Univ Record 2018

Senior Research Fellows
PROFESSOR NGAIRE WOODS, Dean of the Blavatnik School and Professor of Global
Economic Governance, spoke at this year’s Commonwealth Business Forum on a panel
that included President Muhammadu Buhari, President of Nigeria. Professor Woods
was appointed CBE for services to Higher Education and Public Policy in the New Year’s
Honours list.
Junior Research Fellows
DR PAULA KOELEMEIJER, Junior Research Fellow in Earth Sciences, received the
Royal Society University Research Fellowship this year, which she will take up at UCL.
Dr Koelemeijer was also awarded the Doornbos Memorial Prize by the Committee for
the Study of the Earth’s Deep Interior (SEDI) at their biennial meeting in Edmonton,
for her “outstanding work on the Earth’s deep interior” and she co-authored a paper on
the seismic signal of elephants: how this aids their communication and can help us to
monitor their behaviour remotely. The research was published in the May edition of the
top-ranked journal Current Biology.
Former Fellows
DR STEPHEN BERNARD, a former British Academy Post-doctoral Research Fellow and
Junior Research Fellow at Univ, won the Morton N Cohen Award for a Distinguished
Edition of Letters for The Literary Correspondences of the Tonsons. Dr Bernard published
Paper Cuts: A Memoir, in which he boldly tests the bounds of what a memoir can achieve.
DR JASON LOTAY, Weir JRF in Pure Mathematics from 2005-7 and 2008-9 (with
a year’s intermission in Berkeley) has just been appointed to a Tutorial Fellowship in
Mathematics at Balliol with effect from January 2019. He is currently a Professor of
Mathematics at UCL.
PROFESSOR BERNARD SILVERMAN, a former Junior Research Fellow, was knighted
for public service and services to statistics in the New Year’s Honours list. Professor
Silverman is Emeritus Professor of Statistics at Oxford, former Master of St Peter’s
College, and lately Chief Scientific Adviser to the Home Office.
Honorary Fellows
PROFESSOR KATHARINE ELLIS, FBA (1982, Music), and PROFESSOR HYUN SONG
SHIN, former Tutorial Fellow in Economics, have accepted Honorary Fellowships from
University College.
SANDY NAIRNE, CBE, FSA (1971, History), is assembling and hoping to publish (via
Unbound.com) The Coincidence of Novembers: a selection of autobiographical writings
by his late father, SIR PATRICK NAIRNE (1940, Classics and History). An Honorary
Fellow of the College until his death in 2013, Sir Patrick Nairne joined the Civil Service
after distinguished service in the Second World War and rose to be Permanent Secretary
of the Department of Health and Social Security and a member of the Privy Council.
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