College Record 2022

COLLEGE RECORD 2021/22

WOLFSON 

COLLEGE 

RECORD 

2021/22

WOLFSON 

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CONTENTS 

Introduction 

07 Letter from the President 

11 A Fond Farewell 

14 Letter from the Bursar 

18 Letter from the Development Director 

20 List of Donors 2021–22 

24 Gifts to the Library 

Clubs and Societies’ 

26 Arts Society 

27 BarCo 

28 Boat Club 

29 Family Society 

30 Foxes Women’s Football 

30 Men’s Football 

31 Music 

31 Old Wolves and Archives 

33 Summer Ball 

36 Can a humble crab help? 

Research Clusters’ 

38 Ancient World 

39 Oxford Centre for Life-Writing 

40 Oxford Trauma and Emergency Care 

The Record 

44 College Officers and Membership 

45 President and Fellows 

53 Elections and Admissions 

54 Visiting Scholars 

55 Graduate Students 

63 Elected Members of GB and GPC 

63 Scholarships and Prizes 2021–22 

66 Degrees completed 2021–22 

Personal News 

76 Appointments and Awards 

78 Books published by Wolfsonians 

81 Births and Marriages 

81 Deaths 

82 Obituaries 

Memories 

90 2 May 1968, the Queen at Wolfson 

92 Recollections of a Barco Chairman 

93 The Stone Age yesterday 

94 Six-Plaques Berlin 

99 Editor’s Note 

Lectures and Seminars 

43 Annual Lectures

INTRODUCTION 

Follow Sir Tim on Twitter @SirTimHitchens 

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The President’s Letter 

SIR TIM HITCHENS 

When Chris Whitty, alumnus, Honorary Fellow and England’s Chief Medical Officer, 

gave the Haldane Lecture in February he said he wouldn’t talk to us much about 

Covid because we were all sick of it – I think by that he meant sick and tired of it, rather 

than sick with it. At the London Lecture in early March, Professor Erica Charters described 

her collaborative research into How Pandemics End, one of the observations about 

which was that, in part, people just stop talking about them. I’m happy to continue that 

trend, though I would like to put on the record my thanks to all those who, through their 

resilience, hard work and sense of community, have allowed Wolfson College to come out 

of the worst of the storm in pretty good shape. 

College members have come and gone this year. I welcome in particular six new Governing 

Body Fellows: Kostas Kamnitsas, who applies Artificial Intelligence to Medical Imaging; 

Annina Schmid, who works on alleviating pain; Arjune Sen, who treats and tries to 

understand epilepsy better; Rachel Wood who is a specialist in radiocarbon dating; Pablo 

Mukherjee, who studies world literatures in English; and Nobuko Yoshida, who is an expert 

in programming languages and theoretical computer science. 

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I am also particularly pleased that we continue to attract so many excellent postdocs to 

Wolfson. In addition to the hundred or so Research Fellows and Junior Research Fellows 

we elect, we are now increasing the number of our Research Members of Common Room 

to 100, to provide a College home for this sometimes overlooked, but absolutely essential 

part of the Oxford community. I am glad Wolfson is able to lead the way. 

In future years, when we look back, our 

greatest collective achievement over 

the last twelve months or so will be the 

way we have, in such a short period, 

decarbonised the College main estate. 

Thanks to generous donors, including the 

government, we have spent £13.9 million 

on cutting over 1,000 new bespoke 

windows, 1,564 new radiator valves, over 

600 metres of new pipework, a whole 

new electricity substation, and installing 

Below: Sir Tim Hitchens with Sir Chris Whitty 

Photo: Salix Finance 

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seven massive new air source heat pumps and evaporators. We can say that, as of this 

last summer, the main College estate is now completely electrified – all our old emitting 

gas boilers have been disconnected. It’s a major step forward towards net zero, and one 

made all the more important by the record temperatures in the UK this summer and the 

realisation that the climate emergency is here, now. Everyone who has been involved in our 

project – the College community who agreed to do this, the teams who made it happen, 

the residents who lived through it – all deserve the warmest congratulations. The next 

task is making sure we match our collective behaviours – how, and how much, we use our 

energy – to our engineering revolution. 

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Decarbonisation is not a distraction from our main purpose, but is part of our main 

purpose: it puts the College in the strongest position to reflect what our community wants 

and the literature tells us is vital for the survival and flourishing of organisations like our 

own. Climate change has been a big theme in our College research and events this year. 

The number of students coming to Wolfson who study subjects related to climate change 

has risen sharply in this round of admissions, and that is no coincidence. One of our newest 

Honorary Fellows, climate activist George Monbiot, spoke passionately to the College in his 

lecture in October. Our Sarfraz Lecturer this year, Adil Najam – now a Visiting Scholar – 

chose to talk about climate change from the perspective of a developing country. The Chief 

Executive of the Environment Agency, Sir James Bevan, spoke to us about flooding and 

climate in February. May I pay tribute to both the Climate Emergency Research Cluster and 

the College Green Team who have been energetic, collaborative and creative throughout 

this year. 

Below (L–R): Andrew Dawson, Sir Tim Hitchens and Alistair Shaw 

Photo: John Cairns 

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The reputation of a College like ours means 

that we continue to attract outstanding 

academics to speak, year in year out. 

Professor Richard Saller gave this year’s 

Syme Lecture: ‘The elder Pliny’s Roman 

economy: the consequences of empire’. We 

were delighted to welcome David Pritzker, 

Wolfson alumnus, to give this year’s Aris 

Lecture on ‘the Royal Court of the Tibetan 

Empire’. Professors Nigel Shadbolt and John 

Tasioulas talked about how Isaiah Berlin’s 

concept of a ‘Sense of Reality’, from the 

essay of that name, should inform the way 

we think today about Artificial Intelligence. 

We enjoyed a second Berlin Lecture in 

one academic year, this time by Professor 

Ato Quayson who talked about the 

importance of arguing, from Greek tragedy 

to postcolonial literature. 

Above: Professor Ato Quayson 

I’m also delighted that we have identified 

funding for the creation of a new permanently endowed Junior Research Fellowship in 

honour of our founding President, to be known perhaps as the Isaiah Berlin History of 

Ideas Fellowship. This is being funded from a pot created from various fundraising initiatives 

going back as far as 1989, but which have, in themselves, been too limited to endow a 

Fellowship; I am working with a number of people in College to identify the first person for 

the post. 


INTRODUCTION 

The College community, like everyone else, was aghast at Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, 

a scar on global security and values. Our exhibition of hanging terracotta forms in our 

gardens, ‘Until the Word is Gone’ by Ukrainian-born Sergey Katran, was meant to 

‘celebrate’, as the artist said, ‘the immense cultural diversity of the world, in all its fullness 

and magnificence. On the contrary, this war divides, tears apart, cripples, annihilates, 

derides and distorts.’ I should mention the important work being done by Wolfson alumnus 

Karim Khan, Chief Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court, who has launched an 

investigation into crimes against humanity in Ukraine. Just before Easter we held a wellattended 

piano concert given by eminent pianist Patsy Toh, which raised over £1,000 for 

Ukraine; in June we welcomed British Ukrainian mezzo soprano Rozanna Madylus for 

a celebration of Ukrainian song which raised over £2,000. And this year’s Giving Day in 

May successfully raised its target of £40,000 to support at-risk academics from Ukraine. 

I am delighted that, from September, Wolfson has become home to Ukrainian Byzantine 

historian Katya Kovalchuk who is with us for two years as a Visiting Scholar, using the 

money raised by your collective generosity. 


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As a global College, it is worth recalling 

our association with Afghanistan too, 

whose people have been experiencing 

extraordinary trauma. The first Afghan 

woman to graduate from Oxford is an 

alumna, Shaharzad Akbar – after leaving us, 

she returned to Afghanistan and became 

eventually the Chair of the Afghanistan 

Independent Human Rights Commission. 

After the events of last August, she and 

her family fled to Turkey, and are now 

Above: Shaharzad Akbar 

based back in the UK. Again, I am delighted 

to let you know that Shaharzad has now joined us with her family, fully funded, for the 

next two years. She spoke in College this term, and will continue her work on rebuilding 

a global Afghan Human Rights NGO here in Oxford. Our thoughts are with her and her 

compatriots, who are as much part of the Wolfson story as our Ukrainian friends. 

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The College has been light-hearted as well as serious. Our new Creative Arts Fellow Tom 

Brennan has run creative writing classes and performed a one-man play in progress here; we 

have established a new musical partnership with the Hill Quartet, who will be performing 

each term for us now; we have held life drawing classes; we have watched fortnightly films 

by courtesy of the Film Society. The bar and the Harbour Lawn have been used more than 

ever before. The tepees, which were a pandemic innovation, look like they are here to stay, 

providing shade in the summer and somewhere to huddle bravely in the winter. 

This last year has been both tumultuous and celebratory. We marked the tenth anniversary 

of the establishment of the Oxford Centre for Life Writing, which continues to grow and 

thrive; we marked the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee with a party in Linton Road involving our 

neighbours and many of our children. And we marked the end of the pandemic with an 

amazing Summer Ball on a Las Vegas theme: I would say more, but of course what happens 

in Vegas stays in Vegas. I was very pleased to mark my four years at Wolfson as President 

with the now traditional May Day music concert in the Hall; I hope this will continue for 

many years yet. 

For a year partly blighted by the pandemic, it was remarkably productive. The new 

academic year will hold its challenges, not least financial. But I hope nonetheless that you 

have all been able to enjoy an enjoyable, creative and restful summer. 

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A Fond Farewell 

BARRY AND ELLIE 

This year, we said farewell to two of our longest standing colleagues at Wolfson. Barry 

Coote, who was our industrious Home Bursar and fount of Wolfson knowledge, 

retired after 17 years. At the same time, Ellie Clifton, a Wolfson gardener for seven years, 

departed with her much loved furry companion Snap the terrier. To mark their departures, 

the President interviewed them together earlier this year. 

When you arrived at Wolfson, what were your first impressions? 

Ellie: Well I thought it was just beautiful. The gardens in particular – that’s what I came for. 

How was it different to what you see here now? 

Ellie: There are more buildings but the gardens haven’t actually changed much. They’re just 

more mature. More manicured. 

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Barry: I came from the College of Further Education, where I was Estate Manager. What 

was most striking to me was the view of Wolfson from the front. It looks quite small, 

but then you come in and all of a sudden it’s a bit like the Tardis. It’s a five story concrete 

building but you can’t even see that from Linton Road. The auditorium wasn’t there, 

nor the academic wing. The Buttery used to be the front entrance, and what’s now the 

auditorium was a maintenance yard where we used to park tractors. 

Who were the big personalities when you arrived at the college? 

Ellie: For me it was obviously Mike, who’s the Head Gardener. 

Barry: Yes, Mike’s such a nice person. And there were fellows like Bryan Sykes as well as 

Martin Francis (Vicegerent at the time), who was very welcoming when I first arrived. 

The culture of the college seems a really powerful and enduring thing. Do you think it’s changed 

in some way over the years? 

Ellie: It’s more relaxed now, I’d say. And it’s certainly busier. 


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Above: Barry Coote (photo John Cairns), Ellie Clifton followed as always by her furry shadow Snap (Photo: Judith 

Palmer) 

Barry: Yes, it’s busy but that’s colleges for you. When I first came over the summer, it was 

so quiet because we didn’t do conferences then. But now it’s much busier all year round. As 

a college you can’t have your buildings empty. They’re our biggest asset. 

Can you think of any funny incidents over the years? 

Barry: Well there was the student that turned up on a horse... He hadn’t been in the UK 

for long but as soon as he got here, he bought this amazing white horse and turned up to 

college on it. He asked me where he could keep his horse, and I had to tell him he couldn’t! 

Then one day the horse ran off through the college grounds and we couldn’t catch him, and 

he ended up in another field. We were all just running wild trying to catch him. 

Ellie: It was the same with the cattle actually. They used to roam out from the fields into 

the college grounds and we’d have to get the farmer to herd them back, who’d just shake a 

bag of food and they’d come running. 

And any traumatic moments? 

Barry and Ellie: The fire in 2007 was the worst. 

Barry: I was at home on a Sunday morning and I got a call to say there was a serious fire 

just three blocks away with some of our students inside. I rushed down, the fire brigade 

was already here and they’d got all the students out, but a couple of them took in a great 

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Above: Garden sculpture ‘Tre Fiore’ by Rob Ward 

deal of smoke. Apparently it started when someone was cooking breakfast, something 

caught on fire and they threw water over the electric cooker. The fire reached 1500 

degrees and the entire ceiling had come off. It was just concrete left. 

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And Ellie, what about traumatic weather? 

Ellie: Yes we’ve seen floods all over, in the meadows and the sports fields. It gets well over 

the dike. Once in the winter, when the punts were lifted out of the water onto the decking, 

the harbour flooded up above the decking and ripped the punts off their hooks, and ripped 

up the decking too. 

Has flooding got worse over the last 20 years? 

Ellie: Oh definitely. It’s got much worse. They happen much more often than they used to, 

especially in the last couple of years. 

How would you sum up your experience of Wolfson in three words? 

Ellie: I’ve just loved it. It’s beautiful here. I’ve had a great time with everyone and it’s sad to 

go really. 

Barry: Three words just isn’t enough. Something an architect said to me once has always 

stuck with me – he said it’s the nicest lump of concrete he’d ever seen. 


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Letter from the Bursar 

RICHARD MORIN 

ut of the frying pan and into the fire’ 

‘O– that is how it feels at the moment. 

No sooner had we felt relief sailing intact 

through Covid’s choppy waters, than we 

headed into the perfect storm of war in 

Europe, a post-Brexit tightening of labour 

markets and spiralling inflation. 

INTRODUCTION 

As we move forward and begin to live 

and operate with Covid, we should all be 

relieved that the financial catastrophe that 

was possible did not materialise. Thank 

goodness for the excellent work of our 

Finance and Investment Committees, 

which had made so many sensible and 

cautious decisions prior to Covid. Whilst 

there was a huge downturn in the size of 

Above: Richard Morin 

our endowment when Covid first hit, it 

recovered well; and whilst our various income streams were severally interrupted, especially 

our conference and events income that we had come to rely on so much, they are now 

returning to healthy levels. 


Over the last few years, we had returned to being a college making a small surplus. 

However, there is now every chance that the current ‘storm’ will cause us once again 

to slip into an operating deficit. The coming together at one time of so many challenges 

will be a real test, and this is likely to mean that we will no longer be able to be as bullish 

as we would have liked in investing further in our academic activities and further estate 

improvements; we will instead, once again, need to remain prudent, and limit activities and 

costs where we can. We cannot be confident, for example, that our investment values will 

not reduce over the coming years to levels that will impact on the operating income that 

our endowment generates for the College. This will all depend on how assets are revalued 

in the new inflationary era. At the time of writing, the endowment was worth less than 

it was twelve months before, while the income required to run the College grows rapidly 

under inflationary pressures. 

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In the year to 31 March our investment managers achieved a total return of around 7%, 

which would have been reasonable and a real return in previous years, but with inflation 

now running at around 10%, you will appreciate that 7% is a negative return in real terms 

and will not be sufficient to enable the College to keep pace with its growing operating 

costs. Looking back, it is clear that those were the good years and it will be much harder 

going forward. Our investment managers are, of course, looking carefully at their asset 

classes, and growing investments in more defensive sectors which may provide some 

protection, but it simply won’t be possible to be fully protected from the challenges we 

face. As we put our operating budgets together for the coming year, we will need to 

prioritise more carefully than ever. 

Meanwhile, we are continuing with the ground-breaking decarbonisation works, to which 

we were fully committed before the current crisis, and which have seen the whole of the 

main estate, including all of the Powell and Moya original buildings, fully decarbonised: 

we are now running all of our hot water and heating to all of our main buildings without 

fossil fuels and through 100% renewable electricity. We have been able to close down the 

massive fifty-year-old boilers which were using so much fossil fuel inefficiently and pumping 

so much carbon into the air. Work continues on the main site, with roofs to be insulated 

and more windows to be replaced, in order to minimise the renewable energy that we 

draw from the grid; and by the end of March next year we will have reached a point where 

we will have completed all of the projects to which we are currently committed (and which 

we can afford at this time). Whilst there will be more to be done (further flat roofs to 

be insulated, a large storage battery to be put in place, for example), we will not be able 

to afford to do those at the moment: we will return to them when funds allow. We are 

currently £2m short of funds to reach full decarbonisation on the whole of the estate. 

As part of our decarbonisation, you will see as you come into College that we have 

installed four electric vehicle charging-points near the main entrance, and we hope that 

this marks the start of a general transition to electric travel. We plan to replace our diesel 

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minibus with an electric one, but as yet we have been unable to find a suitable model – 

we will continue to work on this, and as new models become available we will make the 

transition. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the anonymous donor who has 

kindly provided funding for an electric minibus. 

It has been a hard couple of years for the community putting up with the many building 

works associated with decarbonisation, and I am very grateful for all of those who have 

shown such patience and resilience during this time. The catastrophe of not tackling the 

climate crisis clearly outweighs the short-term inconvenience, and I hope that those here 

at Wolfson during these projects will look back with pride on the contribution they have 

made. 

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Other projects include the new Marble Hall lift, which will prevent the frequent 

breakdowns that we used to experience. And you will see that the problem of leaking 

water through the substructure underneath the Family Terraces has now been resolved 

with a complete resurfacing project, including the installation of tiles to match those 

originally in place when the College was built (a requirement of our Listed Building status). 

This project has been ongoing for several years and was an essential requirement to stop 

significant damage to the substructure of the Powell and Moya buildings; so it is a huge relief 

to have it concluded. 

We continue to work on the design for a new accommodation block of 49 rooms to sit in 

the south car park surrounded by Wolfson’s lovely gardens and views. Now that the design 

is almost complete, we will continue to assess financing options, but the option of raising 

finance in the private markets may now be much harder and we will have to consider 

carefully whether this is something that the College can pursue at this time. We are also 

completing the design for the Sports and Wellbeing Centre, which we would hope to build 

at some stage in the future should we find funding support. 

There have been several changes of key personnel. Our industrious Home Bursar, Barry 

Coote, is retiring from the College after seventeen years of extraordinary service and 

we applaud him particularly for his outstanding dedication and hard work over the last 

few years during the Covid crisis. Our Estates and Health and Safety Manager, Chris 

Licence, will be stepping up as the Acting Home Bursar for the time being. We have also 

recently said farewell to Kathryn Pocock, our brilliant College Accountant, who has helped 

us navigate the challenges of the last few years so well, as she returns to the world of 

senior auditing, and we have welcomed Adrian Gardner, who joins us as the new College 

Accountant. 

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Letter from the Development Director 

HUW DAVID 

Writing in July on the hottest day the UK has ever recorded, it seems particularly 

appropriate that – like the rest of the College – the Alumni and Development 

Office spent much of 2021–22 thinking about carbon emissions. Our thoughts centre 

on Wolfson’s ground-breaking Zero Carbon project. As work progressed replacing 

windows, installing new insulation, and replacing our fifty-year-old gas boilers with the most 

technologically advanced air source heat-pumps, Wolfsonians’ generosity was instrumental 

in allowing the project to begin so quickly and then move at a rapid pace. 

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In October 2021, the College received the largest dollar-denominated gift in its history, 

$3,000,000 for Zero Carbon from an anonymous alumnus. Two months later, we received 

news of a generous commitment of £500,000 from the Wolfson Foundation to enable the 

second phase of the project to begin in summer 2022. Added to the grants Wolfson has 

received from the government through the Public Sector Decarbonization Scheme, which 

have now exceeded £6m, this represents a financial commitment unprecedented since the 

College’s foundation. Other alumni and friends have contributed in ways large and small, 

monetarily and through their expertise and advice. 

It was a pleasure to meet so many Wolfsonians again in person after nearly two years of 

intermittent lockdowns and social distancing. We began with a reception in the Buttery 

in September 2021 and then returned to the Oxford and Cambridge Club in Pall Mall for 

the annual London Christmas Drinks. In March, alumni who braved both a tube strike 

and torrential rain were treated to a fascinating London Lecture at Lincoln’s Inn at which 

Professor Erica Charters described, topically, ‘How Pandemics End’. 

Towards the end of April, we hosted Wolfson’s most generous benefactors at the Iffley 

Dinner, an event preceded by the unveiling of the College’s new Benefactors’ Board. 

Situated in the heart of College in the Berlin Quad, it records the names of all those who 

have given more than £10,000 to Wolfson across its nearly sixty-year history, a roll-call 

of phenomenal philanthropy. We closed the academic year with a lunch in the Buttery in 

June for members of the Syme Society, those who have pledged to remember the College 

in their wills with a legacy, and Wolfson’s major recent donors. After lunch, Professor 

Rick Schulting compared Bronze Age violence and burials at Lake Baikal and in Somerset 

in a gripping lecture in the Auditorium, before guests contemplated the more peaceful 

environment of Wolfson’s floodplain meads across the Cherwell on tours led by expert 

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ecologists Tim King and Alison McDonald, both alumni and Members of Common Room. 

Moved by the crisis in Ukraine, in May we held Wolfson’s first ever Giving Day to raise 

money to accommodate a refugee scholar and his or her family, and for wider student 

support. The appeal raised a tremendous £93,000 over two days of activity in College, 

ranging from talks by fellows Jan Fellerer and Julie Curtis on Ukrainian language and 

literature and by former ambassador Simon Smith on the geo-political background to 

the conflict, to a ‘row-a-thon’ in the front quad (where the crews covered a phenomenal 

301 km in total), to a bake sale in the café. In partnership with the Council for At-Risk 

Academics (CARA), established in the 1930s to offer academics fleeing persecution 

around the world refuge at British universities, we have been able to offer two two-year 

Fellowships. Human rights specialist Shaharzad Akbar, herself a Wolfson alumna and the 

first Afghan woman to have studied at Oxford (MPhil Development Studies, 2011), and 

Ukrainian Byzantinist Katya Kovalchuk joined us in October. 

Wolfson’s alumni and friends also continue to facilitate outstanding academic research 

across the many areas of expertise in College. We are grateful to the Eutopia Foundation 

for its generosity towards research in theoretical physics and to Simon Harrison for his 

steadfast support for scholarships in physics and quantum computing and for the Boat Club. 

In April we launched the Bob Sim Uruguay Initiative, a partnership with South American 

counterparts in immunology, established thanks to the generosity of Professor Sim’s family. 

The Uruguayan Ambassador to the Court of St James’s, HE Mr Cesar Eneas Rodriguez 

Zavalla, was guest of honour. In the arts and humanities, the Dorset Foundation has again 

provided invaluable assistance to the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing and in October 2022 

we welcomed the first holder of the new Lorne Thyssen Scholarship in Imperial History. 

Thank you to everyone who has supported Wolfson in ways large and small. 

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It is always a pleasure to welcome alumni to Wolfson, to hear about your time at the 

College and the impact it has had on your lives. Your generosity, commitment and 

enthusiasm are vital in helping the College thrive, and we look forward to seeing you soon. 

STAY IN TOUCH 

The Alumni and Development 

Office is here to help keep you 

connected with the University after 

you leave. Don’t hesitate to contact 

Jessica Dunham (left) and Alex Fels 

(right) who are happy to help if you 

have any questions. 

alumni.office@wolfson.ox.ac.uk 


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List of Donors 

The College thanks all these 

people and organisations for their 

generous donations in the last academic year. 

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The Romulus Circle (£50,000+) 

The Augustus Foundation 

Two anonymous donors 

The Lycidas Circle (£20,000+) 

Jacek Mostwin and the John Hopkins 

University School of Medicine 

The Berlin Circle (£10,000+) 

The Derrill Allatt Foundation 

The Estate of Reuben Conrad 

The Pritzker Family 

The Harbour Circle (£5,000+) 

The Isaiah Berlin Literary Trust 

Thomas Sharpe 


The Tree Circle (£1,000+) 

Douglas Abraham 

Felix Appelbe and the Ambrose and 

Ann Appelbe Trust 

Victor Au 

Thomas and Ann Black 

Derek Boyd 

Sebastian Brock 

Bill Conner 

David Dalgarno 

Jean Pierre de Vries 

Stephen Donaldson 

Sue Roberts and the Dorothy Holmes 

Charitable Trust 

Sarah Graham 

Jan Gralla 

Christopher Hodges 

Jeremy Johns 

Chris Levett 

Ira and Phyllis Lieberman 

Thayne McCulloh 

Pat Nuttall 

Carol O’Brien 

Jonathan Paine 

John Penney 

Lucy Victoria Phillips 

Ulla Plougmand 

Christina Redfield 

Marie Richards 

Walter Sawyer 

Christian Schnittker 

The Silicon Valley Community Foundation 

Ken and Veronica Tregidgo 

Anthony Wierzbicki 

Patricia Williams 


Patrons of the College (£500+) 

Paul Aveyard 

William Beaver 

John and Mary Brockington 

Christopher Bunch 

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James Byrne 

Timothy and Kathy Clayden 

Joshua Curk 

Helen de Borchgrave 

Anne Deighton 

Rob Delicata 

Barbara Harriss-White 

Tim Hitchens 

David Holloway 

Cliff Jones 

Helen Lambert 

Patricia Langton 

Roland Littlewood 

Gideon Makin 

Jonathan Mance 

Jody Maxmin 

Gregor McLean 

Daniel Mercola 

Andrew Neil 

The Paul and Edith Babson Foundation 

Andrew Prentice 

The Richard Brown Research Foundation 

Alison Salvesen 

Nicola Smart 

Lesley Smith 

Christopher Staker 

Lindsay Stead 

Peter Turner 

Susan Wilkes 

Sponsors of the College (£100+) 

Philippa Archer 

Marie-Laure Aris 

Liz Baird 

Simon Barker 

Robert Baron 

Steve Barry 

Christopher Bartley 

Michael Bevir 

John Bidwell 

Mary Bispham 

David Blackman 

Michael Bloom 

David Bounds 

William Bradshaw 

Diana Briggs 

Harvey Brown 

Nicholas Brown 

Harry Bryden 

Richard Buch 

Rhys Burriss 

Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski 

Robin Buxton 

Helen Caldwell 

Carl Calvert 

Juliet Campbell 

Sarah Carpenter 

Anne Carwardine 

Alfred Cerezo 

Choon Chai 

Cyril Chapman 

Chia-Kuen Chen 

Samuel Clark 

Nicola Clarke 

James Crabbe 

Andrew Crane 

Ken Cranstoun 

Gail Cunningham 

Paula Curnow 

Julie Curtis 

Norman Davies 

Margaret Dick 

Kennerly Digges 

Sarah Donaldson 

Simon Dowell 

Madhuri Dutta 

John Edgley 

Charles Ehrlich 

Georgina Ferry 

Caro Fickling 

Alex Finnegan 

Peter Flewitt 

Martin Francis 

Jane Gardner 

Penelope Gardner-Chloros 

Evan George 

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Sally Gold 

Alan Gordon 

Patricia Halligan 

Sabina Heinz 

James Henle 

Paul Henry 

Martin Henry 

Ray Higgins 

Michael Hitchman 

Timothy Horner 

Chris Howgego 

Dan Isaacson 

Lama Jabb 

Ann Jefferson 

Carolyn Kagan 

Lorcan Kennan 

Graham Klyne 

John Koval 

Johanna Kuila 

Yusaku Kurahashi 

Matthew Landrus 

Bettina Lange 

David Langslow 

Ann Laskey 

Helen Lawton Smith 

Robin Leake 

Jane Legget 

Jay Lewis 

Nancy Macky 

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INTRODUCTION 


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Robert Tanner 

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Five anonymous supporters 

GIFTS TO THE LIBRARY 

The Library welcomes gifts of books from all its members, past and present, which enhance 

its academic collections and add to the pleasure of its readers. This year it has received a 

bequest from Sir Fergus Millar, and in association with OCLW the library of the biographer 

Fiona MacCarthy. Books have generously been donated by those whose names follow, 

authors or contributors being identified by an asterisk. Only those books received by 30 

June 2022 are included. 

INTRODUCTION 

A notable gift has been Sunderland Gig from Wolfson alumnus John Strachan. Sunderland 

Gig is a love letter to the North East of England, and a collaboration between two close 

friends and colleagues: Professor John Strachan, a renowned poet and current Pro-Vice 

Chancellor for Research and Enterprise at Bath Spa University, and Professor Michael 

Pennie (1936–2019), Professor of Sculpture at Bath Spa and artist-in-residence at Corsham 

Court. This livre d’artiste is a limited edition of twenty-six of which Wolfson’s is Number 

16 and is signed by John Strachan. Along with John’s poems are original artworks by Michael 

silkscreen-printed and hand-coloured. This hand-printed letterpress book was designed, 

typeset and printed by Bridget and Ivor Heal at QoD Press Ashburton, Devon. 

Fiona Wilkes (Librarian) 

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*Dr Anna Andersen 

Sai Balakrishnan 

Mr Yongchan Chin 

Professor David Cranston 

*Dr Stephen M Cullen 

*Professor Jacob L Dahl 

*Dr Elena Draghici-Vasilescu 

*Dr Jonathan Duquette 

*Roger Garside 

*Mr Simon Glenn 

*Dr Daniel Herskowitz 

*Professor Clifford B Jones 

*J P Linstroth 

*Dr Iftikhar Malik 

*Dr Gideon Makin 

*Professor Pat Nuttall 

Dr Andreas Reyes 

Professor David Robey 

*Dr John Sellars 

*Mr C M M Shaw 

*Professor Peter Stewart 

*Dr Yuhan Vevaina 

*Dr Merryn Williams 


INTRODUCTION 



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Clubs and Societies 

CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 

ARTS SOCIETY 

The Society’s activities bounced back 

into three dimensions in Michaelmas with 

the first of a series of special exhibitions. 

The Ripple Effect: Noticing Rivers Past 

and Present was a collaboration between 

Wolfson’s own Courtney Nimura – an 

expert in prehistoric rivers – and the 

School of Archaeology’s artist-in-residence, 

Miranda Cresswell. This initiative funded 

by the Leverhulme Trust combines art 

practice with archaeological research to 

provoke reflection about the historic 

environment. Wolfson, with its ancient 

river-bank location, was one of ten sites 

across the country that hosted paintings (on 

paper and silk) together with educational 

resources. Later in the autumn the College 

grounds and river once again became 

an exhibition space for a remarkable 

installation by the Ukrainian-Russian artist 

Above: One of Sergei Katran’s sculptures for 

Until the World is Gone 

Sergei Katran. Curated by Irene Kukota, Until the World is Gone features twenty-six finely 

crafted terracotta sculptures suspended from trees in Wolfson’s gardens with some hanging 

over the waters of the Cherwell. Their oscillating forms embody the graphic profiles of 

soundwaves, encoding the word for ‘art’ in dead, endangered and thriving languages – a hint 

at intangible heritage designed into works that are beautiful abstract creations. 


More conventional indoor exhibitions also resumed, with a solo show by Teresa Williams as 

part of the Photo Oxford Festival. Not Many People Here Yet was a playful and nostalgic 

experiment with composite images and manipulated antique photographs, exploring 

people’s travels and seaside visits against the background of the pandemic. A rather 

different vision of the landscape was presented by Carry Akroyd’s Found in the Fields, a 

lyrical series of serigraphs and lithographs responding to the verse of John Clare. 

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The College has now expanded its 

capacity for exhibiting different forms of 

contemporary art with the installation of 

a digital projector in the Marble Hall. The 

first video installation, projected above 

the entrance to the Dining Hall, was Elsa 

Gomis’s My Exile is Yours – a sequence 

of short films commenting on the stories 

of marginalized populations and migrant 

families, including the artist’s own. This was 

followed by the Ruskin School graduate 

Babar Suleman, whose remarkable Unfeeling 

will show until late autumn 2023. This 

powerful short film, shot in the military 

environment of an education institution in 

Pakistan, focuses on the face of a young 

man as he both restrains and sometimes 

yields to emotion. 

Above: Babar Suleman presents Unfeeling in the 

Marble Hall. 

Two events completed the annual 

programme: a talk for Oxford Human 

Rights Festival in March by the forensic 

archaeologist Nicholas Marquez-Grant 

was accompanied by a small exhibition of 

recent work across artistic media by artists 

addressing themes of conflict, migration and 

human rights abuses. In June Rob Ward, the 

Above: Blackbird, by Carry Akroyd ©Carry Akroyd 

artist of Wolfson’s commissioned bronze 

sculpture Tre Fiori, which was installed during lockdown in 2020, marked the occasion at last 

with his talk, ‘What Does it Mean?’ Finally, 2022 saw the return of the ever popular drawing 

classes to Wolfson, with two pilot events led by Stacey Gledhill, first online and then in 

person. We will be continuing sessions in the new academic year. 

Photo: Peter Stewart 


Peter Stewart 

BARCO 

In the past twelve months, the Wolfson College Cellar Bar has been returning to pre-Covid 

levels of activity. For new and old College members alike, it has been a valuable space for 

socialising, relaxing, and making connections with others. We are pleased to have hosted a 

number of events, including the Freshers’ Week ‘Alphabop’, a 70s-themed bop, scavenger 

hunts, and pub quizzes (all organised by Internal Entz), a launch night for the Viva Las Vegas 

Summer Ball (organised by the Ball Committee), alongside cocktail nights, karaoke nights 

and other musical evenings. 


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Photo: Dr Jessica Dunham 

Above: Wolfson’s own Gin Spirit Wolf, in 

conjunction with Chalgrove Artisan Distillery 

The highlight of BarCo’s previous year was at 

the end of Michaelmas Term, when the Bar was 

proud to have launched its own gin, the Spirit 

Wolf, in conjunction with Chalgrove Artisan 

Distillery. This is the first bespoke spirit to have 

been developed by any College bar in Oxford. 

The gin has been warmly received by the College 

community; bottles have been flying off the 

shelves much quicker than we had anticipated 

and it now makes up part of the Bar’s impressive 

spirit collection. It complements the Wolf Howl 

beer as the second bespoke Wolfson-themed 

beverage. Whilst stocks last, sealed bottles 

of Spirit Wolf can be purchased by College 

members or their guests, or whenever the Bar is 

open, for £45. 


We have made some small changes in how the Bar feels and functions. There is a new 

committee and the rota has returned to its usual size, we have issued a new rota card to 

make sure that new rota members can access the keys to the Bar and be able to open 

more often. We have reintroduced ‘Beer of the Month’, which allows us to introduce 

variety and new items to our collection. It also helps us to keep our stock fresh and to 

monitor Wolfson’s tastes so that we can always offer the best selection for our members. 

We now also have physical menus and a noticeboard so that we can better inform people 

of our products, events and opportunities, and so that College members can advertise 

relevant information to the Wolfson Community. 

We aim to promote the Bar’s status as a nucleus of College activity over the summer and 

into the autumn when the new cohort of freshers arrive for 2023. We also have ambitions 

to enlarge our bespoke drink selection and have made preliminary enquiries about 

developing a Wolfson perry. We are also planning a major refresh of the Games Room: we 

hope to update the lights and equipment and to introduce improved soundproofing, so that 

we can hold bigger, bolder and more exciting events for all in the College to enjoy. 

Will Thurlwell, BarCo Chair 

BOAT CLUB 

The Club did exceptionally well this year, being successful in regattas intercollegiate and 

external. In Michaelmas 2021, we entered a 4+ and an 8+ on the women’s side in Nephthys 

Regatta, both of which won their respective competitions, and a 1x which won its semifinal. 

In Torpids, our top boats are both now at their highest place at the end of a campaign, 

with W1 retaining the title of Head of the River and M1 narrowly missing out on blades 

but finishing fourth on the river. Wolfson, with its total of nine crews, entered the greatest 

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number of boats of any college for this year’s Torpids, and they all competed well in their 

respective divisions. 

Summer Eights was the highlight of Trinity 2022, with crowds of onlookers once again 

able to return to the river banks. Our W1 and M1 boats finished respectively third and 

fifth on the river, and M2 were awarded blades for bumping every day of the competition. 

With nine boats on the river (again, the most of any college), the Club did well. We also 

competed in external regattas, notably the following: 

Autumn Fours, where we entered two women’s 4+, which came head-to-head in the final 

to make it an all-Wolfson women’s final. 

Marlow Regatta, where a composite of five rowers from Wolfson and four from University 

College won their band and narrowly missed out on qualifying for Henley Royal Regatta. 

Henley Town and Visitors’ Regatta, where many of our members had the chance to 

compete in side-by-side races in 8+, 4+, 2- and the Club reached five finals. 

Oxford City Royal Regatta, where medals were won in the M8+ and the W1x. 

Gloucester Regatta, where we entered a men’s 4+ that won their division, and a women’s 

2x which were placed second in their division. 

We thank our generous sponsor and all our supporters for helping us to have a great 

season, and we look forward to another excellent year in 2022–23. 


Andrew McMahon, Boat Club President 

FAMILY SOCIETY 

Pleased to see lots of new families moving 

into the college following the pandemic, 

the Family Society’s year was filled with lots 

of fun events. We welcomed all the new 

families at our annual Welcome Party at the 

beginning of term which was well attended 

and helped create new friendships between 

parents and children. 

Our annual halloween events proved 

very popular this year, with lots attending 

both the pumpkin carving and the trick or 

treating, which of course began with the 

traditional trip to the President’s house. 


Above: The President hands out sweets to the Trick 

or Treaters 

Photo: Judith Palmer 

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We kept snuggled up in the Buttery for a movie night in November and again in February 

and ended the calendar year with our Winter Party before familes travel for the festive 

season. 

Since last years Summer Barbeque was so popular we decided to organise it again this year 

with both lunchtime and evening events, so as to allow all families to attend. The delicious 

food was once again provided by the talented College catering team. 

We have also helped families to communicate with the College about the resurfacing work 

around Blocks H, G and F, helping them to secure a discount on rent and making sure they 

were provided with alternative accommodation during the day, to avoid the noise and dust 

caused by the works. Now the resurfacing work is complete we are looking forward to 

families enjoying the shared space to meet and play. 

Judith Palmer, Chair of the Family Society 


FOXES WOMEN’S FOOTBALL 

The Foxes had a great season. We welcomed many talented and committed new Foxes 

to our squad. Apart from regular once-a-week training sessions, we also started joined 

trainings and friendlies with the Wolfson / St Cross and St Antony’s men’s teams. We won 

the First Division league and were runners-up in both Cuppers and the Futsal tournament. 

We also organized lots of fun activities, from running in the Oxford Town and Gown to 

watching a match of the Women’s Euros at Milton Keynes Stadium. 

MEN’S FOOTBALL 

The Wolfson / St Cross Men’s Football Team enjoyed its most successful season for more 

than ten years. They became MCR Division 1 Champions after winning five out of their 

seven league games. In total, they played seventeen 11-a-side games including league 

games, friendlies, and Cuppers, with over forty players representing the team. They also 

made it to the semi-final of the Futsal (indoor 5-a-side) competition held in Trinity term. 

This was a great achievement, since 64 teams from across the University entered this 

competition and Wolfson / St Cross were the only MCR team to make it to the last four. 

The following players received awards 

Below: Wolfson / St Cross Men’s Football Team 

for their contribution to the team 

over the season: Aart Van Der Waal 

(Player’s Player of the Season), Basil 

Nelis (Captain’s Player of the Season), 

Ben Caspi (League Top Goal scorer), 

Luiz Phelipe Dal Santo (Futsal Top Goal 

scorer). 

Timothy Baxter, Wolfson / St Cross Men’s 

Football Team Captain 

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MUSIC 

This academic year (2021/22) has seen a revival of many of the activities of the Music 

Society. On the first Sunday of Michaelmas Term, the Hill Quartet gave its first concert 

which was well received by the general public and members of College. Later that term, 

Firoze Madon and Magdalene Ho gave a piano recital, and the Fournier Trio returned to 

Wolfson for another wonderful concert. In the new year, Patsy Toh and Sarkis Zakarian 

played two Concerts For Ukraine organised by Barbara and Douglas Abraham. These 

concerts helped to raise more than £2,000 in support of humanitarian aid for the Ukrainian 

people. On the First of May, a variety of performers came together to re-start the young 

College tradition of a May Day Concert. At the end of the academic year, the Wolfson 

Choir performed parts of the Sacred Veil. And it should be mentioned that, thanks to the 

efforts of Frederik Florenz and supporters, regular Bar music events came to life this year. 

Old Wolves and Archives 

In November 2021 Paulo de Souza (GS) gave us an insightful talk via Zoom: ‘What is 

sustainability? How can we achieve it?’ Paulo has substantial experience of working and 

teaching in this area, and is known to many in College as the Chair of Wolfson’s Green 

Team. Another Zoom talk in February, ‘Disease in the archives’ by Professor Erica Charters 

(GBF), was highly relevant for our times. We learned about her use of historical evidence 

in her research, particularly concerning epidemics. Professor Charters is a military historian 

and historian of medicine, Director of the Oxford Centre for History of Science, Medicine, 

and Technology. She has also succeeded Dr Ellen Rice as Fellow for Library and Archives. 

In May, we were able – at last – to meet again in person. Our long overdue catch-up 

over lunch in Hall was preceded by a small celebration to mark the occasion, and to say 

thank you to Dr Ellen Rice for her work as Fellow for Archives. These were followed 

by Dr George R Barker’s talk, ‘Encryption: laws that weaken it and their economic 

impact’. Dr Barker (GS 1992) spoke about his research on the effects of the Australian 

Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Act 2018, 

which expanded government authority to circumvent digital data protections. We were 

pleased that Jane Moir, a friend of the College and former neighbour (see The Record for 

2020), was able to join us for this event. The photo shows her in the Bishop’s Garden, of 

which she has fond memories. 


Above: Jane Moir 

Above (L–R): Dr John Hemp, Merryn Williams, Dr George R Barker 


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All photos: Alicia Vergara Steinmann 


Above (L–R): Dr Hubert Zawadzki, Professor David Robey 

Old Wolves 2022–23: diary dates 

All those with memories of the College in former times are welcome at our termly lunches 

and talks. The only cost is that of your own lunch (self-service; pay by card or battels at 

the till). Drinks are provided. Space is limited, so please email archives@wolfson.ox.ac.uk 

to book a place. Lunches are in Hall at 12.30; the talks, unless via Zoom, are usually in the 

Leonard Wolfson Auditorium (but sometimes in the Buttery) at 1.30 p.m. Forthcoming 

talks: 

Thursday, 24 November 2022: Dr Susan Walker (EF) 

‘The Emperor Caracalla’s visit to Alexandria as seen from the harbour’ 

Above: Professor Jacob G Ghazarian 

Thursday 9 February 2023: Dr Hubert Zawadzki 

‘Captivity, Military Service and Survival: My parents’ wartime story 1939–1945’ 

Thursday 18 May 2023: Professor James Crabbe (SF) 

‘Life below water after 2030: how achievable is the UN Sustainable Development Goal for 

the Ocean?’ 

Details are correct at the time of writing but occasionally we need to make changes, so 

please check the College website nearer the time, before making travel arrangements. 

The Archives: two displays 

After a long period of working at home, working in College, for the most part, resumed in 

January 2022. During Hilary Term we were grateful for the kind assistance of our returning 

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volunteer, Mary Thomas. She made a most welcome stab at reducing the paper mountain 

of files. Alicia Vergara Steinmann (GS) assisted the Archivist in Trinity Term. Particularly 

appreciated was her help with two displays: ‘Platinum Jubilee’ (31 May–7 June) and ‘Beneath 

your feet: fossils in slate’ (July–September), for which see Jim Kennedy (EF) in The Record 

for 2021. 

Liz Baird, College Archivist 

SUMMER BALL – VIVA LAS VEGAS 

On Saturday 11 June 2022, the scenery of Wolfson was transformed for its first Ball since 

2019, and the first Summer Ball since 2016. The ambition was lofty: in guest numbers, 

it was due to be the biggest Ball ever, with more tickets sold than even for the Fiftieth 

Anniversary celebrations in 2016. The inspiration was Las Vegas, with its famous hotels and 

landmarks, as a nucleus of entertainment. 

The landscape was simply stunning: Wolfson 

embodied all the splendour, majesty, and 

subtlety of the Nevadan metropolis. At 

every turn, guests were confronted with 

an imposing new environment: the Berlin 

Quad channelled the chromatic oasis of 

the Mirage; the Dining Hall showcased the 

Egyptian marvel of the Luxor; the Harbour 

Quad provided the elegance and calmness 

of the Venetian; the Buttery dazzled with all 

the splendid white of Caesar’s Palace; and the Haldane Room – for one night only, the Little 

Vegas Chapel – gave any swiftly amorous guests the chance to tie the knot. 


Wolfsonians past and present, and their guests, were treated to a rich gastronomical array: 

delicious dim sum, perfect pizza, full-flavoured fries, delectable doughnuts, cracking curry. 

Spirits, cocktails, wine, beer (and more) were in splendid abundance. Full bellies, quenched 

thirsts and warm hearts were the order of the evening. 

But – of course – what is a Summer Ball without a tantalising tapestry of entertainment, 

musical and otherwise? The DJ tent in the Mirage served up a smorgasbord of tunes, 

taking all those present on a dancing journey through pop, rock and techno classics. The 

loudspeakers were pumping from the arrival of the first guests at 8.00 pm until the early 

hours of Sunday, when their cheerful noise retreated to three hundred disco headphones 

atop the heads of many of our revelrous guests. However, it was the Luxor stage that was 

the roaring hearth of live performance. Wolfson 109, a band composed of the very best 

of Wolfson’s own musical talent, delivered their tried, tested and adored regimen of rock 

hits. Sugar Rush served a sweet selection of pop classics. Lady Gaga stole the show with 

her costume changes, crowd enthusiasm, and anthems that had the whole Hall dancing and 


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All ball photos: Stephanie Anne 

singing. Garfunkel and Green Bean Machine – both composed entirely of Oxford students 

– cast out a riveting blend of soul, pop and funk, each genre delivered with a unique edge of 

brass and brilliance. 


For those with an enthusiasm for slightly quieter, but by no means less thrilling forms of 

entertainment, there were still options aplenty. The casino and photo booth brought a 

bustling sense of life to the Cellar Bar, Vegas-style. The ferris wheel on the Croquet Lawn 

had riders screaming and shouting all evening, and the shisha tent provided the muchneeded 

respite that many of our guests were craving after all their dancing. 

The night was only possible thanks to the tireless dedication and hard work of many 

different people. An enormous debt of gratitude is owed to Louise Scrivens, the Common 

Room Administrator, for all the organisational support offered throughout the year; to 

Chris Licence, the College’s Health and Safety Manager, for his unwavering willingness to 

answer and solve a million-and-one logistical questions; and to the College’s Housekeeping, 

Maintenance, and Catering and Events teams, who invested so many hours to ensure that 

the site was fit and proper to host an event of this magnitude. 

Nevertheless, the lion’s share of praise must go to the incredible Committee, who had 

(genuinely) shed blood, sweat, and tears over countless days and hours since October to 

ensure that the early vision of a ‘Wolfson Vegas’ came to satisfying fruition. Jess, Beth, Tanuj, 

Heather, Shubham, Ellie, Helen, Angela, Cedric, Zhengyuan, Nicole, Alex, Estelle, Sekoah – 

you were the stars of the show, without whom not a single scintilla of this would have been 

possible. Thank you. 

And finally: to those esteemed guests who spent the night with us, I hope that you revelled 

in our special night just as much as we did. 

Viva Las Vegas! 

Will Thurlwell, Wolfson Ball Co-Chair 2022 

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Can a humble crab help? Removing 

toxic metal pollutants from water 

PROFESSOR JAMES CRABBE (SF) 

Professor James Crabbe (SF), who will be speaking to the Old Wolves in May 

2023 about sustainability underwater, has sent this thought to the Record. 

INTRODUCTION 

In recent decades industry-related heavy metal pollution has become an increasingly 

serious environmental problem for humans and other organisms due to industrialization, 

urbanization and population growth. Unlike other pollutants, heavy metals are difficult to 

remove from the environment and cannot be chemically or biologically degraded. They can 

enter food chains and do serious harm to both animal and human health. Crops can be 

grown close to industrial sites, giving rise to major health and food security problems, not 

only locally, but also nationally and internationally when those crops are transported far 

and wide to provide food. Heavy metals are those elements with atomic weights between 

about 63 and 200; in contrast to organic pollutants, heavy metals are not biodegradable 

and can readily accumulate in living systems, with many of these ions being toxic or 

carcinogenic. 

Both physical and chemical methods are commonly used to attempt to remediate heavy 

metal toxicity. These methods are expensive and technically challenging and are further 

limited by low removal efficiency under suboptimal conditions. Bioremediation strategies 

include the biosorption of heavy metals 

and microbial flocculation. Bioremediation 

has the advantages of low cost, high 

binding affinity, large available quantities and 

relatively little damage to the environment 

compared with physico-chemical methods. 

It includes the use of genetically engineered 

bacteria, metal-binding proteins such 

as metallothioneins, which have drawn 

increasing attention. Metallothioneins are 

a family of low molecular weight, cysteinerich, 

metal-binding proteins which exist 

Above: Reducing pollution to zero in our rivers, the 

water used for irrigation of our crops and in our 

drinking water is one of the great global challenges in 

public health. Photo: James Crabbe. 

in many organisms, and are involved in 

essential-metal homeostasis, heavy metal 

detoxification and cytoprotection. 

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Photo: Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images. 

Above: Chinese environmental activist Wu Lihong at an irrigation channel outside a chemical factory beside a rice 

paddy and on the edge of Taihu Lake in Yixing in Jiangsu Province. 

The freshwater crab Sinopotamon henanense is widely distributed in Shanxi Province, an 

area in North-West China that has endured serious environmental pollution. The crabs live 

in sediment and face heavy metals directly both via their integument and via their food. 

S. henanense shows a strong capability to accumulate heavy metals. A novel metallothionine 

from the crab has been cloned by colleagues at Shanxi University, Taiyuan, China, where 

before the pandemic I was appointed Special Visiting Professor supported by the Chinese 

100 Talents Programme. Research involves teaching, learning and development of trust for 

everyone involved, and recent events over the last year and a half have challenged us to set 

new standards in communication to aid understanding, even more testing where it is across 

different cultures. Fortunately, we have been very successful in developing the methodology 

so that our research programme has not only continued but evolved along new paths. 

INTRODUCTION 

Last year, we used site-directed mutagenesis to improve the capacity of heavy metals 

adsorption by increasing the number of functional amino acids and functional motifs 

without changing the molecular weight of the protein. This provides a theoretical basis for 

the preparation of genetically engineered bacteria with stronger heavy metal adsorption 

capacity. We then employed a bioinformatics approach to screen for mutation ion sites, 

and generated mutant expression vectors via site-directed mutagenesis. We found that 

E. coli bacterial cells expressing the most effective modified protein exhibited significantly 

increased Cadmium, Copper and Zinc bioaccumulation. Our results offer a basis for the 

preparation of genetically engineered bacteria that are better able to bioaccumulate and 

tolerate heavy metals, proving a foundation for additional studies of the biological treatment 

of water polluted with heavy metals. More recently, we have linked our fusion protein to 

a cellulose membrane, producing a stable, environmentally friendly and re-useable system 

that removes toxic cadmium and other metals from real water and boiler sewage. This has 

important public health applications for real-world water clean-up programmes. 


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Research Clusters 

RESEARCH CLUSTERS 

ANCIENT WORLD 

The fundamental aim of the Ancient World Research Cluster is to support members 

of College and Common Room working on Ancient World topics and to promote 

interdisciplinary working and exchange between scholars of different age groups and 

experience through meetings and lectures, through grants and sponsorship of research 

events, and through the organisation of a variety of other activities intended both for 

our members and for the wider University and public. The breadth of our members’ 

research interests is reflected in the wide variety of events we have been able to 

organise and fund. 

Public talks and related events 

The AWRC was able to renew one of its aims of bringing together members of the Cluster 

at academic events and in social settings when Covid-related restrictions were eased. 

With the exception of one book launch event with round table discussion (held online in 

January 2021), all events organised by the Cluster in the 2021–22 academic year were live. 

One event was also co-organised with the Oxford Centre for Life Writing as part of the 

‘Ancient Lives’ seminar series. In total the AWRC organised or co-organised eleven talks 

and one round table discussion in the 2021–22 academic year. 

Grants, awards, bursaries 

Thanks to generous funding from Baron Lorne Thyssen-Bornemiszma and the Augustus 

Foundation, the Cluster has been able to support a new Lorne Thyssen scholar, Tom 

Gavin, for a DPhil beginning in Michaelmas 2021. The previously appointed Lorne Thyssen 

Scholar, Greg Thompson, had suspended his studies because of Covid-related difficulties 

which included the inability to travel for his doctoral research. Greg continued as a Lorne 

Thyssen scholar for one further term (to Michaelmas 2021) after his scholarship would 

have normally ended in Trinity 2021. 

There was an increase in the frequency of grant applications from the previous year due to 

the easing of Covid restrictions, but application numbers were down from pre-pandemic 

levels. This academic year the AWRC awarded three grants in support of archaeological 

fieldwork, post-excavation analyses, and laboratory analyses on archaeological materials. 

These include two archaeological fieldwork projects in Italy; an epigraphic survey in Jordan; 

visits to archaeological sites in Jordan, Lebanon, and Israel. 

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Three grants were made to support travel to study collections. These include visits to 

collections in South Africa, the USA, the UK, respectively, and a trip to Spain, France and 

Italy. Four grants were made to support the organisation of conferences and workshops 

in the fields of Roman Archaeology, Assyriology, Comparative Linguistics, Early Christian 

History. Two grants were made to support the publication of research. These include 

proof-reading for an article, and the editing and publication of an ancient (Sanskrit) text. 

One grant was made to support travel to present research at a conference. 

Running the Cluster 

The AWRC is developing a new website, with the aim to get it live by the end of 

September 2022. The main aims of the website include showcasing research of AWRC 

members, and to provide a community billboard for members. Alongside the development 

of the new website, the AWRC is creating a Facebook page. Like the website, the Facebook 

page will be used as a community billboard for members, and to feature activities and 

events of the cluster and relevant activities of cluster members, for example through 

photos and videos shared via Instagram. 

Martin Goodman (Director) 

Christoph Bachhuber (Administrator) 

OXFORD CENTRE FOR LIFE-WRITING 

This academic year we have moved back from online to in-person events, whilst keeping the 

knowledge and new global online community we gained during lockdown. Our traditional 

lectures and discussions, for example, have become extremely popular once again; one 

highlight this year was an in-person children’s drama workshop. 


We have led a large international hybrid conference that connected people across fifteen 

time zones, a range of weekly hybrid life-writing and discussion groups, and online support 

(both individual and small groups) for writers in our global community. As a result, we have 

been able to include far more people who would not otherwise have had access to what 

we offer, from undergraduates in Australia, to PhD students in Canada and a scholar in 

Iran. 

Return to in-person events 

Our lecture series brought high-profile writers to Oxford and Birmingham, including Ruth 

Scurr speaking on Napoleon’s life (in conversation with Alexandra Harris), Helen Mort on 

mountains and motherhood, and Daisy Hay on the life of Joseph Johnson. Alongside our 

Weinrebe Lectures, we have had successful ‘In Conversation’ events with novelist Michèle 

Roberts, critic and historian Lara Feigel, author Lisa Appignanesi, and theatre director Carey 

Perloff. We have also hosted a lecture from Benjamin Lipscomb, a book launch for Amit 

Chaudhuri, and several workshops. 

In the summer term just ended we collaborated on events with the Oxford Playhouse, the 


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Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities, and the Birmingham Arts of Place network. 

We continue to partner the Ancient World Research Cluster in a series of events titled 

‘Ancient Lives’. From March 2021 to now, over 1,586 attendees have registered for our inperson 

and online events. 

International conference 

The ‘Southern Lives’ project explores how lives are understood, recorded and reenvisioned 

in the global south, in ways that fundamentally question notions of biography 

and life-writing from the North Atlantic world. In December 2021, we hosted a ‘hybrid’ 

workshop which brought together speakers from five continents, and across fifteen time 

zones. Out of this conference, OCLW has secured a contract with Bloomsbury for a 

forthcoming book on Southern Lives. 


Visiting Scholars and Doctoral Students 

This year OCLW has hosted fourteen Visiting Scholars from around the world, four of 

whom finish their time with us this summer. We will welcome three new scholars in the 

autumn. These academics are professors and lecturers at other institutions working on 

biographical topics; they bring their own scholarship together with projects in life-writing 

such as the lives of a family of women medical doctors, and the experiences of women 

refugees. We run a weekly writing group and host informal networking events for our 

visiting scholars, and are continually delighted by their collaborative spirit and the scholastic 

contributions they bring to our community. 

Our doctoral student Freya Marshall-Payne is now in her second year, working on a lifewriting 

project with Oxford’s homeless women. We will be welcoming two visiting doctoral 

students to the Centre in the autumn term. 

Education and outreach with children 

This year we have worked once more with the Unicorn School, running a life-writing drama 

workshop at Wolfson to trial our new education outreach scheme. The Unicorn School is 

based in Abingdon and caters to children with special education needs such as autism and 

dyslexia. We are in the process of fundraising to develop a series of workshops with this 

school and others on life-writing and climate change, in partnership with Dr Alice Little, 

Writer in Residence at Wytham Woods. 

It has been another successful year for OCLW, and we look forward to the next academic 

year, and in particular a new series of collaborative workshops with the English Faculty. 

OXFORD TRAUMA AND EMERGENCY CARE 

Each term we hold two open invitation meetings, preceded by lunch in College. The agenda 

includes an update on Oxford Trauma and Emergency Care, followed by presentations 

on subjects within trauma care and the methodology surrounding trauma and emergency 

care research. This year we have run a mix of online and in-person Cluster sessions; this 

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lend has had a positive impact, enabling a wider group to attend, although we missed the 

networking opportunities that are only really available through face-to-face meetings. 

Wednesday 30 June 2021 

In this online meeting, Professor Matt Costa (GBF) presented the results of the five-year 

follow-up of the WOLLF trial (Wound management of Open Lower Limb Fractures). These 

showed that high levels of disability and reduced health-related quality of life after severe 

open fractures of the lower limb persist in the medium term. The Cluster also discussed 

the options for disseminating research findings to the widest possible audience. 

Wednesday 13 October 2021 

This session was held in person and was a great opportunity for members of the team 

to catch up with each other and members of the wider research community, including 

our colleagues from Oxford University Hospitals NHS. Professor Steve Gwilym (SF) gave 

an overview of the HUSH trial, which compares surgical and non-surgical intervention 

for treating fractures of the humerus bone. Dr Duncan Appelbe introduced the topic 

of E-Consent, and the progress that is being made in this area when recruiting patients 

into clinical trials. Dr Justin Wormald introduced his PhD project, which focuses on 

understanding and preventing surgical site infection following surgery for hand and wrist 

injuries. And finally, Dr David Keene (SF) introduced the AFTER study, which aims to refine 

and assess different approaches to providing physiotherapy after an ankle fracture. A video 

animation summarising the WOLLF trial (discussed at the June meeting) was also shown. 

Wednesday 8 December 2021 

Professor Dan Perry (SF) spoke about bone remodelling in children after bone injuries. 

He leads several paediatric trials within our team, including SCIENCE (Surgery or Cast 

for Injuries of the EpicoNdyle in Children’s Elbows) and CRAFFT (Children’s Radius Acute 

Fracture Fixation Trial). 


Wednesday 12 January 2022 

This session focussed on Patient and Public Involvement (PPI), and was well attended by 

several members of our PPI group. Dr Duncan Appelbe presented PIPS, a project funded by 

the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), which looks at creating patient 

portals for clinical trials. Professor Matt Costa led an interactive discussion on Equality 

and Diversity, which touched on many areas including NIHR’s INCLUDE roadmap, adding 

Equality and Diversity to trial-specific Case Report Forms (CRFs) and Equality and Diversity 

within PPI groups. Dr Colin Forde gave an introduction to his PhD project, which compares 

supervised versus self-managed rehabilitation for knee dislocation. We also showed videos 

on the outcomes of the World Hip Trauma Evaluation (WHiTE) 4 and 5 studies. 

Wednesday 2 March 2022 

Professor Matt Costa spoke about statistics in medical research, and also gave an update 

on the evolution of the DRAFFT trials, including the latest iteration DRAFT-CASP which 


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has been funded by NIHR. These studies look at ways of treating distal radius (forearm) 

fracture. Dr Abhinav Singh introduced his PhD project, which focuses on improving the 

newborn screening pathway for developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH). 

Wednesday 18 May 2022 

This session concentrated on global health research. Professor Simon Graham, who has 

recently joined the team, introduced his global health research work and interests, which 

include HIV in trauma in South Africa. Professor Rafa Pinedo-Villanueva presented his work 

on building economic models to prevent secondary fracture. 

Other Cluster activities 

We have also held Senior Management and Operational Group meetings on the mornings 

of in-person Cluster meetings. 


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Lectures and Seminars 

ANNUAL LECTURES 

Syme Lecture (28 October 2021) 

Professor Richard Saller, ‘The elder Pliny’s Roman economy: the consequences of empire’ 

Sarfraz Pakistan Lecture (25 November 2021) 

Professor Adil Najam, ‘Age of Adaptation: Climate Change as Viewed from Pakistan’ 

Berlin Lecture event (2 December 2021) 

Professor John Tasioulas, Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt and Sir Tim Hitchens, ‘AI and Ethics: 

The Sense of Reality’ 

Haldane Lecture (24 February 2022) 

Professor Sir Chris Whitty, ‘The role of science in national and international emergencies’ 

Berlin Lecture (19 May 2022) 

Professor Ato Quayson, ‘Disputatiousness and Unruly Affective Economies: From the 

Greeks to Postcolonial Tragedy’ 

COLLEGE LECTURES AND SEMINARS 

THE PRESIDENT’S SEMINARS 

Michaelmas term (25 October 2021): ‘Cutting Edge Medical Technology’ 

David Ray, Rachael Tanner, Stewart Humble 

Hilary term (31 January 2022): ‘What you see is what you get’ 

Chihab El Khachab, Katharina Bauer, Patrick Chang 

Trinity term (9 May 2022): ‘Transformation’ 

Dylan Thursfield, Carys Jones, Julie Cosmidis 


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College Officers and Membership 

(with date of appointment) 

The Record 

at 1 October 2022 

THE RECORD 

President: Sir Tim Hitchens (May 2018) 

Vicegerent: Professor Peter Stewart (Oct 2022) 

Bursar: Richard Morin (Nov 2015) 

Senior Tutor and Dean of Welfare: Emily Eastham (Mar 2017) 

Development Director: Dr Huw David (Apr 2019) 

Secretary to the Governing Body: Professor Frances Gardner (Oct 2022) 

Fellow for Archives: Professor Erica Charters (Oct 2020) 

Fellow for Library: Professor Erica Charters (Mar 2021) 

Research Fellows’ Liaison Officer: Professor Loren Landau (Oct 2020) 

Visiting Scholars’ Liaison Officer: Professor Tarje Nissen-Meyer (Oct 2018) 

Data Protection Officer: Ben Bridle (North Oxford Shared College Services) 

Assistant Data Protection Officer: Luke Jackson-Ross 

Dean of Degrees: Professor Wolfgang de Melo (Oct 2016) 

Deputy Deans of Degrees: Dr Imre Bangha (Oct 2017), 

Professor Erica Charters (Oct 2017), Dr Roger Tomlin (Oct 2017) 

Editor of the College Record: Dr Roger Tomlin (Oct 2016) 

Wine Steward: Professor Jacob Dahl (Oct 2021) 

Abbreviations: 

EF 

GBF 

GS 

HF 

HMCR 

JRF 

MCR 

RF 

RMCR 

SF 

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Emeritus Fellow 

Governing Body Fellow 

Graduate Student 

Honorary Fellow 

Honorary Member of 

Common Room 

Junior Research Fellow 

Member of Common 

Room 

Research Fellow 

Research Member of 

Common Room 

Supernumerary Fellow 

SRF 

SF 

VF 

College Membership 

Senior Research Fellow 

Supernumerary Fellow 

Visiting Fellow 

Governing Body Fellows 56 

Honorary Fellows 41 

Emeritus Fellows 52 

Research Fellows 22 

Junior Research Fellows 63 

Visiting Fellows 1 

Graduate Students 950 

Members of Common Room 853 


President 

Hitchens, Sir Tim, KCVO, CMG, MA (MA Cambridge) 

Governing Body Fellows 

Andersson, Ruben, MA (BA SOAS, MA City London, MSc, PhD LSE) 

Ordinary Fellow, Professor of Social Anthropology 

Aveyard, Paul, MA (BSc, MB, BS London, MPH, PhD Birmingham) 

Professorial Fellow, Clinical Reader in the Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, 

Professor of Behavioural Medicine 

Bangha, Imre, MA (MA Budapest, PhD Santineketan) 

Ordinary Fellow, Associate Professor of Hindi 

Barrett, Jonathan, MA (MA, PhD Cambridge) 

Ordinary Fellow, Professor of Quantum Information Science 

Boehmer, Elleke, MPhil, DPhil (BA Rhodes University, South Africa) 

Professorial Fellow, Professor of World Literature in English 

Charters, Erica, MA, DPhil (BA Carleton, MA Toronto) 

Ordinary Fellow, Professor of the Global History of Medicine; Fellow for Archives 

Cosmidis, Julie, MA (MA, PhD Paris) 

Ordinary Fellow and Professor of Geobiology 

Costa, Matthew, MA (MB, BChir, PhD East Anglia, MA Cambridge) 

Professorial Fellow, Professor of Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery 

Dahl, Jacob, MA (BAS Copenhagen, PhD California) 

Ordinary Fellow, Professor of Assyriology; Wine Steward 

David, Huw, MA, DPhil (MA Warwick) 

Ordinary Fellow; Development Director 

De Melo, Wolfgang, MPhil, DPhil (MA SOAS) 

Ordinary Fellow, Professor of Classical Philology 

Eastham, Emily, MA (MA Oxford Brookes) 

Ordinary Fellow; Senior Tutor and Dean of Welfare 

El Khachab, Chihab, DPhil (BA Ottawa) 

Ordinary Fellow, Associate Professor of Visual Anthropology 

Fellerer, Jan, MA (MA Vienna, Dr Phil Basel) 

Ordinary Fellow, Associate Professor of Non-Russian Slavonic Languages 

Gardner, Frances, MA, DPhil 

Ordinary Fellow, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychology, Reader in Child 

and Family Psychology; Secretary to the Governing Body 

George, Alain, MSt, DPhil (BSc LSE) 

Professorial Fellow, I M Pei Chair in Islamic Art and Architecture 

Giaccia, Amato (BA Lafayette, PhD Pennsylvania) 

Professorial Fellow, Professor of Oncology and Biology 

Harrison, Paul, MA, BM, BCh, MRCPsych, DM 

Ordinary Fellow, Clinical Reader in Psychiatry, Professor of Psychiatry 

THE RECORD 


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THE RECORD 

Howgego, Christopher, MA, DPhil 

Professorial Fellow, Keeper of the Heberden Coin Room, Professor of Greek and 

Roman Numismatics 

Jarvis, Paul, MA (BSc Durham, PhD Norwich) 

Ordinary Fellow, University Lecturer in Plant Sciences, Professor of Plant 

Cell Biology 

Johns, Jeremy, MA, DPhil 

Ordinary Fellow, University Lecturer in Islamic Archaeology, Professor of the 

Art and Archaeology of the Islamic Mediterranean 

Jones, Geraint, MA, DPhil 

Ordinary Fellow, University Lecturer in Computation 

Kamnitsas, Konstantinos, MA (MSc, PhD London) 

Ordinary Fellow, Associate Professor in Biomedical Imaging 

Landau, Loren, MA (MSc London, PhD Berkeley) 

Ordinary Fellow, Professor of Migration and Development; Research 

Fellows’ Liaison Officer 

Lange, Bettina, MA (BA, PhD Warwick) 

Ordinary Fellow, Associate Professor of Law and Regulation 

Lewis, James, MA (BA University of the South, MA, PhD Hawaii) 

Ordinary Fellow, Associate Professor of Korean History 

Lowe, John, MA, DPhil 

Ordinary Fellow, Associate Professor of Sanskrit 

Mathur, Nayanika, MA (MA Delhi, MPhil, PhD Cambridge) 

Ordinary Fellow, Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies 

Morin, Richard, MA (MA KCL) 

Ordinary Fellow; Bursar 

Mukherjee, Pablo, MPhil (MA Calcutta, PhD Cambridge) 

Ordinary Fellow, Professor of Anglophone World-literature 

Mulcahy, Linda, MA (LLB Southampton, LLM, MA, PhD London) 

Professorial Fellow, Professor of Socio-Legal Studies 

Nanchahal, Jagdeep (BSc, MBBS, PhD London) 

Ordinary Fellow and Professor of Hand, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 

Nissen-Meyer, Tarje, MA (Diplom Munich, MA, PhD Princeton) 

Ordinary Fellow, Professor of Geophysics; Visiting Scholars’ Liaison Officer 

Pila, Jonathan, MA (BSc Melbourne, PhD Stanford) 

Professorial Fellow, Reader in Mathematical Logic 

Probert, Philomen, MA, DPhil 

Ordinary Fellow, Professor of Classical Philology and Linguistics 

Ray, David (MBChB, PhD Manchester) 

Ordinary Fellow and Professor of Endocrinology 

Redfield, Christina, MA (BA Wellesley, MA, PhD Harvard) 

Ordinary Fellow, Professor of Molecular Biophysics 

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Riede, Moritz, MA (MSc Cambridge, PhD Konstanz) 

Ordinary Fellow, Professor of Soft Functional Nanomaterials 

Roberts, Paul, MA (BA Cambridge, MPhil Sheffield) 

Professorial Fellow, Sackler Keeper of Antiquities 

Roesler, Ulrike, MA (MA, PhD Münster, Habilitation Munich) 

Ordinary Fellow, Professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies 

Rushworth, Matthew, MA, DPhil 

Professorial Fellow, Watts Professor of Experimental Psychology 

Schmid, Annina, MA (MManipTher Curtin, PhD Queensland) 

Ordinary Fellow, Associate Professor in Clinical Neurosciences 

Schulting, Rick, MA (BA, MA Simon Fraser, PhD Reading, PGCE Queen’s Belfast) 

Ordinary Fellow, Professor of Scientific and Prehistoric Archaeology 

Sen, Arjune, BM, MA (PhD UC London, FRCP) 

Ordinary Fellow, Associate Professor and Head, Oxford Epilepsy Research Group 

Stewart, Peter, MA (MA, MPhil, PhD Cambridge) 

Ordinary Fellow, Professor of Ancient Art; Vicegerent 

Sud, Nikita, MA, MPhil, DPhil (BA Delhi, MA Mumbai) 

Ordinary Fellow, Professor of Development Studies 

Taylor, David, MA, DPhil 

Ordinary Fellow, Associate Professor of Aramaic and Syriac 

Vedral, Vlatko, MA (BSc, PhD Imperial) 

Ordinary Fellow, Professor of Quantum Information Science 

Ventresca, Marc, MA (AM, PhD Stanford) 

Ordinary Fellow, Associate Professor of Strategic Management 

Vevaina, Yuhan, MA (BA Tufts, MA, PhD Harvard) 

Ordinary Fellow, Associate Professor of Sasanian Studies 

Wood, Rachel, MA, MSc, DPhil (BSc Durham) 

Ordinary Fellow, Associate Professor of Radiocarbon Science 

Wolff, Jonathan, BA, MPhil 

Professorial Fellow, Alfred Landecker Professor of Values and Public Policy 

Woodruff, Christopher, MA (BSc Chicago, MA California, PhD Texas) 

Professorial Fellow, Professor of Development Economics 

Yoshida, Nobuko, MA (BSc, MSc Keio, PhD Manchester) 

Professorial Fellow, Christopher Strachey Professor of Computing 

Yürekli-Görkay, Zeynep, MA (BArch, MArch Istanbul, PhD Harvard) 

Ordinary Fellow, Associate Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture 

THE RECORD 

Honorary Fellows 

Adams, John (BA Rutgers, JD Seton Hall, LLM New York) 

Armitage, Simon (MA Manchester) 

Barnard, John, MA, BLitt 

Berman, Alan (MA Cambridge, Dip Arch UCL) 

Bostridge, Ian, MA, DPhil (MPhil Cambridge) 


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THE RECORD 

Bradshaw, William, the Rt Hon Lord (MA Reading), FCIT 

Brendel, Alfred, KBE 

Burgen, Sir Arnold (MB, MD London, MA Cambridge), FRCP, FRS 

Chan, Gerald (BS, MS California, SM, SCD Harvard) 

Davies, Dame Kay, MA, DPhil 

Deutsch, David, MA, DPhil (MA Cambridge) 

Ekert, Artur (MSc Krakow) DPhil 

Epstein, Sir Anthony, CBE, MA (MA, MD Cambridge, PhD, DSc London, 

Hon MD Edinburgh, Prague, Hon DSc Birm), Hon FRCP, FRCPath, 

Hon FRCPA, FRS, Hon FRSE, FMedSci 

Gellner, David, BA, MPhil, DPhil 

Ghosh, Amitav, DPhil 

Halban, Martine (BA Sussex) 

Halban, Peter (BA Princeton) 

Hamilton, Andrew, MA (BSc Exeter, MSc British Columbia, PhD Cambridge), FRS 

Hardy, Henry, BPhil, MA, DPhil 

Harrison, Simon, DPhil (BSc London) 

His Holiness the Twelfth Gyalwang Drukpa, Jigme Wangchen 

Hoffman, Reid (BS Stanford) MSt 

Kennedy, Baroness Helena, QC, FRSA 

Khalili, Sir Nasser (BA New York, PhD SOAS) 

Lee, Dame Hermione, DBE, MA, MPhil, FBA, FRSL 

Levett, Christian (BTEC Durham) 

Lewis, David (BSc London) 

Macdonald, Michael, MA 

Mance, Jonathan, the Rt Hon Lord, MA, LLD 

Miller, Andrew, CBE, MA (BSc, PhD Edinburgh) 

Monbiot, George, BSc 

Reed, Robert, the Rt Hon Lord, DPhil (LLB Edinburgh, Hon LLD Glasgow) 

Rezek, Francisco (DipL LLB, DES Minas Gerais, PhD Paris) 

Robinson, Dame Carol (MSc Wales, PhD Cambridge) 

Sawyer, Walter, MA 

Segal, Karen 

Sorabji, Sir Richard, CBE, MA, DPhil, FBA 

Thyssen-Bornemisza, Baron Lorne 

Vike-Freiberga, President Vaira (MA Toronto, PhD McGill) 

Whitty, Sir Chris, BM BCh, MA, DSc (MSc London, FMedSci Medical Sciences) 

Williams, Patricia (MA Cambridge) 

Emeritus Fellows 

Abraham, Douglas, MA, DSc (BA, PhD Cambridge) 

Abramsky, Samson, MA (MA Cambridge, PhD London) 

Anderson, David, MA (MA Cambridge, BSc, PhD St Andrews) 

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Austyn, Jonathan, MA, DPhil 

Benson, James, MA (BA Macalester College, MA Minnesota, PhD Stanford) 

Briggs, George Andrew, MA (PhD Cambridge) 

Brock, Sebastian, MA, DPhil (MA Cambridge, Hon DLitt Birmingham), FBA 

Brown, Harvey, MA (BSc Canterbury New Zealand, PhD London) 

Bryant, Peter, MA (MA Cambridge, PhD London), FRS 

Bunch, Christopher, MA (MB, BCh Birmingham, FRCP, FRCP Edinburgh) 

Cerezo, Alfred, MA, DPhil 

Cluver, Lucie, MSc, DPhil 

Coecke, Bob, MA (PhD Brussels) 

Conner, William, MA (BA Grinnell) 

Curtis, Julie, MA, DPhil 

Davis, Christopher, MA, DPhil (BA Harvard, MSA George Washington, PhD Cambridge) 

Deighton, Anne, MA, DipEd (MA, PhD Reading) 

Delaine, Janet, MA (BA, PhD Adelaide) 

Dercon, Stefan, BPhil, DPhil (BA Leuven) 

Francis, Martin, MA, DPhil 

Galligan, Denis, BCL MA DCL (LLB Queensland, AcSS) 

Giustino, Feliciano, MA (MSc Torino, PhD Lausanne) 

Gombrich, Richard, MA, DPhil (AM Harvard) 

Goodman, Martin, MA, DPhil, DLitt, FBA 

Gordon, Alan, CBE, MA, FCMI 

Harriss-White, Barbara, MA (DipAgSc, MA Cambridge, PhD East Anglia) 

Hoare, Sir (Charles) Antony, MA, DFBCS, FRS 

Isaacson, Daniel (AB Harvard) MA, DPhil 

Jarron, (Thomas) Edward (MA Cambridge) 

Kennedy, (William) James, MA, DSc (BSc, PhD London) 

Kurtz, Donna, MA, DPhil (BA Cincinnati, MA Yale), FSA 

Langslow, David, MA, DPhil 

Mann, Joel, CNZM, DM (MBChB, PhD Cape Town), FFPHM, FRACP, FRSNZ 

McDiarmid, Colin, MA, MSc, DPhil (BSc Edinburgh) 

McKenna, (William) Gillies, MA (BSc Edinburgh, PhD, MD Albert Einstein) 

Neil, (Hugh) Andrew (MB, BS, DSc London, MA Cambridge) MA, FFPHM, FRCP, RD 

Penney, John, MA, DPhil (MA Pennsylvania) 

Perrins, Christopher, MA, DPhil, (BSc London), FRS, LVO 

Ramble, Charles, MA, DPhil (BA Durham) 

Rawlins, (John) Nicholas, MA DPhil 

Rice, Ellen, MA, DPhil (BA Mount Holyoke College, MA Cambridge) 

Rickaby, Rosalind, MA (MA PhD Cambridge) 

Robey, David, MA 

Robinson, Chase, MA (BA Brown, PhD Harvard) 

Sanderson, Alexis, MA 

Shotton, David, MA, DPhil (MA, PhD Cambridge) 

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Tomlin, Roger, MA, DPhil, FSA; Editor of the College Record 

Walker, Susan, MA (BA, PhD London), FSA 

Watson, Oliver, MA (BA Durham, PhD London) 

Watts, Anthony, MA (BSc London, PhD Durham) 

Wilkie, Alex, MA (MSc, PhD London), FRS 

Wyatt, Derek, MA, DPhil 

THE RECORD 

Supernumerary Fellows 

Barber, Peter Jeffrey, BA, MPhil, DPhil 

Bhaskaran, Harish, MA (BE Pune, MS PhD Maryland) 

Brockdorff, Neil, MA (BSc Sussex, PhD Glasgow) 

Clemit, Pamela, BA, MPhil, DPhil 

Coleman, John, MA (BA, DPhil York) 

Collins, Paul (MA, PhD UCL) 

Crabbe, (Michael) James, FRGS, MA (BSc Hull, MSc, PhD, DSc Manchester), 

FRSA, FRSC, CChem, CBiol, FIBiol, FLS 

De Roure, David, MA (PhD Southampton) 

Ehlers, Anke (Hab. Marburg) MA (PhD Tübingen) 

Ferreira, Pedro, MA (Licentiate Lisbon, PhD Imperial) 

Franklinos, Tristan, MA, MPhil, DPhil (MA St Andrew’s) 

Graham, Simon (MBChB, MSc Leeds, PhD Edinburgh) 

Gwilym, Stephen, DPhil (MBBS London) 

Hanson, John, BA, MSt, DPhil 

Hodges, Christopher, OBE, MA (PhD KCL) 

Jabb, Lama, MA, DPhil (MSc SOAS) 

Kaski, Kimmo, DPhil (MSc Helsinki) 

Kay, Philip, MA, MPhil, DPhil, FSA 

Keene, David, DPhil (MSc Birmingham) 

Kennedy-Allum, Kate (BA, PhD Cambridge, MA KCL, Dip RC Mus) 

Key, Timothy, DPhil (BVM&S Edinburgh, MSc London) 

Kurkchiyan, Marina (MSc Yereven, PhD Vilnius) 

Landrus, Matthew, MA, DPhil (MA Louisville) 

Leeson, Paul (MB BChir, PhD Cambridge, BSc St And, FRCP) 

Maltby, Colin, MA 

Merrony, Mark, MPhil, MSt, DPhil (BA Wales St David’s) 

Mueller, Benito, MA, DPhil (Dip ETH Zurich) 

Nuttall, Patricia, OBE, MA (BSc Bristol, PhD Reading) 

Paine, Jonathan, BA, MPhil, DPhil 

Perry, Dan, MBChB (PhD Liverpool) 

Pottle, Mark, MA, DPhil (BA Sheffield) 

Quinn, Catherine, EMBA (BA Birmingham, MA Ohio State) 

Ryan, Cressida (BA, MPhil Cambridge, PhD Nottingham) 

Seymour, Leonard, MA (BSc Manchester, PhD Keele) 

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Sheldon, Benjamin, MA (MA Cambridge, PhD Sheffield) 

Titchener, Andrew (MA Cambridge, MSc Cardiff) 

Toth, Ida, MA, DPhil (BA, MPhil Belgrade) 

Tucker, Margaret, MA, DPhil 

Willett, Sir Keith, MA (MB BS London), FRCS 

Zeitlyn, David, MA, DPhil (MSc London, PhD Cambridge) 

Research Fellows 

Bales, Adam (MA Monash, PhD Cambridge) 

Banella, Laura (MA Pisa, PhD Padua) 

Barrett, Gordon, MPhil (BA Mount Allison, PhD Bristol) 

Bolla, Jani (MSc Pondicherry, PhD Iowa) 

Bortone, Pietro, MPhil, DPhil 

Bowden, Thomas, DPhil (MA St Andrews) 

Cagnan, Hayriye (BSc Cornell, MSc Imperial, PhD Amsterdam) 

Cohn, Martin, MA (MSc Denmark, PhD Copenhagen) 

Constantin, Andrei, DPhil (MSc Munich) 

Fallon, Maurice (MSc Dublin, PhD Cambridge) 

Georgieva, Antoniya (BSc Technical Univ Sofia, PhD Portsmouth) 

Geurds, Alexander (MA, PhD Leiden) 

Hilkens, Andy (MA Louvain, PhD Gent) 

Mahdi, Adam (MSc Kracow, MSc, PhD Barcelona) 

Marletto, Chiara, DPhil (BA, MSc Turin) 

Martinez-Sanchez, Noelia (MSc Madrid, PhD Santiago) 

Montelongo, Yunuen (MSc Dundee, PhD Cambridge) 

Nimura, Courtney (MA London, PhD Reading) 

Palacios-Gonzalez, Cesar (MPhil Mexico, PhD Manchester) 

Tanner, Rachel, BA, DPhil 

Viney, Tim (MBiol Bath, PhD Basel) 

Williamson, Victoria (BSc, PhD Bath) 

THE RECORD 

Stipendiary Junior Research Fellow 

Page-Perron, Emilie (BA Quebec, MA Geneva, PhD Toronto) Assyriology 

Junior Research Fellows 

Al-Rashid, Moudhy, MPhil, DPhil 

Araneda Machuca, Gabriel (MA Chile, PhD Innsbruck) 

Arantes, Virginie (MA Liege, PhD Brussels) Wiener Anspach 

Ashkenazi, Shaked (MSc, PhD Weizmann) 

Bardelli, Martino (MSc Switzerland, PhD London) 

Barragan Villanueva, Oscar (MSc Guanajuato, PhD Turin) Dennis Sciama 

Bongianino, Umberto, MPhil, DPhil 

Bruche, Susann (Diplom Leipzig, MCRS, PhD Imperial) 


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THE RECORD 

Carlebach, Naomi, DPhil (BSc Jerusalem) 

Cerveux, Alexandre (BA, MA, PhD Sorbonne) 

Clavel-Vazquez, Adriana (BA, MPhil Mexico, PhD Sheffield) 

Collins, Katherine (MA, PhD West of England) 

Dafinca, Ruxandra, MSc, DPhil (BSc Jacobs Bremen) 

Davis, Emma (MSc, PhD Warwick) 

Davranoglou, Leonidas-Romanos, DPhil 

Decharneux, Julian (BA, MA, PhD Brussels) Wiener Anspach 

De Gregorio, Giovanni (MA Bocconi, PhD Milan) 

Doody, Brendan (MA Lincoln, PhD Durham) 

Duan, Baihui (MA South Korea, PhD Barcelona) 

Forrow, Aden (BA Middlebury, PhD Massachusetts) 

Fransham, Mark, MSc, DPhil 

Garcia-Garcia, Carlos (MSc Madrid, PhD Barcelona) 

Gassman, Mattias, MPhil (MA Minnesota, DPhil Cambridge) 

Grecksch, Kevin (MA Leipzig, PhD Oldenburg) 

Hampton, Sam, BA, DPhil 

Hass, Binesh, MSt, DPhil 

Haskett, Tim (BSc, PhD Murdoch) 

Herskowitz, Daniel, DPhil (BA Israel, MA Hebrew) 

Hu, Zhiyuan, DPhil 

Kefelian, Anahide (BA, MA Lyon, PhD Sorbonne) 

Kelegama, Thuruni (BA Peradeniya, MA London, PhD Zurich) 

Kim, Young Chan, DPhil (BSc Imperial, BMBS BMedSci MRes Nottingham) 

Linos, Marie (BA, MA, PhD Brussels) Wiener Anspach 

Lu, Yi (PhD Harvard) 

Lutomski, Corinne (BSc Wayne, DPhil Indiana) 

Maa, Anissa (BA Lyon, MA, PhD Brussels) Wiener Anspach 

Makarchev, Nikita, MSc (PhD Cambridge) 

Matke-Bauer, Anna-Katharina (MA, PhD Oldenburg) 

Metcalfe David, DPhil (MSc Edinburgh) 

Middleton, Steven, DPhil 

Molina-Munoz, Adriana (MA Costa Rica, PhD Illinois) 

Muir, Jack (MA Costa Rica, PhD Illinois) 

Nelson, Thomas, BA, MSt (PhD Cambridge) 

New, Katherine, BA, MSt, DPhil 

Nguyen, Manh Tien (MA Paris, PhD Brussels) Wiener Anspach 

Oncioiu, Sinziana (MSc Sweden, PhD Bordeaux) 

Ozdemir, Tugrul (BSc Bilkent, PhD Vienna) 

Parkinson, Rachel (BSc, PhD Saskatchewan) 

Queloz, Matthieu (MA Zurich, PhD Basel) 

Robinson, Natasha, MSc, DPhil 

Rudgard, William (MSc, PhD London) 

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Salazar, Amaia (BA, MA, PhD Madrid) 

Salman, Mootaz (MSc, PhD Sheffield) 

Sandri, Maria Giovanna (MA Venice, PhD Pisa) 

Sarkisyan, Nikolay (MA St Petersburg, PhD Oslo) 

Schmid, Nora (MA, PhD Berlin) 

Shalev, Nir, DPhil (MA Tel Aviv) 

Tennie, Felix, DPhil (Diplom Hamburg, MASt Cambridge) 

Titelboim, Danna (MSc, PhD Israel) 

Van de Wetering, John (MA, PhD Nijmegen) 

Votruba, Nicole (BA, MA Munich, PhD London) 

Wilkinson, Hayden (BSc Queensland, PhD Australia) 

Wu, Wenchuan, DPhil (MSc Tsinghua) 

Creative Arts Fellow 

Brennan, Tom (BA American Theatre Arts) 

Elections and Admissions 2021 –22 

Governing Body Fellows 

Kamnitsas, Konstantinos, MA (MSc, PhD London) 

Mukherjee, Upamanyu Pablo, MPhil (MA Calcutta, PhD Cambridge) 

Schmid, Annina, MA (MManipTher Curtin, PhD Queensland) 

Sen, Arjune, BM, MA (PhD UC London, FRCP) 

Wood, Rachel, MA, MSc, DPhil (BSc Durham) 

Yoshida, Nobuko, MA (BSc, MSc Keio, PhD Manchester) 

THE RECORD 

Supernumerary Fellows 

Franklinos, Tristan, MA, MPhil, DPhil (MA St Andrew’s) 

Graham, Simon (MBChB, MSc Leeds, PhD Edinburgh) 

Kennedy-Allum, Kate (BA, PhD Cambridge, MA KCL, Dip RC Mus) 

Ryan, Cressida, BA, MPhil Cambridge, PhD Nottingham 

Honorary Fellows 

Monbiot, George, BSc 

Whitty, Sir Chris, BM BCh, MA, DSc (MSc London, FMedSci Medical Sciences) 

Research Fellows 

Bolla, Jani (MSc Pondicherry, PhD Iowa) 

Constantin, Andrei, DPhil (MSc Munich) 

Hilkens, Andy (MA Louvain, PhD Gent) 

Martinez-Sanchez, Noelia (MSc Madrid, PhD Santiago) 


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Junior Research Fellows 

Cerveux, Alexandre (BA, MA, PhD Sorbonne) 

Davranoglou, Leonidas-Romanos, DPhil 

De Gregorio, Giovanni (MA Bocconi, PhD Milan) 

Decharneux, Julian (BA, MA, PhD Brussels) Wiener Anspach 

Duan, Baihui (MA South Korea, PhD Barcelona) 

Garcia-Garcia, Carlos (MSc Madrid, PhD Barcelona) 

Hu, Zhiyuan, DPhil 

Kelegama, Thuruni (BA Peradeniya, MA London, PhD Zurich) 

Middleton, Steven, DPhil 

Muir, Jack (MA Costa Rica, PhD Illinois) 

Nelson, Thomas, BA, MSt (PhD Cambridge) 

New, Katherine, BA, MSt, DPhil 

Nguyen, Manh Tien (MA Paris, PhD Brussels) Wiener Anspach 

Oncioiu, Sinziana (MSc Sweden, PhD Bordeaux) 

Salazar, Amaia (BA, MA, PhD Madrid) 

Sarkisyan, Nikolay (MA St Petersburg, PhD Oslo) 

Titelboim, Danna (MSc, PhD Israel) 

Van de Wetering, John (MA, PhD Nijmegen) 

Votruba, Nicole (BA, MA Munich, PhD London) 

Wilkinson, Hayden (BSc Queensland, PhD Australia) 

Wu, Wenchuan, DPhil (MSc Tsinghua) 

Visiting Scholars in residence during the academic year 2021–22 

Allen, James (BA Yale, PhD Princeton) 

Barford, Carol (BS MS Boston, PhD Harvard) 

Barford, Paul (BS Illinois, PhD Boston) 

Batovici, Dan (BA Bucharest, MPhil Cambridge, MPhil St Andrews, PhD Leuven) 

Black, Mary (BA Dublin, MD Dublin) 

Bonnerjee, Samraghni (BA, MA Calcutta, PhD Sheffield) 

Bruni, Alessandro (PhD Moscow) 

Daneshmand, Mohammad Parsa, MPhil, DPhil 

Das, Gurcharan (AB Harvard) 

De Koker, Louis (LLB, LLM, LLD University of the Free State, LLM Cambridge) 

Di Martino, Maria Luisa (MA Naples, MA University of the Basque Country, 

PhD Strasbourg) 

Dill, Gabriel (BSc MSc PhD Basel) 

Drapelova Pavla (BA Prague, MA PhD Athens) 

Dubochet, Lucy (MA Geneva, MA University for Peace, Mres PhD London 

Duraj-Nowosielska Izabela (MA PhD Warsaw) 

Ebler, Daniel (BA, MA Zurich, PhD Hong Kong) 

Gardner-Chloros, Penelope, BA MA (PhD Strasbourg) 

Gessel-Kalinowsks Vel Kalisz, Beata (MA, PhD Warsaw) 

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Hembrow, Ian (BSc Reading) 

Hiralal, Kalpana (BA, MA Durban, PhD Natal) 

Hochard, Pierre-Olivier (PhD Tours) 

Hooberman, Lucy, BA, MA 

Hyland, Richard (AB Harvard, LLM Paris, MFA New York) 

Jones, Heather (BA Dublin, MPhil Cambridge, PhD Dublin) 

Komisarof, Adam (BA Brown, MA Antioch, PhD International Christian University) 

Krik, Hagit (BA, MA Haifa, PhD Tel Aviv) 

Laerke, Mogens (PhD Paris) 

Meyer, Michael (BS Wisconsin, MA Berkeley) 

Milburn, Gerard, (BS Brisbane, DPhil Waikato) 

Nakagawa, Kanako (BA Doshisha, MA Shiga, PhD Kwansei Gakuin) 

O’Connor, Méadhbh, MFA (BFA Dublin) 

Parker, Louisa (BA, MFA Leeds, PhD Loughborough) 

Peaker, Carol, DPhil (BA Toronto, MA London) 

Pouget, Benoit (MA, PhD Aix-Marseille) 

Rainhorn, Judith (PhD Tours) 

Shankar Vudayagiri, Kalyan (BSC, MBA, PhD Pune) 

Spooner, Jonathan (BA Leeds) 

Stalla, Heidi, MPhil, DPhil (BA Stanford) 

Ullah, Rafi (BA Swat, MSc MPhil PhD Islamabad) 

Xia, Jing (BA Zhongnan, MA PhD Wuhan) 

THE RECORD 

Graduate students 

Addenbrooke, Stephanie (DPhil Theology and Religion (Part-time)) 

Adeyemo, Mary Adeola (DPhil Law) 

Ahmad, Haseeb (EMBA (Jan)) 

Ahmad, Mirza Rizwaan (MSc Modern South Asian Studies) 

Ahmad, Olfat Mohamed Tawfiq Khdair (MSc Precision Cancer Medicine (Part-time)) 

Aiyer, Sriraj (DPhil Experimental Psychology (Direct Entry)) 

Aktar, Anjum Lia (MSc Integrated Immunology) 

Alkazemi, Badria A A A R (MSc Integrated Immunology) 

Alotaiq, Abdullah Nasser A (DPhil Engineering Science) 

Alshref, Faisal Makki M (DPhil Organic Chemistry) 

Anbarasan, Thineskrishna (MSc Clinical Trials (Part-time)) 

Anrod, Reid Allen (MSt English and American Studies) 

Anscombe, Rachel Anne (MSc Integrated Immunology) 

Antonio, Emilia Sitsofe (DPhil Clinical Medicine) 

Ashraghi, Mohammad Reza (DPhil Clinical Neurosciences) 

Attard, Megan Jing Hsien (MSc Clinical Embryology) 

Babin-Heynard, Lila Aurore Julie (MSc Comparative Social Policy) 

Bahar, Nilgoun (DPhil Experimental Psychology (Direct Entry)) 

Bannister, Julius (DPhil Oncology) 


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THE RECORD 

Bazarbachi, Zeina (MSc Clinical and Therapeutic Neuroscience) 

Bechteler, Christian (DPhil Materials) 

Bernstein, Bronwen Flora (MPhil Traditional East Asia) 

Bertolace, André Luiz Carneiro (DPhil Engineering Science (Part-time)) 

Bhadauria, Ananya (MSc Education (Higher Education)) 

Bílik, Matej (MSc Education (Higher Education)) 

Bisel, Olivia Louise (MSc Sustainability, Enterprise and the Environment) 

Blackwell, Alexandra Haley (DPhil Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation) 

Blowfield, Peter Henry William (MSc Energy Systems (36 Months)) 

Blythe, Charlotte Emily (MSt History – Early Modern History 1500–1700) 

Born, Konstantin (DPhil Geography and the Environment) 

Bottle, Emily Jane (MSc Medical Education (Part-time)) 

Brash, Jamie Gregor (MSt History of Art and Visual Culture) 

Brooks, Ruthanne Joy (MSt Classical Hebrew Studies) 

Brown, Kaelyn Maia (MSc Clinical and Therapeutic Neuroscience) 

Brustad, Lila Raquel (MSc Medical Anthropology) 

Buquet, Maïlys Théa Baya (DPhil Engineering Science) 

Burge, Adam Scott (DPhil Ancient History (Full-time)) 

Burns, Jamal Terrell (MSc Education (Digital and Social Change)) 

Cann, Sean Thomas (MSt Slavonic Studies) 

Carrillo Magna, Francisco Javier Marcelo (Master of Public Policy) 

Chan, Song San (MSc(Res) Oncology) 

Chang, Patrick Chih-Kai (DPhil Engineering Science) 

Charilaou, Marios (MPhil Global and Area Studies) 

Chen, Houke (DPhil Condensed Matter Physics) 

Chen, Yang (MSc Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition (Full-time)) 

Chia, Chris (MSc Mathematical and Computational Finance) 

Chin, Nathan Jun Loong (MSc Law and Finance) 

Chiu, Alvin Heng (MSc Contemporary Chinese Studies) 

Chollet, Annah Janetv (MPhil Evidence-Based Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation) 

Chuter, Sally Jane (MSc Medical Education (Part-time)) 

Clift-Matthews, Amanda Louise (DPhil Criminology (Part-time)) 

Cokic, Marco (MPhil Economics) 

Collister, Jennifer Ann (DPhil Population Health (Part-time)) 

Crook, Jack Martin (DPhil Clinical Medicine) 

Crossley, Rebecca (DPhil Mathematics) 

Dakhil, Zainab Atiyah (MSc Clinical Trials (Part-time)) 

D’Aquila, Matthew Daniel (MSt Modern Languages (French and Sanish)) 

David, Ioana-Maria (MSc Precision Cancer Medicine (Part-time)) 

De Liedekerke De Pailhe, Alexis Emmanuel J (MBA) 

Deng, Siwei (DPhil Molecular and Cellular Medicine) 

Dennis, Liam Sharle Meads (MSc Energy Systems) 

Deshpande, Shubham Ashish (MSc Theoretical and Computational Chemistry) 

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Dhesi, Jagdeep (MSc Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing) 

Ding, Nanxi (MSc Law and Finance) 

Disegna, Arthur (DPhil Medical Sciences) 

Do, Giang Chau (MSc Sociology) 

Drinkall, Felix John Theodore (DPhil Engineering Science (Part-time)) 

Eden, Kimberley Amber (MSc Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology) 

Ee, Joshua Shao Hong (MSc Education (Research Design and Methodology)) 

Eide, Oda Bjerve (MPhil Development Studies) 

Elgood Field, Stella Augusta (MPhil Development Studies) 

Erlwanger, Alison Stephanie (MSc Global Health Science and Epidemiology) 

Ernst, Jan Ole (DPhil Atomic and Laser Physics) 

Evans, Robert Philip (MSc Economic and Social History) 

Fan, Jinghe (DPhil Law) 

Fang, Jiaxin (MSc Contemporary Chinese Studies) 

Farrar, Olivia Summerville (MSc Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology) 

Fasano, Eduardo (Master of Public Policy) 

Ferdinand, Vernil (MSc International Health and Tropical Medicine) 

Fisher, Georgina Claire (MSc Precision Cancer Medicine (Part-time)) 

Frank, Jernej (DPhil Atomic and Laser Physics) 

Franke, Charlotte (MSc Mathematical and Theoretical Physics) 

Freeman, Emily Isis (Interdisciplinary Bioscience (BBSRC DTP)) 

Gapper, Yasmin Nafisa Dastgir (MSt History of Art and Visual Culture) 

Garcia, Jorge (DPhil Engineering Science) 

Gardner, Benjamin Frederick (MPhil Islamic Studies and History) 

Gavin, Thomas Edward (DPhil Ancient History (Part-time)) 

Ghani, Rafia (MSc Medical Education (Part-time)) 

Ghazali, Marc (MSc Social Anthropology) 

Gilburt, Benjamin David (MSc Social Science of the Internet (Part-time)) 

Gonçalves De Oliveira, Mauro César Gonçalves (MSt Diplomatic Studies (Full-time)) 

Gonzalez Guerrero, Ana Fernanda (MSc Sustainability, Enterprise and the Environment) 

Goohs, Harrison (MSt History – British and European History 1700–1850) 

Gordon, Gemma Louise (Sustainable Approaches to Biomedical Science: Responsible and 

Reproducible Research (CDT)) 

Gough, Olivia Marie (DPhil Condensed Matter Physics) 

Grey, Hannah Charlotte (MSt Jewish Studies) 

Grey, Rhieve-Sheridan Samuel (MSc Evidence-Based Social Intervention 

and Policy Evaluation) 

Guo,Yiling (MPhil Sociology and Demography) 

Gurney, Rhiannon Laura (MSc Applied Linguistics and Second 

Language Acquisition (Full-time)) 

Hamilton, Zoe Maire (DPhil Socio-Legal Studies (Part-time)) 

Hanna, Celia Grace Buchanan (DPhil Zoology) 

Hanson, Charlotte Adelaide (Master of Public Policy) 

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THE RECORD 

Harazin, Michael Ryan (MPhil Cuneiform Studies) 

Harris, Jordan John (MSt History – Modern British History 1850–present) 

Harris, Katherine Alicia (MSt Modern Languages (Russian)) 

Hasan, Md Abir (DPhil International Development) 

Hasnain, Alia (Master of Public Policy) 

Hayden, Alina (MSc Clinical Trials (Part-time)) 

Henking, Christoph Nicolai (DPhil Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation) 

Houet, Antoine André A (MJur) 

Huang, Kairan (DPhil Materials) 

Huang, Zhixuan (DPhil Anthropology) 

Huang, Yifeng (MPhil Islamic Art and Architecture) 

Hulot, Camille Eva Alexandra (MSc Environmental Change and Management) 

Hunt, Emily Grace (MPhil Tibetan and Himalayan Studies) 

Hunt, Emmeline Poppy (MSc Precision Cancer Medicine (Part-time)) 

Ichim, Andrei Abdulah (MSc Integrated Immunology) 

Ismail, Zara Emily (MPhil Modern South Asian Studies) 

Jackson, James Thomas (MSt English (1830–1914)) 

Jäger, Isabella Wilma (MPhil Classical Archaeology) 

Jain, Rohan Ramdas (MPhil Economics) 

James, Anthony Christopher Digby (DPhil Psychiatry (Part-time)) 

Jia, Alicia Junyang (DPhil Clinical Medicine) 

Jing, Yixiong (DPhil Engineering Science) 

Jinno, Shogo (MBA) 

Johnston, Sasha Michelle (DPhil Experimental Psychology (Part-time)) 

Jones, Megan Lorna (DPhil Surgical Sciences) 

Kadayifci, Nida (BCL) 

Karpauskaite, Egle (MSc Social Data Science) 

Kasanga, Chishimba (MSc Social Science of the Internet) 

Katz Roberts, Lola Gertrude (MSt English (650–1550)) 

Kawatani, Megumi (MSc Sustainability, Enterprise and the Environment) 

Kelly, Shane (MSc Medical Education (Part-time)) 

Khaund, Shreya (MSt Global and Imperial History) 

Kimura, Genki (MPhil Socio-Legal Research) 

Kitamura, Wakana (MSc Sociology) 

Klausmeyer, Eleanor Ruth (MSc Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology) 

Klimantas, Adomas (DPhil History (HSM and ESH)) 

Knight, Stephen Christopher (DPhil Socio-Legal Studies (Part-time)) 

Kogan, Anna (DPhil Biochemistry) 

Kosc, Helen (DPhil Sociology) 

Koziell-Pipe, Alexander Jan (DPhil Computer Science) 

Krones, Felix Heinrich (DPhil Social Data Science) 

Kuci, Sindi (MPhil Development Studies) 

Kundi, Brayshna (MSc Environmental Change and Management) 

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Kupiec, Kathleen Marie (DPhil Education (Full-time)) 

Kyriacou, Basil Demetrios (MSc Mathematical and Theoretical Physics) 

Lamb, Gavin (DPhil Atomic and Laser Physics) 

Langdon, Annabel Mitsuko Yorikawa (MSt Korean Studies) 

Lawson, Adrienn Hai-Binh (MSc Social Data Science) 

Lazell, Christina Melanie (MSc Applied Linguistics and Second 

Language Acquisition (Full-time)) 

Lee, Chang Heon (DPhil Oncology) 

Lee, Ping-Yuan (DPhil Materials) 

Lee, Jing (Master of Public Policy) 

Lennard, Michael Andrew (DPhil Law (Part-time)) 

Leung, Ka Po (MSc Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition (Full-time)) 

Levinson, Katerina Joy (DPhil Medieval and Modern Languages (Full-time)) 

Li, Xinyu (DPhil Clinical Neurosciences) 

Li, Zhenlong (DPhil Condensed Matter Physics) 

Liaqat, Numair (MSc Economics for Development) 

Lim, Soon Tjin (MSc Clinical and Therapeutic Neuroscience) 

Liu, Bowen (DPhil Population Health) 

Lomas, Aidan James William O’Rourke (BCL) 

Lourenço Baião Dias, Rita (BCL) 

Louzan, Ignacio (MSt Modern Languages (French and Italian)) 

Lövgren, Olle Stig Json Kristoffer (BPhil Philosophy) 

Luber, Diana Winfield (MSt Islamic Art and Architecture) 

Luo, Lin (DPhil Clinical Medicine) 

Luthra, Tanuj (DPhil Anthropology) 

Ma, Qian (DPhil International Development) 

Malanoski, Cooper MacKenzie (DPhil Earth Sciences (Full-time)) 

Mapara, Paul Vijay (MPhil International Relations) 

Marin, Thomas James Manuel (DPhil Atomic and Laser Physics) 

Markworth, David Cassian (MSc Law and Finance) 

Martens, Pieter (MSc Clinical Trials (Part-time)) 

Mavrogiannis, Michail (DPhil Medical Sciences) 

McGivern, Alexis Marie (MBA) 

McGregor, Colleen Georgette Chantelle (DPhil Clinical Medicine) 

Merle, Quentin Moritz Carl Albert (MSc Contemporary Chinese Studies) 

Metzler, Michael Karl Paul (DPhil Materials) 

Milan, Emily Rose (DPhil Materials) 

Millen, Serena Ellen (MPhil Cuneiform Studies) 

Mills, Cameron James (MSc Mathematical and Computational Finance) 

Mobayed, Tamim (DPhil Theology and Religion (Part-time)) 

Moffatt, Samuel (MSc Medical Education (Part-time)) 

Mohiuddin, Mir Abid (MSc Global Governance and Diplomacy) 

Moller, Timothy Owen (DPhil Classical Archaeology) 

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THE RECORD 

Moran, Kimberley Shakhira Joanna (DPhil Politics (Part-time)) 

Morley, Olivia (MSc Medical Education (Part-time)) 

Mota, Juliana Da Cunha (DPhil Law) 

Mukambetov, Aibek (MSc International Health and Tropical Medicine) 

Mukherjee, Somnath (DPhil Engineering Science (Part-time)) 

Muminoglu, Ali Mark (MSt Late Antique and Byzantine Studies) 

Navarro Rosales, Francisco (MSc Biodiversity, Conservation and Management) 

Needham, Heather Sarah Thomson (MSc Biodiversity, Conservation and Management) 

Nguyen-Kim, Michael Khuong (BCL) 

Ngwafor Anye, Randolph (DPhil Clinical Medicine) 

Nougué, Jeanne Marie Lucile (MPhil International Relations) 

Nowsherwan, Jahanzaib (DPhil Inorganic Chemistry) 

Oltramare, Arnaud Fernand Adam (MSc Energy Systems (24 Months)) 

O’Reilly, Peter John (DPhil Paediatrics) 

Osborne, Cailean Constantin (DPhil Social Data Science) 

Ovosi, Joseph Ogirima (MSc Clinical Trials (Part-time)) 

Pabbaraju, Charitra Shreya (MPhil Development Studies) 

Parkinson, Madeleine Rose (MSt Ancient Philosophy) 

Partsch, Cornell Julie Josepha Rahel (DPhil History) 

Pascadi, Alexandru (DPhil Mathematics) 

Patnaik, Sarita Anna (MSc Refugee and Forced Migration Studies) 

Peacock, Kirsty Alex (DPhil History) 

Pentney, Kaitlyn Melissa (DPhil Law) 

Phan, Han Angela Ngoc (MSc Biodiversity, Conservation and Management) 

Phillips, Rebecca Jane (MSc Precision Cancer Medicine (Part-time)) 

Pinto De Almeida Lima, Barbara (MSt Medieval Studies) 

Polaskova, Marie (MSc Psychological Research (Direct Entry)) 

Poór, Boldizsár (MSc Advanced Computer Science) 

Portman, Henry (MSc Social Science of the Internet (Part-time)) 

Proctor, William Henry (MSt Slavonic Studies) 

Psarrou, Georgia (MPhil Social Anthropology) 

Pugh, Rachel Martha (DPhil Geography and the Environment) 

Qing, Shanlingzi (MSc Mathematical and Computational Finance) 

Qu, Sisi (DPhil Genomic Medicine and Statistics) 

Quiroz Fernandez, Javiera Ignacia (MSc Mathematical and Theoretical Physics) 

Rafferty, Cahal (MSc Precision Cancer Medicine (Part-time)) 

Rajpal, Aditi (MSc Theoretical and Comp Chemistry) 

Rajrah, Simple (DPhil Politics) 

Reville, Rachel Laura (DPhil History (Part-time)) 

Reyes, Luis Felipe (MSc International Health and Tropical Medicine) 

Rhodes, Matthew (MSt Historical Studies) 

Richter, Anton Oli (MSc Mathematical and Computational Finance) 

Ruiters, Emma Lilian (MSc Japanese Studies) 

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Russell, Ishbel Sophie (MSt Oriental Studies) 

Sahin, Lesar Azad (MPhil Development Studies) 

Salisbury, Callum Ruaraidh (MSt Music (Musicology)) 

Sarkar, Ambika (MSt Study of Religions) 

Sathyanarayanan, Abilash (MSc Clinical Trials (Part-time)) 

Savory, Stephanie Ayse (MSt Diplomatic Studies (Full-time)) 

Scher, Benjamin Daniel (DPhil Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation) 

Schulte, Rainie Lynn (MSc Biodiversity, Conservation and Management) 

Seale, Thalia Eleni (MSc Statistical Science) 

Serumaga-Zake, Sandra Christine Nabibubbu (DPhil Geography and the Environment) 

Shang, Lianhan (DPhil Population Health) 

Shao, Daqian (DPhil Computer Science) 

Shao, Jiaqi (MPhil Tibetan and Himalayan Studies) 

Sharan, Arushi (DPhil International Development) 

Shawe-Taylor, Edward Christopher (MPhil Islamic Art and Architecture) 

Sherif, Sana Mohamed Yasser Elsaid Gabr (MSc Nature, Society 

and Environmental Governance) 

Shinozaki, Ayaka (DPhil Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics) 

Shliakov, Iurii (MSc Education (Research Design and Methodology)) 

Siemek, Paula Ewa (DPhil Health Data Science (HDR UK/Turing Wellcome)) 

Simon, David Aaron (DPhil Astrophysics) 

Simonian, David (DPhil Engineering Science) 

Simons, Alexander Watkin Bjerve (MSt Late Antique and Byzantine Studies) 

Smith, Sydney Paula Benjamin (MSc Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology) 

Sooka, Jainisha Navin (MBA) 

Sorokin, Vasily (DPhil Radiobiology (1+3)) 

Spear, Bethany (DPhil Particle Physics) 

Srirangarajan, Arjun (MSt Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics (AS)) 

Staphorst, Luan (MSc African Studies) 

Stavrakakis, Michail (MJur) 

Storey, Ian Miller (MSt Late Antique and Byzantine Studies) 

Summers, Luke (MSt History – Modern British History 1850–present) 

Sunil, Kavita (MPhil Development Studies) 

Sutcliffe, Matthew (DPhil Computer Science) 

Szalay, Dorottya (DPhil Inorganic Chemistry) 

Tang, Bohan (DPhil Engineering Science) 

Tavengerwei, Rutendo Nomsa (DPhil Law) 

Tax, Jessica Nicky (MSc Biodiversity, Conservation and Management) 

Tayara, Muhammad Yusuf Ziad (DPhil History (HSM and ESH)) 

Thayanandan, Tony (DPhil Psychiatry) 

Thind, Puninda Singh (MSc Sustainability, Enterprise and the Environment) 

Thurlwell, William Duncan Henry (DPhil Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics) 

Topbas Selcuki, Nura (DPhil Women’s and Reproductive Health) 

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THE RECORD 

Tran, Tu Kim (DPhil Engineering Science) 

Trautner, Viktoria Elisabeth (DPhil Earth Sciences (Full-time)) 

Trespalacios Leal, María Mónica (Master of Public Policy) 

Treviño Salce, Maria (Master of Public Policy) 

Trinh, Hoai Son (MSt Diplomatic Studies (Full-time)) 

Turnbull, Oliver Marcus (Sustainable Approaches to Biomedical Science: 

Responsible and Reproducible Research (CDT)) 

Tzeli, Maria Theodora (DPhil Classical Archaeology) 

Valson, Anna Thampu (MSc Clinical Trials (Part-time)) 

Van De Wetering, Johannes Johgan (DPhil Atomic and Laser Physics) 

Van Der Lugt, Tein (DPhil Computer Science) 

Van Iersel, Joris (MPhil Politics: Political Theory) 

Vasconcelos, Andre Antonio (MSc Biodiversity, Conservation and Management) 

Vatsa, Divya (MSc Comparative Social Policy) 

Vernon, Kieran Samuel (MSt Oriental Studies) 

Volpe, Diana (DPhil International Development) 

Wang, Yiying (DPhil Engineering Science) 

Wang, Ji (MPhil Modern Languages (BYZ)) 

Wang, Xianlingchen (MSc Social Data Science) 

Ward, Philippe Pierre Rainham (MSt History – Modern European History 1850–present) 

Warden, Toby David Allan (MPhil Modern Chinese Studies) 

Watts, Aimee Katherine (MSc Psychological Research (Direct Entry)) 

Websdale, Nathan David Charles (DPhil History) 

Wen, Tzu-Chieh (MSc(Res) Zoology) 

Wicaksono, Muhammad Rifky (DPhil Law) 

Wijesurendra, Rohan Sajeev (MSc Clinical Trials (Part-time)) 

Wolffenbuttel, Alexander Romboud (MSt Diplomatic Studies (Full-time)) 

Wyatt, Edward (MSc Russian and East European Studies) 

Xing, Yujiao (DPhil Sociology) 

Yang, Fengning (DPhil Condensed Matter Physics) 

Yang, Yuqi (MSc Contemporary Chinese Studies) 

Yang, Zhengyuan (MSc Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition (Full-time)) 

Ye, Dongpei (DPhil Inorganic Chemistry) 

Ye, Jiahao (DPhil Engineering Science) 

Zhang, Meiwen (DPhil Clinical Medicine) 

Zhang, Wenzhang (DPhil Economics) 

Zhang, Yuan (MSc Social Data Science) 

Zhang, Yuxuan (MSc Social Data Science) 

Zhang, Zijian (MPhil History – Intellectual History) 

Zhao, Min (DPhil English) 

Zhao, Fangwei (MSc Social Science of the Internet) 

Zhu, Ming (DPhil Condensed Matter Physics) 

Zoechbauer, Patrick Andreas (MSc Advanced Computer Science) 

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Elected Members of Governing Body until Hilary 2023 

Mootaz Salman (JRF) 

Matthew Landrus (SF) 

Paulo de Souza (GS) 

Frederik Florenz (GS) 

Yuancheng Sun (GS) 

Samuel Wiese (GS) 

Elected Members of General Purposes Committee until Hilary 2023 

David Metcalfe (JRF) 

Matthew Landrus (SF) 

Brayshna Kundi (GS) until Trinity 2022 

Wojciech Lason (GS) 

Scholarships and Prizes 2020–21 

Jeremy Black Clarendon Scholarship 

Kieran Vernon 

Jon Stallworthy Poetry Prize 

Alexander Peplow 

Lorne Thyssen Scholarship 

Gregory Thompson 

Thomas Gavin 

THE RECORD 

Ken and Veronica Tregidgo Scholarship in Atomic and Laser Physics 

Johannes Van De Wetering 

Oxford Wolfson Reginald Campbell Thompson Scholarship in Assyriology 

William Skelton 

Serena Millen 

Ullendorff Graduate Scholarship in Semitic Philology 

Ruthanne Brooks 

Wolfson Guy Newton Clarendon Scholarship 

Garrett Bullock 

Daniya Aynetdinova 

Wolfson Harrison UKRC Quantum Foundation Scholarship 

Alexis Toumi 

Alexander Cowtan 


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Alexander Koziell-Pipe 

Wolfson Harrison UKRC Physics Scholarship 

Jonas Wuerzinger 

Joost Wardenier 

Francisco De Paula Rodriguez Montero 

Gavin Lamb 

Wolfson Isaiah Berlin Clarendon Scholarship 

Sophia Backhaus 

Domiziane Turcatti 

Wolfson Scholarship in Tibetan and Himalayan Studies 

Kunsang Thokmay 

Oxford Centre for Life-Writing Derrill Allatt ESRC Graduate Studentship 

Freya Marshall Payne 

THE RECORD 

Andrew Prentice Bursary in Physics 

Zhenlong Li 

Oxford Wolfson Marriot Graduate Scholarships 

Thomas Lewin 

Naide Gedikli-Gorali 

Syed Munim Husain 

Lesley Nelson-Addy 

Lena Reim 

Maribel Schönewolff 

Elsa Kugelberg 

Joe Hasell 

Svenja Arlt 

Sophie Harbord 

Melissa Paterson 

Christie Carr 

Rebecca Crossley 

William Thurlwell 

Olivia Gough 

Sriraj Aiyer 

Kirsty Peacock 

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THE RECORD 

Photo: Judith Palmer 


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Degrees 

Start and end Dates 

THE RECORD 

Acuña Csillag, Gabriel 

Aggarwal, Daattavya 

Agrawal, Nitin 

Ajileye, 

Temitope Olugbenga 

Akpakwu, 

Stephen Chinedu 

Al Faqir, 

Rawan Essam Mohammad 

Ali, Taimoor 

Almeida, Stefanie Joan 

Alrefae,Tarek 

Amani, 

Valerie Asiimwe Alexander 

Andrews, Rebecca 

Aquilina, Laura 

Armitage, Benjamin Ian 

Azhar, Nimra 

Badovska, Stepanyda 

Barber, Joseph 

Baxter-Jones, Sophie 

Bent, Justine Olivia 

Bentley, Catherine Eleanor 

Bhalla, Ananya 

Bharadwaj, Sriram Sekhar 

Bobboi, Saudatu Ahmed 

Bohr, Nils Jacob Wilhelm 

Boyett, Kristan Niall Kit 

Brown, Katie Leanne 

Bubenheimer, Filip 

(2020–21) MSc Law and Finance 

(2020–21) MSc Mathematical and Theoretical Physics 

(2017–22)DPhil Computer Science, ‘Towards Effective, Efficient 

and Equitable Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning’ 

(2017–22) DPhil Computer Science, ‘Materialisation and Data 

Partitioning Algorithms for Distributed RDF Systems’ 

(2020–21) MBA 

(2019–21) MSt Diplomatic Studies (Full-time) 

(2016–21) DPhil Engineering Science, ‘Hybrid Thin-Film 

Solution-Processed Liquid Crystal Lasers’ 

(2020–21) MSc Economics for Development 

(2020–21) MSc Math Mod and Scientific Computing 

(2020–21) MFA (Full-time) 

(2016–21) DPhil Condensed Matter Physics, ‘Development 

of single-molecule DNA hybridisation tools for high-content 

analysis of protein-DNA interactions and gene expression’ 

(2020–21) MJur 

(2016–21) DPhil Materials, ‘Vapour detection of explosives, 

chemical agents and drugs’ 



(2019–21)MPhil Cuneiform Studies 

(2020–21) MSt Women’s Studies 

(2020–21) MSc African Studies 

(2020–21) MSt History – Early Modern History 1500–1700 

(2020–21) MSc Integrated Immunology 


(2020–21) MSc Energy Systems 


(2017–22) DPhil Astrophysics ‘Discovering Galaxies 

in the Early Universe’ 

(2020–21) MSc Psychological Research (Direct Entry) 

(2016–21) DPhil Politics, ‘The Politics of Judicial Review in 

Inter-War Europe’ 

66 


Buchanan-Smith, 

Megan Grace 

Buckland, 

Adam Jeffrey Boltar 

Bullock, Garrett Scott 

Buys, Elinor Anne 

Cammarota, Isabella Rosa 

Chabbert, 

Marie Charlotte Stephanie 

Chatterjee, Ipshita 

Chow, Yui Kee Raphael 

Colon-Perez, 

Andrea Nicole 

Colvero Maraschin, 

Natália Regina 

Connolly, Jonathan Paul 

Contreras Huerta, 

Luis Sebastian 

Cooper, Rosalin Anisha 

Copin, Nastia 

Coulton, Jennifer Ewa 

Coutts, Ophelia Harriet 

Cunningham, Christine 

D’Armau De Bernede, 

Alexis Marie-Joseph 

Dausgaard, 

Christoffer Hentzer 

Dayot, Julie 

Dekker, Ronald 

Dewar, Anna Elizabeth 

Dobbie, Hannah Abigail 

Dong, Ye 

Economou, 

Michael Symeon 

(2020–21) MSt History of Art and Visual Culture 

(2020–21) Master of Public Policy 

(2018–21) DPhil Musculoskeletal Sciences 

(2020–21) MPhil Law, ‘Addressing Slavery and Trafficking in UK 

and US Public Procurement Frameworks’ 

(2019–21) MPhil Tibetan and Himalayan Studies 

(2016–21) DPhil Medieval and Modern Languages, ‘Faithful 

Deicides: Contemporary French Thought and the Eternal 

Return of Religion’ 

(2020–21) MSc Computer Science 


(2020–21) MSc Clinical and Therapeutic Neuroscience 

(2020–21) MSc Global Governance and Diplomacy 

(2018–22) Gas Turbine Aerodynamics (EPSRC CDT), ‘Ice 

Crystal in Gas Turbine Engines’ 

(2016–21) DPhil Experimental Psychology (Direct Entry), 

‘Computational, psychological and neural mechanisms of 

prosocial motivation’ 

(2017–22) DPhil Oncology, ‘Characterising peripheral 

responses to immune checkpoint inhibitors’ 

(2019–21) MPhil Economics 

(2020–21) MSt Medieval Studies 

(2020–21) MSc Russian and East European Studies 

(2020–21) MSc Global Health Science and Epidemiology 


(2020–21) MSc Sociology 

(2015–21) DPhil International Development 


‘Training curricula and structured representations in human and 

machine learning’ 

(2017–22) Interdisciplinary Bioscience (BBSRC DTP), 

‘Horizontal Gene Transfer and Cooperation in Bacteria’ 


(2020–21) MSc Theoretical and Comp Chemistry 

(2017–22) DPhil Ancient History, ‘A Historical Geography Of 

The Judean And Samarian Hill Country, 539 BCE–70 CE’ 

THE RECORD 


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THE RECORD 

Eguiluz Hernandez, 

Kevin Teobaldo 

Elizondo Garcia, Isaac 

Fan, Xiang 

Feng, Ruoyang 

Fobe, Cédric 

Fong, Chung Hang Edwin 

Fowkes, Milan Mrazek 

Fuemmeler, Bryce Daniel 

Gale, Harrison Renee 

Gallay, Elizabeth Grace 

Gao, Yexuan 

Giorkas, Konstantinos 

Glushkova, Anastasia 

Grohmann, Jakub Grzegorz 

Guardiola, Laia Roxane 

Hadjipaschalis, Andreas 

Hallam, 

Michael Alexander 

Hassoun, 

Amelia Elizabeth Seham 

Hatibie, 

Taufan Ariq Hidayatullah 

Hawes-Iafrate, 

Sarah Rachel 

He, Jingxuan 

Henshaw, Russell John 

Hoeltgen, 

Benedikt Tim Antonius 

Holmström, Ebba Ellen 

Home, Eleanor Catherine 

Howe, Adam 

Hsu, Ho 

Humphries, 

Michael William 

(2020–21) MBA 


(2020–21) MSc Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology 

(2020–21) MSc Statistical Science 


(2018–22) DPhil Statistics, ‘The predictive view of Bayesian 

inference’ 

(2016–21) DPhil Molecular and Cellular Medicine, 

‘Screening for selective ADAMTS-5 substrates to 

monitor proteinase activity’ 

(2020–21) MSc Economic and Social History 

(2020–21) MSt Film Aesthetics 

(2019–21) MPhil Politics: Political Theory 


(2020–22) MPhil Law, ‘The Right to Life and the Jus ad Bellum: 

the ICCPR and ECHR approach’ 



(2020–21) MJur 


(2018–22) DPhil Mathematics, ‘The Geometry and Stability 

of Fibrations’ 

(2017–21) DPhil Information, Communication and the Social 

Sciences, ‘Making Space for the Future: Imagining the Smart 

Nation in Singapore’ 


(2020–21) MSt Slavonic Studies 

(2020–21) MSc Mathematical and Computational Finance 

(2014–22) DPhil Anthropology, ‘States of Indifference: 

Administering Solidarity in Post-Crisis Athens’ 


(2020–21) MSc African Studies 

(2019–21) MPhil Cuneiform Studies 

(2017–21) DPhil Oriental Studies, ‘Conceptions of 

Transgression and Its Consequences in the Mesopotamian 

Exorcistic Corpus’ 


(2020–21) MSt Music (Musicology) 

68 


Hussain, 

Mohammed Saqib 

Ifti, Hassan Saad 

Jaquiery, Matthew 

Jarvis, Anthony Howard 

Jennings, Emily Morgan 

Jeon, Kelsea Ahjin 

Jevtic, Lucas 

Jiwa, Alisha 

Jonsson, 

John Christian Zhexiang 

Jordon, James Adam 

Juarez Rocha, Humberto 

Junglas, Solveig Maren 

Kamarudin, 

Muhammad Aliff Aiman Bin 

Kane, 

Clementine Mary Grace 

Kang, Daniel Shin Un 

Karmy Colombo, 

Josefa Andrea 

Keßler, Christina Annette 

Khan, Abdul Wahid 

Khatri, Sakshi Singh 

Kolancali, Pinar 

Kong, Wan Ting 

Krejcie, Jessica Nicole 

Kressel, Hannah Yael 

Küstermann, Leon David 

Lapalikar, Maitrai Parag 

Law, Shu Ting 

Laylor, 

Veniecia Abby-Gayle 

Legg, Frederick Jack 

Leung, Vincent 


(2018–22) DPhil Oriental Studies, ‘Wisdom in the Qur’an’ 

(2016–22) DPhil Engineering Science, ‘Transpiration Cooling of 

a Hypersonic Vehicle’ 


‘Exploring Social Metacognitition’ 

(2020–21) MSc Contemporary Chinese Studies 

(2019–21) MPhil Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics 

(2020–21) MPhil Socio-Legal Research, ‘Legal Aid Without 

Lawyers: How Boston’s Nonlawyers Delivered and Shaped 

Justice for the Poor, 1878–1921’ 

(2020–21) MSc Mathematical Modelling and 

Scientific Computing 


(2017–22) DPhil Engineering Science, ‘Studies on the Role of 

Microstructure in the Dynamic Strength of Metals’ 

(2017–21) DPhil Engineering Science, ‘Generative Modelling for 

Supervised, Unsupervised and Private Learning’ 

(2020–21) MSc Latin American Studies 

(2019–21) MSc Archaeological Science 

(2020–21) MSc Education (Child Development and Education) 

(2019–21) MPhil Islamic Art and Archaeology 




(2020–21) MSc Nature, Society and Environmental Governance 

(2020–21) MSc Water Science, Policy and Management 

(2017–21) DPhil Education, ‘Investigating the Role of Home 

Environment in Bilingual Language Development: A study on 

young Turkish children in England’ 




(2020–21) MSc Comparative Social Policy 

(2020–21) MSc Modern South Asian Studies 

(2020–21) MSc History of Science, Medicine and Technology 


(2020–21) MSc Criminology and Criminal Justice 

(2019–21) MPhil Modern Languages (ITA) 

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THE RECORD

THE RECORD 

Li, Xuan 

Lim, Cherry 

Lin, Xiaoyu 

Lo, Yat Long 

London, Charles 

Lopez Ospina, 

Ines Veronica 

Lovejoy, Malerie Veronica 

Lynn, Ailie Estelle 

Lyu, Zirong 

Maltas, Tom Alexander 

Manning, Sinead Cecilia 

Martini, Veronica 

Marzeda, Anna Maria 

McGeoch, Luke John 

McGivern, Alexis Marie 

McQuillen, Samuel Andrew 

Mernyei, Péter 

Mi, Ella Zhelong 

Miao, Yirun 

Minko, Romy Margit 

Mo, Jiaying 

Moodley, Sasheenie 

Morales Bernabe, 

Kevin Gadiel 

Morrison, Paul 

Munshaw, Sonali 

Nakkazi, Annet 

Nekrasov, Ilya 

(2017–21) DPhil Materials, ‘Integrated Phase-Change Inmemory 

Photonic Computing’ 

(2017–22) DPhil Clinical Medicine, ‘Epidemiology and health 

burdens of antimicrobial resistant bacterial infection in 

Southeast Asia and impact of antibiotic use on patient survival’ 




(2020–21) MJur 

(2019–21) MPhil Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics 


(2020–21) MSc Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology 

(2018–22) DPhil Archaeological Science, ‘Agriculture 

and citadel in the Bronze Age Aegean: the view from 

Western Anatolia’ 

(2018–21) MPhil Cuneiform Studies 


‘Respiratory immunisation and mucosal immunity 

against influenza’ 

(2017–22) DPhil Molecular and Cellular Medicine, ‘Endogenous 

triggers of inflammation in the pathogenesis of autoimmunity’ 


(2019–21) MPhil Environmental Change and Management 

(2019–21) MPhil Development Studies 




(2017–22) Cyber Security (EPSRC CDT), ‘Security 

Assumptions in Post-Quantum Cryptography’ 

(2017–22) DPhil Inorganic Chemistry, ‘Development of Novel 

Electrocatalysts for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction’ 

(2017–21) DPhil Area Studies (Africa), ‘Hidden Realities: Lived 

Experiences with Teenage Pregnancy, Motherhood, and HIV in 

Botshabelo, South Africa’ 

(2019–21) MPhil Buddhist Studies 

(2020–21) MSt Slavonic Studies 

(2018–21) DPhil Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, ‘Thymosin 

β4 - A Novel Regulator of Low Density Lipoprotein Receptor 

Related Protein1 (LRP1)in Vascular Disease’ 

(2020–21) MSc Radiation Biology 


70 


Newman, Thomas 

Niazi Varnamkhasti, Ali 

Nobis, Lisa 

Noguchi, Koichi 

Normand, Yannis 

Ohsada, Sari 

Olatunbosun, 

Kayode Saheed 

Olivero, Vladimir 

Omer, Amina 

Saadeldin Abdelmotalab 

O’Neill, Ryan Kevin 

Ostacchini, Louisa 

Oyanedel Diaz, Rodrigo 

Paredes Ocampo, Eduardo 

Park, Robin Yijung 

Patel, Mohammed 

Paulus, 

Estelle Laura Verena 

Pavur, James Claude 

Peña Leal, Nicolas 

Peng, Xu 

Perez Sandoval, Javier 

Piacenti, Alba Rosa 

Pichler, Anton 

Pinchetti, Luca 

Ping, Xueye 

Poulot, Gaspard Manuarii 

Promi, Maisha Maliha 

Psychas, Hanna Eilitta 



(2017–21) DPhil Psychiatry, ‘Brain health in ageing and 

Parkinson’s disease’ 

(2020–21) MSc Water Science, Policy and Management 


(2020–21) MSc Environmental Change and Management 

(2020–21) EMBA 

(2017–22) DPhil Oriental Studies, ‘Textual Criticism and 

Linguistic Diachrony in the Book(s) of Kings’ 

(2020–21) MSc Pharmacology 


(2017–21) DPhil English,‘Translating England and the Continent 

in Ælfric’s ‘Lives of Saints’’ 

(2018–22) DPhil Zoology, ‘Tackling Small-Scale Fisheries 

non-Compliance’ 

(2016–22) DPhil Medieval and Modern Languages, 

‘Staging La vida es sueño: Its Première and Three 

Contemporary Productions’ 

(2020–21) MSc Social Data Science 



(2017–21) Cyber Security (EPSRC CDT), ‘Securing New Space: 

On Satellite Cyber-Security’ 


(2016–22) DPhil Clinical Medicine, ‘Target Discovery for 

Immunotherapy of Cervical Cancer and High-Risk Human 

Papillomavirus Infection’ 

(2017–21) DPhil Politics, ‘The Origins of Subnational 

Democracy: How Colonial Legacies and Labor 

Incorporation Shaped Regime Heterogeneity within Latin 

American Countries’ 

(2016–21) DPhil Condensed Matter Physics 

(2017–21) DPhil Mathematics, ‘Network-dependent dynamics 

of innovation and production’ 




(2020–21) MSc Pharmacology 

(2020–21) MSt Women’s Studies 

THE RECORD 


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THE RECORD 

Rahal Pretti, 

Luiz Guilherme 

Rayden, Lydia May 

Reis, 

Carolina Pimenta Pugsley 

Ren, Sichen 

Richmond, Katherine 

Charlotte L’Estrange 

Riedesel Freiin 

Zu Eisenbach, Annabelle 

Robinson, 

William Dare Roper 

Roichman, Maayan 

Rotilu, 

Maria Oluwafunmike 

Rutten, Paul Johan 

Ryan, Kevin Donald 

Ryu, Sunwoo 

Sababathy, Harikumara 

Salihi, Rabia 

Sandford O’Neill, 

John Joseph 

Savoie, Patrick Joseph Marc 

Scarpa, Lodovico 

Schlemmer, Michael André 

Schnittker, Christian Hugo 

Schulkes, 

Piotr Gerben Sylvester 

See, Zheng Hong 

Shakhparyan, Gohar 

Shelton, 

John Griffin Masefield 

Singh, Sanjula Dhillon 

Smith, Jaclyn Marjorie 


(2020–21) MSc Comparative Social Policy 

(2017–21) DPhil Clinical Neurosciences, ‘Probing and restoring 

disrupted thalamocortical interactions during Parkinson’s 

disease and Essential tremor’ 

(2020–21) MSc Education (Higher Education) 



(2020–21) MSt Theology 

(2017–22) DPhil Anthropology, ‘Putting your heart on the 

screen: an ethnography of young filmmakers in Israel’ 

(2020–21) MBA 


‘Characterisation of O2 regulation mechanisms in Rhizobium 

leguminosarum for repurposing as tools in the engineering of 

nitrogen fixation’ 

(2020–21) MSt Diplomatic Studies 

(2017–22) DPhil Social Policy, ‘Childcare policy reform in 21st 

century South Korea’ 


(2020–21) MSc Refugee and Forced Migration Studies 

(2016–21) DPhil Engineering Science, ‘Two-Photon 

Polymerization Direct Laser Writing for Liquid Crystal 

Photonics’ 



(2020–21) MJur 

(2017–22) DPhil Economics, ‘Real Exchange Rates and Firms’ 

Mark-Ups’ 

(2019–21) MPhil Modern Middle Eastern Studies 

(2020–21) BCL 

(2019–21) MBA 

(2020–21) MSt History – Medieval History 


(2017–22) DPhil Computer Science, ‘Declarative nested data 

transformations at scale and biomedical applications’ 

72 


Soderberg, Philippa 

Soldan, Riccardo 

Solomon, 

Christopher John 

Soneji, Hershini Shruti 

Sorokin, Vasily 

Stall, Anton 

Stein, Merlin David 

Stockdale, 

William Thomas 

Strube, Tom 

Su, Guanglong 

Tabi, Younes Adam 

Tain, Eva Amara 

Tang, Yingxian 

Thomas, 

Lauren Catherine 

Thorpe, Cameron 

Thorup, Sophie Ryan 

Timmermans, 

Kiki Laura 

Tindall, Joseph Antony 

Trinh, Nguyen Nhat An 

Turner-Fussell, 

Edward Reginald 

Vegh, Emese Ilona 

Viega, Isabella Elena 

Vlcek, Filip 

Wang, Jiaxin 

Wang, Xinyu 

(2020–21) MSc Migration Studies 

(2017–22) Interdisciplinary Bioscience (BBSRC DTP), ‘The 

effect of plant domestication on the seed microbiome’ 


(2019–21) MPhil Classical Indian Religion 

(2020–21) MSc Radiation Biology (1+3) 



(2018–22) DPhil Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, 

‘Investigating the mechanisms underlying myocardial 

regeneration in the Mexican cavefish’ 

(2020–21) MSc Mathematical Modelling and 

Scientific Computing 

(2018–22) DPhil Organic Chemistry, ‘Bifunctional 

Iminophosphorane Superbase Catalysed Enantioselective 

Intramolecular Michael Reactions’ 

(2017–22) DPhil Clinical Neurosciences, ‘Mechanisms 

underlying Rapid Forgetting in Health and Alzheimer’s Disease’ 


(2020–21) MSc Social Science of the Internet 



‘Synthesis, Structure and Application of Backbone Modified 

Nucleic Acids’ 

(2019–21) MPhil English Studies (Medieval) 

(2020–21) MSt Philosophy of Physics 

(2017–21) DPhil Atomic and Laser Physics, ‘Realising Complex 

Quantum States of Matter via Symmetries and Heating’ 

(2016–22) DPhil Social Policy, ‘Patterns and Drivers of Overtime 

Change in the Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality 

in Germany and the UK’ 

(2020–21) MSt Late Antique and Byzantine Studies 

(2017–22) DPhil Archaeological Science, ‘Histological, 

Physicochemical, and Osteogenic Reaction-Related Approaches 

to Identifying the Pre-Burning Condition of Bone’ 

(2020–21) MSt English (1830–1914) 

(2020–21) MJur 



THE RECORD 


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THE RECORD 

Wankhede, Asang 

Warburton, Jack 

Warnatsch, Rahel Johanna 

Warner, Emily Charlotte 

Welsch, Niklas Joshua 

Welsh, Anna Katherine 

Whitehead, 

Gillian Rosemary 

Wicker, 

Matthew Robert 

Wiendl, Theresa 

Williams, Gwenllian Carey 

Winterhalter, 

Benedikt Louis Alfred 

Wolfe, Brendan Nathaniel 

Wu, Cheng-Cheng 

Xie, Sangminjie 

Xiong, Shaobai 

Yan, Shuhao 

Yoong, 

Guo-Zheng Theodore 

Yu, Runlong 

Zeufack, 

Sergine Cindy Metsakem 

Zhou, Dingxi 

Zhu, Sisi 

(2020–21) MPhil Law, ‘Affirmative action and the question of 

General Category in India: Judicial treatment of constitutional 

interventions in determining backwardness’ 

(2020–21) MSc Criminology and Criminal Justice 


(2017–22) Environmental Research (NERC DTP), ‘The effect 

of forest establishment on biodiversity and ecosystem function’ 

(2019–21) BPhil Philosophy 


(2019–21) MSc Social Science of the Internet 

(2018–22) DPhil Computer Science, ‘Adversarial Robustness of 

Bayesian Deep Learning’ 

(2020–21) MBA 

(2020–21) MSc Psychological Research 

(2020–21) MSt Ancient Philosophy 

(2006–21) DPhil Theology, ‘The Gothic Bible in Linguistics, 

History, and Theology’ 

(2020–21) MSc Environmental Change and Management 


(2020–21) MSc Archaeology 

(2016–21) DPhil Engineering Science, ‘Robust and Stochastic 

Receding Horizon Control’ 




(2017–22) DPhil Molecular and Cellular Medicine, ‘Autophagy’s 

Roles in the Activation and Ageing of CD4+ T Cells’ 

(2020–21) MSc Contemporary Chinese Studies 

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Personal News 

Appointments and Awards 

Mary Adeyemo (GS 2021) received a Diversity Award from the Vice-Chancellor as 

a ‘Highly Commended Student’, and an Award for Increasing Access from the Oxford 

Students Union. 

Jaynie Anderson (RF 1978–85) was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia 

‘for significant service to tertiary education, particularly to art history in Australia’. 

PERSONAL NEWS 

James Crabbe (SF) received the Green Development and Sustainability Award from the 

International Engineering and Technology Institute, its highest honour in the environmental 

category. 

Stephanie Dalley (MCR 2010–) finished two years of advising the National Museum in 

Oman on the cuneiform component (c. 2,100 BC) of their new galleries. She took part 

in a documentary and advised for Windfall Films, ‘Lost Cities of the Bible’, for Discovery 

Channel, broadcast in late 2021. She is now advising for a second film in the same series. 

She advised the Norwegian National Museum in Oslo on impounded antiquities from a 

private collection. She has written a paper identifying a supposed stela of Nebuchadnezzar 

II as a fake, and contributed to three Festschriften in honour of colleagues in China, Israel 

and the UK. 

David Deutsch (HF) was awarded the 2021 Isaac Newton Medal by the Institute of 

Physics, which elected him a Fellow. 

Elena Draghici-Vasilescu (MCR 2012–) received an award from Oxford University 

Innovation for her project ‘Lessons from ancient Greece and the Byzantines on how to 

protect and manage the environment’. Her book Heavenly sustenance in Patristic texts 

and Byzantine Iconography: Nourished by the Word (2018) was awarded the Early Slavic 

Studies Association Book Prize for 2019. 

Frederic Foubert (GS 2001) was confirmed as an Assistant Auditor to the Belgian Court 

of Audit. 

Barbara Harriss-White (EF) was appointed one of twenty global commissioners on the 

Food System Economics Commission (2021–23). She is Chair (2022–23) of the graduate 

research seminar of the Foundation for Agrarian Studies (India), and in 2021 was appointed 

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external adviser to the Norwich Institute for Sustainable Development. 

Daniel M. Herskowitz (GS 2014–18, JRF), British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the 

Faculty of Theology and Religion, was awarded the Salo W and Jeannette M Baron Young 

Scholars Award for Scholarly Excellence in Research of the Jewish Experience for his book 

Heidegger and His Jewish Reception (Cambridge University Press, 2021). 

Young Chan Kim (JRF) was awarded the Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship 

by the Wellcome Trust to start his independent research on vaccine development against 

emerging pathogens at the Nuffield Department of Medicine. 

Jim Mann (JRF 1973–76, RF 1976–78, GBF 1978-88, EF) was a Knight Companion of the 

New Zealand Order of Merit in the New Year Honours 2022. 

Francisco Mora (GS 1975–77, MCR) was nominated for the National Prize of Literature, 

Spain 2021, for his book Neuroeducación y Lectura: De la emoción a la comprensión de las 

palabras (Alianza Editorial, Madrid). 

Judith Okely (GS 1976, MCR 2004–) was awarded the Rivers Memorial Medal by the 

Royal Anthropological Institute for her contribution to research on Gypsies, Methods and 

Gender. 

Tony Paxton (RF 1994–5, GBF 2008–17, MCR) has retired from the Physics Department 

at King’s College, London, which has conferred on him the title of Emeritus Professor. He 

has joined the Materials Department at Imperial College, London, as a Senior Research 

Investigator (part time). 

PERSONAL NEWS 

Freya Marshall Payne (GS 2020) was appointed a Visiting Research Fellow at the Mile End 

Institute, Queen Mary University of London. 

Nick Rawlins (GBF 2008–17, EF), Master of Morningside College at the Chinese University 

of Hong Kong, took on two further roles in August 2021. He became Public Orator to the 

University (fortunately with responsibility only for the proceedings in English) and Pro-Vice- 

Chancellor (Student Experience). This is the first time in the history of the University that a 

post at this level has been filled by a Westerner. 

Maribel Schonewolff (GS 2019–) was awarded the Ida Smedley Maclean Prize in 

Michaelmas 2021 by the British Federation of Women Graduates to work on her thesis, 

‘Studying ubiquitin regulation of inflammatory signalling using an integrated structural, 

biochemical and biophysical approach.’ 

Vaclav Vitek (JRF 1969–74, MCR) was elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Society. 


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Yi Yin (RMCR 2019–) gained two awards to further the development of the OxNNet 

Toolkit, an ultrasound tool for early pregnancy screening. (1) The Translational Biomedical 

Research Award of the Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust, which was last awarded to the 

University of Oxford ten years ago, in 2011. (2) The Artificial Intelligence in Health and 

Care Award of the National Institute for Health Research. 

David Zeitlyn (SF) was co-curator of ‘Photo Cameroon: Studio Portraiture, 1970s–1990s’, 

an exhibition in 2021 of the work of three Cameroonian photographers at the Fowler 

Museum, Los Angeles. 

Books published by Wolfsonians 

David Alexander (JRF) 

A Biographical Dictionary of British and Irish 

Engravers 1714–1820 (New Haven and 

London: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in 

British Art; Yale University Press, 2021) 

PERSONAL NEWS 

Jaynie Anderson (RF 1978–85) 

with Max Vodola and Shane Carmody, The 

Architecture of Devotion: James Goold and his 

Legacies in Colonial Melbourne (Melbourne 

University, the Miegunyah Press, 2021) 

Pietro Bortone (RF) 

Andrew Briggs (EF) 

Sebastian Brock (EF) 

-- 

Stephanie Dalley (MCR) 

Language and Nationality: Social Inferences, 

Cultural Differences, and Linguistic 

Misconceptions (London / Oxford: Bloomsbury 

Academic, 2022) 

Human Flourishing: Scientific insight and spiritual 

widsom in uncertain times (Oxford University 

Press, 2021) 

The Stanzaic Poems of Jacob of Serugh. A 

Collection of his Madroshe and Sughyotho 

(Piscataway NJ: Gorgias Press, 2022) 

Saint Isaac of Nineveh. Headings on Spiritual 

Knowledge. Part II, Chapters 1–3 (Yonkers NY: St 

Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2022) 

The City of Babylon. A History, c.2000 BC – AD 

116 (Cambridge University Press, 2021) 

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Elena Draghici-Vasilescu (MCR) 

-- 

-- 

Philip Edwards (GS 1978–83) 

Elizabeth English (GS) 

Michelangelo, the Byzantines, and Plato 

(Independent Publishing Network, 2021) 

Glimpses into Byzantium. Its Philosophy and Arts 


Creation and Time. Byzantine and Modern 


At The Very End Of The Road (Whittles 

Publishing, 2021) 

Journeys to the Deep: A Gentle Guide to 

Mindfulness Meditation (Mud Pie Books, 2022) 

Paul Hoole (GS 1980–92, VS 1991–92) 

Silvia Schwarz Linder (GS) 

with Samuel Hoole, Lightning Engineering: Physics, 

Computer Based Testbed, Protection of Ground 

and Airborne Systems (Springer Nature, 2022) 

Goddess Traditions in India / Theological Poems 

and Philosophical Tales in the Tripurārahasya, 

(London and New York: Routledge, 2022) 

PERSONAL NEWS 

Francisco Mora (GS 1975–77, MCR) 

David Zeitlyn (SF) 

NEUROEDUCADOR: Una nueva profesión 

(Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2022) 

An Anthropological Toolkit: Sixty Useful Concepts 

(Berghahn, 2022) 


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PERSONAL NEWS 

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Wedding reception of Josie and Sam Babu 

COLLEGE Photo: Lee RECORD Dann Photography 2021/22

Births 

To Michael Jampel (MSc 1989–90), a son, Henry, on 28 April 2021. 

To Michaela Moriarty, née Crawley (GS 2015–, Staff 2016–): a daughter, Kitty Linda-May, 

on 3 May 2022. 

To Kevin Grecksch (JRF 2018–): a daughter, Mariana, on 12 July 2022. 

Marriages 

Charles E Ehrlich (DPhil 1993–96) to Anna in Vienna, on 6 September 2020. 

Alison Stephanie Erlwanger (GS 2021–22) to Muninyikile Joerom Mutizwa on 16 April 

2022. 

Catarina Leão (GS 2016–22) to Valerio Letizia (GS 2016–18) on 10 September 2022. 

Barbora Žiačková (GS 2017) to Saga Rosenström in Nagu, Finland, on 17 June 2022. 

Deaths 

PERSONAL NEWS 

Aaron T Beck 

(VF 1986) on 1 November 2021, aged 100 

Will Featherstone 

(GS 1988–92) on 13 May 2022, aged 54 

Margit Kail 

(staff 2009–19) on 19 September 2022 

Julie Meisami 

(RF 1985, GBF 1985–2002, EF 2002–21) on 9 October 2021, aged 84 

Peter John Rhodes 

(VF 1984) on 27 October 2021, aged 81 

John Wells 

(GS 1973–77, MCR 1978–2021) on 3 December 2021, aged 70 

Sir Martin Wood 

(GBF 1967–69, SF 1969–94, HF 1994–2021) on 23 November 2021, aged 92 


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Obituaries 

George Kennedy Lyon (Ken) Cranstoun 

(1933–2021) 

Supernumerary Fellow 1971–74, Governing Body Fellow, 1974–89, Senior Tutor 1975–89, 

Emeritus Fellow 1989–2021 

PERSONAL NEWS 

Dr Ken Cranstoun, who died on 1 March 

2021 aged 87, was a Senior Research Fellow 

and the University Lecturer in the Inorganic 

Chemistry Laboratory from 1963 until the 

mid-1980s. 

Ken obtained his Bachelor’s and Doctoral 

degrees in Chemistry at the University 

of Glasgow where he worked on surface 

chemistry and catalysis, under the 

supervision of Dr Sam Thomson. He 

completed a doctoral thesis, ‘The Isotope 

Effect in the Displacement of Tritium 

and Hydrogen from a Nickel Surface’, in 

1962. He then worked briefly at the Esso 

Research Centre in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, 

before joining Professor J S Anderson (then 

newly-arrived) in the Inorganic Chemistry Above: Ken Cranstoun 

Laboratory. His remit was to set up from 

scratch a facility for field ion microscopy, with the objective of studying fundamental surface 

chemical processes at the atomic level. 

Ken was a consummately skilled experimental scientist, as well as being the most kind, 

patient and supportive person imaginable – a truly ‘gentle man’. He was held in great 

affection and respect by his colleagues, friends and students. It was said of him that ‘the 

traffic was largely inbound’, meaning that colleagues predominantly came to seek his 

assistance, rather than vice versa. No one who came to him for help or advice ever went 

away empty-handed. He set himself very high scholarly standards, and published sparingly, 

rarely satisfied until he had every last detail of the research in place. 

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After the retirement of Anderson in 1975, activity in field ion microscopy waned in the ICL, 

although it became a major focus of interest in the Department of Materials, which became 

a recognised world-leading centre in the field. The group in the Department of Materials, led 

by George Smith, retained a strong link with the ICL. George had completed his doctoral 

research on field ion microscopy within Anderson’s group, and Ken had been his guide and 

mentor throughout. They continued to collaborate in research for a number of years. Ken 

also remained active in research in the ICL; drawing on his expertise in surface science, 

he played an important part in securing funding for a multi-technique ultrahigh vacuum 

ESCALAB electron spectrometer in the early 1980s. In parallel, he took on an increasing 

load of administrative and practical teaching duties within the Department, including running 

a glassblowing course for Part II and graduate students for many years (a role that relied 

heavily upon his outstanding abilities in this area). He also took on the role of Senior Tutor at 

Wolfson College over an extended period between 1975 and 1989, and this became a fulltime 

job toward the end of his career. Once again, he showed his kind and supportive nature, 

providing help to many graduate students when they most needed it. 

He retired from Wolfson in 1989. He is sorely missed by all who knew him. 

George Smith FRS and Russell Egdell 

(by kind permission of the Department of Chemistry, Oxford) 

John Penney (EF), who succeeded him as Senior Tutor in 1989, has added: 

PERSONAL NEWS 

Ken will be fondly remembered by many Wolfsonians as a kind and compassionate Senior 

Tutor. A calmly reliable presence in the administration of the College, he was always 

particularly concerned to protect and further the interests of graduate students, many of 

whom had reason to be grateful as individuals for his timely and generous help. Ken will 

also no doubt be remembered by many for his performances at the Burns Night Dinners, 

where a regular feature was his dramatic ‘Address to the Haggis’, accompanied by startlingly 

vigorous stabs and slashes with the traditional dirk. 

William Edward Featherstone 

(1967–2022) 

Graduate Student 1988–92 

Will Featherstone was born on 14 August 1967, and wrote his DPhil thesis in Earth 

Sciences at Wolfson, which is where I met him. We remained close friends for thirty years. 

His thesis was ‘A GPS controlled gravimetric determination of the geoid of the British 

Isles’, and after moving to Perth, Western Australia, Will achieved distinction in the field 

of Geodesy and Spatial Sciences. He rose through the academic ranks at Curtin University 

of Technology to become Professor of Geodesy soon after 2000, one of the youngest 

professors in Australia. 


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He died peacefully in Perth on 13 May 2022, aged 54, in the presence of his son Tom (aged 

21) and his daughter Alicia (Lissy, aged 19). He was a very proud Wolfsonian: a picture of 

him rowing in the college Eight occupied a prominent position in his house. 

Allan Trench (Visiting MCR 1989–90) 

Francesca Ghillani 

Graduate Student 2009–14, elected Member of Governing Body 2012–14, died on 8 September 

2021, aged 43 

Francesca Ghillani, a Research Fellow at the Institute of Population Ageing, was admitted 

as a DPhil student at Wolfson in 2009 and served on the Academic Committee (2011–13) 

and the Social and Cultural Committee (2011–14). Professor Dame Hermione Lee, who 

was then President, has described Francesca as ‘a wonderful and inspiring person, full of 

warmth, joy, curiosity, kindness and determination. I feel very lucky to have had the chance 

to work with her at Wolfson.’ 

PERSONAL NEWS 

Margit Kail 

(1965–2022) 

Member of staff 2009–19, when she was 

Personal Assistant to the Bursar and Facilities 

Assistant to the Home Bursar 

Margit was a stalwart of administration at 

Wolfson over a ten-year period, playing 

a key role in the Bursar’s office and also 

being involved in the management of the 

College estate and its important housing 

provision, working with the Home Bursar. 

Margit started her career in Germany in the 

social security administration of the town 

of Ansbach. She moved to Britain with her 

Above: Margit Kail 

then husband and worked in various roles in 

college and university administration, most recently in the medical division. 


I got to know Margit when I became more involved with the administration of the College, 

first as Secretary to the Governing Body and then as a member of the Academic Fund 

Panel. I enjoyed working with Margit, ever efficient and organised. We often went for lunch 

together in College and caught up with our rusty German. 

Margit also played an active role in the civic life of Witney, where she lived. She was the 

committee member for the town twinning program with Unterhaching in Germany, sang in 

the local choir, enjoyed her two Siamese cats, and also played a mean game of badminton. 

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Over time Margit became much more than a colleague, and we spent happy times together 

as friends, e.g. over a glass of wine in ‘The Fishes’ pub, with her new much beloved husband 

Mark. It came as a shock when Margit was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2020. Her 

untimely death is also a reminder of the importance of research into the early detection of 

this cancer. 

Bettina Lange (GBF) 

Julie Scott Meisami 

(1937–2021) 

Research Fellow 1985, Governing Body Fellow 1985–2002, Emeritus Fellow 2002–21 

Julie Meisami was born on 29 July 1937, a native of Berkeley, California, and died peacefully 

in Point Richmond, California, on 9 October 2021, aged 84, at the home of her daughter 

and grandchildren after a two-year battle with cancer. 

She received her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley, 

in 1971. During 1971–80 she taught English Literature and Comparative Literature in 

Tehran, Iran, chiefly at the University of Tehran, where she was instrumental in forming the 

MA programme in Comparative Literature. After several years in California (1980–1985), 

where she taught courses in Comparative Literature and pursued independent research, in 

1985 she was appointed University Lecturer in Persian at Oxford, where she taught courses 

in Persian and Arabic literature until her retirement in 2002. 

PERSONAL NEWS 

During 2002–03 she held an Aga Khan Fellowship in Islamic Architecture at Harvard 

University, where she pursued her art history research. After moving back to California 

in 2003, she participated in a project to write a descriptive catalogue of the Arabic 

manuscripts in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin. 

Her many publications include Medieval Persian Court Poetry (Princeton University Press, 

1987), Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature (co-edited with Paul Starkey, Routledge, 1998), 

Persian Historiography to the End of the Twelfth Century (Edinburgh University Press, 1999) 

and Structure and Meaning in Medieval Arabic and Persian Poetry: Orient Pearls (Routledge, 

2003). Her translations include The Sea of Precious Virtues (Bar al-Fava’id): A Medieval Islamic 

Mirror for Princes (University of Utah Press, 1991) and The Haft Paykar: A Medieval Persian 

Romance (Oxford University Press, 1995). 

Julie was a scholar, feminist, traveller, teacher, adventurer, writer, wife, mother, grandmother, 

and friend to many; she lived her life with simple grace and dignity. She is survived by her 

daughters Mona Reilly, Ayda Meisami and Moira Anderson Allen, by her grandchildren 

Mariam and Mark Reilly, and by her sister Robin Anderson. 

Mona Reilly 


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Bryan Sykes 

(1947–2020) 

An obituary was published in last year’s Record. His partner Ulla Plougmand adds a few fond 

memories. 

Bryan was a larger than life character and naturally came to mean many different things to 

many different people during his lifetime. To me he became my ‘partner in love and crime’, 

as we liked to call it, my soulmate, my best friend, till the end of his life. Our relationship did 

not end there – it just changed. As in life, we were two free spirits, always together even 

when apart. But we were lucky ever to have met. It happened later in life, when I am happy 

to say that we were able to enjoy fully the majority of our time during the last decade of 

Bryan’s active service at his beloved Wolfson College. 

PERSONAL NEWS 

We first met, purely by chance, at Longleat in 2006. I was a weekend guest, Bryan was 

invited to research and test the villagers for DNA, an initiative taken by Lord Bath who 

was passionately interested in human genetics: he and Bryan formed a mutual admiration 

society, making it a lifelong tradition to exchange their latest books, duly signed. I will 

never forget that first chance meeting with Bryan. I remember vividly sitting with the other 

weekend guests and Lord Bath in the huge room when I first saw Bryan, striding confidently 

across the floor towards our party, with DNA test kit at the ready. His first words were: 

‘We will start with you’ – and that was me! We clicked from the very beginning. By a quirky 

coincidence we both turned out to be Tara’s – one of the seven goddesses in Bryan’s The 

Seven Daughters of Eve – and from then on we never looked back. 

At Wolfson we lived in one of the penthouse flats – I used to call it ‘the little house in the 

sky’. The stars always looked amazing from there, the sky seemed endless. Bryan would 

be catching up with college work or working on one of his books in one room whilst I 

was painting in the next. It was a buzzing, exciting and inspiring time, with students, degree 

days, long walks, not to mention many a lovely guest night dinner, always with a broad 

selection of interesting people. Bryan was proud to be a ‘hunter-gatherer’, as he liked to 

call himself, always looking out for his ‘flock’. 

How fortunate we were, to be able travel the world together, researching his unique books 

such as DNA USA (2012) and The Wolf Within (2018). This was Bryan’s very last book: subtitled 

the astonishing evolution of the wolf into man’s best friend, it is full of honesty and 

good humour, as well as the insatiable curiosity of a real scientist, despite the fact that – as 

he admitted himself – he never really ‘got’ dogs. 

Funnily enough I can’t remember us ever having had what might be called a ‘holiday’, 

although we did try once: it was in a tropical paradise, but after a few days we found it – I 

whisper – a little boring; true to habit, we soon invented a whole new project to pursue. 

Not that everything always went to plan. There was a long weekend Bryan thought he had 

booked for us, partly as a surprise. A surprise it certainly was. We were going to see and 

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PERSONAL NEWS 

Above: Ulla Plougmand with Bryan Sykes 

study some ancient caves near Malaga in Spain, famous for their prehistoric art, but our 

pilot landed us in Seville instead. We just laughed it off: it was an unexpected opportunity 

to explore a whole new city and, true to form, we went straight out to enjoy a long and 

delicious lunch followed by a touristy ride in a horse-drawn carriage. In his enthusiasm, 

Bryan overtipped the driver so vastly that he wasn’t seen on the job for several days 

afterwards: later we reckoned that he could have fed family and horses for a week on that 

tip. We spent sunny days in this lively, picturesque city, enjoying al fresco breakfasts in an 

idyllic little square shaded by orange trees. 

I could add other memories, but let me end by borrowing a few words from my fellowcountryman, 

the Danish author Karen Blixen. Standing by her beloved Finch Hatton’s 

grave to say her final farewell, she simply said: ‘We loved him well.’ Farewell, dear Bryan, 

we loved you well. May you rest in peace, and your spirit soar – like a golden eagle into 

that endless, blue sky… 


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John Wells 

Graduate Student 1973–77, MCR 1978–2021 

Much loved by his friends and family, John died on 3 December 2021, aged 70. He was 

born in Essex, the elder of two brothers, and grew up in Leigh-on-Sea. After studying hard 

at Westcliff High School for Boys, he achieved eleven O-levels and four Grade A A-levels, 

making him the first of his family to go to university. He was an undergraduate at Hertford 

College, where he read Physics and was awarded a scholarship after his first year. After 

graduating, he moved to Wolfson, where he gained his doctorate in Particle Physics. He 

then had two spells in London colleges and one at Glasgow. He also worked at CERN in 

Geneva. He made lifelong friends in Oxford, building up associations with many colleges 

including Somerville, where he became a college lecturer. 

PERSONAL NEWS 

When he was 21, John severely injured his back. He had to have his first spinal operation, 

and the treatment led to some contrast dye (Myodil, Iofendylate) being left in his back, 

which caused arachnoiditis. As a result he lived with extreme pain and limited control over 

his legs, and by the age of 35 was forced to take early retirement. Understandably, he was 

very frustrated by the pain and became dependent on morphine. 

John settled into a life of retirement, although he continued to supervise many 

Oxford physics students, which he loved doing. He showed immense grit, courage and 

determination in dealing with his health issues and living as normal a life as possible. He 

swam regularly and gained new interests including history and archaeology. He was an 

eccentric man with a large O-gauge model railway, which ran from room to room through 

holes in the wall and into the garden, to the delight of visitors and his much-loved Siamese 

cats. 

John was a very caring and kind person, who would go out of his way to help people 

with their problems. He had many godchildren and was well known in his neighbourhood, 

especially after he chained himself to a tree to stop it being cut down. He was active in 

his work for disabled charities and relentlessly wrote to combat issues experienced by the 

disabled. But as he moved into his sixties, life became still more challenging. He developed 

sarcoidosis, an auto-immune disease, which sadly made him blind. 

John was a wonderful man who is much missed by friends, neighbours and family including 

his brother Stephen, sister-in-law Sheida and niece Fiona. 

Stephen Wells 

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Sir Martin Wood 

(1927–2021) 

Governing Body Fellow 1967–69, Supernumerary Fellow 1969–94, Honorary Fellow 1994–2021 

Sir Martin Wood joined Oxford Physics in 1955 as a Senior Research Officer, working with 

Professor Nicholas Kurti. Martin’s work on resistive high-field magnets in Kurti’s research 

group led to other universities wanting access to the technology. In response, in 1959 

Martin and his wife Audrey founded Oxford University’s first substantial spin-out company, 

Oxford Instruments. 

After the development of niobium-alloy-based superconductors in the USA, just two 

year’s after Oxford Instruments was founded, Martin successfully constructed the first 

superconducting magnets outside the USA and, as the company grew, Oxford Instruments 

began to sell these magnets for various physics research applications. Superconducting 

magnets were then used for nuclear magnetic resonance studies in chemistry and biology 

and this work led to the development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners: 

the first commercial MRI whole body scanner was produced at Oxford Instruments’ 

factory at Osney Mead. The company had originally operated out of Martin’s garden shed 

in Northmoor Road, but rapidly grew and is now a FTSE 250 company with an annual 

revenue of over £300m. 

Oxford Instruments has produced superconducting magnets for use in the world’s largest 

particle accelerators and a visit to the laboratories in any modern university physics 

department will reveal numerous Oxford Instruments magnets and cryostats. Oxford 

Instruments became, and remains, one of the world’s leading technology companies, 

developing instruments with applications in areas including medicine, cryogenics, and 

spectroscopy. It has nucleated many other high-tech firms in Oxfordshire, making the region 

around Oxford the world’s leading centre for industries using cryogenic and superconducting 

technologies, and this extraordinary concentration of scientific excellence derives ultimately 

from Martin’s singular talent for technological innovation and business leadership. 

PERSONAL NEWS 

Martin was knighted in 1986 for his services to science and received numerous awards and 

honorary doctorates. In addition, both Sir Martin and Lady Audrey have been generous in 

their many philanthropic endeavours. Oxford Physics has benefited enormously from their 

donation of funds to build the Sir Martin Wood Lecture Theatre and surrounding rooms, 

including a seminar room named in Audrey’s honour; they also made a substantial donation 

to the Department of Physics’ new Beecroft Building. The annual Sir Martin Wood Prize, 

founded in 1998, fosters UK–Japan links and is awarded each year to an outstanding young 

Japanese scientist who receives the opportunity to lecture in UK universities, including at 

Oxford Physics, and Sir Martin took great pleasure in meeting each year’s prize winner. 

Steve Blundell, Robert Taylor and Ian Shipsey 

(by kind permission of the Department of Physics, Oxford) 


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Memories 

2 May 1968: the Queen lays the College foundation stone 

MEMORIES OF WOLFSON 

The occasion is recalled by one of Wolfson’s first Fellows (now HF), Professor Andrew Miller, CBE. 

had a staff position at the MRC lab in Cambridge – an exciting place to be alongside 

I Francis Crick and a visitor called Jim Watson – when, out of the blue in 1966, I was 

offered a lectureship in the brand new Molecular Biophysics Department in the Zoology 

Department at Oxford. I had no links with the Oxford college system, so was delighted to 

be offered a Lee-Hemming Research Fellowship at Wolfson in 1967. This had followed an 

interview on 8 June with Sir Isaiah in his rooms at All Souls. He spoke rapidly and nonstop 

during the interview and I do not remember saying anything myself. There was also, 

on 2 October, a lively lunch in 15 Banbury Road with Sir Isaiah, my boss Professor David 

(later Lord) Phillips, the Nobel Laureate Sir William Bragg as a sort of referee, and Colonel 

Hemming, one of the donors of the finance to underwrite the Fellowship. 

Photo: Wolfson Archives 

The Fellows and members of Wolfson gave me a warm welcome and showed a keen interest 

in my research. Several of my research students and colleagues also benefited. I was offered a 

splendid range of fascinating events in College, which included an invitation to my wife Rosemary 

and me to attend the laying of the foundation stone by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth on 2 

May 1968. This we did and can still recall the thrill of that event. The recently discovered film, 

available on the College youtube channel, brings back the happiness of that day. 

Also present was Wolfson’s first JRF (1967), Professor Andrew Prentice of Monash University: 

The laying of the foundation stone by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on 2 May 1968 

remains clearly in my memory. It was an overcast day, though not rainy. I recall the hush 

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that came over the assembly as the Queen, escorted by the Chancellor of the University, 

Harold Macmillan, entered the specially erected marquee. Being only a first-year DPhil 

student, newly arrived from Australia, I had taken a place at the rear of the marquee. I 

recall how attractive the Queen was in her sky-blue silk dress and matching hat. All eyes 

were on her. It was only the second time I had seen Her Majesty, but never so close. The 

previous occasion was as a distant, flag-waving 10-year-old schoolboy during her first visit 

to Australia in 1954, following her coronation. 

Another memory of Queen Elizabeth’s visit to Wolfson in May 1968 is of the graceful 

manner in which she participated in the ceremony. She would of course, as reigning 

Monarch, already have laid many other foundation stones. At Wolfson, however, she 

treated the occasion as if it was her very first stone-laying ceremony. Almost certainly she 

would have sensed that the laying of the foundation stone of a new Oxford college was 

indeed a rare and significant moment in the life of the University. 

After Her Majesty had completed laying the stone, the gathering spontaneously broke into 

much clapping and cheering. It seemed as if the ice had been broken and that the Queen 

was now one of us, Oxford Wolfsonians! 

I cannot recall how long Her Majesty remained at the Wolfson site after the formal 

proceedings were completed. But I do remember the very fine refreshments that were 

served that day, including the delicious chicken sandwiches and superb wines. At the end of 

it all, I managed somehow to find my way home to my Wolfson flat at the top of 25 Linton 

Road, made very happy by the whole occasion. 


Professor Prentice invited Paul Brock to recall his own memory of the occasion. Paul is the 

youngest son of Wolfson’s first and only Vice-President, Michael Brock, and on 2 May 1968 he 

was a 9-year-old schoolboy: 

The Dragon School had very generously given us the afternoon off, to line Linton Road 

for this momentous occasion. We all assembled together in the Old Hall, as we usually did 

every morning. The headmaster, ‘Inky’ Keith Ingram, sent us systematically off in groups 

to our spot. It was quite a time waiting – every time ladies in hats came by, they were 

given good cheers by us, since we were very clearly briefed that Her Majesty would be so 

attired. In that line, I well recall a fellow Dragon called Matthew Read saying: ‘Oh no, look 

what’s happened to the Queen’, when a smartly dressed elderly lady wearing a hat came 

past us in a wheelchair. However, we soon got into cheers: there was Her Majesty, driven 

in a smart black saloon, and how I recall her smiling at all of us, AND waving at us too! 

We then dispersed. I went home to 31 Linton Road, but told Mum that I was sad, almost 

to the point of crying, that I did not get any closer to see Her Majesty. Mum very patiently 

consoled me, saying (inter alia) that there wasn’t room for me. 


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Recollections of a Barco Chairman 

by Andrew Ian Boynton (GS 1978–81) 

I read Mathematics at Hertford College (1975–78) and was looking for guidance on 

college selection before starting a research degree. A fellow Hertfordian, Steve Pratt, 

recommended Wolfson College for its all-graduate environment, accommodation and 

extensive sporting and social activities. I accepted his recommendation. It was the best 

decision of my academic life. 

In my first year I shared a pod with Judy McKenzie. Judy was a Barco member and I soon 

found my way to the bar to sample some Hook Norton beer. In 1978–79 Tony Wickett 

was Barco Chairman and he invited me to sit at the table nearest to the bar. I possessed 

a certain element of physicality, which enabled me to throw around firkins (9 gallons) and 

kilderkins (18 gallons), so I was appointed Bar Manager for 1978–79. I enjoyed bar football 

and often played with Dave Carter as my teammate. 


Peter Cleave approached me in the bar to recruit me for both rugby union (College team) 

and rugby league (University team). Steve Collins was Captain and fly half of the College 

team. Colin Merritt played in the centre. We were always short of players and had to rely 

on assorted ringers to make up the numbers. We spent 1978–79 playing against college 

Second XVs and were promoted at the end of the season. I took over as Captain for 

1979–80, but for a difficult season against much better college teams. 

I was not a very good rugby league player. I got off to a bad start by tearing both of my 

hamstrings in a training session prior to any competitive match. I did play an away match for 

Oxford University (unofficial side) against the University of Manchester. 

I worked for the College as weekend night porter and minibus driver. I easily passed the 

college minibus driving test. My daily routine was to set out at 12.05 on the Banbury Road 

route and finish with the 14.20 Parks Road route. Some Governing Body Fellows used to flag 

down the minibus other than at the official stops, but I soon disabused them of this practice. 

In 1979 rowing coaches Barry and Clarissa Levine recruited me for the Boat Club. I was 

strong and enthusiastic, but without dexterity. I debuted in a Novice IV with Ib Holm 

Sorensen and Steve Rolt at Danson Dashes, but we were not successful. After that I made 

steady improvement and every coach exhorted me to move my hands faster, but their 

exhortations fell on deaf ears. Nonetheless I rowed at bow of the First VIII in the 1980 

Eights and at 5 in the 1981 Torpids. I also did fitness training sessions for the Women’s 

crews. 

Having served as Bar Manager, I was then appointed as Barco Chairman for 1979–80. 

My achievements include the introduction of Brakspear beer and cheaper gin and tonic 

combinations. Mike Munday took over as Barco Chairman for 1980–81 and I resigned from 

the committee to concentrate on my thesis. 

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In my second and third years, I shared half a house in New Marston with Tony Evans. The 

house was owned by a Polish man who invited us for Polish food and drinks at the Polish 

Club in Cowley. Tony and I shared an interest in hard rock music and we both enjoyed the 

BBC Friday Rock Show hosted by DJ Tommy Vance. 

In common with many Wolfsonians, I tutored for Greene’s Tutorial College. One of my 

Oxford Entrance Exam candidates earned the examiners’ comment: ‘the candidate fell so 

far below the level expected of a candidate (in all subjects) that they could not understand 

why he had been entered in the exam.’ I also marked third-year undergraduate Fluid 

Dynamics scripts for lecturer Hilary Ockendon. 

Steve Pratt and I tutored at a residential course held at a Christian institution north of 

Oxford. This gave well-qualified sixth formers a preview of degree level mathematics at 

Oxford. 

The nice thing about Wolfson was that there were people who had experienced the same 

problems as I was facing and were willing to mentor. I also recall regular participation in the 

communal completing of crossword puzzles from The Times and The Daily Telegraph. One 

example of Wolfsonians exchanging cultural practices came from the American Ed Jones: I 

spent many an enjoyable hour in the TV room being educated by him on the ins and outs 

of American Football. This sport was just being broadcast on UK television for the first 

time. 

In summer 1981 I completed my DPhil thesis ‘Some problems in geophysical 

magnetohydrodynamics’, typed by fellow-Wolfsonian Carolyn Hartley. My supervisor was 

David Acheson of Jesus College. My viva was in autumn 1981 and I received my degree in 

March 1982. 


The Stone Age yesterday 

by Chris Buckley (GS 1983–88, MCR) 

In the past couple of years I’ve been working 

for the Tracing Patterns Foundation, a nonprofit 

educational and research foundation in 

Berkeley, California. We have just completed 

the conservation and photography of a unique 

collection of ethnographic material from 

indigenous peoples in the Bailey Valley, Papua, in 

the Indonesian half of the island of New Guinea. 

This includes a record of the manufacture and 

use of stone tools (axes, adzes, knives), assembled 

during the 1980s. The Bailem Valley inhabitants 

appear to have been the last people on earth to 


Photo: suuplied by Chris Buckley 

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ely on these technologies in their daily lives. There will be a catalogue of the collection 

next year, and we hope to repatriate the items to a museum in Indonesia. The photograph 

(see previous page) is of a large green schist axe with a wooden handle, made by Dani 

people and used for splitting firewood. 

Six-Plaques Berlin 

by Henry Hardy (HF) 


Henry Hardy is the editor and literary trustee of Wolfson’s first President, Isaiah Berlin (1909– 

97). He was asked to ‘say a few words’ in Hampstead on 3 May 2022, the day on which plaques 

in Berlin’s honour were officially made public at two of his London residences, which reminded 

him of the plaque which names the Berlin Quad at Wolfson. He thought the College might be 

interested in the story of the other plaques, and has sent to the Record the text of what he said 

in Hampstead, in a form slightly edited to suit its new context. Berlin now boasts six plaques: 

one in Riga (on the house where he was born), three in Oxford, and the two new ones in London. 

Henry wonders, with apologies to the only politician notorious for his intelligence, ‘two-brains’ 

Willetts, whether anyone can rival Six-Plaques Berlin. 

Above: Lady Berlin unveils the Berlin plaque at Wolfson 

You wait thirteen years for a plaque, and then two come along at once. It might have been 

three, if Surbiton were not dragging its feet. To be fair, the Berlins lived there for only a 

year, from January 1921 to January 1922, and at four different addresses. 

Photo: Wolfson Archives 

I first approached English Heritage about a London blue plaque for Isaiah in 2009, the 

centenary of his birth on 6 June 1909. That was also the year in which two of Isaiah’s 

stepsons, Peter Halban and the late Michel Strauss, unveiled Isaiah’s blue plaque at 

Headington House, his home from his marriage to Aline in February 1956 to his death on 

5 November 1997. But I had failed to make myself aware of the English Heritage rule that 

twenty years must pass after the death of the candidate before a plaque can be considered, 

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Above: Henry Hardy speaking at 49 Hollycroft Avenue, Hampstead (photo: John Weston/PA) 

and in their response they told me it was ‘too soon to be certain of his lasting reputation 

and influence’. Given that Isaiah died in 1997, I should ask again in 2017. By then, Isaiah’s 

fame, influence and importance had grown apace, as I was sure they would. Indeed, I am 

certain that he will be a permanent star in the firmament of European civilisation. I renewed 

my application, and five years later, here we are. 


The further delay has mainly been caused by a combination of Covid and English Heritage’s 

most impressive research, in the hands of Sarah Whittingham, into the candidate’s 

residential history. Her enquiries went deeper into the detail than even I had done – and, 

believe me, that is saying quite something. Sarah’s investigations were driven in part by the 

need to choose between Upper Addison Gardens in Holland Park (where the family lived 

from 1922 to 1928) and Hollycroft Avenue in Hampstead (the family home from 1928 to 

1965) as the most suitable site for the plaque. The eventual decision narrowly favoured 

Upper Addison Gardens. So it is serendipitous that a separate initiative led to the inclusion 

of Hollycroft Avenue in the Heath & Hampstead Society’s black plaque scheme. This happy 

outcome might be viewed as a visible and enduring instance of the pluralism that Isaiah 

championed: not either/or, but both. The timing is good, too, allowing both unveilings 

to occur on the same day, which, I understand from Juliette Sonabend of the Heath & 

Hampstead Society, is a first. 

It remains only to quote a couple of telling remarks about the two houses. In 1972, 

two years before she died, Isaiah’s mother Marie was finishing the dictation of some 

autobiographical notes. Speaking about the house she and her husband Mendel chose 


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Above: Berlin’s stepson Peter Halban speaking at the unveiling of the Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board/Oxford Jewish 

Heritage plaque at Headington House, 2009, as the late Michel Strauss, Berlin’s eldest stepson, looks on 

(photo: © Stephanie Jenkins) 

as a base for Isaiah’s years at St Paul’s 

School, she said: ‘Our home was in Upper 

Addison Gardens, and we were quite happy 

there.’ Coming from Marie, this is praise 

indeed. Isaiah himself refers, in a letter, to 

‘my golden childhood’ in that street. We 

have a photograph of him standing on the 

outside staircase at the back of the house 

on his fourteenth birthday, and he certainly 

looks happy. His mother used to bring 

him breakfast in bed. ‘What is the plan 

for today?’ she would ask. ‘That used to 

madden me,’ he later observed. ‘I have no 

plan. I don’t intend to have a plan. Plan?’ 

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Above: 33 Upper Addison Gardens (photo: Lucy 

Millson-Watkins, © English Heritage) 

When Isaiah went up to Oxford in 1928, 

the family moved to Hollycroft Avenue, 

where their friend Mary Bennett used to 

visit them. She was the daughter of H A L 

Fisher (Warden of New College when Isaiah 

was a lecturer there, 1932–38), and became 

the Principal of St Hilda’s (1965–80). She 

told Isaiah’s biographer Michael Ignatieff 

that they were always ‘bubbling with gaiety’, 

and that Marie, who ‘understood absolutely 


Captions: 

Above: Mark Pottle (Isaiah Berlin Legacy Fellow), Peter 

Halban and Henry Hardy at 33 Upper Addison Gardens 

(photo: Lucy Millson-Watkins, © English Heritage) 

Right: Berlin in his St Paul’s School uniform at the back 

of 33 Upper Addison Gardens, 6 June 1923 (photo 

courtesy the Trustees of the Isaiah Berlin Literary Trust) 

Below: The plaque at 49 Hollycroft Avenue (photo: 

Margaret Bloom) 



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everything’, was a ‘flawless housekeeper […]. The 

paintwork in Hollycroft Avenue was washed once 

a week.’ Some time after Marie died, in 1974, 

squatters moved in. Isaiah characteristically took 

them out to lunch: I should love to have been a fly 

on the wall on that occasion. Before that, only ten 

days after Marie’s death, Isaiah had written to his 

greatest friend, Stuart Hampshire, ‘Oh dear: the 

disappearance of Hollycroft Avenue is a genuine 

trauma. It was much more real than any other 

home I’ve ever had.’ 


‘Much more real.’ It is very satisfying to see that 

both houses are still entirely real. What is more, 

because of the hard work of the officers of English 

Above: The plaque at 2a Albert Street, Riga, 

Heritage and the Heath & Hampstead Society, 

where Berlin was born in flat 8, was unveiled 

especially Cathy Power and Juliette Sonabend 

in 1999. The plaque is just visible, bottom left 

respectively, whom we thank for organising today’s events so well, and for their hospitality, 

the houses now gloriously and enduringly declare their Berlinian past to the public. 

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