directs, was invited to provide the Secretariat for the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Climate and Security (https://www.appgclimsec.uk).

In February, Tim was called as an expert witness to give evidence to the House of

DR CORENTIN COHEN has been pursuing his Marie Sklodowska Curie research project at the Department of Politics and International Relations on the role of accountants, management consultants and advisors in world politics. During this period, he presented papers at various seminars and in conferences such as the African Studies Association’s UK annual meeting (ASA) and the European International Studies Association conference. He organised a panel at the European Conference of African Studies and organized a workshop in Oxford on firms providing PR and influence services to sovereign and private clients. Corentin is currently finishing two articles framed as contributions to the fields of international political economy and African studies and he is working on a book manuscript. Since joining the College as a JRF, Corentin has been running the Political Ethnography Reading Group with a small group of earlycareer researchers and DPhil students. It meets at St Peter’s and Nuffield College and is open to all interested participants.

DORLING wrote a book, Shattered Nation, which was published by Verso in September 2023, on the state of the UK. The British government colluded in the autumn of 2022 to make the writing easier. He is currently writing a book on peoples’ concerns over the future of the planet and societies (globally). Separately, he has been collecting data concerning the pandemic which began in 2019 and on possible previous coronavirus pandemics (this is a long-term project). At Christmas, jointly with his DPhil student Lucinda Hiam, he was awarded the ‘Get Up Stand Up Prize’ by the British Medical Journal for their work on austerity and health. He has published a dozen academic papers and editorials; three dozen short commentaries and newspaper articles; a couple of book reviews; three book chapters (and two in press); and given roughly three dozen public talks (these are increasing again), as well as some radio interviews and a little bit of appearing on TV as an ‘expert’. He has also been working on a book trying to explain what the lives of 7 representative children in the UK look like today; but he cannot, as yet, find a publisher for this.

PROFESSOR CHRISTOPHER FOOT has continued research on three themes. Results from using quantum gases of ultra-cold atoms for quantum simulation of non-equilibrium dynamics has been accepted for publication in the journal Science in a paper entitled ‘Universal Scaling of the Dynamic BKT Transition in Quenched 2D Bose Gases’, where BKT is BerezinskiiKosterlitz-Thouless; the experiments we carried out in Oxford were funded by the EPSRC and their theoretical interpretation was a collaboration with the team of Professor Ludwig Mathey in Hamburg.

The STFC-funded project, AION: An Atom Interferometer Observatory and Network, is a collaboration between seven institutions in the UK to build a large matter-wave interferometer (10 metres tall) in the Beecroft building, Oxford, for fundamental Physics applications such as dark-matter searches; a technical paper on the ‘Centralised Design and Production of the Ultra-High Vacuum and LaserStabilisation Systems for the AION UltraCold Strontium Laboratories’ has been submitted (arXiv:2305.20060).

A theoretical scheme for the formation of ‘Schrödinger cat states of a macroscopic charged particle co-trapped with an ion’ (arXiv:2111.11574) was published in Physical Review A 105, 033109 (2022), resulting from work carried out with Sebastian Leontica, who was an undergraduate at St Peter’s (with some support from the St Peter’s Foundation).

PROFESSOR LAWRENCE GOLDMAN

gave the centenary Scott Holland Lecture on the Christian Socialist, R. H. Tawney, the first lecturer in 1922, which was subsequently published in the International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church. He lectured at Kew Gardens on the friendship between Darwin and Joseph Hooker, and spoke at conferences in Oxford on founding the Welfare State, the centenary of the Harmsworth Visiting Chair of American History, and on Victorian intellectual life when he discussed his recent book, Victorians and Numbers. He lectured on Charles Booth, the sociologist of Victorian London, at the annual ‘Booth Walk’. He gave talks at schools including Eton, Millfield, Merchant Taylors’ (Northwood), and Hartismere School in Suffolk, and to historical societies in Marylebone, Halesworth and Aldeburgh, where he was the guest of Richard and Pippa Marson. He participated in In Our Time on the Jamaican Rebellion of 1865, and in the Moral Maze on Free Speech (Radio 4). He became Executive Editor of History Reclaimed (www.historyreclaimed. co.uk) which opposes current distortions of History. He and Madeleine followed events intently as Saskia, their daughter, spent the year in Kyiv, sent by the Foreign Office to lead the UK’s humanitarian aid programme to Ukraine.

Gelehrtenrepublik (The German Republic of Letters, 1774). Mauvillon objected to its illiberalism and its strident nationalism. The pluralism and freedom of British intellectual life was a better model. The biographical piece discusses the five years he spent as a teacher in a boarding school. Both pieces appeared in Jakob Mauvillon (1743–1794) und die deutschsprachige Radikalaufklärung, edited by Dieter Hüning, Arne Klawitter and Gideon Stiening (Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2022).

proposal will fuel new collaborations on a project to examine records of how humaninduced land-use changes impacted oxidative weathering, and contributed to the carbon budget of the last century. In an extraordinary and unexpected development, the past year has seen a re-discovery of PROFESSOR RENÉE

DR KEVIN HILLIARD published two articles on the eighteenth-century German writer Jakob Mauvillon, one biographical in nature, the other examining his critique of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock’s Die deutsche

This academic year saw a large project really get underway. PROFESSOR BOB HILTON is leading an ERC Consolidator Grant – RIV-ESCAPE – which will track how carbon dioxide and methane release from river surfaces may change over the coming decades. Bob conducted fieldwork on the Isle of Lewis, and alongside the new research team members, has been planning fieldwork to the Mackenzie River Basin in September 2023. New field and laboratory equipment has been installed to allow us to track weathering reactions and carbon fluxes and pathways.

This academic year saw two invited talks at the European Geoscience Union 2023 Conference and the 2023 Goldschmidt Conference. Bob presented work on greenhouse gas release from river surfaces and rock weathering. Other highlights included the publication of an invited perspective piece on rock weathering in Science, alongside a successful proposal which has brought Jamie Howarth to Oxford as a Leverhulme Visiting Professor. The

HIRSCHON’S major publications. An early edited volume Women and Property, Women as Property, originally published in 1984, went out of print and had been unobtainable for years. A few months ago she signed a contract with Routledge Revivals which will re-issue a facsimile later in 2023.

Similarly, the Turkish translation of her major monograph published in 2000 went out of print but has now been re-issued in a 2nd edition with corrections and a new Preface.

Another book, a multidisciplinary edited collection called Crossing the Aegean: an Assessment of the Consequences of the 1923 Greco-Turkish Exchange of Populations (Berghahn, 2004), is finally being translated into Greek, although the Turkish translation was published in 2006.

To crown it all, she is delighted to announce that her monograph, Heirs of the Greek Catastrophe [Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1989], was published in a 3rd edition on 1 May 2023. The expanded Preface contains updated information, contextual and reflective comments, and an Afterword by a Turkish academic. It is available in hardback, paperback and an eBook.

Returning to St Peter’s after five years and again being granted Associate Member status of the SCR has been a privilege and joy to DR PAUL HUTCHINS and his wife, Margie Moore. They both received touching warmth and welcome from The Master, Chaplain, President and Members of SCR, Porters, Fellows’ Secretary, Development Team and other College Staff. In Italy, they met Mark and Rosie Damazer and relived their previous sojourns in Oxford, including picking mulberries with Rosie and Abby Williams. The College grows in spirit and achievements, and the Castle Bailey Quad will be a great addition. Evensong, the Staff Concert and Beth Fitzpatrick’s Finals Recital were memorable. The Music Room project attests to the musical excellence of St Peter’s within and outside Oxford. Our friends within and outside Oxford are all impressed by its unique esprit, and being able to invite them to Guest Night has been much appreciated. The coat racks in the SCR which Paul and Margie were delighted to donate some years ago give sterling service. Cheering at Eights Week and playing in the SCR v JCR Cricket Match is always fun. St Peter’s is a real part of Paul and Margie’s life; and they appreciate the opportunity to support and promote it and look forward to future reunions.

papers appearing in leading journals, a major review on Heavy Rydberg states published in International Reviews in Physical Chemistry, and invited talks at international conferences. His research has attracted significant new funding from the EPSRC, with two major projects which started in summer 2023: one on photoelectron spectroscopy and one on quantum dynamics.

Meaning of Life?’’, summed up his findings on the topic over the last decade or so (a period which has seen him write two books and a handful of papers in the area). He has now started writing a book provisionally entitled ‘The Nature of God’.

PROFESSOR HENRY MAYR-HARTING

In August 2022, FRANCIS LENEGHAN was awarded the title ‘Professor of Old English’ in the Recognition of Distinction scheme. In December, he delivered the keynote lecture at the Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics in the Low Countries at the University of Leiden. He also presented conference papers this year at the universities of Leeds, Oslo, Murcia and Castellón. Publications this year included two articles on Beowulf one on hunting the other on haunting. He was co-editor of a volume of essays on Ideas of the World in Early Medieval English Literature to which he contributed a chapter on the Old English poem on the death of Edward the Confessor. In March 2023, he was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship to write a book on Old English prose.

DR ADAM KIRRANDER has had a busy year, relocating his family and research group to Oxford, getting to grips with Oxford teaching and administration, and settling in at College and Department. He is therefore pleased to report that he has maintained scientific outputs, with several

DR TIM MAWSON was pleased to give the opening lecture at a conference on ‘The Search for the Meaning of Life’ in Gdansk, being supported in attending by monies from the John O’Connor research fund. His lecture, entitled ‘The Least Unsatisfactory Answer to the Question ‘What is the

has published two articles in the Festschrift for Abbot Geoffrey Scott, one on praying the Psalms in the ninth century, the other on the travelling library of a tenth-century Archbishop of Cologne. He also delivered a paper at the biennial conference on Cologne books in the Cologne Cathedral Library, shortly to be published in the Cologne Libelli Rhenani Series. He has given his usual four lectures on Ottonian Art at the Victoria & Albert Museum. Out of the blue came an invitation to him (aged 87) to give a lecture on the Emperor (and Saint) Henry II at Bamberg, Germany. This important ruler, who founded Bamberg and its Cathedral, died in 1024 and the Lecture Series, of which this was the first on Henry II, runs over 2023-2024. It is a Series put on by the university but open to the public. The organiser expected an audience of some 50, but in fact some 300 came and the hall was packed. They seemed to appreciate his talk, despite, or perhaps because of, its being not at all hagiographic. He has also played the piano at the small bi-monthly piano mornings of the Athenaeum, usually a Handel overture, arranged for keyboard by Handel himself. Henry is always very pleased to meet up with former students when they visit the College or Oxford.

For the first two terms of 2022-2023, PROFESSOR MARK MOLONEY enjoyed sabbatical; and, having spent 2020-2022 as Senior Tutor, this gave him valuable time to catch up on research publications, one of which has featured as a front cover for ‘Journal of Materials Chemistry B’, “Surface modified materials for active capture of enzymes (DOI: 10.1039/ d2tb02550g). The main thrust of their most recent work, to develop other surface modification technologies, is currently focussing on conductive electrodes, which they hope will provide a new way to access sensors for diverse analytes, by replacing current thiol technology with something less smelly and more robust! One of the interesting by-products of this work has been the identification of a new way to make polymers under very mild conditions, an important discovery since most polymers are currently prepared from oil feedstocks, using high temperature/pressure and expensive catalysts; such processes are increasingly unsustainable in the modern world and there will be a scramble to identify new technology in the next decade. While this work is in its very early stages and requires considerable development, if their approach figures in this, he will be very pleased!

Mark has been Senior Editor of ‘Organic Reaction Mechanisms’, for the last 5 years, an annual 800-page and 2000 reference volume covering modern developments in organic chemistry; this is a significant undertaking, the publication frequency of which was interrupted by the pandemic, and it is satisfying to see this now get back on track.

Mark has decided that the end of this academic year is the right time to retire, not without a tinge of regret, having spent 33 very busy but also very happy years at St Peter’s and 38 years in Oxford, where he has been privileged to have taught and worked with many highly capable and inspirational students; that, unlike the increasing bureaucracy of modern university life, is something he will sorely miss and it will take some time to adjust to life without the pressure of weekly tutorials!

a natural fit for Dr Mykhnenko, who is a Research Fellow in Sustainable Urban Development at St Peter’s College and the author of The Political Economy of PostCommunism: The Donbas and Upper Silesia in Transition (2011).

DR RICHARD PALIN, Associate Professor

Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, DR VLAD MYKHNENKO has been a leading voice on the challenges facing Ukraine and how the global community might respond. On 23 May 2023, Dr Mykhnenko presented expert evidence in Parliament at the Foreign Affairs Committee’s evidence session on recovery in Ukraine.

Applying his expertise to the situation impacting Ukrainian cities and regions is

Dr Mykhnenko’s recent activity has focused heavily on the causes and impact of the Russo-Ukrainian war, as well as on Ukraine’s eventual recovery, especially its industrial base. In March 2023, he joined a panel with former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko (2005-2010) to discuss the current state of affairs and the future of Ukraine almost two decades after the Orange Revolution.

At the parliamentary evidence session, Dr Mykhnenko joined a panel alongside the former UK Ambassador to Ukraine, Simon Smith; and Former Minister of Finance, Natalie Jaresko. His expert witness statement focussed on the prospects for Ukraine’s postwar economic reconstruction, growth, and prosperity, and the challenges ahead.

of Petrology, joined St Peter’s at the start of MT22 as a Stipendiary Lecturer in Earth Sciences. During the academic year 22-23, he has given many tutorials to the undergraduate cohort, continued to grow his research portfolio, and published several papers, including a recent contribution in Nature Communications. Recent external funding successes have included a NERC grant that will support research into the tectonic evolution of the early Earth; and future work will consider how economically valuable battery metals, such as lithium, become enriched in magmas, and applying machine learning to mineral exploration. In November 2022, Richard was awarded the Max Hey medal from the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain, which is given “to recognize existing and ongoing research of excellence carried out by young workers, within the fields of either Mineralogy, Crystallography, Petrology or Geochemistry. Evidence of excellence should be in the form of work published in highly-regarded, international scientific journals.”

PROFESSOR LAVANYA RAJAMANI

continued her research and practice in international environmental law. She delivered the 2022 Heilbron Lecture, at the Old Bailey, part of a Lecture series championing female legal experts.

Lavanya has published several policy relevant pieces on international climate change law in recent years. One of her papers, co-authored with social science modelers, identifying ‘national fair shares’

in the fight against climate change, has gained considerable traction in courts. Claimants in two of the three climate cases currently pending before the European Court of Human Rights have based their claims on this paper. The claimants – in one case a group of older Swiss women, and, in the other, a group of Portuguese youth – are arguing that Switzerland and 33 European countries are not doing their ‘fair share’ on climate change, directly applying the quantitative assessment of each state’s ‘fair share’ in this paper as the benchmark. This paper has also been relied on by claimants in a case presently before the Italian courts.

In addition to her academic work, Lavanya has also been engaged as counsel and offered expert opinions in several ongoing climate cases. The most prominent is Vanuatu’s pioneering bid to request an Advisory Opinion from the International Court of

Justice on the rights and responsibilities of states in relation to climate change. She has also, acting as co-counsel for the World Wide Fund for Nature-Brazil, filed a complaint to the Special Rapporteur for Human Rights and the Environment on the pace of deforestation in the Amazon.

PROFESSOR RICARDO SOARES DE OLIVEIRA

is delighted and honoured to have been awarded a British Academy Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship. Prof Soares de Oliveira is the Manika & Haarjeev Kandhari Fellow and Tutor in Politics, and Professor of the International Politics of Africa in the Department of Politics and International Relations. He is co-editor of African Affairs, the journal of the Royal African Society, and co-director of the Oxford Martin School’s Programme on African Governance.

Vlad in Parliament

Lavanya Rajamani delivering the 2022 Heilbron Lecture at the Old Bailey.

The BA/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship is one of the most coveted UK awards for established scholars in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The Fellowship will be invaluable to Ricardo in enabling him to focus on his project, Africa Offshore: The Global Offshore Economy and the Reshaping of African Politics, which will result in a new major book. Only 11 fellowships were awarded this year across all subjects in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

After years of writing, editing, proofing and finalising copyright, delayed somewhat by the pandemic, the volume of essays

After Clarice: Reading Lispector’s Legacy in the Twenty-First Century, co-edited by CLAIRE WILLIAMS and Adriana Jacobs, was published in September 2022 by Legenda (an interview can be found here: https://www.mhra.org.uk/news/2023/05/26/ sensations-emotions-and-experiences. html). The book was celebrated at several events, including a launch party hosted by OCCT (Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation) in November 2022, and was the first in the TORCH ‘Book at Lunchtime’ series of 2023 (available on the TORCH youtube channel). Claire talked about the After Clarice project and her work on Clarice Lispector in web conversations with colleagues and students at two universities in Brazil: UFRJ and UNIFESP.

Lispector was the subject of two of Claire’s other publications this year: a chapter on the Brazilian author and her afterlives in The Oxford Handbook of the Latin American Novel (edited by Juan E. de Castro and

Ignacio López-Calvo) and a more creative piece about Lucrécia Neves, one of her oddest characters, in Personagens de Clarice (Hucitec).

Claire attended three conferences during the past academic year: WISPS (Women in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies) in Leicester, REBRAC (European Network of Brazilianists working in Cultural Analysis) in Leeds, and a conference on forgotten female painters of the early twentieth century in Porto, in April. She is looking forward to dedicating her upcoming sabbatical to researching life-writing by and about Brazilian women, for a planned monograph on the subject.

MCR Report

By Alice Yu Y2 MPhil International Relations

In keeping with the fantastic social tradition of St Peter’s, we started off the academic year with two full weeks of events for incoming and returning students. We held a total of 15 events, including a garden party and game nights, city tours and pub crawls, and ended Freshers’ Week activities by electing an energetic and active body of committee members. These committee members were instrumental in creating a comfortable, social, and safe environment for all SPC members. Multiple MCR committee members also served on a number of college committees, ensuring strong and open channels of communication with college. This meant our voices were represented and heard in areas such as buildings and maintenance, food forums, as well as matters and events concerning efforts to promote equity, diversity, and inclusion.

In Michaelmas Term, we hosted a Halloween craft night and a very popular blind-tasting soirée. The soirée was such a hit that students requested another for the following term. Other new events we introduced were the MCR Pop Culture debates with discussions such as whether we as a MCR would discontinue international beauty pageants and stop broadcasting dating shows. Vik Shirvaikar, Julia Gustavsson and Jake Holmes refueled our

MCR with Sunday study breaks which featured baked goods: from cookies to choux buns, and cinnamon rolls to chokladboll. While introducing some new events, we kept our tried and true events, such as Midweek Mingles (formally called Winesdays), Guest Night and OxMas. During OxMas, we brought in holiday cheer by conducting a full sing-through of the “Twelve Days of Christmas”, where each section of the dining hall was assigned a verse.

For Hilary Term, Lara Hankeln, one of our Access & Outreach Representatives, initiated a subsidized “Uncomfortable Oxford” tour for our MCR members. We also subsidized a trip to the Oxford Ice Rink to give students an opportunity to skate or learn how to skate. Our Gender Equality Representatives Lam Tong and Mariia Shmonina hosted a Creative Writing workshop, which included learning how to brainstorm prompts, and provided the space and opportunity to write for fun instead of just in the academic context.

Claire Williams (right) and Adriana Jacobs, at the launch of After Clarice (photograph by Graham Nelson)

Matriculation weekend with our newest class of MCR members

Our first Pop Culture Debate with prepared teams for the opposition and proposition

One of our first study breaks with baked goods

I hosted a Lunar New Year celebration with dumplings, snacks, and music. Our Social Secretaries Kelvin Vries and Bobby Klapper hosted a Drag Night where three of our committee members—Vik Shirvaikar, Raphael Birrell and Anna Connell—brainstormed specialty cocktails and bartended the entire night. This gave our MCR community the opportunity to learn more about drag queen culture, complete with performances and conversations and proved to be a popular event. Our MCR also collaborated with the Oxford Peruvian Society and the Embassy of Peru in London to host a Peruvian Culture Night where Ricardo Malca, a consul who heads Political & Culture Affairs, was in attendance, and Bettine Solf treated us to a live performance of covers and original music. We ended Hilary Term with a wildly popular Jazz Night Bop; one of our MCR members is in a jazz band which gave us an exhilarating live performance, complete with a memorable rendition of Stevie Wonder’s “Isn’t She Lovely”.

Trinity Term was a lot calmer in terms of our social calendar as students entered into dissertation and exam season. The MCR proved to be a popular space for breaks from library study sessions with our free biscuits and coffee. When the libraries became packed, our MCR also became a comfortable study space. The warm weather characteristic of Trinity Term also meant our communal picnic blanket featured on Chavasse Quad almost every day the sun was out.

At our last Guest Night of the term, we welcomed our new Executive Committee for the 2023-24 academic year, along with two new roles: Freshers Representatives, who will assist with Freshers Week(s) planning and hosting:

President Devon Rosenberger

Vice President Lara Hankeln

Social Secretaries Hestia Zhang, Aaron Deller

Treasurer George Hale

Freshers Reps Julia Gustavsson, Gabriel Fung

Through all three terms, we continued being a welcoming, friendly community characteristic of St Peter’s, and made a comfortable home out of our MCR. With a bit of re-decorating, we sectioned off the open floorplan into separate study spaces, and our excellent coffee machine certainly served as a sort of homing beacon for our members.

As we close out this year, I would also like to take time to recognize all the committee members who made this year so amazing for our MCR:

Vice President Vik Shirvaikar

Social Secretaries Kelvin Vries, Bobby Klapper

Treasurer Luca Marsico

Secretary Kim López Güell

Health, Welbeing and Welfare Representatives

Social Assistants

Gender Equality Representatives

Julia Gustavsson, Nudrat Nawar

Devon Rosenberger, Anna Connell, Liz (Elizabeth) Dally

Lam Tong, Mariia Shmonina

LGBTQ+ Representative Hestia Zhang

BAME Representative Manny Malek

Disabilities Representative Jasmine Goody

Access and Outreach Representatives

Raphael Birrell, Lara Hankeln

Sustainability Representative Tjaark Siemssen

Charities Representative Nudrat Nawar

Sports Representative Steph (Stephanie) Zughbi

Facilities Representative Simon Handreke, Katie (Katherine) Fapp

Immediate Past President Niamh Fearon

It truly has been such an honour and pleasure serving such a vibrant community alongside an amazing committee. With yet another memorable year behind us and an exciting new Executive Committee on board, I have full belief next year will be just as riveting!

With Love and Gratitude, Alice A. Yu

Students enjoying snacks for the weekly Sunday study breaks

Top: One of the sections performed their verse of “Twelve Days of Christmas” with gusto Middle: We kicked off Hilary Term with an “Uncomfortable Oxford” tour

Bottom: A group photo of those who were able to attend the annual OxMas dinner

St Peter’s MCR organized a group to attend the Pride Parade in Oxford

A quick field trip to the Oxford Ice Rink for skaters of all levels

Guest Night, Hilary Term

JCR Report

By Isobel Laux Y2 Modern Languages (French & German)

Michaelmas got off to a fantastic start with Freshers’ Week, where first-years enjoyed a fun (but very tiring) seven days packed with club nights, movies, and games nights. The JCR also hosted a pub crawl, pub quiz, and a karaoke night, finishing the week with the very first bop of the year. Freshers were quickly hurled into Peter’s life as they tried their first “Cross Keys” and chanted “Peter’s boys are magic” together at the end of the night.

Freshers also enjoyed ice skating and cookie decorating, whilst College family dinners brought first- and second- years closer together.

Bops continued throughout the term and the bar continued to be a lively space, hosting various bands throughout the year, including the two well-attended jazz and folk nights.

As the weather grew colder and the JCR started to embrace the Christmas spirit, the annual Christmas formal brought joy to everyone. The Hall echoed with Christmas carols, and the cracking of Christmas crackers filled the air.

Michaelmas concluded with the Christmas party, where students danced to Christmas songs, sipped mulled wine and indulged in minced pies. The rugby boys also gave a performance, singing their favourite Christmas carols to the JCR student body.

Hilary Term kicked off with a lively Burns Night supper. Two Scottish JCR members cracked up the guests as they gave their toasts to the laddies and the lassies, accompanied by haggis and the resounding sound of the bagpipes.

Welfare put on some new events this year, such as two yoga sessions and a “Bros and Burgers” event to raise awareness for men’s mental health. Sunday “welfare teas” became a cherished part of every student’s weekly routine, attracting a significant turnout every week.

Hilary also saw Peter’s first ever LGBTQ+ formal. Across the JCR and MCR the event was hugely successful, with queer members of the College coming together to fill the main hall.

Hilary was especially exciting for second years as they attended Halfway Hall at which the JCR committee handed out awards and memories from the past year were shared.

St Peter’s W1 did amazingly well in Torpids. They won blades, which was especially notable as they bumped into Division Two, and it also marked the first women’s blades won in Torpids since the year 1980.

Access and Outreach worked hard over the vacation. Student helpers from the JCR helped College on the “Aspire Liverpool

Residential” by inspiring school students and encouraging aspiration.

Trinity started off on a high note as the third-years celebrated the end of an era with their finalists’ bop; farewell notes were written on t-shirts, and friends enjoyed sharing their fondest memories from over the years with each other before preparing for Finals. Welfare also contributed by hosting a Finalists’ Dinner as exams started to kick off.

As the sun graced the College, JCR members made the most of the weather by playing croquet on the quads, ball games, and enjoying a drink on the patio outside the bar in the evenings.

Turnout for Welfare Tea

The Dean for Welfare and JCR members helping Freshers on move-in day

Christmas Formal Christmas Party

Burns Night, Piping in the Haggis

One of the term’s highlights was the Sports Day held in University Parks. JCR members spent the afternoon participating in sack races, cheering on their friends and competing to eat doughnuts handsfree in record time. The afternoon was followed by a screening of the Eurovision Song Contest in the JCR.

The Saturday of Summer VIIIs in week 5 proved especially lively as students went down to the riverside to support their rowing friends. Glasses of Pimm’s were passed around, and students celebrated as W2 secured their fourth consecutive bump, earning blades.

The JCR is proud of the beloved college tortoise, Aristurtle, who was victorious in this year’s University Colleges Tortoise Race.

The sunny term concluded on a high note with the annual summer Garden Party, this year combined with an end of year concert. Burgers and beverages were enjoyed in high spirits by every JCR member as the year came to an end. A mix of bands took the stage, and students danced together in an impromptu “barn dance”. In true Peter’s fashion, the anthem of “Angels” was sung at the top of everyone’s lungs, as arms linked together to create a unifying and truly magical finale to the year.

Chapel Choir Report

By Elizabeth Fitzpatrick, Y3 Music

With one of the busiest years for the choir now finished - including commissions by our Associate Composer, a performance of Haydn’s Nelson Mass and our first international tour since 2019 - there is a lot of content to cover in this report.

The College Choir has a number of strings to its bow. Our first and most frequent duty is to provide the College with music for twice-weekly Evensong on Thursdays and Sundays. Highlights this year included Jonathan Dove’s The Three Kings for Epiphany, and Lauridsen’s O Magnum Mysterium at both of the College’s well-attended Carol Services. We get through a lot of varied music each week, which the choir finds challenging and rewarding in equal measure. We thank the Chaplain, Elizabeth Pitkethly, for her continuing support of the choir.

Another aim for the choir is the championing of new music, and we have been delighted to have worked with Piers Connor Kennedy as our Associate Composer this year. Piers has composed a number of new anthems for us and a brand new setting of the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis – The St Peter’s Service His music is mostly written for unaccompanied choir and this has challenged us to

Cross-generational choir

develop a more corporate sound, singing intricate harmonies with clever melody painting. Piers, an alumnus of the choir himself, understands the medium with which he is working. His music is thus pragmatic for the forces required (short rehearsal time, limited divisi etc.) but also expressive and resonant – two adjectives which fittingly describe the sound of the St Peter’s Choir.

The Three Motets for St Peter were specially composed using St Peter’s texts: the first, ‘Surge Petre’ is an energetic imperative (“Arise Peter, and break free from your chains so that you can free the world from the chains of sin”). The second, ‘Aurea Luce’ is bell-like music, praying to St Peter to open the gates of heaven. The third is the well-known ‘Tu es Petrus’ text. The St Peter’s Service premiered in Trinity Term, was a triumph. Particular credit must go to our Graduate Organist, Kentaro Machida, for tackling the lively organ accompaniment. All of Piers’ music is beautiful in its harmonic sound-world, but more particularly for its ability to speak to the St Peter’s identity, both past and present.

The choir undertook an exciting tour to the Netherlands from 25-30 June: staying in Haarlem, we performed two Evensong services at the Basilica of St Nicholas, in Amsterdam, and two concerts: one at the Oude Kerke in Scheveningen and the other at the English Reform Church in Amsterdam. We were welcomed by very appreciative audiences and staff at the various venues, and there was enough down time for the choir to explore the many wonderful sights of the Netherlands.

Summer Garden Party

Aristurtle inspects College!

Getting ready to play croquet JCR Sports Day

Rehearsal in the Basilica of St Nicholas, Amsterdam

The music included some seventeenth-century motets by Flemish composers, namely Sweelinck, Dering and Philips, which the choir took to with tremendous stylistic conviction, as well as some modern Dutch repertoire, coached by our resident Dutchman, Jacobus! Met by wonderfully appreciative audiences, the choir performed magnificently under Quintin’s energetic and musical leadership, again proving how far the choir has developed throughout this academic year.

A particular personal highlight was our performance of Joseph Haydn’s Nelsonmesse, or Missa in Angustiis (Mass in Troubled Times) in February 2023, with the College Orchestra. I was one of the two soprano soloists, alongside Phoebe Smith, and this was

my first experience postCOVID of singing solo with an orchestra. As I leave this choir, I am very excited to see how it grows in the years to come.

Some Time for Relaxing!

The Sporting Year Introduction

By Milly Troup, JCR Sports Representative 2022-23

My thanks go to our organists, Jason Mak and Kentaro Machida, and of course, our Director of Music, Quintin Beer. Under his leadership, the choir is a strong team dedicated to high standards and meaningful musical performances. It has been an utter joy singing with SPCCC this year as their Senior Choral Scholar, and I look forward to seeing the choir blossom further next year.

In October 2022, the College hosted a Choir and Music Alumni Reunion Evensong and Dinner. This was a wonderful occasion which reunited former choir members and allowed the current choir to meet their predecessors and acknowledge the rich heritage that they are now custodians of. The massed choir at Evensong was conducted by Roger Allen, Jeremy Summerly, and Quintin Beer. The organ was played by David Quinn and Roger Allen.

In June 2023 the Chaplain, Elizabeth Pitkethly took three postgraduate students to the Worcester Diocesan retreat house, Holland House, near Pershore. The aim of the retreat was to discuss questions about the purpose and meaning of life and for each individual to have space to reflect on their values and aspirations. They also paid a visit to two services at the nearby Benedictine monastery where they were made very welcome.

2022-23 has been a brilliant year for sport at St Peter’s, with record levels of participation and a very Peterite balance being struck between commitment and enjoyment (for our non-blues athletes, at least). This year saw the return of some new traditions, like the Welfare-collaborative JCR Sports Day - previously thwarted by years of Covid – as well as the continuation of old ones, like the beloved ‘slaps’ tournaments played on the college quads throughout Trinity. This year also saw numerous successes for SPC athletes on both the Cuppers and Varsity stage. For a small college we certainly punch above our weight, and I look forward to seeing the upward trajectory of sport at St Peter’s continue.

Cricket

By Gabe McCall (Captain)

Our season this year can only be described as a season of mixed successes. In cuppers, we fought valiantly to make the round of 32, only to lose 7 of our wickets to the blues leg-spinner in the space of 3 overs. The imposing total of 28 proved too little so we unfortunately bowed out. Our league campaign was another case of fighting valiantly, only in this case it was to actually be admitted. We dispelled rumours of ‘dangerous’ wickets at Marston and began with a convincing win over Exeter. This unfortunately proved to be our only win of the season against JCR opposition, following it up with defeats to Hilda’s and Hertford.

The attitude and commitment of everyone involved remained fantastic throughout, and all of our hard-work paid off at the pinnacle of the season – the JCR vs SCR game. The stand-out performance of Louis Odgers in his final game for the College guided the JCR home in a run chase of just over 100. Some great cricket was played and everyone thoroughly enjoyed the day. We look forward to another competitive rematch next year.

The Interior of the Dome, Basilica of St Nicholas

Players with Umpire Henry Mayr-Harting

Joe Cartwright in action

Tim Clack, Bob Hilton & Ed Callow

Our final game of the season was the now traditional Pimm’s match. Tactically, Exeter was chosen as our opposition. This was not a good toss to lose. 20 overs in the field with a lot of Pimm’s consumed meant that by the time we went into bat, most people were seeing three balls! The result was another rather comprehensive defeat, but similar to every other game this season, cricket was the real winner. Hopefully we can build on our few successes next year; I’m already looking forward to it!

Football

By Ivan Mahoney (Captain)

After a season with no kit last year, SPCFC came back with a bang this year – with fresh new shirts to boot, after a period of intense negotiations with Pro-Direct Soccer. Playing in Division 1, the second division of four, we didn’t get off to the greatest of starts: 2 losses on the trot, albeit to the eventual top 2 teams. Our biggest weakness was our leaky defence, not helped by a lack of goalkeeper. However, as the season progressed, Tyler Crowley stepped up magnificently in goal, and we had a flicker of a promotion hope after a few good wins before Christmas. However, the tables turned, and we then found ourselves in a relegation scrap, which we survived by drawing against the league winners.

I firmly believe we are a cup team, and this was shown in our blistering cup run, beating Premier Division side Christchurch 5-0 – unfortunately we then lost 6-2 to the eventual winners, ending the game with only 8 players due to injuries.

In the summer futsal competition, we lost only one game en-route to the knockouts: however, we unfortunately went out in the last-16 due to a last-minute equaliser by Magdalen followed by some woeful Peter’s penalties. All in all though, the team has the potential for incredible performance. With some good intake next year, I believe SPCFC has it in us to go all the way in the league and cup in 2024.

Women’s Football

By Iona Ffrench-Adam (Captain)

The SPC women’s football team has had another incredibly successful year. They managed to win the futsal cuppers for a second year in a row, a rare feat in the high-turnover world of college sport. The team also made it to the 11-a-side cuppers final, where they narrowly lost on penalties to an incredibly strong Osler House side. To add to this, the team is currently only one win away from securing the overall title in Division 1 – a league it is their first year playing in for a significant period. In sum, a dominant year from a dominant side.

Netball

By Anna Hearne and Poppy York (Captains)

This year SPC netball has gone from strength to strength, as 202223 saw the introduction of our mixed team in the mixed Cuppers league. We started our career in this league with some impressive wins against Merton, LMH and Mansfield, to name a few.

Rowing

By Jacobus Petersen (President)

The academic year 2022-23 has been a very successful year for St Peter’s College Boat Club. Being the largest sport practiced at Peter’s, rowing has become even more popular than it was in the year before. Both the men’s and women’s sides raced with three boats in Torpids and Summer VIIIs (plus a women’s composite crew with Brasenose in VIIIs), more than the average number of College Boat Clubs and a testament to their efforts during the Rowing On qualifying events.

We also had great attendance for the annual Cuppers tournament, an impressive feat mid-heatwave. Although the team didn’t get the outcome we were hoping for overall, we had some gritty and hard-fought matches. Overall, netball has been a great way for the different year groups to come together and socialise outside of their usual academic commitments. We hope very much that netball continues acting as this much needed break for anyone who needs it, and that all our Peter’s students continue to enjoy it as much as we have!

Bringing undergraduate and postgraduate students together, over the year a true community of rowers has been fostered. This community spans all the ability levels, ranging from a large intake of complete novices to numerous university-level rowers. On the more experienced side, we were proud to host Sara Helin, who served as the President of Oxford University Women’s Boat Club and rowed in our Blue Boat for the Women’s Boat Race, and Abby Robinson, a member of the Lightweight Blue Boat this year.

Having these people erg, row, and socialise together resulted in great progress in the quality of rowing at Peter’s, in particular on the women’s side. Two sets of blades were won, with W1 gaining blades in Torpids (a first since 1980) and W2 in Summer VIIIs.

The Vice Master Bowls!

These blades reflect not only the hard work and training of all the rowers, coxes, and committee members involved, but also the welcoming atmosphere for rowers that allowed for the incredible personal progress of many rowers. This can be seen on both the men’s and women’s side – for the first time in years, our top crews have made it back to fixed spots in division II for Torpids, and our women’s side were robbed of breaking into division II for Summer VIIIs by a klaxon on the last day. (Re)establishing Peter’s as a rowing College, our going +8 in Summer VIIIs meant that we were the third-best performing club on the Isis, with the women’s side second-best out of all the colleges by only 1 bump.

At the same time, we have had a lot of fun outside of bumps racing. For the first time since the pandemic, we organised a training camp to Seville, where almost twenty of our rowers trained on the Guadalquivir river.

Rugby

By Jonah Veakins and Frederick Wood (Captains)

Once again, SPCRFC finished the season unbeaten. Whilst other colleges may have scored more points against us, they lacked the finesse required to win games. If you judge a rugby team based on their ability to put points on the board, the game becomes too corporate. This is why we play with a strict limit of one E&Mer per game. New recruits Fankah and Glover definitely increased the overall danger of the team but the most important metric, handsomeness, was undoubtedly carried by F.Wood. When he wasn’t having a strop about dropping the ball for the umpteenth time, his infectious smile captivated the hearts of the supporters. SPCRFC would like to take this opportunity to thank SPOB for

There our rowers could hone their technique and fitness while enjoying the beautiful scenery that Andalusia has to offer. Another highlight was Bedford Amateur Regatta, our first external racing event since the pandemic, where our women’s eight beat Worcester and our men’s four beat St John’s. Starting up these ventures after years of Oxford-based training was very exciting, and our associated successes have made us truly very happy with the state of rowing at St Peter’s. To top it all off, our third men’s boat made headlines by capsizing off their raft to gain ‘footship’ during Summer VIIIs, meaning Peter’s rowing is now (in)famous for more reasons than one…

their kind kit donation - I’m sure we will look even more handsome and dangerous in a fresh strip - and pray that we are blessed with the second coming of Fankah in next year’s cohort. Amen.

Stats:

Oriel - Felt sorry for them by the end

Bye - Tough day for the SPCRFC but scraped a victory

Teddy - Disqualified due to rampant steroid use. SPCRFC win by default

Jesus - Our Lord and Saviour Saints v1 - Canonised Saints v2 - Martyred Saints v3 - Ascended

Mixed Touch Rugby

By Emma Wiggetts and Milly Troup (Co-Captains)

SPC Mixed Touch had another strong year, running weekly sessions as a mixture of smaller skills-based group sessions and some larger games combined with SPCRFC. It was great to see people who started as complete beginners this year playing alongside many of our old-timers, something which really gets to the heart of what Mixed Touch at SPC is all about.

Sailing

By Tom Storey (Captain)

College sailing: the true spiritual embodiment of college sport. At college level, sailing is truly low commitment. The season begins and ends with the one day long Cuppers event, where inclusivity is prioritised thanks to the rule that 3/4 of the team must have never sailed before. With Blues Captain and Captain-elect both part of the college, Peter’s were undoubtedly favourites to win, and this we of course did. The road to victory was not easy, however. The first

Volleyball

By Zéphyr Goriely (Captain)

Considering the reputation Peter’s sport holds, volleyball doesn’t tend to stand out. However, this year has seen the Peter’s volleyball team take sporting success to the next level. Led by Blues player Zéphyr Goriely, a rag tag team of daring and passionate students stepped up to try their luck in the annual volleyball cuppers tournament. While most had never played a proper game of volleyball in their lives, they were determined to make the most of this opportunity: despite finals looming for many of the team, academic sacrifices needed to be made to prioritise what was truly important. With very low expectations they stepped up to the challenge. Many of the competing teams had several talented players, meaning that any match was going to be difficult.

Touch was especially popular in Trinity, which saw our highest player numbers due to the sunny weather and sheer volume of finalists desperate for a library break. The season culminated in May with the 1-day cuppers tournament: here the team made a valiant effort to reach the quarter finals, requiring a huge shift from all present due to the fact we only had one sub for the day. However, the library called for several finalists and reduced numbers then forced us to combine with Magdalen for the quarter-final round, clearly diluting some of the Peter’s magic as we were unfortunately knocked out. All in all though, a great day out for the SPC Mixed Touch team, and we hope their success continues next year.

few races were almost lost due to the newer sailors struggling to understand what a tack was. However, we pulled through and made it to the final against Queen’s. Despite some questionable tactics from Queen’s (primarily involving a lot of T-boning) we, in true Peter’s style, gave them a good old-fashioned thrashing.

Notable mention must go to Ivan Mahoney: not only did he learn how to steer mere minutes before the final, he also managed to secure several victories despite falling over at least 5 times per race. Overall, a brief but excellent season, and a well-earned trophy for the Peter’s sailors to take home.

However, minimal practice and a bit of luck found SPC volleyball miraculously in the semi-finals. Peter’s vs Pembroke. Going into this game the team were hopeful but not confident, faced with a team that at points constituted 5 blues players (out of the 6 on court). The chances were slim. Fortunately, last-minute recruitment of 3rd year E&M student and Polish volleyball sensation Krzysztof Zdanowicz allowed Peter’s to achieve a highly impressive 3 sets to 1 over Pembroke, defying all odds to advance into the finals. The final was against Teddy Hall, arguably the most important sporting event in Peter’s history. Predicted to not even win a single set, Peter’s again defied expectations and fought hard as the clear underdogs. After losing the two first sets, they gritted their teeth and won the next two. Unfortunately, Peter’s just fell short in the 5th set, losing overall to Teddy Hall. Although they did not bring the trophy home, this was a major success for Peter’s volleyball, and it is only the start of their journey. Look out for the volleyball team: they will be back next year, hunting that title with a vengeance.

Women’s First Eight

Men’s First Eight

Eifion Davies

At the end of the 2021-22 Academic Year, St. Peter’s welcomed Eifion Davies as our new Head Chef. Eifion joined the team after previously successfully managing the catering operations of 15 boarding houses at Rugby School.

With over 40 years of experience in the catering industry, Eifion is a proud Welshman. He has had the honour of cooking for HM the Queen at Windsor Castle and at Royal Air Force Valley during his previous role as Executive Chef at Head Quarters Air Command based at Royal Air Force High Wycombe.

Dr Adam Kirrander

Dr Adam Kirrander joins St Peter’s College as Tutor in Chemistry alongside his appointment as Associate Professor in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. Prior to joining the College, Adam was Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh and Visiting Professor at Brown University. His research aims to develop new techniques for ultrafast imaging of matter at a quantum level, for instance to better understand how light can be harvested for energy.

As a theoretician closely involved in experiments, he and his collaborators have demonstrated that X-ray FreeElectron Lasers can be used to map the rearrangement of electrons in a molecule when it absorbs light and track the structural changes associated with charge transfer. He also develops new simulation methods for quantum dynamics in photoexcited molecules. Overall, his

At St. Peter’s, Eifion aspires to inspire, lead, and build great Kitchen brigades to deliver blessed, simple, quality, fresh, homemade, nutritious, sustainably sourced and thoughtfully produced food. His goal is to keep the menu up-to-date and everevolving while tapping into the most exciting culinary trends dominating our high streets for college students.

Outside of work, Eifion enjoys travelling, sampling international cuisine, and spending time immersed in nature with loved ones.

Library Report

By Dr David Johnson

Rosie Lake, the College’s Deputy Librarian, seems to have taken a particular leaf out of Robert Burns’ book of poetry during the open days which followed the end of Trinity Term. That occasion provided an opportunity for overhearing assorted remarks on the College Library offered by undergraduates in the process of introducing St Peter’s to their potential successors. As the poet remarked, we would all want to see ourselves as others see us. Rosie had such an opportunity. And the favourite remark reported to your Librarian derived from a particular undergraduate who noted that here was the Library; he had nothing to say about it.

Library collections are, of course, merely thresholds to what is beyond. Their users pass through in search of unknown territory. These bibliographic portals might offer a route to Angevin kingship; numerical linear algebra; or the material culture of the Andes. But whatever the case, the librarian’s aim is that users will come away with new information and – much more important – new ideas about their topic of investigation. Perhaps, just occasionally, if we have any luck, readers might also glean new ideas and new information illustrating broader themes. But, they will write no essays and answer no questions on the Library itself.

journey and its assorted difficulties. But, if things work as they should and our trip passes without incident, then we disembark with plans for the day ahead in our minds, and stories of what we have done and are about to do on our lips. The train, like the library, is principally a means to an end. Only if it becomes an obstacle to reaching that end does it receive any attention.

research aims to elucidate the motion of nuclei and electrons in atoms and molecules and how these interact with elementary particles or with light. His research was recognised by the inaugural Royal Society of Chemistry Horizon Prize in 2021 and he was Natural Sciences Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in 2021-22. His group is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the Science and Technology Facilities Council, and the Leverhulme Trust.

Adam teaches Physical Chemistry to the St Peter’s Chemistry undergraduates, and takes over as Organising Tutor in Chemistry from Professor Mark Moloney.

In his spare time, he enjoys skiing, mountain biking, and spending time with his family.

If our train is too late, too expensive, too overcrowded, or too delayed (and increasingly these days it is all these and more besides), we arrive at our destination with our minds full of the

Unfortunately, we lack the privilege in this Report of focusing entirely on the thoughts and ideas that the Library aims to curate; we must give some attention on the institution itself. Still worse, the avoidance of repetition is not entirely possible. When I wrote my Report last year, Oxford libraries were (again) looking forward to the introduction of a new online management system to undertake the running and management of the University’s library collections. But at this point, I must advise readers to brace themselves for some unexpected news: it was discovered at the eleventh hour that the new system was incapable of doing all the things that Oxford wished it to do. Its introduction was consequently delayed by a year. So, despite his best intentions, your Librarian is compelled to continue in exactly the same way as he did last year by saying that Oxford is just about to adopt a new online management system for its libraries.

It is nevertheless worth noting that things now look more optimistic. A great deal of software re-writing has taken place, mainly in the area of the management of the methods by which individual readers interact with libraries. I don’t, in consequence, expect to repeat the announcement of a new system for a third time next year. All the same, it remains worth remembering that a great deal of work is still continuing to adapt the software in order to make it work that much better in an Oxford context.

Another long-term project brought to fruition this year is the creation of a more accessible study area in the space previously occupied by the Library foyer (which has long been housed in the single-story annexe in the corner of Linton Quad between Linton House and the Latner Building). This area has been redesigned and refurbished so that by the beginning of Michaelmas 2023 it will provide additional desks which are accessible to those with more limited mobility. A photograph of the study area can be found within the Interim Bursar’s Report in this Record

The academic year began with a significant personnel change in the Library. Brian Brown joined St Peter’s as its new Library Assistant at the beginning of Michaelmas Term. Brian didn’t have far to travel, having worked previously at the Bodleian Art, Archaeology and Ancient World Library. However, most of his career has been spent as a teacher in schools. There might, of course, be those who feel that a career spent in dealing with school children provides a

particularly appropriate preparation for work in an Oxford college; but as you will already have guessed, your ever-discreet Librarian could not possibly comment.

In the past twelve months, Brian has proved particularly invaluable in finally helping us to begin get to grips with the reorganisation of the Library stacks. This has been an incomplete job haunting any spare moments for a couple of years (following building works which overran and left us with no time at the end of the job finally to sort things out), but without our ever managing to devote enough time to properly sort things out. Order is being brought from disorder and so, in consequence, I look forward to future generations of Library users receiving books from the stacks in double-quick time and, in consequence, having nothing to say about the Library at all.

Report from the Interim Bursar

Dr Sarah Wilson

The big story of the year is Castle Bailey Quad (CBQ) – the major new-build project to which so many of you have generously contributed. CBQ will transform our College site and greatly enhance our accommodation offer for students – and it is exciting to watch it begin to emerge from its scaffolding wraps! As it does so, its elegant design that cleverly incorporates unexpected angles and views –across College rooftops, and to Castle Mound and the hills beyond – is increasingly revealing itself. Meanwhile, visitors to the site comment frequently on the fine workmanship of the build. We are, in sum, looking forward to adding a quality product to the St Peter’s estate that will serve students of the College well for generations to come.

As I write (September 2023) the project is now nearing completion and our students will be in residence by the end of Michaelmas 2023. This comes after a short delay caused by greater than expected archaeological interest below ground, and slower than expected supply-chain performance above. A delay of this sort is inconvenient but unsurprising for a project at this scale, and any temporary frustration it has generated will certainly fade fast once the beautiful new development is open. In the meantime, we have placed students affected in comfortable temporary accommodation, and we look forward to seeing them take up residence as the first occupants of Damazer House and Westfield House soon.

Woven through CBQ design and construction is the Passivhaus standard. Passivhaus means the building is optimised in service of a decarbonised grid, providing high levels of occupant comfort while minimising energy requirements for heating and cooling. To achieve Passivhaus standard requires significant levels of insulation, high-performance windows and frames, airtight building fabric, thermal bridge-free construction, and mechanical ventilation systems with highly efficient air recovery. It was a striking decision to commit to full Passivhaus credentials at the project’s inception and it has required renewed decisions to hold to this high bar intermittently through the construction process.

BOOKS PRESENTED DIRECTLY TO THE LIBRARY 2022–2023

Ms E. Bonacini

Mrs M. Bridge

Dr T. Clack

Dr S. Clark

Ms S. Dunkley

Professor T.F. Earle

Professor G.R. Evans

Mr G. Fung

Professor M. Gold

Professor R. Hirschon

The Historic Towns Trust

Mr J.R. Knight

Mr P. Longshaw.

Professor G.T. Meaden

Dr R. Pitkethly

Mr J. Poole

Mr M. Samuel.

The family of the late Mr J. Siddons

Dr S. Tuffnell

Professor C. Williams

Brian Brown

View across the Rowcroft rooftops, seen from the top of Damazer House, July 2023 The Master walks the site with construction site manager Tom Fisher early in the build process.

College’s commitment to developing our estate responsibly is evidenced in this choice – and we will also feel the benefit through our energy bills in due course. By contrast, the thermal performance of the rest of the estate is poor, as a recent survey has made brutally plain to us. Even as we celebrate the environmentally highperforming new quad, therefore, we need to build environmentally responsible thinking into our plans for the future of the rest of the estate. Our Sustainability Forum, with invaluable input from our Facilities Manager, Lidia Hemmings, is doing admirable work in keeping our institutional feet to the fire in this respect.

In bursarial terms, the CBQ development has been a multigenerational project. James Graham (Bursar, 2013-2018) negotiated the purchase of the Castle Hill House site. Doug Shaw (Bursar, 2018 – 2023) oversaw the financing and supervised much of the progress of works. I arrived as interim in May 2023 to see the project over the finish line, with all the pleasures (and

only occasional headaches) that that brings. And my permanent successor (to arrive early 2024) will see it living and working as part of the wider accommodation portfolio of the College.

In my leg of this relay, I pay grateful tribute to David Collard (History, 1994) who has given generously of his time, energy and construction expertise to advise College on late-stage matters related to project delivery.

Elsewhere on the estate, there have been upgrades to the Emily Morris Building (moving us on from the Jurassic bathrooms some of you may remember) and to Linton House facades (do note the bright stonework and re-gilded heraldry on your next visit). The crucial summer works window has also seen delivery of a wonderful project from our own College craftsmen. Managed by Buildings and Maintenance Manager, Stephen Breakspear, and realised through the note-worthy creativity and craftsmanship of Andy Dore, the team has built a stunning, wood-panelled, fully accessible working annexe to the Harris Library in the ground floor atrium of Linton House. It has long been the ambition of the College to have attractive and useable library facilities accessible to all our students, including our wheelchair users. I am delighted to report that, thanks to generous contributions from a triumvirate of donors, and the beautiful work of the College team, that ambition has now been realised.

memory of the place and whose long and loyal service we all salute, makes an appearance on the inside back cover of this issue of the College Record

The catering team, led by Ave Davies and Tony Baughan, continue to design and deliver delicious offerings that are the envy of Oxford. The household team, led by Mariola Serednicka, have been performing quiet miracles across the summer, turning around rooms across the estate at fortnightly intervals to facilitate our vital conference trade, which is building back strongly. We have said a sad farewell to Sue Moody from the scout team after 10 years of strong service to the College and wish her a happy and well-earned retirement. In the past year we have welcomed Katharine French and Naeem Shujaa to the Lodge, each bringing different and welcome strengths to the porter team. Meantime, we said farewell to wonderful Lodge porter Andy Prior, who, after 10 years at College, takes on a new role at Rhodes House: may it be happy and rewarding.

On a personal note, it has been a pleasure being part of the community of St Peter’s and I warmly wish the new incumbent well in a role which is busy, varied and never less than interesting.

Dr Sarah Wilson, Interim Bursar

Across all areas of our work, our College staff continue to knock it out of the park in impressively positive, high-performing and cost-effective ways. The finance team, led by College Accountant Kathryn Marshall, have delivered another whistle-clean (interim) audit while steering home another financial yearend. Last year marked 25 years at St Peter’s for Accounts Assistant Tereza Taylor. Tereza, who has become a crucial part of the institutional

The redesigned and refurbished fully accessible atrium to the Harris Library.

Farewell to College scout, Sue Moody

Farewell to College porter Andy Prior (left).

Seen here with Lodge Supervisor Derrick Harriott.

Development Office Report

By Tim Pottle and Salima Virji, co-Development Directors (Interim)

For the second half of academic year 2022-2023, it has been our privilege to job-share the role of Director of Development and Alumni Relations for St Peter’s, covering for permanent Development Director Brett de Gaynesford’s maternity leave. With experience across six different Oxford colleges between us, but no prior connection to St Peter’s, it has been a genuine pleasure for us both to spend time here, working with wonderful colleagues, students and alumni and holding the reins for Brett, ahead of her return in October 2023. And so, for the College Record, it now falls to us to reflect on how alumni have engaged with St Peter’s across the past year.

This year, we have held alumni events in Oxford, London, Berlin, New York, Singapore and Tokyo. Almost one thousand alumni from twenty-six countries attended a St Peter’s event this year. College-based events have included three gaudies, two Howard Society lunches, three alumni subject dinners, a Meeting Minds alumni lunch, Boat Club and Choir reunion dinners, Benefactors’ Day and two high-profile concerts.

In Tokyo, the Master met with alumni ranging from Ambassador Masamichi Hanabusa who had matriculated in 1958 (in Law) to Visiting Students Rin Miyake (PPE) and Rio Mitani (PPE) who had arrived in College in 2021. The Master reports that the breadth of College stories being shared from across 55 years of Japanese students at St Peter’s was inspiring, including Ambassador Hanabusa’s account of performing a Japanese tea ceremony on the floor of his Besse Building student room in 1959 for the then Master, Julian Thornton-Duesbery.

At the alumni buffet dinner in Singapore, generously hosted by Steve Diggle (PPE, 1982), the Master met not one but two former JCR Presidents of the College in Sanjay Nanwani and Nanjeev Singh. And at the NYC dinner, generously hosted by Patrick Turner (French, 1978), the warmth for College and for the ongoing networks of belonging that a shared history generates was palpable (and the cheesecake was excellent). The Master, Fellows and Development Office colleagues of the College look forward to connecting and reconnecting with more of you in the year ahead. On the international front, new entries on the alumni calendar for the year ahead will include, as a minimum, events in Washington DC and Hong Kong – details to follow.

In the bursarial report in this issue of the Record you can read about the emphatic progress made this year on the ambitious and inspiring project to build a brand new quad for College – Castle Bailey Quad (CBQ). Once open, as it will be by the time you read this, CBQ is going to make a transformational difference for our students, and it would not have been possible without the very many donations made by friends and alumni of the College. It is wonderful for the current incumbents of College to feel a real sense of co-investment in the future of the College from so many thoughtful and generous old members. This has from the start been a shared project and College is looking forward to inviting all CBQ donors – currently 876 of you! – to joyful opening celebrations

of the new quad across the weekend of 15/16 June 2024 (mark calendars now). Although students will be well ensconced by then, waiting for a weekend in which the weather is more likely to cooperate for a celebration seems worth it. Here’s to clear skies on 15 and 16 June 2024.

In Summer 2023, our Alumni Relations Officer, Sarah Alford (Arch and Anth, 2018), moved on to pursue a career in teaching via the Teach First programme in a school in South West London. We will miss Sarah greatly. In her place, we have been pleased to welcome Darcy Holland who took over from Sarah in June. Darcy got a first in History and a distinction in her MSt in Medieval History just down the road at Regent’s Park College, writing her Master’s dissertation on Women and Writing in Eastern England, c.450-800. Darcy is now organising our alumni events programme and is first port of call for alumni questions through the office. Darcy is a great asset to the team and we are very confident that alumni will enjoy connecting with her and meeting her at College functions in due course.

Thank you to all those who took the call as part of this year’s annual March telethon in which current students of the College speak with former students of the College. Nine students spoke to 471 alumni in total, hearing stories about alumni’s experiences as students of the College and receiving ideas and mentoring steers drawn from their careers since. The telethon also raised an impressive £307,000 for College. The lovely feedback we have received from alumni as a result of these calls suggests that the pleasure in the connection with current students of the College has been mutual. Thank you all.

Since its earliest days, St Peter’s, like other Oxford colleges, has relied on the generosity of former students to support the brilliant but expensive tutorial system, to ensure that no student should be denied a place for financial reasons, to provide on-course support for students in need, to renovate old buildings, and, occasionally, to build new ones. With this in mind, let us take the opportunity to renew the thanks to those alumni and friends who give to the College financially, those who have generously remembered St Peter’s in their wills (in a place where legacies of all sizes make a real difference) and those who give of themselves in other ways to help College. As interim co-Development Directors in this special place, we have seen first-hand how everything given to St Peter’s is being pressed into excellent service.

We know you will want to join us in warmly congratulating Brett de Gaynesford on the birth of baby Evelyn, and we wish her a happy return to work in October. Whether you are a regular attendee at College events or have yet to attend one, we know that Brett and Darcy and our other colleagues in the Development Office here will be hoping to see you at a College event before too long.

Alumni Dinner in Tokyo

College Gaudy, March 2023

Alumni Dinner in Singapore

Sarah Alford shares a joke with Professor Mark Moloney at the 2023 Anjool Maldé Awards ceremony in Canal House.

Darcy Holland

CHAVASSE CIRCLE DONORS

Anonymous (7)

Alexander Mosley Charitable Trust

Mr Stephen Diggle (1982)

Sir Lloyd Dorfman CBE

Dr Mortimer & Theresa Sackler Foundation

Edward Penley Abraham Cephalosporin Fund (EPA)

The Lord Farmer

Mr Jocelin Harris (1964)

The Rt Hon the Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts CBE (1961)

Mr Charles Ind (1982)

Mr Haarjeev Kandhari (1993)

Latner Family

Latsis Family

Mr William Lau

Laura Ashley Holdings Plc

Lemos Family

Perrodo Family

Rhodes Trust

Rothermere Foundation

Sackler Trust

Ms Dalia Salaam Rishani (1985)

& Mr Ramzi Rishani

St Augustine’s Foundation

Mr Guy Stokely (1963)

St Peter’s College Foundation

TEPCO

Mr Anthony Weldon

MASTER’S CIRCLE DONORS

Anonymous (4)

A. G. Leventis Foundation

Mr Daniel Bilbao (1978)

Sir Ian Davis

Mr Peter Foy (1960)

Mr Carl Hughes (1980)

Mr Jeffrey Knight (1957)

Landau Foundation

Sir Michael Moritz

Professor John O’Connor

Pepsi Co Foundation

Mr Clive Rutherford (1965)

Mr Stephan Shakespeare (1976)

Thames Water Plc

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Mr Patrick Turner (1978)

Mr Neil Warriner (1981)

Mr Stephen Wilcock (1956)

Mr Charles Wilkinson (1982)

Wolfson Foundation

GREEN AND GOLD CIRCLE DONORS

Anonymous Angus Lawson Memorial Trust

Mr Robert Appleby (1980)

Mr John Bain OBE (1958)

Mr Stuart Banks (1992)

Mr Jonathan Barry (1999)

Mr Michael Batchelor (1956)

Mr Gregga Baxter (1978)

Mr John Botterill (1958)

Mr David Bucknall (1986)

Mr Paul Bushell (1964)

Mr Robert Calcraft (1983)

Dr Robert Calderisi (1968)

Mr Sunir Chandaria (1998)

Mr Adam Chinn (1979)

Professor Thomas Cook (1959)

Mr James Dalrymple (2000) & Mrs Sophie Dalrymple (2002)

Mr Benjamin Dell (1995)

Mr Barry Douthwaite (1958)

Mr Roger Dyer (1976)

Esmee Fairbairn Foundation

Mr John Foster (1970)

Dr Jon Fuller (1960)

GAV Properties

Miss Tara Glen (1988)

Mr A J Tracey

Mr Jeremy Greenhalgh

Mr Richard Heffer (1965)

Dr Takeda Hitachi

The Houghton Dunn Charitable Trust

Mr Lijian Jiang (2003)

Mr David Lane (1982)

Mr Clay Maitland

Dr Roger Marshall (1958)

Murphy Foundation

Ox-Academic Summer School Tours Ltd

Mr Paul Pearman (1970)

Mr Michael Percival (1963)

Mr Jonathan Petitpierre (1962)

Mr Peter Phelan (1964)

Mr Anthony Pilkington

Mr John Poole (1953)

Mrs Tessy Porphyrios

Mrs Sharon Powers (1989) &

Mr Stuart Powers (1989)

Mrs Jacqueline Ranawake (1988)

Mr Grant Rhode (1974)

Mr Geoffrey Riba-Thompson (1977)

Mr Nicholas Segal (1976)

Dr Ian Skidmore (1959)

Mr Lawrence Smith (1978)

Mr Stuart Smith FRCS (1969)

St Peter’s Society

Mr Jeremy Taylor (1992)

Mr Richard Thompson (1981) & Ms Louise Wood (1981)

Mr Anthony Tuckwell (1962)

Vandervell Foundation

Sir Gerald Warner KCMG (1951)

Weinstock Fund

Mr David Wharton & Mrs Rosemary Wharton

Mrs Susan Wulstan

Mr George Yacoub (1954)

Mr Faisal Yamani (1995)

Yellowwoods Trust

Mr Martin Yuen

*Bold – New Members of the Circle

St Peter’s College is grateful for the generous gifts during the year 1 August 2022 - 31 July 2023 from the following:

1946

Mr Michael Tibbs OBE

1947

Mr Eric Gordon

1948

Mr Richard Hales

Mr Peter Harrison

Dr Donald Malkinson

The Reverend Canon

Derek Price

1949

Sir Kenneth Bloomfield MRIA

Mr John Trueman

1950

Professor John Annett

Mr Frederick Moysen

Mr James Siddons*

Dr James Tomkinson

1951

Dr Colin Bailey

Mr Robert Leslie

Sir Gerald Warner KCMG

Mr Eric Wood

1952

Mr Gordon Newbery

Mr Arnold Taylor

Mr Colin White

1953

Mr Frank Cookson

Mr Richard Dilley

Mr Sean Hignett

Mr Bryan Maybee JP

Dr Bryan Pierce

1954

The Right Reverend Colin Bazley

Mr Robert Broadhead*

Mr John Cole

Mr Christopher Lilwall

Professor Dr Terence

Meaden

The Reverend Robert Mighall

Dr Derek Rushton

Mr Peter Waterman

Mr George Yacoub

1955

Anonymous

Mr Mike Loach

Mr Michael Rogers

Mr Martin Slatter

Mr Brian Weston OBE

1956

Anonymous (2)

Mr Michael Batchelor

Mr Keith Garland

Professor John Gaskin

Mr John Mellor

Mr Michael Pipes MBE

Mr Michael Richardson

Mr Terence Stevens

Professor John Widdowson

1957

Mr Colin Bailey*

Mr Graham Blackbourn

Professor John Bradfield

Mr Christopher Curson

Mr Ian Fleming

Dr David Grifffiths

Mr Roger Herrera

Mr Albert Johnson

Professor Meirion Lewis CBE

Mr Peter Lewis

Mr Ken Loach

Mr Norman Philbey

Mr John Richardson

Dr David Rogerson

Mr Brian Snelson

Mr William Stevenson

Mr Hugh Turrall-Clarke

1958

Anonymous

Mr David Ashton

Mr John Bain OBE

The Reverend Canon

David Callard

Mr John Carter*

Mr Max Enock

Dr Colin Lambert FRCP(C)

Dr Roger Marshall

Mr Colin Pearson

Mr Ken Pye

Mr John Strachan

Air Commodore

Philip Wilkinson

Mr John Wright

1959

Professor David Berry

Professor Thomas Cook

Mr James Dawson

Mr John Dobson

Mr Maxwell Dowle

Mr David Fuller

Mr Stephen Metherell

Mr David Nuttall

Mr Robin Privett

Dr Peter Raggatt

Dr John Salinsky

Dr Ian Skidmore

Mr Richard Wells

The Reverend Prebendary

John Wesson

1960

Professor Roger Angel FRS

Dr Anthony Blake

Mr Richard Bond

Mr David Cox

Mr Hector Davie

Dr Christopher Davies

Mr Gerald Eveleigh

Mr Barry Glazier

Mr Frederic Goodwin

Dr Peter Hartley

Mr John Hermon

Mr Robert Morgan FRCS

Mr Robert Savage

Dr Philip Surman

Dr David Tibbutt DM FRCP

Mr Nick Towers

The Reverend Dr Iain Whyte

1961

Anonymous (2)

Mr Anthony Bomber

The Reverend Canon

John Brown

Mr Robert Bryce

Mr Richard Bunker

Professor Dr Stanley Cameron

Professor Dwight Eddins

Mr Jonathan Edwards

The Reverend Canon

Anthony Hawley

Mr John Jarvis

Mr Michael Jerrom

Mr Christopher Legge

Dr Christopher Lynch

Professor Graham Orpwood

Mr Frank Parker

Dr Derek White

Mr Derek White

1962

The Reverend Barry Ashdown

Sir Roger Bone KCMG

Mr Christopher Booth

Dr David Edwards

Dr Charles Griffin

Mr Clive Jackson

Mr Paul Jenkins

Dr Andrew King

Professor Robin Leake

Mr Peter Macleod*

Mr Norman Maxwell

Mr Bryan Morgan

Mr Mike Orriel

The Reverend Canon

John Payne-Cook

Mr Jonathan Petitpierre

Mr Charles Purnell

Mr David Scott

Dr Martin Shain

Mr Anthony Tuckwell

Mr Paul Wolff

1963

Mr George Armstrong

Mr Frank Blewett

Dr John Doveton

Mr Richard EdgecliffeJohnson

Mr Ian Ewing

Mr Patrick Howard

Professor Geoffrey Le Grys

Mr Geoffrey Nicholson

Mr Hugh Norman*

Mr Derek Parr

Mr Michael Percival

Mr Christopher Purcell

Mr Michael Redman

Mr Mervyn Samuel

The Reverend Father John Smethurst

Mr Guy Stokely

Mr Timothy Taylor

Mr John Watson

The Reverend Paul Winchester

1964

Anonymous

Dr Denis Alexander

Professor Christopher Ashton

Mr Robin Browne

Mr Malcolm Burns

Mr Paul Bushell

Mr John Clark

Mr Rod Dalmaine

Mr Robin Dixon

Mr Donald Gardner

Mr Jim Golcher

Dr Christopher Green

Mr Jocelin Harris

Mr Bill Homan-Russell

The Reverend Christopher Jackson

Dr Hubert Messing

Mr David Perfect

Mr Peter Phelan

Dr John Pidgeon

Mr Peter Theodoulou

Dr Timothy Ward

1965

Anonymous

Mr Ronald Akhurst

Mr David Aspinwall

Mr Gordon Bottoms

Mr David Brearley

Mr Alan Brown

Mr Owen Darling

The Reverend Professor Paul Fiddes

Mr Andrew Flockhart

Mr Richard Heffer

Mr Philip Hunwick

Mr Brian Jones

Mr John Modley

Mr Duncan Paylor

Mr John Pope

Mr Clive Rutherford

Dr David Sturgeon

Mr Michael Tiley

Mr Richard Tudway

Mr David Wightman

Mr Richard Woolmer

1966

Mr Paul Burden

Mr Andrew Davison

Mr Michael Galey

Mr Timothy Glasscock

Professor Roger Jones OBE

Mr Masaharu Kurata

Mr Alan Lane

Mr Peter Nunn

The Reverend Nigel Panting

Mr Robin Percival

Dr John Pilling

The Right Reverend John Pritchard

Mr John Rawling

Mr Paul Richards

Mr Anthony Roberts

Mr Alastair Robertson

The Reverend Howard Rogers

Mr Bob Schofield

Mr Timothy Smith

Mr Anthony Staples

1967

Mr Rupert Birtles

Dr John Bolland

The Very Revd Philip Buckler

Mr James Burrows

Mr John Corran

Mr Alan Evans

Mr Roger Holehouse OBE

Dr Andrew Holton

Mr Patrick Hooper

Dr Paul Hutchins

Mr Douglas Johnson

Mr Joseph Keating

Mr Philip Lawder

Professor Merfyn Lloyd OBE

Professor Jonathan Poulton

Mr Ashley Ray

Mr Jeffrey Saunders

Dr John Sloper

Dr Geoffrey Thomas

Mr Timothy Tiley

Professor Ronald Vaubel

1968

Anonymous

Dr Jonathan Angel

Mr Richard Belfield

Mr John Clifford

Dr Malcolm Coe

Dr Robert Crittenden

Mr Guy Fiegehen

Mr Stephen Hill

Dr Andrew Jones

Mr David Kirk*

Mr Martin Leeburn

Mr Peter Lee-Wright

Professor Stephen Nussey MRCP

Mr Anthony Ollerenshaw

Mr Richard Pengilley

Dr Paul Sanders

Mr Geoffrey Walker

1969

Anonymous

Mr Douglas Angus

Mr Stephen Berry

Mr Ian Birch

Mr Patrick Callaghan

Dr Philip Christie

Mr David Darling

Professor Douglas Davies

Dr Anthony Gore

Mr John Hall MBE DL

Mr David Hart

Mr Ian Hill

Mr Ronald Jenkins

Mr Anthony Lessiter

Mr John Noyce

Mr Edward O’Neill

Mr John Round

Mr Kim Slater

Mr Jeremy Stickings

Professor Bob Tyrrell

Mr Philip Wiper

1970

Anonymous

Dr Christopher Austin

Monsignor Christopher Brooks

Mr Dick Brown

Mr John Evans

Dr Nicholas Evans

Mr David Frampton

Mr Peter Garforth-Bles

Mr Ronald Higham

Mr Victor Knight

Dr Dennis Leuer

Mr Anthony Newman

Councillor David

Norman MBE

Mr James Savin

Mr Steve Shepherd

Dr Nicholas Simpson FRCS

Professor Mark Williams

1971

Mr Roger Adams

Dr Stephen Bailey

Mr Stuart Cooke

Dr Martin Dace

Mr Geoffrey Hatcher

Mr Alan Heath

Mr Stephen Hughes

The Reverend Peter Jackson*

Mr Paul Kendall

Dr Ervine Long

Dr John Marshall

Mr Jerry Moore

Mr David Potts

Mr Stephen Roman

Sir Stephen Stewart

Mr John Towers

Dr Eboo Versi

Mr Christopher Wain

1972

Mr Ian Biddlecombe

Mr David Campbell

Mr Christopher Dale

Dr Ian Dennis

Mr Stephen Despres

Mr John Gabriel

Dr Peter Galliver

Mr John Glencross

Sir Andrew Hamilton

Dr Simon Helan

Mr Howard Hull

Mr Peter Johnson

Mr Norman MacLeod

Dr Charles Pell

Commodore Michael

Potter CBE

Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope

GCB OBE ADC

Mr Robert Wade

Mr Robert Wilson

Mr Anthony Withnell

1973

Anonymous (2)

Mr Robert Atkins

Professor Richard Bessel

Dr Richard Brady

Mr John Clark

Dr Christopher Davies

Professor Gerard Evan

Professor Nicholas Goddard

Mr Jonathan Harwood

Professor Daniel Hastings

Dr Richard Hollins

Dr Norman James

Mr David Kerry

Mr Richard Leafe

Mr Charles McDowall

Mr Martin Moss

Mr Phil Nicholson

Mr Paul Rowson

Dr John Sheldrake

Mr David Sheppard

Mr Leslie Sheppard

Mr Trevor Ward

Mr Simon Williams

Mr Philip Wood

1974

Anonymous (4)

Mr Stephen Callen

Mr Paul Chamberlain

Mr Graham Connell

The Reverend Paul Day

Professor David Edwards

Mr John Gavan

Mr Michael Hicks*

Mr Robin Hodgkinson

Mr Andrew Mercer

Dr Christopher Minns

Mr Steve Perkins

Dr Alexander Popovich

Mr Stephen Pull

Dr Grant Rhode

Mr Graham Shore

Dr Christopher Waddington

Mr Hugh Watson

1975

Mr Peter Bettley

Dr Roger Brambley

Mr Andrew Burnett

Mr Christopher Chantler

Dr Mark Eller

Mr Daniel Freeman

Mr Matthew Hayes

Mr Brian McMahon

Mr Richard Millward

Mr Douglas Nicholls

Dr Richard Rahm

Mr Mark Rogers

Mr Neil Rostron

Mr John Tyler

Mr Ian Walker

Mr Richard Wilkinson

1976

Mr Roger Dyer

Dr Philip Hirst

Mr Julien Hofer

Mr Timothy King

Mr Guy Leach

Mr Alan Mason

Mr Nigel Penn-Simkins

Mr Nigel Perry MBE FRENG

Mr Philip Squire

Mr John Stephenson

Mr Peter Tonissoo

Mr Walter Uhl

1977

Mr Nicholas Cattermole

Mr William Clare

Professor Sir David Eastwood DL

Dr William Evershed

Mr John Fray

Mr John Guthrie

Mr Michael Harris

Mr Alan John

Mr Stephen King

Mr Robert Kirk

Mr Martin Nicholls

Mr Ian Parker

Mr Martin Pearman

Mr Bruce Potter

The Reverend Geoffrey Riba-Thompson

Mr Allan Silverman

Mr Mark Simmons

Mr Roderic Sparks

Mr Andrew Tarling

Mr Andrew Wright*

1978

Dr Alan Bacon

Dr Michael Barnard

Mr Sherry Bates

Mr Gregga Baxter

Professor John Benson

Mr Richard Brake

Mr Anton Bray

Dr William Chapman Nyaho

Mr Ian Edward

Mr Nigel Grice

Mr David Hardcastle

Mr Mark Packham

Mr Mark Powell

The Reverend Robert Ritchie

Mr Laurie Smith

Mr Nicholas White

Mr Peter Wilson

1979

Mr Mark Allen

Mr Martin Benjamin

Mrs Karin Carver

Mr Nicholas Fellows

Mr Marcus Hine

Mr Christopher Horril

Mr Chico Khan-Gandapur

Mr Nicholas Martin

Mr Jeremy Morrish

Mr Christopher Parker

Mrs Ruth Scotson

Dr Christopher Slinger

1980

Anonymous

Dr Thomas Bailward MBBS

MRCGP MRCPCH

Employment Judge

Mark Emerton

Mr Brett Hannam

Mr Simon Harding

Mr Simon Hardy

The Right Reverend John Holbrook

Mr Adrian Hopkins KC

Professor Robert Huddart

Mr Carl Hughes

Mr Mark Jackson

Dr Robert Lunn

Dr Andreas Nowak

Dr Karen Popp JD

Mrs Helen Riddle

Mr Jonathan Riddle

Mr Mark Wilson

Mr Nicholas Worth

Mr Ian Yorston

1981

Anonymous

Dr Neill Burgess

Dr Sara Caine

Mr Ivor Chomacki

Ms Joanna Duckworth

Mr Richard Hillebrand

Mrs Judy Luddington

Mr Vincent Lugthart

Dr Carole Lunn

Dr Thomas Martin

Dr Kevin Morgan

Mrs Michaela Mouquet

Mrs Paula Packman

Mr John Rabin

Mr John Steveni

Mr James Thompson

Mr Richard Townsend

Mr Marc Versloot

Mr Karl Wallendszus

Mr Christopher Woodward

Mr Jonathan Yousafzai

1982

Anonymous (2)

Mr Alistair Carder-Geddes

Mr David Chalfen

Mr John Clark

Mrs Nicola Halls

Dr Ronald Haynes

Dr Lawrence Impey

Mr Thomas Jenkinson

Mr Ashwani Kochhar

Mr David Lane

Mr Stuart Nicholson

Mr Andrew Packman

Mr Peter Petyt

Squadron Leader

John Richardson

Miss Rachel Shapton

Miss Karen Woodall

1983

Mr Keith Bailey

Mrs Kathryn Biggs

Mrs Susi Clargo

Ms Maria Hall

Mr Max Hill KC

Mr Sean Kelly

Mr James Kinsley

Professor Ajit Lalvani

Mr Jonathan May

Miss Elizabeth Middleton MBE

Mrs Amanda Mobbs

Mrs Anne Oram

Mr Michael Powell

Dr Matthew Seccombe

Mr Graham Smith

Mrs Sarah Speller

Mr Simon Walker

Mr Christopher Warren

1984

Mr Toby Davies

Mr Peter de Wesselow

Mr Paul Farmer CBE

Dr Peter Francis

Mr Simon Fretwell

Mr Dominic Hardisty

Mr Peter Jackson

Mrs Nicola Kelly

Mr Jeremy Kemp

Dr Martyn Knowles

Mrs Elizabeth May

Professor Dr Makoto Ogino

Ms Jacquelyn Pidgley

Mrs Kathryn Samano

Dr Peter Stephenson

1985

Mrs Victoria Belovski

Mrs Sarah Christie

Mr John Clargo

Mr Simon Edsall

Mr Jeremy Hill FIA

Mr Paul Holloway

Mr Allen Hubsch

Dr David Livings

Mrs Caroline McDowell

Mrs Laura Mullan

Mrs Caroline Robertson ASRM

Ms Dalia Salaam Rishani

Dr Duncan Spiers

Mrs Katherine Stenner

Mr John Turner

Mr Peter Van den Berghe

Dr Sean Walls

1986

Anonymous

Ms Ruth Appleton

Mr Timothy Bishop

Mr David Bucknall

Mr John Duff

Mrs Alice Francis

Miss Katherine Goulden

Mr Guy Hopkins

Mr Michael Jarrett

Mrs Amanda Jewell

Mrs Jessica McCarthy

Mr Timothy Parkinson

Mr Kempton Rees

Mrs Anna Sedenu

Mr Paul Thomasson

Mrs Rachael Wardell

1987

Mr Nicholas Andrews

Mr Kevin Bibby

Mr Charles Bithell

Professor Jacek Brodzki

Ms Georgina Calvert-Lee

Mr Timothy Chapman

Ms Catherine Durham

Ms Jennifer Duvalier

Mr Paul Geddes

Mr Stephen Harris

Mrs Suzanne Haywood

Mrs Lucy Helliker

Mr Neil Hemingway

Mr Richard Horrocks-Taylor

Mr Stephen Judd

Mrs Sarah Margolin

Mrs Catherine McMahon

Dr Dominic Mort

Dr Dominic Neary

Mrs Emma Ritson

Mr Michael Saunter

Dr Mark Steel

Dr John Turner

Mr David Vaughan

1988

Mr James Anderson

Mrs Kate Andrews

Miss Claire Brown

Mr David Carter

Mr David Churchill

The Honourable

Grant Dorfman

Ms Samantha Gibson

Miss Tara Glen

Dr Neil Hampton

Mr Philip Lowe

Mrs Gwyneth Marshman

Dr Laurence Meadows

Mrs Clare Oglesby

Mr Andrew Price

Mrs Jacqueline Ranawake

Mr Gregory Shepherd

Ms Helen Snelson

Mr Guy Voizey

Mr Robert White

Dr Alan Wiles

Mrs Helen Williams

1989

The Reverend Dr

Jonathan Arnold

Mr John Elcock

Mrs Louisa Gosden

Mr Peter Hamer

Mr Stephen Hodbod

Mrs Dalia Joseph

Mr James Lonsdale

The Honourable Kimberly McGraw

Mr Daniel Smithers

Mr Tsutomu Tanaka

Mr Richard Warren

1990

Mr Christopher Bates

Mr Peter Blackman

Mr Michael Briest

Dr Richard Chapman

Ms Andrea Chipman

Mrs Katya Lamb

Mr David Little

Mrs Petra Pientka

Mr Stefan Reid

Dr Jeffrey Simon

Dr John Skidmore

Mr Andrew Taggart

Lieutenant Colonel

Andrew Thomson

Mr John Vater KC

1991

Anonymous (3)

Dr Rachel Barnard

Mr Danny Broderick

Dr Frazer Clark

Professor Kate Crosby

Mr Dominic Ely

Dr Claire Fox

Mrs Elizabeth Fullalove

Mr Mark Hanlon

Professor Adam Mead

Ms Rebecca Morrison

Professor Svante Norrhem

Ms Gillian Orrell

Dr Mohammed Patel

Mr Hew Smith

Dr Benjamin Underwood

Dr William Whyte

Mrs Caroline Wilson

Mr Jonathan Wilson

1992

Anonymous

Mr William Adlam

Mr Stuart Banks

Mr Benjamin Beabey

Mr Simon Blake

Professor Robert Chambers

Ms Jenny Galimberti

Ms Louise Gooch

Ms Natasha Jakubowski

Mrs Juliet Jukes

Mr Matthew Jukes

Mrs Katerina Mirkou

Dr Duncan Morris

Mrs Caroline Peach

Mr Steven Sabey

1993

Anonymous

Dr Christopher Briggs

Mr Cameron Brown KC

Dr Joseph Burn

Mr Mark Charles

Mr Christopher Herbert

Mr Jeremy Hill

Mr Christian Hoyer Millar

Mr Tom Ibbotson

Dr Heather Madar

Dr James Mason

Mrs Francesca Modi

Mrs Joanne Monk

Mr Ed Nottingham

Dr Elizabeth Pilling

Dr Neil Scotchmer

Mr Robert Sheppard

Mr Alexander Skinner

Ms Elaine Whitehouse

Mrs Ruth Williams

Mr Stuart Williams

1994

Anonymous

Dr Hashim Ahmed

Mr Mark Alliban

Mr Asa Bridle

Dr Rosalind Bridle

Mr Glen Duncanson

Mrs Helen Fowler

Miss Nicole Gregory

Mrs Emma Hardaker

The Reverend David

Harknett

Mr Timothy Harrop

Mrs Esther Ibbotson

Mr Howard Landes

Dr Jeev Mantotta-Maxted

Mrs Laura Massey

Mr Montu Modi

Lieutenant Colonel

Beverley Morgan

Miss Christine O’Connell

Mr Pedro Ribeiro Santos

Mrs Catherine Sabben-Clare

Mrs Kate Scotland

Mrs Katharine Simons

Mr Peter Spicer

Mrs Clarissa Vallat

Mrs James Young

Mrs Jennifer Young

1995

Anonymous

Dr Janet Bastiman

Mr Maximilian Coqui

Mr Matthew Dunn

Miss Emily Elias

Dr Rachel Freathy

Dr Rob Freathy

Mr Stuart Frizell

Mr Paul Hallam

Mrs Shari Hilliard

Mrs Clare Humphreys

Mrs Caroline Kamana

Dr Niall Keenan

Mrs Candida Lahaise

Mr Rupert Manduke Curtis

Dr Luke Massey

Mr Andrew McGuffie

Mr Nicholas Owers

Mr Jonathan Pocock

Ms Trudi Roberts

Ms Katherine Tozer

Mrs Wendy Valvona

Mr Simon Whittaker

1996

Mr Benjamin Arnoldy

Mr Philip Eagle

Mrs Charlotte Fletcher

Mrs Flavia Kenyon

Mr Fred Kooij

Mrs Manfreda Penfold

Mrs Snezana Rajsic

Mr Paul Squire

Mr Benjamin Warner

Mr Peter Wicks

1997

Anonymous (2)

Ms Louise Asher

Mr James Brunt

Dr Lena Ciric

Dr Helena Clarkova

Mrs Pollyanne Conway

Mr Joshua Doctor

Mr Samuel Gervaise-Jones

Mr Justin Gill

Miss Mary Guinness

Mr Warwick Okines

Ms Antoaneta Proctor

Mr Alexander Salvoni

Dr Bethany Wright

1998

Mrs Ilona Chavasse

Mr Roland Chavasse

Mr Adam Dickinson

Mr Marcus Efstratiou

Mr Craig Giles

Mr Alan Greer

Mrs Susan Jackson

Mrs Katherine Lang

Mrs Stephanie Maier

Rabbi David Mitchell

Mr Tom Payne

Mr Peter Pulsford

Mr Mark Roberts

Mr Richard Silcock

Mrs Louise Springthorpe

Mr Philip Valvona

1999

Anonymous

Mr David Century

Dr Hannah Clark

Mrs Cecily Footner

Mr Matthew Foy

Professor Andrew Hayashi

Mr Alexander Henlin

Mr Iwan Lamble

Mr John Loveday

Mr Gareth Lyons

Ms Catherine McShane

Mr Ron Moscona

Dr James Zacks

Mr Nikolaos Zygouropoulos

2000

Anonymous

Mr Nicholas Badger

Mrs Rachael Badger

Mr David Chavda

Lieutenant Commander

Oliver Clark

Mr William Collinson

Mr Charles D’Arcy-Irvine

Ms Lucy Davis

Mr Abhinandan Deb

Mrs Nicola Edger

Mr Jonathan Eves

Mr Tim Gaul

Mr Adam Heal

Dr Daniel Lambauer

Miss Hayley Moffat

Mr Christopher Morrison

Mrs Phillippa O’Connor

Mr William O’Connor

Mr Nicholas Redman

Mr Matthew Reynolds

Dr Matthew Richardson

Dr Christopher Smith

Mr Jonathan Smith

2001

Anonymous

Mr Lewis Brito-Babapulle

Mrs Penelope Durant

Mrs Eleanor Franchitti

Mr William Gowdy

Ms Ruth Greenwood

Dr Carolyn Haggis

Mr Desmond Lau

Miss Stephanie Moorsom

Mr Joseph O’Brien

Mrs Laura O’Brien

Mr Peter Okell

Mr Somerset Pheasant

Dr Jeanne Salje

Mrs Zoe Vickerman

Dr Cheryl Walsh

2002

Dr Dina Ackermann Wiesen

Dr Alice Beverly

Mr Michael Botcherby

Ms Isobel Bradshaw

Dr Scott Crawford

Mrs Lydia Dutton

Mr Robert Erbmann

Mr Stephen Harrison

Mrs Catriona Jenkins

Ms Tara Loader Wilkinson

Mr Damian Payne

Mr Andrew Prentice

Squadron Leader

Joseph Rigg

Ms Malini

Skandachanmugarasan

Mrs Sophie Solly

Ms Carol Storey

Mr August Walker

2003

Mr Antoine Artiganave

Dr Matthew Cates

Ms Tracey Gent

Mr Eric Jiang

Mr Daniel Lowther

Mrs Sarah Lowther

Mr Charles Mauleverer

Dr Andrew McNeil

Mrs Josie McNeil

Mr Robert Mitchell

Mrs Sarah Mitchell

Mr James Partington

Mr William Pearce

Mrs Emily Pheasant

Mr Thomas Rayner

Ms Anna Whitfield

Mr Freddie Yiend

2004

Miss Tamara Barnett Wildman

Mrs Melody Baxter

Mr Colin Betteridge

Mr Philip Brack

Dr Rosemary Gowdy

Dr Gergely Imreh

The Reverend Dr

Michael Leyden

Miss Shulu Li

Mrs Abigail Rosenberg

Mr Benjamin Rushton

Mr Gareth Russell

Mr John Theis

2005

Mrs Alexandra Britton-Davis

Dr Merima Brkic

Mr David Conway

Mr Kristopher Doyle

Mr Lee Kerslake

Miss Maya Kommer

Dr Aaron Krom

The Reverend Anna Leyden

Dr Peter Newbold

Mr Amardeep Pannu

Dr Saiqa Qureshi

Mr Edward Rees

Dr Rok Sekirnik

Mr Thomas Smith

Miss Smruti Sriram

Mrs Chen Wang

Mrs Catherine Waton

2006

Anonymous

Mr Steven Altmann-Richer

Miss Amy Beckenstrom

Dr Ori Bowen

Mr Dawit Demetri

Dr Jessica Ehinger

Mr Adam Grodecki

Mr Stefan Hargreaves

Ms Sarah Heald

Miss Oyinkansola Johnson

Miss Marissa Pueschel

Mr Luke Ryder

Mr Yuchen Xia

2007

Anonymous

Mr Galym Bokash

Miss Fiona Cheung

Dr Gerald Clancy

Miss Jessica Davies

Mr Nick Green

Mr Thomas Hancox

Mr Jack Kennedy

Mr Thomas Pearman

Miss Laura Sweet

Miss Emma Waldock

Dr Nicola Warren

Mr David Watson

2008

Mr Christopher Avellaneda

Miss Emily Bennett

Mr Edward Bersuder

Ms Gabriela Bersuder

Miss Alexandra Cairns

Mr George Carr

Mrs Olivia Cohen

Mr Nathan Collins

Mr Fyodor Gainullin

Ms Jenny Hayes

Mr Alex Hern

Miss Poppy Hodgson

Mr Osamu Hoshino

Dr Henry Jackson-Flux

Miss Una Kim

Mr Bill Liu

Mr Alasdair Morgan

Dr Lily Muller

Miss Caroline Pearman-Gibbs

Ms Cheryl Pilbeam

Mr Daniel Rozier

Mr Tendai Sibanda

Mr Ben Slingsby

Mr Guy Watmore

Mr Samuel Willis

2009

Anonymous

Mr Christopher Ainscough

Mrs Bethan Coulson

Miss Eleanor Griffiths

Mr Archie Johnston Stewart

Mr Peter O’Connor

Mrs Zahava Rosenthal

Miss Eve Ryle-Hodges

Dr Emily Turner

Mr Nathan Turner

Mr Alex Worth

Ms Denise Xifara

Mr He Zhu

2010

Mr Oliver Bristowe

Ms Alice Fraser

Mrs Gabrielle GleesonSolomon

Mr Jonathan GleesonSolomon

Mr Frank Gonzales

Mr Thomas Haigh

Ms Matilda Henderson

Mr Samuel Hirst

Mr Piers Kennedy

Miss Katy Kim

Mr Samuel Lecacheur

Miss Hannah Ledbury

Mr Chand Mehta

Mr Charles Miller

Mrs Alyssa Ovadis

Mr Nakulkumar Patel

Mr Robert Sheeran

Miss Sabrina van der Linden

The Reverend

Yaroslav Walker

2011

Ms Natalie Cappellazzo

Miss June Choo

Mrs Erin Dickens

Miss Rachael Franklin

Mr Samuel Iles

Miss Louisa Manning

Miss Amy Pether

Miss Alice Sorby

Ms Elizabeth Stockdale

Mr Gabriel Trueblood

2012

Anonymous

Dr Joel Beevers

Mr Michael Comba

Mr David Fitzpatrick

Mr Samuel Gebreselassie

Mr Craig Kirkham-Wilson

Mr Edward Lund

Miss Emilia Marsden

Miss Jonny Wallin

Miss Megumi Yamamoto

2013

Anonymous

Miss Sophie-Elise Anker

Miss Anissa Berry

Mr Hussein Elbakri

Mr George Postlethwaite

Mr Douglas Smith

Dr Yegor Stepanov

Mr Nikolay Vasilev

2014

Anonymous

Dr Thiago Alves Pinto

Mr Karn Dasgupta

Mr Thomas Foxton

Mr Isaac Kang

Mr Michael Linford

Mr Noah Miller

Mr James Povey

Mr Robert Smillie

Mr Miles Winter

2015

Anonymous (2)

Miss Jiawei Chang

Dr Andreas Dürr

Miss Marina Goodman

Mr Neil Tang

Miss Amy Trimble

2016

Ms Georgina Hayward

Miss Rhianna Jones

Mr Tanmay Patankar

2017

Miss Claire Haynie

Ms Olivia Mappin-Kasirer

Mr James McCarthy

Dr Nandor Nemes

2018

Miss Sarah Alford

Mr Joseph Brierly

2020

Anonymous

Miss Anna Fairweather

2021

Mr Charles Dray

Miss Camellia Li

Mr Benedict Okungbowa

2022

Anonymous

* - Deceased

Fellows and Friends

Anonymous (9)

Ms Shankari Abensour

Dr Roger Allen

Mr Charles Beer

Mrs Suzanne Bond

Mr Stephen Breakspear

Mrs Anne Cowan

Brigadier Clendon Daukes

Miss Josephine Dixon

Ms Pamela Dulanto

Ms Melissa GemmerJohnson

Mrs Carolyn Goetz &

Professor Stewart Goetz

Mrs Claire Hall

Lady Nancy Kenny

Mr Allan Kerr

Mr Daniel Keyworth

Dr John Latsis

Dr Alexander Lingas

Ms Jing Marantz

Professor Henry

Mayr-Harting

Mrs Elizabeth Nicholson

Professor John O’Connor

Dr David Painter

Mrs Rupa Patel

Professor Arthur Petersen

Professor Ann Rypstra

Mr Douglas Shaw

Professor Edith Sim

Mr Andrew Smith

Mr Kenneth Stevens

Dr Giacomo Tortora

Mr A J Tracey

Professor Brett Wells

Ms Danielle Wells

Mr Arthur Wiggetts

Mr Duncan Wiggetts

Professor Michael Winter

Mrs Wendy Woods Institutions

Anjool Malde Memorial Trust BookCheck X

Datascope Recruitment Google Kuoni Travel

St Peter’s College Foundation

St Peter’s College JCR Yellowwoods Trust

Legacy Donations Received 1 August 2022 - 31 July 2023

Mr Paul Berry 1961

Professor Alan Crowe 1959

Mr Ian Gollop 1955

Mr Nigel Mussett 1964

Mr Robert Rivington 1940

Mr James Siddons 1950

Current Members of the Howard Society

A legacy represents the greatest honour that St Peter’s can receive. The Howard Society was set up in 1988 as a means of recognising in their lifetime, and after, those whose legacy gifts create opportunities for future generations to excel. It is named in honour of Robert Wilmot Howard, Master of St Peters from 1945-1955.

Anonymous (11)

Professor Thomas Adcock 2001

Mr Ronald Akhurst 1965

Miss Sarah Alford 2018

Mr Barry Anson 1958

Mr Paul Ardern 1970

The Rt Hon. the Lord Ashcroft KCMG

Mr David Aspinwall 1965

Mr David Atkinson 1983

Mr John Austin 1937

Mr John Austin 1986

Mr John Bain OBE 1958

Mr Adrian Baird 1974

Mr Waseem Baloch 1981

Mr Reginald Bannerman 1954

Mr Mike Beevers 1962

Professor Ellis Bell 1967

Professor John Benson 1978

Sir Kenneth Bloomfield MRIA 1949

Mr Gordon Bottoms 1965

Dr Richard Brady 1973

The Reverend Canon John Brown 1961

Mr Richard Bunker 1961

Mr Stephen Buswell 1976

Dr Sara Caine 1981

Mr Charles Chevers-Coppen 1973

Mr Derek Clarke MBE 1959

Ms Gloria Clutton-Williams

Dr Malcolm Coe 1968

Mr John Cole 1954

Professor Richard Collacott 1965

Mr Graham Cooksey 1954

Mr Frank Cookson 1953

Mr David Cox 1960

Mrs Daphne Cross

Mr Peter Dale 1960

Brigadier Clendon Daukes FCMI MIoD

Mr Adrian Davies 1961

Dr Christopher Davies 1960

Dr Christopher Davies 1973

Professor Douglas Davies 1969

Mr Philip Davies 1972

Mr James Dawson 1959

Mr David Dean 1981

Mrs Erin Dickens 2011

Mr Peter Dickinson 1954

Mr Robin Dixon 1964

Professor Sir Gordon Duff 1966

Mr John Duff 1986

Mr Brian Durrant

Mr Richard Edgecliffe-Johnson 1963

Mr Simon Edsall 1985

Mr Ian Ellingworth 1977

Mr Simon Ellis 1960

Dr Paul Evans 1976

Mr Gerald Eveleigh 1960

Mr Derek Flynn 1974

The Reverend Michael Forrer 1956

The Reverend Dr Michael Fox 1977

Mr Peter Foy 1960

Mr Keith Garland 1956

Professor John Gaskin 1956

Dr Geoffrey Kemp 1960

Mr Christopher King 1965

Mr David Lake 1976

Mr David Lane 1982

Mr Harvey Glasgow 1957

Mr Barry Glazier 1960

Miss Tara Glen 1988

Mr Travis Good 2004

Mr Frederic Goodwin 1960

Mr Eric Gordon 1947

Mrs Edith Gowdy 1996

Dr Christopher Green 1964

Dr Charles Griffin 1962

Mr Richard Hales 1948

Mr Philip Hall 1978

Mr James Harding 1972

Mr Richard Harding 1970

Mr Simon Hardy 1980

Mr Peter Harrison 1948

Mr Richard Heffer 1965

Mr Philip Helm 1962

Mr David Hewitt 1959

The Rt Hon the Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts CBE 1961

Mr Patrick Holt 1972

Mr David Howard 1963

Mrs Janice Hoyle

Dr Michael Hulse 1962

Mr Philip Hunwick 1965

Mr Daud Ilyas 1955

Professor David James 1961

Mr Michael Jerrom 1961

Mr Philip Johnston 1959

Dr Andrew Jones 1968

Mr Norman Jones 1959

Dr Christopher Porter 1980

Commodore Frederick Price MBE 1976

Mr Andrew Pryce 1969

Mrs Carol Pryce

Mr Philip Lawder 1967

Mr Christopher Lilwall 1954

Mrs Judy Luddington 1981

The Reverend Canon Brian MacdonaldMilne 1981

Dr Roger Marshall 1958

Mr Richard Marson

Mr Bryan Maybee JP 1953

Mr Jeremy McGahan 1975

Mr Andrew Mead 1961

Professor Dr Terence Meaden 1954

Mr Alan Mees 1968

Mr Stephen Metherell 1959

Dr Christopher Minns 1974

Lieutenant Colonel Beverley Morgan 1994

Mr Robert Morgan FRCS 1960

Professor John O’Connor

Mr Mike Orriel 1962

Mr Jena Pang 1996

The Reverend Nigel Panting 1966

Dr Navaneethan Paramananthan 1986

Mr Frank Parker 1961

Mr Timothy Parkinson 1986

Professor Chris Parsons 1988

Mr John Patchett 1974

Mr Martin Pearman 1977

Mr Richard Pengilley 1968

Mr Peter Phelan 1964

Mr John Poole 1953

Mr John Pope 1965

Dr Michael Pope 1951

Mr Michael Tibbs OBE 1946

Mr Michael Tiley 1965

Mr Anthony Tuckwell 1962

Mr Patrick Turner 1978

Mr Lewis Redhead 1978

Mr Bernard Reed 1956

Mr Donald Reid 1957

The Reverend Geoffrey Riba-Thompson 1977

Mr Michael Richardson 1956

Mr Anthony Roberts 1966

Mr David Russell 1957

Mr Mervyn Samuel 1963

Mr James Savin 1970

Dr Martin Shain 1962

Mr Martin Slatter 1955

Mr David Smith 1964

Mrs Irene Snook

Mr Kenneth Sprague

Mr Gordon Stanion 1953

Mr Guy Stokely 1963

Mr Michael Symes 1959

Professor James Thomas 1954

Professor Barrie Thompson 1965

Mrs Margaret Thompson

Mr Peter Thompson

Mr Peter H Thornton 1955

Mr Hugh Turrall-Clarke 1957

Professor Bob Tyrrell 1969

Mr Christopher Wain 1971

Mr Ian Walton 1988

Sir Gerald Warner KCMG 1951

Mr Peter Waterman 1954

Mr Roy Waters 1960

The Reverend William Watson 1957

Mr Richard Wells 1959

The Reverend Prebendary John Wesson 1959

Mr Brian Weston OBE 1955

Mr Nicholas White 1978

Mr Stephen Wilcock 1956

Dr Rhodri Williams

The Reverend Paul Winchester 1963

Mr George Winspur 1962

Professor Mike Woloch 1957

Mr Eric Wood 1951

Mr Francis Wyman 1981

Mr James Young 1994

Mrs Jennifer Young 1994

Valedictory Speech for Professor Mark Moloney

By Dr Huw Dorkins

I am very glad to have this opportunity to speak about Mark Moloney’s contributions, both to this College and to his subject more widely, over a period of more than thirty years. Mark has been a colleague and friend throughout that time.

Mark Moloney was born in Sydney, Australia. His father was the local dog catcher, while his mother worked as a receptionist. When Mark was 10 years old, his friend who lived across the road was given a Chemistry Set as a Christmas present. Mark was immediately captivated and badgered his parents to buy him one. These requests met with some initial resistance, not least from Mark’s mother, who was concerned that the entire family would be blown up. Eventually his parents relented and so began a lifelong fascination with Chemistry.

Mark described his school as ‘good but not outstanding’, though his education there was sufficient to earn him a place at Sydney University to read chemistry in 1977. He graduated some four years later, winning the prize for the best Chemistry student of his year. Ph.D. studies followed, also at Sydney, under the supervision of John Pinhey where Mark worked on the Chemistry of vinyl-lead triacetates.

Mark’s scientific career as an Organic Chemist has had two main themes - first, the synthesis of new antibiotics and second, Chemistry at surfaces.

He has sought to address important problems such as bacterial resistance to antibiotics. This work began when he joined the laboratory of Professor Jack Baldwin FRS as a postdoctoral research associate in 1985, studying aspects of Penicillin biosynthesis. Of Baldwin, Georgina Ferry wrote that he “had little time for the academic conventions of Oxford: he spoke his mind, and could seem pugnacious in scientific debate. But his forceful leadership style belied a generosity in his treatment of junior colleagues.”1 Mark’s time in Baldwin’s group was to prove highly productive, resulting in at least 16 co-authored peer-reviewed publications

In parallel with his development as a researcher came his first teaching appointment, as Glaxo lecturer in Organic Chemistry at St Catherine’s College. There he taught the subject at all stages of the degree course, gaining experience of the full spectrum of the work of a college tutor.

With a growing reputation as a researcher and a teacher, it was not surprising that he was a very strong candidate for the Tutorial Fellowship in Chemistry at St Peter’s vacated by Syd Bailey on his retirement in 1989. Mark joined St Peter’s as E.P. Abraham Fellow in Chemistry in 1990, a joint appointment with a University Lecturership in the Dyson Perrins laboratory.

Over the next three decades, Mark has made a substantial contribution to the synthesis of novel antibiotics, his most recent paper being published in the journal Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry just last week.2 The challenge of antibiotic resistance was much less prominent in the early years, but the issue has steadily moved up the research and public health agenda. The supply of new antimicrobial agents has slowed and levels of antimicrobial resistance are increasing, limiting our treatment options. Despite this, the pharmaceutical industry has been relatively slow to invest in antimicrobial research. The deployment of an effective antibiotic in a serious infection can be life-saving but compared to drug therapy for chronic conditions such as high blood pressure or diabetes, antimicrobials do not generate a sufficient income stream to interest large pharmaceutical companies. For this reason the development of novel antibiotics has been left to academia; and this is why Mark’s research, and that of his colleagues, is so important. In 2016, he, with several others, established a charity called Antibiotic Research UK to raise awareness of this challenging health problem.

The other theme of Mark’s research has been chemistry at surfaces. This grew out of an antibiotic-related project on the photoaffinity labelling of the active site of the enzyme which makes penicillin in vivo. Faced with the problem of the leaching of dyes from plastics, Mark’s former colleague Bill Norris, then in ICI, suggested that an affinity labelling approach could be used to fix the dye in situ. With this began a highly productive line of research which resulted in one of Mark’s two spinout companies, Oxford Advanced Surfaces. This work led to the development of carbene dyes, a class of compounds which now has its own page on Wikipedia. You will find an account of later developments in this theme of his

work in last year’s College Record. In recognition of his research contributions, Mark was awarded the title of Reader in 2006, and Professor some four years later.

As the single tutorial fellow in Chemistry at St Peter’s, Mark has had his work cut out. But as Dr Gus Hancock, Emeritus Fellow of Trinity College (who is here tonight) relates, a joint teaching arrangement between the two colleges was established. On Mark’s appointment to St Peter’s, and with the appointment of a second Chemistry tutor at Trinity (Russ Egdell), writes Dr Hancock “We collectively sensed an opportunity. The three of us simply taught all the St Peter’s and Trinity chemists, and we decided that counting hours and numbers to take into account there were two tutors from one College and one from the other would take more time than doing the job. We just went ahead and taught whomsoever we admitted, took little notice of which college admitted them, with the result that chemists from two of the smallest Oxford colleges had

teaching from a Tutorial Fellow in each branch of the subject, with continuity guaranteed. It worked brilliantly.”

The collaboration extended to undertaking joint admissions interviews. Gus continued “Mark had a wonderfully calm way of dealing with potential Organic Chemists, particularly when, as they tackled the problems that he set, even I could see that those electrons certainly didn’t want to go in the direction the candidate was suggesting. Mark remained unmoved and unflappable and would often say in his gentle Australian accent “Yiss, I see. Maybe Dr Hancock would like to ask you something”.”

Mark’s commitment to Chemistry education extends beyond his college and departmental duties. He has produced four textbooks, one of which, Reaction Mechanisms at a Glance, has been translated into four languages, including Chinese.

l-r: Jonathan, Julie, Mark, Laurence

The Moloney Family on the occasion of Mark’s Valedictory Dinner.

In College governance, Mark has made a substantial and sustained contribution under five Masters. He has been Fellow Librarian, Tutor for Graduates, Tutor for Welfare, Vice Master and Senior Tutor. In some of these roles, he introduced important innovations. As Tutor for Welfare, Mark was instrumental in establishing the new role of Dean for Welfare. Student demand and expectations in this area have increased dramatically in recent years to a point where it was no longer possible to expect a Tutorial Fellow to take on this responsibility. The appointment of a professional to this role has served the College well, particularly in the era of Covid and its aftermath.

One colleague recently observed that Mark’s contributions in Governing Body discussions are invariably thoughtful, measured and helpful or, as our colleague put it, they have the highest signal to noise ratio of any of ours. As a Pro-Proctor too, Mark’s good judgement and no-nonsense approach proved invaluable.

Colleagues might reasonably suppose that the above activity has been all-consuming, but the presence of his family this evening confirms that Mark has found time for life outside College and laboratory. He married Julie in 1993 and so this year they celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary. Work and family lives were not kept completely separate, however. Mark and Julie’s sons have both followed in their father’s footsteps albeit in different ways. Jonathan gained a D.Phil. in Chemistry and is now a teacher at the Oratory School in Reading, while Laurence joined the catering team here at St Peter’s for some years before moving on to work at St Edward’s School. And I have to report that another member of the Moloney household, Scott the Cairn Terrier, has also been recruited by St Peter’s and is a valued member of the Welfare team.

To conclude, I shall say that in Mark, St Peter’s appointed someone who is ‘the real deal’ – a dedicated researcher, committed teacher and a wise colleague. St Peter’s has benefitted enormously from his contribution and it is hard to imagine the place without him. I invite you to raise your glasses to Mark and Julie’s health and continued happiness.

1 Ferry, G. Obituary: Jack Baldwin (1938-2020). Nature 2020 Feb 13; 578 212. doi:10.1038/d41586-020-00357-1

2 Saney L, Panduwawala T, Li X, Christensen KE, Genov M, Pretsch A, Pretsch D, Moloney MG. Synthesis of fused tetramate-oxazolidine and -imidazolidine derivatives and their antibacterial activity. Org Biomol Chem. 2023 Jun 14; 21(23):4801-4809. doi: 10.1039/d3ob00594a.

Mark Moloney’s Reply

Huw, thank you for your very kind and generous words, and thank you all for coming this evening, and to make it such a special occasion for my family and me.

I begin by asking, ‘What happened to the last 38 years in Oxford, and 33 years at SPC? ‘ It’s on an occasion like this that thoughts return to arriving in College, a bit like at Schools’ Dinners when students reminisce over their interview torture and remind tutors of their miserable answers to tricky questions. In 1990, in Chemistry, there were 10 UL (or APTF(U), in current parlance) posts advertised simultaneously, five of which were for organic chemists - at SPC, EXE, HTF, LMH and BNC. This was a legacy of the academic expansionism of the 1960’s, which led to a run of retirements in the late 80’s; actually, much the same is happening again now, at least in Chemistry. Being interviewed by the department and enduring ‘ordeal by dinner’ in five separate colleges in the space of a week was gruelling, and my SPC interview was at 2pm on the Fri of that week. It was in the Davis room, with about eight fellows squeezed in, chaired by the Master; and I remember being asked a question by a Fellow, “…And what is the use of Chemistry?” Like an imbecile, I attempted to answer that question. Exhausted from that final interrogation of the week, I went out and straight round to McDonalds for a Big Mac and a dose of reality. Whatever nonsense I trotted out in my interview must have made an impression, because first thing on the following Monday morning I had a phone call. I was asked whether I would accept an offer for the UL associated with SPC. Not really understanding the lotteries of College benefits and remuneration, I gladly accepted, delighted to have secured a post at all. And I am quite certain, of the five colleges interviewing for posts, I would only have been happy at SPC. So began my College life. I took the fact that College colours were green and yellow as a good omen, since Aussie national colours are green and gold. The wonderful Martin Powell, mathematics tutor and Senior Tutor at the time, used the opportunity to formalise a reciprocal teaching arrangement with Trinity College, which endured for 25 years until retirements there recently forced a rethink; and what an arrangement it was – there was Gus Hancock, Russ Egdell and me; and never once was there a disagreement, but just satisfaction from working in an effective team for the mutual benefit of both colleges, and both colleges happy to have stable teaching arrangements. I am delighted that

Gus is here tonight; Russ was not able to come. I remember, too, that Syd Bailey, who I had seen in the Dyson Perrins lab now and then prior to my involvement with SPC, promptly invited me into College for a Guest Night dinner, such was his generosity but also joy that he could see that Chemistry at SPC was going to be ok. I now understand that feeling very well, as I welcome Adam Kirrander as our new tutor in Physical Chemistry; and we look to the future for replacement of my post, confirming Chemistry as a two-tutor subject and once again giving a stable teaching arrangement for the future. It is a great pleasure for me too to have Jo Peach, long-time Organic Chemistry tutor at Somerville, here tonight - one of Syd’s DPhil students – I think the last – who inculcated into me the need to carefully consider the student perspective in my teaching. It’s also a great pleasure to have Dean Sheppard, Lydia Gilday, so most of the SPC Chemistry teaching team, here this evening; they have all been crucial in keeping Chemistry at SPC on an even keel over the last five years or so. And of course, it is wonderful here to be able to acknowledge the support of my wife, Julie, over the years, along with Jonathan and Laurence, both of whom began their working careers as Hall staff at SPC. Both are now chemists of sorts, the only difference between them being that Laurence has to eat his mistakes! My time is definitely up, as I was asked recently, “Dad, since you are retiring, and you won’t be needing your academic gown any more, can I have it?”

SPC in 1990, still then occasionally referred to as Pot Hall, and known as a friendly college but not much else, was relatively poor and somewhat unkempt – and the battleship-grey Lodge of the time did little to welcome anyone. I was one of five new Fellows (the others being Tony Hunt, Lawrence Goldman, Brian Ripley, and Stephen Hesselbo) and since I was the last to swear the College Oath, by dint of 5 minutes or so, I was the Junior Fellow for quite some time afterwards. We were the first batch of new blood in College for some considerable time. By contrast, I am now the Senior Fellow, a label I greatly like, because I can explain that it refers to the oldest guy (and I add in parenthesis that since we are all guys these days, I am not committing EDI sacrilege by saying so) … to the oldest guy still standing!

During my first year, I experienced a Mastership election –complete with weekly mushroom or prawn vol-au-vents – the height of sophistication – to welcome candidates to interview and which culminated in the arrival of John Barron as Master.

Although I was very much a newcomer too, I could tell he was seen as a breath of fresh air and he brought a quiet calmness along with determination to get things done, especially to enhance the standing of the College in every respect. I learnt much by watching him, but one particular aspect I noted was his kindness, and his approach influenced me profoundly. His tenure saw much change: to begin with, renovation of the Lodge with its now famous electric doors, but more importantly a sense of confidence and pride in the College which allowed us to begin to leave our “Pot Hall” days behind. I well remember a visit to Oxford Prison, which had been vacated only the day before by the prisoners and which we were considering as a possible accommodation block; the guards were still very security conscious and as we went further inside, doors behind us were locked with a heavy thunk and rattle of keys. I became increasingly careful not to lose the main party, fearing spending the night there at least, or being forgotten forever, only to be discovered as a skeleton. We seriously looked at purchasing it and I wonder how that decision would have been regarded now if we had done so? There were two rooms which took my attention – one was a medieval torture chamber, which would have been of considerable use to me recently as Senior Tutor and the other was a padded cell, ideal for tutors at the end of each term.

Inevitably at this time one reflects on one’s legacy and I am forced to conclude that I have little to boast about in whatever I might have achieved scientifically. But what I am deeply grateful for and value most is for is the opportunity to have selected and taught so many young people, and I earnestly hope that any influence I made on them has been positive. I consider myself to have been a custodian of the subject at best and it has been a privilege to have been able to hold that role as tutor; I am very lucky to have enjoyed the long term support of colleagues and my wife and family to do this work. I hope that I have done justice to those who handed me the baton when I arrived. I am sorry to say that it took me until the last decade or so to realise that chores – like admissions and the grind of weekly tutorial teaching – are in fact an immense privilege and that as tutors, we are very lucky to enjoy such close interaction with the next generation and to have the power to select, shape and nurture them. That is something to be valued and fought for. That fight, I think, will become starker in the coming years. For an institution which on the one hand advertises its greatest asset - or more trendily, its USP – as the tutorial system and therefore the people it trains, I am sorry to say that recently, during my stint

as Senior Tutor, I saw that the University takes it surprisingly casually; and to my utter amazement, the tutorial remains completely opaque and misunderstood to senior management at the highest level (to use a phrase…) and I would ask – even beg – that it be guarded very jealously, notwithstanding its wholly evident resource inefficiency, and especially in the face of funding pressures and other popular priorities increasingly finding favour in the name of equality, diversity and efficiency.

What makes SPC great is its people; I have been fortunate to spend my career working with exceptional colleagues. Over the last decade, one way or the other, I have been able to be more intimately involved in the life of the College and that I have greatly enjoyed. I have had the privilege to have worked closely with two other exceptional Masters, in addition to the great John Barron: Mark Damazer and Judith Buchanan, as well as with other College Officers, the College Office and the Welfare team. They are all outstanding in every way, and the College is a clear beneficiary of their dedication, and especially so during recent trying years. If I single them out for great thanks, it is only because I know what they have done from my own experience; I would not want to ignore those I have not worked so closely with and I give my thanks to the Administration and Bursarial teams, along with all-too-easily overlooked kitchen, porter, maintenance and household teams – and especially thank the scouts whose routine cheery ‘Hellos’, ‘Mornings’, and offers of tea lightened difficult days. I think our students are very lucky having you all and I do hope they appreciate it. The Anglican heritage of this College has been crucial to make it what it is and even if these days that sort of thinking is considered passé, if not completely redundant; I would ask – implore – that those Christian principles be upheld and cherished as the College considers its future. One only has to look at the Chavasse family to see the fruits of those values, without which this College would not exist.

I remember as a boy growing up in Sydney, while everybody else was heading off down to Bondi Beach learning to surf, I spent my time reading about British boffins in science and I was captivated by the story of the discovery of the cavity magnetron, a device crucial for the development of airborne radar. It was top secret technology and so it was given the code name H2S. Now I hope that you will forgive me by getting at least some Chemistry into this evening, and that your school Chemistry conjures up something

there, but, just in case there is a gap, H2S is hydrogen sulfide, much better known as rotten egg gas. So why the use of the completely irrelevant chemical label of H2S as the codeword for a radar device? The answer is that the inventors considered their device to be so simple, in fact so ridiculously simple, that it was stinking it had not been thought of before! For me, this sums up British ingenuity and creativity, along with its self-deprecating approach and sense of humour. While I might not have made a contribution to that sort of boffin-dom, although I would love to have done so, I have been part of Oxford’s don-dom, and I consider that I have been very fortunate and privileged to have been so, and all the more at SPC; it’s something I could never even have imagined as a boy that I would end up doing for my career. If I have made a simple contribution to the life of the College - stinking as it might be in that H2S sort of way - then I am very pleased!

It is perhaps too easy to reminisce, reflecting on what has been, what hasn’t been, and what might have been. The thing about this stage of life is that you know enough about a range of things purely based on experience that people might think you are smart – and so I conclude it is time to go before I get rumbled! St Paul boasted of his own weakness because it made clear the role of the stunning power of God in his life; I agree with Paul wholeheartedly in that, but I have something else to boast about too – that is you, and St Peter’s College. What an institution it is, and I count my blessings that this is where I landed! I exhort you to hold true to its heritage and principles, for it defines us profoundly. So, if we drink to anything, let it be St Peter’s.

I would like to propose a toast to St Peter’s College, its members and its future.

Valedictory Speech for Dr Robert Pitkethly

By Dr Massimo Antonini1

It is such an honour and a pleasure for me to give this speech to celebrate Robert’s many contributions to St Peter’s.

Over the years I had the good fortune to work very closely with Robert in running the Economics and Management degree, and with our respective college-officers roles. I - and I am sure I am not the only one- really was lucky to find in Robert someone always willing to listen and to give advice. And what knowledgeable and sound advice it invariably was, absolutely the most thorough, clearest and well informed (if not always the most concise...). I was, and all colleagues here were, really lucky to have him as a teammate. I feel even luckier that I can call him a friend, a very good friend! It is impossible to overstate the significance of

Robert’s contributions to College. Whether through his research, teaching, the various roles he held, his legendary spreadsheets or through his sheer presence, good counselling and warmth, Robert has made St Peter’s a better place.

Looking back a little, Robert studied Chemistry at Merton College as an undergraduate; although eventually he took a different avenue, his early scientific studies would be very useful for his interest in intellectual property, first as a Patent Attorney and then for his research in Intellectual Property law, Management and Policy.

l-r: Peter and Christine Greenhalgh, Robert and Elizabeth Pitkethly, Massimo Antonini, on the occasion of Robert’s Valedictory Dinner.

His interest in Japanese patent practice led him to learn Japanese and his love for all things Japanese never faded, giving him several brilliant anecdotes and interesting facts that he often shared with us all. It has been quite amusing seeing the reaction of Japanese visitors when they saw themselves quite unexpectedly being greeted in Japanese by our Management Fellow.

Over the years Robert has written several academic articles on the valuation of patents and on the strategic management of intellectual property. These are areas not only of great academic interest, but also of important policy relevance.

Robert has been a key member of the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre (OIPRC). His research was focused on developing new information on the intangible intellectual property assets of UK firms. A phase of this research involved a survey of small and medium-sized enterprises. This research resulted in various reports for UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) and fed into government policy on intellectual property and growth. In short, the best type of research: both interesting and useful.

And then there is Robert as a tutor. As I started thinking about this speech, I wondered what his former students made of our Robert. So... I asked them. And they responded with such warmth! They know they could not have wished for a better tutor. Too many messages and too long to read them all now (I will pass them on though), but Robert was invariably described as kind, generous, patient, and with a great sense of humour; they were particularly impressed -as am I- by his memory; I am told he could recall any quote in any source down to the page number, which was always impressive, particularly as the students were often struggling to even remember the name of the author -their words, not mine. Something else that came out quite prominently in their memories was a bowl of tangerines always present in tutorials and always well filled. For some, apparently, it was something they never dared to touch, for others it became a quick get-out-of-jail-free card for even the most challenging questions. Or perhaps for the most typical of Robert’s questions: “what else?”, which seemed to follow any answer by a student, including of course answers to a previous “what else?”

What else, then? There is so much more to say, but I fear I am already exceeding the allocated time for this speech. Let me conclude by saying: Robert, we salute your many contributions to College life and beyond. Colleagues and former students thank you from the bottom of their hearts for all you have done. Thank you for the patience and care you have always shown us, for the invaluable and wise counsel you have offered us and the warm friendship and sense of humour. As much as we are happy for you, having reached this important milestone and looking forward to well deserved rest and time for your many interests, we cannot help having a feeling of sadness in seeing you go; College truly will not be the same without you.

Robert, we do wish you a restful, serene and happy retirement, but we still ask one more thing of you, please: that you continue coming to College from time to time, so that we can continue benefiting from your wisdom, good humour and friendship.

1 With thanks for their input to Prof Christine Greenhalgh and many of Robert’s former students, too numerous to thank individually.

Robert Pitkethly’s Reply

Thank you Massimo for your kind words and for the friendship and support you and Jacinta have shown us over the past years.

I taught my first St Peter’s undergraduates just over 25 years ago - but over 45 years ago, I and two very good undergraduate friends at St Peter’s held an “At Home” drinks party in the Master’s Lodgings – Sir Alec and Lady Cairncross’s home. I was astonished that on hearing of the planned party Mary Cairncross had suggested holding it in Canal House. But I was even more impressed that St Peter’s was so open and friendly a place that it would allow an undergraduate from another college to hold a party in the Master’s home. Mary Cairncross ensured the drinks included rather more tea than alcohol - but it all made a lasting impression. Feeling “at Home” at St Peter’s as I now do – seems in some way a natural conclusion.

Anyway, summarising even 25 years in 4 minutes is difficult. But if it were just four words - two would have to be “thank you”. I first have to thank my late parents for their support and particularly my father. If I had any skills as a chemist aged 18 it was due largely to my father, Professor Robert Pitkethly, and it was in some ways he, who was admitted to read Chemistry rather than myself - but my parents’ support was life long and unstinting whatever I was doing.

I also have to thank my former tutor, the late Dr Courtenay Phillips, who was unfailingly generous in writing helpful references. There are many others around the world who I would name - but it’s those of you here this evening and others from St Peter’s either sadly no longer with us or unable to be here, including all of the fantastic students I’ve taught, who I am most grateful to for your support in many ways over many years. Whilst I can’t mention everyone, I’d nonetheless like to mention a few at St Peter’s in particular.

Firstly, the late Peter Hayward for founding the Oxford IP Research Centre, which catalysed links between myself, the Centre and St Peter’s. Then there’s Christine, Massimo and Ines for being unfailingly supportive and all round wonderful colleagues to work with on the Economics and Management course. I must also thank the College Office for all their help and especially Martin Brown, Olivia Henley and the ever-efficient Catherine Whalley.

The past four years have been exceptionally difficult for any institution. Mercifully, bad though Covid was, as in the past the very worst didn’t come to pass here. Whilst many helped us weather the storms, I think we all also owe our current Master many thanks for having the good heart needed to occupy the hot seat so well through the changes and chances of the past 4 years.

Food and music are also important aspects of a college. So, as ever, a very big thank you to Ave, Ling and the team for the excellent food and service. Thank you also to Roger, Quintin and more generally the College Choir not just for their musical contributions this evening but over many years. I should add that the Chapel service before this dinner was a thanksgiving by rather than for those leaving / or retiring. I wouldn’t want anyone to think it was

an attempt to attend one’s own memorial service - even if the music, as usual, was to die for.

Finally and most importantly I want to thank the Chaplain –Elizabeth - for all her support and love. Of my time at St Peter’s, that since we married in 2011 has without any doubt been the better half and I’m sure that the College is blessed to have Elizabeth as Chaplain.

If I haven’t already I’m about to overrun the new 4 minute rule for College speeches.

It has been a pleasure to work with you all. I hope that I have, in part, been able to and can continue to, repay your support and generosity of spirit. So – thank you!

Senior Members

2023-23

VISITOR

Lane, the Right Revd Libby, MA Oxf, DD (Hon) University of Wales Trinity St David, Bishop of Derby

TRUSTEES

Hodgson, Robin Granville, the Rt Hon Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts, CBE, MA Oxf

Barron, Caroline Mary, OBE, MA Oxf, PhD Lond, FRHistS, FSA Harris, Jocelin, MA Oxf

Mayr-Harting, Henry Maria Robert Egmont, MA DPhil DD Oxf, LittD (Hon) East Anglia, FBA

MASTER

Buchanan, Judith, BA PGCE Brist, MPhil DPhil Oxf

OFFICIAL AND PROFESSORIAL FELLOWS

Moloney, Mark Gerard, BSc PhD Sydney, MA DipLATHE Oxf, Sydney Bailey Fellow and Tutor in Chemistry, Professor of Chemistry

Foot, Christopher John, MA DPhil Oxf, Perenco Fellow and Tutor in Physics; Professor of Physics

Dorkins, Huw Richard, BM BCh MA Oxf, MSc Lond, FRCP, FRCPath, E P Abraham Fellow and Tutor in Medicine; Dean of Degrees and Senior Tutor

Mason, Lionel Jeremy, MA DPhil Oxf, Tutor in Mathematics, Professor of Mathematics

Pitkethly, Robert Hamilton, MBA INSEAD, MA DPhil Oxf, MSc Stirl, Tutor in Management; Tutor for Admissions (MT22) (until 8 January 2023)

Lakin, Nicholas David, BSc Nott, MA Oxf, PhD Warw, Rank Fellow and Tutor in Biochemistry, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology

Williams, Abigail, MA MPhil DPhil Oxf, Lord White Fellow and Tutor in English, Professor of Eighteenth-Century English Literature

Mawson, Timothy James, MA MPhil DPhil Oxf, Edgar Jones Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, Dean

Mayer, Hartmut, MPhil Camb, MA Tufts, DPhil Oxf, Tutor in Politics and International Relations

Antonini, Massimo, Laurea Venice, MA Middx, PhD Leic, Tutor in Economics; Tutor for Welfare and Tutor for Admissions (HT23 onwards)

Bonsall, Michael, BSc PhD Lond, MA Oxf, Tutor in Biology, Professor of Mathematical Biology

Kail, Peter James Edward, BA Keele, MA Oxf, MPhil PhD Camb, Tutor in Philosophy; Tutor for Undergraduates

Nicholls, Geoffrey Keith, BSc Canterbury, New Zealand, MA Oxf, PhD Camb, Tutor in Statistics

Wójcik, Dariusz, MEcon Cracow, University of Economics, MGeog Jagiellonian, MSc Stockholm, DPhil Oxf, Edgar Jones Fellow and Tutor in Geography, Professor of Economic Geography (until 31 July 2023)

Cooper, Cyrus, OBE, MB BS DM Lond, MA Camb, FFPH, FMedSci, FRCP, Professorial Fellow, Professor of Musculoskeletal Epidemiology

Soares de Oliveira, Ricardo, BA York, MPhil PhD Camb, Manika and Harjeev Kandhari Fellow and Tutor in Politics, Professor of the International Politics of Africa

Hausner, Sondra, AB Princeton, MA PhD Cornell, MA Oxf, Tutor in Study of Religion, Professor of Anthropology of Religion

Williams, Claire Elizabeth, BA Durh, MPhil PhD Camb, MA Oxf, Tutor in Brazilian Literature and Culture

Taylor, Peter C, BM, BCh Oxf, MA Camb, PhD Lond, FRCP, Professorial Fellow, Norman Collisson Professor of Musculoskeletal Sciences

Adcock, Thomas Alan Adcock, MEng, DPhil Oxf, Tutor in Engineering Science, Professor of Engineering Science; Fellow for Access

Dorling, Danny, BSc PhD Newc, Professorial Fellow, Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography

Burrows, Daron, BA MSt DPhil Oxf, Tutor in French, Professor of Medieval French

Rothwell, Phillip, MA PhD Camb, Professorial Fellow, King John II Professor of Portuguese Studies

Macias-Fauria, Marc, BSc Barcelona, MSc Calgary, PhD Helsinki, Tutor in Physical Geography, Professor of Biogeosciences

Baxter, Stephen, MA MSt DPhil Oxf, Barron Fellow and Tutor in Medieval History, Professor of Medieval History; Vice-Master and Fellow Archivist

MacKay, Marina, MA St And, PhD East Anglia, Tutor in English, Professor of English Literature; Tutor for Graduates

Moreno de Barreda, Inés, BSc UCM Madrid, MRes PhD LSE, Tutor in Economics

Leczykiewicz, Dorota, MSt DPhil Oxf, MLaw Wroclaw, Tutor in Law

Tuffnell, Stephen, BA MSt DPhil Oxf, Tutor in Modern United States History, Fellow Librarian

Monroe, Charles William, BSE Princeton, MA Oxf, PhD Berkeley USA, Alexander Mosley Charitable Trust Fellow and Tutor in Engineering

Science, Professor of Engineering Science; Fellow for IT and Website

Neilly, Joanna, BA Oxf, MA Belf, PhD Edin, Tutor in German

Donnelly, Christl, CBE, BA Oberlin, MSc ScD Harvard, FMedSci, FRS, Professorial Fellow, Professor of Applied Statistics

Shaw, Douglas, MA Oxf, Bursar (until 15 May 2023)

Alonso, David, BSc MSc PhD Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Carrie Perrodo Fellow and Tutor in Physics

Rajamani, Lavanya, BA LLB National Law School, BCL Oxf, LLM Yale, DPhil Oxf, Yamani Fellow and Tutor in Law, Professor of International Environmental Law

Burrell, Robert, LLB KCL, LLM Lond, PhD Griffith, Professorial Fellow, Professor of Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law

Hill, Sarah, BA California at Santa Cruz, MA Chicago, MA PhD Cardiff, Tutor in Music

Hilton, Robert George, BA PhD Camb, Tutor in Earth Sciences, Professor of Sedimentary Geology

Gilroy-Ware, Cora, BA Sus, MSt Oxf, PhD York, Tutor in History of Art; Fellow for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Bruno, Randy M, BSc Carnegie Mellon, PhD Pittsburgh, Tutor in Preclinical Medicine, Professor of Neuroscience

Kirrander, Adam, MSc Uppsala, MSc, DPhil Oxf, Fellow and Tutor in Chemistry

Whalley, Catherine, MA Camb, MEd Open, College Registrar

RESEARCH FELLOWS

Booth, Philip, BA MPhil PhD Camb, Research Fellow in Theology and Religion, and History

Cartwright, Joe, BA DPhil Oxf, Shell Professor of Earth Sciences, Senior Research Fellow

Clack, Timothy Andrew Robert, MA PhD Manc, FRGS, Chingiz

Gutseriev Research Fellow in Archaeology and Anthropology; Tutor for Visiting Students

Cohen, Corentin, BA Paris Nanterre, MA PhD Sciences Po, Junior Research Fellow in Politics

Hallam, Elizabeth, PhD Kent, Research Fellow in Anthropology

Hodgson, Susanne, MA Camb, BM BCh PGDip LATHE Oxf, DTM&H Witwatersrand, MRCP, Research Fellow in Clinical Medicine

Jin, Hanqing, BA MPhil Nankai, PhD Chinese University, Hong Kong, Research Fellow in Mathematical Finance

Kehoe, Sean, MA Oxf, MD Dub, DCH, FRCOG, Senior Research Fellow

Lewandowski, Adam, BSc Guelph, Canada, DPhil Oxford, Research Fellow in Systems Physiology

Malik, Adeel, BA Punjab, MPhil DPhil Oxf, MSc Quaid-e-Azam, Research Fellow in Economics

Mezger, Cora, MA PhD Sussex, Research Fellow in Statistics (until 31 December 2022)

Middelkoop, Mary-Ann, MA Utrecht, MSc LSE, PhD Camb, Junior Research Fellow in History of Art

Mykhnenko, Vlad, BA MA Taras Shevchenko Kiev, MA CEU Budapest, PhD Camb, Research Fellow in Sustainable Urban Development

Taylor, Angela, MA MSc PhD Camb, Professor of Experimental Astrophysics, Senior Research Fellow

Whitehead, Paul, BSc Lough, MSc UMIST, PhD Camb, Professor of Water Science, Senior Research Fellow

SUPERNUMERARY FELLOWS

Henley, Olivia Rosalyn, BA Brist

Johnson, David Paul, BA Nott, MA Lond, DPhil Oxf, College Librarian

Marshall, Kathryn, BAcc Glas, CA, College Accountant

Melbourne, Kevin, Domestic Bursar

Tingle, Eleanor, BA Roehampton, MPhil Brist, Dean for Welfare, SCR

President

EMERITUS FELLOWS

Armitage, Peter, CBE, MA Camb, MA Oxf, PhD Lond

Watson, The Revd William Lysander Rowan, MA Camb, MA Dub, MA Oxf

Coe, Malcolm James, BSc PhD Lond, MA Oxf

Sanderson, Charles Denis, MA Oxf

Mayr-Harting, Henry Maria Robert Egmont, MA DPhil DD Oxf, LittD

(Hon) East Anglia, FBA, Trustee

Marson, Richard Benjamin, MA Oxf

O’Connor, John Joseph, BE NUI, MA DPhil Oxf, PhD Camb

Twycross, Robert Geoffrey, MA DM Oxf, FRCP

Kenyon, John David, MA PhD Camb, MA DPhil Oxf

Newell, Peter Copeman, MA DPhil DSc Oxf

Teddy, Peter Julian, BM BCh DPhil Oxf, FFPMANZCA, FRACS, FRCS

Daukes, Brig Clendon Douglas, BA Open, MA Oxf

Russell, (Robert) Graham Goodwin, MB ChB MA Camb, PhD Leeds, DM Oxf, FMedSci, FRCP, FRCPath, FRS

Vaver, David, BA LLB Auckland, MA Oxf, JD Chicago

Greenhalgh, Christine Anne, MSc Lond, MA Oxf, PhD Princeton

Southworth, Eric Alan, MA Camb, MA Oxf

Williams, Gavin Peter, BA Stellenbosch, MA MPhil Oxf, DLitt Rhodes

Hunt, Anthony Blair, BLitt MA Oxf, DLitt St And, FBA

Leyser, Henrietta, BLitt MA Oxf

Earle, Thomas Foster, MA DPhil Oxf

Ripley, Brian David, MA PhD Camb, MA DPhil Oxf

Hilliard, Kevin Foster, MA DPhil Oxf

Addison, Kenneth, MA DPhil Oxf, FGS, FRGS, FRMetS

Hesselbo, Stephen Peter, BSc Aberd, MA Oxf, PhD Brist

Sim, Edith, BSc Edin, MA DPhil Oxf

Hirschon, Renée, BA Cape Town, MA DPhil Oxf

Allen, Roger, BA BMus Liv, MA DPhil Oxf

Graham, James, MA Camb, FRSA

Goldman, Lawrence, MA PhD Camb, MA DPhil Oxf, FRHist

Pitkethly, Robert, MBA INSEAD, MA DPhil Oxf, MSc Stirl (from 18 January 2023)

HONORARY FELLOWS

Bloomfield, Sir Kenneth Percy, KCB, MA Oxf, LLD(Hon) Belf, DUniv(Hon) Open, DLitt(Hon) Ulster

Weldon, Anthony Henry David, FRCM

Foy, Peter, MA Oxf

Kogelnik, Herwig Werner, DPhil Oxf, Dr Tech Vienna, Dipl Ing

Condon, Sir Paul Leslie, the Rt Hon Lord Condon of Langton Green, DL, KBE, QPM, MA Oxf

Angel, James Roger Prior, MA DPhil Oxf, FRAS,FRS

Loach, Kenneth Charles, MA Oxf

Jacob, the Rt Hon Prof Sir Robert Raphael Hayim (Robin), LLB Lond, MA Camb

Lau, William W

Godfray, Professor Hugh Charles Jonathan, CBE, MA Oxf, PhD Lond, FRS

Hodgson, Robert Granville, the Rt Hon Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts, CBE, MA Oxf, Trustee

Eastwood, Professor Sir David Stephen, MA DPhil Oxf, FRHistS

Dorfman, Lloyd M, CBE

Bell, Graham Arthur Charlton, MA DPhil Oxf, FLS, FRSC

Cairncross, Dame Frances Anne, CBE, MA (Econ) Brown, MA Oxf

Fiddes, the Revd Paul Stuart, MA DPhil DD Oxf

Moxon, Archbishop Sir David, BA Canterbury, New Zealand, MA

Massey, MA Oxf, LTh Dipl Aotearoa, KNZM

Duff, Professor Sir Gordon, BM BCh, MA, Oxf, PhD London, FMedSci,

FRCP, FRCPE, FRSE

Lemos, Captain Nikolas S

Pritchard, the Rt Revd John, MLitt Durh, MA DipTh Oxf

Williams, Professor John Mark Gruffydd, MA MSc DPhil DSc Oxf, FBA, FBPsS

Houghton, General Sir (John) Nicholas (Reynolds), CBE, GCB, MA Oxf

Stanhope, Admiral (Rtd) Sir Mark, KCB, OBE, MA Oxf, FNI

Woolf, Professor Daniel, BA Queen’s Ontario, DPhil Oxf, FRHistS, FRSC, FSA

Teare, Sir Nigel (John Martin), MA Oxf

Mann, Sir (George) Anthony, MA Oxf

Jackson, Kurt, MA Oxf, DLitt(Hon) Exeter

Carney, Mark Joseph, BA Harvard, MPhil DPhil Oxf

Lang, Lang

Marr, Andrew William Stevenson, MA Camb

Sackler, Dame Theresa (Elizabeth)

Perrodo, Bertrand

Perrodo, Carrie Perrodo, François, MA Oxf

Perrodo, Nathalie

Lane, the Right Revd Libby, MA Oxf, DD (Hon) University of Wales Trinity St David

Barron, Professor Caroline Mary, OBE, MA Oxf, PhD Lond, FRHistS, FSA, Trustee

Farmer, Paul David Charles, MA Oxf

Stewart, Sir Stephen, MA Oxf

Rugege, Chief Justice Professor Sam, LLB Makerere, Uganda, LLM

Yale, DPhil Oxf

Warner, Sir Gerald, BA Oxf, KCMG

Paladina, Nicholas, MA Oxf

Damazer, Mark, CBE, BA Camb, MA Oxf

LECTURERS

Allen, Sophie Rebecca, MA Glas, PhD Lond, Philosophy

Baroghel, Elsa, BA MA(Res) Sorbonne, DPhil Oxf, French

Bazin, Yoann, PhD CNAM Paris, MBA Oxf, Management

Bogaard, Amy Marie, BA Bryn Mawr, MSc PhD Sheff, Professor of Neolithic and Bronze Age Archaeology

Booth, Philip, BA MPhil PhD Camb, Theology and Religion, and History (HT23, TT23)

Brown, Felicity, BA MA Camb, English

Burkert-Burrows, Stefanie, MSt Oxf, Staatsexamen Eichstätt, PGCE Manc Met, German Language

Burns, Rachel, BA MSt Oxf, PhD UCL, English

Carver, Dylan, BA MPhil PhD Camb, English

Clack, Timothy Andrew Robert, MA PhD Manc, FRGS, Archaeology and Anthropology

Clark, Thomas, BA MSt DPhil Oxf, Spanish

Cliffe, Alexander, BA MMath Camb, Mathematics

Court, Elsa, BA MA Sorbonne, PhD UCL, French

Davy, Martin Howard, BEng PhD UCL, Engineering

Elford, Gideon, BA MPhil DPhil Oxf, Politics

Ewart, Elizabeth Jacqueline, BA East Ang, MPhil Camb, MA Oxf, PhD LSE, Anthropology

Farrant, Timothy John, MA DPhil Oxf, French

Flame, Ruth, BA BCL Oxf, Law (MT22)

Gant, Andrew John, MA Camb, MMus RAM, PhD Lond, Music

Gilday, Lydia, MChem DPhil Oxf, Chemistry

Grant-Downton, Robert, BA DPhil Oxf, Biology

Gunn, Steven John, MA DPhil Oxf, History

Head, Catherine, BSc MSc RHUL, DPhil Oxf, Biology

Hodgson, Susanne, MA Camb, BM BCh PGDip LATHE Oxf, DTM&H

Witwatersrand, MRCP, Clinical Medicine

Jacobson Russo, Cassandra, MSc Bocconi, MSc Oxf, Law (HT23)

Jamil, Nadia, MA Edin, DPhil Oxf, Arabic

Jenkinson, Sarah, MChem DPhil Oxf, Chemistry

Koepernik, Peter, BSc Karlsruhe IT, MSc Oxf, Mathematics

Leneghan, Francis, BA MPhil PhD Dub, Medieval English

Lewandowski, Adam, BSc Guelph, Canada, DPhil Oxf, Medicine

Lombardi, Elena Laurea Pavia, MA PhD New York, Italian

Lui, Edward, LLB HK, BCL Oxf, Law (HT23)

Maas, Gabrielle, BA MPhil Camb, DPhil Oxf, French

Marshall, Mary, BA MSt DPhil Oxf, Theology and Religion

Meier, Maike, BSc Groningen, MSc DPhil Oxf, Statistics

Nair, Sujay, MMathPhys DPhil Oxf, Mathematics

Noble Wood, Oliver James, MA MSt DPhil Oxf, Spanish

Osborne, Michael, BEng BSc Western Australia, MA DPhil Oxf, Engineering

Outeiral Rubiera, Carlos, BSc Oviedo, MPhil Manc, Biochemistry

Overkamp, Otto, BSc Tübingen, MSc PhD Imperial, Mathematics (MT22, HT23)

Palin, Richard, MESc DPhil Oxf, Earth Sciences

Papiez, Bartek, PhD UCLan, Engineering

Pujol i Campeny, Afra, BA MPhil PhD Camb, Linguistics

Ramakrishnan, Sanjay, MD UWA, Medicine

Schlackow, Waldemar, MMath DPhil Oxf, Mathematics

Sheppard, Dean, MChem DPhil Oxf, Chemistry

Skordyles, Kostas, BA Athens, MPhil Paris, Modern Greek

Spiegel, Marcus, BSE Princeton, MPhil DPhil Oxf, Geography

Van der Tol, Marietta, BLL MA Utrecht, PhD Camb, Politics

Waghorn, Nicholas, BA Oxf, DPhil Reading, Philosophy

Watson, Alice, MA St And, MSc DPhil Oxf, Geography

Wiersig, Finn, BSc OVGU Germany, Mathematics (TT23)

Willmore, Benjamin, BA PhD Camb, MSc Birm, Biomedical Science

Wolf, Franziska, BA MA Tübingen, German

Xenophontos, Panayiotis, BA MSt DPhil Oxf, Russian

Yovanof, Daphne, LLB Athens, LLM Chicago, Law

Zerbini, Federico, BSc MSc Milan, PhD Max Planck, Mathematics

Zervou, Sevasti, BSc Wolverhampton, PhD Warwick, Biochemistry

BURSAR

Shaw, Douglas, MA Oxf (until 15 May 2023)

CHAPLAIN

Pitkethly, the Revd Dr Elizabeth, BA MMus PhD KCL, BPhil Warwick, MSt MLitt Oxf, PGCE Institute of Education London, ODM, ACK

Theology

COLLEGE ACCOUNTANT

Marshall, Kathryn, BAcc Glas, CA

COLLEGE ARCHIVIST

Ray, Alison MA Glas, MA PhD UCL

COLLEGE REGISTRAR

Whalley, Catherine, MA Camb, MEd Open

DEAN FOR WELFARE

Tingle, Eleanor, BA Roehampton, MPhil Brist

DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT AND ALUMNI RELATIONS

de Gaynesford, Brett, BA College of William and Mary

DIRECTOR OF MUSIC

Beer, Quintin, MA Camb, MA Lond, DipRAM, LRAM

DOMESTIC BURSAR

Melbourne, Kevin

LIBRARIAN

Johnson, David Paul, BA Nott, MA Lond, DPhil Oxf

New Members 2022-23

Undergraduates

ARCHAEOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY

Sophia Banner, Warwick Academy, Bermuda

Aleksandra Botek, Holly Lodge Girls’ College, Liverpool

Isabella Bradshaw, Peter Symonds College, Winchester

Priscilla Nazziwa, Brampton Manor Academy, London

BIOCHEMISTRY, MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR

Nathan Ewer, Magdalen College School, Oxford

Dimitry Lukyanov, St Clare’s, Oxford

Zhen Yi Tan, Brighton College, East Sussex

Long Tse, International Christian School, Hong Kong

BIOLOGY

Arthur Lingham, Bedales School, Hampshire

Jinyu Liu, Keystone Academy, Beijing, China

Leah Mount, Sir Joseph Williamson’s Mathematical School, Kent

Bethany Thomas, Waldegrave School, Twickenham

Nell Wightman, Parkside Sixth, Cambridge

CHEMISTRY

Tim Bodani, Walbottle Campus, Newcastle upon Tyne

Aman de Silva, Trinity School, Croydon

Isabel Fennell, Solihull School, Birmingham

Rebecca Kucharski, South Hampstead High School, London

Kangcheng Wang, Xi’an Gaoxin No1 High School, China

EARTH SCIENCES

Renee Chow, Tonbridge Grammar School, Kent

Thomas Hill, John Masefield High School, Herefordshire

Emily Parry, Ruislip High School, London

Evie Sherwood, The Coleshill School, Warwickshire

ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT

Yuhan Yohanna Cao, Raffles Junior College, Singapore

Michael Fankah, Sir Joseph Williamson’s Mathematical School, Kent

Tristan Hand, Eton College, Berkshire

Sarvesh Sabale, Queen Elizabeth’s School, Barnett, London

Frederick Saunders, St Paul’s School, London

Henry Smith, Altrincham Grammar School for Boys, Cheshire

ENGINEERING

Frederick Bowyer, Harrodian School, London

Adam Gardner, De Lisle College, Leicestershire

Charlie Mahon, Dronfield Henry Fanshawe School, Derbyshire

Annika Michael, St Andrew’s RC Comprehensive School, Surrey

Gabriella Moscona, Henrietta Barnett School, London

Jibraan Pasha, Bishopshalt School, Middlesex

Isabelle Whittle, Churcher’s College, Hampshire

ENGLISH

Chloe Allsopp, Bishop Vesey’s Grammar School, Birmingham

Louis Bryan, Hereford Sixth Form College, Hereford

Amy Campbell, Hutcheson’s Grammar School, Glasgow

Sophie Primmer, Devonport High School for Girls, Plymouth

Frederick Thompson, Brighton Hove and Sussex Sixth Form College

GEOGRAPHY

Ricardo Padilla, Everest International Academy, Manila, Philippines

Martha Sainty, Latymer Upper School, London

Sonia Yin Tung Wong, King’s College School, London

HISTORY

Jonathan Clark, Xaverian College, Manchester

James Zubin Cramsie, Westminster School, London

Blodwyn Hall-Jones, Peter Symonds College, Hampshire

Leonie Hay, Ibstock Place School, London

Tom Humphrey, Coleg Gwent, Crosskeys Campus, Wales

Francis Lee, Torquay Boys Grammar School, Devon

Ganga Nair, Henrietta Barnett School, London

Caitlin Small, Kineton High School, Warwickshire

Madeleine White, Sir William Perkins’s School, Surrey

Sebastian Wingate, Wellington College, Berkshire

HISTORY AND ENGLISH

Rhiana Marshall, St Thomas the Apostle College, London

HISTORY OF ART

Jada Richard, Northwood College, London

Rhea Score, Strode College, Somerset

Liao Zhou, d’Overbroek’s, Oxford

LAW

Grace Allen, Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Penrith

Viraansh Bhanushali, NES International School, Mumbai, India

Rita Cherchian, Westminster School, London

Kartikay Kataria, Sanskriti School, New Delhi, India

Conor Stigberg, The Blue Coat School, Liverpool

MATHEMATICS

Iain Chen, Finham Park School, Coventry

Yaxuan Deng, Wuhan Britain-China School, China

Ishwar Karthik, The American School of Doha, Qatar

Olivia Leake, Godalming College, Surrey

Zhikun Li, Runnymede College, Madrid, Spain

Quanjin Lyu, Pennon Education Group, China

Henry Roskill, Radley College, Abingdon

MATHEMATICS AND PHILOSOPHY

Yasmin Collins, Newstead Wood School, London

MEDICINE

Abigail Jones, Alsager School, Cheshire

Sai Nallapareddy, Kendrick School, Berkshire

Ayesha Nasir, Altrincham Grammar School for Girls, Cheshire

Karishma Parekh, Lancaster Girls’ Grammar School, Lancashire

Conor Rafferty, Lutterworth Academies Trust, Leicestershire

Emma Tan, National Junior College, Singapore

MODERN LANGUAGES

Amira Arba (F), Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf, Montreal, Canada

Reuben Constantine (F&Gk), Shrewsbury Sixth Form College, Shropshire

George Edwards (I&Ling), Repton School, Derbyshire

Simran Kaler (S&P), The Tiffin Girls’ School, London

Sasha Podell (F&S), Woldingham School, Surrey

George Roberts (F&G), Whitgift School, London

Arya Shafighian (F&S), Halliford School, Surrey

Elliott Wheeler (G&Ling), Whitley Bay High School, North Tyneside

MUSIC

Abigail Evans, Castell Alun High School, Wrexham, Wales

Grace Hall, Sevenoaks School, Kent

Chi Mak, La Salle College, Hong Kong

Sophie Rowdene, Burnham Grammar School, Buckinghamshire

Owen Thomas, The Langley Park School for Boys, Kent

PHILOSOPHY AND MODERN LANGUAGES

Rufus Hall (G), King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys, Birmingham

PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY

Joshua Cruice, Tiffin School, Surrey

Sami Haroon, Bedford School, Bedfordshire

PHILOSOPHY, POLITICS AND ECONOMICS

Solomon Allen, King Edward’s School, Birmingham

Nasim Bellagnaoui, Eastbourne College, East Sussex

Michael Donlon, Notre Dame High School, Sheffield

Thomas Farr, Latymer Upper School, London

Jack Hurrell, Rickmansworth School, Hertfordshire

Samuel Marson, St Paul’s School, London

Hannah Orrell, Kingston Grammar School, London

Claudia Reynolds, Westminster School, London

Cindy Yu, Irvington High School, California, USA

PHYSICS

Lewis Bond, Chigwell School, Essex

Thomas Kelly, Blairgowrie High School, Scotland

Peter Orlov, Westminster School, London

Aniket Rathod, Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe

Robert Simpson, Hills Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge

THEOLOGY AND RELIGION

Laura Koscielska, The Purcell School, Hertfordshire

Amelia Seaman, Thomas Hardye School, Dorset

Graduates

Taibah Al-Fagih, London School of Economics and Political Science, MSt Global and Imperial History

Ravali Bandroju, Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management, India, MBA

Caitlin Barton-Sargeant, University College London, BM BCh (Graduate Entry Medicine)

Christian Beaumont, The University of Oxford, MSc in Intellectual Property

Clara Berger, Wellesley College, USA, MSc Statistical Science

Raphael Birrell, The University of Edinburgh, MSt Jewish Studies

Elena Bonacini, The University of Oxford, MSt

English (1700-1830)

Anna Bray, London School of Economics and Political Science, MSt History of Art and Visual Culture

Chun Yin Chan, University of Hong Kong, BCL

Jinglei Chen, University College London, MSc Statistical Science

Ying Chen, South China University of Technology, MSc Mathematical Sciences

Gladys Chia, The University of Northumbria, MBA

Gwendoline Choi, The University of St Andrews, MSt Modern Languages (G)

Georgina Clark, The University of Reading, DPhil

Women’s and Reproductive Health

Rose Clark, University of Durham, MSc Integrated Immunology

Anna Connell, Columbia University, USA, BPhil

Philosophy

Ahmet Coskuner, University of the Bosphorus, Turkey, MSt Philosophy of Physics

David Cueva, King’s College London, MPhil Economics

Elizabeth Dally, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada, MSt Study of Religions

Aaron Deller, The University of Edinburgh, BPhil Philosophy

Mian Ding, Smith College, USA, MSt Modern Languages (I)

Ffion Evans, The University of Birmingham, MSc Mathematical & Theoretical Physics

Zhengxian Fan, The University of Manchester, DPhil

Women’s and Reproductive Health

Alice Farion, University College London, MSt Modern Languages (F)

Redwan Farooq, The University of Cambridge, DPhil Clinical Neurosciences

Nicholas Fieldhouse, The University of Birmingham, DPhil Particle Physics

Gabriel Fung, University of Hong Kong, MPhil International Relations

Tautvydas Galminas, The Queen’s University of Belfast, MSc Economic and Social History

Joshua Garry, Institute of Education, MSc Learning and Teaching

Jack Glover, The University of Newcastle, MSc Sustainable Urban Development

Brigit Goebelbecker, Georgetown University, USA, MBA

Jasmine Goody, The University of Sussex, MSc Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology

Marine Guingand, Université Paris Descartes (Paris V), France, DPhil Pharmacology

Julia Gustavsson, The University of Oxford, DPhil History

George Hale, University College London, MPhil Economics

Tierney Hall, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, MPhil International Relations

Xinyue Han, University College London, MSc Statistical Science

Lara Hankeln, University of Leiden, Netherlands, MPhil Politics: Comparative Government

Ben Hardy-Jones, University of Durham, MSc Environmental Change and Management

Olivia Hennessey, College of William and Mary, USA, MSt History - US History

Wei Hong, The University of Manchester, MSc Mathematical Sciences

Yu-Hsiang Huang, Peking University, China, DPhil Law

Cecilia Hunyor, The Open University, PGCE - English

Mangani Ilunga, University of Cape Town, South Africa, MSc Sustainable Urban Development

Lucy Jobbins, The University of Sussex, DPhil Clinical Neurosciences

Alison King, The University of Bristol, PGCEModern Languages

Kelsey Knecht, University of Mississippi, USA, MSc Learning and Teaching

William Knight, King’s College London, USA, MSt Philosophical Theology

Poornima Kumar, Anna University, India, DPhil Geography and the Environment

Abdullah Kuziez, The University of Oxford, MSc(Res) Engineering Science

Jiah Lee, University College London, MSc Pharmacology

Maisie Lewis, Bath Spa University, MSt Music (Musicology)

Chang Li, The Pennsylvania State University, USA, MSc Financial Economics

Hao Li, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, MSc Financial Economics

Kim López I Güell, The University of Oxford, DPhil Clinical Epidemiology and Medical Statistics

Yuhan Lu, Macao Polytechnic Institute, MSt Modern Languages (P)

Krzysztof Lukaszek, The University of Warwick, BCL

Ziqi Ma, Beijing (Peking) Normal University China, MSc Financial Economics

Shivakumar Mahesh, The University of Oxford, MSc Statistical Science

Kevin McCart, University of Toronto, Canada, MSc Archaeology

Rodrigo Mendez Ayala, Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico, MSc Law and Finance

Metadel Mengestu, American University DC, USA, MSc Sustainable Urban Development

Divyanshu Mishra, Uttar Pradesh Technical University, India, DPhil Engineering Science

Mosa Molapo, Smith College, USA, MSt History of Art and Visual Culture

Jacob Mortimer, The School of Oriental and African Studies, London, DPhil Theology and Religion

Joseph Murphy, Sydney College of Divinity, Australia, MPhil Philosophical Theology

Cecilia Myers, University of Melbourne, Australia, MSc Biodiversity, Conservation and Management

Isabelle Napier, The University of Oxford, DPhil International Relations

Nudrat Nawar, King’s College London, BM BCh (Graduate Entry Medicine)

Callum O’Neill, King’s College London, DPhil Genomic Medicine and Statistics

Chhayal Patel, Anglia Ruskin University, MSc Radiation Biology (Direct Entry)

William Pennington, Los Angeles City College, USA, MSc Archaeology

Samuel Plesnik, University College London, MSc Mathematical & Theoretical Physics

Alan Potts, Kingston University, MSc Learning and Teaching

Claire Qu, University of Melbourne, Australia, MSt English (1830-1914)

Saubhagya Raizada, University of Delhi, India, Master of Public Policy

Matthew Reavley, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, DPhil Materials

Alexander Redmond, The University of Manchester, DPhil Medical Sciences

Devon Rosenberger, Elon University, USA, DPhil History of Art

Louise Rosset, Imperial College, London, DPhil Inorganic Chemistry

Edward Russell, The University of Oxford, MSt English (1900-present)

Abigail Rylance, The University of Warwick, MSt History of Art and Visual Culture

Cosimo Schlagintweit, Ludwig Maximilians Universität, Germany, MSt Modern Languages (G&I)

Jiahui Shen, Chinese University of Hong Kong, MSc Financial Economics

Mariia Shmonina, Nizhny Novgorod State University, Russia, MPhil Modern Languages (F)

Tjaark Siemssen, University of Cologne, Germany, MSc Archaeology

Annabel Smith, The University of Exeter, MSc Pharmacology

Vegard Solberg, The University of Edinburgh, MSc Mathematical and Computational Finance

Linda Berenice Sylverain, De Anza College, USA, MSc Latin American Studies

Jonathan Tan, Singapore Management University, Master of Public Policy

Jack Thompson, University of Durham, MSc Learning and Teaching

Mariana Tome, Charles University, Czech Republic, DPhil Women’s and Reproductive Health

Wing Lam Tong, University of Hong Kong, MSt Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Caterina Vanelli Coralli, University College London, BM BCh (Graduate Entry Medicine)

Lasse Von Der Heydt, Universita Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Italy, MPhil Economics

Zhixin Wan, Jiangxi Normal University, China, MPhil Social Anthropology

Caitlin-Marie Watson-O’Shea, The University of Oxford, MSt English (1550-1700)

Donovan Webb, The University of Bath, DPhil Atomic and Laser Physics

Rachel Williams, The University of Oxford, DPhil Organic Chemistry

Frederick Yang, University of Sydney, Australia, DPhil Inorganic Chemistry

Kang Yuan, Wuhan University, China, DPhil Organic Chemistry

Amanda Zhang, Harvard University, USA, MSc Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology

Simiao Zhao, The University of Edinburgh, Sus App to Biomed Sc: Resp and Repro Res (CDT)

Kangtao Zhu, University College London, MSc(Res) Organic Chemistry

Stephanie Zughbi, Australian National University, Master of Public Policy

Visiting Undergraduates

Kaleigh Coker, Hendrix College, USA, Biology

Malena Colon, Brown University, USA, English

Andrew Cormack, Rice University, USA, History

Eriko Darcy, Wellesley College, USA, Economics and Politics

Theodora Harmsworth, Duke University, USA, Economics, History and Philosophy

Natsumi Hayashi, Waseda University, Japan, Philosophy and Politics

Victoria Ho, Wellesley College, USA, Economics and History of Art

Shaoxun Huang, Tsinghua University, China, Engineering Science

Kenshiro Kawasaki, Waseda University, Japan, Geography

Rumina Koike, Waseda University, Japan, Anthropology and Archaeology

Yuriko Kon, Waseda University, Japan, Economics and Politics

Arina Kondo, Hitotsubashi University, Japan, Philosophy and Politics

Xinyu Liu, Tsinghua University, China, Physics

Chloe McDonnell, William Jewell College, USA, Philosophy and Politics

Hudson Pace, Hendrix College, USA, Philosophy

Jiayu Pang, Peking University, China, English

Shiyi Sun, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Statistics and Mathematics

Zhibing Wang, Wuhan University, China, History, Archaeology and Anthropology

Yutong Xu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Statistics and Mathematics

Akira Yagi, Waseda University, Japan, Philosophy and Politics

Shuheng Zhang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Statistics and Mathematics

The Matriculation photograph (pages 77-82) has been reproduced by kind permission of Gillman & Soame Photographers

Results and Achievements 2022-23

FIRST IN FHS

Mika Alvarez Nishio, Archaeology and Anthropology

Orlando Bell, Geography

Evangeline Burrowes, Geography

Divya Cherian, Economics and Management

Ruby Davies, English Language and Literature

Iona ffrench-Adam, Medicine

Weronika Galka, Jurisprudence (English Law with Law in Europe)

Lois Gardner, History of Art

Freya Gnodde, Archaeology and Anthropology

Anthony Gosnell, Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Babar Haq, Engineering Science

Natalie Hytiroglou, History of Art

Simai Jia, Physics

Theodore Jupp, Modern Languages (French and German)

Alastair Kidd, History and Politics

Lily Kingdon-Dawkins, English Language and Literature

Shaimerden Kuanganov, Engineering Science

Yuanhao Li, Jurisprudence

Scott Macken, Chemistry

Kaesha Marantz, Medicine

Grace Middleton, History

Vani Mohindra, Economics and Management

Louis Odgers, Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Anastasia Pantazopoulou, Earth Sciences

Jacobus Petersen, Geography

Lucas Quinn, Theology and Religion

Vinaya Roehrl, Biology

Amy Wahab, Earth Sciences

Finn Walton, English Language and Literature

Oliver Williams, Chemistry

Hector Wilton, History

Krzysztof Zdanowicz, Economics and Management

Yuhan Zheng, Engineering Science

DISTINCTION IN PART C OF THE MMATH, THE MMATHSTAT

Matthew Antrobus, Mathematics

Jakub Curda, Mathematics

Olujimi Fafowora, Mathematics and Statistics

Usman Ladan, Mathematics

Yuqi Zhang, Mathematics and Statistics

DISTINCTION IN PRELIMS/MODS

Nasim Bellagnaoui, Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Louis Bryan, English Language and Literature

Yuhan Yohanna Cao, Economics and Management

Renee Chow, Earth Sciences

Joshua Cruice, Philosophy and Theology

Aman De Silva, Chemistry

Grace Hall, Music

Tristan Hand, Economics and Management

Sami Haroon, Philosophy and Theology

Thomas Hill, Earth Sciences

Ishwar Karthik, Mathematics

Laura Koscielska, Theology and Religion

Jinyu Liu, Biology

Dmitry Lukyanov, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry

Ayesha Nasir, Medicine

Ricardo Padilla, Geography

Henry Roskill, Mathematics

Sarvesh Sabale, Economics and Management

Martha Sainty, Geography

Zhen Yi Tan, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry

Bethany Thomas, Biology

Owen Thomas, Music

Frederick Thompson, English Language and Literature

Long Tse, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry

Sebastian Wingate, History

HIGHER DEGREES, CERTIFICATES AND DIPLOMAS

Postgraduate Certificate in Education

Cecilia Hunyor

Alison King

BM BCh

Helen Callard

Thomas Morgan

Máté Nászai

Maximilian Williamson (Distinction)

MBA

Motaz Al-Ashhab (2022)

Ravali Bandroju

Balam Budwal (Distinction) (2022)

Derich Cabrera (2022)

Gladys Chia

Dominic Deane (2022)

Brigit Goebelbecker (Distinction)

Zhihao Lai (2022)

Jensen Lee (2022)

Morgan Motzel (2022)

Alexander Routledge (Distinction) (2022)

Taimur Tanoli (2022)

Ankit Tieari (2022)

MPP

Brigit Goebelbecker (Distinction) (2022)

Saubhagya Raizada

Jonathan Tan (Merit)

Stephanie Zughbi (Distinction)

BCL

Chun Yin Chan (Distinction)

Krzysztof Lukaszek (Distinction)

Sachin Nair

MSt

Taibah Al-Fagih (Distinction)

Raphael Birrell

Elena Bonacini

Anna Bray (Distinction)

Gwendoline Choi (Distinction)

Ahmet Coskuner (Distinction)

Mian Ding

Douglas Graham (2022)

Olivia Hennessy (Merit)

William Knight (Merit)

Maisie Lewis (Distinction)

Yuhan Lu

Mosa Molapo (Merit)

Claire Qu (Distinction)

Edward Russell (Distinction)

Abigail Rylance (Distinction)

Cosimo Schlagintweit (Merit)

Wing Lam Tong (Distinction)

Caitlin-Marie Watson-O’Shea

MSc Christian Beaumont (Distinction)

Elaina Benson (Merit)

Clara Berger (Merit)

Jinglei Chen (Distinction)

Rose Clark (Merit)

Tobias Dove (Distinction)

David Drabble

Ellen Fanning (2022)

Tautvydas Galminas

Jasmine Goody (Distinction)

Xinyue Han

Ben Hardy-Jones (Distinction)

Wei Hong

Rugiatu Koroma

Jiah Lee

Chang Li

Hao Li (Merit)

Ziqi Ma

Shivakumar Mahesh (Distinction)

Dallas McInerny

Rodrigo Mendez Ayala

Cecilia Myers (Distinction)

Katherine Peters (Merit)

Samuel Plesnik

Jiahui Shen (Merit)

Tjaark Siemssen (Distinction)

Annabel Smith (Distinction)

Vegard Solberg (Distinction)

William Teasley III

Chrystall Thomas (Merit) (2022)

Chun Nok Yung (Distinction) (2022)

Amanda Zhang (Merit)

MSc by Research

George Buss

Andrew Pollock

Yuling Sang

BPhil

Luca Marsico

MPhil

Julie Bernard

Patrick Clinch (Merit)

Simon Handreke (Merit)

Sophia Reidl (Distinction)

Sofia Sam Chung (Distinction)

Simon Van Teutem (Distinction)

Alice Yu

MLitt

Mohamed Haji Abdullahi

DPhil

Katrina Andrews, Systems Approaches to Biomed Sc (EPSRC & MRC CDT), The Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of PROTACs Targeting the Transcriptional Coactivators CREBBP and p300

Emily Baker, Interdisciplinary Bioscience (BBSRC DTP), The Nuanced Evolutionary Consequences of Duplicated Genes

Joshua Bamford, DPhil Anthropology, Social bonding through processing fluency for interpersonal synchronisation

Hannah Caroe, DPhil Archaeological Science, ‘For a quart of ale is a dish for a king’? Malting, brewing and beer in the Mid Anglo-Saxon period: a case study of Sedgeford

Siu Lun Chau, Statistical Science (EPSRC & MRC CDT), Towards Trustworthy Machine Learning with Kernels

Mehreen Datoo, DPhil Clinical Medicine, Developing a new anti-sporozoite malaria vaccine

Mariana De Oliveira Silva, DPhil Chemistry, Tactoid formation in suspensions of Pf4 virus particles and the role of impurities

Matthew Fawkes, DPhil Oncology, Assessment of the functional impact of amino acid variants in DNA damage response proteins using ortholog complementation

Jack Gaskell, Gas Turbine Aerodynamics (EPSRC CDT), Bounce-Stick Modelling for Particulate Deposition in Gas Turbines

Joseph Ghoussoub, DPhil Materials, Additive Manufacturing of Nickel-Based Superalloys: Effects of Alloy Composition

Don Halahakoon, DPhil Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Linking reward-learning and affect in health and depression

Bobby He, Statistical Science (EPSRC & MRC CDT), On Kernel and Feature Learning in Neural Networks

Jiri Kulhavy, DPhil Chemistry, Synthesis and Characterization of Inorganic Nanomaterials for Applications in Energy Storage and Catalysis

Ka Wing Alethea Lee, DPhil Chemistry, Late-Stage C-H Activation of Spiropiperidines via Evolved P450BM3

Mutants and its Application to FragmentBased Drug Discovery

Gregory Lewis, DPhil Zoology, Modelling adversarial dynamics in natural and artificial immunity

Geoffrey Mboya, DPhil Mathematics, Projective Fibrations in Weighted Scrolls

Aadarsh Mishra, DPhil Engineering Science, Passive acoustic mapping for monitoring burst wave lithotripsy

Alexandra Mogyoros, DPhil Law, Re-certifying Trademark Law

Ruhollah Nasrollahi, DPhil Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Religious Institutions in 19th-Century Tehran: Shari‘a Law in a City in Transition

Lorenzo Pacchiardi, Statistical Science (EPSRC & MRC CDT), Statistical inference in generative models using scoring rules

Jack Parker-Holder, DPhil Engineering Science, Towards Truly Open-Ended Reinforcement Learning

Déborah Sulem, Statistical Science (EPSRC & MRC CDT), Flexible estimation in temporal point processes and graphs

Hunter Taylor, DPhil History, Bio-Medical Degeneration in Britain, 1850-1914: Theory and Evidence

Jean-Francois Ton, Statistical Science (EPSRC & MRC CDT), Causal Reasoning and Meta Learning using Kernel Mean Embeddings

Alessio Vaccari, DPhil Philosophy, Hume on justice as a virtue

Jean-Baptiste Verstraete, DPhil Chemistry, From a better use of instrumentation to new detection methods in NMR and EPR spectroscopy

Tong Yu, DPhil Engineering Science, Applications of Single-Cell Raman MicroSpectroscopy to the Study of Cancer Metabolism

Kinga Zielinska, Interdisciplinary Bioscience (BBSRC DTP), Development of computational tools for variant calling in single-cell RNAseq

Scholarships and Awards 2022-23

DOMUS SCHOLARSHIPS

Julia Bator, Geography

Holly Brooker, History

Jonathan Dickinson, Biology

Emily Egerton-Warburton, Biochemistry

Elizabeth Eilers, History

Alfred Fardell, Music

Li Gu, Mathematics

Elizabeth Hockin, Archaeology and Anthropology

Charlotte Knights, History

Reuben Leyland, Engineering

Xanthe Luckham-Down, Theology and Religion

Finn McHale, Biology

Aneshka Moudry, Chemistry

Angus Norman, Geography

Katherine Peachey, Philosophy and Theology

Thomas Storey, Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Justine Streichenberger-Nicolas, Modern Languages (French and Portuguese)

Zi Hao Tan, Jurisprudence

Amelia Troup, Modern Languages (French and Portuguese)

Kamran Vaishnav, Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Isabel Walter, History of Art

Tanya Watson, Chemistry

Marcus Wells, History

Anna Williams, Geography

Darcey Willing, English Language and Literature

Zinuo Wu, Biochemistry

Dora Xu, History of Art

ANJOOL MALDÉ SCHOLARSHIPS

Reuben Leyland, Engineering

Tanya Watson, Chemistry

Marcus Wells, History

Emma Wiggetts, History

Anna Williams, Geography

BARRON SCHOLARSHIPS

Mika Alvarez Nishio, Archaeology and Anthropology

Lily Kingdon-Dawkins, English Language and Literature

Louis Odgers, Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Faris Saadat-Yazdi, Mathematics

Fergus Sandham, Jurisprudence

Finn Walton, English Language and Literature

DOMUS EXHIBITIONS

Marielena Demetriou, History

Thomas Guest, Earth Sciences

Arshiya Hendi, Modern Languages (French and Italian)

Dewi Parry, Chemistry

Ella Thiagarajah Ozkan, History

Emma Wiggetts, History

CRAYTHORNE SCHOLARSHIPS

(AWARDED BY THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF CUTLERS)

Edward Harris, Medicine

Ellie Faulkner, Medicine

Brian Kwizera, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry

Mate Naszai, Medicine (Graduate Entry)

Remarez Sheehan, Medicine

LANDAU FORTE BURSARY

Gracie Green (St John’s College)

OTHER PRIZES AND SCHOLARSHIPS

Bailey Prize (Chemistry)

Aneshka Moudry

Carl Albert Prize (most distinguished Finalists 2022)

Joseph Lewis, History

Clara Schreiner, Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Carl Albert Prize (most distinguished Finalists 2023)

Weronika Galka, Jurisprudence (English Law with Law in Europe)

Vani Mohindra, Economics and Management

Simai Jia, Physics

Charles Caine Mathematics Prize

Shuwei Wang, Mathematics and Philosophy

Houghton Prize (English)

Darcey Willing

McCartney Fund Prize (History)

Rhiannon Evans

Alastair Kidd

Talitha Tomlinson

Michael Latner Prize (Law)

Zi Hao Tan

New Horizon Prizes (Mathematics)

Matthew Antrobus

William Garrett

Li Gu

Faris Saadat-Yazdi

Dekun Song

Shuwei Wang

Chun Nok Yung

Piyada Wattanapalanon Scholarship (Economics)

Anthony Gosnell, Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Raisaa Kaur Kandhari Scholarship (Philosophy)

Ella Henry, Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Raisaa Kaur Kandhari Scholarship (Politics)

Pieter Garicano, Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Rivington Prize (Theology)

Emma Rath

Smith Prize (History)

Elizabeth Eilers

Simpson Prizes (for 1st year performance)

Alfred Fardell, Music

Elizabeth Hockin, Archaeology and Anthropology

Reuben Leyland, Engineering

Xanthe Luckham-Down, Theology and Religion

Finn McHale, Biology

Angus Norman, Geography

Amelia Troup, Modern Languages (French and Portuguese)

Anna Williams, Geography

Zinuo Wu, Biochemistry

Dora Xu, History of Art

Steven Latner Scholarship (English)

Darcey Willing

Sutton Prize (Philosophy, Politics and Economics)

Thomas Storey

T W Mason Prize (History)

Joseph Lewis

William James Clarke Prize (French)

Michael Smith

St Peter’s Society Prizes

Dominic Hill

Sophie Lord

Kelvin Vries

CHORAL SCHOLARSHIPS

Bernard Rose Choral Scholarship, supported by John Bain

Amy Gadhia, Archaeology and Anthropology

Helen Williams Choral Scholarship

Felicity Henry, Music

Jatinder Singh Uppal Scholarship

Phoebe Smith, Music

John Bain Choral Scholarship

Owen Thomas, Music

Jonathan Arnold Choral Scholarship

Megan Harley-Martin, Archaeology and Anthropology

Karan Singh Uppal Scholarship

Grace Hall, Music

Kirtan for Causes Scholarship

Jack Edis, Music

Manika Kaur Kandhari Scholarship

Emma Wiggetts, History

Narankar Singh Uppal Scholarship

Alfred Fardell, Music

Raveena Kaur Uppal Scholarship

Jude Neanor, Music

Roy Burgess Choral Scholarships

Aman de Silva, Chemistry

Laura Massey (Trinity College)

Cecilia Wilkins Dulanto, Music Graduate Choral Scholarships

Andre Chan (New College)

Georgia Lin (Brasenose College)

OTHER MUSIC AWARDS

Paul and Fiona Geddes Awards for Musical Excellence

Elizabeth Fitzpatrick, Music

Charlie Potts, Music

Sophia Short, Music

Siraj Singh Kandhari Junior Organ Scholarship

Chi (Jason) Mak, Music

Jacob Barnes Instrumental Scholarship, supported by Thomas Hancox

Sophie Rowdene, Music

Christopher Ross Instrumental Scholarship, supported by John Bain

Abigail Evans, Music Usher Instrumental Scholarship

Laura Kościelska, Theology and Religion

TRAVEL AWARDS

Shivani Abensour, Chemistry, Latner

Alexandra Akins, Modern Languages (French and Modern Greek), AJ Tracey

Awais Aslam, Modern Languages (Spanish), Latner

Isabella Bradshaw, Archaeology and Anthropology, Durham

Louis Bryan, Biology, Latner

Eve Caston, Music, Arabella

Reuben Constantine, Modern Languages (French and Modern Greek), Latner

Mollie Densley Robins, Mathematics, Arabella

Luca Dileto, History, Deelman

Michael Donlon, Philosophy, Politics and Economics, Deelman

Emily Egerton-Warburton, Biochemistry, Latner

Elizabeth Eilers, History, AJ Tracey

Michael Fankah, Medical Sciences, AJ Tracey

Ellie Faulkner, Medical Sciences, Arabella

Ebed-melech Gebreselassie, Engineering Science, AJ Tracey

Christopher Gilmour, Philosophy and Theology, Latner

Isabelle Goddard, Earth Sciences, Durham

Zéphyr Goriely, Biology, Latner

Benjamin Green, French and Linguistics, Simpson

Li Gu, Mathematics, Simpson

Zoe Guy, Earth Sciences, Durham

Rebonto Haque, Biochemistry, Simpson

Edward Harris, Medical Sciences, Latner

Ella Henry, Philosophy, Politics and Economics, Latner

Elizabeth Hockin, Archaeology and Anthropology, Durham

Sofia Cristobal Holman-Smith, English Language and Literature, Latner

Simran Kaler, Modern Languages (Spanish and Portuguese), Latner

Charlotte Knights, History, Latner

Tianyi Kong, Physics, Simpson

Laura Kościelska, Theology & Religion, Latner

Brian Kwizera, Biochemistry, AJ Tracey

Isobel Laux, Modern Languages (French and German), Latner

Arthur Lingham, Biology, Deelman

Ivan Mahoney, Philosophy, Politics and Economics, Deelman

Gabriel McCall, Physics, Deelman

Jack Meredith, Physics, Latner

Sonya Oczkowicz, Modern Languages, Latner

Anya Paopiamsap, Physics, Simpson

Kirsten Parsons, Medicine, Latner

George Rabin, Biology, Latner

Phoebe Rodgers, Philosophy and Theology, Arabella

Magdalena Schwarz, Modern Languages (Spanish and German), Latner

Sophia Short, Music, Arabella

Michael Smith, Modern Languages (French and Spanish), AJ Tracey

Phoebe Smith, Music, Latner

Nicharee Srikijkasemwat, Engineering Science, Simpson

Serrena Srithavarajah, Economics and Management, Latner

Justine Streichenberger-Nicolas, Modern Languages (French and Portuguese), McKinsey

Lewis Stubley, Biochemistry, Simpson

Fred Thompson, English Language and Literature, Latner

Amelia Troup, Modern Languages, McKinsey

Jodie Tyler, Modern Languages (Spanish), McKinsey and Latner

Isabel Walter, History of Art, Deelman

Emma Wiggetts, History, AJ Tracey

Anna Williams, Geography, Durham

Darcey Willing, English Language and Literature, Latner

Hector Wilton, History, Latner

Zinuo Wu, Biochemistry, Simpson

Poppy York, English Language and Literature, Latner

GRADUATE AWARDS

The Hrothgar Singaporean Clarendon Scholarship

Matthew Reavley

St Peter’s College Bushell Scholarship in History

Katherine Fapp

Sim Pharmacology Scholarship

Annabel Smith

Bossanyi Bursary Manseeb Malek

Cecilia Myers

OTHER GRADUATE AWARDS

Elena Bonacini, MSt English (1700-1830)

Anna Bray, MSt History of Art and Visual Culture

Demi Brizee, Interdisciplinary Bioscience (BBSRC DTP)

Lucy Browne, DPhil Inorganic Chemistry

Caroline Croasdaile, DPhil Archaeology

Mian Ding, MSt Modern Languages (Italian)

Catherine Fan, DPhil Condensed Matter Physics

Katie Fapp, DPhil History

Niamh Fearon, DPhil Particle Physics

Fei Gao, DPhil Oncology

Brigit Goebelbecker, Master of Public Policy

Jasmine Goody, MSc Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology

Tierney Hall, MPhil International Relations

Jake Holmes, DPhil Organic Chemistry

Desislava Ivanova, Modern Statistics and Statistical Machine Learning (EPSRC CDT)

Lucy Jobbins, DPhil Clinical Neuroscience

Manuel Kober-Czerny, DPhil Condensed Matter Physics

Tsovinary Kuiumchian, DPhil Anthropology

Maisie Lewis, MSt Music (Musicology)

Justin Limkaichong, DPhil Materials

Abi Lister, DPhil Materials

Claire Lunde, DPhil Women’s and Reproductive Health

Brian Micheni, DPhil Education

UNIVERSITY AND OTHER PRIZES

Gibbs Prize (performance in Economics)

Proxime Accessit Gibbs Prize (performance in Management)

Vani Mohindra

Gibbs Prize (best third year essay in Earth Sciences)

Ben Webb

Gibbs Prize (performance in the MPhys examination)

Simai Jia

Isabelle Napier, DPhil International Relations

Luz Orozoco Y Villa, DPhil Law

Zhoudan Pan, DPhil Engineering Science

Saubhagya Raizada, Master of Public Policy

Simone Rijavec, DPhil Atomic and Laser Physics

Devon Rosenberger, History of Art

Sofia Sam Chung, MPhil Politics: Comparative Government

Mariia Shmonina, MSt Modern Languages (French)

Tjaark Siemssen, MSc Archaeology

Ana Sousa Gerós, DPhil Clinical Medicine

James Thornton, Statistical Science (EPSRC & MRC CDT)

Zoi Tsangalidou, Modern Statistics and Statistical Machine Learning (EPSRC CDT)

Simon van Teuten, MPhil Politics: European Politics and Society

Zhixin Wan, MSc Social Anthropology

Xiaoyun Wang, DPhil Organic Chemistry

Albert Ward, DPhil Politics

Donovan Webb, DPhil Atomic and Laser Physics

Hannah Wei, DPhil Economics

Jingyan Zhang, DPhil Medieval and Modern Languages (French)

Florian Zirpel, DPhil Clinical Neurosciences

Stephanie Zughbi, Master of Public Policy

Congratulations Marriages

Jessica Davies (2007) Robin Lorenz 16 April 2022

Phoebe Ashley-Norman (2016) Henry Proto (2015) June 2023

Births

Name DOB Family Siblings

Constantijn Cuthbert Hendrik Vergunst 16/04/2022 Mary-Ann Middelkoop (Junior Research Fellow)

Diederik Vergunst

Solomon Chang 13/09/2022 Stephen Dunne (2009)

Niki Chang

Evelyn Alexandra Price Gay 17/02/2023 Brett de Gaynesford (Director of Development)

Camille Gay Sister to Elisabeth

Isabella Gill 18/02/2023 Justin Gill (1997)

Grace Azmitia

Nicholas Matthew Kisiel 11/05/2023 Sławomir Kisiel (Commercial and Events Manager)

Hanna Kisiel

Proxime Accessit Gibbs Prize (performance in Law)

Law Faculty Prize for Human Rights Law

Weronika Galka

Law Faculty Prize in Dissertations (PGT)

Chun Yin Chan

Lidl Prize for the best Prelims performance in German paper on the post-A-level course (any combination except sole)

Rufus Hall

John Potter Essay Prize (Neurology)

Gabrielle Cognacq

MET Office Academic partnership prize for the best Climate Science dissertation in FHS Geography

Evangeline Burrowes

QMRG Undergraduate Dissertation Prize Jacobus Petersen

Evie Townsend 01/06/2023 Robert Townsend (Third Chef)

Georgia Townsend Sister to Bradley and Charlie

We announce with regret the deaths of the following Old Members Of St Peter’s*:

Tuesday,

Sunday,

Tuesday,

Friday,

Saturday,

Saturday,

Thursday,

Sunday,

Thursday,

Wednesday,

The

*Notified