University College Oxford Record 2020

PROFESSOR PETER JEZZARD,
Vice Master, Professorial Fellow and Herbert
Dunhill Professor of Neuroimaging at the John
Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, is involved in a
COVID-19 multi-organ imaging project which will
seek to study the acute and longer-term effects of
COVID-19.
Revolution Rekindled by DR POLLY JONES,
Schrecker–Barbour Tutorial Fellow in Slavonic and
East European Studies, was the TORCH Book at
Lunchtime on 5 February. Dr Jones appeared on
Stalingrad: Destiny of a Novel on BBC Radio 4 in
December. She also gave an interview to 15min,
the second largest news portal in Lithuania, while
in Vilnius to deliver the keynote lecture at a
conference on Soviet history in 2019.
DR JOE MOSHENSKA,
Beaverbrook and Bouverie Tutorial Fellow in
English, was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize.
The award is given to researchers at an early
stage of their careers whose work has had
an international impact. Dr Moshenska also
contributed a programme on Milton to a BBC
Radio 4 series on marriage, divorce and separation.
PROFESSOR KAREN O’BRIEN
(1983, English), Professorial Fellow and Head
of the Humanities Division, was quoted in the
Architect’s Journal, in an article about the new
£150m Stephen A Schwarzman Centre. The
centre will give Oxford’s humanities a new home
with state-of-the-art academic, exhibition and
performance spaces.
DR PATRICK REBESCHINI,
Tutorial Fellow in Statistics, has been awarded
a 2020 TensorFlow Award from Google to
support the development of new research
and teaching curricula in machine learning, as
well as diversity initiatives aimed at widening
access to education in statistics and computer
science. The award will also be used to foster
cross-institutional collaborations between
European research laboratories as part of the
ELLIS network.
PROFESSOR JACOB ROWBOTTOM,
Stowell Tutorial Fellow in Law, co-edited The
Constitution of Social Democracy: Essays in Honour
of Keith Ewing (Bloomsbury, July 2020), to which
he contributed a chapter, “Political Finance and
the Constitution of Social Democracy.” The book
is based upon the papers written by a group of
leading international scholars on the “constitution
of social democracy”, delivered at a conference to
celebrate Professor Keith Ewing’s scholarly legacy
in labour law, constitutional law, human rights and
the law of democracy.
PROFESSOR GAVIN SCREATON,
Professorial Fellow and Head of Oxford
University’s medical sciences division, gave a talk
on “How Oxford is tackling COVID-19” in the
first of a new series of “COVID Conversations”
organised by the University.
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