St Peter's College Record 2024

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St Peter’s College Record 2024

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St Peter’s College Record 2024

Editors: Professor 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

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Tel: +44 (0)1865 278900 www.spc.ox.ac.uk Front Cover: A View of Castle Bailey Quad from Canal House Garden.

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Revd Dr Elizabeth Pitkethly & Dr Robert Pitkethly, Emeritus Fellow at Elizabeth’s Leaving Service & Lunch in St Peter’s College Chapel, 25 September 2024

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Editorial Perhaps the most momentous event for St Peter’s in 2023-24 was the completion of Castle Bailey Quad. The two handsome new buildings, Damazer House and Westfield House, and the beautifully landscaped areas, paths, and stairways that surround them, have filled the space between Bulwarks Lane and New Road and provided the College with much-needed accommodation for students and offices for staff. The new Quad appears in pride of place on the cover of this issue of the College Record and is mentioned on many of the pages within.

In another fine, much-appreciated re-use of space, described by College Librarian David Johnson in his Report on page 48, the Library’s former Reception area has become an airy and accessible reading room, known affectionately to students as the Plobby.

Our feature articles this year cover a range of topics, from a discovery in the archives to gravitational waves and dark matter. St Peter’s Archivist Alison Ray explains the significance of a document found between the pages of a library book. It is a letter from artist Philip de László, who painted the portrait of Lord Nuffield which hangs in the Dining Hall, to historian Douglas Sladen. Next, our Fellow in Physics and Professor of Cosmology, David Alonso, describes his work with a project looking back to Deep Time, or the ‘very (very) early universe’.

Coming back down to earth, Fellow and Tutor in Portuguese, Claire Williams, examines a pioneering volume of biographies of women writers,

by Maria Ondina Braga, republished last year.

After this taste of ongoing research, the Record goes on, as usual, to record the year’s academic, musical, and sporting achievements by the students and staff of our College.

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The Master’s Letter Editorial.........................................................................................1

Middle Common Room............................................................... 31

The Master’s Letter.......................................................................3

Junior Common Room................................................................34

Feature Articles A Newly Discovered Letter from Philip de László

By Dr Alison Ray, College Archivist.................................... 12

Chapel Choir................................................................................ 37

Echoes of the Deep Past: Gravity Waves, Small Telescopes, and Deserts

By Professor David Alonso, Carrie Perrodo Fellow and Tutor in Physics, Professor of Cosmology....................................................... 14 Constructing a Counter Canon of Women Writers: A Portuguese Pioneer

By Professor Claire Williams, Fellow and Tutor in Portuguese, Professor of Brazilian Literature and Culture..................... 17 Subject News Archaeology and Anthropology............................................... 21 Chemistry.................................................................................22

Reflections By the Revd Dr Elizabeth Pitkethly...................................... 39 The Sporting Year....................................................................... 41 Recent Appointments..................................................................46 College Library............................................................................48 Bursar’s Report............................................................................50 Development and Alumni...........................................................54

Castle Bailey Quad, opened by Lord Patten, makes a step-change difference to what we can offer to current and future students of the College. In his speech to mark its opening, Lord Patten paid tribute to the famous friendliness of St Peter’s (true across the generations), to its strong academic standing in the University, to his pleasure in seeing the name of former Master Mark Damazer commemorated

on the estate, and to the significant difference that the striking new quad will make to the College for the future.

As the ribbon was cut, a shower of (biodegradable) confetti was released (fig 5) and a specially commissioned piece of music in honour of Castle Bailey Quad was sung by the College choir – a choral setting of a poem by alumnus Rob Yates set to music by alumnus Piers Connor Kennedy. And with the opening of Castle Bailey Quad, 2024 enters the run of key years in the evolution of the College estate, and the broader history of the College (fig 6).

Gifts to the College...................................................................... 58 Members of the Howard Society.................................................65 Senior Members........................................................................... 67

Engineering Science.................................................................22

New Members..............................................................................72

Geography................................................................................22

Results and Achievements........................................................... 78

Law...........................................................................................24

Scholarships and Awards............................................................82

Achievements and Activities of Senior Members.......................25

As Chancellor, Lord Patten has been a regular visitor to St Peter’s, and we were pleased to welcome him back on the eve of his retirement to open our brand new quad as one of his very last acts before demitting office.

Donor Circles............................................................................... 57

Earth Sciences..........................................................................22

Medicine...................................................................................24

After twenty-one years of service to the University of Oxford, Lord Chris Patten of Barnes has now retired as Chancellor. At his valedictory dinner in June 2024, he was presented with a cutting from the oldest tree in Oxford’s Botanical Gardens – a yew planted in 1645. Symbolising both strength and longevity, it was a fitting gift for someone whose long service to the University has been marked by such unstinting commitment.

Congratulations...........................................................................87 Deaths..........................................................................................88

Figs 1-4: Lord Chris Patten and Lady Lavender Patten visit St Peter’s College in 2011, 2022 and 2024.

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I will return to Castle Bailey Quad and the acts of generosity that have made it possible at the end of this letter. I delay expanding on this now simply because, exciting as a new-build project is (and my goodness it is), our beautiful buildings exist to enable and support the core work of the College. St Peter’s is here to inspire minds, build community, hone expertise, advance research and change lives. Our beautiful estate is crucial in helping in this project.

However, even in a year in which the expansion of the estate has made a profound, and profoundly positive

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difference to College, in reporting on St Peter’s news, I still therefore wish to foreground our people, our community and our academic projects.

Fig 5: Lord Chris Patten cuts the ribbon to open Castle Bailey Quad, flanked by current and former College Masters, Judith Buchanan and Mark Damazer.

Research projects and transferable skills The work of St Peter’s is centred in its scholarship, and the scholarly pursuits in train in College at any one time are breath-taking in both their mindexpanding character and their range.

One of the (many) joys of my job is hearing about these. Year on year, I am given privileged insights into the questions, enquiries and pools of knowledge that are being incubated and advanced by colleagues and students.

As an indicative snapshot of the breadth of the enquiries taking place in College at any one time, below I provide a headline-only selection of the research projects I have recently heard about from Fellows and students.

The evolution of the College estate

1929 ................ St Peter’s Hall founded 1934................. Staircase IV (the Emily Morris Building) opened 1939-’45........... St Peter’s men mostly at war; Westfield College women in residence 1947................. St Peter’s reclassified as a ‘new foundation’ 1953 ................ Besse Building opened 1958 ................ Canal House acquired 1961................. Royal Charter granted, bestowing full collegiate status 1972................. Latner and Matthews Buildings opened 1979................. First women admitted as students of the College 1986................. Chavasse Quad (and the old Girls’ School) incorporated into the estate 1989 ................ New Building opened 2000................. The old Probate Office on New Road (now Barron House) acquired 2003................. The Dorfman Centre opened 2018................. The Hubert Perrodo Building opened 2024................. Castle Bailey Quad (including Damazer and Westfield Houses) opened

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From Tutorial Fellows recently, I have had the privilege of learning a little about: life-writing in the Luso-Hispanic world, from Portuguese scholar Claire Williams; the emerging firstround analysis of high-quality data gathered by the new Simons Observatory in the Chilean Andes, from astrophysicist David Alonso; how, why and by whom Domesday Book was made, from medieval historian Stephen Baxter; the ‘secondary thalamus’ region of the brain, and its possible function in relation to the brain’s acquisition of new information, from neuroscientist Randy Bruno; the USS Ticonderoga’s late nineteenth-century circumnavigation of the globe, its encounters and activities in Africa, the Indian Ocean, and East Asia, considered as a revealing lens on US imperial history, from historian Stephen Tuffnell; the design of socially efficient approval mechanisms that minimise costly and wasteful signalling, in a collaborative project from economists Ines Moreno de Barreda and Evgenii Safonov; the global offshore economy and the reshaping of African Politics, from Politics Fellow Ricardo Soares de Oliveira; statistical models for understanding social hierarchies, with a case-study on power relations amongst twelfth-century bishops, in an innovative collaboration between our College Librarian, historian David Johnson, and Tutorial Fellow in Statistics, Geoff Nicholls; the dynamising of molecules, spectroscopy and energy flow, from Chemistry Fellow Adam Kirrander.

At Adam’s kind invitation, I also recently had the educative pleasure of visiting his Chemistry lab. Adam and those in his research group are currently working on new methods to track the motions of electrons in atoms and molecules using extremely short pulses of high-energy light. They generously took time to induct me into an enquiry at a considerable remove from my own areas of academic comfort, helping me glimpse both the inherent research value of the project, and its future potential applications. I would make a poor chemist, but I could not have had a more compelling or enlightening afternoon sampling the areas of scientific enquiry that animate and drive the academic life of one of our Fellows and those in his research group.

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Under the supportive oversight of our academic tutors, our students are working on projects equally varied and mind-expanding. In

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incidental chats with students by pigeon-holes, in the lunch queue, on touchlines and at Master’s Collections, I get to hear about undergraduate dissertation subjects and graduate-level research projects. The research topics I have heard about from students this year include: the effects of climate change on hibernating bears in North America; the early detection of congenital heart diseases through readings of foetal ultrasound videos; flexible parenting patterns in blue tits; the study of ancient Sanskrit philosophical texts and their contribution to the textual canon of Tibetan Buddhism; the search for more effective catalysts to help break down plastics for recycling; calibrating the climate impacts of adopting digital technologies in daily life; literature of the Spanish Civil War; medical understandings of mass hysteria; the political implications of advertisements for tea; the push for improved efficiency in green hydrogen production; Medieval monastic reading practices of the Lord’s Prayer; the development of AI tools to improve accurate medical image analyses for disease diagnosis; the performance of race on Early Modern stages; driving switching for Autonomous Vehicles; phantom limb syndrome; nonlinear physics in water waves; Russian literary anthologies of the late nineteenth century and their contribution to national identity formation; anomaly detection in financial markets; understanding Covid transmission in New York public schools; constitutional law in Canada; the correlation between exposure to anti-malarial drugs in early pregnancy and adverse pregnancy outcomes; and the life and work of (‘the coolest saint ever’, I am told) St Mary of Egypt.

In sum, the place is abuzz with studies of verve, range and significance, and I am, as always, impressed at how students of the College formulate the piquant questions in relation to the field of enquiry before them, and how, across the course of their degree, they develop the confidence and competence to pursue those questions dexterously and tenaciously. Doing so not only enables them to advance the project itself, but, in the process, to develop a run of highly transferable skills that can, if desired, be imported into other professional initiatives across fields in due course.

Noting the transferability of the skills developed in the course of an Oxford degree, I am reminded of many inspiring encounters I have had with alumni in the UK and around the world. One such

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encounter last year was with David Atkinson, a British alumnus now living and working in Japan. After studying at St Peter’s in the 1980s, David has worked across sectors internationally and left a distinctive mark on each. Having previously successfully advised the Japanese government on inbound tourism, his advisory services have since been called upon in relation to other challenges. In the pandemic, this included being tasked with developing a national Covid strategy – an unusual position of trust and influence afforded to someone not himself a Japanese national. Though highly qualified in other areas, David’s starting eligibility to advise on a Covid strategy at this level was, on the face of it, not striking. However, as David himself reports, he was able to draw directly on a bank of skills acquired and honed during his Oxford degree to source and organise materials fast, to sift efficiently for relevance and authority, and to generate a coherent and persuasive argument from those materials at speed in ways that consolidated his capacity to take on the task before him responsibly and effectively. I know many of you can testify similarly to the usefulness, and the versatility, of the skills instilled in you through the particular, and exacting requirements of your degree. The hope is always that our graduates will, like David, continue to find the qualities and skills they acquire across the course of their degree useful in expandable ways throughout their lives.

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Music-making In February, the combined choir and orchestra of St Peter’s performed Haydn’s ‘Harmoniemesse’ under the baton of our Director of Music, Quintin Beer (fig 7). As the Kyrie floated out to a packed chapel, I was privileged to find myself tucked in once again amongst the violins – rusty in my own playing but generously absorbed into the wonderful collective music-making of talented students and colleagues around me.

Later in the year, with generous support from the St Peter’s College Foundation, our choir made a debut recording of Piers Kennedy’s beautiful choral works. I cannot commend this production highly enough: it is an exquisite piece of work and a beautiful listen, able to stir and lift the heart – and available through the Lodge when you are next in need of present ideas!

The standard of students’ music-making in College is very high, but the Music Room that supports it is currently tatty and illequipped and – more importantly yet – inaccessible to anyone with any mobility challenges. Happily, we will shortly be addressing these issues to make our Music Room an attractive and accessible rehearsal and performance space for the benefit of all. It’s a pleasing project in prospect, that will have an excellent outcome in due course in which all will be able to share. Stand by for an invitation to help make this happen shortly!

Morning’, Vera Brittain ruefully remembers her own innocent enjoyment of Oxford May morning before the outbreak of war: I thought that Spring must last for evermore, For I was young and loved, and it was May. And, in the same poem, she wonders in retrospect whether, scarred as she now is by war and loss, she …ever shall recapture, once again, The mood of that May morning, long ago.

Certainly, the impulses of May morning, played out joyfully on the streets of Oxford each year, foreground the celebration of vernal new life. Little wonder Vera Brittain, in her grief, felt tonally adrift from its remembered festivity. But as I listened to the choir sing the traditional piece, ‘How can I keep from singing?’, I was struck by the irresistible central life impulse of the words. Crucially, the song’s sense of compulsion about singing in the midst of all emerges not from ignoring the pain in the world, but from the

Fig 7: The St Peter’s choir and orchestra perform Haydn’s ‘Harmoniemesse’.

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imperative to make space for joy despite the ‘tumult and the strife’ the piece references. I was moved by the piece then, and am still. In a year in which the international news has been so devastating, all of our joys – including the giddy merriment of May morning – are significantly inflected by an awareness of the pain of devastating loss and the acuity of fear. The obligation to marshal what resources we can in response to human crises sits with each of us. However, our commitment to recognising and responding to need within and beyond our community in line with our own educational mission should not efface our commitment to finding the joy around us, even in painful times. Being in a place like St Peter’s – from where smart-thinking and big-hearted leaders of the future emerge to make their contribution – helps in finding joy and nurturing hope.

‘How can I keep from singing?’ If ever there were a context in which it would seem life-denying to do so, it is here.

Highlights of the year Such is the busy character of the College year that it is never possible to give a comprehensive account of its highlights. But here are a few events that have particularly stayed with me this year.

In December, we held our inaugural Shakespeare@Peter’s event. This featured a run of talks and performances, including from eminent theatre director Sir Greg Doran (fig 9). The day ended with a gala banquet, in which Renaissance-themed courses were punctuated by memorable performances from Royal Shakespeare Company actors, Dame Janet Suzman and the College choir.

Thank you to all who participated with such winning energy in the day. The next event in this series will be on 5th July 2025.

Early on the morning of 1st May, with others from St Peter’s, I was swept down a High Street that was surprisingly busy for the hour.

At the kind invitation of the President of Magdalen, I then climbed the Magdalen Tower to hear the choir hymn the May morning from its top. Young voices sang their traditional engaging mix of the sacred and the secular, while, below, the crowds stretched up The High and down across Magdalen Bridge. As it has done for centuries, Oxford had taken to the streets at sunrise to fete the May morning and all it represents (fig 8).

In 1695, Oxford antiquary, historian and diarist, Anthony Wood, reported that the dawn singing from Magdalen Tower ‘hath given great content to the neighbourhood and auditors underneath’.

Judging by how hushed the ‘auditors underneath’ were again this year, I would say it still is doing. In 1916, in her poem ‘May

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Fig 8: The amassed crowds on The High, seen through one of the quatrefoils on the Magdalen Tower parapet, 1 May 2024.

(Photo credit: The Master.)

In February, in an ambitious project driven by students Amy Gadhia, Tom Tyler and Vassi Sharlandjieva, the SPC Boat Club broke the World Record for the longestcontinuous row, raising money in the process for the Boat Club and for College Access and Outreach initiatives. It was both a considerable feat of organisation and a St Peter’s College Record 2024 7

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Arrivals and departures From our fellowship, two academic colleagues have moved on to other positions this year: Professor Marc Macias-Fauria, our Fellow and Tutor in Physical Geography, took a prestigious chair in Cambridge, and Professor Mike Bonsall, our Tutor and Fellow in Biology, took up a research-based professorship in Oxford. Both Marc and Mike have been wonderful contributors to the work of the College and to the lives and development of our students and we warmly wish them both well in their new positions.

Fig 9: Shakespeare@Peter’s with Sir Greg Doran in the College Chapel.

Fig 13: Anjool Maldé 2024 award-winning students Martha, Aman, Grace, Wanda and Gabriella.

wonderful community activity that brought together JCR, MCR and SCR members in a fun and active common endeavour.

In March, our Tutorial Fellow in Engineering, Professor Tom Adcock, was admitted as the University’s Senior Proctor for a year.

Proctorial authority passed from demitting proctors to the incoming team as part of the annual Sheldonian ceremony (fig 10).

Fig 10: Senior Proctor, Professor Tom Adcock, with Pro-Proctors Dr Tim Mawson and Ms Catherine Whalley.

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In May, to commemorate the centenary of Franz Kafka’s death, a group of students from both JCR and MCR participated in a communal reading of Metamorphosis under the portico of Canal House (fig 11) before sharing an informal Canal House curry together. Later that same evening, the Northern Lights did their remarkable thing over College (and a large swathe of the rest of the country), captured in some dramatic College photographs for us by our porter Katharine French (fig 12). A heady

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Fig 11: College marked the Kafka centenary with a collective reading of Metamorphosis.

combination of Kafka, curry and cosmic wonders made for a memorable evening.

Also in May, we made the annual award of the Anjool Maldé Scholarships to five impressive undergraduates (fig 13). Those of us present to hear the citations were struck once again not only by the academic excellence of our students but also by how much some of them do alongside their studies, in sport, music and generous volunteering.

(and his mother, father and uncle before him), Pete is a walking compendium on the history of the College. On my very first day in St Peter’s, Pete and Andy Dore put up the pictures in the Master’s Office – including the small Philip Alexius de László painting of Christopher Chavasse (fig 15). The image of Pete and Andy holding up Christopher Chavasse economically encapsulates a truth at the heart of the College operation about the often invisible support that underpins service of a more publicly recognised sort. Many of you, from across the decades, will remember Pete warmly and we were pleased to raise a glass on behalf of the whole community at the celebratory lunch to honour his quiet and long-standing service to College.

In early Spring, our Interim Bursar, Sarah Wilson, handed over to our incoming Bursar, Simon Jones. We are grateful to Sarah for having handled the crucial and complex final stages of the major Castle Bailey Quad new-build project for College with such clarity and assurance, and to alumnus David Collard for providing expert advice. Our new Bursar, Simon Jones, brings with him a strong background in financial management for charities, capital project management, schools-based work and hospice-management. Simon has hit the ground running in helping the College plan our finances through to our centenary in 2029 and beyond. You can read his report on bursarial matters later in this issue of the Record.

New to the fellowship this year is Dr Violetta Splitter who has joined us from the University of Zurich as our new Fellow and Tutor in Management, with expertise in strategy. Amongst our professional services staff, Catherine Shortis has now moved on to an interesting new position at Balliol, and we have been joined by our new Academic Administrator Flora Waller.

The highlight of July was a lunch in honour of our groundsman, Peter Minns (fig 14).

Having worked for the College for 45 years Fig 12: The Northern Lights over St Peter’s.

(Photo credit: Katharine French)

Fig 14: Pete Minns, Groundsman for College for 45 years.

Fig 15: Andy Dore and Pete Minns mount a portrait of Christopher Chavasse.

Fig 16: Celebration lunch for Pete’s work anniversary.

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Meanwhile new colleague Josephine Glover has replaced Anna McMurtrie as Access and Outreach Officer, running outreach programmes and inbound residentials, including subject-based residentials and our ambitious Aspire Liverpool partnership programme. Brett de Gaynesford, our Director of Development and Alumni Relations, returned from maternity leave and Tim Pottle and Salima Virji who had been providing maternity leave cover moved on to other interesting projects. Other departures this year have included Sarah Alford, Ewan Miller, Darcy Holland and Em Pritchard. Meanwhile, we have been delighted to welcome back to our Fig 19: St Peter’s College, including Castle Bailey Quad, seen from Castle Mound

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development team Olga Batty whom many of you will remember from some years ago and to welcome in a run of new colleagues as detailed in the Development Office pages to follow. In happy family-based news, our Tutorial Fellow in History of Art, Dr Cora Gilroy-Ware and her partner welcomed young Sphinx Langston Latham to the world in April (fig 17).

Fig 17: Dr Cora GilroyWare and baby Sphinx.

Castle Bailey Quad (CBQ) and Synomilía Court In previous issues of the College Record, we have set out the principal names that appear on the new quad. The name Castle Bailey itself roots the new development in the civic history of the land on which we have built; the names Damazer House and Westfield House honour our former Master and the women of Westfield College evacuated to St Peter’s during the Second World War respectively. Which leaves just one new name on the estate to be introduced: Synomilía.

Fig 18: At the centre of Synomilía Court is a marble sculpture by Oxfordshire-based Spanish sculptor Jordi Raga. The sculpture’s two abstract shapes incline towards each other in ways suggestive of the ongoing imperative to lean in and listen. ‘Synomilía’, as the name of both the courtyard and the sculpture in it, celebrates conversation. And in doing so, it also stands in creative opposition to cancellation. We are grateful for the philanthropic care and the artistic thought that lie behind Synomilía Court, and for the valuable conversations it prompts.

Synomilía Court is a small courtyard that is encountered immediately upon entering the CBQ development from Bulwarks Lane. Synomilía is the Greek word for conversational exchange.

The name was chosen to be meaningful in lasting ways for the College, and, appropriately, it was chosen in a collaborative conversation between donors and the College. Putting the name synomilía on our estate speaks to College’s core mission. Like any elite educational establishment, we are here to host, curate and defend conversations – stimulating, educative, compassionate, contested, revelatory, creative, ground-breaking conversations.

Many of our former students’ names appear on Castle Bailey Quad also; on sponsored student rooms, and across the windowmounted donor boards on the central courtyard. The number of people – nearly a thousand of you – who have generously donated to the project to build Castle Bailey Quad has been amazing. We are immensely grateful to all of you who have helped make this exciting project possible – just as we are to those who faithfully give a regular sum to the College, and/or who have made the generous decision to remember us in your will, to make possible other opportunities for students of the College. Thank you all.

That so many of you from across the generations have invested in our new quad makes it more special as a shared endeavour for the future of College. At its opening ceremony, there was an evocative moment when 102-year-old alumnus, Mr Michael Tibbs, who

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matriculated in 1946, and Ben Horsell and Afomia Zelaleme, who matriculated in 2023, drew the raffle together, alongside Emeritus Fellow Professor Henry Mayr-Harting. The moment captured the multi-generational, shared project of what it is to be a college.

Castle Bailey Quad is a beautiful addition to our estate, and if you haven’t had a chance to see it yet, do come back and visit. And when you do, here are a couple of other things to note on the estate: a perky young mulberry sapling in Mulberry Quad that replaces the old warrior that came down last year; and the beautifully redesigned Library Atrium in the corner of Linton House. This last is now an accessible part of the library that all of our students, including wheelchair users, can enjoy. St Peter’s students love this smart new work space and have informally adopted it as the ‘Plobby’ (= Peter’s Lobby), as the accompaniment to the ‘Plodge’ (which needs no decoding).

I wish you all an interesting year ahead and will hope to meet many of you back in College or elsewhere in the course of it.

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A Newly Discovered Letter from Philip de László

By Dr Alison Ray, College Archivist In December 2023, Library Assistant Brian Brown discovered a folded letter tucked in a library book when consulting St Peter College’s collection of works donated by English historian Douglas Sladen (1856–1947) and his family. Now in the College Archives, the letter (Figs. 1 and 2) is addressed to Sladen and was sent by his friend Philip de László (1869–1937), the celebrated Anglo-Hungarian portrait artist whose eminent subjects included Queen Elizabeth II, Pope Leo XIII, and US President Theodore Roosevelt. Dated 12 July 1937, László composed this letter only a few months before his death in November of that year, and in it he thanks Sladen for a copy of one of his books and discusses meetings with Lord Nuffield and Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury.

Douglas Sladen’s wife Dorothea was a close acquaintance of Beatrice Chavasse, the wife of Master Christopher Chavasse, and it was through this connection that Beatrice was able to commission László in the spring of 1937, on behalf of the College, to paint the portrait of benefactor William Morris, Lord Nuffield. This portrait (Fig. 3) now hangs in the Dining Hall and László’s letter reflects his admiration of Lord Nuffield: ‘…it always interests me to note how many of those who stand out amongst humanity have started

Figs. 1-2: Letter from Philip de László to Douglas Sladen, dated 12 July 1937

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their lives in hardship and adventure. It brings back to me what our friend Nuffield said when I asked him if he would like to live his life over again. He said, “No, I could not bear it again – it was too hard.” How many young men in the future will be able to benefit through his hardships and will be able to pursue their interests in a way which was denied to him, when he wanted to become a doctor.’ Both men had similar life experiences: they were from relatively humble backgrounds, before rising to prominence in their respective fields of art and industry.

László’s letter also touches on Archbishop Cosmo Gordon Lang, who sat for his portrait in 1932 and again in 1937. He writes to Sladen: ‘It must be a great satisfaction to you that the Archbishop of Canterbury so eloquently addressed the assembly at Westminster Abbey on the occasion of the unveiling of the memorial – he always puts the right word in the right place.’ The service he is referring to was the unveiling of a memorial in 1934 for Australian poet Adam Lindsay Gordon, and Sladen had published a commemorative collection of Gordon’s poetry for the event (this was the book László thanks him for).

László goes on to mention in the letter that Lang is coming that same week to give him the final sittings for the latest portrait. A wonderful photograph dated 1937 shows László in his studio with the

finished painting, which is now in Church House, Westminster (Figs. 4 and 5). We may speculate that he and the Archbishop shared their private concerns over the growing political unrest in Europe before the outbreak of the Second World War. Although a naturalised British citizen, László was of Hungarian Jewish descent and had been interned in World War One as an enemy for sending money to support his family in Hungary, which greatly affected his health, before his eventual exoneration. Lang was a significant figure in international affairs of the 1930s, and frequently spoke out against the persecution of Christian groups in Russia and Jewish communities in Germany.

This letter is a fantastic snapshot of the public and personal life of Philip de László in his final months, and Douglas Sladen kept it amongst his books. Following Sladen’s own death, his wife Dorothea generously donated his collections to St Peter’s in 1950, and László’s letter will now be preserved with these papers in the St Peter’s College Archives.

Fig. 4: Photograph dated 1937 of Philip de László in his studio at 3 Fitzjohn’s Avenue, London © de Laszlo Foundation

Fig. 3: Portrait of William Morris, Lord Nuffield by Philip de László (1937)

Fig. 5: Portrait of Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury

by Philip de László (1937) © The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Church Commissioners

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Echoes of the Deep Past: Gravity Waves, Small Telescopes, and Deserts

By Professor David Alonso, Carrie Perrodo Fellow and Tutor in Physics, Professor of Cosmology My field of research is Cosmology: the study of the origin, evolution, and eventual fate of the Universe and its contents on large scales.

Although I would love to claim that Cosmology and Astrophysics were my passion from an early age, the fact of it is that I ended up building my academic career in this field mostly by chance. I definitely developed a passion for Physics early on, as a vehicle to understand nature at its most fundamental level, but my interests always lay more in the purely theoretical aspects of it (i.e. trying to get to that most fundamental level of understanding), and I never bothered looking at the sky (in fact, I am slightly ashamed at the advanced age at which I learnt my first constellation). However, as an undergraduate, I was lucky enough to receive funding to carry out a short summer research project in Cosmology, and that serendipitous event sealed my fate. I would argue that, if given the opportunity to work on it, any true physicist would fall in love with Cosmology. By its very nature, its ambition to cover such a wide range of physical systems – from the largest scales observable today to the small-scale physical processes that take place at the centre of stars, and that dominated the course of the Big Bang – means that cosmologists must have a solid understanding of almost all aspects of Physics: gravity and relativity, quantum mechanics and field theory, statistical mechanics, fluid dynamics, etc.

In the last twenty years, Cosmology has made gigantic steps towards its main objectives. We now have a relatively simple physical model that is able to describe almost all existing astronomical observations: the so-called Lambda Cold-Dark Matter (𝛬CDM) model. Within this model, however, there are open fundamental questions that we are still trying to answer, and which we may be able to address in the near future. Of these, the question that occupies a large portion of my research time has to do with the Physics of the very (very) early universe. We have a very appealing theory about what was going on in the first decillionth of a second of its history: most likely the Universe underwent a phase of very rapid and accelerated expansion that we call ‘Inflation’. The best way to think of Inflation is by imagining the very rapid expansion of gas after removing the walls of a high-pressure canister: all particles will fly away from one another very fast (although in Inflation, this happens at an accelerated rate). Inflation is a beautiful way to explain why we see a Universe that has almost the same properties everywhere: this is to be expected if all the regions of the Universe we can observe today were once part of the same patch that expanded very fast, early on. More astonishingly, Inflation enables us to explain, without further complexity, why the Universe we observe has structure (i.e. the fluctuations in the local density of matter that allow for the formation of galaxies, stars, planets, and people). The idea is that fluctuations in the energy density of the Universe on subatomic scales, necessarily present due to the

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uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics, would be quickly expanded to macroscopic scales, freezing their evolution as soon as their size becomes larger than the distance light can travel.

Figure 1: That is a fraction of one over ten followed by 32 more zeroes – cosmologists like big numbers

Amazingly, the spectrum of density fluctuations generated by this process describes, to a very high accuracy, the type of cosmic structures we are able to see with our telescopes nowadays. To me, this is perhaps the greatest success of Cosmology in its history – see Figure 1.

As appealing as Inflation is, multiple open questions about it must be addressed before we are completely satisfied. What physical system gave rise to this early accelerated expansion? What energy scales were needed to make it happen? How long did it actually last? We have many physical models that can provide answers to these questions, but new data is necessary in order to decide which of these models are correct. In this context, Inflation makes another key prediction about the early Universe: in addition to the density fluctuations just discussed, the violent explosion that Inflation represents should have left ripples in the fabric of spacetime itself, in the form of gravitational waves. Gravitational waves are propagating oscillations in the Universe’s gravitational field (just like radio waves and light are oscillations of the electromagnetic field). As they propagate, gravitational waves modify the distance between different points, and the trajectories of any particle travelling through the Universe. This includes the first photons (i.e. particles of light) that were able to travel freely after the Big Bang, which make up what we know as the Cosmic Microwave Background (or CMB).

The CMB was first detected in 1964, and since then it has been a treasure trove for Cosmology. It essentially provides us with a map of what the Universe looked like shortly (well, almost four hundred thousand years – but, hey, this is Cosmology) after the end of Inflation, and the properties of this map have driven much of the progress made in the field in the last two decades. But the CMB is not done yet: in its generosity, it can still give us vital information about the early universe from its polarisation. The polarisation of the CMB at a given point is essentially the direction along which the electric part of the electromagnetic waves that make up the CMB are oscillating. A useful picture would be to imagine that each CMB photon is actually represented by a rod, and the direction and size of the rod tells you the polarisation of the field at that point. It was known from early on that the presence of density fluctuations in the early universe (the ones I just mentioned, generated by

inflation) would induce a particular type of polarisation in the CMB, what we call “E-mode” polarisation. In this case, photons around a given hot spot in the CMB have their polarisation rods on average pointing towards the centre of the spot (or tangentially, if the spot is cold instead of hot). This type of polarisation was detected in the early noughties, and has been used to gather additional information about the early universe.

Here is where it gets interesting, however: whereas density fluctuations can only generate E-modes, the hypothetical gravitational waves we discussed above would also generate a new type of polarisation, what we call “B-modes”. In this case, polarisation rods are at a 45-degree angle around hot and cold spots – see Figure 2. This means that if we were able to see a B-mode component in the CMB polarisation, we would effectively detect gravitational waves generated during the Big Bang, proving one of the key predictions of Inflation, and taking a huge step closer towards nailing down the physics that caused it.

Making this detection is one of the flagship goals of the Simons Observatory (SO), a new CMB experiment in which my group and others at Oxford are involved. SO consists of a Large Aperture Telescope (LAT), and a number of Small Aperture Telescopes (SATs). “Large” and “small” here refer literally to the size of the lenses or mirrors that make up these telescopes. To put things into perspective, however, the SATs are about half a metre in diameter,

Figure 2: Here we mean “hot” and “cold” literally: these are regions where the temperature of this photon bath is higher or lower than the mean.

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and 6 metres in height, so “small” is a relative term (in turn, the LAT has a diameter of 4.5m and is 15m high, so, yes, the SATs are smaller). The B-mode signal we are after lives mostly on relatively large angular scales (about 1 degree or so), and this means that the SATs are the best-suited instruments to detect it. This is one of the more counterintuitive facts of astronomy: you need small telescopes to cover large scales, and large telescopes to resolve small scales.

SO has been built in the Atacama plateau, in Chile. The Atacama is a desert at a very high altitude (the SO site is at ~5,200m above the sea level), which also makes it one of the driest places on earth, beaten only by some regions near the South Pole. This significantly decreases emission from the atmosphere at microwave frequencies, which is critical for CMB observations.

SO is currently at an incredibly exciting phase: with construction finished last year, we have now taken data for the last ~6 months Figure 3

with the first two SATs in the field (see Figure 3). We have produced the first maps of the CMB polarisation with this new instrument, and have finally been able to apply the data analysis tools we have been painstakingly developing for several years to these new data. Although it will take us a few years to reach SO’s goal sensitivity (the nominal SO project lasts for 5 years, although we hope to extend it for much longer), the current situation is exhilarating. In fact, we hope that, within just the first year of observations, SO alone will be able to outperform all existing experiments to date. SO is a large international collaboration, with members based in the US, Canada, Chile, France, Italy, Japan, and the UK. Although the experiment is led from the US, the UK is now playing a major role in the quest for primordial gravitational waves and B-modes. As part of SO:UK (the UK consortium within SO, for which I am currently Project Scientist), we are building two new SATs to add to the 3 nominal SO SATs, demonstrating the use of novel UK-led detector technology. The additional sensitivity afforded by these new SATs will allow SO to reach limits on primordial gravitational waves that could start probing inflationary models based on quantum corrections to gravity (perhaps the least understood aspect of fundamental physics). In addition to this contribution to instrumentation, scientists in the UK (yours truly included) are leading key aspects of the scientific analysis in SO, including B-mode science (in which I have been involved for almost eight years), as well as the study of small-scale CMB fluctuations, holding key insights about the late-time evolution of the Universe.

Being involved in this endeavour is a tremendous privilege, and the next five to ten years will be extremely exciting for Cosmology. If we are able to detect primordial B-modes, not only will we be able to confirm Inflation and learn about fundamental Physics, but we will have received a signal that reaches us from the confines of the Universe’s deepest past, which no other astronomical observations have been able to probe.

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Constructing a Counter Canon of Women Writers: A Portuguese Pioneer

By Professor Claire Williams, Fellow and Tutor in Portuguese, Professor of Brazilian Literature and Culture In 1980, Portuguese writer Maria Ondina Braga published the innocuous-looking volume Mulheres Escritoras [Women Writers] (Fig.1). It presents biographical sketches of an eclectic group of women writers from around the world, and from different centuries, linked, according to the author’s very brief introductory note, not only by their literary talent, but also by their ‘courage’ and ‘inner strength’, in the face of prejudice and hypocrisy.1 By promising to make her ‘companheiras de leitura’ [reading companions] seem to be present, bringing them to life, she was underlining the point that knowing about these women’s lives would be as important as reading their books.

There is clearly a didactic impulse in Braga’s promotion of authors and books she suspects are unknown to her readers, but it also establishes a genealogy of women writers, constructing a counternarrative of literary history. The very title, a tautology, since ‘Escritoras’ is a feminine plural noun that does not need to be added to the noun ‘Mulheres’ [Women], emphasises that women can be writers. Their life stories reveal that they dared to write, against the most difficult odds, and therefore, the message to readers seems to be, “so could you”. Furthermore, they are not studied in chronological order, so there is no suggestion of evolution or a hierarchy, simply a collection of ‘companions’. They include pioneers (e.g. Selma Lagerlöf, the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature), rebels who flaunted convention (e.g. George Sand), and those who only achieved fame posthumously (e.g.

Jane Austen).

This sort of publication was a novelty in Portugal, which boasted plenty of literary encyclopaedias, dictionaries and histories (celebrating, almost exclusively, great white male authors), but where there was no tradition of biography as an academic or literary genre. There is still no comparable reference book, in Portuguese, which brings together the life stories of a broad range of international women writers. It was published by mainstream publishers Bertrand, in a series, launched in the wake of the 1974 Portuguese Revolution, that featured radical women’s writing (which included The Second Sex and Germaine Greer’s The

Fig. 1 – Mulheres Escritoras (Lisbon: Bertrand, 1980).

Female Eunuch). Mulheres Escritoras received one or two fairly positive reviews, but was soon forgotten, until being republished in the second volume of Braga’s complete works, Biografias no feminino [Biographies in the Feminine] (2023) (Fig. 2), which I co-edited with Isabel Cristina Mateus (CEHUM/ Universidade do Minho).2 This volume adds 14 more biographical portraits to those in the 1980 publication, collected from newspapers and magazines, and a manuscript from the archives: its planned sequel, which never reached publication. The new additions include the

Fig. 2. Vol. II of the Complete Works, Biografias no Feminino, launched at the Museu Nogueira e Silva in January 2024.

Photo courtesy of Câmara Municipal de Braga.

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Chinese writer Ding Ling, the Australian Miles Franklin and the Polish Maria Dabrowska, not to mention the eighteenth-century Cornish diarist and Quaker Caroline Fox, extending the reach of Braga’s genealogy.

Maria Ondina Braga’s own life was as extraordinary as those of the women she documented. Born in the religious, bourgeois northern city of Braga (she later took the name of her birthplace as her penname), the author grew up under Salazar’s repressive dictatorship.

In the 1950s, when a woman needed her family’s consent to get a passport, Braga (lucky enough to have an understanding uncle) began spreading her wings, becoming one of the most cosmopolitan Portuguese writers of her time. She studied English in the UK, working as an au pair, in Worcester and then Inverness, and then travelled to Paris, to perfect her French. Thus prepared, she set off on her travels around the former Portuguese empire. She taught English and Portuguese in Angola, Mozambique, Goa and Macau, later channelling these experiences into literature. Returning to Portugal in 1964, she worked as a translator (of Graham Greene and John le Carré, among others) and published fiction and non-fiction.

In her professional life, Braga was unlucky finding publishers who valued and promoted her work, despite having won several literary prizes early in her career. Her autobiographical texts chronicle her travels and experiences, with great sensuality and attention to detail, at the same time narrating, in a very self-aware way, her growth as an individual. Her short stories and novels portray lone women struggling against tradition and oppressive patriarchal forces, in rural villages and small coastal towns in Portugal, but also in more exotic settings (for Portuguese readers) like China and Macau, London and Cornwall. She was, unfortunately, frustratingly, never able to make a living from her own writing. In her personal life, she prized her independence, living alone, very frugally, and never marrying. Many of these attributes, challenges and achievements can be detected in the lives of the women she portrayed in her biographical sketches.

As well as documenting the key events and milestones in their lives, Braga’s biographies record their deaths,3 thereby enabling her to outline the extent of their influence and literary legacy (including, where these existed, translations into Portuguese), and

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the various ways in which her subjects were commemorated. These often entail a barely disguised critical tone when she considers that they have been unjustly forgotten or erased from (literary) history.

Thus, another purpose of her biographies becomes clear: through them she protests the consistent neglect of and prejudice against women writers, particularly in the Portuguese literary world. I think it is also possible to detect, in these complaints, fears about how her work would be regarded after her death.

Fig. 3 – Women Writers Whose Biographies were Written by Maria Ondina Braga

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Charlotte Brontë

1816-1855

UK

Emily Brontë

1818-1848

UK

Anne Brontë

1820-1849

UK

Colette

1873-1954

France

Maria Browne

1797-1861

Portugal

Braga includes only nine Portuguese writers among her biographies; not because they are less talented, but perhaps to stress the fact that so few of her fellow country-women were established, recognised, published authors. Amid her variety of portrayals across time and space, she picked out four Portuguese writers from the generation that came immediately before her own. Her descriptions of their contemporaries show a clear discrepancy in reception and commemoration. For example, in Braga’s account, Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral won the Nobel prize, and was mourned like a queen in her homeland. Upon her death, Anaïs Nin boasted several honorary doctorates, multiple translations of her work, and the respect of the next generation of writers. Jane Austen’s fortunes waned, but from 1890 her work was celebrated, her life seen as worthy of academic study, and by 1980 she was firmly established in the canon of English Literature.

Lou Andreas-Salomé

1861-1937

Russia

Jane Austen

1775-1817

UK

Irene Lisboa

1892-1958

Portugal

Selma Lagerlöf

1858-1940

Sweden

Katherine Mansfield

1888-1923

New Zealand

Teresa Margarida da Silva e Orta

1711-1793

Brazil/Portugal

George Sand

1804-1876

France

Virginia Woolf

1882-1941

UK

Gabriela Mistral

1889-1957

Chile

Anaïs Nin

1903-1977

France/USA

Ana Plácido

1831-1895

Portugal

Carson McCullers

1917-1967

USA

In comparison, in 1980, when Mulheres Escritoras came out, Maria Felicidade Browne’s Romantic poetry (much celebrated in her lifetime, published under a pseudonym) had been ‘rescued’ by critics, but was still only available in anthologies and collections.

In another biography of a nineteenth-century author, whose work was never published in her lifetime, Braga laments ‘Poor Ana Plácido! […]

George Eliot

1819-1880

UK

Rosalía de Castro

1837-1885

Galicia (Spain)

Sei Shōnagon

c.966-1017 / 1025??

Japan

Violette Leduc

1907-1972

France

Miles Franklin

1879-1954

Australia

Maria Dabrowksa

1889-1965

Poland

Marina Tsvetaeva

1892-1941

Russia

Rachel Bastos

1903-1984

Portugal

Ding Ling

1904-1986

China

Caroline Fox

1819-1871

UK

Manuela Porto

1908-1950

Portugal

Maria Archer

1899-1982

Portugal

Ana Plácido (1831-1895) Wikicommons (public domain)

She was unfortunate in every way. [...] But she made herself immortal [through] having tried (with such bravura!) to be herself, at a time when women (as Maria Browne said in her poems) lived enslaved by social preconceptions, the objects or instruments of men’s will’.4 Twentieth-century women suffered personal and professional disappointment if they chose what Braga calls ‘o duro caminho das letras’ [the tricky path of literature]. She quotes from the correspondence of Irene Lisboa, who complained of her career being undermined by ‘indifference and sabotage’, by her publishers, in contrast to those of male writers, whose works were promoted and swiftly published in new editions. Then Braga reflects, with some satisfaction, that there is a street named after her literary foremother, in Lisbon, a school in Porto and a creche in Évora – ‘One day soon (and about time), someone might erect a statue of her in a park. And the children will ask: “Who is that lady?”’5 The most poignant of Braga’s portraits is that of provocative journalist and popular novelist Maria Archer, also a political activist, who was forced into exile in Brazil under Salazar, in 1955. She returned in 1977, sick and elderly, to a care home on the outskirts of Lisbon, where Braga visited her and attempted to interview her. The prolific, outspoken author, so wellknown in the 1940s, was a shadow of her former self.

Tragically, she was losing the faculties that had made her such a compelling writer: her memory was fading and she referred to herself in the third person. She was, however, touched by the younger woman’s knowledge about her life, love of her books and request for an autograph. The resulting article contrasts Archer’s former success and ubiquity with the present (1981), in which her works are long out of print and she is forgotten and invisible. Braga’s simmering fury and grief at the injustice of the situation are palpable.

* Published in Mulheres Escritoras (1980)

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Thanks to the efforts of readers and researchers keen to rescue and revalidate the side-lined work of women writers, both Archer and Braga have an assured place in Portugal’s literary history, and their achievements are recognised and celebrated. Archer’s trailblazing novels about female experience and her travel writing have been commemorated at academic conferences and formed the basis for doctoral research. And Maria Ondina Braga’s complete works are being re-published, her archive is based in a special annex, named after her, at the Nogueira e Silva Museum in the city of Braga, there is a statue of her nearby, and a prize for travel writing in her name.

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Archaeology & Anthropology

By Dr Timothy Clack

From the perspective of Arch & Anth, 2023-24 was both intense and productive.

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Schools Dinner was a welcome re-addition to the end of year calendar and allowed the full Arch & Anth community at the College – undergraduates, postgraduates, tutors and fellows – to come together. As was demonstrated by the discussion at the event, anthropologists enjoy not only the experience of feasting, gift exchange, oration, and rites of passage but also analytically dissecting them afterwards.

For their fieldwork, three of the first-year students joined the Castelo Archaeology Project in Redondo, Portugal in order to excavate Bronze Age houses, monuments and defensive features. The other student enjoyed fieldwork on Korca Plain, Albania, which focused on environmental remains from the Neolithic period.

Helena Landels was elected Undergraduate Representative for the degree for the academic year 2024-25. She takes over from another St Peter’s student, Aleksandra Botek.

Fig. 4. Bust of Maria Ondina Braga, by Jorge Ulisses, Praça da República (Avenida Central), Braga (Wikicommons: Joseolgon)

See Fig. 3 for a list of the writers she portrayed. All translations into English are mine.

This is the second volume of seven, bringing together Braga’s fiction, travel writing, biography, unpublished texts, reviews and journalism, published in Lisbon by Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda (which was once Portugal’s Royal Mint). The team of editors are specialists in Braga’s work, based at different universities in Portugal, France and the UK. 2

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Only three of her subjects were alive when the biographies were published, in the early 1980s.

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Biografias no feminino, p. 253.

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Biografias no feminino, p. 124.

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inter-generational trauma and the role of art, heritage and the body in the construction and recall of social memory.

This year’s finalists worked hard and produced excellent exam results. They wrote dissertations on mortuary archaeology and community identity in Early AngloSaxon Ely, landscape archaeological approaches to the heritage of the private island of Mustique, and the multisensory character of Moche sound objects exhibited at the Larco Museum, Lima, Peru.

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Braga’s biographies were not as dear to her as her fiction, but they are important to in terms of her career when seen as a whole, because the lives she portrayed contributed to, and thus reflect, her understanding of what it meant to be a woman writer.

Literature, she wrote, in an unpublished preface to what would have been her second book of biographies, was the knitting together of lives and words: ‘uma espécie de urdidura de muitos fios retesados e atravessados dos recalques das nossas mães, das nossas avós, dos seus silêncios, do seu isolamento, da sua amarga ou piedosa resignação’ [a kind of textile made up of many taut threads, interwoven with the repression faced by our mothers, our grandmothers, their silences, their isolation, their bitter or dutiful resignation].6

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In November, Dr Elizabeth Ewart led a trip to the Museum of the Home in London. The visit precipitated lots of thoughtful discussions about spatial atmosphere and the changing use of domestic space over time as well as the relevance to the experience of home of power, gender relations, religion, migration and memory. In June, Tsovinar Kuiumchian kindly gave a talk about her DPhil research and fieldwork with Armenian artists in New York. The audience appreciated hearing about her sensitive approach to collecting oral histories around

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Chemistry

By Professor Adam Kirrander

Chemistry at SPC has had a great year. Our annual intake has doubled and this was the second year that we had the privilege to welcome six new undergraduate chemists in Michaelmas.

It is truly fantastic to see our subject prosper and grow in the College. The year had many highlights, including the wellattended Chemistry Dinner in February where Emeritus Fellow, Professor Mark Moloney, gave a much applauded after-dinner speech. Our students did very well in their exams, with particular highlights being the College Prize awarded to second-year Aman de Silva and the excellent result achieved by final-year student William Vanhinsbergh for his year-long Part II research project.

Our graduate chemists are also prospering in their research and contributing to College life. Finally, we are absolutely delighted to have concluded the recruitment of Professor Matt Fuchter from Imperial College, who will join us in September 2024 as the new Chemistry Fellow.

Earth Sciences

By Professor Bob Hilton

The St Peter’s Earth Scientists had a productive and rewarding 2023-24. The academic year started with the Dorset field course, with the second years very much enjoying the opportunity to learn about the famous Jurassic Coast and delve into past environments from reading rocks. Rich Palin led a trip to the Isle of Arran later in the year, and found the first-years enthusiastic to apply their classroom knowledge to geological fieldwork. As well as leading tutorials and giving lectures on a variety of academic themes, the St Peter’s Fellows were actively involved in some new aspects of the Earth Sciences course: Joe Cartwright, Rich Palin and Bob all ran assessed practicals which allow students to build and test their skills throughout the academic year. The quality of the work they produced was exceptional. This year, Bob was Chair of Finals, and

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he found it a privilege to oversee some of the quality assignments submitted by the students in Earth Sciences.

The St Peter’s Earth Scientists had lots to celebrate academically.

Our finalists did very well, with a first class for Ben Webb, and improved and excellent exam and project marks by Ben Aldridge and Isabelle Goddard. Two first-years Isaac Sandhu and Daniel Crapper, were awarded Distinctions at Prelims and the second-years embarked on their independent mapping projects. St Peter’s Earth Scientists continued to contribute much to College and University life, including their roles across multiple sports (rugby, Women’s and Men’s football and golf).

Engineering Science

By Professor Tom Adcock

We were delighted to welcome Dr Emma Edwards (see Recent Appointments section) to the Engineering teaching team in October 2023. Dr Edwards joins us as a Career Development Fellow for three years, covering Tom Adcock’s absence whilst he serves as Senior Proctor and then takes sabbatical. The annual Engineering Dinner had another record attendance with students, academics and alumni (see photo opposite). We again ran our two-day fully-funded residential for prospective undergraduates from groups underrepresented in Oxford, which has over ten applicants per place.

In Tom Adcock’s absence this was run by Beth Eames with the usual excellent support of our Access and Outreach Coordinator, Josephine Glover.

Geography

By Dr Marcus Spiegel

Professor Marc Macias Fauria has taken the post of 2001 Professor of Physical Geography at the Scott Polar Research Institute in the University of Cambridge Department of Geography. Scott Polar is a renowned institute for the study of the Arctic and Antarctic. This

The annual Engineering Dinner

appointment is both a great honour and opportunity for Marc, who has dedicated his scientific career to advancing our understanding of ecological dynamics in cold regions.

Marc came to Oxford as a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow in 2011 and worked with Professor Kathy Willis in the Long Term Ecology Lab in the Department of Zoology. In 2015, he became an Associate Professor in the School of Geography and the Environment with a tutorial fellowship at St Peter’s College. Marc’s research pursuits during his time in Oxford spanned many topics, such as sea ice ecology, vegetation sensitivity to climate change, and herbivory in the Arctic. The thread linking these topics is Marc’s interest in the coupling between the biotic and abiotic components of the Earth system, which became the focus of his Biogeosciences Lab research group.

Marc made St Peter’s a home for both the postgraduate students in the Biogeosciences Lab and the College’s undergraduate geographers. Due to a shortage of desks in the School of Geography, Marc gave up his office in St Peter’s for his lab group, ensuring that his students would have a permanent, productive working space. Marc’s attention and devotion to the education of his undergraduate students was exemplified by the effort he made to have in-person tutorials when it became possible to do so after the pandemic outbreak. This sometimes meant braving cold and wet conditions to meet outdoors, which was perhaps more of a challenge for the students than the tutor with decades spent conducting Arctic fieldwork.

Regardless, Marc’s students appreciated his consistent commitment to providing the best possible learning experience.

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As a researcher, Marc has become one of the world’s most recognised Arctic ecologists, and his move to Cambridge coincides with exciting new research focuses and pursuits.

He is leading projects in Greenland and the Varanger Peninsula in Norway while developing innovative new approaches that use remote sensing to integrate the often overlooked but critical role of the larger landscape in ecological processes. Marc will be missed by his students and colleagues, but we are grateful for his outstanding contributions to the University and the College. We look forward to following his adventures and achievements in this new chapter in his career.

celebrate the successful completion of their BA in Jurisprudence, with tutors during a Schools Dinner.

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Medicine

Dr Dorota Leczykiewiczl

Dr Huw Dorkins

I am pleased to report that Law at St Peter’s College has had another successful year. Six new undergraduates and thirteen graduate law students started at St Peter’s in October 2023. We were very happy to also see our returning students: the second and third-year undergraduates, and the continuing DPhil students. Once again, our first-years have achieved a good set of results at Mods, which we celebrated in a manner which has become a St Peter’s tradition – a Mods lunch held at the start of Trinity term.

In Michaelmas term, we were delighted to welcome Professor Adam Mead of the Radcliffe Department of Medicine to speak to the medical students. Adam is a St Peter’s alumnus (matriculated 1991) who trained as a haematologist in Oxford and UCL. He is now a CRUK Senior Cancer Research Fellow. Adam spoke about his research which focuses on forms of blood cancer, specifically myeloproliferative and related myeloid neoplasms. In May 2024, Adam was elected to Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences.

Our finalists were working hard across their final year to get ready for what has been the last year of remote open-book FHS exams.

Next year’s finalists will return to taking exams in-person in a closed-book format, but typing on devices with which the Exam Schools are now equipped. Perhaps it is a break with the tradition, but one to which both students and those marking their scripts are not too sad to say good-bye. The finalists had an opportunity to

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Ten graduate students across BCL, MJur and MSc in Intellectual Property Law completed their degrees in 2023-24, including Oliver Friend-Smith, who has won the Law Faculty prize for the best performance in the ‘Human Rights at Work’ BCL/MJur paper.

The St Peter’s Law Society had another successful year under the presidency of Kartikay Kataria and Rita Cherchian. St Peter’s students interested in pursuing a career in law made visits to three major London law firms and participated in recruitment events organised in College. Law Society members took part in the Ellesmere Criminal Law Moot, and Mods students were well looked after through exam preparation and welfare events organised by the Society. We are happy to see the St Peter’s Law Society thriving year-on-year in the capable hands of our second-year students.

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Achievements and Activities of Senior Members The 23-24 academic year was one of transition. Michaelmas term was PROFESSOR TOM ADCOCK’S last as Associate Head (Teaching) in Engineering, drawing to an end an immensely rewarding spell running the undergraduate MEng course. Hilary term was spent on sabbatical with visits to New Zealand and Australia.

At the end of Hilary, Tom was admitted as Senior Proctor. This is a full time role involving scrutiny and co-ordination of the running of the university, academic and nonacademic discipline, and ceremonial duties.

A major theme of Tom’s research for the year has been the application of machine learning to ocean engineering problems. In particular, his team has incorporated machine learning in an old method for tidal prediction (from the 1960s) which enables tidal predictions to be made with an order of magnitude less data than standard methods.

DR KEN ADDISON continues as a Trustee of the Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales (CPRW), contributing his research and publishing expertise in Earth & Climate System Sciences and Geoconservation, particularly focused in Wales, to the way in which CPRW, Welsh government agencies, and environmental NGOs respond to the Climate Change and Biodiversity Crises.

His interest in Welsh landscapes recently expanded to include the impacts of historic climate change on the development of the great Cistercian monastic estates, and he is now a member of the Abbey Cwmhir Heritage Trust. He is also preparing a paper on Wales earth science heritage for Natur Cymru.

DR ROGER ALLEN and his wife Pamela are well settled in the shadow of the Malvern Hills and greatly enjoy welcoming a stream of former colleagues and St Peter’s students to sample the tranquillity of the Welsh Marches. Roger is still fully researchactive and takes advantage of the rail link from Great Malvern to keep in touch with College and make use of Oxford’s matchless libraries. He has contributed to forthcoming collections of conference papers on Wagner-related matters and his most recently completed book, on the Hungarian conductor Arthur Nikisch, is scheduled for publication in Spring 2025. He continues to perform widely and is regularly to be seen bicycling along traffic-free country lanes to help out as organist without portfolio in the many historic churches scattered around the area. He has also formed a partnership with a professional violinist to explore the riches of the violin and piano repertoire.

They regularly give recitals, and a recent highlight was performing Elgar’s late Violin Sonata Op. 82 in the study centre adjacent to the composer’s birthplace. He is heavily involved in Elgar-related matters and, in August, delivered the annual Elgar Day lecture at the 2024 Three Choirs Festival.

In addition to teaching preclinical medical students, PROFESSOR RANDY BRUNO has been busy publishing this past year. His study appearing in the journal eLife shows how learning changes special compartments of neurons in the brain to encode the most important aspects of a learned behavior.

A separate study in the same journal

reveals a brain area that connects to these compartments and may control when neurons learn during attention. A third study in Nature Neuroscience analyzes computationally how networks of these neurons in the cerebral cortex are able to represent complex stimuli in the world while still being able to generalize to neverbefore-seen stimuli. He also contributed to a new edited volume, The Cerebral Cortex & Thalamus, published by Oxford University Press.

DR TIMOTHY CLACK had an active year. His edited book, Hot War (Routledge) was published in December and launched at events at the Royal College of Defence Studies in London and NATO HQ in Brussels. In February, he published an article in the Journal of Conflict Archaeology on the remains of the 1982 Falklands War. In November, he co-organised a large international conference on the media reporting of heritage destruction for Oxford’s Endangered Cultural Heritage of the Global South Hub. Over the year, he was invited to give numerous talks, including at the NATO Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation, Lerici, Italy; EU Headquarters, Brussels; National University of Athens, Greece; Climate Association of Canada, Montreal; NATO Centre for Crisis Management and Disaster Response, Sofia, Bulgaria; and the US Embassy, London.

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His Climate Security in Jordan Project started in January. Working with the Jordanian government, the project develops an analytical capability at the heart of the country’s crisis response machinery to assess and mitigate risks from climate change.

In the UK, as the co-chair of the Secretariat Advisory Board of the APPG for Climate and Security, he shaped and participated in numerous events in Westminster, including on climate change and human resilience, economics, food security, and policy.

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retirement and the demand for different kinds of pensions and financial instruments.

The other paper is also about individuals’ risk preferences, is international in scope, and focuses on the relationship between country-specific indicators of culture and risk preferences. He continues to be an employernominated trustee on the Oxford Staff Pension Scheme and serves on the recently formed defined contribution committee. He is also responsible for a number of senior executive programmes in the Smith School of Enterprise and Environment that connect climate change and finance and continues as Chair of the IP Group’s ethics committee.

D. Afonso V by Rui de Pina. It has now been published by the Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra. Because the chronicle is seen in Portugal as an important literary and historical document, it has been made freely available to all, including to readers outside Portugal, via the IUC’s website.

In 2023-2024 DR CORENTIN COHEN worked on a new book project and continued his fieldwork in Brazil and South Africa.

He submitted several articles on questions related to African and Brazilian politics, and the role of professional service firms in international relations. Among the events he organized at St Peter’s this year were two workshops: one on the role of accountants, management consultants and advisers in politics in the global South; and another on gangs, gangsters and ganglands. Both will lead to publications. Corentin continued to lead the political ethnography reading and seminar group, which meets each term at the College. As a College advisor, Corentin has mentored Politics and IR students.

DR EMMA EDWARDS conducts research on wave energy – that is, converting energy from ocean waves to electricity as a form of renewable energy. Ocean waves contain enough energy to satisfy the entire global requirement for energy and could add much-needed diversification to energy portfolios. However, wave energy is not yet cost-competitive with other forms of renewable energy, such as wind and solar energy. Together with an industry partner (Marine Power Systems) and other academic colleagues, Emma has led a recent project looking at optimising the geometry of a wave energy converter. In particular, the project considers reaction forces for wave energy converters, since high reaction forces can lead to high fatigue and expensive support structures. Therefore, the optimisation maximises extractable power for the wave energy converter but also minimises these reaction forces. The project has revealed, through the optimisation as well as physical intuition developed, that it is possible to

With the help of a timely grant from the John O’Connor Research Fund, PROFESSOR TOM EARLE was able to bring to fruition a project which has occupied him since 2012, the edition of the late medieval Crónica de

Tom has also published an article, in the latest issue of the Revista Camões, about the Latin translation of The Lusiads made by the seventeenth-century English poet and diplomat, Sir Richard Fanshawe, and has other projects, including translation projects, in the pipeline.

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significantly reduce the reaction forces while only slightly reducing the extractable power.

Emma was able to present this work at the International Workshop for Water Waves and Floating Bodies conference in St Andrews in April this year. Emma would like to thank the John O’Connor Research Fund for the generous contribution which enabled her to attend the conference, which is one of the top conferences in the field.

PROFESSOR CHRISTOPHER FOOT continued experimental research on several themes in Atomic and Laser physics.

Work on quantum gases of ultra-cold atoms, funded by the EPSRC, in which a bilayer of Bose gases was investigated using matter-wave interferometry to investigate the non-equilibrium dynamics of the quantum phases. The development of a high-flux source of strontium atoms for a collaborative STFC-funded project, AION: An Atom Interferometer Observatory and Network. He started a new project, funded by The Leverhulme Trust, on the electrodynamic trapping of micron-sized objects, both in vacuum and at atmospheric pressure, with potential applications to the positioning of metal foils as targets for highpower lasers, the manipulation and sorting of biological samples such as diatoms, and the controlled deposition of stacks of two-dimensional materials.

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history (www.historyreclaimed.co.uk). His online discussions with historians including Andrew Roberts (on Churchill), Saul David (on empire) and Simon Heffer (on interwar Britain) can be found there. He organised its inaugural conference in Cambridge. He published articles in The Spectator and Daily Telegraph on subjects including Gladstone and slavery, the restitution of objects from British museums, and the current state of the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford. He participated in ‘In Our Time’ on Radio 4 on the life of Disraeli, his twelfth appearance.

He lectured at The Reform Club, to various branches of the Historical Association and local historical societies, to young people from east London on a leadership programme organised by the William Temple Foundation, on the annual Charles Booth Walk in London in the footsteps of the great social investigator; worked with two local 6th forms; and taught a day school for the Workers’ Educational Association on the American Revolution. He is part of ongoing projects on the history and future of the welfare state and on the history of Populism: he spoke on the latter at a conference in Venice in May.

September 2024, the 3-year project led by PROFESSOR BOB HILTON will use field, laboratory and numerical modelling methods to assess how rock weathering has played a role in Earth’s past climate variability, and how it may respond to ongoing and future warming.

DR KEVIN HILLIARD published an article on the use of quotations by Friedrich Schiller and Theodor Körner in leaflets by the Weisse Rose resistance group in Nazi Germany.

PROFESSOR RENÉE HIRSCHON is grateful to the BBC for the regular weekly programme in which classic comedies such as “One Foot in the Grave” are replayed.

That is what encouraged her to announce the re-issuing of her old ‘classic’ books in last year’s report.

This academic year the research project “Accelerated carbon dioxide release from sedimentary rocks in a warming world” was awarded funding from the Natural Environment Research Council. Starting in

Bob published some important research findings in Nature (“Rock organic carbon oxidation CO2 release offsets silicate weathering sink”). The work found that the global carbon release from the weathering of rocks containing organic matter was as large as the CO2 release from volcanoes around the world.

It has been a busy year on the RIV-ESCAPE project (ERC Consolidator Grant). Bob has led two research campaigns to the remote Canadian Arctic near Inuvik, measuring methane and carbon dioxide fluxes from the major Arctic Rivers. He and his coresearchers have samples in the lab to date the gases using radiocarbon, and hope this new data will shed light on the processes and pathways of greenhouse gases through river systems.

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friends who were hugely impressed by the outstanding buffet dinner and the attentive service offered by staff members. She wishes to thank St Peter’s catering department for organising an unforgettable evening.

Renée’s academic activities continue. The Greek translation of Crossing the Aegean: An Assessment of the Consequences of the 1923 Greco-Turkish Exchange of Populations requires a new Preface. Geopolitical changes in the past two decades have marked the region, including relations between Greece and Turkey. Consequently, the book will be read in a vastly changed context.

She also kept busy with frequent invitations to talk about her anthropological work with its integral cross-cultural perspective, as well as on refugee topics. The lessons to be learned from those Greece and Turkey, forcibly displaced a century ago, are of intense relevance today as violent conflict shows no sign of abating.

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Thanks to her award of a substantial grant from the John O’Connor Research fund, in May 2024 DR JASMINE JONES was able to travel to the States and present her research at an important academic conference.

The International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, Michigan, was a fantastic opportunity to connect with renowned scholars, to experience the North American academic scene, and to receive constructive feedback on her study of the theology of early Old English religious poetry. The conference also enabled Jasmine to promote her recently published article in the Review of English Studies as well as to engage in illuminating conversations regarding pedagogy. She was able to reflect fruitfully on her work and share her experience of teaching undergraduates as she finished her first academic year as a lecturer at St Peter’s.

PROFESSOR ADAM KIRRANDER has had an exciting year, with experiments at the SACLA x-ray free-electron laser in Japan, several high-profile publications including one article featured on the cover of the journal Nature Chemistry (the latter mostly a reflection of the talents of artist Wojtek Nowikowski, with whom we have an Art & Science outreach project), and several invited talks at international conferences. In addition, Adam has thoroughly enjoyed teaching the talented Chemistry undergraduates at SPC and has been fortunate to welcome a number of new members to his research group, thanks to generous funding from the EPSRC and US Department of Energy.

PROFESSOR FRANCIS LENEGHAN was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship (2023-24) and an AHRC Research, Development and Engagement Fellowship (2024-26), for his project on Old English prose. A collection of essays edited by Prof Leneghan and Amy Faulkner (UCL), entitled The Age of Alfred: Rethinking English Literary Culture c.850–950, was published by Brepols in 2024. Two articles on Beowulf were published in Medium Ævum and English Studies, the first on hagiographic parallels to the hero’s fight with Grendel, the second on the poem’s treatment of the wrath of God. He delivered invited lectures at the universities of Durham, St Andrew’s, Queen’s Belfast, Göttingen, Oslo, Bergen and Bergamo, as well as the London Old and Middle English Research Seminar (LOMERS); and, in May-June 2024, he was a visiting research fellow at the University of Oslo. A book he co-edited, Ideas of the World in Early Medieval English Literature (Brepols 2022), was the winner of the International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England (ISSEME) Best Book Prize 2023, and his 2022 article, ‘Beowulf and the Hunt’, was awarded Best Paper Award by the journal Humanities. In 2024, Prof Leneghan was appointed Chair of Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland (TOEBI).”

DR TIM MAWSON has continued to work on his book-length project, provisionally entitled ‘The Nature of God’, but taken time off from that over the year to write the occasional paper. His paper, ‘On the Prudence of a ‘Sin Now, Repent Later’ Policy’ was published in Religious Studies

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this year; and His paper ‘On Worshipping the Same God’ was published in the first issue of a new journal, Agatheos, The European Journal for the Philosophy of Religion.

He continues to serve as Dean of the College.

During the academic year 2023-24, PROFESSOR HENRY MAYR-HARTING gave four lectures on Ottonian Art (online) to a course at the V&A; gave a talk on ‘Salt’ to the Radley College Historical Society; had an article on the Travelling Library of Archbishop Bruno of Cologne (953-65) published in the Libelli Rhenani (the journal of the Cologne Cathedral Library); and drafted about half (so far) of a perhaps rather idiosyncratic book on Mozart.

For the talk on salt, Henry made an historical journey from the Sea of Galilee to Timbuktu, ending at Droitwich, Worcestershire. Many places had to be omitted on the way, because even such intelligent boys (one of whom came from Droitwich!), needed their supper!

DR VLAD MYKHNENKO, Research Fellow in Sustainable Urban Development, has been working on how a ‘green steel pathway’ might assist Ukraine’s post-war recovery. Before the war, Ukraine was the 14th largest global steel producer with 21.4 million tonnes of crude steel output in 2021. But its pre-war steel industry was also one of the dirtiest. In 2020, it was responsible for 48 Mt CO2. In a report to be published in the Journal of Cleaner Production, Dr Mykhnenko – along with co-authors including two Ukrainian refugee

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scholars - provides a roadmap for rebuilding Ukraine’s steel sector to be near zero emissions by 2050 and show that, by that date, a green steel pathway could generate $415 billion worth of gross value added (GVA) and $164 billion – or 1.7 times - more GVA compared to one based on traditional coal-based steelmaking. The country has the clear potential to develop the clean energy infrastructure needed – including a robust supply of renewable energy, and green hydrogen produced using renewable energy.

Ukraine also sits on vast reserves of iron ore - the main raw material needed to make steel using virgin materials - and is well located for access to European customers.

DR JOANNA NEILLY returned from maternity leave in August 2023 and since then has been working on several projects.

Her volume, German Romanticism and Latin America: New Connections in World Literature, co-edited with Jenny Haase (Martin Luther University HalleWittenberg), was published with Legenda in early 2024. Joanna has also embarked on a new translation project: E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Night Pieces collection from 1816-17, and has started with ‘The Vow’, an uncanny tale of resistance set in the years following the Third Partition of Poland. Along with Polly Dickson (Durham University), she is also co-editing a comprehensive Hoffmann handbook: E. T. A. Hoffmann in Context, which will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2026, in time for the 250th anniversary of the author’s birth.

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podcast ‘Embrace Everything: The World of Gustav Mahler’, produced by Aaron Cohen of New York Public Radio. Season 4 will be out this summer and is available, along with all the past seasons, via apple podcasts or online: www.theworldofgustavmahler.org

DR RICHARD PALIN, Associate Professor of Petrology, has nearly completed a second year as Stipendiary Lecturer in Earth Sciences. During the academic year 23-24, he has given many tutorials to the undergraduate cohort, continued to grow his research portfolio, and published several papers, many of which have been studentled. Recent external funding successes have included a Leverhulme grant that will support research into the how economically valuable battery metals, such as lithium, become enriched in magmas. He also recently completed fieldwork in the Outer Hebrides and West Greenland with new Masters and DPhil students, collecting samples of rocks for later study. Upcoming fieldwork during the summer is planned for northern Canada.

In March 2023, DR VIOLETTA SPLITTER joined St Peter’s as a new Fellow and Tutor in Management, coming from the University of Zürich. Since her start, she has published four articles on “open” (more participative and inclusive) strategy processes in leading academic journals. One of these articles was selected to be also published in Strategic Management Explorer, which offers executives and consultants the latest insights and takeaways in strategic management, entrepreneurship, and global business.

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In addition, she wrote two book chapters for the new edition of Cambridge Handbook of Strategy-as-Practice (on the theory of Pierre Bourdieu and on the practical relevance of strategy research). In May, she was asked to give a talk on participative strategy making to the Swiss Army. Violetta also served as the Program Chair for the Strategic Management Society, the major international conference in the field of Strategic Management this year, and convened a conference track on diversity and inclusion in strategy making at the European Group of Organization Studies colloquium. Next year, she will convene the main conference on Open Strategy at the Saïd Business School.

PROFESSOR CLAIRE WILLIAMS was on sabbatical this academic year, enabling her to finish some projects and start new ones. She attended conferences in Cork, Belfast, Lille, Braga, Oxford and Leiden and co-hosted the day conference ‘Being for Another: New Forms of Women’s Life-Writing’, at

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the ILCS in London. It has been a year of inspiring interdisciplinary collaborations and conversations, with colleagues from Sociology, Anthropology, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Latin American Studies, and English. Together with Prof. Joe Moshenksa (Univ), she hosted a seminar by Brazilian anthropologist and author Aparecida Vilaça (UFRJ/Cambridge), entitled ‘Fictionalizing Indigenous Amazonia: Anthropology and its Writing Styles’. The seminar took place in the Dorfman Room on the night after the St Peter’s Ball. Those attending had to make their way past Greek columns and statues, and trees laden with golden fruit, but, in fact, this unusual environment was entirely appropriate for a discussion of the encounters between different worlds, cultures and genres of writing.

In December, the second volume of the complete works of Portuguese author Maria Ondina Braga (1922-2003) came out, this one dedicated to her biographies of women writers (see also Feature Article in this

edition of the Record). Claire worked with Prof Isabel Cristina Mateus (CEHUM, Universidade do Minho), collecting and editing the material, and writing the Introduction. The launch, hosted by Braga City Council, took place in January, at the Nogueira e Silva Museum; a second launch, at which the book was presented by the eminent author Lídia Jorge (studied by Prelims students of Portuguese), took place at the Lisbon Book Fair, in June.

At the Brazilian Embassy, in May, Claire was proud to chair a seminar on Latin American writers who worked for the BBC World Service during the Second World War. One of the guest speakers was Dr Daniel Mandur Thomaz, an alumnus of St Peter’s now working at King’s College London, whose thesis on writer Antônio Callado, Transatlantic Radio Dramas, has recently been published by the University of Pittsburgh Press.

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(l-r) Claire Williams, Isabel Cristina Mateus and Margarida Pereira at the book launch in January 2024

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By Devon Rosenberger, Y2 DPhil History of Art The 2023-24 academic year kicked off with St Peter’s Middle Common Room hosting two weeks of events before the start of term to welcome incoming and returning postgraduate students to College.

During this Freshers’ Week(s) period the executive committee hosted numerous events to welcome in a brilliant new cohort from around the world. Some highlights of the week were a games night, city tour, pub quiz, and our beloved annual ‘Amazing Race’ scavenger hunt where College ‘families’ run around the city to complete challenges in Matriculation an attempt to win St Peter’s stash! To finish off the week we elected the 2023-24 Committee where students took on the responsibility of organizing events, representing postgraduate needs to the College, and ultimately building the fun, friendly, and inclusive community that famously describes St Peter’s.

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Michaelmas is notoriously our busiest and most exciting term. Our social and welfare teams continued to host events for our students, including our Midweek Mingles, a wine and cheese night that happens every other Wednesday, and our ‘Sunday Study Breaks’ where a member of the MCR highlights their baking skills by making a treat for those of us stuck in the library. These events are such a wonderful way for the community to get together throughout the week and to bring people from different departments together. In Michaelmas, we also hosted our first termly Guest Night, where students are encouraged to bring friends and family from outside of St Peter’s to an MCR-only formal hall. We ended the term with OxMas, our winter holiday dinner, which featured Christmas crackers, caroling, and holiday cheer before the winter break began.

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its Midweek Mingles and Study Breaks! Three MCR members even hosted a ‘Bake-Off’ competition one Sunday afternoon where it was decided that the winner was a delicious coffee cake. Before everyone returned to their studies for the last four weeks of term, we danced the night away at the Dionysianthemed St Peter’s Ball, which was beautifully organized by the JCR Ball Committee. The year ended with a summery picnic by the Isis, hosted by the newly elected 2024-25 executive committee. If the picnic is any indication of the year ahead, we are in for another year of a community fun.

It is truly the people that make St Peter’s such a special community, and it has been such a pleasure and a privilege to serve the MCR as president this past year. I am looking forward to seeing all that lays ahead for us next year!

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Dreary and cold Hilary term was no match for the warmth of the St Peter’s MCR community. We made sure to keep hosting weekly events to bring everyone together, including a Lunar New Year Celebration, Nature Walks in and around Oxford, and our second annual Jazz Night BOP, where one of our MCR members and his band showcased their talent for a fun night of live music. And of course we can’t forget all of the MCR members that participated in the St Peter’s Boat Club ‘Ergathon’ that set a World Record and raised money for the Club.

Trinity term is when the social scene tends to quiet down as people approach exam season.

Our welfare team, alongside the JCR, organized College wide yoga sessions to help people manage stress throughout the busy season.

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JCR Report JCR Report by Leah Mount, Y2 Biology Students have moved out of their accommodation, final exams have been marked and returned, and the sun is finally beginning to show throughout the UK, meaning only one thing: another year at St Peter’s has come to an end. Having had time to reflect on the presidential role I entered last August I now realize just how big were the shoes of those who held the role before me which I have had to fill, as well as the successes the JCR has achieved during the tenure of my peers and myself. Before delving into the intricacies of the year, it is essential to notice the unsurpassable efforts of our Vice President - Amy Campbell (English, 2022) - and the support, skills, and general sanity she has bought to her role. With a full committee keen to confront new challenges, our JCR was ready to begin the year as the arrival of the Freshers awaited us.

With the welcoming of Michaelmas term came an influx of new first years to introduce to our College. The JCR committee endeavoured to formulate the best Freshers’ Week we could, with a culmination of student-led consent workshops, as well as both alcoholic and non-alcoholic “entz” events, ending with our annual “Come dressed as your subject” BOP. This proved a great method of inter-year socializing, allowing all of our first years to grow comfortable in this new environment. The busy week concluded with the university-wide matriculation ceremony, fully introducing our freshers to the centuries-old Oxford traditions; from gowning-

up in the Sheldonian to punting with newfound friends through Christ Church Meadows. The remainder of the term was relatively uneventful, allowing students to focus on their studies, especially those who are so new to this way of learning. To celebrate the end of a long nine weeks, we were treated by College and catering staff to our yearly ‘OxMas’ Dinner. We dined upon a delicious three courses and the meal was followed by a night of celebration in the College bar; perfect to herald in the Christmas Vac. As January rolled around, it was time to return to Oxford. As per the start of every Hilary term, we were flung straight into Collections; a typical endeavour for our returning students, but potentially a shock to the system for others. Luckily, only a few weeks later was our Burns Night celebrations: an annual honouring of the Scottish poet Robert Burns, with an exciting formal dinner Burns Night

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for both staff and students alike. Unsurprisingly, it was filled with more haggis than I’ve ever seen, and a complementary shot of whisky that I couldn’t quite stomach, so it was donated to our (Scottish) VP, Amy. Only two weeks after was a traditional studentfavourite, particularly of the second years: Halfway Hall often marks the most memorable social event of a student’s experience at Oxford, and this year proved no different. The catering staff graciously and efficiently worked with Amy and myself, creating a night to remember for those who are halfway through their degree, (though for those like myself who have a fouryear course, the maths is slightly too complicated for me to deduce).

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Okungbowa (Economics & Management, 2021) and his team who organized an amazing evening. After a term already filled with exciting events, Fred Thompson (English, 2022) and Maisie Saunders (Physics, 2023) treated us with a returning tradition: the garden play, The Knight of the White Moon, written by Fred himself. This was a unique, intriguing performance involving several Peter’s students, providing a lovely end to Week 5 and the Summer VIIIs rowing competition.

After a busy few months, we heralded the arrival of Trinity term (a personal favourite of mine, despite the exams I had in Week 1). Before my own exams even began, we welcomed an influx of Year 13s and current gap year students to our Offer Holders’ Day, an event we hold every year to introduce those with conditional and unconditional offers alike to how college life works at St Peter’s. I remember my own Offer Holders’ Day with fondness, and it was a lovely experience to repay this to those students that are experiencing the same excitement I did two years ago.

Another thrilling event that Trinity introduced was one I’d never been able to experience before: St Peter’s Ball 2024, with the theme of Dionysia.

Luckily, I was granted a unique perspective throughout this process, as even though it is independent of the JCR, I was involved with the committee as a marketing manager.

I’m keen to recognize the unparalleled efforts of Ball Club President Benedict

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Before finishing, it is imperative to realize the efforts of different members of our community and the strides they have made across the year for some necessary events. Our BAME and LGBTQI+ reps respectively held their own community formal dinners, which were fully-booked. We made several charity efforts as a community, heralded by Nell Wightman (Biology, 2022), as well as JCR motion-related donations to charities such as Oxford Mutual Aid. Finally, College and students alike have made tremendous efforts to discuss the events in Palestine across this year, endeavouring to

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So, we have reached the end of another year! As a community, we have maintained our tight-knit, friendly reputation, and it has been an honour to humbly serve the JCR as their President. I compassionately hand over this challenging title to Grace Pearl (French and Portuguese, 2023), who will undoubtedly continue this trend and bring a new light to St Peter’s College.

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St Peter’s College Chapel Choir has truly flourished this year under the musical leadership of Quintin Beer. Throughout the busy year, the Choir upheld its status as one of the premier mixed Chapel Choirs at the University, delivering high-calibre music during its twice-weekly Evensong services.

Beyond Evensong, the Choir performed in various concerts, including Haydn’s Harmoniemesse and Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius. The year culminated with the recording of an album, marking a successful chapter in the Choir’s ongoing musical progression.

Michaelmas term commenced ambitiously, featuring a wide range of music. On 5 November, the Choir had the honour of presenting the world premiere of Roxanna Panufnik’s In a Cloud

of Angels. Panufnik attended both the rehearsal and the Evensong, providing a unique opportunity for the Choir to work directly with the composer.

St Peter’s Chapel Choir collaborated with the Saffron Walden Choral Society to present Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius. Among the most captivating moments for the singers were the theatrical and fugal setting of the Demon’s Chorus and the grand Praise to the Holiest. This ambitious endeavour showcased both Quintin’s unwavering belief in the Choir and the Choir’s versatility, offering a stark contrast to the more intimate nature of chapel choir music.

The term concluded successfully with the College’s well-attended Carol Services. The Choir showcased a diverse repertoire, featuring a commendable selection of works by esteemed female composers, including Judith Bingham, Judith Weir, and Elizabeth Poston.

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The Choir with Roxanna Panufnik at the premier of In a Cloud of Angels, 5 November 2023

Hilary term Evensong featured beautiful unaccompanied anthems such as Harris’s Faire is the Heaven and Wood’s Hail, Gladdening Light. A highlight was our performance of Joseph Haydn’s final major work, the Harmoniemesse in February 2024, which brought together members of the entire College community.

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The performance consisted of seventeen soloists from within the Choir, a testament to the exceptional abilities of its members.

Reflections on Ten Years as Chaplain at St Peter’s

The Trinity Term Leavers’ Evensong was especially moving, highlighted by renditions of Stanford’s Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in G, Ireland’s Greater Love Hath No Man, and a poignant sermon by Chaplain Revd Dr Elizabeth Pitkethly discussing our transient world and the faithfulness of God.

By the Revd Dr Elizabeth Pitkethly I first started attending the Chapel in St Peter’s College in Michaelmas term 2011 after I had left my parish post in London to marry a certain Dr Robert Pitkethly, Fellow and Tutor in Management at St Peter’s. Revd Dr Michael Ward was then College Chaplain and Dr Roger Allen was the Director of Music.

When I took up the post of part-time Chaplain on 1 October 2014, there was a small community of students associated with Chapel and Christian Union. Megumi Yamamoto was my first chapel clerk and a very faithful one at that.

In April 2024, the Choir presented a concert celebrating the music of Piers Connor Kennedy, our associate composer for 2022-2023, in anticipation of the subsequent album recording at the end of term.

Piers composed a number of new anthems and a setting of canticles specifically for the Choir. The unaccompanied Three Motets for St Peter (composed using St Peter’s texts) and The St Peter’s Service (a Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis for the Choir featuring elaborate organ accompaniment) will be included in the album.

The Choir in June 2024 during the album recording of Piers Connor Kennedy’s music

In many ways a College Chaplain provides a ‘home away from home’: someone to whom any member of the College community can chat and a place to which anyone can drop by . Of course some seek out the Chaplain because they would like to speak to someone who understands the language of faith: indeed over the past ten years I have learnt much from deep conversations with Muslim, Hindu and Jewish students and their Chaplains. In the past ten years I was delighted to see three Chapel Clerks baptised and several members of the community confirmed. History was made in the Chapel on 10 June 2018 when Charlotte Marris was baptised by immersion in a large borrowed pool. On this occasion Honorary Fellow, the Rt Revd John Pritchard (former Bishop of Oxford), co-led the service: the Chapel Clerks managed to deter three ducks who seemed keen to join us!

I believe that the Choir’s exceptional sound quality stems from its strong sense of community. The vibrant social life, including a Choir running and football club, and weekly pub trips fosters this belonging and value for members as both singers and friends.

We eagerly anticipate another year of this musical excellence and camaraderie.

Hospitality is a key part of a Chaplain’s role. Robert and I have been privileged to host many students in our home for occasions such as thanksgiving, Chinese New Year, Shrove Tuesday and Christmas. We have honed our mass catering skills and continue to make progress in cooking Chinese dumplings!

The Choir at the annual Choir Football Competition, making it to the semi-finals, March 2024

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The Choir enjoying a cheese and wine night following the concert celebrating the music of Piers Connor Kennedy, April 2024

Elizabeth and Chapel Clerks l-r Tianqi Wang, Katherine Tubb, Mariia Shmonina

Preparing couples to marry in Chapel has also been a great joy but, as I look back on ten years of ministry, I also have memories of sad occasions. It’s always a privilege to minister to people in times of deep grief: the faces of many bereaved College members remain engraved in my mind’s eye. Private remembrance services for College members for those unable to attend funerals of loved ones have proved particularly poignant.

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As I move on from College, I shall really miss the community and the wonderful food and company at Formal Hall. I will miss working with the choir, organ scholars and Directors of Music, not least Quintin Beer who has continued to build on high standards whilst introducing more contemporary music. I’ve already mentioned Dr Roger Allen who, along with Pamela his wife, who contributed so much to the choir and college community. I should also mention Professor Jeremy Summerly whose quality of Psalm singing and infectious sense of fun remain with me. The College was also very privileged to have Professor Edward Higginbottom as one of the interim Directors of Music. His focus and musical expertise helped the Choir flourish during lockdown with weekly multi track recordings, as well as online Sunday services sung one voice at a time in plainsong.

Thanks should be noted to all the chapel clerks: special mention should be made of Tianqi Wang, and Mariia Shmonina who have pioneered live-streaming of Sunday services. I am also grateful to Anne Millard for her support as Chapel Administrator. My final thanks should be to Robert, my husband, who has supported Chapel so faithfully for the last twenty-five years and my ministry as Chaplain for the past ten years.

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By Nasim Bellagnaoui, JCR Sports Representative 2023-24 has been an exciting year for sport at St Peter’s, with more people than ever joining in and showing real passion on the field and off. We’ve continued the tradition of our JCR Sports Day, which has become a highlight for everyone since its revival last year. It’s been great to see both the competitive and fun sides of our community come together. Across Cuppers and Varsity, our athletes have delivered some amazing performances, showing just how strong and spirited we are as a college. I’m excited to see how we’ll keep building on these achievements in the future!

Jeremy Summerly, Elizabeth Pitkethly, Roger Allen

It has been my privilege to serve in a College with such a Godly heritage. The last words of our Founder Francis Chavasse, recorded around the memorial pulpit in Chapel, continue to inspire me; and it is my prayer that the College will honour the Founders’ vision for St Peters: indeed, it is my conviction that in honouring this, the College and its members can best flourish.

Football

Netball

By Freddie Saunders (Captain)

By Hannah Orrell

What a season it’s been for SPCFC! After years of steady progress, we’ve finally earned our spot in the Premier Division for the first time in our history, finishing at the top of Division 1 with just one loss all season. The team’s grit and determination on the pitch were second to none, and we’ve truly set a new standard for football at St Peter’s.

This year, St Peter’s netball team showed great enthusiasm and dedication across both the girls’ and mixed leagues. In Michaelmas, the girls’ league had a strong start, and it was encouraging to see how players from all years came together as a team so well. In Hilary and Trinity, the move to the mixed league saw increased energy and participation, with consistently good turnouts for matches. While we didn’t secure many wins throughout the year, Peter’s showed unmatched spirit and noticeable improvements in gameplay.A highlight of the season was the cuppers tournament, where an impressive turnout and high enthusiasm from all players exemplified the team’s commitment and good sportsmanship.

Our league success, however, wasn’t mirrored in the Cuppers, where St Catherine’s twice proved to be a thorn in our side, cutting short our cup run earlier than we had hoped. Despite that, the team’s spirit remained strong, and we’ve built a solid foundation for future success in both competitions.

This season also marks the end of an era, as we say goodbye to some key players. The backbone of our team, many of whom are graduating, will be sorely missed. Their leadership and talent have been central to everything we’ve achieved, and it’s hard to imagine the squad without them. That being said, I’m confident SPCFC’s future is bright, with a solid foundation and plenty of potential for next season as we step into the Premier Division.

Final words of College Founder, Francis Chavasse

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Rowing

By Amy Gadhia and George Rabin

This year has been filled with remarkable achievements and unforgettable experiences for the St Peter’s College Boat Club.

Our community has grown with many new members, including our fantastic coaching team. Our ranks were strengthened by many MCR and JCR freshers as well as returning Oxonians, making SPCBC one of the most dynamic boat clubs on the Isis. We were also fortunate to receive a new W1 shell and a coaching launch, thanks to the generosity of our wonderful friends.

The year’s standout moment was setting a new world record! The St Peter’s College Boat Club (SPCBC) set a new World Record for the Longest Continuous Row (Large Team Heavyweight Mixed 2029) on a rowing machine, with 83 participants logging 1,628 miles (2,620,930 metres) over ten gruelling days. SPCBC completed this extraordinary challenge with determination and teamwork.

We are deeply grateful to everyone who took part, especially those who powered through the night shifts. Your dedication and support were invaluable. The funds raised not only ensure that we can provide high-quality rowing coaching for years to come but also support the St. Peter’s College Outreach Programme, empowering underprivileged students to reach for the stars at top UK universities. Together, we’ve made a real impact!

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Another highlight was our 2024 Seville Training Camp, where 24 SPCBC rowers trained on the River Guadalquivir under the warm Spanish sun. We practised long race pieces for the 2024 Head of the River Race, learned to scull, tried coxing for the first time, and even managed to annoy a few Olympic kayakers!

Beyond the physical gains, the camp brought us closer together as a club, creating memories that will last a lifetime.

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Rugby

By Freddy Wood (Captain)

2023-2024 was another fantastic year for St Peter’s Rugby Club. A strong cuppers campaign that included a dismantling of the scrum was sadly cut short in the semi-finals by eventual winners New College. Div 1 was treated to some beautiful joué

and hard tackles. An international tour to Poland saw minimal rugby but nonetheless was a roaring success; there are strong signs that St Peter’s will continue to spread its name all across Europe, enticing more exciting rugby players to build on the exciting team that continue into 2024-25.

Despite the challenges of black flags and high-water levels, we persevered and achieved remarkable results in Summer VIIIs: M3 adapted impressively despite numerous substitutions and limited water time for our novices.

W3 attained second position, with W2 excelling by bumping three times, an outstanding feat for a crew half-composed of novices.

M1 performed strongly at Quintin Head and the Head of the River, rowing over every day in the VIIIs. W1 gained valuable experience at Bedford and navigated one of the most demanding Summer VIIIs campaigns, rowing the length of the river four times in two days.

M2 made history by securing a place in the fixed divisions for the first time, earning blades in a particularly challenging year.

Beyond racing, our calendar was filled with events that strengthened our club spirit, from hype videos and external regattas to our legendary Ergathon. This year has been about more than just competition; it’s been about building a supportive and tight-knit community. We look forward to another year of growth, camaraderie, and success on the water.

Here’s to another fantastic year ahead!

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Professor Nynke Dekker Nynke Dekker is statutory Professor of Biophysics and member of the Department of Physics and the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Discovery at Oxford. Her research interest lies in studying the copying of DNA, known as DNA replication, using techniques that originated in physics that are capable of imaging and manipulating single molecules of DNA and the proteins bound to them. Using this approach, she and her research group learn more about how the proteins that carry out DNA replication manage to do so successfully.

Dr Emma Edwards Dr Emma Edwards joins St Peter’s College as a Career Development Fellow in Engineering.

Prior to joining the University of Oxford, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Plymouth, following her PhD and a postdoctoral position at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Emma’s research interests are centred around offshore renewable energy. She has a particular expertise in wave-structure interaction of floating bodies, with applications to wave energy and floating offshore wind. One area of interest is the effect of geometry of a floating body on wave-structure interaction, and the resulting performance of offshore renewable energy devices. She has research experience in analytical, numerical and physical modelling.

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Nynke Dekker moved her research group to Oxford this summer, coming from TU Delft, the Netherlands, where she had been a professor since 2002. One of the main reasons for the move was to embed the group in a stronger context in terms of biological research and a broader interdisciplinary context. She and her research group members are enjoying meeting many great colleagues at Oxford and are starting several new collaborative projects.

Apart from enjoying research, she also enjoys outdoors activities such as hiking, jogging, and swimming, as well as music and theatre, all of which she hopes to find much of around Oxford!

Emma’s PhD at MIT focused on semi-analytical research on floating Wave Energy Converters (WECs), optimising geometry to maximise power and minimise cost. She continues to work in this area today. She also works on multiple aspects of floating offshore wind: she performed a review of floating offshore wind platform designs, and she works in numerical and experimental modelling of floating offshore wind. She is also looking at characterising the effect of platform motion on the performance of a floating offshore wind turbine.

At St Peter’s, she teaches structures and dynamics for first- and second- year students. She has thoroughly enjoyed her first year.

Emma enjoys cycling (road and mountain), running, cooking and spending time with her husband and dog. She is expecting her first baby soon!

Simon Jones

Commercial Development for the Myton Hospices for two years.

Simon joined the College as Bursar on 1 April 2024.

He is hugely experienced, with a background in the charity, finance and construction sectors, and is enjoying finding his way around St Peter’s and the wider Oxford community.

As Bursar, Simon is the senior financial and administrative officer of the College and plays a pivotal role in the leadership of our diverse College community. He is responsible for helping develop and execute the College’s strategic vision, and driving operational policy that supports our core educational mission. This includes financial planning and investments, the management of the material estate, IT, information security, nonacademic staff and human resources. Simon is a Fellow, a charitable trustee of the College and a member of its Governing Body.

Simon’s career had small beginnings in the construction industry, where he developed from an administrative role into helping lead the delivery of large-scale retail building projects, including several well-known brands. He became a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) in 2005, and worked with companies ranging from a PLC to small and large family-owned businesses. His first bursarial role was at Hereford Cathedral School. He moved on via Wolverhampton Grammar School to Warwick Independent Schools Foundation where he was key to delivering an historic strategic building project that brought the schools together onto one site. Latterly, Simon was Director of Finance and

Dr Violetta Splitter Dr Violetta Splitter joined St Peter’s College as a Fellow and Tutor in Management in March 2024.

Before coming to St Peter’s College, she was a guest professor at the University of Fine Arts Berlin and a senior research associate at the University of Zürich. Initially trained as a chef, Violetta studied Business Administration, Japanology and Fine Arts in Brussels, Munich and Athens.

In her research, Violetta typically applies grand sociological theories (such as Bourdieu’s, or Foucault’s) to examine their implications for management and strategy research. She is particularly interested in an understanding of

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In his spare time, Simon is a Trustee, Treasurer and Finance & Audit Committee Chair of Sense, a national and international charity for people with complex disabilities. He lives in Worcestershire and is a keen sportsman, particularly playing tennis; and more importantly, spending time with friends and family as a doting husband, father and (fairly recent) grandfather. strategy as something organizations do rather than something organizations have. Currently her research focuses on more open and participative forms of strategy making, which implies a radically different understanding to conventional, top-down and secretive approaches to strategy.

With her family, Violetta enjoys excursions to the countryside, converting the kitchen into a dancefloor, and playing charades. Away from her two children (and her husband), Violetta loves gardening, cooking, swimming and reading science fiction.

She is looking forward to sampling more of what it means to be a member of St Peter’s unique collegiate community.

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LIBRARY

Library Report

The year was also notable for changes – albeit temporary ones – in personnel. Dr Stephen Tuffnell, the Fellow Librarian, has been on leave.

Rosie Lake, St Peter’s Deputy Librarian, took maternity leave more or less as the academic year began (and we are delighted to report her new daughter Penny was born shortly afterwards).

By Dr David Johnson Imagine a middlebrow drama of the inter-war years. Our play opens on a summer afternoon. Young people enter from a sun-lit garden. Soon, more senior (and for the moment we think wiser) relatives join the party.

Within minutes, we sense tension. Older individuals disapprove of youthful behaviour. The audience discovers that at some point before the play began, the younger characters have transgressed; the younger characters discover their elders once did likewise. Differences between the generations prove less real than first appeared. As the first act ends, the storm breaks. But, the turbulence on stage is a consequence of events that occurred elsewhere and remain hidden from our view.

More than once this year, your Librarian felt that current events resembled this clichéd scenario. Naturally, in your Librarian’s personal drama the Library at St Peter’s was always centre stage.

At the opening of our first act during the Long Vacation of 2023, the Library was closed to permit the refurbishment and redesign of the Library Reception. This has subsequently proved a great success, popular with, and useful for, Library users with accessible desks and an enhanced environment.

Whilst the refurbishment progressed, work to implement Oxford’s new integrated library system (the software which runs Oxford libraries) continued. Originally planned for 2022, transition to the new system ultimately occurred in August 2023. This was

preceded both by the mundanity of new training for staff, and by esoteric attempts to reconcile the (dubious) philosophical concepts embodied by the new software with those which underpinned its predecessor.

Fortunately, the new software was operational before the Library reopened in Michaelmas term. Despite a lack of some key functionality – such as that relating to conducting inventories of library stock, or the ability of staff to vary loan periods to match vacation dates – the migration proved less problematic than on some previous occasions. Clearly, the decision to delay implementation was shown to have been correct.

Naturally, the stage was not left vacant and we were extremely fortunate in our replacements. Cathy Lewis of Merton College contributed her help towards cataloguing new acquisitions, and Brian Brown, the College’s Library Assistant, undertook some additional work. However, the majority of Rosie’s responsibilities were undertaken by a veritable legend of Library Land, Marjory Szurko. Having (among other things) been librarian of three different Oxford colleges before (supposedly) retiring, Marjory brought a wealth of experience and expertise especially valuable whilst grappling with the new integrated library system. Meanwhile, as acting Fellow Librarian, Dr Tim Mawson contributed his expertise during Steve Tuffnell’s absence.

Amidst such a welter of activity, you might wonder where is the similarity between these recent developments and the 1930s drama with which we began? In fact, as in our theatrical scenario, whilst attention was focused on events on stage there was a growing awareness of a storm rumbling in the background.

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We learnt of a “cyber-attack” on the British Library in October 2023. Initially, they gave an impression of trying to limit information on what had happened. Yet, such a policy proved unsustainable for a public-facing institution at the nub of academic life. Months later, major operational problems continue with temporary methods still required to perform basic functions such as issuing tickets to readers and ordering materials to reading-rooms.

The attack on the British Library emphasised the fact that the adoption of digital resources has made institutions less independent and more inter-dependant and so, in consequence, less resilient. If one link in a chain snaps, the whole chain is broken. At Oxford, this was best exemplified through the provision of legal-deposit e-books (i.e. publications deposited under the copyright legislation in digital form rather than as printed materials). Such works are hosted on British Library servers, and made available to users in other copyright libraries including the Bodleian. Consequently, access to these items has been lost not only at the British Library but also elsewhere. As a result, the College Library has this year received several requests to purchase copies of items no longer accessible because they had been available in Oxford only as legal-deposit e-books. In earlier times, availability in Oxford – and indeed at the British Library itself – would have been unaffected by technological difficulties because these texts would have been collected in printed form.

Looking forward to the coming year, we anticipate the return of some of our regular players. Rosie Lake and Steve Tuffnell will both resume their roles. There will also, we trust, be a continuing restoration of British-Library services. But, can we assume that the black clouds which overshadow them will have no continuing effect on our own drama? There is as yet no sign of what form any impact might take, but it would seem wrong to discount it.

DONORS OF BOOKS TO THE COLLEGE LIBRARY, 2023-24 Ms E. Bonacini Ms I. Bossanyi Professor C. Burgess Ms B. M. Cook Mr D. W. A. Cox Dr H. Dorkins Dr A. Graham Mrs C. Lewis

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Mr P. Longshaw The J.W.M. Collection Fund Ms M. Maxwell Professor G.T. Meaden Revd Dr A. Moore Mr J. Poole Revd Mr. G. Riba-Thompson

Mr Z.H. Tan Mr M. Tibbs Mr H. Tiley Mr O. Tomlins Professor A. Williams Dr P. Williams Professor M. Winterbottom

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BURSAR’S

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BURSAR’S

Bursar’s Report

By Simon Jones Not for the first time in my career I arrived in post on 1April – this time at St Peter’s College. The Easter vacation period had commenced, coinciding with the Master’s annual visit to the USA for College. College was so unusually quiet that I briefly wondered if I had perhaps fallen for an April Fool’s prank and had not secured this exciting and prestigious post after all. The warm and personal welcome from Bursarial colleagues, along with drop-in visits from the Registrar, Senior Tutor and HR Manager, followed by a Teams call with the Master quickly allayed such concerns and I set about the varied and interesting task base that faces all Bursars in busy and successful academic settings.

Pete enjoying some downtime in the new CBQ estates facilities; and working alongside Fabio in the wonderful new workshop space afforded by CBQ.

Castle Bailey Quad in all its majesty from Canal House and from the car park.

The headline story this year has to be the completion and opening of Castle Bailey Quad (CBQ), with students taking up residence from the start of Hilary term 2024. This major step towards achieving our strategic aim of being able to offer three years’ College accommodation to all undergraduate students would not have been possible without the generous support of so many of you.

CBQ has transformed our College site and hugely enhanced our students’ day-to-day experience. It has also changed the way the Bursary team operates.

evolution of the College site. In particular, I am grateful to Dr Sarah Wilson (Interim Bursar – May 2023 to March 2024) for not only ensuring completion of CBQ, but also for the invaluable personal support offered before, during and after my process of joining St Peter’s. Sarah continues to support Project Manager Darren Hewitt and alumnus David Collard (History, 1994) in ensuring that robust commercial negotiations with the contractor are closed off, whilst I have taken on responsibility for bringing the minor outstanding on-site matters to full resolution.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank my predecessors – four of whom I had the privilege of meeting at the opening celebrations for Castle Bailey Quad in June – for their role in the

Estates Great credit is due to colleagues Stephen Breakspear, Lidia Hemmings and the Estates and Facilities teams for the excellent

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Before and after shots of once-crumbling Castle Mill Stream wall to the rear of Paradise Street accommodation.

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work that goes largely unnoticed on a day-to-day basis but without which the SPC community would not operate effectively. These include maintaining the fabric of the site as well as ensuring that the many compliance requirements of facilities are adhered to. CBQ brought about some long-overdue new space for the team, improving storage and workshop areas whilst also offering an improved rest area for break times, ensuring a happy workforce as well as a productive one. And no one can have earned a break from time to time as much as our groundsman Pete Minns, who celebrated an astonishing 45 years in post in summer 2024.

Whilst CBQ has understandably absorbed the headlines this year, as part of the ongoing programme of necessary estate works, this year we have also tackled a full refurbishment of the Staircase III bathrooms, essential roof repairs to Staircase II and, over the summer months of 2024, some complex and expensive, but absolutely essential repairs to the wall adjoining the Castle Mill Stream at the rear of the Paradise Street building. All badly needed doing, and I am pleased to report that all are now done.

The maintenance of the estate inevitably consumes a significant proportion of our income and we continue to seek innovative ways of securing funding to ensure the good stewardship and proper upkeep of our beautiful site.

We are also delighted to report that we now have state-of-theart audio and visual equipment installed in the College Chapel.

This enables us to livestream and record speaker events, musical performances and Chapel services. The Communications Manager has urged me to plug our two YouTube Channels, @SPCOxford and @SPCOxfordChapel, where you can see all the latest livestreams and recordings (including the December Shakespeare event, Advent and Christmas Carols, and further upcoming talks and performances slated for the next academic year). The purchase and installation of the new equipment was made possible through a generous donation received via the St Peter’s College Foundation, for which we are extremely grateful.

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Summer Schools Complementing our long-standing relationships with Oxford Royale and Scholastica, SPC’s Domestic Bursar, Kevin Melbourne is delighted to have instigated a new partnership with two new summer school providers, ensuring that the summer recess period allows us to take full advantage of the College’s assets as part of the cross-subsidy model we necessarily operate. Some Oxford colleges can afford not to put their estate to work over the summer hosting income-generating summer schools; St Peter’s is not in that category, and the c£1.3m of revenue we generate from our conference trade each year is an essential contribution to our College finances. CBQ now provides additional opportunities to grow that figure in the coming years. One of the big attractions for our summer school customers is the fantastic Catering provision at SPC, with Head Chef Eifion Davies and his team continually delighting the taste buds of our visitors, just as they do year-round for the staff, students and alumni of the College. The unseen efforts of the Accommodation and Housekeeping teams led so ably by Charlie, Jess, Mariola and Gail complement these efforts, ensuring that the comfort of the rooms matches the quality of the food.

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Westfield buildings opened. Stay tuned for more information on the beautiful new Music Room for St Peter’s now in prospect (and do be in touch with the Development Office if you’d like to help us realise these plans!).

Starters and Leavers A very frequently heard comment in my first few months in post has been how much people enjoy working at St Peter’s College.

My curious mind looked into some statistics to share this data meaningfully with our wider community. I discovered that the twenty longest serving members of the support staff have served an average time in post of 18.5 years, a testament to the collaborative and collegial environment in which our students are educated.

Inevitably, nonetheless, the staff base sees transition, and this year we said goodbye to Third Chef, Lukasz Zastrozny; Scout, Vitalija Labuckiene and Andy Dore, Estates Supervisor, as well as welcoming a number of new recruits to the St Peter’s family.

Finances The financial performance of the College remains consistent, being well managed as ever by College Accountant Kathryn Marshall and her team. Our year-end position is always on a knife edge, and when we make (or occasionally modestly exceed) our break-even operational objectives, this is always heavily dependent on the remarkable generosity of donors. Readers may be interested to note that student fees for home undergraduates have remained static at £9,250 since 2016, which inevitably provides ongoing financial challenges for us as operational costs have risen so emphatically around that.

The accessible bridge from the Perrodo Building into the new Music Room and an architect’s impression of the beautiful new performance space.

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Coming Soon!

With CBQ seamlessly bedding into everyday College life, attention turns to the next capital project, a more modest scheme but nevertheless with its own significant impact in prospect. The refurbishment of the Pastry School will bring a wonderful new music and spoken word performance space whilst simultaneously improving both access and the aesthetic aspects of a corner of the College that has seen increased footfall since the new Damazer and

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DEVELOPMENT

Development and Alumni Engagement Report 2023-24

By Brett de Gaynesford, Director of Development and Alumni Relations Every year brings new opportunities to connect, celebrate and build upon the legacy of our extraordinary St Peter’s community. This past academic year has been no exception, and I’m pleased to share some of the highlights with you, and to reflect on a year full of events, special occasions, campaigns, expanding the Development Team and marking milestones together.

Throughout the year, we were delighted to welcome more than 1,100 alumni and 600 guests to events in Oxford, London and across the globe. These included three wonderful Gaudies, which brought alumni from the years spanning 1975-1989 back to College. As always, the camaraderie, storytelling and laughter carried on well into the night, often finding its way to the old College Bar in the early hours. Seeing so many of you reconnect with old friends – and also forge new friendships with familiar faces – demonstrates how strong the College connection remains, regardless of time or distance.

engaged with College in spite of the distance. We remain extremely grateful to hosts William Lau (1995), Patrick Turner (1978), Fay and Tom Cook (1959), and for the planning support of Olivia Choi (1995).

Returning closer to home in Trinity Term, June 2024 saw a truly historic milestone for College: the opening of Castle Bailey Quad.

It was a weekend alive with excitement and activity as Fellows delivered a series of brilliant flash talks, students led tours of the new Damazer House and Westfield House, and alumni explored exhibitions that showcased the evolving footprint of the St Peter’s estate over time. A highlight of the celebrations was the ribboncutting ceremony, performed by Lord Patten, Chancellor of the University, which officially opened the new Castle Bailey Quad.

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We wrapped up the weekend with our annual Benefactor’s Day, a fitting way to thank all of you whose generous support makes such transformative projects possible.

For those who were unable to join us in person, extend thanks to Guy Stokely (1963) and the St Peter’s College Foundation for making Choir performances and other special events accessible through livestreaming from the Chapel. It’s wonderful to know that no matter where you are in the world, you can still enjoy the beautiful music of our Choir giving a live performance. If you haven’t already, I encourage you to explore these moments now recorded on our YouTube channel: St Peter’s College Chapel, Oxford.

One of the standout moments of Michaelmas Term was Shakespeare@Peter’s, a special celebration to mark the 400th Sir Greg Doran and Dame Janet Suzman with the Master at the Shakespeare@Peter’s Gala Banquet, December 2023

anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio. The Master and the Artistic Director Emeritus of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Sir Gregory Doran, co-hosted this event in collaboration with The Bodleian. Alumni, students and friends joined in the afternoon programme with enthusiasm, reading passages from Shakespeare plays with infectious energy. The celebration culminated in an immersive Shakespeare Banquet in Hall, where Dame Janet Suzman, Royal Shakespeare Company actors and our own College Choir delivered unforgettable performances between courses. It was a day filled with stimulating talks, artistry, music and joy, and we remain grateful to members of the St Peter’s College Foundation, whose support made this event possible.

Alumni gather in Hong Kong for a St Peter’s Dinner, January 2024

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Notably, our connections during the year extended far beyond Oxford. The Master attended dinners in Hong Kong, New York, Washington DC and Boston, meeting alumni who remain deeply

Alumni Sean Kelly, Nicola Kelly, Michele von Buren and Paul Farmer share a toast at the 1980-84 Gaudy, March 2024

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DONOR

As you know, at the heart of everything we do is our commitment to providing an exceptional education and enriching life experiences for our students. Given that student fees only cover a part of the cost of this ambitious endeavour, we rely on the generous support of our donors to help cover the gap. Whether you contribute through a monthly or annual gift, make a special donation that is meaningful to you, or support us in other ways, your steadfast commitment enables us to plan for the future and ensures that St Peter’s students continue to thrive.

As we embark on the 2024-25 academic year, we are excited to welcome new faces to the Development and Alumni Relations Team. They are keen to meet alumni, so please do introduce yourselves at upcoming events or by getting in touch directly.

We are also grateful for the incredible response to our Telethons during the year. Across these campaigns, we connected with nearly 300 alumni and raised a remarkable £288,000. More than three quarters of those we spoke with chose to participate in some way, reaffirming the commitment our alumni have to supporting St Peter’s students and the College as a whole. A huge thank you to all who took part.

We always love hearing your news and welcoming you back, and we’re here to help connect you with fellow alumni, old friends, tutors and students. We look forward to seeing you soon.

Legacy giving also deserves special recognition. Alumni who choose to remember St Peter’s in their wills leave a lasting legacy that ensures future generations can benefit from the same transformative education and experiences they enjoyed. We are grateful to those of you who have made this thoughtful commitment.

Finally, thank you for your ongoing engagement with St Peter’s.

Your involvement, whether through attending events, participating in Telethons, or simply staying in touch, greatly enhances the life of the College.

Keep in Touch with the Development Office Brett de Gaynesford – Director of Development and Alumni Relations

Liz Ryan – Deputy Director of Development

Olga Batty – Head of Development Operations Nadia Amina – Campaigns and Data Officer Genista Astell – Alumni Engagement Officer Tom Gould – Development Officer

Jane Kuper – Development Coordinator Telephone: +44 01865 614985 Email: development.office@spc.ox.ac.uk Development and Alumni Relations Office St Peter’s College New Inn Hall Street, Oxford, OX1 2DL www.spc.ox.ac.uk

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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) Dr Sylvie Jackson 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 Stuart Banks (1992) Mr Daniel Bilbao (1978) Professor Thomas Cook and Faye Cook (1959) Sir Ian Davis Mr Peter Foy (1960) Mr Richard Harding (1970) 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) Mr Lawrence Smith (1978) 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 Jonathan Barry (1999) Mr Michael Batchelor (1956) Mr Gregga Baxter (1978) Mr David Bucknall (1986) Mr Paul Bushell (1964) Mr Robert Calcraft (1983) Dr Robert Calderisi (1968) Mr Sunir Chandaria (1998) Mr Adam Chinn (1979) Mr James Dalrymple (2000) & Mrs Sophie Dalrymple (2002) Mr Benjamin Dell (1995) Mr Barry Douthwaite (1958) Mr Roger Dyer (1976) Professor Sir David Eastwood DL (1977) Esmee Fairbairn Foundation Mr John Foster (1970) Dr Jon Fuller (1960) GAV Properties Miss Tara Glen (1988) Mr Jim Golcher (1964) Mr Jeremy Greenhalgh Mr Richard Heffer (1965)

CIRCLES

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) Dr Grant Rhode (1974) Mr Geoffrey Riba-Thompson (1977) Mr Nicholas Segal (1976) Dr Ian Skidmore (1959) Mr Stuart Smith FRCS (1969) St Peter’s Society Mr Jeremy Taylor (1992) Mr Richard Thompson (1981) & Ms Louise Wood (1981) Mr A J Tracey Mr Anthony Tuckwell (1962) Professor Robert Tyrrell (1969) Vandervell Foundation Sir Gerald Warner KCMG (1951) Weinstock Fund Mrs Rosemary Wharton & Mr David Wharton Mr Nicholas White (1978) Mr Alan Wills (1982) 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 Record 2024 57

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1946 Mr Michael Tibbs OBE

1954 The Right Reverend Colin Bazley 1947 Mr John Cole Mr Eric Gordon* Mr Christopher Lilwall Professor Dr Terence 1948 Meaden Mr Richard Hales The Reverend Robert Mr Peter Harrison Mighall* Dr Donald Malkinson Dr Derek Rushton 1949 Mr Peter Waterman Sir Kenneth Bloomfield MRIA Mr George Yacoub Mr John Trueman 1955 1950 Anonymous Professor John Annett* Mr Michael Rogers Mr Frederick Moysen Mr Martin Slatter Mr James Siddons* Mr Brian Weston OBE Dr James Tomkinson Dr Mark Weston 1951 Dr Colin Bailey OBE Mr Robert Leslie Sir Gerald Warner KCMG Mr Eric Wood 1952 Mr Michael McClew Mr Gordon Newbery Mr Arnold Taylor Mr Colin White 1953 Mr Frank Cookson Mr Sean Hignett Mr Bryan Maybee JP Dr Bryan Pierce

1956 Mr Michael Batchelor Mr Keith Garland Mr John Mellor Mr Michael Pipes MBE Mr Michael Richardson Mr Frank Roberts* Mr Terence Stevens Professor John Widdowson Mr Geoffrey Yates 1957 Mr Colin Bailey* Professor John Bradfield Mr Christopher Curson Mr Ian Fleming Dr David Griffiths Mr Roger Herrera

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Mr Albert Johnson Professor Meirion Lewis CBE Mr Peter Lewis Mr Ken Loach Mr Norman Philbey Mr John Richardson Mr Brian Snelson Mr William Stevenson Mr Hugh Turrall-Clarke Mr Donald Webber 1958 Anonymous Mr Charles Akeroyd Mr Barry Anson Mr David Ashton Mr John Bain OBE The Revd Canon David Dr Roger Marshall Mr Colin Pearson Mr Ken Pye Air Commodore Philip Wilkinson Mr John Wright 1959 Professor David Berry Professor Thomas Cook Mr James Dawson Mr John Dobson Mr David Fuller The Reverend Christopher Idle Mr Stephen Metherell Mr Robin Privett Dr Peter Raggatt Dr John Salinsky

Dr Ian Skidmore Dr Robert Twycross Mr Richard Wells The Reverend Prebendary John Wesson 1960 Dr Anthony Blake Mr Richard Bond Mr David Cox Mr Hector Davie Dr Christopher Davies Mr Gerald Eveleigh Dr Jon Fuller Mr Barry Glazier Mr Frederic Goodwin Dr Peter Hartley Mr John Hermon Dr Geoffrey Kemp Dr Richard Mayne Mr Robert Morgan FRCS Mr John Perrin Mr Ian Robertson Mr Robert Savage Dr Philip Surman Mr Nick Towers The Reverend Dr Iain Whyte 1961 Anonymous (2) The Reverend Canon John Brown Mr Robert Bryce Professor Dr Stanley Cameron Professor Dwight Eddins Mr Jonathan Edwards

The Reverend Canon Anthony Hawley The Rt Hon the Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts CBE Mr John Jarvis Mr Christopher Legge Dr Christopher Lynch Professor Graham Orpwood* Mr Frank Parker Dr Derek White Mr Derek White Dr David Young 1962 The Reverend Barry Ashdown Sir Roger Bone KCMG Mr Christopher Booth Mr David Carter Dr David Edwards Dr Charles Griffin Mr Clive Jackson Mr Paul Jenkins Dr Andrew King Professor Robin Leake Mr Norman Maxwell Mr Bryan Morgan Mr Mike Orriel The Reverend Canon John Payne-Cook* Mr Jonathan Petitpierre Mr David Scott Dr Martin Shain Mr Anthony Tuckwell Mr Paul Wolff

1963 Mr Frank Blewett Dr John Doveton Mr Richard EdgecliffeJohnson Mr Ian Ewing Mr Patrick Howard Mr David King Professor Geoffrey le Grys Mr Geoffrey Nicholson Mr Derek Parr Mr Michael Percival Mr Christopher Purcell Mr Mervyn Samuel The Reverend Father John Smethurst* Mr Guy Stokely Mr Timothy Taylor Mr John Watson The Reverend Paul Winchester 1964 Anonymous Professor Chris Ashton Ambassador Anthony Benjamin Mr Robin Browne Mr Paul Bushell Mr John Clark Mr Rod Dalmaine Mr Robin Dixon Mr Donald Gardner Professor Roger Gill Mr Jim Golcher Dr Christopher Green Mr Jocelin Harris Mr William 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 Dr Kenneth Addison Mr Ronald Akhurst Mr David Aspinwall Mr Gordon BOTTOMS Mr David Brearley Mr Alan Brown Mr Owen Darling Mr Andrew Flockhart Mr Philip Hunwick Mr Brian Jones Mr John Modley Mr Duncan Paylor Mr John Pope Mr Clive Rutherford Mr Mike Tiley Mr Richard Tudway Mr David Wightman Mr Richard Woolmer 1966 Mr Paul Burden Mr Andrew Davison Mr Michael Galey Professor Roger Jones OBE 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 Reverend Philip Buckler Mr John Corran Mr Alan Evans* Mr Roger Holehouse OBE Dr Andrew Holton Mr Patrick Hooper Mr Douglas Johnson Mr Joseph Keating Mr Philip Lawder Professor Merfyn Lloyd OBE Professor Jonathan Poulton Mr Ashley Ray Mr Jeffrey Saunders Dr John Seager Dr John Sloper Dr Geoffrey Thomas Mr Timothy Tiley Professor Roland Vaubel

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1968 Anonymous Dr Jonathan Angel Mr Richard Belfield Dr Robert Calderisi Mr Michael Clark MBA Mr John Clifford Dr Malcolm Coe Mr Guy Fiegehen Mr Stephen Hill Mr Barry Hunt Dr Andrew Jones Mr David Kirk* Mr Martin Leeburn Mr Peter Lee-Wright Dr John Low Professor Stephen Nussey MRCP Mr Anthony Ollerenshaw Mr Richard Pengilley Dr Paul Sanders Mr Geoffrey Walker

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Mr Edward O’Neill Mr Anthony Searby Mr Kim Slater Mr Jeremy Stickings Professor Robert Tyrrell Mr Philip Wiper Mr Michael Zyw

1969 Anonymous (4) Mr Jeremy Angel Mr Douglas Angus Mr STEPHEN BERRY Mr Ian Birch Mr Patrick Callaghan Dr Philip Christie Professor Douglas Davies Dr Anthony Gore Mr John Hall DL Mr David Hart Mr Ian Hill Mr Ronald Jenkins Mr John Noyce

1970 Anonymous Dr Christopher Austin The Reverend 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 Councillor David Norman MBE Mr James Savin* Mr Steve Shepherd Dr Nicholas Simpson FRCS Dr Roger Suthren Professor Mark Williams 1971 Mr Roger Adams Dr Stephen Bailey Mr Stuart Cooke Dr Martin Dace Mr Robert Gill Mr Geoffrey Hatcher Mr Alan Heath Mr Stephen Hughes Mr Paul Kendall

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Dr Ervine Long Dr John Marshall Mr Jerry Moore Mr David Potts Mr Stephan Roman Mr John Scott 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 Martin Eldred Mr John Gabriel Dr Peter Galliver Mr John Glencross Dr Paul Hancock Dr Simon Helan Mr Peter Johnson Mr Norman MacLeod Dr Philip Newman Dr Charles Pell Commodore Michael Potter CBE Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope GCB OBE ADC Mr Robert Wilson Mr Anthony Withnell 1973 Anonymous (2) Mr Robert Atkins Professor Richard Bessel Mr Robert Bourne

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Dr Richard Brady Mr John Clark Dr Christopher Davies Professor Gerard Evan Professor Nicholas Goddard Mr Jonathan Harwood Mr Matthias Holland Dr Norman James Mr David Kerry Mr Richard Leafe Mr Charles McDowall Mr Martin Moss Mr Paul Rowson Dr John Sheldrake Mr David Sheppard Mr Leslie Sheppard Mr Trevor Ward Mr Simon Williams Mr Philip Wood 1974 Anonymous (3) Mr Stephen Callen Mr Paul Chamberlain The Reverend Paul Day Professor David Edwards Mr John Gavan Mr Robin Hodgkinson Mr Andrew Mercer Dr Christopher Minns Mr Stephen Perkins Dr Alexander Popovich Mr Stephen Pull Dr Grant Rhode Mr Ian Robinson Mr Graham Shore Dr Christopher Waddington Mr Hugh Watson

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1975 Mr Peter Bettley Dr Roger Brambley Mr Andrew Burnett Mr Christopher Chantler Dr Mark Eller Mr Matthew Hayes Mr Brian McMahon Mr Richard Millward Mr Douglas Nicholls Dr Richard Rahm Mr Mark Rogers Mr Neil Rostron Mr Ian Walker Mr Richard Wilkinson 1976 Mr Roger Dyer Dr Philip Hirst Mr Julien Hofer Mr Timothy King Mr Peter Kranstover Mr Guy Leach Mr Timothy Lietzke Mr Alan Mason Mr Nigel Penn-Simkins Mr Nigel Perry MBE FRENG Mr John Stephenson Mr Peter Tonissoo 1977 Anonymous Mr Nicholas Cattermole Mr William Clare Professor Sir David Eastwood DL Dr William Evershed Mr John Fray Mr John Guthrie

Mr Michael Harris Mr Stephen King Mr Robert Kirk Mr Hidenori Murakami Mr Ian Parker Mr Martin Pearman Mr Bruce Potter Mr Allan Silverman Mr Mark Simmons Mr Roderic Sparks Mr Andrew Tarling

Mr Nicholas Martin Dr Philip Mitchell Mr Jeremy Morrish Mr Robin Nielsen Mr Andrew Ockwell Mr Christopher Parker Mrs Ruth Scotson Dr Christopher Slinger

1980 Anonymous Dr Thomas Bailward MA MBBS MRCGP MRCPCH 1978 Mr Mark Emerton Dr Alan Bacon Mr Brett Hannam Dr Michael Barnard Mr Simon Hardy Mr Sherry Bates The Right Reverend Mr Gregga Baxter John Holbrook Professor John Benson Mr Adrian Hopkins KC Mr Daniel Bilbao Professor Robert Huddart Mr Richard Brake Mr Carl Hughes Mr Anton BRAY Mr Mark Jackson Mr Ian Edward Mr John King Mr Nigel Grice Dr Robert Lunn Mr David Hardcastle Dr Andreas Nowak Mr Jon Phelps The Reverend Robert Ritchie Dr Karen Popp JD Mrs Helen Riddle Mr Lawrence Smith Mr Jonathan Riddle Dr Neil Stephenson Mr Mark Wilson Mr Patrick Turner Mr Nicholas Worth Mr Nicholas White Mr Ian Yorston 1979 1981 Mr Mark Allen Anonymous Mr David Allsop Dr Sara Caine Mrs Karin Carver Mr Ivor Chomacki Mr Nicholas Fellows Ms Joanna Duckworth Mr Marcus Hine Mr Richard Hillebrand Mr Christopher Horril Mrs Judy Luddington

Mr Vincent Lugthart Dr Carole Lunn Dr Kevin Morgan Mrs Michaela Mouquet Mrs Paula Packman Mr John Rabin Mr Adam Richards Mr Christopher Rose Mr John Steveni Mr James Thompson Mr Richard Townsend Mr Marc Versloot Mr Karl Wallendszus Mr Christopher Woodward Mr Michael Woolrich 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 Charles Ind Mr Thomas Jenkinson Mr Ashwani Kochhar Mr David Lane Mr Stuart Nicholson Mr Andrew Packman Squadron Leader John Richardson Miss Rachel Shapton Mr Charles Wilkinson Miss Karen Woodall

1983 Mr Keith Bailey Mrs Kathryn Biggs Mrs Susi Clargo Ms Maria Hall Mr Sean Kelly Mr Jonathan May Mrs Amanda Mobbs Mrs Anne Oram Mr Michael Powell Mr Graham Smith 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 Mr Adamantios Miranda Professor Dr Makoto Ogino Ms Jacquelyn Pidgley Mrs Kathryn Samano Dr Peter Stephenson Mr Martin Webber 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 Caroline Robertson ASRM Mrs Julie Rouffiac Ms Dalia Salaam Rishani Professor David Smith Dr Duncan Spiers Mrs Katherine Stenner Mr Davide Taliente Miss Lavell Thompson Mr John Turner Mr Peter Van den Berghe Dr Sean Walls 1986 Anonymous Mrs Ruth Appleton Mr Timothy Bishop Mr David Bucknall Professor Kate Crosby 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 Mr Meredydd Rees Mr James Rice Mrs Anna Sedenu Mr Paul Thomasson Mrs Rachael Wardell OBE

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1987 Mr Nicholas Andrews Mrs Julia Barder Mr Kevin Bibby Mr Charles Bithell Professor Jacek Brodzki Ms Georgina Calvert-Lee Mr Timothy Chapman 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 Mr Aurelian Lis Ms Anna Locke Mrs Sarah Margolin Mrs Catherine McMahon Ms Kerynne Metherell Dr Dominic Mort Dr Dominic Neary Mr John O’Brien Mrs Emma Ritson Mr Michael Saunter Dr Mark Steel Dr John Turner Mr David Vaughan 1988 Mr James Anderson Mrs Kate Andrews Mr Matthew Born Mr David Churchill Ms Christina Galbraith Ms Samantha Gibson Miss Tara Glen

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Dr Neil Hampton Mr Philip Lowe Ms Claudine Macintosh Ms Gwyneth Marshman Mrs Clare Oglesby Professor Chris Parsons Mrs Jacqueline Ranawake Mr Gregory Shepherd Ms Helen Snelson Mr Guy Voizey Mr Robert White Dr Alan Wiles Mrs Helen Williams Princess Ulrike Zu Salm Salm 1989 The Reverend Dr Jonathan Arnold Mr Alexander Gordon Mrs Louisa Gosden Mr Peter Hamer Mr Stephen Hodbod Mrs Dalia Joseph Mr James Lonsdale Dr Gautam Prakash Mr Daniel Smithers 1990 Mr Christopher Bates Mr Peter Blackman Mr Michael Briest Dr Richard Chapman Ms Andrea Chipman Mr Andrew Grimshaw Mr David Little Mr Jason Morrow Mr Stefan Reid Dr Jeffrey Simon

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Dr John Skidmore Mr Andrew Taggart Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Thomson Mr John Vater KC Dr Nicola Warren 1991 Anonymous (3) Dr Rachel Barnard Mr Danny Broderick Dr Frazer Clark Mr Dominic Ely Dr Claire Fox Mrs Elizabeth Fullalove Mr Mark Hanlon Professor Adam Mead Ms Gillian Orrell 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 Mrs Katherine Davies Ms Jenny Galimberti Ms Louise Gooch Ms Natasha Jakubowski Mrs Juliet Jukes Mr Matthew Jukes Mrs Katerina Mirkou

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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 Mr Haarjeev Kandhari Dr James Mason Mrs Francesca Modi Mrs Joanne Monk Mr Charles NewingtonBridges Mrs Tamsin NewingtonBridges Mr Ed Nottingham Dr Elizabeth Pilling Dr Neil Scotchmer Mr Robert Sheppard Mr Alexander Skinner Mrs Fiona Steel Mr Cameron Walton Masters Ms Elaine Whitehouse 1994 Anonymous Dr Hashim Ahmed Mr Mark Alliban Mrs Cat Bagshaw Mr Dominic Bown Mr Asa Bridle Dr Rosalind Bridle Mr David Collard

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Mrs Helen Fowler Miss Nicole Gregory Mr Danish Hamid Mrs Emma Hardaker The Reverend David Harknett Mr Timothy Harrop Mrs Esther Ibbotson Mr Howard Landes Dr Jeevani Mantotta-Maxted Mrs Laura Massey Mr Montu Modi Lieutenant Colonel Beverley Morgan Miss Christine O’Connell Mrs Kate Scotland Mr Peter Spicer Mr John Wilks Mr James Young Mrs Jennifer Young 1995 Anonymous Dr Janet Bastiman Dr Olivia Choi Mr Matthew Dunn Miss Emily Elias Mr Stuart Frizell Mr Paul Hallam 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 Mr Simon Whittaker Mrs Ana Wilks 1996 Mr Benjamin Arnoldy Dr Gerald Clancy Mr Philip Eagle Mrs Charlotte Fletcher Mrs Edith Gowdy Ms Nicola Harrold Mrs Flavia Kenyon Mrs Manfreda Penfold Mr Paul Squire Mr Benjamin Warner 1997 Anonymous (2) Ms Louise Asher Mr James Brunt Dr Lena Ciric Dr Helena Clarkova Mr Joshua Doctor Mr Samuel Gervaise-Jones Mr Justin Gill Mr Alan Greer Ms Rebecca Lyon Mr Warwick Okines Ms Antoaneta Proctor Mr Alexander Salvoni Mr Peter Wigley Dr Bethany Wright 1998 Mr Adam Dickinson Mr Marcus Efstratiou Mr Craig Giles Mrs Susan Jackson

Mrs Katherine Lang Mrs Stephanie Maier Rabbi David Mitchell Mr Roland Chavasse Mr Ron Moscona Mr Tom Payne Mr Peter Pulsford Mr Mark Roberts Mr Richard Silcock Mrs Louise Springthorpe Mr Philip Valvona 1999 Anonymous Mr Jonathan Barry Dr Edward Botcherby Mr David Century Dr Hannah Clark Mr Saul Doctor Mrs Cecily Footner Mr Matthew Foy Professor Andrew Hayashi Mr Iwan Lamble Mr Gareth Lyons Ms Catherine McShane Dr James Zacks Dr Nikolaos Zygouropoulos 2000 Mr Philip Alderton Mr Nicholas Badger Mrs Rachael Badger Ms Joanna Biggs Mr David Chavda Mr William Collinson Lieutenant Commander Oliver Clark Ms Lucy Davis

Mr Abhinandan Deb Mrs Nicola Edger Mr Jonathan Eves Mr Tim Gaul Mr Adam Heal Mrs Hannah Jefferies Mr Paul Jefferies Dr Daniel Lambauer Miss Hayley Moffat Mr Christopher Morrison Mr William O’Connor Mrs Phillippa O’Connor Mr Philip Oltermann Mr Andrew Petterson Mr Nicholas Redman Mr Matthew Reynolds Dr Matthew Richardson Dr Christopher Smith Mr Jonathan Smith Dr Jonathan Weiss 2001 Anonymous Professor Thomas Adcock Mr Lewis Brito-Babapulle Mrs Penelope Durant Mrs Eleanor Franchitti Mr William Gowdy Dr Razi Hussaini Ms Jennifer Lake Mr Desmond Lau Miss Stephanie Moorsom Mr Joseph O’Brien Mrs Laura O’Brien Mr Peter Okell Mr Somerset Pheasant Dr Jeanne Salje Mr Thomas Try

Mrs Zoe Vickerman Dr Cheryl Walsh 2002 Miss Amy Beckenstrom 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 James Loat Mr Damian Payne Mr Andrew Prentice Squadron Leader Joseph Rigg Ms Malini Skandachanmugarasan Mrs Sophie Solly Ms Carol Storey Mrs Ella Williams Mr Paul Williams 2003 Mr Jaimin Allen Mr Antoine Artiganave Mr Matthew Cates Mr Henry Davis Dr Alexis Gallagher Dr Carolyn Haggis Mr Eric Jiang Dr Wendy Leutert Mr Daniel Lowther Mr Andrew McNeil Mrs Josie McNeil Mr Robert Mitchell

Mr James Partington Mr William Pearce Mrs Emily Pheasant Mr Thomas Rayner Mr Joseph Stewart Ms Anna Whitfield Mr Freddie Yiend 2004 Miss Tamara Barnett Wildman Mr Colin Betteridge Dr Rosemary Gowdy Dr Gergely Imreh The Reverend Dr Michael Leyden Ms Shulu Li Mrs Abigail Rosenberg Mr Benjamin Rushton Mr Gareth Russell Mr John Theis

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Mrs Chen Wang Ms Denise Xifara 2006 Anonymous Mr Steven Altmann-Richer Dr Ori Bowen Dr Jessica Ehinger Mr Adam Grodecki Mr Stefan Hargreaves Ms Sarah Heald Miss Oyinkansola Johnson Mr Carl King Mr Andrew Pilkington Mr James Poole Miss Marissa Pueschel Mr Luke Ryder Mr Christopher Sykes Mr Yuchen Xia

2007 Anonymous 2005 Miss Fiona Cheung Anonymous Ms Jessica Davies Mrs Alexandra Britton-Davis Mr Nick Green Dr Merima Brkic Mr Thomas Hancox Mr David Conway Mr Jack Kennedy Mr Kristopher Doyle Mr Samuel Moreton Mr Ben Jones Mr Thomas Pearman Mr Lee Kerslake Miss Laura Sweet Miss Maya Kommer Miss Emma Waldock Dr Aaron Krom Mr David Watson Mrs Anna Leyden 2008 Dr Peter Newbold Mr Christopher Avellaneda Mr Amardeep Pannu Miss Emily Bennett Mr Robert Payne Mr Edward Bersuder Mr Edward Rees Ms Gabriela Bersuder Dr Rok Sekirnik Miss Alexandra Cairns Mr Thomas Smith

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Mrs Olivia Cohen Mr Nathan Collins Mr George Carr Dr Fyodor Gainullin Mrs Mary Anne Gayford Dr Lily Harrison Ms Jenny Hayes Mr Alex Hern Miss Poppy Hodgson Mr Osamu Hoshino Dr Henry Jackson-Flux Miss Una Kim Ms Anita Latsis Mr Alasdair Morgan Miss Caroline Pearman-Gibbs Ms Cheryl Pilbeam Mr Daniel Rozier Mr Tendai Sibanda Mr Ben Slingsby Mr Oliver Tomlins Mr Guy Watmore Mr Samuel Willis 2009 Anonymous Mr Christopher Ainscough Mrs Bethan Coulson Miss Eleanor Griffiths Mr Peter O’Connor Mrs Zahava Rosenthal Miss Eve Ryle-Hodges Dr Emily Turner Mr Nathan Turner Mr Alex Worth Dr Jason Yuen Mr He Zhu

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2010 Mr Oliver Bristowe Ms Alice Fraser Mrs Gabrielle GleesonSolomon Mr Jonathan GleesonSolomon Mr Thomas Haigh Ms Matilda Henderson Mr Samuel Hirst Ms Katy Kim Mr Samuel Lecacheur Miss Hannah Ledbury Mr Chand Mehta Mr Charles Miller Mr Nakulkumar Patel Mr Robert Sheeran The Reverend Yaroslav Walker

Mr Samuel Gebreselassie Mr Craig Kirkham-Wilson Mr Edward Lund Miss Emilia Marsden Mr Daniel Moore Miss Jennifer Wallin Ms Megumi Yamamoto

2011 Dr Joel Beevers Ms Natalie Cappellazzo Mrs Erin Dickens Miss Rachael Franklin Mr Samuel Iles Mr Thomas Jesty Miss Louisa Manning Dr Greer Mellon Miss Amy Pether Miss Alice Sorby Ms Elizabeth Stockdale Mr Gabriel Trueblood Mr Joshua Wilce

2014 Anonymous Dr Thiago Alves Pinto Mr Karn Dasgupta Mr Thomas Foxton Miss Mary George Mr Suchen Jin Mr Isaac Kang Mr James Lavin Mr Michael Linford Mr Noah Miller Mr James Povey Mr Robert Smillie Mr Miles Winter

2012 Mr John Armitage Mr Michael Comba Mr David Fitzpatrick

2015 Mr Sebastian Braddock Dr Andreas Dürr Miss Marina Goodman

2013 Anonymous Miss Sophie-Elise Anker Miss Anissa Berry Mr Matthew Brady Mr Hussein Elbakri Mr George Postlethwaite Mr Douglas Smith Dr Yegor Stepanov Mr Nikolay Vasilev Mr Jonathan Watson

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MEMBERS

Mr William Milnthorpe Mr Neil Tang 2016 Mr Owen Ace Mr Jonathan Gough Mr Edward Hardy Ms Georgina Hayward Miss Rhianna Jones Mr Thomas McAuliffe Mr Tanmay Patankar Miss Christy Sadler 2017 Anonymous Mr Alexander Mash 2018 Miss Sarah Alford Mr Joseph Brierly Mr William Connell Mr Luke Cooper Miss Branwen Thistlewood Mr Felix Westcott 2019 Mr Frederick Wright 2020 Mr Jason Bennett 2021 Mr Kuan Yang 2022 Anonymous

Fellows and Friends Anonymous (4) Dr Roger Allen Ms Jayne-Anne Gadhia Mrs Carolyn Goetz & Professor Stewart Goetz Dr Sylvie Jackson Lady Nancy Kenny Mr Daniel Keyworth Ms Nina Kruglikova Dr John Latsis Dr Alexander Lingas Ms Jing Marantz Professor Henry Mayr-Harting Professor John O’Connor Ms Ann Rypstra Professor Edith Sim Dr Giacomo Tortora Institutions Anjool Maldé Memorial Trust Datascope Recruitment Google Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company St Peter’s College Boat Club St Peter’s College Foundation St Peter’s College JCR

Legacy Donations Received 1 August 2023 - 31 July 2024 Mr Brian Dodd Mr John Diggle Dr John Jones Mr Hugh Norman Mr Stephen Jackson

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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 Peter’s from 1945-1955.

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Anonymous (11) Professor Thomas Adcock Mr Ronald Akhurst Miss Sarah Alford Mr Barry Anson Mr Paul Ardern The Rt Hon. the Lord Ashcroft KCMG Mr David Aspinwall Mr David Atkinson Mr John Austin Mr John Austin Mr John Bain OBE Mr Adrian Baird Mr Waseem Baloch Mr Reginald Bannerman Mr Mike Beevers Professor Ellis Bell Professor John Benson Sir Kenneth Bloomfield MRIA Mr Gordon Bottoms Dr Richard Brady The Reverend Canon John Brown Mr Richard Bunker Mr Stephen Buswell Dr Sara Caine Mr Charles Chevers-Coppen Mr Derek Clarke MBE Ms Gloria Clutton-Williams Dr Malcolm Coe Mr John Cole Professor Richard Collacott

2001 1965 2018 1958 1970 1965 1983 1937 1986 1958 1974 1981 1954 1962 1967 1978 1949 1965 1973 1961 1961 1976 1981 1973 1959 1968 1954 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

Professor Roger Gill 1964 Mr Harvey Glasgow 1957 Mr Barry Glazier 1960 Miss Tara Glen 1988 Mr Travis Good 2004 Mr Frederic Goodwin 1960 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 FCA 1961 Mr Philip Johnston 1959 Dr Andrew Jones 1968 Mr Norman Jones 1959

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Dr Geoffrey Kemp Mr Christopher King Mr David Lake Mr David Lane Mr Philip Lawder Mr Christopher Lilwall Mrs Judy Luddington The Reverend Canon Brian Macdonald-Milne Dr Roger Marshall Mr Richard Marson Mr Bryan Maybee JP Mr Jeremy McGahan Mr Andrew Mead Professor Dr Terence Meaden Mr Alan Mees Mr Stephen Metherell Dr Christopher Minns Lieutenant Colonel Beverley Morgan Mr Robert Morgan FRCS Professor John O’Connor Mr Mike Orriel Mr Jena Pang The Reverend Nigel Panting Dr Neeth Paramananthan Mr Frank Parker Mr Timothy Parkinson Professor Chris Parsons Mr John Patchett Mr Martin Pearman Mr Richard Pengilley Mr Peter Phelan Mr John Poole Dr Michael Pope Mr John Pope 66 St Peter’s College Record 2024

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Dr Christopher Porter 1980 Commodore Frederick Price MBE 1976 Mr Andrew Pryce 1969 Mrs Carol Pryce 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 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 Barrie Thompson 1965 Mrs Margaret Thompson Mr Peter Thompson

SENIOR

Mr Michael Tibbs OBE 1946 Mr Michael Tiley 1965 Mr Anthony Tuckwell 1962 Mr Patrick Turner 1978 Mr Hugh Turrall-Clarke 1957 Professor Robert 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

MEMBERS

Senior Members 2023-24

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

VISITOR

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mason, Lionel Jeremy, MA DPhil Oxf, Tutor in Mathematics, Professor of Mathematics 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 and Fellow Librarian Mayer, Hartmut, MPhil Camb, MA Tufts, DPhil Oxf, Tutor in Politics and International Relations

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 (until 31 December 2023) 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 St Peter’s College Record 2024 67

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

RESEARCH FELLOWS

EMERITUS FELLOWS

Pitkethly, Robert, MBA INSEAD, MA DPhil Oxf, MSc Stirl

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

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

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

Moloney, Mark Gerard, BSc PhD Sydney, MA DipLATHE Oxf

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 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 Bruno, Randy M, BSc Carnegie Mellon, PhD Pittsburgh, Tutor in Pre-clinical Medicine, Professor of Neuroscience Kirrander, Adam, MSc Uppsala, MSc, DPhil Oxf, Tutor in Chemistry, Professor of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Whalley, Catherine, MA Camb, MEd Open, College Registrar Yakerson, Maria, PhD Duisburg-Essen, Diploma with honours, St Petersburg State University, Martin Powell Fellow and Tutor in Mathematics (1 October 2023 to 30 September 2024) Dekker, Nynke, PhD Harvard, MS Harvard, Doctorandus Leiden, BS Yale, Professorial Fellow, Professor of Biophysics (from 1 February 2024) Splitter, Violetta, UG degree, University Libre de Bruxelles, PhD Zürich, Dip in Business Administration Ludwig-Maximilian University Münich, Tutor in Management (from 1 April 2024) Jones, Simon, CIMA, Bursar (from 1 April 2024)

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HONORARY FELLOWS

Sanderson, Charles Denis, MA Oxf

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

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

Weldon, Anthony Henry David, FRCM

Marson, Richard Benjamin, MA Oxf

Foy, Peter, MA Oxf

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

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

Twycross, Robert Geoffrey, MA DM Oxf, FRCP

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

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

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

Southworth, Eric Alan, MA Camb, MA Oxf

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

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

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

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

Dorfman, Lloyd M, CBE

Leyser, Henrietta, BLitt MA Oxf

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

Earle, Thomas Foster, MA DPhil Oxf

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

CAREER DEVELOPMENT FELLOW

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

Edwards, Emma, BA UNC-Chapel Hill, PhD MIT, CDF in Engineering Science (Fluid Mechanics)

Fiddes, the Revd Paul Stuart, MA DPhil DD Oxf

Hilliard, Kevin Foster, MA DPhil Oxf

Moxon, Archbishop Sir David, BA Canterbury, New Zealand, MA Massey, MA Oxf, LTh Dipl Aotearoa, KNZM

SUPERNUMERARY FELLOWS

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

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

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

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 St Peter’s College Record 2024 69

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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 Abdul-Hamid, Ayeshah, MBBS Keele, MSc UCL, PGCE Oxf, Medicine Aldred, Sophie, BA MSt DPhil Oxf, History Allen, Sophie Rebecca, MA Glas, PhD Lond, Philosophy Beregi, Abel, MSci UCL, DPhil Oxf, Physics Booth, Philip, BA MPhil PhD Camb, Theology and Religion, and History (HT24, TT24) 70 St Peter’s College Record 2024

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Burkert-Burrows, Stefanie, MSt Oxf, Staatsexamen Eichstätt, PGCE Manc Met, German Language Carruthers, Anna, BSc LSE, MPhil Oxf, Economics 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 (MT23) Court, Elsa, BA MA Sorbonne, PhD UCL, French Davy, Martin Howard, BEng PhD UCL, Engineering Eames, Beth, BA Oxf, Engineering (HT24, TT24) 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 Gant, Andrew John, MA Camb, MMus RAM, PhD Lond, Music Gilday, Lydia, MChem DPhil Oxf, Chemistry Grant-Downton, Robert, BA DPhil Oxf, Biology Head, Catherine, BSc MSc RHUL, DPhil Oxf, Biology Hodgson, Susanne, MA Camb, BM BCh PGDip LATHE Oxf, DTM&H Wits, MRCP, Clinical Medicine Jenkinson, Sarah, MChem DPhil Oxf, Chemistry Jones, Jasmine, BA UCL, MPhil Oxf, English Kmec, Adam, MMathPhys Oxf, Mathematics Koepernik, Peter, BSc Karlsruhe IT, MSc Oxf, Mathematics Kolios, Georgios, BSc Athens, MSc PhD Essex, Economics Leneghan, Francis, BA MPhil PhD Dub, Medieval English Lim, Fang Rui, BSc Imperial, MSc ETH Zürich, Mathematics Lombardi, Elena Laurea Pavia, MA PhD New York, Italian Maas, Gabrielle, BA MPhil Camb, DPhil Oxf, French Maleubre Molinero, Sara, BSc Madrid, MSc Leiden, PhD Sorbonne, Physics Marshall, Mary, BA MSt DPhil Oxf, Theology and Religion McCallion, Oliver, BA KCL, BMBS Nott, PG Diploma Oxf, DPhil Oxf, Medicine (HT24, TT24)

Nasseh, Georgia, BA QMUL, MSt DPhil Oxf, Portuguese

BURSAR

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

Jones, Simon, CIMA, (from 1 April 2024)

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

CHAPLAIN

Outeiral Rubiera, Carlos, BSc Oviedo, MPhil Manc, Biochemistry Palin, Richard, MESc DPhil Oxf, Earth Sciences Papiez, Bartek, PhD UCLan, Engineering Power Smith, Mark, BA UCL, MSt Oxf, PhD UCL, History Pujol i Campeny, Afra, BA MPhil PhD Camb, Linguistics Rashbrook, Victoria, BSc Brighton, MSc KCL PhD UCL, Medicine (MT23, HT24) Schlackow, Waldemar, MMath DPhil Oxf, Mathematics Schumacher, Jacob, PhD SOAS, Economics Sheppard, Dean, MChem DPhil Oxf, Chemistry Singh, Palash, BS-MS Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mathematics Skordyles, Kostas, BA Athens, MPhil Paris, Modern Greek Terrefe, Biruk, BA Jacobs University Bremen, MPhil Oxf, DPhil Oxf, Politics

MEMBERS

Pitkethly, the Revd Dr Elizabeth, BA MMus PhD KCL, BPhil Warwick, MSt MLitt Oxf, PGCE Institute of Education London, ODM, ACK Theology (until September 2024)

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

Veronese-Clucas, Leah, BA Oxf, MSc KCL, DPhil Oxf, English Von Preussen, Brigid, BA Camb, MA SIAS, MA, MPhil, PhD Columbia, History of Art (HT24, TT24)

DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT AND ALUMNI RELATIONS de Gaynesford, Brett, BA College of William and Mary

Waghorn, Nicholas, BA Oxf, DPhil Reading, Philosophy Watson, Alice, MA St And, MSc DPhil Oxf, Geography

DIRECTOR OF MUSIC

Wiersig, Finn, BSc OVGU Germany, Mathematics

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

Williams, Athol, BSc Wits, MSc LBS, MSc LSE, MPhil Oxf, MPA Harvard, MBA MIT, DPhil Oxf, Management

DOMESTIC BURSAR

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

Melbourne, Kevin

Xenophontos, Panayiotis, BA MSt DPhil Oxf, Russian Yelleshpur Srikant, Akshay, BS-MS Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, PhD Princeton, Mathematics

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

Zervou, Sevasti, BSc Wolverhampton, PhD Warwick, Biochemistry Zionts, Jessica, BS John Hopkins University, MSc Oxf, Geography (HT24, TT24) St Peter’s College Record 2024 71

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New Members 2023-24 Undergraduates ARCHAEOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY Phoebe Davies Fardowsa Hersi Helena Landels Ella Miles

BIOCHEMISTRY, MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR Zoe Heberlet Amabel Lea Gerard Li Ciara O’Brien

BIOLOGY Lucas Bray Mia Morris Annabel Shone Leah Tucker

CHEMISTRY Lisa Addo Alexis Andronikos Xijia Deng

EARTH SCIENCES

HISTORY

MATHEMATICS AND PHILOSOPHY

Cole Bateson Daniel Crapper Eoin Curwen Isaac Sandhu

Phoebe Broster Margaux Dahan Hoffman William Grimley Iris Harmsworth Gregory Madden Priyanka Menon Amelia Parry Afomia Zelaleme

Laura Golding

ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT Ved Chintawar India Hazelwood Liesbeth He Benjamin Horsell Chuyang Lu Rahul Mehta

ENGINEERING Rohan Chauhan Haoran Feng Rishabh Luthra Zhijun Wang

ENGLISH Ellen Bentley Richard Groom Cara Kelsall Freya Kemp Isobel Murray Emily Pitfield

Shaoyuan Xiu Zixin Yang

GEOGRAPHY Emily Elms Toma Kerac William Revill

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HISTORY AND ECONOMICS Efe Shimwell

HISTORY OF ART Cerys Bennison George Hill Katherine Nisbet

LAW Hannah Giles Eric Grant Gareth Lim Emily Middleton Adi Singh Yoonseo Yang

MATHEMATICS Ali Akhtar Charles Flaxbeard Daan Groot Claudia Leung Samuel Sherwin Ho Yiu

MEMBERS

MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS Shaodan Wang

MEDICINE Ali Elmoselhy Jordan Parkinson Eden Powell Hassan Shaffe Isabel Singleton Sashank Uday

MODERN LANGUAGES James Abrahams (G) Antonia Corvi-Mora (F&Ling) Johnny Evans-Hutchinson (S&P) Sophia Margolin (F&Ling) Grace Pearl (F&P) Anna Sadowski (F&I) Joseph Stoner (G&P) Tristan Wigley (I&S)

MUSIC Kirsty Fernie Marcel Laska Daniel Loach Joseph Rudge

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PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY Ioan Cressey-Rodgers Kathryn Jackson

Graduates

Graham Doke, DPhil Theology and Religion (Parttime)

Aias Ktorides, MSc Mathematical and Computational Finance

Ruya Abdulsalam, DPhil Primary Health Care

Kathryn Eden, MSc Nature, Society and Environmental Governance

Rhea Kunar, DPhil International Relations

Petr Akinshin, DPhil Condensed Matter Physics

PHILOSOPHY, POLITICS AND ECONOMICS Mark Allen Charlotte Dawson William Donaldson John Gulland Faizan Ijaz

Jacob Anthony, MSc Archaeology Sara Anwar, MSc Sustainable Urban Development Kazi Momin Ashraf, MSc Sustainable Urban Development

Sam Edwards, BM BCh (Graduate Entry Medicine) Emma Elley, DPhil Astrophysics Andrea Ellman, MSt History of Art and Visual Culture Leanne Eveson, DPhil Medical Sciences

Emily Kuwaye, MSt History: Early Modern History 1500-1700 Eunhyuk Kwon, MSt History of Art and Visual Culture Zihang Lai, DPhil Engineering Science Tahiry Langrand, MSc Biodiversity, Conservation and Management

Ryan Au, BCL

Katie Feeney, MSt Music (Musicology)

Lola Record

Iskander Azangulov, DPhil Statistics

George Fellows, MSc Intellectual Property

Fraser Weissen

Anousheh Barbezieux, MSc Sustainable Urban Development

Pablo Fernandez Del Amo, MSc Mathematical Sciences

PHYSICS

Zeynep Baykam, MSc Pharmacology

Alisa Fetisova, MSc Sustainable Urban Development

Parv Choudhary

Daniel Brot, MSt Jewish Studies

Oliver Friend-Smith, BCL

Jack Lyman

Cornelius Carlsson, DPhil Engineering Science

Joe Gellett, BM BCh (Graduate Entry Medicine)

James Robinson

Autumn Carter, PGCE - Religious Education

Maisie Saunders

Jason Chai, DPhil Medical Sciences

Garen-Ohan Gregorian, MSc Mathematical & Theoretical Physics

Hal Sinclair

Puriwat Chaisiriroj, MJur

Tomos Haynes, MSt Modern Languages (Fr and Sp)

Sitong Liu, DPhil Statistics

Sana Chaudhry, MSc Sustainable Urban Development

Yafei He, MSc Mathematical and Computational Finance

Xinyu Liu, MSc(Res) Engineering Science

THEOLOGY AND RELIGION

Lorenzo Chiaverini, DPhil Engineering Science

Anushka Jadhav, Master of Public Policy

Alexander Long, MSc(Res) Biochemistry

Leslie Christy, MSc Intellectual Property

Anne Johnakin, MSc Archaeological Science

Emma Classen-Howes, MPhil Law

Aishwarya Kaiprath Shaji, BCL

Hannah Luscombe, DPhil Geography and the Environment

Matthew Cornall, BM BCh (Graduate Entry Medicine)

Julia Karjalainen, MSc Integrated Immunology

Sebastián Luza Vega, DPhil Engineering Science

Fatima Kasenally, DPhil Statistics

Jonathan Marrow, MSt Jewish Studies

Jakub Curda, DPhil Mathematics

Donggeun Kim, DPhil Statistics

Grace Middleton, MSt History: Medieval History

Camille-Constance Curet, MSt Theology

Selma Kolly, MJur

Daniel Miller, MPhil Modern Middle Eastern Studies

Mingji Dai, DPhil Materials

Yashh Kotecha, MSc Mathematics and Foundations of Computer Science

Shoichiro Miyakawa, Master of Public Policy

Freddie Longly

Jasmin Kypri Matthew Mair Megan Radcliffe

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Laura Andersen, MPhil Buddhist Studies

Jack Edis, MSt Music (Musicology)

MEMBERS

Jun Bin Lee, MSc Nature, Society and Environmental Governance Antonio Leon Villares, MSc Mathematics and Foundations of Computer Science Jinhong Li, DPhil Engineering Science Sirui Li, DPhil Materials Chenwei Liao, MSc Latin American Studies Jian Ming Sylvester Lim, DPhil Biology Ruohan Liu, MSc(Res) Clinical Neurosciences

Waywen Loh, MSc Integrated Immunology

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Zhaoyi Mo, DPhil Clinical Neurosciences Aninda Nishat Moitry, DPhil Clinical Medicine Eva Montero Ibarra, DPhil Law Giancarlo Moreira Gama, Master of Public Policy Nathan Mudrak, DPhil Paediatrics

Xiaoyu Zhang, MPhil Politics: Comparative Government

Catherine Savard, MPhil Law

Qishi Zheng, DPhil Primary Health Care

Franziska Schories, MSc Mathematical and Computational Finance

Yijun Zhu, MSc Financial Economics

Jacob Chew, Philosophy and Economics

Xinyan Zong, MSc Statistical Science

Xiaoxian Ding, Mathematics and Statistics

Lado Sirdadze, MJur

Julia Nauerz, MSc Financial Economics

Benjamin Soran, MSc Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology

Visiting Postgraduates

Matthew Southern, DPhil Organic Chemistry

Dimitrios Panapoulos, Modern Languages

Makhosana Nyamazana, MSc Sustainable Urban Development

Margot Stakenborg, MSt Philosophy of Physics

Sebastian Frankel, Philosophy and Politics Alice Goyer, Geography and Engineering Science Cameron Grant, Physics Yixian Huang, Mathematics and Statistics Xinyun Jiang, Economics and Physics

Lucy Swale, MSt Theology

Gloria Leung, Philosophy and Politics

Sheena Talma, DPhil Biology

Junda Long, Mathematics and Statistics

Katherine Tubb, DPhil Biology

Zoe Mitchell, Economics

Tom Tyler, DPhil Engineering Science

Reimi Sakajiri, Philosophy and Politics

Pablo Ventós Baena, MSc Pharmacology

Xiaotian Shen, Mathematics and Statistics

Leticia Viada Campos, MSc Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing

Xavier Singarayar, Engineering Science

Pusit Vittayanugool, MBA

Emi Tanimoto, Philosophy and Politics

Yuning Wang, MSc Social Anthropology

Chaolong Wang, Engineering Science

Nicholas Pilaud, DPhil Geography and the Environment

Ramya Warrier, MSc Neuroscience

Alicia Xia, Philosophy, Politics, Economics

Ying Wei, DPhil Engineering Science

Theodore Young, Philosophy and Economics

Vorakorn Pornsirikul, MBA

Phoebe Whitlock, MSc Intellectual Property

Sarwatejas Rana, MSc Pharmacology Piero Rios Carrillo, DPhil Law

Morganne Wilbourne, DPhil Inflammatory and Musculoskeletal Disease

Jaime Rivas Taquias, PGCE - History

Ye Xia, MBA

Chelsea Roche, MSc Intellectual Property

Wentian Xu, DPhil Engineering Science

Branavan Rudran, DPhil Musculoskeletal Sciences

Ruizi Yan, MSc Statistical Science

Jem Ruf, MSc Economic and Social History

Zherui Yu, MSc Financial Economics

Anastasiia Oleshchuk, DPhil Medieval and Modern Languages (Rus) Paul Paller, MSc Mathematical and Computational Finance Zixin Pan, MSc Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology Javiera Perez Ribalta, MSc Biodiversity, Conservation and Management Teresa Petralia, MPhil Politics: European Politics and Society

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Zibia Bardin, English Literature and French

Xiaohan Dong, Geography

Alexandre Joseph Arnaud Nasr, MSc Statistical Science Ban Kheng Ng, MPhil Buddhist Studies

Visiting Undergraduates

Alexi Saber, MSc Mathematical and Computational Finance

Linda Shi, BM BCh (Graduate Entry Medicine)

MEMBERS

Caroline Sun, Mathematics and Statistics

Jingze Zheng, Mathematics and Statistics

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Results and Achievements 2023-24 FIRST IN FHS

Alfred Taylor, History

Tharin Azad, Medical Sciences

Ella Thiagarajah Ozkan, History

Holly Brooker, History

Kamran Vaishnav, Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Aaron Chen, Engineering Science Marielena Demetriou, History Luca Dileto, History

Jonah Veakins, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry

DISTINCTION/FIRST IN PRELIMS/ MODS Mark Allen, Philosophy, Politics and Economics Cerys Bennison, History of Art Lucas Bray, Biology

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ACHIEVEMENTS

Lola Record, Philosophy, Politics and Economics

MJur Puriwat Chaisiriroj

Garen-Ohan Gregorian (Merit)

Isaac Sandhu, Earth Sciences

Selma Kolly

Maisie Saunders, Physics

Mangani Rebecca Ilunga

Lado Sirdadze

Julia Karjalainen (Distinction)

MSt Daniel Brot

Kelsey Knecht (Merit)

Camille-Constance Curet

Yashh Kotecha

Elizabeth Dally (Merit)

Aias Ktorides

Postgraduate Certificate in Education

Jack Edis (Distinction)

Tahiry Langrand

Jaime Rivas Taquias

Andrea Ellman

Jun Bin Lee (Merit)

Katie Feeney

Antonio Leon Villares (Distinction)

Tomos Haynes (Merit)

Chenwei Liao (Distinction)

Annabel Shone, Biology Joseph Stoner, Modern Languages (German and Portuguese)

Dinis Douglas Guerreiro Seward

Ashlyn Koh

Rohan Chauhan, Engineering

Elizabeth Eilers, History

Vedant Vishwanath, Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Alfred Fardell, Music

Isabel Walter, History of Art

Daniel Crapper, Earth Sciences

Benjamin Green, Modern Languages (French) and Linguistics

Ben Webb, Earth Sciences Marcus Wells, History

Phoebe Davies, Archaeology and Anthropology

Emma Wiggetts, History

Laura Golding, Mathematics and Philosophy

BM BCh Gabrielle Cognacq

Elizabeth Hockin, Archaeology and Anthropology

Anna Williams, Geography

William Grimley, History

Alexander MacAulay

Emily Kuwaye (Merit)

Waywen Loh (Distinction)

Dora Xu, History of Art

Sophie Roberts

Eunhyuk Kwon (Merit)

Yize Ma

Charlotte Knights, History

Poppy York, English Language and Literature

India Hazelwood, Economics and Management

Ben Swanson (Distinction)

Jonathan Marrow (Distinction)

Manseeb Malek (Merit)

Grace Middleton (Merit)

Metadel Mengestu

Lucy Swale (Distinction)

Alexandre Joseph Arnaud Nasr (Merit)

Isabel Greenslade, Economics and Management

Xanthe Luckham-Down, Theology and Religion Angus Norman, Geography

DISTINCTION IN PART C OF THE MMATH OR THE MMATHSTAT

Katherine Peachey, Philosophy and Theology

William Garrett, Mathematics

Charlie Potts, Music

Renjie Ji, Mathematics

George Rabin, Biology Tricia Seow, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Magnus Sesodia, Physics

DISTINCTION IN GRADUATE ENTRY MEDICINE Ben Swanson

DISTINCTION IN PART II OF THE FIRST EXAMINATION FOR THE BM

Thomas Storey, Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Abigail Jones

HIGHER DEGREES, CERTIFICATES AND DIPLOMAS

Liesbeth He, Economics and Management George Hill, History of Art

MBA Vorakorn Pornsirikul

Benjamin Horsell, Economics and Management

Pusit Vittayanugool

Helena Landels, Archaeology and Anthropology

Ye Xia

MSc Jacob Anthony (Distinction)

Julia Nauerz (Merit) Zixin Pan (Merit)

Zeynep Baykam (Distinction)

Javiera Perez Ribalta (Merit)

Daniel Loach, Music

MPP Anushka Jadhav (Merit)

Yunqing Bi

Alan Potts (Distinction)

Chuyang Lu, Economics and Management

Shoichiro Miyakawa

Ying Chen

Sarwatejas Rana

Rahul Mehta, Economics and Management

Giancarlo Moreira Gama

Leslie Christy (Merit)

Chelsea Roche (Distinction)

BCL Ryan Au (Distinction)

Kathryn Eden (Distinction)

Jem Ruf (Distinction)

George Fellows (Distinction)

Alexi Saber (Distinction)

Oliver Friend-Smith (Distinction)

Pablo Fernandez Del Amo (Distinction)

Franziska Schories (Distinction)

Aishwarya Kaiprath Shaji (Merit)

Ofir Gavrieli (Merit)

Benjamin Soran (Merit)

Katherine Nisbet, History of Art

Serrena Srithavarajah, Economics and Management

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Ved Chintawar, Economics and Management

Emily Pitfield, English Language and Literature Megan Radcliffe, Theology and Religion

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ACHIEVEMENTS

Morad Sóvári

DPhil

Pablo Ventós Baena (Merit)

Stefanos Bennett, Modern Statistics and Statistical Machine Learning (CDT), On Machine Learning Methods for Time Series

Leticia Viada Campos (Distinction) Ramya Warrier (Merit) Phoebe Whitlock Ruizi Yan (Merit) Zherui Yu (Distinction) Kaiwen Zhang Yijun Zhu (Distinction) Xinyan Zong (Merit) MSc by Research Abdullah Kuziez BPhil Anna Connell (Merit)

Joseph Benton, Modern Statistics and Statistical Machine Learning (CDT), Generative Models: Theory and Applications Lucy Browne, DPhil Chemistry, Biocatalytic Metal Nanoparticle Synthesis & Investigation of Catalytic Properties of Metal Nanoparticle-Enzyme Hybrids Christian Uriel Carmona Perez, DPhil Statistics, Bayesian Semi-Modular Inference: Theory and Methods for Inference in Multi-Modular Settings Under Model Misspecification

Aaron Deller

Mark Collett, DPhil History, The Worlds of E.D. Morel, 1873-1924

MPhil David Cueva (Distinction)

Pau De Jorge Aranda, DPhil Engineering Science, Towards Efficient and Reliable Neural Networks

Gabriel Fung (Distinction) George Hale (Distinction) Tierney Hall (Distinction) Lara Hankeln (Merit) Joseph Murphy (Merit) Daniel Ruin (Distinction) Mariia Shmonina (Merit) Lasse Von Der Heydt (Merit) Zhixin Wan (Merit) 80 St Peter’s College Record 2024

Atanasiu Stefan Demian, DPhil Medical Sciences, Bayesian Modelling of Cell Neighbourhoods from ClumpSeq Data Catherine Fan, DPhil Physics, Assembly and Intracellular Delivery Methods for Nucleic Acid Nanotechnology Katherine Fapp, DPhil History, ‘To Clasp Hands…Across the Ocean’: American Woman Suffragists in the Pacific World, 1893 – 1928

R E S U LT S

Natalia Garcia Martin, Statistical Science (EPSRC & MRC CDT), Genomic and ImageBased Quantification of Intra-Tumoural Heterogeneity

Claire Lunde, DPhil Women’s and Reproductive Health, Innovative Mixed Methods for Assessing Chronic Pain in Adolescents and Adults

Jose Alfredo Guerrero Castro, DPhil Earth Sciences, Fracture Detection with Azimuthal Seismic Data, Rock Physics and Geomechanics

Hui Luo, DPhil Materials, Study of Polymer Crystalline Structure with (S)TEM imaging

Desislava Ivanova, Mod Statistics and Statistical Machine Learning (CDT), Automated Data Acquisition via Bayesian Experimental Design Przemysław Klupś, DPhil Materials, MultiTechnique Analysis of Solute Segregation and Clustering in Low-Alloy Steels Manuel Kober-Czerny, DPhil Physics, Investigating Optoelectronic Properties of Three-Dimensional and Layered Metal Halide Perovskites Zhi Kor, DPhil Clinical Neurosciences, Quantitative Methods for MRI-Microscopy Comparisons Mona Koshkouei, DPhil Primary Health Care, The Impact of Regulatory Change on Pharmacy Practice: The Implementation of the European Union Falsified Medicines Directive in the United Kingdom Wentao Li, DPhil Finance, Three Essays on Asset Pricing

Richard Meister, DPhil Materials, Refining Quantum Algorithms for each Era of Quantum Computing Daniel Moss, Modern Statistics and Statistical Machine Learning (CDT), Bayesian Modelling of Dependent Data Cristiano Peron, DPhil Oncology, The Role of SPRTN Protease in Colorectal Cancer Chemotherapy Jessica Pointing, DPhil Physics, Quantum Computing and Quantum Neural Networks: their Foundation, Optimisation, and Application Nina Shigesi, DPhil Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Unravelling the Association between Endometriosis and Immunological Diseases

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ACHIEVEMENTS

Dessislava Veltcheva, Interdisciplinary Bioscience (BBSRC DTP), Re-Visiting Clonal-Complex Classifications: a Novel Machine Learning Approach for Investigating Population Dynamics of Antimicrobial Resistance in Campylobacter Jejuni Nathan Wallace, DPhil Theology and Religion, Redemption and Reform in A Secular Age: Charles Taylor’s Interpretation of Early Modern Protestantism Bethan Winter, DPhil History, Classical Music as Cultural Diplomacy: The ReInvention of J.S. Bach in the German Democratic Republic, 1945-1989 Jaezah Adlina Zainal Azman, DPhil Pharmacology, The Contribution of Traumatic Brain Injury to Alzheimer’s Disease Progression Florian Zirpel, DPhil Clinical Neurosciences, The Role of Medullary Dorsal Horn Circuits in the Diurnal Regulation of Nociception

Megan Stoker, DPhil Women’s and Reproductive Health, Targeting Mitochondrial Metabolism as a Promising Therapeutic Strategy in Cancer James Thornton, Statistical Science (EPSRC & MRC CDT), Optimal Transport Based Simulation Methods for Deep Probabilistic Models St Peter’s College Record 2024 81

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SCHOLARSHIPS

Scholarships and Awards 2023-24 DOMUS SCHOLARSHIPS

Rhea Score, History of Art

Wisam Sherwi, Engineering Science

awarded in Michaelmas term 2023

Henry Roskill, Mathematics

Julia Tomasiak, Jurisprudence

Nasim Bellagnaoui, Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Zhen Yi Tan, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry

Jonah Veakins, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry

Louis Bryan, English Language and Literature

Bethany Thomas, Biology Owen Thomas, Music

Yuhan Yohanna Cao, Economics and Management

Frederick Thompson, English Language and Literature

Renee Chow, Earth Sciences

Long Tse, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry

Reuben Constantine, Modern Languages (French and Modern Greek)

Luke Vernon, Engineering Science

Sebastian Wingate, History

Joshua Cruice, Philosophy and Theology

DOMUS EXHIBITION

ANJOOL MALDÉ SCHOLARSHIPS

Grace Hall, Music

awarded by the Worshipful Company of Cutlers

awarded in Hilary term 2024

Rufus Hall, Philosophy and Modern Languages (German)

Tharin Azad, Medicine

Aman de Silva, Chemistry

Ellie Faulkner, Medicine

Grace Hall, Music

Edward Harris, Medicine

Gabriella Moscona, Engineering Science

Anna Jones, Medicine

Sami Haroon, Philosophy and Theology Thomas Hill, Earth Sciences Ishwar Karthik, Mathematics Laura Koscielska, Religion and Oriental Studies Jinyu Liu, Biology Dmitry Lukyanov, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry

Martha Sainty, Geography

Eden Powell, Medicine

Long Tse, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry

Hassan Shaffe, Medicine

BARRON SCHOLARSHIPS awarded in Michaelmas term 2023

T W Mason Prize (History)

Smith Prize (History)

Lily Kingdon-Dawkins, English Language and Literature

Ella Thiagarajah Ozkan

Sebastian Wingate

Francis Warner Dissertation Prize

Simpson Prizes

Dora Xu, History of Art

Joshua Cruice, Philosophy and Theology

Matthew Antrobus

Poppy York, English Language and Literature

Tristan Hand, Economics and Management

Vegard Solberg Rivington Prize (Theology)

Thomas Hill, Earth Sciences Ayesha Nasir, Medicine Martha Sainty, Geography

T W Mason Prize (History)

awarded during 2023-24 to continuing students

Alastair Kidd, History and Politics

Bailey Prize (Chemistry)

Lucas Quinn

Aman de Silva

Rhea Score, History of Art Bethany Thomas, Biology Owen Thomas, Music

PRIZES

Houghton Prize (English)

awarded to students who completed their courses in TT24

Frederick Thompson

Zhen Yi Tan, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry

Carl Albert Prize (most distinguished Finalists 2024)

McCartney Fund Prize (History)

Steven Latner Scholarship (English)

Holly Brooker

Frederick Thompson

Alfred Fardell, Music

Elizabeth Eilers

Benjamin Green, Modern Languages (French) and Linguistics

Marcus Wells

Sutton Prize (Philosophy, Politics and Economics)

LANDAU FORTE BURSARY

William Garrett

Samuel Green (Homerton College, Cambridge)

Renjie Ji

Tharin Azad, Medicine

Charles Caine Mathematics Prize

Gabriella Moscona, Engineering Science

Eunsoo Chang, Engineering Science

Renjie Ji

Ayesha Nasir, Medicine

Zephyr Goriely, Biology

Ricardo Padilla, Geography

Lauren Homan, Biology

awarded to students who completed their courses in TT23

Sarvesh Sabale, Economics and Management

Renjie Ji, Mathematics

Charles Caine Mathematics Prize

Sanmay Moitra, Jurisprudence

Jakub Curda

Martha Sainty, Geography

Daisy Moll, Geography

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Sami Haroon, Philosophy and Theology

OTHER PRIZES AND SCHOLARSHIPS

New Horizon Prizes (Mathematics)

PRIZES

AWARDS

New Horizon Prizes (Mathematics)

CRAYTHORNE SCHOLARSHIPS

Aman de Silva, Chemistry

Tristan Hand, Economics and Management

Francis Warner Dissertation Prize

awarded in Michaelmas term 2023 Sonia Wong, Geography

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Michael Latner Prize (Law)

Nasim Bellagnaoui

Zi Hao Tan

William James Clarke Prize (French)

New Horizon Prizes (Mathematics)

Benjamin Green, Modern Languages (French) and Linguistics

Ishwar Karthik Li Gu

St Peter’s Society Prizes Tyler Crowley

Pearman Prize (German)

Robert Klapper

Magnus Sesodia

Rufus Hall, Philosophy and Modern Languages (German)

Anna Williams

Rivington Prize (Theology)

Rivington Prize (Theology)

Maanya Patel

Laura Koscielska, Theology and Religion

Steve Jackson Physics Prize

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SCHOLARSHIPS SUPPORTED BY HAARJEEV KANDHARI Piyada Wattanapalanon Scholarship (Economics) Kamran Vaishnav, Philosophy, Politics and Economics Raisaa Kaur Kandhari Scholarship (Philosophy) Ruby Johnson, Philosophy, Politics and Economics

OTHER CHORAL SCHOLARSHIPS Bernard Rose Choral Scholarship, supported by John Bain Amy Gadhia, Archaeology and Anthropology Helen Williams Choral Scholarship Kirsten Fernie, Music John Bain Choral Scholarship Owen Thomas, Music Jonathan Arnold Choral Scholarship

Raisaa Kaur Kandhari Scholarship (Politics) Ruby Johnson, Philosophy, Politics and Economics Kamran Vaishnav, Philosophy, Politics and Economics Jatinder Singh Uppal Choral Scholarship Phoebe Smith, Music Karan Singh Uppal Choral Scholarship Grace Hall, Music Kirtan for Causes Choral Scholarship Johnny Evans-Hutchinson, Modern Languages (Spanish and Portuguese) Manika Kaur Kandhari Choral Scholarship

Megan Harley-Martin, Philosophy and Theology Roy Burgess Choral Scholarships Aman de Silva, Chemistry Annabel Shone, Biology

Abigail Evans, Music

Elizabeth Eilers, History, Deelman

Usher Instrumental Scholarship

Johnny Evans-Hutchison, Modern Languages (Spanish and Portuguese), Latner

Laura Koscielska, Religion and Oriental Studies

TRAVEL AND INTERNSHIP AWARDS Alexandra Akins, Modern Languages (French and Modern Greek), AJ Tracey Meg Aitken, Medicine, Latner Chloe Allsopp, English Language and Literature, Deelman Awais Aslam, Modern Languages (Spanish), Arabella

Graduate Choral Scholarship

Safaa Baig, Philosophy and Modern Languages (French), Arabella

Rhys Inward (Jesus College)

OTHER MUSIC AWARDS Paul and Fiona Geddes Awards for Musical Excellence Alfred Fardell, Music Charlie Potts, Music Sophia Short, Music

Chi (Jason) Mak, Music

Raveena Kaur Uppal Choral Scholarship

Jacob Barnes Instrumental Scholarship, supported by Thomas Hancox

William Revill, Geography

Sophie Rowdene, Music

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Aman de Silva, Chemistry, Latner

Marcus Wells, History

Allen Organ Scholarship Marcel Laska, Music

Christopher Ross Instrumental Scholarship, supported by John Bain

Bogdan Baban, Mathematics and Statistics, Simpson

Emma Wiggetts, History Narankar Singh Uppal Choral Scholarship

SCHOLARSHIPS

Sophia Banner, Archaeology and Anthropology, Latner

Jonathan Dickinson, Biology, Latner

GRADUATE AWARDS

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

Andrew Campbell, DPhil Modern Statistics and Machine Learning (EPSRC CDT)

Evie Sherwood, Earth Sciences, Durham

Catherine Chahrour, DPhil Genomic Medicine and Statistics

Caitlin Small, History, Deelman

funded by the St Peter’s College Foundation

Tahmid Choudhury, DPhil Materials

Zephyr Goriely, Biology, Latner

Joseph Stoner, Modern Languages (French and Portuguese), Latner

William Grimley, History, Latner

Owen Thomas, Music, Latner

Rufus Hall, Philosophy and Modern Languages (German), Latner

Frederick Thompson, English Language and Literature, Deelman

Oscar Clivio, DPhil Modern Statistics and Machine Learning (EPSRC CDT)

Blodwyn Hall-Jones, History, Latner

Jodie Tyler, Modern Languages (Spanish), Latner

Camille-Constance Curet, MSt Theology

Tanya Watson, Chemistry, Simpson

Mary Durin, DPhil Medical Sciences

Fardowsa Hersi, Archaeology and Anthropology, AJ Tracey

GRADUATE AWARDS

Kathryn Eden, MSc Nature, Society and Environmental Governance

Thomas Hill, Earth Sciences, Durham

St Peter’s Oxford – Marshall Scholarship

Rebecca John, Medicine, Simpson

Nathan Mudrak, DPhil Paediatrics

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

Sim Studentship

Gabriel Fung, MPhil International Relations

Zeynep Baykam, MSc Pharmacology

Tatjana Gibbons, DPhil Women’s and Reproductive Health

Ellie Faulkner, Medical Sciences, Arabella

Arshiya Hendi, Modern Languages (French and Italian), McKinsey

Jinyu Liu, Biology, Simpson Finn McHale, Biology, Latner

Gustav Born Scholarships

Viraansh Bhanushali, Jurisprudence (with Law in Europe), Latner

Jack Meredith, Physics, Deelman

Melissa Marx, DPhil Clinical Medicine

Mia Morris, Biology, Latner

Haozhe Xiao, DPhil Clinical Medicine

Isabella Bradshaw, Archaeology and Anthropology, Latner

Aneshka Moudry, Chemistry, Latner

Renee Chow, Earth Sciences, Durham

Benedict Okungbowa, Economics and Management, AJ Tracey

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

Emily Parry, Earth Sciences, Durham

Charlotte Dawson, Philosophy, Politics and Economics, Latner

AWARDS

George Roberts, Modern Languages (French and German), Latner

Zibia Bardin, Visiting Student, Latner

Phoebe Davies, Archaeology and Anthropology, Durham

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J Bossanyi Bursary Javiera Perez Ribalta, MSc Biodiversity, Conservation and Management

Emma Classen-Howes, MPhil Law

Anna Connell, BPhil Philosophy Ari Deller, BPhil Philosophy

Alice Farion, MSt World Literatures in English Niamh Fearon, DPhil Particle Physics

Julia Gustavsson, DPhil History Lara Hankeln, MPhil Politics: Comparative Government Abdulazeez Imam, DPhil Clinical Medicine Desi Ivanova, DPhil Modern Statistics and Machine Learning (EPSRC CDT) Yalda Jafari, DPhil Clinical Medicine

Grace Pearl, Modern Languages (French and Portuguese), Latner

SPC Society Graduate Scholarships Devon Rosenberger, DPhil History of Art

Anne Johnakin, MSc Archaeological Science

Sasha Podell, Modern Languages (French and Spanish), McKinsey and Latner

Wentian Xu, DPhil Engineering Science

Tsovinar Kuiumchian, DPhil Anthropology Emily Kuwaye, MSt History St Peter’s College Record 2024 85

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C O N G R AT U L AT I O N S

Congratulations

Christian Lantz, DPhil Biomedical Sciences: NIH-Oxford

Alison Peard, DPhil Geography and the Environment

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

Jun Bin Lee, MSc Nature, Society and Environmental Governance

Lin Qiu, DPhil Clinical Neurosciences

Sophie Twigger, DPhil Oncology

Matthew Reavley, DPhil Materials

Zhixin Wan, MPhil Social Anthropology

Wentao Li, DPhil Finance

Simone Rijavec, DPhil Atomic and Laser Physics

Xiaoyun Wang, DPhil Organic Chemistry

Fang Rui Lim, DPhil Mathematics Jonathan Marrow, MSt Jewish Studies

Louise Rosset, DPhil Inorganic Chemistry

Hannah Wei, DPhil Economics

Natalie Fox (2009) and Jack Baker (2011), 16 March 2024

Grace Middleton, MSt Medieval History

Catherine Savard, MPhil Law

Divyanshu Mishra, DPhil Engineering Science

Vassilena Sharlandjieva, DPhil Genomic Medicine and Statistics

Kathy Wen, DPhil Wind and Marine Energy Systems and Structures (EPSRC CDT)

Rex Roxburgh (2016) and Laura Collins (Lincoln College 2013), 13 April 2024

Giancarlo Moreira Gama, Master of Public Policy

Chloe So, DPhil Atomic and Laser Physics

Albert Ward, DPhil Politics

Phoebe Whitlock, MSc Intellectual Property Law Rachel Williams, DPhil Organic Chemistry

Jacob Mortimer, DPhil Philosophy

Morad Sóvári, MSc Nature, Society and Environmental Governance

Zixin Pan, MSc Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology

Megan Stoker, DPhil Women’s and Reproductive Health

Haozhe Xiao, DPhil Clinical Medicine

Bethan Winter, DPhil History

Marriages Joanna Holt (1990) and Richard Oakes, 25 November 2023

Births Name DOB Family Penny Jasmine Lake 23/8/2023 Rosie Lake (Deputy Librarian)

Daniel Lawrence

Siblings Sister to Ollie

Benjamin Dürr 11/9/2023 Andreas Dürr (2015)

Franziska Pertl

UNIVERSITY AND OTHER PRIZES Biochemistry Part I Paper II Prize Madia Harvey Chemistry Part IB Book Prize Aneshka Moudry

Proxime Accessit Gibbs Prize (overall performance in Archaeology and Anthropology) Elizabeth Hockin

Gibbs Prize (best performance in Linguistics) Benjamin Green

Gibbs Prize (best design project for Part B in Engineering Science) Reuben Leyland

Proxime Accessit Gibbs Prize (Special Subject Paper XII (Marcel Proust) in Modern Languages) Benjamin Green

Gibbs Prize (performance in History) Alfred Taylor

Gibbs Prize (highest marked dissertation in Archaeology and Anthropology) Elizabeth Hockin

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Gibbs Prize (performance in Music) Alfred Fardell

Proxime Accessit Gibbs Prize (performance in Management) Isabel Greenslade

Godric Jia-Dong Zhang 16/10/2023 Tianyi Zhang (2013)

Zhewen Shi (2013) Sphinx Langston Latham 15/4/2024 Cora Gilroy-Ware (Fellow)

Jack Latham

Law Faculty Prize in Human Rights at Work Oliver Friend-Smith Saïd Foundation Prize for best performance in the FHS Organisational Behaviour and Analysis paper Isabel Greenslade Shimadzu Prize for Y3 Practical Chemistry Aneshka Moudry

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D E AT H S

We announce with regret the deaths of the following Old Members Of St Peter’s*: Sunday, 12 April 1998................................. Mr Jonathan Olatunde Lawrence...........................................1953................... Commoner Thursday, 14 February 2008........................ Mr Vincent Jerome Correia...................................................1959.................. Commoner Thursday, 14 March 2013............................. Mr Roland Martin Edgar Worthington Wainwright....................1969.................. Commoner Tuesday, 31 August 2021............................. Mr David Neville Hall............................................................1958.................. Commoner Tuesday, 04 October 2022.......................... Mr Timothy McKenzie Scott..................................................1967................... Commoner December 2022......................................... The Reverend Richard Charles Burr Butler..............................1955................... Commoner Tuesday 11 July 2023.................................. Professor James Edward Thomas..........................................1954................... Commoner Monday, 16 January 2023........................... Mr Roderick Nicholson.........................................................1952................... Commoner Wednesday, 08 March 2023........................ Mr David Roy Wilkie.............................................................1959.................. Commoner Saturday, 08 April 2023.............................. Professor John Corbett........................................................1965.................. Commoner Wednesday, 19 April 2023........................... Mr Paul Arthur Burbridge......................................................1972................... Commoner Sunday, 06 August 2023............................ Mr David Neil Kirk................................................................1968.................. Commoner Friday, 01 September 2023......................... Mr Patrick William Beavis.....................................................1954................... Commoner Tuesday, 12 September 2023...................... Dr Henry Maduka Steady......................................................1966.................. Commoner Saturday, 23 September 2023..................... Dr Edwin Nicholas Arnold.....................................................1959.................. Commoner Saturday, 30 September 2023..................... Mrs Anna-Marie Edmunds....................................................1988.................. Commoner October 2023............................................ Professor John Annett.........................................................1950.................. Commoner Thursday, 05 October 2023........................ Professor Peter William David Mack.......................................1973................... Commoner Friday, 13 October 2023............................. The Reverend Robert Mighall................................................1954................... Commoner Wednesday, 01 November 2023.................. Mr John Herbert Reginald Botterill........................................1958.................. Commoner Thursday, 02 November 2023..................... Dr John Francis Hookey.......................................................1957................... Commoner Saturday, 18 November 2023...................... The Reverend Canon John Andrew Somerset Payne-Cook.......1962................... Commoner Tuesday, 21 November 2023........................ Professor Graham Warren Forbes Orpwood............................1961................... Commoner Wednesday, 22 November 2023.................. Miss Nina Jayne Birley.........................................................2002.................. Commoner Wednesday, 22 November 2023.................. Mr Peter David Brown...........................................................1952................... Commoner Sunday, 26 November 2023........................ Mr Peter H Herbert Thornton.................................................1955................... Commoner Thursday, 04 January 2024......................... Mr Richard Dilley.................................................................1953................... Commoner Wednesday, 24 January 2024...................... Mr Geoffrey Herbert Slater....................................................1958.................. Commoner Wednesday, 03 March 3024........................ Mr Nicholas Charles Shillito..................................................1971.................... Commoner Thursday, 14 March 2024............................ The Reverend Father John Michael Benedict Smethurst..........1963.................. Commoner Thursday, 11 April 2024............................... The Reverend Canon Derek William Price...............................1948................... Commoner Wednesday, 01 May 2024............................ Dr David Alexander Sturgeon................................................1965.................. Commoner Thursday, 09 May 2024.............................. Mr Alan John Evans.............................................................1967................... Commoner Monday, 13 May 2024................................. The Reverend Canon John Sydney Lungley.............................1960.................. Commoner Sunday, 19 May 2024.................................. Mr John Henry Bishton.........................................................1953................... Commoner Friday, 24 May 2024................................... Mr Eric Donovan Gordon.......................................................1947................... Commoner Sunday, 07 July 2024................................. Mr James Antony Savin........................................................1970................... Commoner *Notified between 1 August 2023 and 31 July 2024 88 St Peter’s College Record 2024