The Queen's College Donor Impact Report

FROM THE DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT
Dr Justin B. Jacobs
In 2021-22 Queen’s launched the second phase
of Access All Areas. The College’s Old Members
and Friends continued to build upon the strong
foundations laid during the first phase, contributing
£2.3M to Academic Excellence, Student Support,
and Access and Outreach.
In this second phase, Access All Areas continues to
remain focused on the people who make Queen’s
the inspiring place that it is, and our first set of
fundraising priorities reflects this.
with our PPE students.
The academic focus of the
Centenary Visiting Professor
will rotate each year between the
three subjects and between Queen’s and University
College, with whom we are partnering.
Photo: John Cairns
The source of our academic excellence has always
been the Tutorial System and this year’s Impact
Report details our continued efforts to endow and
secure tutorial Fellowships across some of the key
subject areas.
The Provost and Andy Connell (Modern History, 1965) at
the TAP launch in October 2022.
In 2021-22, donors supported the public
launch of the Peter Neumann Fellowship
in Mathematics – our first-ever Mathsfocused
fundraising initiative – and they
continue to help us complete the John
Prestwich Fellowship in History, the second
of our two Fellowships in Modern History.
On page eight you can see how these
efforts, when complete, will combine with
earlier fundraising successes to strengthen
our academic excellence.
Our donors also continued to help us
build upon the initial endowment for the
unique Centenary Visiting Professorship
in PPE. This post was publicly unveiled
last November to celebrate the storied
degree’s 100th anniversary. We look
forward to seeing world-class academic
talent coming to Oxford annually to work
Dr Peter Neumann
(Maths, 1959)
Prof. Christina Davis
(incoming
Centenary Visiting
Professor, Politics)
Finally, our donors continued to cultivate
the seeds sown in phase one of Access All
Areas by enhancing the College’s access
and outreach work in the northwest. Our
partnership with The Access Project (TAP)
launched in October 2022, with over
£500,000 raised to support the initial three
years of the programme in 2021-22. This
partnership embeds Queen’s and Oxford
directly into four secondary schools: two
in Cumbria and two in Blackburn with
Darwen. This is part of the Governing
Body’s commitment to reinvigorate and
enhance the College’s historical links to
the north.
None of these exciting steps forward would
be possible without the financial support of
our Old Members and Friends. Thank you
for helping Queen’s take them.
DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE
We would like to thank those Old Members who served on the Development Committee in 2021–2022:
Mr Desmond Cecil (PPE, 1961)
Mr Paul Newton (Chemistry, 1975)
Mrs Rachel Lawson (Modern Languages, 1984)
Mr John Turner (PPE, 1984)
Mr John Hull (Chemistry, 1994)
Mrs Anna Hull (Mathematics, 1995)
Ms Maude Tham (Modern Languages, 2009)
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