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2011 – 2012 No.36
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2011 – 2012 No.36
The Wolfson Review
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Catherine Potterton (2008), Alumna, carrying the Olympic Flame
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2011 – 2012 No.36
The
Wolfson Review
Contents
Foreword: Editor
From the President
Building Wolfson’s future: Bursar, Senior Tutor and Development Director
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Articles
Food for thought: Vice-President
Fifteen years as Praelector: Brian Cox
The first boat: Norman Toms
Women on the river: a cox’s tale: Madeleine Devey
1970 blade returns to Wolfson: John Hughes
Etched in glass: thirty years on: Nigel Ten Fleming
Olympic Torch Relay: Catherine Potterton My journey to Wolfson: Curtis Sharma
From Wolfson to Washington DC: Howard Veigas
The Leveson Inquiry: Sinead Boucher
Bong! Reflections on another visit to Wolfson: Kevin and Becky Lewis
Change and continuity in the Lee Seng Tee Library: Jenny Sargent
Wolfson Gardens: Returning to organic ways: Phil Stigwood
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Events and Societies
Events
June Event
Lunchtime Seminar Series Lee Seng Tee Distinguished Lecture 2012: Dickens and Shakespeare
Humanities Society
Science Society
Wolfson Contemporary Reading Group
Thesis Writing Group
Music Calendar
Wolfson College Student Association
Language and Culture Society
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Sport
Wolfson Sports
Badminton
Basketball
Capoeira
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Cricket
Table Tennis
Volleyball
Rowing
News
Members’ News
Donations to Wolfson College
Philanthropy in Action
The Morrison Society
Donors to the Lee Seng Tee Library
Books by College Members
Recent University Appointments
Obituaries
In Memoriam
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Student Record
Freshers 2011
Prizes and Studentships
Degrees Awarded
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Membership
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Make a Donation
Contact Details Update Form
News Update Form
Useful Information
Wolfson College Prints
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Peter Dowling
College Officers
New Fellows
Fellows
Honorary Fellows
Emeritus Fellows
Senior Members
College Research Associates
Academic Visitors
College Administration
Foreword
Peter Dowling
Conrad Guettler, Editor
This is the second issue of The Wolfson Review in the
new design and again I hope you will find something
of interest in it. As the Review comes out at the end of the
academic year, it serves almost as a yearbook and annual
record. For this reason, I have tried to capture, as much as
possible, the diversity of activities, achievements and events
at Wolfson over this past year. The Review cannot always
be ‘of the moment’ but it felt appropriate in the year of
the London Olympics to celebrate Catherine Potterton’s achievements on the cover and
in the Articles section.
This volume would not appear without the time and effort that our contributors put into
writing their pieces and offering photographs and information. So a big thank you to you
all! Whilst some pieces are offered, many have been invited. As Editor, I like to give authors
free range; I try to preserve individual writing styles whenever I can. However, the funds
for the College publications are not infinite, so I sometimes make cuts and edit texts: I trust
I am forgiven.
You will also note links to www.WolfsonPlus.com, our online publications website. Some
contributions, which in past years would have appeared in print, are now accessible online
as this mode of delivery allows us to feature more, and more frequent, news than we can
do in print. As time goes on we would very much like to feature, online, more research news
or updates about your scholarly interests and activities, so please stay in touch and tell
us about them. Only then can we offer an even more varied and extensive content to all
College members.
editor@wolfson.cam.ac.uk
Foreword
www.WolfsonPlus.com 5
From the President
Professor Sir Richard Evans reflects on the past year
in College.
One of the most unusual and distinctive features of the
College has always been its openness to the world. This
year, as always, we have welcomed many people from the
Cambridge community as Senior Members, as well as visiting
academics who come to Cambridge to carry out research.
The Press Fellowship has been particularly valuable in bringing
international journalists to Wolfson to work on projects free from the tyranny of tight deadlines.
Officers
Alumni and other visitors to the College may have noticed a few changes in the College’s
appearance. Our wonderful gardens have become ever more beautiful under the stewardship of
Phil Stigwood and his team, and even the shadiest corners of the grounds have been given their
full attention, with a new small garden occupying the space between the Lee Hall and Toda
House. The College’s Fine Arts Committee has been taking a close look at the distribution of
paintings, prints and sculptures around the College, and has put on an exhibition of artworks in
the Combination Room, with portraits and busts of the people most closely associated with it,
telling the story of the College from its beginnings.
Academic life remains, of course, at the heart of the College. Two of our Fellows have attained
exceptional distinction this year. Gordon Dougan, Principal Research Scientist at the Wellcome
Trust Sanger Institute, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for his work on the
molecular basis of the infection process, genomics and the development of practical vaccines.
And Geoffrey Khan FBA has been appointed Regius Professor of Hebrew. Our Senior Member
Matthew Moss, Private Secretary to the Vice-Chancellor, has been appointed a Member of the
Royal Victorian Order for his services to the University, and the work of our alumni Carrie Herbert,
for children who are bullied at school, and Michael Harrison, for his services to policing, have
been recognised by the award of MBEs.
Like all other educational institutions, Wolfson continues to spend much energy on coping with
new policy initiatives coming from the government, and a private visit by the Minister of State
for Higher Education, David Willetts – to a two-day conference held in the College – provided
the opportunity for some discreet lobbying over breakfast on key policy issues affecting
universities. It would be too sanguine to hope for U-turns on all fronts, but it remains important
to keep up the pressure all the same.
6 The Wolfson Review 2011–2012
Building Wolfson’s future
As Wolfson College approaches its fiftieth anniversary in 2015, three College Officers report
on the people and resources that are helping to build Wolfson’s future.
Christopher Lawrence, Bursar
The Staff
Last year we said farewell to Head Porter David Luhrs after 21 years; and this year the College
Accountant Jonathan Beart retired after the same period. Under Jonathan’s leadership, the
Finance department has ably administered the flow of income and expenditure, and fulfilled the
reporting requirements of the College, the University, the Charity Commission and HMRC.
Another College character also retired during the year: the Butler David Buck. Once you knew
that David’s previous career had been spent in Her Majesty’s Prison Service, you understood
better his style of managing unruly diners at Formal Hall! We were also sad to say goodbye to
our Librarian Anna Jones, who moved to the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
We recruited excellent replacements for these key staff from other Cambridge Colleges,
respectively St Edmund’s (Wendy Dyce), Darwin (Ian Smith) and Gonville & Caius (Jenny Sargent).
But it was not all one-way traffic: our Assistant Clerk of Works Phil Fordham moved to Peterhouse
(albeit replaced by Neil Newman from Clare); and our Senior Gardener Steve Tyrrell left to become
Head Gardener at Queens’.
Officers
From left to right: Jane McLarty, Christopher Lawrence and Karen Stephenson.
The Buildings
Wolfson has new accommodation: Barton House in Barton Close. This became available to
student residents at the start of the 2011–2012 academic year, following extensive refurbishment
work generously funded by the Wolfson Foundation. This houses six students, and is a welcome
addition to our accommodation stock at a time of rising student numbers.
In recent years, the demands on the Porters’ Lodge have increased, and in the core part of the
day there will be three Porters: the Head Porter and Deputy Head Porter alongside the duty
Porter. The challenge of a too-small Porters’ Lodge has been met by the creation of a new office
for the Head Porter under the main stairs; just don’t make any jokes about ‘Harry Porter’!
The Finances
The College continues to live within its means, and puts students at the heart of its purpose.
Annual turnover exceeds £5m and the endowment has passed £10m, but these are modest
numbers by comparison with other Cambridge Colleges. The investment of the College’s
endowment in the Cambridge University Endowment Fund continues to reap dividends and
helps to achieve intergenerational equity between current and future students. We are gradually
able to increase the amount spent on bursaries, prizes and grants, and we are also investing in
the upkeep of our buildings and grounds; so important for the welfare of all those who live and
work here. As always, the pace and scale of these investments, in both people and property, are
affected by our financial resources. The College’s accounts are available online at www.wolfson.
cam.ac.uk/accounts (with the 2011–2012 accounts available from mid-November).
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As always, the pace and scale of investments, in both people and
property, are affected by our financial resources.
Mike Wignall, Head Porter, outside his new office.
Jane McLarty, Senior Tutor
Over this past year the shape of things to come in graduate and undergraduate admissions has
been emerging.
Our graduate admissions settled down a little; we still had students without College
accommodation in October, but fewer than 30, less than half the number in October 2010.
We agreed a slightly lower target for MPhil offers with the University for the coming year, and
have reined back our undergraduate offers in a further attempt to balance our numbers.
Meanwhile, enough Colleges have expressed interest in developing accommodation in North
West Cambridge to eventually take the pressure off Colleges, like Wolfson, wishing to remain on
a single site. A working group is exploring the establishment of a new College based around this
accommodation, which should reduce pressure on us to expand and allow us to concentrate on
consolidating our position as the leading College (in my view!) for graduates in Cambridge.
From 2015 the first batch of UK undergraduates will embark on PhD
study carrying substantial debt from their first degree.
Our re-vamped website will, we hope, help in student recruitment. We have a lot to offer our
students in both personal and financial support. We have a strong team of Tutors; this year we lost
Anna Jones, Martin Wolf and Marie Lovatt but gained Michelle St Clair, Martin Vestergaard, Margaret
Greeves and Anna Bagnoli. We have made grants over the year totalling some £50k for hardship
and travel, and next year the budget will increase to £65k. There are still challenges ahead; for
instance, from 2015 the first batch of UK undergraduates will embark on PhD study carrying
substantial debt from their first degree. Our strategic plan will need to address such challenges.
Officers
In the face of the fee rise, we saw a drop in undergraduate applications but not to the extent we
had feared. Nationally the slump in mature applications was about 13%, and about 5% for
Cambridge. The drop has not been even across the subjects: as one might expect, Arts &
Humanities have suffered more than the Sciences, which remain strong for us, particularly
because of our involvement with the Graduate Medical Course. The College will need to
become more active in outreach if we wish to maintain our UK undergraduate numbers –
much of our buoyancy in undergraduate admissions has been down to strong overseas
applications. Changes in funding to Access Courses (for mature returners to education) mean
that they are no longer Government-funded for people over 24, who from the coming academic
year will need to take out a student loan to fund their study. We therefore need to convince
potential applicants that a Cambridge degree is not solely for the 18-year old upper class (still
the persistent image in the media) and also persuade them of the value even of an Arts degree
in the workplace. In partnership with the other mature Colleges, we have appointed two Mature
Outreach Ambassadors (both recent mature graduates) to work with the Cambridge Admissions
Office in recruiting UK applicants. We have also started work on cementing relationships with
our local Further Education Colleges by hosting a dinner at which we gave a presentation
demystifying the applications process.
Karen Stephenson, Development Director
“Be the change you want to see in the world”
Gandhi’s sentiment could be a watchword for the members of Wolfson College. The changes
that Wolfson’s students and researchers are making every day are bringing about cures for
disease, new understandings of history, technological advances and blueprints for political
improvement on an international scale.
The work of our students and the collaborations they form at Wolfson – both within and outside
their fields of study – will bring about change for the good in the UK and around the world. It is
for this reason that support for Wolfson’s students is the main focus of our forthcoming 50th
anniversary campaign.
Much of the moderately increased support which we are able to give to our students – in terms
of bursaries, prizes, hardship funds and conference travel grants – is only possible because of the
generosity of our donors. This year, our benefactors have given over £150k to support Wolfson’s
students. In addition, there have been donations in support of the Library, the musical life of the
College, the gardens, sport and numerous other areas of importance.
Much of the support which we are able to give to our students is only
possible because of the generosity of our donors. A donation to
Wolfson does not have to be vast to make a real difference.
Officers
Our donors have made the meaningful choice to enable progress and change for the better with
their support. Many of their gifts take the form of regular donations of £10 or £20 a month: a
donation to Wolfson does not have to be vast to make a real difference. Our endowment
fund is well managed but it stands at just over £10m: 27th out of the 31 Cambridge Colleges.
Every penny we receive has an impact on our ability to improve the lives of those who live and
study here.
Without support, we will not be able to fund the brightest students from poorer backgrounds;
and among them might be the individual who will find the cure for a deadly disease or be a
peacemaker between nations.
We must hold our nerve in these difficult financial times, and renew our drive to increase our
resources for such support. Please help us to continue the excellent work that previous
generations have started.
www.WolfsonGiving.com
Peter Dowling
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Food for thought
Sebastiaan ter Burg
John Naughton, Vice-President
Seventeen years ago, Columbia Professor Eli Noam published
a prescient essay on ‘Electronics and the Dim Future of the
University’ in the journal Science (Vol. 270, pp 247–249, 13
October 1995). In it Noam mused about what would happen
to the traditional model of the university once networking
technology really got into its stride.
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As Noam put it, the university was a (physical) place which housed scholars and the knowledge that
was locked up in their heads or in the books held by the institution’s libraries. If students wished to
access that knowledge then they had no option but to travel to the university and reside there.
This, Noam argued, was the template for a ’university’ that had endured for 2,500 years. The
question he posed was what would happen once technology transformed ways of
communicating knowledge and dissolved the limitations of geography? What would be the
justifications for gathering people together, at great public and private expense, in physical
institutions when most of what they needed – in terms of teaching material and resources –
could be obtained in cyberspace?
It was a good question in 1995 and it’s an even better one today. Across the world, public
universities are having increasing difficulty coming up with a convincing answer. And as they
struggle, multi-national corporations are avidly contemplating a huge market that they see as
ripe for exploitation. But, funnily enough, there is at least one place where Professor Noam’s
question is being answered on a daily basis – the Wolfson Dining Hall.
Why? Because the main justification for the age-old model of the university is that if you put lots
of clever people in close proximity, they will learn almost as much from one another as they do
from lectures. And anyone who comes to breakfast, lunch or dinner in Wolfson sees that process
in action all the time.
Of course, this also happens in other Oxbridge Colleges. But one aspect makes Wolfson special:
we don’t have a High Table to separate Fellows from students, so the interdisciplinary exchanges
that happen over meals are richer and more varied here than they are elsewhere. And this isn’t
an accident: when the College was founded, its first President, John Morrison, explicitly
stipulated that it should not have a High Table. This raised a lot of Cambridge eyebrows at the
time, but it was one of the wisest decisions he ever made.
Fifteen years as Praelector
Fifteen years? I cannot believe that I have
carried out this role on behalf of the College
for so long. Calculating the numbers of
students that I have presented as Praelector
gave me a big surprise. In the 47 years since
the College was founded, a total of 6,349
members have been awarded degrees; of that
number, 4,614 have been presented in person
and to date it has been my privilege to present
66% of these (3,046). When I first became
Praelector in 1997, the number of degrees
awarded in that academical year was 163.
Last year the number had more than doubled
to 357, and by the end of this academical year
that total will have been exceeded.
At my first Congregation I had the Latin required taped inside my square [mortarboard]. As I doffed
my square to the assembled company in the Senate House, there in front of my eyes was the script
in large font – but upside down! A rapid re-orientation of the mortarboard was required.
It has been quite interesting to watch the other Praelectors perform, some with aplomb, some
with exaggerated gestures and some, for whom it is the first time, with such evident stage fright
that they lose their Latin crib or forget the words. This indeed is theatre!
The majority of those reading this article will be familiar with the ceremony, as they themselves
have taken part. They will also be aware that I go to great pains to make sure that they are
correctly dressed, as the Proctors will take every opportunity to fine me a bottle of port if there is
any infringement of the strict dress code or presentation procedure. It does seem to me that the
Proctors become much more twitchy later in the academical year when their aim is to make sure
that the requisite number of bottles are available for the end of year dinner! To date, after over
120 ceremonies, I have only been fined three bottles; and one of those was due to a graduand
who, when kneeling to receive his degree, revealed that he was wearing odd socks – of course,
only the black sock had been displayed to me when I inspected him!
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Keith Heppell
Brian Cox reflects on his experiences as
College Praelector since 1997.
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At each Congregation I hope that there are no disasters. There were two memorable
Congregations when the unexpected occurred. On one occasion when I was presenting a
graduand for an MA, a leg fell off the Vice-Chancellor’s Deputy’s throne, and the unfortunate
incumbent pitched onto the floor. The Esquire Bedell (John Williams – a University Safety Officer!)
and I rushed forward and assisted the unhurt gentleman to his feet as he muttered he would “do
the rest standing up”. However a replacement throne was found and the proceedings
recommenced.
Then, on an unusually hot day in the Senate House, an elderly lady in the front row fainted due
to the combination of her medication for high blood pressure and the heat, and was laid out on
the floor by the St John Ambulance personnel who are now present at all Congregations. The
proceedings continued unaffected. My anxiety (apart from concern for the lady) was that the
photographs of the ceremony would show the graduand receiving their degree with the lady
prone on the floor beside them. But I did not need to worry, the photograph did not, although it
did show most of the audience looking, not at the person receiving their degree, but towards
the lady on the floor!
Fifteen years of arranging the proceedings for Congregations, entertaining the guests and
presenting the graduands has been enjoyable, if hard work, and I hope to be able to continue to
serve the College as Praelector for some time to come.
The first boat
Norman Toms (1967), Alumnus
As the ‘mixed boat’ became notorious, we received hints that we were not welcome on the
river. Our presence in Trinity’s Boat House had become an embarrassment to our hosts, and
they requested that we find another home. Fortunately, John Shaw was a Fellow of University
College and a respected member of Corpus Christi Boat Club. He managed to procure another
boat and a home that tolerated us as long as we stayed out of the way of the serious teams.
We were rowing with blades donated by Corpus, but obviously needed our own colours.
We decided on blue and yellow (gold); the University College colours and the colours of Maria’s
native Ukraine.
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The story of University (now Wolfson) College Boat Club is the story of Kathy Rader – an allAmerican girl who arrived in Barton Close in 1967 determined to live the ‘Cambridge experience’
to the full. Kathy was an exuberant girl from Philadelphia – she arrived with her mother (her
chaperone, social guide and fellow conspirator). Mrs Rader would lay out her plans for the ideal
social life for Kathy – and herself – over drinks in the bar. The idea of rowing appealed immensely
to Kathy. The fact that the College lacked a Boat Club, a Boat House, a boat, or anyone who
would admit to ever having rowed were minor obstacles. So one day early in 1968, Kathy
appeared in the bar with a senior member of Trinity Boat Club in tow and the promise of a
boat. Four other women joined in her enthusiasm – Ginny Bunker, Elaine Miller and Suzanne
Cory were keen to row and Maria Lukianowicz was willing to cox. They felt that some heavier
muscle in the stern of the boat might be advantageous. Lachlan McDonald and Dave Richardson
were competitive weightlifters, and we later found that Heinz Lemke had won several high level
competitions in the same sport. I was heavy and looked as if a bit of training might equip me to
row, and John Goodman was game for anything.
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In the meantime, local vicar the Reverend
R N Evans offered his services as coach
and began to get our unlikely crew
into adequate shape for the Mays. We
were strong, if unskillful, and his patient
encouragement enabled us, in the words
of the Cambridge News, to ‘thrash our
way along the course’ slightly less slowly
than others.
Finally on Friday 31 May 1968, the boat
splashed its way to the start of the
Getting-On race. There were 15 boats
and 10 places available, and at the end,
University College was on the river in
the penultimate position. We made two
or three bumps – enough to silence our
most vocal detractors.
One positive outcome of the adventure was that, shortly thereafter, female coxes became a
common sight on the river.
More on this article is available on www.WolfsonPlus.com
Women on the river: a cox’s tale
Madeleine Devey (1970), Former Fellow
My involvement with College rowing started in the Michaelmas Term of 1970 following
‘careless talk’ at the Freshers’ party, where I let slip to Geoff Galluzzo (then Captain of Boats)
that I had previous coxing ‘experience’. This actually consisted of a single appearance as cox
of an all-women’s Darwin II crew. This was only the third time they had rowed together and
the second time I had ever coxed. We came last. As far as Geoff was concerned this was
experience enough, and early the following morning I found myself out on the river with
University College (UC)’s first boat, a ‘mixed’ eight (well, me and eight men).
We never managed to repeat our triumph during 1972. It seems from a letter I wrote home
at the time that we had major equipment problems: “bits keep falling off the boat, which is
upsetting for the rowers, and it also leaks – being half full of water on several occasions –
luckily most of us can swim!”
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Most of the time, I didn’t have a clue as to what I should be doing, but I had a loud voice and
seemed to be able to manage the bends! The oarsmen, however, were marvellous: John Olley was
an outstanding stroke and we had an ‘international’ crew consisting of Roger Tallentire (Canada),
Juan Bordas (Spain), Peachy Khama (Botswana), Geoff Galluzzo, Peter Markl (Germany), Mike
Bucknell and Steve Heavens. We had to suffer considerable abuse from the towpath, mainly from
the Churchill coach, who used to call us ‘hermaphrodites’. In the 1971 Lents, we caught the boat in
front and made our bump within minutes and this was repeated on the following three days – it
seemed so easy to win our oars! We had, therefore, very high hopes for the Mays, where we started
out at 14th in Division Four. However on day one, due to an ‘over bump’ in front, we rowed over.
The following day, despite a crab at the start and an overlap by the boat behind, we just managed
to make our own bump first – which was pretty exciting. We made bumps on both the following
two days, including Caius III; apparently the very first time UC had bumped a College third boat.
Our second boat also did well in Division Eight, having three bumps and a row over.
1970 blade returns to Wolfson
John Hughes (1969) travelled from Canada to Cambridge
this year, generously donating his blade from the 1970 May
Bumps – very well earned with no less than two over
bumps! Here he recounts his story.
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I was delighted to return my 1970 blade to Wolfson. It was a
long journey – which involved carefully sawing the blade in
half, securing it in a ski bag, and transporting it by road and air
from Vancouver to Wolfson College! I am very pleased to hear
that it will be varnished and hinged, to hang at its full length in
the Club Room.
We were the College’s first ever mixed boat to win blades, and the crew was made up of those
with some previous rowing experience and those who played squash for Wolfson. Clearly a
winning combination!
Etched in glass: thirty years on
Nigel Ten Fleming (1980) kindly hosted a 2011 alumni
reception for Wolfson members at his home in San
Francisco. Now living near Barcelona, he tells the story of
his boat house etchings which still take pride of place on
the glass door of the Fort St George pub, on Cambridge’s
Midsummer Common.
I began by fooling with hydrofluoric acid and beeswax, which was devilishly toxic, and gave that
up. Then the dentist father of my hot-headed girlfriend gave me a dental drill and bits and,
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While living in a flat in Chesterton, in 1982, and commuting
by bicycle to the new Addenbrooke’s Hospital and to events
at Wolfson, I frequently passed the Fort St George pub. It just
so happened that an extraordinary group, led by the merry
publican and his wife, used to sup beer at this venerable
establishment, sometimes long after closing, and they had invited me into their brewy bosom
(later, all 20 of them moved as one to the Algarve). I had been deeply moved by the engraved
glass at the Fitzwilliam Museum, and started playing with glass engraving.
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together with an old washing machine motor, I crafted it into an
engraving tool. Not elegant, but it really hummed! I started with
an ear, nose and throat study for my ENT surgeon neighbour, then
a host of studies on vases of views through holes in roofs, and other
peculiarities. I had also been very enchanted by the College boat
houses along the Cam, and that summer embarked on a lengthy
sketching project of the boat houses, with a view to a larger piece.
When I mentioned it to the publican, after at least one or two brews
late one night, he offered me the grand sum of £25 for the finished
article. And to my great surprise, the piece still stands!
Olympic Torch Relay
Catherine Potterton (2008), Alumna
Every time that I tell someone that I will be part of the Olympic Torch Relay, I feel a little taller.
This is a big thing when you are 4’10”. The most important thing to me, though, is that I was
granted this honour by the University of Cambridge itself.
When I was 19, I became a Trustee of the Brittle Bone Society (BBS). The Society exists to support
people with Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI, Brittle Bones) – a genetic condition which affects the
body’s collagen, and causes, among other things, bone fragility and deformity. I have OI, and was
supported by the BBS during my early years. As the youngest Trustee by at least 25 years, I was
made responsible for Youth. I consulted with the young people of the Society, and discovered
that they felt that they were not supported during their transition into adulthood.
Samsung and Jonathan Syer
The pilot VOICE event coincided with my second year of reading Politics, Psychology and
Sociology at Wolfson. Cambridge was the answer to an unspoken prayer, the place where
I finally felt that I belonged. It is hard to be ‘different’ when everyone is a little bit special.
I was lucky enough to live in Toda House, which had a wonderful communal atmosphere.
When raising money for the BBS, I was sponsored by many staff, Fellows and friends
at Wolfson.
In 2011, just before I graduated, the BBS
nominated me for a Student Volunteering
Award and Cambridge’s Committee on
Community Activities selected me and two
other students as Gold Award winners. When
Samsung were looking for Torchbearers, they
approached the University and asked it to
nominate three people who had ‘gone the extra
mile in volunteering’. We were their choice. In
December, we attended a dinner hosted by
Samsung at which I was one of three people
interviewed by Olympic Medallist Sally Gunnell
about my charity work.
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To rectify this, I created an annual youth weekend event called VOICE, now in its third year.
VOICE is designed to encourage those aged 16–30 living with OI to work towards independent
living through peer support and expert advice.
Keith Heppell
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Afterword:
Carrying the Olympic Flame was quite an experience. After a quick briefing, my group of Torchbearers
were herded onto a bus and then shuttled around the route, each person being dropped off at a
designated spot. Eventually it was my turn to be deposited at the side of the road. As the convoy of
police officers, sponsors and media approached, I tore myself away from the cameras, and thus began
the longest and shortest five minutes of my life. I really cannot put it into words. Being cheered and
clapped by hundreds of strangers just for being me… it felt unreal and undeserved but also
completely exhilarating. It was truly an unforgettable and once-in-a-lifetime experience.
My journey to Wolfson
When Curtis Sharma (2011) arrived in London from Trinidad
in 2005, he had no idea that, after several years as a busker
on the London Underground, he would become a member
of Wolfson College studying for a degree in Linguistics.
Here he tells us about his journey.
“I believe that as mature students we have distinct advantages
in that we have lived life to some extent and that our
experience equips us to make conscious decisions in pursuit
of our academic goals”, he says. “This has certainly worked for
me, and I’m now fulfilling a lifelong dream of studying at one
of the best universities in the world.”
It was his intention to aim high. A Mature Student Open Day at Cambridge early in 2009 proved
invaluable. “I was able to visit the different mature Colleges,” he says, “and attend talks that would
prove very helpful in understanding what the University of Cambridge looks for in a student, and
whether it was right for me. I also attended an Open Day relevant to my chosen subject.” Curtis
then applied to the College he thought would best suit his needs and desires: Wolfson.
“It was one of the happiest days of my life when I received the offer of a place at Wolfson”, he
says. The bursaries he received from the College and the University made, he said, “a strenuous
financial situation manageable”. He now lives in family accommodation at Wolfson College with
his partner and child and is “glad to continue to enjoy the amazing support Wolfson provides.
Every day I wake up with a smile knowing that many years after leaving school, through Wolfson
College, I am making my academic dreams come true.”
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From 2005, when he came to London from Trinidad, until September 2011, Curtis had been a
singer/songwriter and a busker on the London Underground. “I found this immensely rewarding
in many ways,” he said. “However I always regretted not having studied at university. In 2008, I
decided to do something about that. It being many years since I had left formal education, I set
about finding out what qualification I would need to begin a BA in Linguistics, my chosen
subject.” He was able to pursue an affordable and credible Access to Higher Education Diploma
in Humanities and Social Science in which he obtained a distinction.
From Wolfson to Washington DC
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Howard Veigas (2008), a Superintendent with
Derbyshire Police, graduated from Wolfson with
a Masters in Applied Criminology and Police
Management. He fulfilled an ambition to obtain
a relevant qualification whilst a serving Officer,
and received an invitation to be a guest speaker
in Washington DC.
“I was very fortunate to be selected by my Chief
Constable (Mick Creedon) to study at Wolfson for
two years on the Police Executive Programme”,
he says. “I had plenty of thoughts about my thesis
but only after speaking with my advisor Professor
Sherman did ideas begin to form. His decision
to place me under the supervision of Dr Cynthia
Lum was the real start of my journey.”
Dr Lum is Deputy Director of Criminology at George Mason University in Washington DC. In
August 2011, the University’s Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy held a symposium and
leadership workshop, bringing together international academics and a wide variety of USA
police departments. The goal was to create a training module for police leaders on evidencebased policing by making science more practical and practice more scientific.
The Evidence-Based Policing Matrix (the Matrix, www.policingmatrix.org) was designed by
Dr Lum and others in 2009. It is a research-to-practice interactive online translation tool that
categorises and displays all experimental and quasi-experimental research on police and crime
reduction intersections between three common dimensions of crime prevention. It is constantly
updated and indicates that proactive, place-based and specific policing approaches reduce
crime more than individual-based, reactive and general strategies.
Mr Veigas’ thesis was the first to apply the Matrix systematically across a range of Derbyshire’s
patrol strategies. This identified a more evidence-based approach to patrol, which could reduce
officer workload and lead to more judicious deployment.
“I had applied science in a practical way and this was the basis for our presentation: Dr Lum
being the scientist and I the practitioner. I adapted the Matrix to allow me to quantify the
strengths of 22 patrol functions, helping to focus on how my police organisation structured
its patrol portfolio.”
Dr Lum elaborates: “We invited Superintendent Veigas to our symposium to showcase these
innovative efforts to 75 of the top police chiefs and commanders in the region. His presentation
was very well received and was videotaped for future training.”
Mr Veigas continues: “My message to the police leaders was simply to apply the Matrix to
their own portfolio of patrol tactics, increasing the strategic knowledge of their staff in how
evidence-based policing can assist. It will provide operational managers with another tool
to reduce crime.”
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The Leveson Inquiry
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Sinead Boucher (2011) is the Group Digital
Editor for Fairfax Media and runs New Zealand’s
biggest news website, www.stuff.co.nz. Together
with her other Press Fellows Chris Arsenault,
a Doha-based reporter, and Georg Schedereit,
a journalist from Merano, she participated in a
discussion at Wolfson on ‘Phone-hacking, media
ethics and the Leveson Inquiry: an International
perspective’. Here she shares her own views.
On the other side of the world, coverage of the
star-studded line-up giving evidence to the
Leveson Inquiry has titillated and shocked the
New Zealand and Australian public. The inquiry
has been almost as well reported there as here
in the UK.
But we in the media down-under fear that the impact of the inquiry on our part of the world is
likely to be more permanent than the public’s interest in who listened to whose messages. In the
midst of the News of the World phone-hacking scandal, the New Zealand and Australian
governments both launched reviews of their countries’ press industries, currently robustly
self-regulated. In New Zealand, the government sought to throw a lasso around the ‘wild west’ of
the internet, as the Minister then in charge put it, in the age of bloggers and the blurring of the
traditional lines defining who were publishers or journalists.
But the New Zealand Law Commission did make specific mention of Leveson and phonehacking as it laid out the wider context in which it will conduct its review. It has now asked for
public submissions on its recommendations of a new, government-appointed, body to regulate
the press.
Government regulation is not only unnecessary, but also a step away
from the independence and freedom of the press we value so highly.
It seems inevitable that the wider perceptions of our media and how it should be controlled will
have been coloured by the revelations of a morally and ethically suspect relationship between
the British press, politics and police. No doubt many politicians will also welcome the chance to
take a hand in controlling the pesky press that can make their lives so uncomfortable.
Michelle Heydon
Government regulation is not only unnecessary, but also a step away from the independence
and freedom of the press we value so highly.
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The Press Council is respected and feared in our industry. No editor wishes to have to defend a
complaint about a story and certainly no editor wishes to be forced to print a correction or
apology. Beyond that, the press is as subject to the same laws of the land as the rest of the
population.
Bong! Reflections on another visit to Wolfson
Kevin and Becky Lewis (Visiting Fellows, January–June 2012)
Bong! College Butler Ian Smith, well-rehearsed, hits the gong in the Combination Room,
announces procession into Formal Hall and reminds us, “no cameras, turn off mobiles”.
Formal Halls are among the many activities Becky and I have come to cherish. We were
Visiting Fellows here to pursue research and writing, our ‘work’. But College life in its collegial
richness is what draws us to Wolfson.
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Here for six months, January through June, thanks in part to support from my Provost and
Arts and Sciences Dean at the University of South Carolina, we luckily landed in the Morrison
House flat.
We’ve enjoyed Music and Madeira evenings, Formal Halls, Humanities Society seminars and
Wednesday lunchtime talks. The Emeritus Fellows’ day trip to the Henry Moore studios was
a treat. And I even made a clumsy attempt trying to waltz at Susie Hoelgaard’s Tea Dance
in the Lee Hall! Oh well.
Becky hosted a punting picnic party for 18 guests on a cold Sunday in May – bringing together
friends from our year in Durham in 1985–1986, dispersed now in the UK and Canada.
But ‘work’: in the first three months I completed and submitted to a religion journal a first effort
in the field of hermeneutics and interpretation theory and worked on early Jacques Derrida, Paul
Tillich and John Calvin. I benefitted from helpful contacts and seminars in the Divinity Faculty,
and from attendance at philosophy seminars.
Becky, our travel blogger, coached over to the Other Place to research a neglected memoir
by a nineteenth-century writer, Ursula Wylie Roberts. We have both worked up proposals for
presentations at the next annual meeting of the Nineteenth Century Studies Association,
in California.
But, ah, to balance the academic with the civilizing social and cultural. So many renewed and
new friendships here have helped! Meals in the homes of gracious members drew us around
Cambridgeshire. We were driven to shop and into the countryside.
Occasional seminars at CRASSH [Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences & Humanities]
and services in St John’s figured on our calendar. Pub curry at The Granta, cheeseburger at The
Mitre and fish at the Rice Boat: empowering. We are devoted to the friendly deli in Newnham.
Not only members of the College made our residence special again, but also such goodhumoured, helpful College staff: ever-genial porters, cleaners, Marilyn Motley in Accommodation,
and the irrepressible Mick Radford among the maintenance crew. Thank you all.
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Whilst well-quartered in Wolfson, we managed a nicely-balanced amount of travel; to London,
to friends and theatre. But also by train to Cumbria and Shropshire to visit dispersed housemates
from my Cambridge years in the sixties, to friends in Wales, and to present a paper in Ilkley. We
attended a tribute to our late filmmaker daughter in an arts theatre in Newcastle. And twice we
took the Eurostar to renew friendships, including Ben-Ami and Lena Shillony, former Visiting
Fellows, in Paris.
Change and continuity in the
Lee Seng Tee Library
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Jenny Sargent, Lee Librarian, writes about this year’s
activities in the Lee Library.
In last year’s Review, Anna Jones (Lee Librarian 2005–2012)
reflected on the many opportunities our students have to
access good quality information online, along with the
challenges of finding, evaluating and organising this
information. During the Michaelmas Term, Anna hosted
three lunchtime workshops exploring a variety of online
tools which can help to overcome these challenges. The first looked at reference management
tools for storing and organising bibliographical references; the second explored ways in which
it is possible to keep up-to-date with developments in a particular field online, such as utilising
social networking sites for academic purposes, and subscribing to email and RSS alerts; the
third workshop looked at a number of cloud-based (not workstation specific) facilities for
bookmarking and tagging websites, and for creating notes and lists. Raising awareness of
such tools is important, as they can help our students to study more efficiently.
Despite the increasing amount of course and research material available online, the Library
reading rooms remain popular places to study, and the book stock continues to be used
heavily. Maintaining and developing the resources and continuing to improve the physical
space and environment for study are as important as ever. Such improvements needn’t be
on a grand scale; one very popular innovation this year was the purchase of two dozen
desk-top book stands, which help readers to study more comfortably. Equally popular has
been the installation of a dozen lockers in the basement area of the building, to be used for
temporary storage of belongings for library users, particularly those who live off-site or study
at Wolfson part-time. The transferral of recreational non-fiction and novels to open-access
shelving in the Lee Room has created space for volumes in the upstairs reading room, and
enabled a more intuitive arrangement of the collection.
At the end of the Lent Term, Anna left to take up the post of Whipple Librarian, across the river
at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. As her successor, I made the journey in
the opposite direction, coming to Wolfson from Gonville & Caius College, where I had been an
Assistant Librarian for five and a half years. My hope is to continue Anna’s fine work, maintaining
and developing a library service which is a valued resource for the Wolfson community.
Wolfson Gardens: Returning to organic ways
Head Gardener Phil Stigwood describes recent changes in College gardening practices.
In the last few years we have been returning to more traditional gardening practices, to improve
the health of the soil and increase its water-holding capacity.
Healthy soil contains millions of microscopic microbes (fungi and bacteria) which interact with
plants and grass roots, making nutrients available and encouraging a bigger, deeper root system.
We call it ‘feeding the soil’, which in turn feeds the plants. We nourish the soil with organic,
College-made compost, leaf mould and organic lawn feeds – manure and molasses-based
nitrogen with added microbes.
When planting new borders, we incorporate lots of home-made compost. This helps the plants
establish a vigorous root system and improves water retention and microbial growth. It also
provides a steady, slow-release feed for the plants. Compost is also applied to the soil in the
borders annually, where the worms digest it and drag it down to the root zone.
If you have been enjoying the many hundreds of new plants in the College gardens, say a big
thank you to our microscopic friends in the soil, as well as to the larger members of the garden
team, for making the gardens look so beautiful all year round.
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In the past, chemical lawn feeds were used that fed the grass but not the soil, discouraging
microbial activity and soil fertility. This led to lawns which ‘die off’ in dry summer periods, due to
shallow rooting and a build up of thatch; a sponge-like, dead layer on the surface that prevents
air and water penetrating the soil. Lawns are now top-dressed with leaf mould (decomposed
leaves) to improve organic matter and encourage the microbes to break down the unwanted
thatch layer.
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Events
This year’s events for Wolfson members and friends began with the alumni reunion in College at
the end of September. October saw a dinner in the name of our first Bursar, Jack King, with
honoured guests from the Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr. Foundation, Inc.
In November, our benefactors Santander Universities hosted a magnificent event in Madrid, and
in January our annual reception was held at London’s Oxford and Cambridge Club. In February
we met alumni in Dublin and hosted a Half-Way Drinks party in College for students. March saw
a splendid, if chilly, boat-naming ceremony, as well as the installation of the new Chancellor of
the University, Lord Sainsbury, and in April our Beijing Local Group held a lively gathering.
Summer was equally busy, with our May Bumps marquee, Benefactors’ Reception, Garden Party
and June Event.
Thank you to everyone who attended; we hope you made some interesting connections.
Stop Press:
We will be holding a Varsity rugby event at Twickenham on 6 December. For further details
and to book online, please go to www.Rugby2012.WolfsonEvents.com
June Event
Tamara Hornik (2009), Student
This year’s theme was ‘Elementa’: air, earth, fire and water. Each
area of the College was decorated as one of the elements, and
related entertainments, food and drinks were available. Guests
feasted on hog roast, barbecue, Thai curry and sushi. Charitable
donations from this year’s event benefited East Anglia’s
Children’s Hospices (EACH) and IntoUniversity.
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As well as the usual favourites, such as dodgems and a casino,
a range of new activities kept guests entertained, including an
Oxygen bar, helicopter simulator, crazy golf, ice rink and fish
foot spa. The highlight of the evening was Wolfson’s longawaited firework display, a spectacular ten-minute affair from
the roof of the main building.
BEIJING
BENEFACTORS' RECEPTION
HALF-WAY DRINKS
2011 REUNION
GARDEN PARTY
BOAT-NAMING CEREMONY
ELECTION OF NEW
CHANCELLOR
DUBLIN
MAY BUMPS MARQUEE
LONDON
Lunchtime Seminar Series
The 2011–2012 Wolfson Lunchtime Seminar Series featured 22 speakers drawn from the College
– Fellows, Senior Members and students – as well as visiting academics and guest speakers. As
always, our speakers represented a wide range of academic disciplines, with lectures covering
subjects as diverse as the effects of school bullying (Dr Maria Ttofi) and a history of fog in
literature (Dr Christine Corton) to the gender politics of Tango (Dr Emily Bernhard Jackson) and
the Taliban in Pakistan (Dr David Gosling).
The sciences were represented by Dr Virginia Newcombe, who discussed MRI and traumatic
brain injury; Uven Chong, who considered the air quality and climate impacts of London buses;
Vojtech Olle, who examined optical sources capable of power generation; Dr Michael Stone,
who considered the audio ‘Loudness War’; Dr Sam Aaron, who examined the synthesis of music;
and Dr Peter Sewell on the multifaceted nature of multiprocessors.
Historical and literary subjects included Dr Christina Skott on Linnaeus and human diversity;
Dr Felicia Gordon of Anglia Ruskin University on the entry of women into the professions in Belle
Époque France; Professor Sam Lieu, a Visiting Fellow from Macquarie University, Sydney, who
discussed Christian and Manichaean art in medieval China; Dr Ian Gordon of Anglia Ruskin
University on the poet Anne Stevenson; Professor Margaret Pearson of Skidmore College, New
York, on ancient divination texts and the modern scholar; Dr Michael Hrebeniak on William
Carlos Williams’ poem ‘The Great Figure’ (1921) and its representation on canvas by Charles
Demuth in 1928; Dr Margaret Shepherd, who discussed emigration from Cumberland and
Westmorland before 1914; and Sebastian Keibek, who examined the revisionist view of the
Industrial Revolution.
Politics and current events were discussed by Sir Tony Brenton, who considered the possibility of
a ‘Russian Spring’; Juan Pablo Scarfi, who discussed US hegemony in the Americas from 1898–
1933; Matthew Harris, who considered the media’s response to the Duchess of Cambridge’s
choice of charities; and Dr Andrea Cantone, who addressed the subject of how one can turn an
idea into a commercial success.
Meredith Hale (2009), Fellow
Graham Haber
Lee Seng Tee Distinguished Lecture 2012:
Dickens and Shakespeare
Professor Michael Slater, Emeritus Professor of
Victorian Literature at Birkbeck College, University
of London, delivered the fifth annual Lee Seng Tee
Distinguished Lecture on 3 May 2012. The series was
endowed by Dr Lee Seng Tee on the occasion of the
College’s 40th anniversary in 2005; recordings of all
the lectures are available at www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/
seminars/lee-lecture. Here are extracts from this
year’s lecture.
A dinner guest in Book One of Dickens’ Our Mutual Friend is named only as ‘a poem on
Shakespeare’. This points us towards Dickens’ irreverent attitude towards the elaborate
Shakespeare Tercentenary celebrations that were taking place at the time. A reluctant VicePresident of the national Tercentenary Committee, Dickens opposed the erection of a
Shakespeare statue. The poet’s ‘best monument’, he declared, was in his work and he deplored
‘the hawking about of his great name and fame’. His earlier mockery in Nicholas Nickleby of Mrs
Wititterly’s fatuous enthusiasm for ‘that dear little dull house he [Shakespeare] was born in’ shows
what Dickens thought of such Shakespearian shrines. But he did delight in places associated
with Shakespearian characters or with events in the plays; thus Dickens loved the fact that his
home for the last 12 years of his life, Gad’s Hill Place near Rochester, stood upon the very spot
where Falstaff and his followers robbed the Canterbury pilgrims in Henry IV Part One. It was
Shakespeare the creative artist, the ‘great master who knew everything’, that Dickens
worshipped, not the historical individual. He rejoiced that so little was known about
Shakespeare’s life thus allowing it to remain ‘a fine mystery’ and he professed to live in fear of
new biographical discoveries. He thanked God that Shakespeare had had no Boswell [Samuel
Johnson’s biographer] ‘otherwise society would not have respected his grave but would have
had his skull in the phrenological shop-window’.
It was Shakespeare the creative artist that Dickens worshipped, not
the historical individual.
Dickens had an endless relish for Shakespeare’s language and huge admiration for his ability to
create such a vast array of living characters (‘those great images of nature’) which he delighted to
see embodied by a great artist such as his beloved and admired actor friend William Charles
Macready, ‘the eminent tragedian’. Speaking at the Garrick Club in 1854 on the occasion of
Shakespeare’s birthday, Dickens declared he and his fellow diners were celebrating not only the
birthday of the Bard himself but also that of Hamlet, Falstaff and a host of other immortal
characters, effortlessly reeling off a list of names, each one with a relevant quotation attached.
All Dickens’ writings, fictional and non-fictional, are saturated with Shakespearian quotations in
which there are noticeably more references to Macbeth and Hamlet than to any of the other
plays. These are mostly one-off references, introduced mainly for comic effect, but sometimes
they take the form of a running joke, like the recurrent references to Mrs Sparsit’s ‘Coriolanian’
nose in Hard Times, and sometimes they are woven closely into the events of the story like the
references to Othello and Macbeth in Oliver Twist and The Mystery of Edwin Drood, respectively.
Among Dickens’ richest and most fascinating uses of Shakespeare in his own fiction is that of
Hamlet in Great Expectations, a novel centred, like Shakespeare’s play, on the theme of revenge.
The relationship between the tragedy and the novel has been brilliantly discussed by Alexander
Welsh in his Hamlet in His Modern Guises (Princeton University Press, 2001). The scene in which Pip
watches the ludicrously incompetent performance of his comic double Mr Wopsle as Hamlet is
particularly rich in irony.
Dickens would have first learned about Shakespeare from his father, who loved to quote him,
and from seeing performances (humorously recalled by him in his essay ‘Dullborough Town’) by
strolling players in the little Rochester theatre during his childhood. Later, he read Shakespeare
and works of Shakespearian scholarship in the British Museum Reading Room and went
regularly to productions by Macready, Samuel Phelps and other leading Shakespearian actors.
Later still, he was to become a passionate admirer of Charles Fechter’s revolutionary version
of Hamlet.
Humanities Society
Jane Chapman (1971), Visiting Fellow and Brodie Waddell (2010), Fellow
This year, the Humanities Society hosted 14 speakers. Their talks explored issues across a variety
of disciplines and time periods, including history, political science, archaeology, international
relations and religion.
In the Michaelmas Term, three distinguished Cambridge Professors offered their thoughts on
historical events. Martin Daunton explored the possible lessons from the 1940s about our own
financial crisis and Jonathan Haslam discussed Russia’s experience of the Cold War. We also heard
from Derek Beales on Mozart’s relationship with his patrons, accompanied by extracts from some
of his important compositions.
The seminars in the Lent Term were even more diverse, beginning with analysis from Christopher
Hill of the impact of fear on foreign policy and civil society. Hans van de Ven showed what
records of the Chinese Maritimes Customs Service tell us about a nation’s political and economic
development and Francisco Bethencourt of King’s College, London, illuminated the genealogy of
racism in Iberia and South America.
Easter was our busiest Term, launched by Nick Jardine’s talk on the philosophy behind Johannes
Kepler’s jokes. Three speakers – Mark Hailwood of Exeter, Phil Withington from our History
Faculty and the College’s own Brodie Waddell – discussed aspects of early modern England:
alehouses, economic crises and the semantics of peace. David Thompson offered a preview of
his forthcoming work on the geography of religion in nineteenth-century Cambridgeshire, while
Andrew Gamble gave an overview of the current political implications of ‘austerity’. We also
welcomed Nicholas Postgate, Professor of Archaeology, who talked about archaeology in
Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.
Next year the programme will be weekly, with 20 speakers who extend the subject scope and
time periods in a way that aims to reflect Wolfson’s diverse intellectual life. Nine of these are
College members, ranging from Junior Research Fellows and visiting academics through College
Research Associates to the Vice-President (on the effects of digital technology) and the President
(on aspects of nineteenth-century Europe, from his new Penguin history).
Upcoming events may be viewed at www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/seminars/humanities
Science Society
Maria Muñoz Caffarel (2009) and David de Sancho (2010), Junior Research Fellows
In the biological sciences we have had a great panel of speakers.
Professor Sir David Baulcombe (Plant Sciences) talked about
Science Society member
Dr Steve Hoath presents a bottle epigenetics in plants; Dr Ram Adapa (Clinical Medicine) spoke
about consciousness and anaesthesia; Professor Graham Burton
of College port to Professor Ian
(Physiology, Development and Neuroscience) on the placenta and
Hutchings (Engineering) after
his talk on 18 March 2012.
Professor Christine Watson (Pathology) talked about breast cancer.
This year we have also had talks on how society is directly affected by scientific progress.
Dr Chris Forman talked on global consequences of nanoscale phenomena; Dr Patrick Welche
gave a fascinating demonstration of a text-entry system for those unable to use a keyboard;
Professor Ann Copestake (Computer Laboratory) talked about text processing and Professor
Brian Moore (Experimental Psychology) explained the every-day challenges of people with
hearing loss. Research in the Engineering Department was represented by Dr Ivor Day’s talk on
jet engines and by Professor Ian Hutchins speaking about inkjet printing. We also had two
excellent speakers from the chemical sciences: Professor Jane Clarke from the Chemistry
Department told us more about protein folding and Professor Daan Frenkel (ForMemRS)
delighted us with the unexpected side of entropy.
All talks were followed by questions from the audience that gave rise to exciting scientific
discussions. We are grateful to the speakers and all the attendees of the talks for their contribution
to the promotion of science in College and for having made it very enjoyable and entertaining.
We are currently organising the seminars for next academic year and we would greatly
appreciate your suggestions. We encourage everyone in College to join us for the talks and
for Formal Hall with the speaker afterwards. No scientific background is necessary to follow the
talks, as they are always aimed at a general audience.
Forthcoming events will be announced at www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/seminars/science
The Science Society was founded in 2010 and is open to all
College members. We host a series of lay-friendly talks aimed at
contributing to an understanding of how science and technology
have changed our lives and affect our present and future. In our
second year, we continued to promote all areas of science and had
the pleasure to host talks by both young and renowned scientists
from different Departments and Research Institutes in Cambridge.
Wolfson Contemporary Reading Group
David Goode (2010), Senior Member
In another active year, the Wolfson Contemporary Reading Group met regularly to discuss what
should probably be described as a mixed bag of books. An innovation for the last year has been
to score books, not for their artistic merit or literary value, but simply on whether or not we liked
them. This is something we intend to continue next year. We were fortunate to have the
translator of the Némirovsky book, Sandra Smith, along to that meeting to talk about the
author’s life, work and, in 1942, death in Auschwitz. This gave us an understanding of the book in
its wider context which we would never have had merely from reading it.
Author
Book
WCRG Score
Alan Hollinghurst
The Stranger’s Child
5.0
Julian Barnes
The Sense of an Ending
8.4
Stephen Kelman
Pigeon English
3.8
Irène Némirovsky
The Wine of Solitude
6.4
Andrew Miller
Pure
6.7
Beryl Bainbridge
The Bottle Factory Outing
6.0
Iris Murdoch
The Sea, The Sea
5.5
During the course of the year, we congratulated Anna Jones, former Lee Librarian who has
moved to a new post in the University, and we had a little party to thank her for her initiative in
establishing the group and to wish her all the best.
We’re a relaxed and friendly group, and everyone is welcome to come along and discuss the
books over a glass or two of wine. Sign up for the low-volume mailing list wolfson-readinggroup@lists.cam.ac.uk to keep up-to-date with books and meeting dates.
Thesis Writing Group
James Westbrook (2009), Student
Past meetings have covered varied aspects of academic life to help College members improve
their skills in areas such as planning, researching, scientific writing, managing data and your
Supervisor, referencing, managing your academic life online, examination and submitting, from
protecting your thesis to presenting and publishing it, whether with DSpace or a publishing
house: all with invaluable tips on finance and funding, overcoming the problems of solitary
postgraduate study, techniques for working in a self-disciplined way and, just as important, how
to make your study and writing an enjoyable experience.
This has also become a venue for discussion and an exchange of ideas and experiences, and a
platform to try out forthcoming presentations and mock vivas with experienced examiners
present. As the Thesis Writing Group is designed for students, organisers Sally Church (skc1000@
cam.ac.uk) and Lesley Dingle (lmd25@cam.ac.uk) are open to suggestions for future meetings.
I am due to submit my PhD dissertation within the three-year limit: largely due to being a
regular attender of this valuable group. Some of the past presentations are provided online via
www.camtools.cam.ac.uk
The Thesis Writing Group’s weekly meetings on Thursdays do not actually involve any writing (or
very little). In a relaxed atmosphere in the Old Combination Room we gather with wine, soft
drinks and nibbles with speakers from differing backgrounds, from College Fellows to fellow
college students. Scientists, novelists and historians; all eager to share their wealth of experience
through presentations, workshops and round-tables.
Wolfson Music Calendar 2011–2012
Lynette Alcántara (1996), Fellow and Director of Music
This calendar of music activities is supplemented by an interview with outgoing Music Society
President, James Westbrook, at www.WolfsonPlus.com
October
Saturday Lunchtime Recital by Taro Takeuchi of Renaissance lute and Baroque guitar works by
Dowland, Robert de Visee and Geminiani; Saturday Lunchtime American Song Recital by mezzo
Lynette Alcántara and pianist Andrew Goldman.
November
Music and Madeira with Ulrich Wedemeier on an original instrument playing Romantic Guitar Music
by Scheidler, Diabelli, Mertz and Coste; Saturday Lunchtime Piano Recital by Shelley Katz of works by
Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Czerny and Liszt; Saturday Lunchtime Concert of electronic music by Stuart
Russell; Wolfson College Choir and Chamber Singers with pianists Andrew Goldman and Tom Perski
and baritone Charles Jones, ‘A Concert for a Consort’, a programme from the Victorian era to
commemorate the 150th anniversary of the death of Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
December
Cambridge University Brass Band perform at Music and Madeira; Advent Carol Service at St
Mark’s Church.
January
Saturday Lunchtime Piano Recital by Maiko Mori of works by Scarlatti, Ireland, Liszt, Rachmaninov
and Gershwin.
February
Pianist Shelley Katz plays Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven Sonatas at Music and Madeira; Saturday
Lunchtime Piano Recital by Andrew Goldman; Saturday Lunchtime Concert by Junior Prime Brass
conducted by the Bursar; The Symphona Project: An evening of opera and operetta by the
Wolfson Choir and the Fitzwilliam Chapel Choir.
March
Saturday Lunchtime Recital by flautist Jane Bevan, cellist Philippa Jones and pianist Maurice
Hodges of works by Haydn, Grieg, Debussy, Lynch and Piazzolla; Saturday Lunchtime Recital by
cellist Anton Lukoszevieze and pianist Christopher Green-Armytage of works by Fauré, Pergolesi,
Chopin and Beethoven; Wolfson Choir, with St Mark’s Choir and a professional Baroque ensemble,
Debbie Pullinger
Keith Heppell
May
‘Guitar Extravaganza’ Lunchtime Concert featuring Wolfson’s Brian Moore, Ian Cross, Adam
Solomon, Li-Ching, James Westbrook and special guests; Saturday Lunchtime Piano Recital by
Patrick Hemmerlé of Preludes by Frank Martin Frederic Chopin; Music and Madeira Song Recital by
Charbel Mattar of Arie Antiche, English Song and songs by Wolf and Ibert, with pianist Martin Ennis;
Wolfson Choir provides music for the University Sermon.
June
Saturday Lunchtime Recital by Soprano Kyoko Murai and Taro Takeuchi on lute and Baroque guitar:
Fairest Isle Songs and instrumental pieces from Britain and Japan; Wolfson Choir and Cambridge
University Brass Band perform at the College Garden Party; the 2012 Mary Bevan Recital by pianist
Andrew Goldman and harpist Anne Denholm, finalists in the CUMS Concerto Competition.
July
Edmund Potter
Wolfson Choir Tour to
Thessaloniki, Greece, with
two invited performances
of sacred and secular
songs at the 30th ISME
World Conference on
Music Education.
perform J S Bach’s St John Passion, with soloists from the BBC Singers and King’s College Choir,
conducted by Graham Walker.
Wolfson College Student Association
Jet Photographic
Rasha Rezk (2009), WCSA President, gives an account of WCSA’s activities over the past year
Since the new Committee’s election, a number of WCSA initiatives have come to fruition and
our website at www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/wcsa now features videos and photos from College
festivities. A highlight was Wolfson’s International Week, during which students enjoyed a variety
of culturally-themed events. International bops were well received and attended – both by
Wolfson students and those from our neighbouring Colleges – as was this year’s ‘Wolfson’s Got
Talent’ show. We also revived a Tug-of-War competition.
We initiated networking with our twin St Antony’s College, Oxford and two exchange trips gave
students a chance to visit each other’s College and city.
Serving the student body through the WCSA Committee has been a challenging but
tremendously satisfying opportunity for us all. As the Committee elections for 2012–2013
draw nearer, on behalf of the Committee I warmly invite all students to become involved.
www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/students
Language and Culture Society
Valia Babis (2009), Society Co-President
Students come from all over Cambridge to learn one of the many languages offered, including
French, German, Italian, Greek, Arabic, Sanskrit and Pali. If you are interested in joining us as a student
or teacher, please have a look on our website https://sites.google.com/site/wolfsonlcs
Noodle Club
Peter Dowling
Naisheng Cui (2010), Student
The Wolfson Noodle Club is a
conversation club to help non-native
English speakers practise English through
regular conversation with native English
speakers, and to help members have a
better understanding about cultures
around the world. In each session, people
can enjoy tasty noodles and have an
opportunity to engage in conversation
with others on an interesting topic. One
highlight was a discussion of the modern function of monarchies around the world, inspired by
the Diamond Jubilee celebrations. Noodles symbolise long-lasting friendship in Chinese culture
and this is what the Noodle Club represents.
Where could be a better place to learn a foreign language and get to know another culture than at
Wolfson? In the Language and Culture Society, our members have the opportunity to learn foreign
languages in a relaxed environment. Languages are a great way to boost your CV and employment
opportunities, to meet new people and understand other cultures!
The Emeritus Fellows’ Society
The Emeritus Fellows’ Society aims to keep its members in touch with their peers and
encourage continued involvement with the College. This year’s visits, open to all Wolfson
members, included the Pepys Library, the Scott Centenary Concert, St George’s English Whisky
Distillery, the Henry Moore Foundation and King’s Lynn. Society members have a wide range of
skills and experience in College life and fundraising, which they hope to put to good use during
Wolfson’s 50th anniversary in 2015.
Help your fellow Wolfson members!
We plan to launch our career mentoring scheme soon, but need more volunteer mentors
before we can do so. We aim to help Wolfson members at all stages of their career. For
information on this low maintenance, online-run scheme, please contact Kate Hampson in
the Alumni office: alumni@wolfson.cam.ac.uk
Keith Heppell
Evelyn Lord (1997), President of the Emeritus Fellows’ Society
Stephen Bond
Sport
Sport
Wolfson Sports
Qash Ahmed (2009), WCSA Sports Officer
Wolfson offers students and alumni the opportunity to participate in 15 sports societies, from
popular team sports such as football and basketball to martial arts such as Capoeira and Ki
Aikido. We also have one of the best fully-equipped free gyms in Cambridge.
Again we have promising individuals who are Cambridge Full Blues or Half Blues and have
been awarded sports bursaries for their University or College sporting success. Our Full Blues
are Elizabeth Campbell (Rifle Shooting), Debbie Bin Deng (Volleyball), Thomas Graeber (Athletics
800m), Christine Seeliger (Rowing) and Constantine Markides (Tennis); our Half Blue is Charlotte
Chuter (Water Polo).
The football team played home and away matches against our newly-twinned St Antony’s
College in Oxford. Both teams enjoyed each other’s College and we hope such sports exchanges
will become regular events involving other teams as well.
Regular sessions were also held by the Zumba Aerobics, Ki-Aikido, Tai Chi, Tango and Yoga
Societies. The Ballroom Society lost its long-standing teacher but ran some beginners’ classes
in Michaelmas Term. It also held tea dances in the Lee Hall, some jointly with the Cambridge
Dancers’ Club.
Badminton
Maxime Lainé (2011), Captain
The Wolfson Badminton Club continued to attract players at all levels to its very social but
also competitive training sessions. This year the Men’s and Women’s teams merged, and our
team performed admirably in the InterCollege Open League: thanks to very motivated players,
it kept its position in the Third Division of the League.
In Term we also hold a social badminton session every weekend open to all College members
regardless of skill level, age or status.
Basketball
Tilman Lesch (2011), Captain
Our basketball team had an amazing Michaelmas Term, remaining unbeaten for the Term
and scoring the most points across all divisions. Unfortunately, the Christmas break ended
the team’s excellent run and the squad lost two games in Lent Term, finishing in third place.
From left to right: Yanjia Gao, Tao Liu, Zichen Zhang,
Jin Zhang, Dan Baker, Vaggelis Giannikas, Frank
Schoofs and Tilman Lesch.
Our thanks go to Frank Schoofs (2008) for his
deep commitment as Captain for the past
several years.
Capoeira
Torkel Mattesson (2010), President
It has been another good year for the Society. New students joined us and we have been
training twice a week at College under our Mestre Chitãozinho of Grupo Capoeira Negaça.
This spring we enjoyed visits from the Capoeira Society of the University of East Anglia. All
our training led up to the yearly ’batizado’, held at Wolfson in May, when we spent a weekend
together with capoeiristas from all over the UK and teachers from Brazil and France, training,
playing and partying.
So what is capoeira? There are many definitions, but it is something like a ’combat dance’,
’acrobatic fight game’ or ’martial arts mixed with dancing’. Do join us to get a real glimpse of
capoeira, and have a go at it!
Cricket
Thomas Stubbs (2010), Captain
A season of perfection was not to be. Our 2012 cricket season suffered cruelly from the English
weather and from many injuries. Seven of the 14 scheduled matches were abandoned without
a ball being bowled. The sole Cuppers match that took place resulted in a narrow loss to Selwyn
and in injuries to key players.
In the MCR League, Wolfson achieved a win, a loss and a tie (with one match still pending).
A relentless pummelling of Queens’ was the highlight of the season, with Queens’ managing
only 42 all out against our 170/4 amassed in 20 overs. The cliff-hanger of the season was against
Darwin: with nine required off the last over, Wolfson reduced the task to needing just two off
one ball, but could sadly only pinch a single. Unfortunately, lacklustre fielding against Jesus
ultimately cost us a place in the playoffs.
The Bursar adds: “The highlight of the season for the President’s XI was a consecutive victory in
the annual match against the Students’ XI, with new Fellow Dr Haider Butt taking Man of the
Match for his 55 not out, and 4 for 15”.
Sport
With our new jerseys, we achieved good wins
in the first and second round of the Cuppers
competition but then faced fierce competition
from Claire/Trinity Hall in the semi-finals.
Notwithstanding a great effort by all players,
our opponents were too strong and our season
came to an end.
Sport
From left to right: Xiaoke Yang, Qiang Feng, Xiaojiao Wang, Arsenije, Tiago Duarte, Daisuke, Vaibhav Kalway,
Patrick Actis Perinetto, Stepan Havranek and Tianyi Ren.
Table Tennis
Xiaoke Yang (2010) and Chengcheng Zhu (2009)
The Table Tennis Society provides a training, entertainment and social platform for College
members. We hold weekly social sessions for players at all levels including coaching sessions for
beginners. Members can also book the Seminar Room to play table tennis, with bats and balls
supplied.
Our table tennis championship in Michaelmas Term attracted many College members, including
the Bursar! Vaibhav Kalway came away as the Champion. In Cuppers in the Lent Term our team,
led by Vaibhav Kalway and Chengcheng Zhu, beat Christ’s College in the first round but failed
against Caius. We finally ranked eighth in Cuppers, an excellent result for a newborn team.
Volleyball
Debbie Bin Deng (2010), Co-captain
Our Volleyball Team only started this Lent Term when Ariane Hanssum (Higher Education
Volleyball Officer), Muzaffer Kaser (Wolfson Volleyball Captain) and myself (Cambridge Volleyball
Class Coach) organised three Volleyball classes, each session attracting more than 30 students,
staff and local residents. With so many Wolfson participants, Muzaffer and I decided to establish a
team. This was how the story began. A Wolfson team then took part in the Volleyball Lent
Cuppers for the very first time, and won the trophy (on display in the Lee Room). The team’s
intensive training was rewarded with another trophy, the Volleyball Summer Cup 2012.
Sport
The Volleyball team. Back row: Li Su, Dennis Y Q Wang, Hsintzu Ho (Queens'), Muzaffer Kaser, Robert Krakow;
front row: Adam Bride, Jerome Joaug (Hughes Hall), Francesca Burali D’arezzo (Churchill) and Debbie Bin Deng.
Rowing
Evelyn Tichy (2009), Captain
This year was one of swings and roundabouts for Wolfson College Boat Club (WCBC). Our rowers
competed in a number of regattas over the summer and made the finals in almost every race
they entered. WCBC also ran an introductory rowing course for Wolfson’s part-time Criminology
students, which everybody enjoyed immensely.
Michaelmas Term started with a strong showing of five novice crews, as well as two senior Men’s
and one senior Women’s crew. It was great to have an alumni Men’s crew come back for several
races. As the Cam froze over during Lent Term, red and yellow flags abounded, severely
disrupting training in the run-up to Bumps, to the extent that M3 and W2 were unable to fulfil
the ten-outing requirement for Bumps. Going into Lent Bumps with little or no race experience
led to ‘down three’ for both the men’s and the women’s first boats. W1 made spoon-avoidance
particularly exciting as they caught a boat-stopping crab on the last day. M2 were our Lent
Bumps heroes, with two bumps and a total of ‘up one’.
In the Term break, both M1 and M2 trekked down to London to race in the Head of the River Race.
While M1 were rather disappointed to finish in position 371, M2 went up 36 places to finish 9.83
seconds ahead of M1; a truly remarkable result for a crew with only two rowers with race experience.
After the ice of Lent Term, the Easter Term brought weeks of flooding. Several regattas were
cancelled and the women’s training weekend at Radley School, which the W1 coach Chris
Sport
Parkhouse had spent weeks organising, turned into a night out in Oxford and a Formal Hall swap
with the men’s first boat from our sister college, St Antony’s.
May Bumps saw WCBC come back with a vengeance. After last year’s blades and starting in position
3 of Division 3, W1 was keen to bump up into the Second Division and bumped Corpus Christi on
day one and Trinity Hall II on day two. As sandwich boat, they were not able to gain more than about
half a length on Hughes Hall. After rowing over twice on the third day to cheers and toasts from the
spectators at the Wolfson marquee, the final day of Bumps was marked by absolute exhaustion and
a 45 mph head wind. A fresher and much heavier Caius II executed a well-deserved bump on W1.
M1 put on a strong showing at Peterborough regatta, coming second in the novice IV+, and
although the Bumps results were not as they had hoped (down two), they held their own, being
bumped by a Christ’s blades-winning crew on the final day.
While the race results were not as strong as last year, WCBC has had a great year. Concerted fund
raising brought in a new IV+ and we also christened two sculls at a well-attended boat-naming
ceremony in March. Our traditional 24-hour ergo raised over £3,000 for a new set of blades. Together
with WCSA, we also raised enough money for a new ergo for the Wolfson gym, taking the total
number of rowing machines up to four. WCBC are currently looking to add a lightweight single
scull to their fleet.
Stephen Bond
WCBC was very proud to have one of their own, W1 rower Christine Seeliger, racing against
Oxford in Blondie this year. We are also very proud that five WCBC rowers have been accepted for
the University’s development squads. We wish them the best of luck and hope to see them beat
Oxford next spring.
Peter Dowling
News
Members’ News
Please send news of your achievements to communications@wolfson.cam.ac.uk
Dr John Hughes (1969)
For the past five years Dr Hughes has been involved in a project of restoration
of the Fort Jaisalmer, a World Heritage Site located in the desert region of
Rajasthan, India.
Mrs Barbara de Smith (1970)
Mrs de Smith, a Constitutional Lawyer, visited Mauritius in September to lecture at a conference
organised jointly by the University of Mauritius and the University of la Réunion. In 2010, she
lectured on Constitutional Law topics and had the honour of being received by, amongst others,
the President, Prime Minister and Chief Justice. She first visited Mauritius in 1979.
Professor Stephen Dodds (1970)
Professor Dodds is currently writing a textbook entitled: Feedback Control;
Techniques, Design and Industrial Applications, due to be published in 2013.
Professor Martha Harrell (1970)
Professor Harrell launched a new iPhone app, EmUrg, for users to keep a
Personal Health Record on their phones for hospital or doctors’ surgery visits.
The application also features a GPS-connected map, which locates the phone’s
user anywhere in the world in order to facilitate the quickest healthcare.
Further information is available at http://itunes.apple.com/app/emurg/
id451564321?mt=8
News
Professor Gordon Klein (1970)
Professor Klein was an invited speaker at the tenth International Conference on
Bone and Mineral Research held in Xi’an, China. He was also a judge at the annual
Orthopaedic Research Society/Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation
Resident Research Symposium in Galveston, Texas, and an invited speaker at the
fifth International Workshop on Advances in the Molecular Pharmacology and
Therapeutics of Bone Disease held at St Catherine’s College, Oxford.
Members’ News continued
Professor Dr Dr Rüdiger Ahrens OBE (1975)
Professor Ahrens gave a paper on ‘Identity and Alterity in Post-Colonial Film Versions’ at the
CISLE-Conference: ‘Literatures in English: New Ethical, Cultural and Transnational Perspectives’. His
talk at Concordia University in Montreal in July 2011 was followed by lectures at universities in
Québec City, Ottawa, Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver. In May he received the French Palmes
Académiques order at the University of Caen, Normandy for his contributions to the cooperation between Caen and his home University of Würzburg.
Ms Lynda Johnson (1977)
Following her time at Wolfson, Ms Johnson went into teaching then joined the Civil Service and
had a spell at 10 Downing Street with Margaret Thatcher. She is now lecturing in Business at
Hertford Regional College.
Professor Janet Ulph (1979)
Professor Ulph was awarded a one-year Fellowship by the Arts and Humanities Research Council,
running from October 2011. Her work has involved developing new policies relating to cultural
asset management with the Museums Association.
Dr Corinne Duhig (1981)
Dr Duhig has been elected a Senior Fellow of the McDonald Institute of Archaeological Research.
She continues to run her osteoarchaeology and funerary archaeology consultancy, Gone to Earth.
Emeritus Professor Yukiko Matsushima (1981)
Professor Matsushima was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International
Society of Family Law in July 2011, while at the XIVth World Conference in Lyon.
Professor David Millson (1981)
Professor Millson is Visiting Professor of Medicines Management, Keele University, and Principal
Physician, AstraZeneca Rheumatology Research and co-author of the King’s Fund Inquiry
into the Quality of Prescribing in UK General Practice (Web publication King’s Fund, 2011,
www.kingsfund.org.uk/document.rm?id=9215).
His Excellency Tharman Shanmugaratnam (1981)
News
Following Singapore’s General Election in May 2011, Honorary Fellow Tharman
Shanmugaratnam was appointed Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) in a wideranging Cabinet reshuffle. As one of the Republic’s two DPMs, he co-ordinates
social and economic policies, while continuing his role as Minister for Finance.
As he put it at a recent conference, “We know that it will get more difficult over
time to sustain mobility. That’s why we have to do more, and especially to do more upstream. We
have to try new ways to help kids from disadvantaged families gain confidence in their early
years, and find their strengths as they go through the school system.” In March 2011, he was also
selected as Chairman of the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC), the policy
steering committee of the IMF.
Dr Susan Lifshitz (1982)
Dr Lifshitz works as a patent attorney in Israel and also spends a good part of
her time, pro bono, building metabolic models of neurological diseases, in
particular ALS and MS. This is an area she is particularly passionate about as
she has personal experience of the effects of MS. Dr Lifshitz presented her
work ‘Patient-Based Metabolo-Neurology – Time for a Paradigm Shift’ at the
Integrative Medicine Conference. She is keen to collaborate with free-thinkers to develop testing
models for potential cures to these diseases.
Mr Robert Geofroy (1985)
Mr Geofroy has been appointed Head of the University of the West Indies Open Campus in the
Cayman Islands. The three-year appointment started in August 2011. The Open Campus (www.
open.uwi.edu) has centres in 13 English-speaking Caribbean territories but course delivery is
primarily by e-learning.
Professor Craig Hawker FRS (1985)
Professor Hawker is Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and of Materials
at UC Santa Barbara, and Director of the campus’ Materials Research
Laboratory. He received the 2012 Centenary Prize from the Royal Society of
Chemistry which recognises outstanding international chemists who are also
exceptional communicators. Professor Hawker was cited for his outstanding
creative development of new strategies for the design of novel polymers, which has
revolutionised the field of polymer synthesis.
Dr Carrie Herbert MBE (1985)
Dr Herbert was awarded an MBE in the New Year Honours List 2012 for services to education as
the founder of the Cambridge-based charity Red Balloon which works with bullied children to
help them return to mainstream education.
Professor Barry Hymer (1986)
Professor Hymer has taken up the position of Visiting Professor in Education at the University
of Cumbria.
Professor Neil Messer (1986)
News
Professor Messer was made a Professor of Theology at the University of Winchester
in 2011, and continues to serve as Head of the Department of Theology and
Religious Studies. He is a member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s
Science in Culture Theme Advisory Group, and continues to serve on the Board of
Societas Ethica (The European Society for Research in Ethics).
Mr Robert Miller (1986)
Mr Miller, former Wolfson Course member, appeared in a recent
BBC4 TV documentary on ‘The Grammar School: A Secret History’.
He was also fortunate to have been selected as an Olympic
volunteer for the 2012 games and served the British Modern
Pentathlon team at Greenwich and Stratford.
Professor Martin Buhmann (1987)
Professor Buhmann was the Ribband’s Scholar at Wolfson in 1987 and was awarded the Doctor
of Science degree in October 2010.
Dr James Fletcher (1987)
Dr Fletcher was appointed Minister for Public Service (Information, Broadcasting),
Sustainable Development, Energy, Science and Technology in the Government of
Saint Lucia in December 2011.
Mr Peter Hilken OBE (1987)
Mr Hilken has written a memoir of his father, Captain Norman Hilken RN. Captain Hilken was a
Founding Fellow of Wolfson (then University) College, and the first Vice-President. He was also
Secretary of the Engineering Department and first Warden of the University Centre. A copy of
this short book is in the College library.
Dr Donald Adamson JP FRSL (1989)
After being elected Renter Warden at the Worshipful Company of Curriers in the City of London
in 2010, Dr Adamson was made Upper Warden of the Company in October 2011.
Mr Roy Rainford (1989)
Mr Rainford retired from the Greater Manchester Police Force after thirty-one
years’ service. Since retirement he has assisted the National Police Training
College Bramshill and various police forces in their training programmes. He
also lectures to undergraduates at Huddersfield University.
Professor Paul Murdin OBE (1990)
Professor Murdin received the 2012 Royal Astronomical Society
award for service to astronomy in March 2012 (for further details
see www.WolfsonPlus.com). He is Visiting Professor at Liverpool
John Moores University and Senior Fellow at the Institute of
Astronomy at Cambridge University.
News
Dr John Barnes (1992)
Dr Barnes completed his three-year part-time teacher study visit at Pembroke
College, Cambridge. It focused on his continuing interest and development of
e-learning systems within education.
Mr G I (Lynn) Ockersz (1993)
Press Fellow Lynn Ockersz became Chief Editor of the Daily News in Colombo
in April 2011.
Mr Mark Brown (1995)
Mr Brown gained an MSc Degree in Counter Fraud and Counter Corruption Studies from the
Institute for Criminal Justice Studies at the University of Portsmouth in November 2011.
Dr Roland Löffler (1995)
Dr Löffler was appointed Head of the Berlin Office for the Herbert Quandt-Foundation where he
has worked since 2007. Dr Löffler and his wife Martyna, who worked as Director of the Bayreuth
Summer University, are pleased to announce the birth of their first son Frederic on 17 July 2011.
Dr Anatole Menon-Johansson (1995)
Dr Menon-Johansson, Clinical Lead for Sexual Health at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust,
has been appointed the first National Clinical Director for the young persons’ sexual health charity
Brook (www.brook.org.uk). He is also the Director and founder of SXT Health CIC (www.sxt.org.uk), a
social enterprise whose mission is to facilitate access to sexual and reproductive healthcare services.
Launched in 2011 in Lambeth and Southwark, the service has plans to expand across London.
Mr David Pepler (1995)
Mr Pepler received the Stevenson Hamilton Award of the Zoological Society of South Africa in
2007 in recognition of his efforts in fostering a broad-based appreciation for biodiversity in
general, and the zoological sciences in particular. In 2011, he received the South African Habitat
Council Award for outstanding contributions in the field of environmental conservation.
News
Dr Anna Bagnoli (1996)
Dr Bagnoli and Mr Diego Castoldi were married on New Year’s Eve
2011 in Florence, with a civil ceremony held at Palazzo Vecchio.
Dr Bagnoli is an Associate Researcher in the Department of
Sociology and a Tutor at Wolfson. Mr Castoldi is a playleader at
Cambridge Kidsclub, a student in early-years education at the
Open University and a basketball coach for the Cambridge Cats.
Dr Ian Holloway QC (1998)
Dr Holloway has been appointed Professor and Dean of Law at the University of Calgary. He was
previously a Professor and Dean of Law at the University of Western Ontario.
Professor George Salmond FRSE (1999)
Professor Salmond of the Department of Biochemistry has been elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) in recognition of his research
contributions in several areas of molecular microbiology, including bacterial
quorum sensing, antibiotics and virulence.
Ms Tracey Carver (2000)
Ms Carver received a Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence (2011) in Learning
and Teaching, Leadership and was promoted to Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law,
Queensland University of Technology.
Ms Juana Libedinsky (2000)
In summer 2011, former Press Fellow Juana Libedinsky relocated to New York
with her husband Conrado Tenaglia and her daughter Tomasa. She gave birth
to her son the night hurricane Irene hit Manhattan; although the little one was
immediately dubbed “hurricane baby” at the hospital, he was finally named
Tancredi. Juana continues to write for the Argentine national daily La Nación
and the Spanish edition of Vanity Fair.
Professor Peter Lucas FSA (2000)
Professor Lucas, Senior Member and Honorary Research Associate in the
Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, has been elected a Fellow of the
Society of Antiquaries of London.
Dr Nicholas Cutler (2001)
Dr Cutler was appointed Admissions Tutor and Fellow in Geography at Churchill College and also
College Lector in Geography at Trinity College in September 2011.
Mr Dilip D’Souza (2001)
News
Press Fellow Dilip D’Souza has been awarded the Newsweek & The Daily Beast
Open Hands Prize for Commentary in South Asia. The prize is for South Asian
journalists and writers covering the region ‘to celebrate and nurture raw talent
and find fresh voices’.
Mr Paul Kennedy (2001)
Mr Kennedy is Chairman of the City of London Corporation’s Cycle Club and
organised a Cycle Challenge to raise funds for the current Lord Mayor’s charity
appeal theme ‘Fit for the Future’. The Club completed a 68.4 mile ride from the
Guildhall in the City of London to Jesus College, Cambridge. Alderman Wootton
is the 684th Lord Mayor hence the distance. The challenge raised over £4,000.
Mr Sebastiano Barassi (2002)
Mr Barassi became Curator of the Henry Moore Foundation at Perry Green, Moore’s former home
in Hertfordshire, in May 2012. He had previously been Curator of Collections at the University of
Cambridge’s Kettle’s Yard.
Mr Henning Ringholz (2002)
Mr Ringholz and his wife Fiona (née McFerran), a Trinity College Cambridge graduate, are proud
to announce the birth of their son Johan Konrad Ringholz on 24 April 2011.
Ms Ilaria Accorsi (2003)
Ms Accorsi and Jorge Huerta Goldman were married on 10 September 2011.
Professor Timothy Duff (2004)
Professor Duff has been appointed Professor of Greek at the University
of Reading.
Mr Matthew Moss MVO (2004)
Mr Moss, a Senior Member and Private Secretary to the University’s Vice-Chancellor Professor
Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, was made a Member of the Royal Victorian Order in the New Year
Honours List 2012.
Mrs Anne Smit-Klijnstra (2004)
Ms Smit and Sander Klijnstra were married on 2 April 2011 in her hometown of
Leiden, The Netherlands. They are delighted to announce the birth of their son
Sybe Jonathan on 5 August 2011.
Dr Martin Allen FSA (2005)
News
Dr Allen was awarded the John Sanford Saltus Gold Medal of the British Numismatic Society for
2011. This is a triennial award for outstanding published research in British numismatics.
Dr Luis Briseño-Roa (2006)
Dr Briseño-Roa, a Post-doctoral Fellow researching genetics and neurobiology
of C. elegans at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, and his wife Dr Katia
Ancelin, a researcher at the Institute Curie working on the epigenetic bases of
cancer, are the proud parents of their daughter Clementine Briseño-Ancelin
born in Paris on 16 January 2011.
Professor Howard Wolf (2006)
Professor Wolf published two essays: Growing Up in New York City: A Generational Memoir
(1941–60) and Imitating Hemingway: ‘After Such Knowledge’ in CITHARA: Essays in the JudeoChristian Tradition in May 2010 and May 2011. He also published ‘Paris and Europe after WWII: A
Young Writer’s Journey’ in The Mochila Review (Missouri Western State University, 2011) Volume
13, pages 80–89.
Professor Anthony Potts (2007)
In 2011 Professor Potts was awarded the University of Adelaide Dean of
Education Excellence Award for University Teaching, for outstanding results
in teaching large undergraduate classes. Currently he lives in St Mark’s College
where he is President of the SCR. The research he undertook while a Wolfson
Visiting Scholar in 2008–2009 has now appeared in three journal articles:
Selling University Reform: the University of Melbourne and the Press, Studies in Higher Education,
37, 2, 2012, 157–171; College Voices: What Have We Lost? History of Education Review, 40, 2,
2011, 142–156 and Disciplinary cultures in an Australian college of advanced education,
Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2010 42: 4, 383–403.
Professor Gordon Dougan FMedSci FRS (2008)
Professor Dougan, Principal Research Scientist and Head of Pathogens at the Wellcome Trust
Sanger Institute, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Mr Michael Harrison MBE (2008)
Mr Harrison received an MBE in June 2012 for Services to Policing.
Dr Javier Carrillo Hermosilla (2008)
On 1 April 2012 Dr Carrillo Hermosilla was appointed Tenured Professor at the University of
Alcala (Madrid), where he is now based.
News
Mr Victor Annells (2009)
r Annells was appointed HM Consul General at the British Consulate General
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Milan as of 1 April 2011, where he also acts as Director General for Trade and
Investment in Italy on behalf of UK Trade and Investment. Previously he worked as
UKTI International Trade Director for the East of England and lived in Cambridge
while completing a Master’s Degree in International Relations. He is married to
Barbara and has two sons. More on this story is available on www.WolfsonPlus.com
Miss Kate Hampson (2009)
Miss Hampson, Wolfson Alumni Relations Manager, and Mr Simon McKechnie were engaged
on 13 February. They will be married in summer 2013.
Dr Joshua Hordern (2009)
Dr Hordern has recently been appointed University Lecturer in Christian Ethics at the University
of Oxford.
Dr Justin Meggitt (2009)
Dr Meggitt has been appointed Visiting Researcher at the Institute for Ethnology, the History of
Religions and Gender Studies at the University of Stockholm from January 2012.
Dr YinYin Yuan (2009)
In July 2012, Dr Yuan started her own laboratory of Computational Pathology and Integrated
Genomics (www.yuanlab.org) at the Institute of Cancer Research in London. She will study the
biological and structural nature of tumours.
Professor Sir Richard Evans FBA (2010)
Professor Evans has been awarded a Knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2012 in
recognition of his Service to Scholarship.
Dr Ulf Jensen-Kondering (2010)
Dr Jensen-Kondering and his wife Dr Hanna Kondering are proud to announce the birth of their
first daughter, Lotta Liisa Marta Kondering, on 27 December 2011.
Dr Annu Jalais (2011)
Visiting Fellow Dr Jalais was married to Dr Vinod Saranathan at Castle Hill in Cambridge on 29
June 2012.
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Dr Vincent Xiaoguang Qi (2011)
In May, Dr Qi presented invited papers on Business Anthropology at Sun
Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou and at Peking University. In 2011 he became
Honorary Researcher at University College London and is currently studying
for a part-time Executive MBA degree at the Judge Business School.
Donations to Wolfson College
We are grateful to the following, as well as those who made donations anonymously during
2011–2012
Professor Edward Berman
(1978)
Mrs Anna Berzins Forkner
(2009)
Mrs Sheila Betts (2002)
Professor Hugh Bevan (1985)
Dr Samuel Bieber (1975)
Mr Johari bin Shafie (1979)
F Admiral Datuk Ramli bin
Shamsudin (1990)
Mr Gregory Blain (2006)
Professor William Blakemore
(1983)
Professor R H A Blum (1984)
Miss Jeanne Boles (2002)
Mr Paul Bompas QPM (1988)
Mr Ernest Bonyhadi (1986)
Professor François Bovon
(2011)
Mr Conor Bowman (1989)
and Professor Sylvia Draper
(1988)
Mr Mark Boyce (1993)
Mr Patrick Boyle (2005)
Dr R H Bradshaw (1991)
Brewer Smith and Brewer
(Mr John Mills and Mr
Alistair McMillan)
Dr Albert Brown (1979)
Dr Jason Brown (1992)
Mr Jonathan Brown (1981)
Dr Richard Brown (2005)
Professor William Brown CBE
(1985)
Mr David Buck (2002)
Mrs Doreen Burgin (1997)
Mr Robert Burgin (2011)
Mr Leonard Burt (1974)
Professor Robin Butlin (1986)
Cambridge Commonwealth
Trust
Cambridge Overseas Trust
Cambridge University Press
Miss Laura Campbell (1988)
Mrs Dee Carroll (2011)
Miss Emma Carter (2010)
The Reverend Professor
Owen Chadwick OM KBE
FBA (1977)
Ms Anita Chakrabarty (2010)
Mr Chris Chan (2010)
Miss Lily Chan (2010)
Mr Thomas Chan (1986)
Mrs Lilian Chan Keller (1979)
Dr Carole A Cheah (1983) and
Putnam H Perry (1984)
Dr Hong Chen (1987)
Professor James Cherry MD
(2000)
Dr Cyrus Chothia (2002)
Dr Hui Yen Chua (2010)
Professor Michael Churgin
(1992)
Mr Alexandre Cloutier (2003)
Professor R S (Dicky) Clymo
(1996)
Dr J F (Chip) Coakley (2007)
Mr Mark Condos (2009)
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Mr Nathanael Adams (2009)
Mr John Adey (2006)
Ms Amanda Aldercotte (2011)
Professor Jonathan Aldrich
(1989)
Mrs Lenore Alexander (2008)
Mr Alexander Alexandrov
(2009)
Ms Alia Al-Kadi (2010)
Mr Graham Allen (1999)
Professor Alfred Aman Jr (1983)
Mr Robert Amundsen (1979)
Mr Michael Anti (2006)
Mr John Arnold (2011)
Professor Jonathan AshleySmith (1994)
Mr Mirza Baig (1996)
Dr Marian Baker-Barry (2011)
Mr Dhakshinamoorthy (Dash)
Balakrishnan (2010)
Emeritus Professor David
Barker AM (2005)
Mr Adrian Barlow (2005)
Mr Correlli Barnett (2011)
Dr Susan Barnett (2004)
Mr Jonathan Beart (1991)
Dr Peter Beaumont (1990)
Mrs Barbara Bell (1994) and
Professor Richard Bell (1994)
Mr David Bennett (2005)
Sir Christopher Benson DL
FRICS (1990) and Lady
Benson OBE JP DL
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Donations to Wolfson College continued
Dr Robert Conti (1990)
Dr Christine L Corton (2010)
Dr Brian D Cox (1996)
Mr Geoffrey Crompton (1980)
Mr Kevin Crowe (1987) and
Dr Nicola Totterman Crowe
(1984)
Dr Nicholas Cutler (2001)
Dr Margaret Joy Dauncey
(1970)
Mr Rhys David (1985)
Dr Thomas Davies (1996)
Ms Mary Beth Day (2010)
Mr Peter Day (1983)
Mr G Hugo C de Chassiron
(2001)
Professor Nicholas de Lange
FBA (1984)
Mrs Barbara de Smith (1970)
Mr Michael DeFrank (1973)
Dr Madeleine Devey (1970)
and Mr Michael Farbrother
(1976)
Ms Nele Dieckmann (2011)
Mr David Dillon (2009)
Mr Richard Dixon (1988)
Professor Gordon Dougan
FMedSci FRS (2007)
Professor William Dove (2006)
Dr Christof Drechsel-Grau
(2006)
Mr Hugh Duberly CBE, HM
Lord-Lieutenant of
Cambridgeshire (2005)
Professor Timothy Duff (2004)
Mr Colin Dunnighan (1992)
Professor Marguerite Dupree
(1982)
Mr Robert Durrant (1977)
Dr Owen Edwards (1977) and
Mrs Josephine Edwards
(2007)
Dr Hannah Elson (1970)
Mrs Susan Eltringham (2005)
Professor Donald Engels (2000)
Mr Farhad Etessami (1975)
Professor Sir Richard Evans
FBA (2010)
The Fairleigh S. Dickinson, Jr.
Foundation, Inc
Mr Lou Fioravanti (2011)
Dr John Firth (2000)
Ms Anke Fischer (1994)
Professor Thomas C Fischer
(1990) and Brenda A Fischer
Mr David Fisher (1981)
Professor Peter Fitzgerald
(2009)
Dr Anne Forde (2006)
Mr Aidan Foster (2000)
Mr John (Jack) Friedman
(2011) and Miss Elizabeth
(ZZ) Friedman (2010)
Dr David Frost (2000)
Gates Cambridge Trust
Professor Conor Gearty (1980)
Professor John Gillroy (2002)
Dr Quinton Goddard (2006)
Mr Andrew Goldman (2010)
Miss Filipa Gonçalves de
Azevedo (2009) and Mr
Paulo Gomes
Mr David Goode FRSA (2010)
Mr Colin Greenhalgh CBE DL
(1990)
Mrs Margaret Greeves (2006)
Dr Conrad Guettler (1995)
Dr Audrey Guinchard DEA
PhD (2009)
The Reverend Canon
Dr Maggie Guite (2005)
Mr D G (Ben) Gunn CBE
QPM (1979)
Mr Bryan Guttridge (1996)
Mr Alexander Gwillim (2010)
Dr Hannelore Hägele (1998)
Mr Carlyle Hall (1983)
David J Hall (1999)
Mr Philip Hall (1984)
Mr Håvard Halland (2003)
Miss Kate Hampson (2009)
Mr William Hannis (1979)
The Rt Hon Sir Michael Hardie
Boys GCMG PC (1985)
Dr Ulrich Hardt (1983)
Mr David Harris (1977)
Dr Catherine Harter (1998)
Dr Jürgen Harter (1998)
Mr Nazrin Hassan (2010)
Mr Graham Hatfield (1993)
The Reverend Peter Hayler
(2009)
Dr Peter Heaney (1990)
Dr Mellor Hennessy (1976)
Mr Randolph Henry (1968)
Professor Shael Herman (1988)
in memory of Tony Weir
Professor Mary Hesse FBA
ScD (1965)
Mr Frédéric Hévras (2000)
Dr Susan Hezlet (1987)
Mrs Lynn Hieatt (2000)
Dr Alfred Hirt (2009)
Ms Sayuri Hiwatashi (2001)
Mr Boon Ho (2010)
Miss Katherine Holland (2010)
Mr Rick Holman (1979)
Ms Vanessa Holzer (2010)
Mr Anthony Hopkinson (2007)
and Mrs Sylvia Hopkinson
(2007)
Miss Tamara Hornik (2009)
Professor Donald Horowitz
(1987)
Professor Rocco Huang (2002)
Mr James Hughes (1987)
Professor James J Hughes
(2004)
Mr Tom Hughes (2011)
Mallam Abba Kyari (1980)
Dr Yin-Lok Lai (1968)
Mr Daniel Lam (2008)
Mrs Janet Lash (1974)
Mr Christopher Lawrence
(2007)
Dr Sandra Leaton Gray (1998)
Dr Lee Seng Tee (1974)
Ms Dawn Leeder (2001)
Professor Antony Lentin
(1981)
Mr Ed Lewis (2003)
Professor Kevin Lewis (1998)
and Dr Becky Lewis (1998)
Mr Alberto Lidji (2007)
Mr George Liebmann (1996)
Dr Janet Littlewood (1984)
Lloyds TSB Bank plc
Mr Choon Hong Lok (1996)
Professor Justin London
(2004)
Mr Tzeh Ming Loo (2010)
Dr Marie Lovatt (1981) and
Dr Roger Lovatt
En. Johari Low Abdullah
(2010)
Dr Eric Yu-En Lu (2003)
Professor William Lubenow
(1982)
Professor Peter J Lucas FSA
(2000) and Mrs Angela
M Lucas (2002)
Mr Henry Lumley (2011)
Mr Robert Lyford (1976)
Mrs Merry Lymn (1972)
Mr Pascal Maas (2010)
Dr Lesley MacVinish (2004)
Mr Daniel Magill (2005)
Mrs Janet Manifold (2006)
Mr Michael Manley (2009)
Mr Michiel Marck (2010)
Professor Ivana Markova FBA
FRSE (1967)
Mrs Charlotte Marr (2009) in
memory of her husband,
Professor Thomas Marr
(1980)
Mr Jon Marti (2007)
Professor Duncan Maskell
(1998)
Miss Marilyn Mathams (2011)
with thanks to Dr Owen
Edwards
Emeritus Professor Yukiko
Matsushima (1981)
Mr Ioannis Matthaioudakis
(2008)
Mr John McClenahen (1986)
Mr Gareth McFeely (1996)
Professor Thomas McGinn
(1978)
Marjorie J McKinney (2011)
Dr Jane McLarty (2009)
Dr Ella McPherson (2008)
Mr Richard C Meade (1999)
Mr Jeremy Meek (2009)
Dr Barbara Metzler (1990)
Mr David Mguni (2009)
Microsoft Research
Cambridge
Mr Paul Mignanelli (2010)
Mr Will Miller (2009)
Mrs Ann Miller Watkins (1969)
Dr Louise Mirrer (1975)
Mr Richard Morgan (1970)
Dr Steven Morrison (2008)
Mrs Marilyn Motley (1991)
Mr Raphael Munro (1996)
Dr Ronjon Nag (1984)
Professor John Naughton
(1992)
Mr Timothy Newton (2010)
His Excellency Gabriel Ng
(2010)
Professor Irene Ng (2009) and
Innovorsa Ltd
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Mr John Hurst (1987)
Mr Shin Hung Jeffrey Hwang
(2009)
J.P. Morgan Chase Bank NA
Miss Carmen Jack (2010)
Professor Larry Jackson (1985)
Professor Douglas James
(1994)
Mrs Penelope Jaques (2011)
Dr Laura Jardine (2004)
Dr Oliver Jardine (2004)
Mrs Anne Jarvis (1999)
Mr Teng Jiang (2004)
Dr Gordon Johnson (1993)
and Mrs Faith Johnson
(1993)
Mr Gregory Johnson (1987)
Mrs Jane Johnson (2009)
Mr Nathaniel Johnson (2010)
Mr Orlando Johnson (2009)
Mr J Ieuan Jones (1996)
Dr Roy Jones (2003)
Professor Brian Josephson
(2005)
Ms Mika Kaneyuki (2000)
Dr Kriti Kapila (2004)
Dr Shelley Katz (2010)
Professor Masatoshi Kawasaki
(1985)
Professor Stanley Kays (1985)
Mr Zulfiqar H Kazani (2010)
Dr E Annabel S Keeler (1992)
Mr Dong Gun Kim (1982)
Ms Brenda King (1989)
Mr Jonathan King (2010)
Mr James Kinnier Wilson
(1968)
Mr Bill Kirkman MBE (1967)
Professor Gordon Klein (1970)
Mr Jaysen Knezovich (2011)
Mr Weng-Keong Kong (2010)
Mr Naveen Krishnan (2008)
Dr Melanie Kuhn (1992)
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Professor Hatsuko Niimi (2001)
Professor Celia Nyamweru
(2003)
Ms Swati Ogale (1999)
Professor Masatsugu Ohtake
(1971)
Lady (Sally) Oliver (1976)
Dr Susan Oliver (1998)
Mr Vojtech Olle (2007)
Professor Steven Olswang
(1994)
Dr Ian O’Neill (1995)
Mr Michael O’Sullivan
CMG (1984)
Professor Miwa Ota (2009)
Dr Philip Otterness (1977)
Mr Keith Ovenstone (1997)
The Oxford and Cambridge
Club of Kenya
Mr Ray Palmer (1975)
Dr Michael Pelt (1973)
Ms Hilary Perrott (2009)
The Reverend Dr William
Pickering (1979)
Mr Robert Pilsworth (1975)
Mr Roberto Pistorelli (1978)
Dr Graham Pluck (2008)
Professor James Poivan (1975)
Mrs Olive Polge (2007)
Dr Julia Poole (1979)
Miss Breann Preston (2011)
Dr Jocelyn Probert (1998)
Mrs Ruth Quadling (1967)
Mr Connor Quinn (2010)
Mr Roy Rainford (1989)
Mrs Stacey Rand (2006)
Dr John Rees (1989)
Dr L John Reeve (2009)
Mr Andrew Reid (2000)
Ms Rasha Rezk (2009)
Dr Sandy Richards (1968) and
Dr Wyn Richards (1968)
Dr Alan Rickard (2005)
The Estate of Mr William (Bill) J
Ridgman (1970)
Dr Sam Ridgway (1970)
The Reverend Dr Keith Riglin
FRSA (1998)
Dr Peter Roberts (1981)
Mr Henry Rogers (1974)
Rolls-Royce plc
Professor Jerome Rose (1991)
Mr Erik Rosen (2010)
Mr Christopher Rourke (1998)
Mr Michael Russ (2001)
Dr John Rutter (1988)
Mr Hasannudin Saidin (2010)
Mrs Ursula Sainsbury (2007)
Mr Nicholas Salisbury (2011)
Miss Marina Salorio-Corbetto
(2009)
Dr Robert Sansom FREng
(2002)
Santander Universities UK
Professor Razeen Sappideen
(2009)
Professor Susumu Sato (2008)
and Associate Professor
Akiko Sato (2008)
Mr Susumu Satomi (1990)
Mr Barry Saunders (1986)
Mr Daniel Saxon (2010)
Mr Henri Schmitt (2006)
Dr Henrik Schoenefeldt (2006)
Ms Marlene Schoofs (1983)
Mr Lennart Schramm (2011)
Dr Johan Schreiner (1969)
Mr Jeremiah W Schwarz Jr
(2007)
Professor Charles Scruggs
(1977)
Mr Tian Ser Joshua-John Seah
(2010)
Ms Christine Seeliger (2009)
Professor Marshall Shapo
(1991) and Professor Helene
Shapo (2000)
Dr Margaret E Shepherd
(1985) and Dr John
Shepherd (2008)
Mrs Inga and Mr Richard A
Shervington DL (1992)
Mrs Frances Huimin Shi (2010)
Professor Andrew Simester
(2002)
Mr Michael Simmons (2005)
Herchel Smith Fund
Mr Ian Smith (2011)
Mrs Jennifer Smith (2008)
Dr Tyrell Smith (1995)
Professor Richard Snedden
(1994)
Dr Anna Snowdon (1968)
The Rt Hon the Lord Soulsby
of Swaffham Prior (1978)
Sir John Sparrow (1987)
Edward Speelman Limited
Mr Robert Spencer (2009)
Ms Linda Stacey (2006)
Ms Tamara Steijger (2009)
Mrs Eileen Stephenson (2010)
and Mr Leonard
Stephenson (2010)
Ms Karen Stephenson (2008)
The Rt Hon the Lord Stevens
of Kirkwhelpington QPM DL
(1996)
Mr Donald Stewart (1997)
Miss Zhen Sun (2009)
The Reverend Margaret Sweet
(1998)
Mr Noam Szpiro (2008)
Dr James Tattersall (1988)
Mr Christopher Taylor (2007)
Professor Richard Taylor (2004)
ThermoFisher
Mr Keith Tibbenham (1974)
Ms Evelyn Tichy (2009)
Mr Daniel Tomlinson (2011)
Dr Gianpaolo Tommasi (1985)
Dr Christopher Town (2005)
Mr Todd Treusdell (2011)
Mr Jamie Trinidad (2007)
Trinity College
Dr Gee Tsang (1986)
Professor Witold Tulasiewicz
(1983)
Mr Weston Ullrich (2011)
Miss A P A van Beek (2011)
Dr Jan van Dieck (2006)
Mr Matthis van Leeuwen
(2010)
Dr Evy Varsamopoulou (2009)
Dr Abhimanyu
Veerakumarasivam (2002)
Ms Navya Vilangattuseril
(2011)
Dr Sivapalan Vivekarajah (2010)
The Estate of Ms Diane Wales
(1981)
Mr Anthony Walker (1981)
Ms Cecilia Walker (2011)
Professor John Wall (2002)
Miss Helen Waller (2009)
Professor Malcolm Warner
(1987)
Dr Ellis Wasson (2003)
Dr W Jeremy S Webb (2003)
Mr Robin Weyell (1993)
Dr Margaret Whichelow
(2004)
Professor Victor Whittaker
(1967)
Dr Fletcher Wicker (2007)
Dr Colin Wignall (1992)
Mr Ashley Wilkins (1989)
Mr David A R Williams QC
(2001)
Miss Lowri Williams (2006)
Dr Olwen Williams (2001)
Lady (Sally) Williams (1980)
Professor W Clark Williams Jr
(1986)
Mr Anthony Wilson (1993)
Dr Lucy Wilson (2007)
Mrs Rachel Wilson (1990)
Mrs Sue Wiseman (2002)
Professor Howard Wolf (2006)
Mr Paul Wolfson (1993)
The Wolfson Foundation
Mrs Joanna Womack (2011)
Mr Meng Keet Wong (2004)
Dr Christian Wozny MD (2008)
Mrs Custis Wright (2000)
Dr Kevin Xiaoyu Yang (2006)
Professor Yuhiko Yasunaga
(1990)
Mr Nick K T Yip (2010)
Mrs Karen Young (1987)
Miss Laura Young (2009)
Professor Dr Dr hc Horst
Zimmermann (1985)
Professor Leo Zrudlo (1990)
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Philanthropy in Action
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College
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What is our fundraising for? Well, it is for many things at
Wolfson, like the Library, the gardens, the improvement
of our communal spaces and the musical and sporting
life of the College. But as we head towards our 50th
anniversary in 2015, our main purpose is to support our talented and dedicated students. Here,
some of them tell how grants and scholarships have helped them in their work. We are
enormously grateful to all our generous donors, whose contributions make such a difference.
Bahar Maghssudnia (Santander Universities)
Last September I started the MPhil Economics programme at Wolfson. Although
I tried to plan the financial aspects of my studies carefully, exchange rates
intervened. A scholarship from a German foundation and a public credit no
longer covered my expenses, but the Santander Universities Scholarship helped
me to cover the shortfall. It really allowed me to concentrate on my studies.
The Santander Universities Scholarship allowed me to concentrate on
the programme and have a smooth beginning in Cambridge without
worrying about the financial side of my stay.
Jonathan Grant (Santander Universities)
I was delighted to be given the opportunity to study Pure Mathematics at
Wolfson. Mathematics has been an important interest for many years, and with
the qualifications I hope to gain from Cambridge I should be able to take up a
PhD. My particular field of interest is topology, a fascinating subject that is
finding applications from general relativity to robotics. As there is no state
funding for students of Master’s degrees in the UK, the Santander Universities Scholarship is a
great help with my fees.
Jenny Mitchell (Santander Universities)
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fter my first degree in Human Sciences and working in London for three years,
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I decided to pursue my dream of becoming a vet and was ecstatic when
Cambridge offered me a place. I was relying on my own savings and my student
loan. Financing five years of study would be difficult, so the Santander Universities
Scholarship really took a load off my mind during my first year, and has allowed
me to concentrate on working hard and making the most of my time here.
Justinas Badaras (Santander Universities)
I am studying for an MPhil in Economics and am really glad I have an
opportunity to be at Wolfson – Cambridge is a great place. I went through the
toughest year of my life and wrote a thesis on the subject which I am
passionate about: the stock market. I would like to thank my sponsors, the
Economics department and Santander Universities: put simply, I would not
have been able to afford to pursue my passion without their financial help!
Tilman Lesch (Santander Universities)
After studying Engineering and Economics, I started my PhD in Neuroscience
at the Department of Psychiatry. My research is concerned with learning and
decision-making under uncertainty in healthy humans, and more specifically
in entrepreneurs. I believe that entrepreneurs think differently about risk and
behave advantageously in dynamic environments. Since I started my partially
self-funded PhD, the Santander Universities Scholarship has helped me to really focus on my
research and get a good start at Wolfson.
Louise Pickett (Santander Universities)
My aim has always been to become a vet so I was delighted to secure a place
on the Veterinary Medicine course. As a self-funded affiliate student, the
Santander Scholarship has made my first year at Cambridge much more
comfortable in financial terms, and I am most grateful for their generous
support.
Luke Maishman (Conference and Travel Support)
I attended the 50th Anniversary Spring Meeting of the British Society for
Parasitology this April. The four-day conference was packed with seminars
from leaders in research on neglected tropical diseases and other parasites, as
well as anniversary events. As a second-year PhD student, this was the largest
academic conference I had attended. It was a fantastic experience to hear
first-hand the authors of the papers that I have been reading, and to meet other parasitologists. I
am grateful to those who have given to the Wolfson College travel fund and my other sponsors
for making it possible for me to attend.
Tara Cookson (Conference and Travel Support)
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In February I attended the conference ‘Globalisation and Changes in the Cultures
of Care: Local and Global Dimensions’, hosted by the Institute for African Studies
at the University of Ghana in Accra. I presented a paper on ‘Women’s Unpaid
Caring Labour in Post-Neoliberal Latin America: The Radical Promise of Article 88’.
Academics came from around the world to celebrate the ten-year partnership
with the University of Bergen focusing on researching care, globalisation and policy implications. I
am enormously grateful to the donors to the Wolfson College conference and travel fund, whose
generous contributions allowed me to attend this conference and form collaborations for the future.
The Morrison Society
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The Morrison Society, named after the College’s first President, John Morrison, was established in
2008 for all those who notify us that they have included a legacy to Wolfson College in their Will.
Members’ names are displayed in a special commemorative book and we are delighted to invite
Society members to special College events, to show our appreciation during their lifetime for
this important commitment. We are grateful to the following, as well as to those members who
prefer to belong anonymously to the Society.
2008
Dr Peter Beaumont
Dr William Block
Mrs Susan Bowring
Mr Colin Dunnighan
Dr Steven Hand
Mrs Carol Handley
Mr David Harris
Dr Edward Kessler MBE
Professor Gordon Kingsley
Dr John Rees
Dr Joan M Whitehead
2009
Mr Michael Albrecht
Professor Charles Carlton
David J Hall
The Hon Justice Susan Kiefel LLM AC
Mrs Angela M Lucas
Professor Peter J Lucas
Mr Richard C Meade
Mrs Ruth Quadling
Dr Laurence Smith
Dr Anna Snowdon
2010
Dr R H Bradshaw
Dr Brian D Cox
Dr Thomas Davies
2011
2012
Dr Donald Adamson JP FRSL
Group Captain Bruce Blackney
Dr Stephen Bragg FREng
Professor R S Clymo
Mrs Johanna Crighton
Dr David Dymond
Dr Martin Evans
Professor Thomas C Fischer and
Brenda A Fischer
Professor Mary Hesse FBA ScD
Dr Peter Roberts
Mr Barry Saunders
Professor Anthony Swain
Professor Christopher Todd
John V Ward
Mr David Weatherup
Dr Janet West
Professor R H A Blum
Dr David Frost
Mr J Ieuan Jones
Mr George Liebmann
Professor William Lubenow
Mr John Sanford McClenahen
Dr Frank K McKinney and
Marjorie J McKinney
Donors to the Lee Seng Tee Library
Dr Michael Arnott and Mrs Patricia Arnott
Dr Samina Awan
Dr Anna Bagnoli
Mr Linus Blomqvist
Mr Conor Bowman and Professor Sylvia Draper
Mr Jonathan Brown
Professor Charles Carlton
Mr Chee Tak Chai
Dr Jennifer Davis
Dr Stefan Dorondel
Mr Colin Dunnighan
Professor John DuVal
Dr Owen Edwards and Mrs Josephine Edwards
Dr Qiang Feng
Professor Thomas C Fischer
Mr Sam Forsyth
Mr Reynaldo Fuentes
Mr Peter Hilken OBE
Dr Rex Hughes
Mrs Anne Jarvis
Dr Gordon Johnson and Mrs Faith Johnson
Mr Tuukka Kaikkonen
Professor Stanley Kays
Professor Anthony Lavers
Mr June Lim Lee
Dr Lee Seng Tee
Mr George Liebmann
Mr David Luhrs
Miss Hala Mahmoud
Mr Alexander McCarthy-Best
Mr John McClenahen
Mrs Marilyn Motley
Professor Paul Murdin OBE
Professor John Naughton
Mr Gordon Pitts
Professor Pier Luigi Porta
Professor Michael Redhead FBA
Mr Henry Rogers
Mr Christopher Rourke
Ms Marlene Schoofs
Mr Tian Ser Joshua-John Seah
Professor Andrew Simester
Ms Linda Stacey
Dr John Walter
Dr Di Wei
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Books by College Members
This year Wolfson members have continued to publish authoritative books on a variety of
subjects. Please let us know of those you would like to be included next year by emailing
communications@wolfson.cam.ac.uk. Dates in brackets indicate first year of association
with the College.
Dr Omar Alí-de-Unzaga (1996) (ed)
Fortresses of the Intellect: Ismaili and Other Islamic Studies in Honour of Farhad Daftary (Oxford
University Press, 2011)
This book offers a biographical sketch and a complete bibliography of Farhad Daftary and
gathers a number of articles in Ismaili Studies and other Islamic Studies in his honour, including
philosophy, theology, literature and history.
Mints and Money in Medieval England (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
Dr Maleeha Aslam (2002)
Gender-Based Explosions: The Nexus Between Muslim Masculinities, Jihadist Islamism
and Terrorism (United Nations University Press, 2012)
This book is an outcome of Dr Aslam’s postdoctoral research at the Peace and
Security Programme, United Nations University.
Professor Charles Carlton (1981)
This Seat of Mars: War and the British Isles, 1485–1746 (Yale University Press, 2011)
This book is dedicated to Wolfson College, University of Cambridge.
Ms Margaret Carlton (1974)
From Enclosing Jaws (Kindle Edition, now available on Amazon)
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Dr Filipe Carreira da Silva (2003) (ed)
G.H. Mead: A Reader (Routledge, 2011)
Books by College Members continued
Dr Penelope Darbyshire (2005)
Sitting in Judgment: The Working Lives of Judges (Hart Publishing, 2011)
Darbyshire on the English Legal System, 10th Edition (Sweet & Maxwell, 2011)
Dr Penelope Dransart (2009)
Textiles from the Andes (British Museum Press, 2011)
Professor Timothy Duff (2005) and Ian Scott-Kilvert
Plutarch: the Age of Alexander (Penguin, 2012)
This volume is an annotated translation, with substantial introductions and notes, of
10 biographies written in the early second-century AD by the Greek author Plutarch.
The lives selected cover a crucial period of Greek history, roughly 400–270 BC.
Dr Alistair Fair (2010), C Alan Short and Peter Barrett
Geometry and Atmosphere: Theatre Buildings from Vision to Reality (Ashgate, 2012)
Professor Thomas C Fischer (1990)
Legal Gridlock: A Critique of the American Legal System (Carolina Academic Press, 2011)
Americans have always placed great faith in the rule of law. Today it may be too much. As the
volume and complexity of legislation grows, as the cost of litigation mounts and jury verdicts
skyrocket, legal gridlock becomes a real prospect.
Professor Peter L Fitzgerald (2009)
International Issues in Animal Law: The Impact of International Environmental and
Economic Law upon Animal Interests and Advocacy (Carolina Academic Press, 2012)
Dr Thomas Jones (2008)
This Being, That Becomes: the Buddha’s Teaching on Conditionality (Windhorse Publications,
Cambridge, 2011)
This book, based on research during Dr Jones’ MPhil studies in 2008–2009, explores the meaning
and implications of the Buddha’s philosophy of paticca-samuppada or ‘dependent arising’, according
to which all phenomena arise on certain conditions and cease when those conditions cease.
Mr Jim Kelly (1985)
Death’s Door (Severn House, 2012)
This novel is the fourth in the Shaw and Valentine series.
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Mr George Liebmann (1996)
The Last American Diplomat: John D. Negroponte and the Changing Face of US
Diplomacy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)
Dr Josef Martens (1988)
50 Lessons on Innovation: Intended for Your Inspiration (CreateSpace, 2011)
Dr Martens has brought together, in one volume, fifty of his favourite lessons on
innovation.
Professor Neil Messer (1986) and Angus Paddison (eds)
Respecting Life: Theology and Bioethics (SCM Press, 2011)
Professor Neil Messer (1986)
The Bible: Culture, Community and Society (T & T Clark, forthcoming 2012)
Dr John Mitchell CBE (1972)
‘Selected Poems’ with Italian translations (Edizioni Il Campano, Pisa, 2011)
Mr Raphael M Munro (1996)
Ghost Circuit (www.momentum-7.com, 2012) 10% of profits to be donated to
Wolfson College
Though principally a work of fiction, the author draws on his own background as a
former Military Intelligence Officer, private security contractor in Iraq and
investigator for a multi-national tobacco company to create a chilling work of
fiction that has the authenticity and credibility of a first-hand account.
Professor John Naughton (1992)
From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: What you really need to know about the internet
(Quercus Publishing, 2012)
Dr Ubong S Nda (1991)
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The Theatre and Environmental Conservation: Communicating on environmental
preservation through the Arts of the theatre (Lambert Academic Publishing, 2010)
Dr Stephen Rose (1997)
The Musician in Literature in the Age of Bach (Cambridge University Press, 2011)
Using little-known novels and autobiographies from Bach’s Germany, this book
suggests new ways of interpreting the lives and social status of early eighteenthcentury musicians.
Emeritus Professor Colin Russell (1984)
Michael Faraday: Physics and Faith (Oxford University Press, 2000. Arabic translation, 2004.
Japanese translation, 2009)
Saving Planet Earth, a Christian Response (Authentic Media, 2008)
From Atoms to Molecules: Studies in the History of Chemistry from the 19th Century (Ashgate, 2010)
Emeritus Professor Colin Russell (1984) and G K Roberts
Chemical History: Reviews of the Recent Literature (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2005)
Emeritus Professor Colin Russell (1984) and John A Hudson
Early Railway Chemistry and its Legacy (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2011)
Dr Nick Segal (1985)
Breaking the Mould: The Role of Scenarios in Shaping South Africa’s Future (Sun Press, 2007)
Professor George Siedel (1980) and Helena Haapio
Pro-active Law for Managers: A Hidden Source of Competitive Advantage (Gower, 2011)
George Siedel and Helena Haapio (leader of the Proactive Law Movement in Europe) show how
to use the law pro-actively to achieve business success through reducing costs, minimising risks,
collaborating to innovate and creating value for customers.
Mrs Stella Soulioti (1982)
Fettered Independence: Cyprus 1878–1964 – Volume 1: The Narrative, Volume 2: The Documents
(University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 2007)
Mrs Soulioti was successively Minister of Justice, Law Commissioner and Attorney General in the
Republic of Cyprus and has acted as an adviser to the Presidents of the Republic. Her historical
study presents a large body of evidence and an analysis of the historical events that ultimately
led to the 1974 invasion of Cyprus by the Turkish Republic.
Dr Roger Tallentire (1969)
Shakespeared! (Shakespeare’s Unacknowledged Collaborators) (Kindle Edition, now
available on Amazon)
A new look at ‘the authorship problem’ in Shakespeare that reconstructs the
missing background to the First Folio.
Professor Janet Ulph (1979) and Ian Smith
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The Illicit Trade in Art and Antiquities: International Recovery and Criminal and Civil Liability (Hart
Publishing, forthcoming 2012)
Dr Karina Urbach (1991)
Queen Victoria: Eine Biographie (C H Beck, 2011)
Go Betweens for Hitler: The Anglo-Saxon Aristocratic Network 1900–1939 (Paderborn, 2012)
Dr Di Wei (2009) (ed)
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Electrochemical Nanofabrication: Principles and Applications (Pan Stanford Publishing, 2011)
Recent University Appointments
Election
Professor Geoffrey Allan Khan, BA, PhD, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, FBA,
Professor of Semitic Philology, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, elected Regius
Professor of Hebrew with effect from 1 October 2012.
Appointments and re-appointments
University Lecturers
Law. Dr Richard Lynn Williams appointed from 1 August 2012 until the retiring age and subject
to a probationary period of five years.
Associate Lecturers
Clinical Medicine. Dr John David Firth reappointed from 1 July 2011 for five years.
Clinical Medicine. Dr Lincoln Alexander Sargeant MFPH appointed from 1 September 2011 for five years.
Clinical Medicine. Dr Padmanabhan Badrinath FFPH appointed from 1 March 2012 for five years.
Clinical Lecturers
Surgery. Mr Vasileios Kosmoliaptsis appointed from 5 October 2011 to 4 October 2015 and
subject to a probationary period of twelve months.
Librarian
History and Philosophy of Science. Mrs Anna Holt Jones appointed from 19 March 2012 until the
retiring age and subject to a probationary period of nine months.
Deputy Head of Department
Computer Laboratory. Professor Ann Copestake appointed from 1 January 2012 to 31 December 2014.
Senior Assistant Registrary
University Offices (Academic Division – Research Operations). Dr Joanna Dekkers appointed from 18
July 2012 until the retiring age and subject to a probationary period of nine months.
Grants of Title
History. Dr Maria Christina Skott, Dr Anna-Maria Von der Goltz, Dr Brodie Banner Waddell, Dr
Martin Robert Allen, Dr Isabel Noronha DiVanna and Dr Sarah Howard have been granted the
title of Affiliated Lecturer from 1 October 2011 for one year.
Modern and Medieval Languages. Dr David Kenyon Money has been granted the title of Affiliated
Lecturer from 1 October 2011 for a further two years.
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Music. The Reverend Professor Jeremy Begbie has been granted the title of Affiliated Lecturer
from 1 October 2011 for a further two years.
Obituaries
Dr Alvaro Angeriz
College Research Associate
17 February 1963 – 11 January 2012
Philip Arestis
After a courageous battle, Alvaro Angeriz succumbed to leukaemia.
He was a great colleague and fellow researcher, always happy to help
and collaborate, and a great teacher much appreciated by his students.
He will be much missed.
Alvaro took his first degree in Economics in Uruguay, followed by an MPhil and a PhD in
Economics at Barcelona University. In 2005 he joined the Cambridge Centre of Economic and
Public Policy and became a Wolfson College Research Associate. Since 2008 he was a Senior
Lecturer at Queen Mary College, University of London.
Dr Alan Burgess
Emeritus Fellow
9 November 1933 – 27 December 2011
Alan Burgess joined Wolfson College in 1966. Until his retirement, he
was a University Lecturer in the Department of Applied Mathematics
and Theoretical Physics and Head of the Atomic and Astrophysics
group. He was an outstanding theoretical physicist well known for
his fundamental calculations on dielectronic recombination effects
in atomic, solar and plasma physics processes. Although a quiet mathematician and a modest
man, as a Fellow he was a very generous supporter of the College.
Dr Henry Chu
Emeritus Fellow
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27 October 1918 – 27 October 2011
Bill Kirkman
Henry Chu was one of the first group of students to graduate from the
Veterinary School. While he was there, the revolution took place in
China, and he was unable to return. As a matter of principle, he
remained stateless.
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He did exceptional work on diseases of poultry and he greatly valued his Fellowship of the
College and regularly attended Governing Body and social events. At one time he had the idea
that Wolfson might have a campus in China – located on a boat offshore. It was really a fantasy,
reflecting both Henry’s enthusiasm and his undoubted eccentricity.
On retirement, he returned to China and taught Chinese students who had missed out on
education during the cultural revolution. He once commented wryly that after years of lecturing
in pidgin English he found himself lecturing in pidgin Chinese. When he returned to Cambridge
he began once more attending College functions.
Hugh Askew Corbett, Captain Royal Navy CBE DSO DSC
Senior Member
25 June 1916 – 19 April 2012
Bill Kirkman
Hugh Corbett came to Cambridge in 1967 as warden of the University Centre – succeeding in
that role another RN officer, Captain Norman Hilken, who had been first Vice-President of
University College (now Wolfson). Hugh Corbett also became a member of the College, and
continued to attend College gatherings for many years after his retirement in 1983.
He joined the Royal Navy in 1933, and had a distinguished naval career. Of his many naval roles,
it was the final one, as Captain of the newly commissioned HMS Fearless, from 1965 to 1967,
that gave him most satisfaction.
Dr John Gage FBA
Fellow 1978–1989
28 June 1938 – 10 February 2012
Gordon Johnson
John Gage was an exceptionally distinguished historian of art.
After his doctorate at the Courtauld Institute of Art he held teaching
appointments at the University of East Anglia and in Cambridge. He
made his mark with wide-ranging studies of Turner and a major
scholarly book on the understandings of colour in western art.
He was an effective Director of Studies for the History of Art Tripos, guiding his graduate
students to completion only when satisfied that they met his exacting academic standards.
He was noted for his dry, and often acerbic, sense of humour, and for the lucidity of his
writing and presentations.
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Dr John Shepherd
Senior Member
7 August 1927 – 14 October 2011
Gordon Johnson
John Shepherd had intended to specialise in Paediatric Medicine and
served as a Paediatric Registrar in London for more than two years, but
serious family illness persuaded him to return to Cumbria. He joined a rural
practice at Brough where he remained as a country GP until his retirement.
John then moved to Cambridge where his wife, Margaret, had decided to study Geography.
After doctoral studies she became a Fellow and Tutor at Wolfson. The College, with its ethos of
encouraging the spouses of students to feel at home, was ideal for the Shepherds. They moved
into a house on Barton Road, and John was thus able to share in as well as support Margaret in
her College life. He enjoyed being a Senior Member in his own right and was excellent company
in Hall. He had wide cultural interests, expressed in a vigorous programme of concert and
theatre attendance and in frequent visits to European cities. He was a kind and generous
benefactor, and a particularly valuable supporter, in every way, of College music.
Mr Leonard George Stephenson
Donor
16 February 1937 – 17 July 2012
Karen Stephenson
Len Stephenson was born in London and served his apprenticeship
until he was 21 as a draughtsman with Samuel Cutler. His artistic skills
were reflected throughout his life in an interest in photography and an
appreciation of art. He married Eileen in 1960, and their children were
born in 1965 and 1971.
In 1971, Len, a Structural Engineer, and Eileen set up their own business providing steelwork to
major blue chip companies. Len then moved into the petrochemical industry, working in
London, Holland and Norway as an oil rig Weight Control Engineer, and speaking at Weight
Control conferences. During his retirement he worked as a driver and finally retired in 2008.
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Len was a keen sportsman and had a great love of music and travel. He was enormously
knowledgeable about wines: his favourites were always from Burgundy. He and Eileen
frequently stayed at Wolfson and enjoyed attending Formal Hall, as well as being generous
supporters of the College.
His illness was diagnosed only seven weeks before his passing. He bore it with great strength,
courage and dignity and he leaves an enduring legacy that will live on with all those who
knew him.
Colonel Peter Storie-Pugh CBE MC TD DL
Emeritus Fellow
1 November 1919 – 20 October 2011
Peter Storie-Pugh spent most of the war in Colditz, after being wounded in 1940. He returned to
his veterinary studies and the Territorial Army after his release. He became an influential figure in
the world of veterinary surgery, serving as President of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons in
1968 and 1970. In retirement, he lived in France. He became a Fellow of Wolfson College in 1967.
Air Vice-Marshal Peter Turner CB
Emeritus Fellow
29 December 1924 – 22 March 2012
Bill Kirkman
Peter Turner was Bursar of Wolfson from 1979 to 1989. His first year
was at the end of the presidency of John Morrison, the first President,
and the rest of his time was during the presidency of Professor Sir
David Williams.
Peter had a distinguished, and unusual, Royal Air Force (RAF) career. He joined in the ranks,
having left school at 14 and he ended his many years of service in the rank of Air Vice-Marshal.
There was no gap between his RAF service and his period at Wolfson, indeed, strictly speaking
he joined the College just before his service formally ended.
He was an unassuming man and he threw himself wholeheartedly into the life of the College,
moving easily from RAF to University culture. He once remarked that in the RAF there was one
person in charge of a large number of people, whereas in the College there was a small number
of people, all of whom saw themselves as being in charge.
On retiring from Wolfson he spent the rest of his life looking after his wife Doreen who suffered
from dementia. He accepted this task in the same uncomplaining way that he had accepted
everything else. Doreen died a few weeks before him, in 2012.
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In Memoriam
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Professor B G Barr (Visiting Scholar, 1985)
Professor John Brian Bird (Visiting Fellow, 1984): 20 August 2011
Mr Matthew Boughton (Alumnus, 1999): 15 September 2011
Dr Martha Cheo (Visiting Fellow, 2008): February 2012
Dr Percy Falcón (Visiting Fellow, 1968): 5 January 2006
Miss Irene Florou (Alumna, 1972)
Professor Thomas Holdych (Visiting Scholar, 1997): 24 April 2011
Dr Mary Holt (Alumna, 1981): 6 July 2011
Dr Paul Karger (Alumnus, 1985): 2011
Professor Hack Chin Kim (Visiting Scholar): 19 May 2011
Dr Jaime Litvak (Senior Member, 1967): 2 October 2006
Mr Louis McCagg (Senior Member, 1996): 3 March 2012
Professor Frank K McKinney (Visiting Fellow, 1992): April 2011
Professor Kenji Naito (Visiting Scholar, 1984): 20 February 2012
Mrs Hilary Nex (née Stevens, Alumna, 1994): 25 December 2010
Professor Itamar Pitowsky (Visiting Fellow, 1995): 10 February 2010
Dr P Reynolds (Member)
Professor Doctor Bernd von Hoffmann (Visiting Fellow, 1976): 9 December 2011
Professor Robert Woods (Visiting Scholar, 1985): 2011
Peter Dowling
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Row 9: N.Dieckmann A.Aldercotte X.Wang L.Pickett M.Lee P.Siriwat K.Hammond T.Cookson S.Grabowski C.Glicksman D.Raghavan K.Albrektsen S.Wickenden M.van Spyk S.Sofer E.Naylor
P.Scopes W.Lim K.Memarian M.Kariuki X.Xuan L.Xiao Y.Sun S.Ng A.Tan S.Keibek R.Britt J.Lee N.Karambadzakis M.Srivastav
Row 8 :C.Chai L.Newman R.Hodgson C.Rhoades C.Matthews C.Koay T.Phaovibul A.Tobert G.Williams J.Stockermans A.Tynan O.Caspari X.Fang J.Xu A.Kleine V.Kovaliov L.Li X.Tay S.Lim
T.Bernard M.Hawley T.Fitzmaurice M.Fournes S.Ternisien H.Rai M.Lind C.Babb Y.Li A.Waller
Row 7:N.Vilangattuseril S.Zeng Y.Lu C.Kelliny S.Bertrand M.Hung T.Hannant L.Wang Y.Zhang B.Preston H.Middleton A.Bhattacharyya M.Maftei P.Egger C.Maunoury B.Jones T.Woodruff
Z.Nikonovich-Kahn J.Duan R.Burgin Q.Ma K.Aduse-Poku A.Alcala X.Zhang L.Fioravanti S.Syed E.Rowe V.Kalway Z.Moghal
Row 6:D.Patel A.Kostanyan L.Utsi G.Giannaros O.Aruch K.Shin P.Yap T.Kaikkonen J.Grant J.Quek A.Vincenzutti L.Ashby P.Schmithausen J.Ruckstuhl G.Bernardi de Freitas S.Wolf
A.Student X.Qi T.Dennison Y.Hu K.Lau C.Wang S.Seroussi M.Laine G.Grebennikova A.Layton E.Gunay X.Wang
Row 5:C.Cetin K.England A.Banerjee X.Ibarra-Soria A.Durieux M.Zotos F.Bellei K.Gillam R.Whiter A.Sygrove R.Willemars T.Vrba M.Marin T.Perski N.Salisbury G.Ainebyona S.Hajnassiri
M.Rowland B.Folit-Weinberg R.Coleman M.Lee J.Zhu J.Hudson W.Suen T.Ren J.Le Pape C.Aristidou F.Thublier M.Wang
Row 4:A.Miyashita M.Joshevska S.Goh T.Alexander J.Luettich C.Nwankwo L.Zhang R.Choi K.Tam R.Romanos C.Ren S.Havranek T.Williams C.Hellmayr L.Schramm K.Kemppinen
G.Bickers A.van Beek T.O’Brien B.Shaw I.Williams L.Carlsson J.Brooker Y.Chang R.Hsu E.Petrillo C.Chuter N.Gyeltshen T.Shamu C.Yang
Row 3:J.Mitchell A.Azizi L.Irfan K.Vuong M.Liu A.Laussen S.Shah J.Godden C.Markides F.Shahzad E.Schlemm J.McTaggart H.Zorba R.Seign M.Ahmadi O.Sevgili J.Ahn G.Zhang
E.Khokher M.Goschorska H.Matsuyama Masuda E.Soon A.Bovon M.Menjoz L.Appiah N.Nordin
Row 2:D.Schade B.De Ridder S.Andrade Arevalo F.Saibene D.Undersrud A.Metcalfe J.Brammeld T.Lesch B.McConnell S.Hut D.Baker P.Doran C.Sargeant T.Graeber T.Duarte J.Akubeze
J.Knezovich T.Moncaster T.Hughes C.Buckingham C.Sharma R.Murkett M.Lee Å.Odin Ekman
Row 1:A.Chen A.Kaur A.Martin M.Wignall, Head Porter C.Skott, Tutor A.Jones, Tutor A.Bagnoli, Tutor M.Vestergaard, Tutor D.Barrowclough, Tutor J.Dekkers, Tutor G.Yeo, Tutor D.Frost, Tutor
K.Stephenson, Development Director C.Lawrence , Bursar R.Evans, President B.Cox , Praelector J.McLarty, Senior Tutor K.Greenbank, Tutor M.Greeves, Tutor K.Allen, Tutorial Office Manager
L.MacVinish, Tutor S.Church, Tutor I.Ilevbare, WCSA A.Dixon, WCSA A.Mukadam, WCSA A.Ruigrok, WCSA P.Haycock, WCSA H.Usieta, WCSA J.Muinde
Freshers 2011
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Prizes and Studentships
College Prizes
Sir David Williams Prize
(for the best performance by a Wolfson student in Part II of the Law Tripos)
Han Ming Mark Lim (First Class)
Hugh Bevan Prize
(for the most distinguished performance by a Wolfson student in the LLM)
Christopher Sargeant (First Class)
Tunnicliffe Prize
(for the best performance by a student returning to academic study after a
break of more than 30 years)
Mal Peachey, English, Part II
Named Studentships
Wolfson Cambridge Commonwealth Trust
Gordon Ainebyona, MPhil, Criminology
Lucy Appiah, MPhil, Social & Developmental Psychology
Lana Ashby, LLM, Law
Emma Carter, PhD, Education
Mbutu Kariuki, MPhil, Social and Developmental Psychology
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Jennings Prize
(for a First Class or a Distinction in a University Examination, awarded to those
who had not already won a named Law prize as above)
Gabriel Bernardi de Freitas, Mathematics, MASt
Thomas Graeber, Economics, Part IIA
Jeffrey Jian Han Lee, Engineering, Part IIA
Constantine Markides, Land Economy, Part IA
Zhao Feng Ng, English, Part I
Nicholas Plummer, Final MB, Part I, Pathology
Eckhard Schleman, MVST, Part IA
Sébastien Ternisien, Mathematics, MASt
Yew Jia Jerry Thia, Engineering, Part IIA
Xianghui Toh, Economics, Part IIA
Taryn Treger, Final MB, Part I, Pathology
Manfredas Zabarauskas, Computer Science, Part II
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Wolfson Cambridge Overseas Trust
Andrew Goldman, PhD, Music
Yuanyuan Hu, PhD, Physics
Nimit Jain, MPhil, Innovation, Strategy and Organisation
Iyad Nasrallah, PhD, Physics
Lan Xiao, BA, Engineering
Veronica Zamora Gutierrez, PhD, Zoology
Jiannan Zhu, PhD, Engineering
Santander Universities Scholarships
Louise Pickett, VetMB, Veterinary Medicine
Jenny Mitchell, VetMB, Veterinary Medicine
Justinas Badaras, MPhil, Economics
Jonathan Grant, MSt, Pure Mathematics
Tilman Lesch, PhD, Psychiatry
Bahar Maghssudnia, MPhil, Economics
Scholarships given anonymously
Li Lu, Master of Finance
King Pui Juliana Tam, MPhil, Real Estate Finance
Wan Yang, MPhil, Real Estate Finance
Ujejski-Williams Bursary
Zubaida Shebani, PhD, Biological Science
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O’May Studentship
James Westborook, PhD, Music
Guan Ruijan Bursary
Xuesheng You, PhD, History
The College is enormously grateful to Visiting Fellow, Professor Irene Ng,
who has established a prize for law in the name of her father,
an eminent lawyer in Singapore and Malaysia.
The Dato Ng Kong Yeam Prize will be awarded for the best performance
in Part I of the Law Tripos.
The first award will be made in 2013.
Degrees Awarded
As at 31 July 2012
Doctor of Philosophy
Fernando José Russo Abegão: Magnetic resonance studies of temperature and chemical
composition in trickle bed reactors
Megha Sambhavi Amrith: Life in Transit: The aspirations of Filipino medical workers in Singapore
Karim Lourdes Anaya Stucchi: Electricity market reform: Evidence from South America
Thomas William John Ash: Use of statistical classifiers in the analysis of MRI data
Eleanor Susanne Betton: Impact and coalescence of ink-jet printed drops
Nancy Maria Petronella Bocken: Negotiating long-term targets to reduce CO₂ emissions
associated with consumer products
Paolo Bombelli: Harnessing solar energy by bio-photovoltaic devices
Minodora Brimpari: Regulation of MHC class I and II expression in mouse Epiblast stem cells
Mr Liam Patrick Candy: Kinematics in conformal geometric algebra with applications in strapdown inertial navigation
Bernard Charlier: Faces of the wolf, faces of the individual: anthropological study of human,
non-human relationships in West Mongolia
Lei Chen: The question of teaching virtue – A platonic reading of six Shakespeare plays
Huei-Chun Cheng: A life history study of Taiwanese female teachers’ identities from a poststructural feminist perspective
Amy Kirsten Samantha Chesterton: Heat-treatment of cake flours
Pierre-Louis Becq de Fouquières: Control of quantum mechanical systems through optimisation
Mark Philip De Lessio: Assessing the complex product design process planning activity
Nikolaos Dikaios: Respiratory motion correction for positron emission tomography
Alexander Dixon: High speed and activity stabilised quantum key distribution
Adriana Duque-Hughes: Knowing in practice in distributed working. A comparative case study of
single-function, multiple-client teams collaborating through information technologies
Qiang Feng: Essays in Econometrics
Ágnes Foeglein: Cell biology of the influenza: A virus polymerase
Shaenandhoa García Rangel: Ecology and conservation of the Andean bear in Venezuela
Nicholas Gibbons: Hybrid photonic systems via release roll-up assembly
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Carmine D’Agostino: Advanced NMR techniques in sustainable chemistry
Degrees Awarded continued
Monika Anna Golinska: The molecular and metabolic adaptations of HIF-1 β deficient tumor cells
Olga Goulko: Thermodynamic and hydrodynamic behaviour of interacting Fermi gases
Kunal Gupta: Using human embryonic stem cells to model acute brain injury
Håvard Halland: Fiscal policy, business cycles and natural resource dependence
Ying Hao: Design, Fabrication and Characterisation of polymer-based wavelength-divisionmultiplexing filters for fibre-to-the-home application
Jacqueline Fay Hobbs: When the 'Milkbird' comes: Amdo-Tibetan constructions of time in
Qinghai and Gansu Provinces, the People’s Republic of China
Shoshanna Chaya Isaacson: Mass spectrometry of noncovalent membrane protein complexes
David James Johns: Dietary patterns and cardiovascular disease in severe obesity
Petros Karatsareas: A study of Cappadocian Greek nominal morphology from a diachronic and
dialectological perspective
Timothy Simon Kelby: Smart brushes on flexible substrates: probing the chemo-mechanical
properties of stimulus-responsive polymer brushes
David Arthur Knowles: Bayesian non-parametric models and inference for sparse and hierarchical
latent structure
Svitlana Kobzar: ‘The return to Europe’: Ukraine’s foreign policy, 1994–2004
Kian-Yong Lee: Formation of the midzone microtubule bundles during cytokinesis
Chea Lu Lim: Investigating the dynamics of nanog heterogeneity in mouse embryonic stem cells
Martina Mangold: Computational studies of type II 3-dehydroquinate dehydratase
Cesar Rafael Mares: Extraterritorial prospecting and territory defence in cooperatively
breeding meerkats
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Barbara Lynn Miltner: The territorial application of treaties in international law
Alireza Moayyeri: Risk assessment for osteoporotic fractures among men and women from
a prospective population study: The EPIC-Norfolk study
William Mifsud: Studies on the ontogeny of the mammalian germ line
Eva Eustasia Nanopoulos: Judicial review of Anti-terrorism measures in the EU
Kieron Michael Geoffrey O’Connell: Strategy development for diversity-orientated synthesis:
A two-dimensional macrocyclisation approach
Vojtech Filip Olle: Short pulse generation and automated control in quantum well and quantum
dot laser diodes
Alison Jane Peel: The epidemiology of Lagos bat virus and henipaviruses in straw-coloured fruit
bats (Eidolon helvum), using population genetics to infer population connectivity
João Duarte Tavares da Silva Pereira: The role of the polycomb repressive complex 2 in the
regulation of neocortical neurogenesis
Ichitaro Saito: Amorphous selenium photoelectric devices
Frank Carl Schoofs: Defect-induced magnetism and transport phenomena in epitaxial oxides
Santosh Kumar Singh: Silicon carbide based inverter for hybrid electric vehicles
Luke William Smith: Electron interaction effects in quasi-one-dimensional quantum wires
Anna Dominika Staniszewska: Roles of stat3 in mammary gland development, involution and
breast cancer
Susan Elizabeth Swaffield: Head Teachers’ views of external support, challenge and critical
friendship
Shadia Salah E-Rahman Ali Taha: Attachment to abandoned heritage: The case of Suakin, Sudan
Shunyi Tan: Holographic waveguide display
Benjamin James Taylor: The development of an Algal Oscillatory Flow Bioreactor for biodiesel
feedstock
Adrian Gabriel Torres: MicroRNA targeting with oligonucleotide analogues
Jurgen Van Gael: Bayesian nonparametric hidden Marko models
Kiran Vijayan: Vibration and shock amplification of drilling tools
Joanne Elizabeth Wallis: Laying strong foundations: Does the level of public participation
involved in constitution-making play a role in state-building? Case studies of Timor-Leste and
Bougainville
Tian Wei: Identifying and capturing synergies in mergers and acquisitions in the medical
technology industry
Louise Elizabeth Wilson: Miracle and medicine in medieval Miracula ca 1180-ca 1320
Zichen Zhang: Phase-only nematic liquid crystal on silicon devices
Master of Science
Awais Ahmed Awan: Behavioural analysis of internet traffic
Master of Letters
Daria Rakowski: The development of kingship ideologies in late Viking age Norway
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Lowri Sian Williams: Over-expression, purification and stabilisation of the mitochondrial
uncoupling protein
Master of Arts
Sonja Bremauer
Shaenandhoa Garcia Rangel
Akua Gyekye
Nicholas Richard Laugier
Alejandro Vicente
Grabovetsky
Master of Law
Patrick Actis Perinetto
Lana Latoya Ashby
Christopher John
Buckingham
Kateryna Busol
Ece Deniz Gunay
Thomas William Hannant
Ming Chung Colin Hung
Oi Ming Carol Lee
Merit Lind
Michael David Marin
Milana Polimac
Joel Quek
Christopher William Sargeant
Lennart Friedemann
Schramm
Joshua Hames Sinnett
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Master of Research
Alexis Hazbun
Wenzhe Hu
Christian Markus Hueber
Andreas Marouchos
Barbara Musial
Timothy Mark Newton
Master of Philosophy
Emma Abotsi
Henry Agbe
Gordon Ainebyona
Oluwagbenga Michael
Akinlabi
Kristine Albrektsen
Amanda Aldercotte
Alia Al-Kadi
Thomas Alves de Souza Lima
Salvador Andrade
Lucy Appiah
Chrystalleni Aristidou
Olayinka Abimbola Awolokun
Azra Azizi
Siddhartha Bagaria
Olaoluwa Baikie
Sophie Isabelle Marie Baril
Patrizia Battista
Abhishek Bhattacharyya
Nathaniel Blakney
Luca Budello
Aleksandar Bulajic
Emma Jane Carter
Christoforos Chatzikomis
Zhi Chen
Chik On Choy
Gabriel Daly
Matthew William Davies
Maria Elisa De Padua Najera
Jonathan Der Kureghian
George Derpanopoulos
Athanasios Detsis
Athanasios Dimopoulos
Vasileios Michail Douzenis
Suvi Kristiina Ellilä
Martin Elton
Julius Gerald Valentin Emmrich
Katherine Elizabeth England
Xinghong Fang
Shibo Feng
Cara Ferrentino
Sebastian Finnigan
Benjamin Joseph FolitWeinberg
Lauren Fulton
Abhimanyu Gahlaut
Souvik Kumar Ghosh
Kirk Patrick Gillam
Su Kai Goh
Andrew Jacob Goldman
Defne Gonenc
Lorenzo Grande
David Charles Greatrex
Ganna Grebennikova
Thomas James Harrington
Alexis Joron Hazbun
Rupert Terrence Horsley
Manuel Jaeger
Nimit Jain
Jun D Jiang
Suhang Jiang
Joy Soita Juma
Arul Jothi Kandiah
Maheshvaran
Sahand Karimisani
Moses Mbutu Kariuki
Anna Kaxira
Victoria Louise Keevil
Varun Khanna
Tabitha Nduku Kilonzo
Georgios Kostopoulos
Daniela Krug
Alexander Christian Langer
Jason Jian Sheng Lau
Colm John Lingard Lauder
Aimee Laussen
Michael Andrew Lawton
Jo-Yu Lee
Yun-Hsin Lin
Xuefeng Liu
Yue Liu
Qian Ma
Andreas Bjoern Madsen
Adriana Laura Massidda
Alexander Zoltan McKenna
Michal Meiri
Tingting Meng
Alexander David Metcalfe
Kumari Moothedath
Chandran
Feriha Mukuve Mugisha
Zsuzsa Munkacsi
Jeffrey Brian Murray
Frederic Victor Pierre Pascal
Wintzenrieth
Xinyu Xuan
Feng Ye
Dongxiao You
Lama Mohammad Ata Zaid
Yuan Zheng
Jinjing Zhou
Michalis Zotos
Master of Advanced
Study
Gabriel Bernardi de Freitas
Lars Robert Carlsson
Maxime Paul Roger Fournes
Jonathan Grant
Joël Le Pape
Ming Yew Lee
Yan Li
Christopher Melgaard
Noah Pang
Tianyi Ren
Sébastien Ternisien
Master of Business
Administration
Oremayi Akah
Satoshi Awamura
Nico Boedeker
Vadim Chekaev
Ori Even-Zur
Elena Ion
Matthew Jenkins
Judy Hwee Hoon Kang
Kaloyan Kapralov
Yair Kaufman
Daniela Krug
Ming Kuang
Han Yee Lim
Nishit Mehrotra
Ryo Munakata
Yan Kai Ngian
Michal Obloj
Masayuki Ohta
Osita Onugha
Pratik Hirachand Shah
Samir Girish Shah
Jin Ho Shin
Rebecca Streetley
Eduardo Vila Moret
Executive Master of
Business Administration
Mathieu Gerardin
Elise Mayumi Sakane Eriksson
Master of Finance
Mohammad Abdulhameed
Alshaikmubarak
Leonel Mateo Arana Gallo
Guan Wee Chua
Master of Education
Rupinder Ahluwalia
Rebeka Aylwin
Tak Wah Bonnie Chan
Rosalinda Coupe
Caroline Creaby
Jenny Fogarty
Claire Greenwood
Pauline Hannibal
Melanie Lester
Annabel Moore
Richard Moore
Philippa Noble
Catherine Payne
Shantha Jaya Sharma
Jennifer Sheppard
Michelle Solomon
Jackie Stephenson
Lesley Stevens
Vivien Wearing
Jill Wilcox
Maria Zegallo-Tufnell
Student Record
Hussain Nadim
Lucille Avital Newman
Timothy Newton
Lionel Perez
Breann Marie Preston
Jose Pablo Puga
Yu Qiu
Connor Quinn
Ebrahim Ahmed Ali Radhi
Thomas Radinger
Divya Vaikuntam Raghavan
Leila Rahy
Rand Relatores
Ralph Romanos
Joanna Milagros Rauseo
Acevedo
Nicolas Rubir
Sonia Sawhney
Julian Schroeder
Oytun Sevgili
Pakkamol Siriwat
Karol Skrzyszowski
Konstantin Sold
Emily Jing Yuen Soon
Tomás Steinacker Vélez
Marc Steuber
Jan Stochl
Andrew Sullivan
Ning Sun
Yifan Sun
Alireza Tabatabaie
Deborah Hong Yi Tan
Matthew Tasker
Ali Tazi
Davide Testuggine
Emily Toops
Pawel Szymon Walter
Jinjie Wang
Andrew Watt
Meng Qiong Wei
Wei Wei
Georgie Victoria Williams
Stephen Clarke Williamson
Student Record
Master of Studies
Nick Adderley
Adeoye Omotade Adebayo
Philip John Adiutori
Victor Graham Annells
John Richard Barry
Gary Christopher Beautridge
Miles Tarquin Bonfield
Harriet Jane Bradley
Deborah Miriam Brown
Andrea Caddick
Daniel De Mesa Caligayahan
Robert John Carden
Muhammad Ehsan Che
Munaaim
Georgina Mary Copley
Jayne Cowell
Raymond Anthony Craig
Darryl Dexter Daniel
John Gerad Donovan
Richardo Joseph Garcia
Graham Thomas Gardner
Stirling Anthony Hackshaw
David Patrick Healy
Paul Joseph Ronald Hermans
Samuel David Hill
Zebulon Joseph Hoffman
Ahloy Cecil Hunt
Neil Thomas Hunter
Robin Adrian Jarman
Jane Johnson
Linda Patricia Kelly
Philip Ian Kirk
Richard Walter Paul Klopp
Jana Kovalăikovà
Keith John Lomas
James Lunn
Nora Jane McCawley
Kenrick Maharaj
Michael Vincent Manley
Darren John Martland
Daniel John Mayes
Nora Jane McCawley
Kenneth Hunter McIntosh
William David McWilliam
Laila Mehrpour
Chris Noble
Mohamed Ahmed Nanabhay
Krokhina Olena
Christy Oommen
Amanda Jane Marie Pearson
Kieran Alistair Martin
Pollentine
Tracy Ann Potter
Adam Raffell
Haroon Rashid
David John Richards
Richard Joseph Rowland
Tatiana Ruchinskaya
Timothy James Schaitberger
Dana Allen Siegelman
Steve Angus Skinner
Robert John Spencer
Keith Surtees
Heng Wee Tan
Harriet Laura Margaret Torry
Louisa Yee Ling Tsang
Polly Turton
Humberto Valverde
Andrew Eyton Williams
Thea Cathryn Willis
Lin Xie
Po Jen Yap
Alasdair Young
Laura Young
Qiang Zhang
Bachelor of Medicine
Zahid Mahmood Ataullah
John Joseph Daniel
Callaghan
Mark James Davies
Anushka Patchava
Lorna Moore
Bachelor of Surgery
Marcel Nicola Biscoff
Phillip Craig Endleman
Graham Iain Victor Pluck
Paolo Scollo
Graeme Wilson
Ivailo Zhekov
Master of Natural
Sciences and Bachelor
of Arts
Akiyoshi Shiotani
Bachelor of Arts
Paul Charles Aliker
Samuel Pei En Beh
Elizabeth Campbell
Keiran Carson
Aiden Cope
Zaneeta Dhesi
Jonathan Adam Fransman
Kalle Harberg
Kamil Kaminski
Rozelle Kane
Cynthia Deidre Anne Larbey
Han Ming Mark Lim
Christopher O’Donnell
Mal Peachey
Peter James Rogers
Emmanuel Sheppard
Angelica Sophie Tatam
Lizhan Tham
Katie Isabella Trew
Helen Lesley Waller
Ping Yip William Yeung
Manfredas Zabarauskas
Bachelor of Theology
for Ministry
Eileen Khean-Geok Harrop
Clifford Kay
Conrad Guettler
Membership
Wolfson College
College Officers
President: Richard Evans Kt MA DPhil DLitt FRHistS FRSL FLSW FBA, Regius Professor of History
Vice-President: John Naughton BE MA FRSA, Emeritus Professor of the Public Understanding of
Technology, The Open University
Bursar: Christopher Lawrence MA MSc ARCM
Senior Tutor: Jane McLarty MA MPhil PhD
Development Director: Karen Stephenson MA PGCE
Praelector: Brian D Cox BSc MA PhD
Membership
Tutors
Anna Bagnoli BSc PhD
David Barrowclough MA PhD
Sally Church BA MA PhD
Jo Dekkers BSc PhD
David Frost BEd MA MA PhD FRSA
Kevin Greenbank BA MA PhD
Margaret Greeves MA MA FRSA
Lesley MacVinish MA PhD
Christina Skott MagPhil PhD
Michelle St Clair BA MSc PhD
Martin Vestergaard MSc PhD
Giles Yeo BA PhD
Admissions Tutors
Jennifer Davis BA MSc MA PhD (graduate admissions)
Michael Hrebeniak BA PhD (undergraduate admissions, Arts and Humanities)
Lesley MacVinish MA PhD (undergraduate admissions, Sciences)
College Teaching Officers
Michael Hrebeniak BA PhD (English)
Paul MacMahon BA BCL MPhil JD (Law) (to 30 September 2012)
Brendan Plant BEc LLB MSc (Law) (from 1 October 2012)
Lee Librarian
Jenny Sargent BA MA
Director of Music
Lynette Alcántara BA BMusEd AMusA MA
New Fellows 2011–2012
Honorary Fellow
Judge Sang-Hyun Song was appointed to the International Criminal
Court in 2003 and was elected and re-elected President of the
International Criminal Court until March 2015. From 1972 he taught as
a Professor of Law at Seoul National University; he has also held Visiting
Professorships at a number of law schools, including Harvard, New York
University, Melbourne and Wellington. His legal career began as a
judge-advocate in the Korean army and he also led initiatives to reform
the national litigation and criminal justice system.
Fellows
Dr Anna Bagnoli is an Associate Researcher in the Department of Sociology and a College Tutor.
She is interested in developing creative and participatory methodological approaches involving
the use of visual and arts-based methods. She also teaches visual methods at the Universities of
Barcelona and Basel.
Dr Pedro Ballester is an MRC Methodology Research Fellow at EMBL-EBI. His research focuses on
the development and application of innovative computational tools to analyse and predict
binding in large and diverse sets of protein-ligand complexes.
Dr Stefan Baur is a postdoctoral researcher in condensed matter theory at the Cavendish
Laboratory. He studies interacting ultra-cold quantum gases, a state of matter when atoms are
cooled down close to absolute zero temperature.
Dr Uilleam Blacker is a postdoctoral research associate on the Memory at War project at the
Department of Slavonic Studies. His research focuses on the intersections of cultural memory,
urban space and literature in Poland, Ukraine and Russia.
Dr Andreas Bulling is a postdoctoral researcher in the Graphics and Interaction Group at the
Computer Laboratory where he develops algorithms at the interface of ubiquitous computing,
machine learning and eye tracking.
Membership
Judge Song graduated with an LLB from Seoul National University and, whilst a student at
Wolfson (1968), he obtained a Diploma in Comparative Legal Studies. He recently visited the
College and, in his thank you letter to the President, said: “I look forward to seeing Wolfson
prosper further as it approaches its milestone fiftieth anniversary.”
New Fellows 2011–2012 continued
Dr David de Sancho is a FEBS Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Chemistry. He studies
weakly structured peptides and intrinsically disordered proteins using molecular simulations. His
main research focus is on gaining quantitative insight into the origin of experimental signals in
protein folding.
Professor Stephen Evans is Director of the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in
Industrial Sustainability and also Director of Research at the Institute for Manufacturing. He spent
12 years in industry and now he seeks to understand how industry can develop solutions that
move us towards a sustainable future.
Dr Philip Alan Goodwin is Herchel Smith Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Earth Sciences
and investigates how carbon-climate feedbacks affect atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, both in
the future in response to fossil fuel emissions and as part of natural climate cycles in the past.
Dr Stephen Hoath is Research Associate in the Department of Engineering Inkjet Research
Centre, based within the Institute for Manufacturing. He is also Director of Studies in Engineering.
Membership
Dr Chan Woo Kim is a mathematician with a research focus in the field of the partial differential
equations.
Dr Wansu Kim holds a Herchel Smith Postdoctoral Fellowship and studies algebro-geometric
questions arising from number theory.
Dr Svitlana Kobzar is a Junior Research Fellow and an Associate Analyst at RAND Europe. She has
been researching the re-admission agreements as well as the impact that the EU has on refugee
protection policy in Ukraine, including the role of international organisations in influencing
norms and values in this country.
Dr Harry Leitch is a visiting researcher at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research. His
research interests are in pluripotent stem cell biology and the relationship between pluripotency
and the germ line.
Dr Richard Meiser-Stedman is a clinical psychologist and Medical Research Council Clinician
Scientist Fellow at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. His research addresses the
psychiatric reactions of children and adolescents to extreme stressors.
Peter Phillips MA is the Chief Executive of Cambridge University Press. Prior to the Press, he was
on the Board of Ofcom, served as Chief Operating Officer for BBC News and Current Affairs and
read Mathematics at Merton College, Oxford.
Dr Josana Rodríguez Sánchez holds a Herchel Smith Fellowship at The Wellcome Trust and
Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute where her research is focused on the identification of new
genes involved in the polarisation of cells.
New Fellows 2011–2012 continued
Dr Michelle St Clair is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Psychiatry and also
a College Tutor. She studies the distal and proximal causes of psychiatric illness in adolescence
and is also a member of the Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care.
Dr Martin Vestergaard studies cognitive aspects of the reward system in the Department of
Physiology, Development and Neuroscience. He previously held a Research Fellowship at the
Centre for the Neural Basis of Hearing in the University of Cambridge.
Dr Amy Wyatt is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Chemistry studying the role of
extracellular chaperones in diseases of protein misfolding such as Alzheimer’s disease,
atherosclerosis and macular degeneration. She holds a CJ Martin Fellowship awarded by the
National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia.
Dr Jiaxiang Zhang is a postdoctoral researcher at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. His
research focuses on the neural mechanisms of decisions and learning in health and neurological
disease using functional magnetic resonance imaging and computational modelling.
Membership
Fellows
As at 31 July 2012, in order of election to the Fellowship
1981
Marie Lovatt BA AKC PhD; Senior Fellow, Wolfson College
1982
Marguerite Dupree BA MA MA DPhil PhD FRHistS; Centre for the History of Medicine, University
of Glasgow
Membership
1983
Brian Moore MA PhD FMedSci FRS; Professor of Auditory Perception and Deputy Head of
Department of Experimental Psychology
Joan Whitehead BA MA PhD; University Lecturer in Psychology, Faculty of Education
1984
Sheelagh Lloyd PhD; Senior Lecturer in Parasitology, Dept of Veterinary Medicine
1987
John Henderson BA MA PhD FRHistS; Professor of Italian Renaissance History, Birkbeck College,
University of London
1989
Duncan McCallum MA; Deputy Academic Secretary, Academic Division
1990
Ivor Day BSc MSc PhD FIMechE FASME FREng; Senior Rolls-Royce Research Fellow, Whittle
Laboratory, Dept of Engineering
1992
John Naughton BE MA FRSA; Emeritus Professor of the Public Understanding of Technology, The
Open University; Director, Wolfson College Press Fellowship Programme and Vice-President,
Wolfson College
Peter Weissberg MA MD FRCP FMedSci; Medical Director, British Heart Foundation and Honorary
Consultant Cardiologist, Addenbrooke’s Hospital
1993
Ian Goodyer MB BS DCH MD MA FRCPsych FMedSci; Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry,
Dept of Psychiatry
1994
Donald MacDonald MA PhD; formerly Director of Medical & Veterinary Education in the Faculty of
Biology, Dept of Genetics
Ian Cross LRAM ARCM BSc PhD; Professor of Music & Science, Faculty of Music
Fellows continued
Geoffrey Khan PhD FBA; Professor of Semitic Philology, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
Norbert Peabody AM PhD; Senior Research Fellow in Anthropology
1995
Jennifer Davis BA MSc MA PhD; Director of Studies in Law and Graduate Admissions Tutor,
Wolfson College
1997
Nadia Stelmashenko PhD; Technical Officer, Dept of Materials Science & Metallurgy
1998
Duncan Maskell MA PhD FMedSci; Marks & Spencer Professor of Farm Animal Health, Food Science
& Food Safety and Head of Department of Veterinary Medicine
Koen Steemers BSc BArch MPhil PhD RIBA; Professor of Sustainable Design and Head of
Department of Architecture
Thomas Ridgman MA CEng FIET; University Lecturer, Dept of Engineering
Sally Church BA MA PhD; Tutor & International Student Liaison Officer, Wolfson College and
Senior Research Associate, Civilizations in Contact, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
Peter Sewell MA MSc PhD; Reader in Computer Science and EPSRC Leadership Fellow,
Computer Laboratory
Steven Hand BSc MSc PhD; Reader in Computer Systems, Computer Laboratory
John Sinclair MA PhD; Professor of Molecular Virology, Dept of Medicine
2000
Anne Jarvis MA MA; University Librarian, Cambridge University Library
Peter D’Eath PhD; University Lecturer, Dept of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics
George Salmond BSc MA PhD ScD DSc (Hon) FRSA FSB FRSE; Professor of Molecular Microbiology
and Deputy Head of Department of Biochemistry
William Marslen-Wilson PhD FBA; Honorary Professor of Language & Cognition
John Clark MB ChB MA MD FRCP; Associate Clinical Dean, Clinical School and Consultant Physician,
West Suffolk Hospital
Karen Pearce MSc; Assistant Director of Physical Education, Sports Department
John Firth DM FRCP; Consultant Physician & Nephrologist and Clinical Director of Renal Services,
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Associate Dean, Clinical School
David Frost BEd MA MA PhD FRSA; Senior Lecturer in Educational Leadership & School
Improvement, Faculty of Education and Tutor, Wolfson College
2001
Ann Copestake MA DPhil; Professor of Computational Linguistics and Deputy Head of Department,
Computer Laboratory
Membership
1999
Raymond Bujdoso PhD; Senior Lecturer in Molecular Immunology, Dept of Veterinary Medicine
and Director, Wellcome Trust Summer School
Michael Bienias MA; Director, Estate Management
Charles Jones BA MA PhD; Reader in International Relations, Dept of Politics and International
Studies and Director, Centre of Latin American Studies
Susan Bowring MA PGCE; formerly University Draftsman, Secretariat
Graham Allen MA MA; Academic Secretary, Academic Division
Fellows continued
Membership
Markus Kuhn MSc PhD; Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, Computer Laboratory
Andrew Bradley MB ChB PhD FRCS FMedSci; Professor of Surgery and Head of Department
of Surgery, Honorary Consultant Surgeon and Clinical Director of Transplantation,
Addenbrooke’s Hospital
2002
Nigel Kettley BA MPhil PhD; University Lecturer in Social Science, Institute of Continuing Education
Lynette Alcántara BA BMusEd AMusA MA; Director of Music, Wolfson College, Singing Teacher,
Choir of King’s College and member of BBC Singers
Andrew Reid MA MBA; Director of Finance, Finance Division
Jin Zhang BA MA MPhil PhD; University Lecturer in International Business & China, Judge
Business School
Thomas D’Andrea MA PhD; Director, International Society for Legal & Moral Philosophy,
Witherspoon Institute and Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy, Centre for Research in
the Arts, Social Sciences & Humanities (CRASSH)
Thomas Grant BA JD PhD; Research Fellow, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law and
Public International Lawyer
Margaret Joy Dauncey BSc PhD ScD FSB; Senior Scientist and Adviser in Nutritional &
Biomedical Sciences
Adrian Kent MA PhD; Reader in Quantum Physics, Dept of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics
Susan Oosthuizen BA MA PGCE PhD FSA; Senior Lecturer for Landscape & Field Archaeology,
Institute of Continuing Education
2003
Nicholas Wareham MB BS MSc PhD FRCP FFPHM; Director, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Co-Director,
Institute of Metabolic Science and Honorary Consultant, Addenbrooke’s Hospital
Jonathan Crowcroft MA MSc PhD FREng FIET FBCS FIEEE FACM; Marconi Professor of
Communications Systems, Computer Laboratory
Gillian Murphy PhD FMedSci; Professor of Cancer Cell Biology and Deputy Head of Dept of Oncology
Peter Jones MD PhD FRCP FRCPsych FMedSci; Professor of Psychiatry and Head of Dept of Psychiatry
2004
Vassilis Koronakis MA PhD; Professor of Molecular Biology, Dept of Pathology
2005
Lesley MacVinish MA PhD; Senior Teaching Associate, Dept of Pharmacology; Tutor and
Undergraduate Admissions Tutor for Science and Pre-Clinical Director of Studies for Veterinary &
Medical Sciences, Wolfson College
Jonathan Ingham MA PhD; Research Associate, Centre for Photonic Systems, Dept of Engineering
Zhi-Yong Li BSc MA PhD; Senior Research Fellow, Dept of Radiology
Christopher Town MA PhD; Research Fellow in Computer Science, Computer Laboratory and
Co-Founder & Chief Technical Officer, Imense Ltd
Christina Skott MagPhil PhD; Director of Studies in History and Tutor, Wolfson College; College
Lecturer and Director of Studies in History, Magdalene College; Affiliated Lecturer, Faculty of
History and Junior Pro-Proctor
Fellows continued
2006
David Baguley BSc MSc MBA PhD; Director of Audiology, Depts of Audiology & Otolaryngology,
Addenbrooke’s Hospital
George Vogiatzis PhD; Senior Research Scientist, Toshiba Cambridge Research Laboratory
Kevin Greenbank BA MA PhD; Archivist & Administrator, Centre of South Asian Studies and Tutor,
Wolfson College
Jeremy Webb MA MRCP DRCOG MRCGP; Graduate Course in Medicine Tutor, Clinical School and GP
Richard Fenner BSc PhD CEng MICE FCIWEM; Senior Lecturer and Engineering for Sustainable
Development Course Director, Dept of Engineering
Simon Pattinson MBA DipM MCIM; Industrial Systems, Manufacture & Management Course
Director, Institute for Manufacturing, Dept of Engineering
Friedrich Lösel PhD Dr Sc (Hon); Director of the Institute of Criminology and Professor of
Psychology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
2008
Anthony Short MPhys DPhil; Royal Society Research Fellow, Dept of Applied Mathematics &
Theoretical Physics
Gordon Dougan BSc MA PhD FMedSci FRS; Head of Pathogen Research and Management
Board Member, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Viji Draviam-Sastry MSc PhD; Cancer Research UK Career Development Fellow and Group Leader,
Dept of Genetics
Karen Stephenson MA PGCE; Development Director, Wolfson College
James (Chip) Coakley BA MA PhD; Affiliated Lecturer on Syriac, Faculty of Divinity; Affiliated
Researcher, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies and Manuscript Specialist, Cambridge
University Library
Sir Anthony Brenton KCMG MPhil MA; formerly British Ambassador to Russia
Michael O’Sullivan CMG MA MPhil; Director, Cambridge Commonwealth & Overseas Trusts
Massimiliano Garagnani Laurea PhD PhD; Investigator Scientist, MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit
Virginia Newcombe BSc MPhil MB BS PhD MRCP; NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in Neurocritical
Care and Specialty Registrar, Addenbrooke’s Hospital
Michael Hrebeniak BA PhD; College Lecturer in English, Director of Studies in English and
Undergraduate Admissions Tutor (Arts), Wolfson College
James Wood BSc BVetMed MSc PhD MA MRCVS DipECVPH DLSHTM; Alborada Professor of
Equine & Farm Animal Science and Director, Cambridge Infectious Diseases Consortium,
Dept of Veterinary Medicine
Membership
2007
Christopher Lawrence MA MSc ARCM; Bursar, Wolfson College
Margaret Greeves MA MA FRSA; Tutor, Wolfson College
Andrew Simester BCom LLB DPhil; Professor of Law, National University of Singapore; Senior
Research Fellow, Institute of Criminology and Affiliated Lecturer, Faculty of Law
David Barrowclough MA PhD; Postdoctoral Researcher, McDonald Institute for Archaeological
Research, Dept of Archaeology and Tutor, Wolfson College
Alice Benton BA MA; Principal Assistant Registrary, Secretariat
Vincenzo Vergiani PhD; Lecturer in Sanskrit, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
Linda Wicker BS PhD; Professor of Immunogenetics, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research
Fellows continued
Membership
Sergey Nejentsev MD PhD; Royal Society Research Fellow, Dept of Medicine
Stephen Oliver BSc PhD FMedSci FAAAS; Professor of Systems Biology & Biochemistry and Director,
Cambridge Systems Biology Centre
2009
Mark Wills BSc PhD; Senior Research Associate, Dept of Medicine
Jane McLarty MA MPhil PhD; Senior Tutor, Wolfson College and Affiliated Lecturer, Faculty
of Divinity
Meredith Hale BA MA MPhil PhD; Speelman Fellow in Dutch & Flemish Art, Wolfson College
Joanna Dekkers BSc PhD; Senior Assistant Registrary, Academic Division and Tutor, Wolfson College
Anna Jones MA MA MPhil; Whipple Librarian, Dept of History & Philosophy of Science
Giles See How Yeo BA PhD; Senior Research Associate and Director of Genomics & Transcriptomics,
Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke’s Hospital and Tutor, Wolfson College
Bonnie Auyeung BA PhD; Research Associate, Dept of Psychiatry
Elizabeth Blake BA MPhil PhD; Dept of Archaeology
Joshua Hordern BA DipTh MSt PhD; Associate Director, Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics,
Tyndale House and Affiliated Lecturer and Research Associate, Faculty of Divinity
Ella McPherson BA MPhil PhD; Research Fellow in Sociology, Faculty of Politics, Psychology,
Sociology & International Studies and Director of Studies for Politics, Psychology & Sociology,
Wolfson College
Xavier Moya BSc MSc PhD; Research Associate, Dept of Materials Science & Metallurgy
Timothy Justin MB BS DM FRCS; Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, West Suffolk Hospital and
Graduate Course in Medicine Tutor, Dept of Medicine
Alun Williams BVMS PhD DipECVP FHEA MRCVS; Professor of Veterinary Diagnostic Pathology,
Dept of Veterinary Medicine
2010
Conrad Guettler BSc PhD MA; Freelance Publishing Consultant and Review Editor, Wolfson College
Anil Madhavapeddy BEng PhD; Principal Engineer, Xensource UK Ltd and Senior Research Associate,
Computer Laboratory
Julio Saez-Rodriguez Licenciatura PhD; Research Group Leader, European Bioinformatics Institute
Justin Meggitt BA MTS PhD; Senior Lecturer in the Study of Religion & the Origins of Christianity,
Institute of Continuing Education; Affiliated Lecturer in New Testament Studies, Faculty of
Divinity and Visiting Researcher, Stockholm University
Pradeep Nathan BSC PhD MRACI CCHEM FCP; Director of Neuroscience, GlaxoSmithKline
Pharmaceutical; Adjunct Professor of Neuroscience, Monash University, Australia and Affiliated
Lecturer, Dept of Psychiatry
Abderrahmane (Abdul) Kaidi BSc PhD; Research Fellow, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge
Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz BSc MB BCH PhD FRS FRCP FRCPath FMedSci (1989); Vice
Chancellor, University of Cambridge and Honorary Fellow, Wolfson College
Alistair Fair BA MA PhD; Research Associate, Dept of Architecture and Director of Studies in
Architecture, Wolfson College and Churchill College
Dominik Heiss Dipl Phys Dr rer nat; Research Associate, Microelectronics Group, Cavendish Laboratory
Andong Lu BArch MPhil PhD; Research Associate, Dept of Architecture
Maria Muñoz Caffarel BSc MSc PhD; Research Associate, Dept of Pathology
Fellows continued
Patrick Narbonne BSc PhD; Human Frontiers Research Fellow, The Gurdon Institute, University
of Cambridge
James Riley BA MA PhD; Preceptor of English Literature, Corpus Christi College
Roland Schwarz Dipl Inf (FH) Dr rer nat; Research Associate, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute
Maria Ttofi BA BA MPhil PhD; Leverhulme & Newton Trust Early Career Fellow, Institute of Criminology
Saroj Velamakanni BSc MSc PhD; Senior Research Associate, Dept of Pharmacology
Oliver Woodford MA MEng DPhil; Research Engineer, Toshiba Cambridge Research Laboratory
Yinyin Yuan BSc MSc PhD; Research Fellow, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute and Dept of Oncology
2012
Michelle St Clair BA MSc PhD; Research Associate, Dept of Psychiatry and Tutor, Wolfson College
Stephen Evans BSc PhD; Director of Research in Industrial Sustainability, Institute of Manufacturing
and Director of EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Industrial Sustainability
Peter Phillips MA; Chief Executive, Cambridge University Press.
All dates denote calendar year, rather than academic year. Dates in brackets indicate the year of
first election to the Fellowship, where the Fellowship has not been held continuously.
Membership
2011
Brodie Waddell BA MA PhD; Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Faculty of History
Josana Rodríguez Sánchez BSc PhD; Research Fellow, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge
Pedro Ballester Aristin Licenciatura MSc PhD; MRC Methodology Research Fellow, EMBL-European
Bioinformatics Institute
Stefan Baur Vordiplom MS PhD; Research Associate, TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory
Uilleam Blacker MA MA PhD; Research Associate, Dept of Slavonic Studies
Andreas Bulling Dipl Inf Dr sc ETH; Research Associate, Computer Laboratory
David de Sancho BSc BSc MSc Dip PhD; Postdoctoral Researcher, Dept of Chemistry
Svitlana Kobzar BA MPhil PhD; Associate Analyst, RAND Europe, Cambridge
Harry Leitch MA PhD; Research Associate, The Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute
Richard Meiser-Stedman BSc PhD DClinPsy; MRC Clinician Scientist Fellow, MRC Cognition
& Brain Sciences Unit
Amy Wyatt BBiotech PhD; Postdoctoral Researcher, Dept of Chemistry
Jiaxiang Zhang BEng MSc PhD; Investigator Scientist, MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit
Stephen Hoath BA DPhil MA; Research Associate, Inkjet Research Centre, Dept of Engineering
and Director of Studies for Engineering, Wolfson College
Paul MacMahon BA BCL MPhil JD; College Teaching Officer in Law, Wolfson College
Anna Bagnoli BSc PhD; Associate Researcher, Dept of Sociology and Tutor, Wolfson College
Martin Vestergaard MSc PhD; Research Associate, Dept of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience
and Tutor, Wolfson College
Philip Goodwin MSci PhD; Herchel Smith and NERC Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept of Earth Sciences
Chan Woo Kim BS PhD; Herchel Smith Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept of Pure Mathematics &
Mathematical Statistics
Wansu Kim BSc PhD; Herchel Smith Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept of Pure Mathematics &
Mathematical Statistics
Honorary Fellows
Membership
As at 31 July 2012, in order of election to the Honorary Fellowship
1977 The Reverend Professor Owen
Chadwick OM KBE FBA
1986 Dr Lee Seng Tee
1987 Sir John Sparrow
1990 Sir Christopher Benson DL FRICS
Professor Sir Hans Kornberg FRS
1992 Professor Hugh Bevan
The Reverend Professor Ernest
Nicholson FBA (1966)
1994 Professor Mary Hesse FBA ScD (1965)
1995 Professor Leslie Zines AO
The Rt Hon Sir Michael Hardie Boys
GCMG PC
1997 Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
The Rt Hon the Baroness Scotland
of Asthal PC QC
2000 Professor Suzanne Cory AC FAA FRS
The Rt Hon the Lord Stevens of
Kirkwhelpington QPM DL
Professor William Brown CBE (1985)
2001 The Rt Reverend Dr Anthony Russell
2002 Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz FRCP
FMedSci (1989)
Professor Andrew von Hirsch
2003 Professor Dame Alison Richard DBE DL
General Sir Michael Jackson GCB CBE
DSO DL
The Rt Hon the Lord Soulsby of
Swaffham Prior (1978)
2005 Professor David Crystal OBE FBA
2006 Professor Neil Gorman (1978)
Dr David Grant CBE (2000)
HE Tharman Shanmugaratnam
2008 The Hon Justice Susan Kiefel LLM AC
Dr Judy McGregor
Dr Louise Mirrer
2009 Mr William H Gates Sr
Miss E Kirsten E Rausing D Univ
Professor Wang Gungwu CBE
The Rt Hon the Lord Collins of
Mapesbury LLD PC FBA (1975)
2010 Dr Gordon Johnson (1993)
2011 The Hon Mrs Janet Wolfson de
Botton CBE
Judge Sang-Hyun Song
Dates in brackets indicate the year of first
election to the Fellowship
Emeritus Fellows
As at 31 July 2012, in order of first election to the Fellowship
1965
1967
1968
1969
1971
1975
1980 1981
1982
1983 1984 1986
1987
1988
1989
1990 1991
1992 1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1999 2000
2001
Mac Dowdy
Dr Stephen Large
Professor Michael Redhead FBA
Professor David Hargreaves
Dr Alexander Tait
Dr John Rees
Dr Peter Beaumont
Dr John Brackenbury
Dr Abraham Karpas
Professor Barry Kemp CBE FBA
Dr John Seagrave
Dr Janet West
Professor Malcolm Burrows ScD FRS
Mr Michael Richardson
Dr Patricia Hyndman
Mr Anthony Wilson
Dr Gordon Johnson (HF)
Dr Norma Emerton
Professor E Stewart Lee
Dr Tyrell Smith
Dr Brian D Cox
Dr Thomas Davies
Dr John Flowerdew
Dr Evelyn Lord
Dr Timothy Mead
Dr Jeremy Mynott
David J Hall
Professor Andrew Pollard
Professor Martin Bobrow CBE
Professor Andrew Herbert OBE
FBCS FREng
2003 Dr Cyrus Chothia
2004 Professor Philip Arestis
Professor Robin Alexander FBA
Professor Richard Taylor
HF indicates that this person is also an
Honorary Fellow
Membership
1976 1977
1978
Mr Frederick Algate
Professor Mary Hesse FBA ScD (HF)
Dr David Franks
Dr Bridget Allchin
Dr Arthur Jennings
Mr Richard Nicholls
Mr Bill Kirkman MBE
Mr James Kinnier Wilson
Dr Donald Wilson
Professor Paul Hirst
Mr Roger Akester
The Rt Hon the Lord Collins
of Mapesbury LLD FBA (HF)
Dr Cecil Treip
Dr David Briggs
Dr Owen Edwards
Dr Henry Tribe
The Rt Hon the Lord Soulsby
of Swaffham Prior (HF)
Dr R Stuart McGregor
Dr Eric Miller
Dr John Cathie
Mr Edward Johnson
Professor Tony Minson FMedSci
Dr Stephen Bragg FREng
Mr Mike Sharman MBE
Professor Rudolf Hanka
Professor John Hughes FRS
Dr Iain Wilkinson
Dr Roger Connan
Professor Witold Tulasiewicz
Dr James Garlick
Dr Roy Switsur
Professor William Blakemore
The Reverend John Snaith
Dr David Bostock
Professor Nicholas de Lange FBA
Mr Colin Gill
Dr David Clode
Senior Members
As at 31 July 2012
Membership
Our Senior Members form a vibrant group within College. The list comprises those who are
holders of University Offices and, in a long-standing Wolfson tradition, distinguished members
of the local community who have been invited to join the College as Senior Members.
Dr David Adams
Mr Peter Agar
Dr Ismael Al-Amoudi
Mr Andrew Aldridge
Mrs Lenore Alexander
Mrs Kim Allen
Dr Dawn Arda
Professor Jonathan
Ashley-Smith
Dr Zoltan Asztalos
Dr Anastasios Avgoustidis
Mr Mirza Baig
Mr Sebastiano Barassi
Mr Adrian Barlow
Dr Philip Barlow
Miss Terry Barringer
Dr Nicholas Baylis
The Reverend Prof
Jeremy Begbie
Mr David Bennett
Mrs Doreen Bennett
Mr Ronald Bennett
Mrs Sheila Betts
Mrs Pamela Black
Dr William Block
Dr R H Bradshaw
Dr Kathleen Breed
Mr Allan Brigham
Dr Roger Briscoe
Dr Luis Briseño-Roa
Mrs Patricia Brown
Mrs Doreen Burgin
Dr Andrea Cantone
Dr J Rafael Castrejón-Pita
Dr Emma Cavell
Mr Gaston Chan
Mr Wing-Kee Chan
Dr Alessio Ciulli
Mr Andrew Clarke
Dr Nicholas Clemons
Mr Richard Collet-Fenson
Dr Lorenzo Corti
Dr Christine L Corton
Mrs Sherry Coutu
Mr Andrew Cox
Mrs Johanna Crighton
Mrs Sally Cullen
Dr Rupert Curwen
Ms Jane Cuthbert
Dr Michael Dales
Dr Alinda Damsma
Ms Penelope Davison
Dr John Dawson
Mrs Barbara de Smith
Mr Paul Deal
Dr Jennifer Deegan
Dr MariaLaura Di Domenico
Mrs Lesley Dingle
Mr Mike Diplock
Mr Michael Dixon
Mr Peter Donovan
Mr Adrian du Plessis
Mr Hugh Duberly CBE, HM
Lord-Lieutenant of
Cambridgeshire
Professor Timothy Duff
Dr Corinne Duhig
Miss Fiona Duncan
Mr Anthony Dye
Dr David Dymond
Professor John Edwards
Mrs Josephine Edwards
Dr Patricia Eisenach
Mrs Susan Eltringham
Mrs Sonia Falaschi-Ray
Miss Elizabeth Falconer
Mr Jan Filochowski
Mr Richard Fisher
Sir Ronnie Flanagan
Dr Derek Ford
Dr Anne Forde
Dr Matthew Forrest
Mr Aidan Foster
Mr Daniel Fung SBS SC QC JP
Mrs Briege Gardner
Professor Conor Gearty
Mr Joerg Geier
Mrs Valentine Gelman
Dr Andreas Georgiou
Dr Ruchira Ghose
Dr Siddhartha Ghose
Ms Janet Gibson
Dr Hedwig Gockel
Senior Members continued
Dr Christopher Johnson
Mrs Faith Johnson
Mr Nathaniel Johnson
Mr Orlando Johnson
Dr Chris Jones
Mr J Ieuan Jones
Dr Roy Jones
Professor Brian Josephson
Dr Kriti Kapila
Mr Jonathan King
Mrs Ruth King
Dr Wendy Kneissl
Dr Jennifer Koenig
Dr Joanna Kostylo
Mallam Abba Kyari
The Hon Justice Bruce Lander
Professor Peter Landrock
Dr Ulrich Lang
Mrs Janet Lash
Mrs Alison Laugier
Dr Sandra Leaton Gray
Ms Dawn Leeder
Dr Alison Lennox
Professor Antony Lentin
Dr Scott Levy
Mr Christopher Lewis
Mr Ed Lewis
Dr The Hon Sir David K P Li
GBS OBE JP
Dr Eric Li GBS OBE JP
Mr David T C Lie SBS OM JP
Mr A Gordon Lister
Mrs Pamela Lister
Dr Janet Littlewood
Dr Carlos Lopez-Garcia
Dr David Lott
Mrs D Judy Lowe
Ms Yunzhi Lu
Mrs Angela M Lucas
Professor Peter J Lucas FSA
Dr Carlos Ludlow-Palafox
Dr Mary MacDonald
Dr Sebastian Macmillan
The Reverend Dr Timothy
Macquiban
Dr Isobel Maddison
Dr Brian Mahy
Mr Paul Malpas
Dr Ferial Mansour
Professor Ivana Markova FBA
FRSE
Dr Lisa Marlow
Sir Michael Marshall CBE DL
Mr Alexander McCarthy-Best
Mr Neil McGann
Councillor Russell McPherson
Mr Richard C Meade
Dr Anthea Messent
Mr Adrian Miller
Mr Steven Miller
Mr Will Miller
Dr Francesco Montomoli
Mr Kenneth Morgan OBE
Mr Roger Morgan
Mr Matthew Moss MVO
Mrs Marilyn Motley
Mr John Mott
Dr Carrie Mowatt
Dr Dawn Muddyman
Mrs Lesley Murdin
Professor Paul Murdin OBE
Mr Simon Murray
Dr Ana Narvaez
Dr Dmitry Nerukh
Dr Christine Nicoll
Dr Richard Nixon
Dr Claire O’Brien
Lady (Sally) Oliver
Dr Susan Oliver
Mrs Beryl O’May
Dr Ian O’Neill
Professor Christine Oppong
Dr Karen Ottewell
Dr Stefan Paetke
Mr Ray Palmer
Dr William Paterson
Dr Elinor Payne
Membership
Dr Isabel Gonzalez
Mr David Goode FRSA
Dr Gareth Goodier
Professor Philip Goyal
Ms Lesley Gray
Mr Colin Greenhalgh CBE DL
Dr Emmanouela Grypeou
The Reverend Canon Dr
Maggie Guite
Mr D G (Ben) Gunn CBE QPM
Dr Hannelore Hägele
Mrs Carol Handley
Dr Mila Hanka
Ms Binney Hare
Mr Roger Harrabin
Mr David Harris
Mr Kim Harris
Dr Terance Hart FRSC
Dr Catherine Harter
Dr Jürgen Harter
Mr Andrew Harvey
Dr Ralph Hawtrey
The Rt Hon the Lord
Hemingford
The Reverend Christian
Heycocks
Mrs Lynn Hieatt
Dr Karen Hills
Dr Suzanne Hoelgaard
Dr Mark Hogarth
Miss Amanda Hollands
Dr Theodore Hong
Mr Anthony Hopkinson
Mrs Sylvia Hopkinson
Mrs Beverley Housden
Professor James Hughes
Brigadier Sir Miles Hunt-Davis
GCVO CBE
Mr Roland Huntford
Dr Stacey Hynd
Mr Derek Ingram OBE
Dr Prashant Jain
Ms Mary Jennings
Membership
Senior Members continued
Mrs Hilary Pennington
Ms Hilary Perrott
Dr Fabien Petitcolas
Mr Gautam Philip
Dr Matthew Piccaver
The Reverend Dr William
Pickering
Dr Julia Poole
Dr Jocelyn Probert
Mr Ian Purdy
Mrs Ruth Quadling
Dr Ashwin Rao
Dr Sandy Richards
Dr Wyn Richards
Dr Alan Rickard
Dr Hauke Riesch
The Reverend Dr Keith Riglin
FRSA
Mr David Roberts
Dr L C (Kees) Rookmaaker
Mr Simon Ross
Mrs Susan Round
Dr Maria Ruiz-Tagle
Mr Manas Saikia
Mrs Ursula Sainsbury
Mr Sumio Saito
Dr Jennifer Sambrook
Dr Robert Sansom FREng
Mr Bob Satchwell
Dr Alexander Schekochihin
Dr Jochen Schenk
Mrs Michelle Searle
Dr Nick Segal
Mr Richard Senior
Mr Andrew Shaw
Mr Richard A Shervington DL
Professor Yury Shtyrov
Dr Neville Silverston MBE
Mrs Françoise Simmons
Mr Michael Simmons
Dr Amit Singh
Mr James Smith
Mr Maurice Smith
Dr Anna Snowdon
Professor Rosanna Sornicola
The Reverend Canon Philip
Spence
Dr C William Squire
Dr J Quentin Stafford-Fraser
Dr Thomas Stainsby
Mr Thomas Stevens
Councillor Sheila Stuart
Dr Li Su
Mr Richard Synge
Mr David Tang
Mr Christopher Taylor
Mr Donald Taylor
Professor Göran Therborn
Mr James Thompson
Mr Nicholas Tippler
Dr Andrew Troup
Dr Tri Tuladhar
Ms Rachael Tuley
Mrs Rosemary Turner
Professor Alberto Varvaro
Dr Attila Vegh
Dr Shailendra Vyakarnam
Mrs Wendy Walford
Dr Martin Walsh
Dr Philip Ward
Dr Peter Webster
Dr Di Wei
Mrs Eileen West
Mr Robin Weyell
Professor John White
Dr Frank Whitford FSA
Dr Olwen Williams
Dr Richard Williams
Lady (Sally) Williams
Dr Lucy Wilson
Mrs Rachel Wilson
Mrs Sue Wiseman
Ms Cynthia Wong
Dr Kai-Yuen Wong
Dr Rosanna Yick-Ming Wong
DBE JP
Dr Yip-Yan Wong
Mrs Shirley Wozencraft
Mrs Custis Wright
Professor Toshiki Yamamoto
Dr Kevin Xiaoyu Yang
Dr Elias Zahar
College Research Associates
As at 31 July 2012
Our College Research Associates are actively engaged in research in the University and its allied
institutions and contribute to the College in many ways.
Dr E Annabel S Keeler
Dr Julia Krivoruchko
Dr András Lakatos
Dr Yinglin Liu
Dr Nahal Mavaddat
Dr Karyn Mégy
Dr Sarah Monk
Dr Sebastian Mosbach
Dr Cristina Nombela Otero
Dr Scott Owens
Dr Alexander Panayotov
Dr Joel Peck
Dr Anabela Pinto
Dr Anthony Podberscek
Dr Daniele Quercia
Dr Dietrich RebholzSchuhmann
Dr Stefanie Reichelt
Dr Alasdair Russell
Dr Laurence Smith
Dr Yosuke Tashiro
Dr Bernard Thienpont
Dr Dan Tidhar
Dr Ana Toribio
Dr Olga Ulturgasheva
Dr Jinhong Tracy Wang
Dr Andrew Webb
Dr Svava Wetzel
Mr Timothy Winter
Membership
Dr Samuel Aaron
Dr Martin Allen FSA
Dr Ana-Maria Blanaru
Dr Ji-yun Chun
Dr Jonathan Clarke
Ms Christine Counsell
Dr Anton Enright
Dr Camillo Formigatti
Dr Enrico Gili
Dr Jane Goodall
Dr Thore Graepel
Dr Grant Hill-Cawthorne
Dr Sarah Howard
Dr Sven Huettner
Dr Ulf Jensen-Kondering
Membership
Academic Visitors between
1 August 2011 and 31 July 2012
Dr Farid Ahamed; University of Chittagong, Dept of Anthropology
Professor Robert Aldrich; University of Sydney, Dept of History
Dr Majid Al-Sadoon Trujillo; University of Cambridge, Faculty of Economics
Dr Kennedy Amone-P’Olak; Gulu University, Dept of Psychology, Uganda
Mr Robert Amundsen; University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway
Dr Carolina Armenteros; University of Groningen, Faculty of Arts
Mr Christopher Arsenault; Al Jazeera English News, Doha
Dr Samina Awan; Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad, Dept of History
Professor Amiya Bagchi; Tripura University and Calcutta University, Institute of Development
Dr Rita Banerjee; Delhi University, Shyam Lal College, Dept of English
Mr John Bangs; University of London Institute of Education, Education International and University of
Cambridge, Faculty of Education
Hon Sir Ian Barker; Bankside Chambers, Auckland
Dr Mary Barker; University of Auckland, Dept of Art History
Mr Harald Beier; University of Mannheim, The Mannheim Centre for European Social Research
Dr Sucheta Bhattacharya; Jadavpur University, Kolkata, Dept of Comparative Literature
Mrs Sinead Boucher; Fairfax Media, New Zealand
Ms Gaye Brunker; Kawamura Gakuen Woman’s University, International & English Dept
Dr Michael Carrel; Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge
Professor Jane Chapman; Lincoln University, Faculty of Media & Humanities
Dr Anna Danielsson; University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education
Dr Matthew Davies; British Institute in Eastern Africa, Nairobi
Professor Robert Dewar Jr; University of Connecticut, Dept of Anthropology
Professor Dr Tiago Duarte; New University of Lisbon Law School and PLMJ, Public Law & Arbitration
Department
Dr Rebecca Empson; University of Cambridge, Dept of Social Anthropology and University College
London, Dept of Social Anthropology
Ms Valentina Falco; Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge
Dr Johannes Flume; Max Planck Institute for Comparative & International Private Law, Hamburg
Mr Shinji Fukuda; Fukuoka University, Dept of English
Professor Noboru Fukushima; Nihon University, Japan
Dr Christian Füllgrabe; Nottingham University, MRC Institute of Hearing Research Section and University
of Cambridge, Dept of Experimental Psychology
Dr Ajit Ghose; Institute for Human Development, New Delhi
Professor Giuliana Giusti; Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Dept of Linguistics
Professor Shmuel Glick; The Schocken Institute for Jewish Research and Schechter Institute for Jewish
Studies, Jerusalem
Dr Solomon Gofie; Addis Ababa University, Dept of Political Science & International Relations
Ms Anna Goodman; London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Academic Visitors continued
Membership
Professor Christopher Grey; University of Warwick, Warwick Business School
Dr Geekiyanage (Panduka) Gunawardena; University of Peradeniya, Dept of Veterinary Pathobiology,
Sri Lanka
Dr Alan Guy; Retired Independent Researcher
Dr Alfred Hirt; Independent Research Fellow
Ms Vanessa Holzer; Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge
Professor Ross Homel; Griffith University, School of Criminology & Criminal Justice, Queensland
Dr Wolfgang Huber; European Bioinformatics Institute, Heidelberg
Dr Rex Hughes; Cambridge-MIT Institute Communications Research Network and Royal Institute of
International Affairs, London
Professor Sarah Hutton; Aberystwyth University, Dept of English
Dr Masato (John) Ikegami; Matsuyama University, Graduate School of Language & Communication
Dr Monique Ingalls; University of Cambridge, Faculty of Music
Dr Victor (Adefemi) Isumonah; University of Ibadan, Dept of Political Science
Dr Annu Jalais; Jawaharlal Nehru Institute for Advanced Studies, New Delhi
Professor Margaret (Marga) Jann; Uganda Martyrs University, Faculty of the Built Environment
Professor Andrew Jones; University of California Berkeley, Dept of East Asian Languages & Cultures
Ms Allen Kabagenyi; Makerere University, Dept of Population Studies
Mr Christoph Kamissek; European University Institute, Dept of History & Civilization, Florence
Dr Tahir Kamran; Government College University, Lahore
Dr Supriya Kar; Central University of Jharkhand, Centre for English Language
Dr Shelley Katz; University of Surrey and Queen’s University, Canada
Mr Carsten Kern; University of Heidelberg, Faculty of Law and Lauterpacht Centre for International Law,
University of Cambridge
Dr Carolyn King; University of Waikato, Dept of Philosophy, New Zealand
Professor Menahem Kister; The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Institute of Jewish Studies
Dr Hiroyuki Kobayashi; Keio University, School of Medicine
Dr Michael Kobetsky; University of Melbourne, Melbourne Law School
Dr Harshan Kumarasingham; University of Potsdam, Faculty of Economics & Social Sciences
Mr Christopher Kuner; Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Brussels and Tilbery University, The Netherlands
Professor James Leckman; Yale University, School of Medicine
Dr Sabine Lee; University of Birmingham, Dept of History
Dr Becky Lewis; University of South Carolina, Dept of Religious Studies
Professor Kevin Lewis; University of South Carolina, Dept of Religious Studies
Mr George Liebmann; Liebmann & Shively PA, Maryland
Professor Samuel Nan Chiang Lieu; Macquarie University, Dept of Ancient History & Ancient India and
Iran Trust, Cambridge
Dr Elizabeth Lindley; Author
Mr Zu’ai Liu; National University of Defense Technology, Humanities and Social Science College, Changsha
Professor William Lubenow; Richard Stockton College, Faculty of Arts & Humanities, New Jersey
Dr Christos Lynteris; University of Cambridge, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences
& Humanities (CRASSH)
Dr Anuradha Malshe; Independent Researcher
Professor Elizabeth (Lisa) Margulis; University of Arkansas, Dept of Music
Dr Simon Mills; University of Cambridge, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences &
Humanities (CRASSH)
Dr Benson Mulemi; The Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Dept of Social Sciences
Membership
Academic Visitors continued
Mr Oszkár Nagy; University of Cambridge, Centre for Applied Research in Educational
Technologies (CARET)
Professor Lena Irene Cheng Leng Ng; University of Warwick
Dr Jenna Pei-Suin Ng; University of Cambridge, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences
& Humanities (CRASSH)
Professor Mikio Nishioka; Doshisha University, Faculty of Economics
Professor Gang Peng; Tsinghua University, Dept of History
Dr Iain Phillips; Loughborough University, Dept of Computer Science
Dr Monica Popescu; McGill University, Dept of English
Professor Helle Porsdam; University of Copenhagen, Dept of History
Dr Achille Puggioni; Banca d’Italia, Trieste
Dr Ramola Ramtohul; University of Mauritius, Dept of Social Studies
Dr Malika Rebai Maamri; National School of Higher Education in Political Science, Algeria
Dr Matteo Rizzo; University of Cambridge, Centre of African Studies
Dr Peter Roberts; University of Kent, School of History
Dr Manuel (Alejandro) Rodríguez de la Peña; San Pablo CEU University and University College of San
Pablo in Madrid
Mr Daniel Saxon; University of Cambridge, Faculty of Law
Dr Georg Schedereit; Rai Sender, Bozen
Professor Aleksander Sęk; Adam Mickiewicz University, Institute of Acoustics, Poland
Dr Anupama Sen; Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
Mrs Huimin (Frances) Shi; Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, School of Foreign Studies, Hangzhou City
Dr Helen Siedel; Independent Researcher
Dr Tej Singh; Banaras Hindu University, Dept of Political Science
Dr Timothy Stanton; University of York, Dept of Politics
Dr Felix Steffek; Max Plank Institute for Comparative & International Private Law, Hamburg
Mr Anthony Soon Chye Teo; Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Dr Meredith Terretta; University of Ottawa, Dept of History
Professor Dirk Uffelmann; University of Passau, Faculty of Philosophy
Dr Nicole Ulrich; University of Witwatersrand, History Workshop
Dr Emanuele Vaccaro; University of Cambridge, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
The Reverend Dr Chad Van Dixhoorn; Grace Orthodox Presbyterian Church, Vienna
Professor Stephen Vargo; University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Shidler College of Business
Dr Ravi Vasudevan; Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi
Dr Fabienne Viala; University of Cambridge, Faculty of English and Centre of Latin American Studies
Professor Tuija Virtanen-Ulfhielm; Åbo Akademi University, Dept of English Language & Literature
Dr Anna-Maria von der Goltz; Georgetown University, Dept of History, Washington DC
Dr Sabina Wachira; International Center of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi
Professor Kyoko Wakimoto; Okayama University, Dept of English Language Education
Professor George Walker; Queen Mary University, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, London
Ms Aiko Watanabe; Waseda University, Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Dr Helen Webster; University of Cambridge, Centre for Applied Research in Educational
Technologies (CARET)
Dr Kathryn Wegner; Independent Historian
Dr Andrzej Wicher; Adam Mickiewicz University, Institute of Acoustics, Poland
Dr Bernhard Woytek; Austrian Academy of Sciences, Numismatic Commission
Mrs Catherine Wrathall; Independent Consultant
College Administration
As at 31 July 2012
Accommodation & Functions
Accommodation Manager: Mrs Marilyn Motley
Accommodation Administrator: Mrs Katia Averina
Housekeeper: Mrs Anne Saunders
Alumni & Development
Alumni Relations Manager: Miss Kate Hampson
Fundraising & Communications Administrator: Mr Thomas Laws
Catering
College Secretary & Registrar
President’s Assistant & College Secretary: Mrs Sheila Betts
Registrar: Mrs Michelle Searle
Personnel & Finance
Personnel & Payroll Officer: Mrs Sally Cullen
Finance Manager: Mrs Wendy Dyce
Accounts Assistants: Miss Barbara Aloi; Miss Katerina Gargaroni; Mrs Elizabeth Paterson;
Mrs Natalia Ponomarchouk
Information Technology
IT Manager: Mr Mirza Baig
IT Officer: Mr Graeme Dyas
Lee Seng Tee Library
Librarian: Miss Jenny Sargent
Library Assistant: Dr Laurence Smith
Membership
Executive Chef: Mr Ray Palmer
Head Chef: Mr Salvador Bello
Butler: Mr Ian Smith
Maintenance & Gardens
Clerk of Works: Mr Paul Chapman
Assistant Clerk of Works: Mr Neil Newman
Head Gardener: Mr Phil Stigwood
Porters’ Lodge
Head Porter: Mr Mike Wignall
Deputy Head Porter: Mr Miles Stratton
Press Fellowship
Director: Professor John Naughton
Administrator: Mrs Michelle Heydon
Membership
Tutorial
Tutorial Office Manager: Mrs Kim Allen
Tutorial Administrator (Postgraduates): Mrs Gillian Sanders
Tutorial Administrator (Undergraduates): Miss Birgit Lintner
Tutorial Administrator (Part-Time Students) & Praelector’s Assistant: Mrs Janet Manifold
Student Finance Officer: Mrs Sue Sang
College Nurse: Sally Maccallum
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Useful Information
Contact
Wolfson College
Barton Road
Cambridge CB3 9BB
Telephone: +44 (0)1223 335900
Fax: +44 (0)1223 335908
Website: www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk
When arriving by car, please note that the Main Entrance to the College is on Barton Road, not
Selwyn Gardens as shown on some maps and satellite navigation systems.
Accommodation
The College is sometimes able to offer overnight accommodation to members. Enquiries about
the availability of guest rooms should be made in the first instance to the Accommodation
Administrator (accommodation@wolfson.cam.ac.uk).
Dining arrangements
All members (including alumni) are welcome to participate in College functions and come to
lunch, supper and formal dinners in College at their own expense as often as they wish, with up
to three guests.
Informal meals are paid for with a Visitor’s Card, available from the Porters’ Lodge. If you plan to
visit regularly, please contact the Alumni Office (alumni@wolfson.cam.ac.uk): they can arrange
for you to be issued with a College Card.
Formal Hall is held on Tuesdays from 4 September 2012 to 9 July 2013 and on Fridays in Full
Term. Please note that there is no Formal Hall during the Christmas/Easter breaks: see overleaf
for Term dates. Bookings should be made online by noon on the day prior to Formal Hall (or
earlier) at www.FormalHall.wolfson.cam.ac.uk. Bookings for Guest Night should be made at least
two weeks in advance, via the form available on the College website at www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/
notices. Members may use the Bar and Club Room, the Karen Spärck Jones Room, the
Combination Room, the Lee Room and the Dining Hall.
Please let the Alumni Office (alumni@wolfson.cam.ac.uk) know if you are planning to visit the
College: they would be delighted to see you.
Term dates
This year’s dates for Full Term are:
Michaelmas
2 October to 30 November 2012
Lent
15 January to 15 March 2013
Easter
23 April to 14 June 2013
For a full list of Term dates in future years, visit www.cam.ac.uk/univ/termdates.html
Please send any recent news which you would like to share with your fellow Wolfson members
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Wolfson Review or on the College website at www.WolfsonPlus.com
Congregation (Graduation)
Congregations take place throughout the year. For more information, please email the Praelector
at praelector@wolfson.cam.ac.uk. Current students will receive an invitation from the Tutorial
Office for their relevant graduation ceremony.
The Congregation Dates for 2012–2013 are as follows:
20 October 2012
24 November 2012
19 January 2013
16 February 2013 (in absence only)
23 March 2013 (in absence only)
27 April 2013
11 May 2013
29 June 2013 (General Admission)
20 July 2013
Wolfson College Prints
We are delighted to offer for sale limited edition prints of Wolfson College, the College Boat
Houses and the Bumps Course, painted by Emeritus Fellow Tom Davies (1996).
The rowing prints cost £20 each (unframed): they can be annotated with place names for an
additional £5, and can also include bespoke annotation (such as a personal message of thanks)
for a further £5. The Wolfson College print is £25 (also unframed). Very many thanks to Tom,
who has elected that all proceeds are to go to Boat Club funds.
Please contact the Alumni Office for further information on alumni@wolfson.cam.ac.uk
Formal Hall for The Queen's Diamond Jubilee.
The pergola leading away from Norton House.
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