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Friday 12 June: May Bumps marquee
January: Royal Academicians at Wolfson
College exhibition (until 2016)
Sunday 14 June: Benefactors’ Reception,
College Garden Party and Mary Bevan
Recital
Saturday 10 January: Staff New Year
party: 1960s theme
Wednesday 17 June: 50th Anniversary
Lecture
Wednesday 21 January: First 50th
Anniversary Lecture: Professor Conor
Gearty, introduced by the Chancellor,
Lord Sainsbury of Turville
Sunday 28 June: President’s Cup Cricket
Match
Thursday 29 January: London drinks
reception
Saturday 4 July and Sunday 5 July: 50th
Anniversary weekend, including
President’s 50th Anniversary Lecture,
Dinner and Garden Party
Wednesday 18 February: 50th
Anniversary Lecture
September: Henry Moore as a
Photographer exhibition
Tuesday 24 February: Humanities Society
Seminar: Dr Rowan Williams
Saturday 26 September: Alumni Reunion
(-5s and -0s) and ‘A Conversation with
Dr Gordon Johnson’
Thursday 26 February: Lee Seng Tee
Distinguished Lecture
Wednesday 11 March: 50th Anniversary
Lecture
Sunday 15 March: Lent Term Concert and
‘Come and Sing’
Saturday 21 March: ‘Cambridge in
America Day’ and Wolfson event,
New York
Michaelmas Term: Henry Moore exhibition
lecture
Michaelmas Term: ‘Cambridge in America
Day’ and Wolfson event, San Francisco
Wednesday 21 October: 50th Anniversary
Lecture
Wednesday 18 November: 50th
Anniversary Lecture
Saturday 28 March: Global Cambridge
Germany and Wolfson event, Berlin
Thursday 19 November: Commemoration
of Benefactors’ Dinner
Wednesday 15 April: 50th Anniversary
Lecture
Thursday 10 December: Rugby Varsity
Match
Friday 1 May and Saturday 2 May:
Wolfson Research Event
Wednesday 16 December: Final 50th
Anniversary Lecture: Vice-Chancellor,
Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz
Tuesday 26 May: Humanities Society
Seminar: Professor Sir David Cannadine
The 50th Anniversary events calendar will be updated regularly at
www.WolfsonEvents.com
2013 – 2014 No.38
Wednesday 20 May: 50th Anniversary
Lecture
THE
Wolfson Review
2013 – 2014 No.38
Friday 19 December 2014: ‘Wolfson
Alumni in Cambridge’ launch event
The Wolfson Review
Calendar of 50th Anniversary events
Published in 2014 by Wolfson College, Cambridge
Barton Road, Cambridge CB3 9BB
© Wolfson College, 2014
Cover photograph
Executive Chef, Ray Palmer (1975), retired in July 2014
Photographer: Fran May
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2013 – 2014 No.38
THE
Wolfson Review
Contents
Foreword: Editor
From the President
Approaching our 50th Anniversary: Bursar, Senior Tutor and Development Director
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Articles
A Eurosceptic Nation?: Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon
My journey to Wolfson: Alireza Tabatabaie
My life since Wolfson: Ken Yeang
Humour as history? First World War cartoons from the trenches: Jane Chapman
Teacher leadership in Portugal: HertsCam MEd students
The Library: Meg Westbury
The College Archive: Frieda Midgley That’s All Folks: Ray Palmer
Citizen media and the fourth estate: Cindy Yeap
Wolfson gardens: ‘True Blue’, the Holy Grail for rose breeders: Philip Stigwood
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Events and Societies
Events
Lee Seng Tee Distinguished Lecture 2014: The flesh is weak: a history of pain
from the 1760s to the present
Humanities Society
Science Society
Lunchtime Seminar Series
Wolfson College Student Association
Skills for Academic Success
Wolfson Music Society
Ballroom Dancing Society
Noodle Club
Senior Members
Society of Emeritus Fellows
Wolfson Howler
June Event 2014: New York, New York
Art at Wolfson
Law Society
Language and Culture Society
Christian Society
Wolfson Contemporary Reading Group
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Sport
Wolfson Sports
Table Tennis
Football
Squash
Cricket Basketball
Badminton
Aerobics, Zumba and Pilates
Other Sports
Rowing
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News
Members’ News
Donations to Wolfson College
Philanthropy in Action
The Morrison Society
Books by College Members
Recent University Appointments
Obituaries
In Memoriam
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Student Record
Freshers 2013
Prizes and Studentships
Degrees Awarded
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Membership
College Officers
New Fellows
Fellows
Honorary and Bredon Fellows
Emeritus Fellows
Senior Members
College Research Associates
Academic Visitors
College Staff
Useful Information
Donation Form
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back cover
Foreword
Conrad Guettler, Editor
Peter Dowling
As we approach our 50th Anniversary, the College has
become a much more colourful place with the regularlychanging exhibitions organised by our Fine Arts Committee.
As the resident Wolfson community is only a small percentage
of the recipients of this Review, I would like to draw your
attention to the fact that everybody can now see the exhibits
at www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/fine-arts; and similarly for
colourful photographs of the Wolfson Gardens, go to
www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/gardens
The College website, under the ‘Academic Life’ heading, also gives full details of all the many lectures
and seminars held at Wolfson. Many of these have been recorded and are available as podcasts so
that our readers can listen to them wherever they may be: www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/podcasts
I mentioned last year that we strive to put together a representative list of ‘Books by College
Members’ but I remain certain that we are missing out on many because we haven’t heard about
them. Our listing of books obviously does not include journal articles, but I am pleased to report
that we will soon create a web page presenting an ongoing list of refereed papers published
by the Wolfson community. The criteria for inclusion are necessarily fluid, but essentially we are
looking to include our members’ best or most interesting papers. So please do tell us about
your publications!
Having become involved in organising the Wolfson College Chamber Singers’ trip to France,
I now realise how much effort goes into organising all the various Wolfson events and activities
that take place at College and around the world in any given Term. The range of activities in
College varies depending on how active a given Club or Society is – but this is not surprising
given the way our student body changes every year.
editor@wolfson.cam.ac.uk
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Foreword
All at College owe a great debt of gratitude to the many students, members and staff who get
involved in one way or another. And that includes me as Editor; I am grateful to everybody who
has contributed to this Wolfson Review. My special thanks must go to the Alumni & Development
team for all their support in verifying facts, assembling diverse information, careful proof-reading
and sourcing photographs, and to Kim Allen, Sue Sang and Michelle Searle for collating the
student, visitor and University lists.
From the President
Professor Sir Richard Evans considers the business of
College governance.
As I reach the midway point in my term of office as President –
prescribed in the College Statutes as a non-renewable stint of
seven years – it seems a good time to take stock. Looking through
the following pages, it is clear that Wolfson is a lively, energetic and
increasingly self-confident place, buzzing with activities and ideas.
Officers
Sometimes our colleagues in Oxford (‘The Other Place’) write off
Cambridge Colleges – which have less individual power in our
more centrally-administered University than in their more decentralised environment – as little
more than dormitories, but anyone reading this Review will soon be disabused of any such
notion. We offer not just somewhere to live, but also somewhere to engage in a huge range of
activities – sporting, cultural, artistic, musical, social and intellectual. We aim to provide a
second home, especially to students whose time at Cambridge is their first stay overseas, but
we also provide a whole lot more, as the many articles and reports in this edition of the Review
make clear.
Each Cambridge College is a charitable body with its own set of Statutes, which have to be
voted through by the Governing Body of the College and approved by the Privy Council and the
Queen. The Statutes provide a framework of basic rules of governance for the College and
allocate functions to the Governing Body and the Council, lay down the terms and conditions of
offices, and deal with similar fundamental matters. Over the past decades, the Statutes have
been revised several times, but in some areas, such as financial and investment management,
they have failed to keep up with modern practice, while in others anomalies and contradictions
have appeared as a result of the successive amendments that have been introduced.
So over the past year we have been busy drafting a wholesale revision of the Statutes,
shortening and simplifying them, removing anomalies and bringing them into line with today’s
world of higher education. I am glad to say the arduous process of revision is now complete, and
the new Statutes are being forwarded to the Privy Council for approval. I hope this will enable
the College to function smoothly and effectively over the coming decades as a democratic
institution where the rights and privileges of all its members are effectively defended in law.
6 The Wolfson Review 2013–2014
Approaching our 50th Anniversary
In 2015, Wolfson College with reach its 50th Anniversary. As we
approach this historic moment, three College Officers report on
this year’s developments.
© Louis Sinclair
Christopher Lawrence, Bursar
The Finances
The value of the College’s investment portfolio passed the £15m
mark for the first time in 2013 as a result of good investment growth
and capital additions. The regular income from the endowment and
invested reserves plays an important part in the financial health of the College, not least in terms
of our ability to support students with scholarships, bursaries, travel/conference grants and
hardship grants. Further support in this area is much needed and forms the cornerstone of
our 50th Anniversary fundraising campaign. Total operating income was just under £6m, with
additional income from donations and grants of £0.9m. The College continues to manage
its financial resources wisely, making investment in students and the student experience a
priority. You can find out more about the College’s finances from the published accounts at
www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/accounts
The College Estate
The Staff
As ever, none of the progress made at Wolfson in the last year would have been possible
without its staff. There are just under 100 permanent staff at the College, a mixture of full- and
part-time, working across a wide range of departments, looking after the needs of students,
Fellows, visitors and other members of the Wolfson ‘family’. The College seems to be fuelled by
good quality food, and for many years now we have had Ray Palmer, the Executive Chef, to
Officers
Following the comprehensive refurbishment of A and B block in 2013, generously funded by the
Wolfson Foundation, the plan had been to turn to M, N, O, P block in 2014. However, a pressing
need to upgrade the electrical supply infrastructure in the central part of the College was
identified, and this work was scheduled for the summer of 2014, thus postponing further
refurbishment work to 2015. Minor works carried out during the year included replacing the lift
in the main building and changing its use from solely a goods lift to a public lift for all to use; and
resurfacing the main drive. The gardens continue to be a source of joy to all those who live and
work at Wolfson, with the show of colours in the Spring of 2014 being particularly remarkable.
thank for that. Ray first came to Wolfson in 1975 before leaving in 1985 to spend 10 years
training the next generation of chefs, many of whom can now be found in senior roles at
other Cambridge Colleges. Ray returned to Wolfson in 1995 and led our catering operation
until his retirement in July 2014. Ray will be much missed – and his sweets and puddings even
more! – but we are fortunate to have been able to find his successor, Helen Trundley, from
within his team, and Helen will be well placed to continue Ray’s legacy at Wolfson.
© Louis Sinclair
Jane McLarty, Senior Tutor
This year I start my report with our undergraduate students: although we
are often referred to as a ‘graduate College’ in recognition that this group
forms the majority of our student body, this is in some sense a misnomer
– we are a ‘mature’ College, with around 170 undergraduates over 21.
Last year our undergraduate body performed magnificently in their
examinations: over 18% were awarded firsts. We have had a very successful
admissions season for October 2014 entry, and we will probably be somewhat over our target of
around 50 new mature undergraduates this year. To make room for these extra undergraduates
we will reduce the number of offers made to MPhil students for the coming year, which means
that our proportion of students staying for three years and longer will increase: it is in the main
these students who have the time to contribute to College life by, for instance, joining WCSA
Committees or participating in sporting or musical activities.
Officers
All Colleges will be joining forces with the University to try to improve the experience of
those on one-year taught courses, following disappointing feedback for Cambridge in the
Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey this year. A new system of reporting (planned for
Michaelmas 2014) during a student’s first Term will involve student, College and Department
in trying to pick up problems early while there is still time to rectify them.
Our part-time graduate students are another large constituency (some 250 students) with a
relatively low profile because they are in College for far more limited periods: this Term, Colleges
who take significant numbers of part-time students met to discuss how we can help these
students feel more included in College life. Better liaison with University departments seems to
be one key to this.
Attracting more PhD students to put Wolfson as first or second choice continues to be a
challenge. Our offer of up to three years’ accommodation is one of the best in Cambridge, and
through the tireless work of the Development Office we are gradually increasing the amount
and number of scholarships we can offer students. We need to publicise better all that we offer
in College, from grants for conference and research expenses through to our Skills for Academic
Success sessions. Wolfson has a strong offering for graduate students, and we should be
proud of it.
Karen Stephenson, Development Director
Fran May
It has been a pleasure to meet even more College members this year, as
we continue the preparations for Wolfson’s 50th Anniversary in 2015.
During the Easter vacation, the President, Dr Corton and I visited alumni
and friends of the College in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Sunway, Tokyo,
Beijing and Hong Kong. The President gave a lecture in each location on
‘1914/2014: A Warning from History?’ The tour, to launch the 50th Anniversary Campaign in Asia,
was a wonderful opportunity to build Wolfson connections and we are enormously grateful to
all members who assisted and sponsored College events and accommodation. It is also
marvellous that so many of those we met have given very generously to the Campaign:
philanthropy on this scale will make a real difference to our students now and in the future.
By the end of the 2013–2014 financial year, we will have been able to grant over £200,000 to our
students for scholarships and prizes, as well as for conference and hardship grants. We have also
been able to improve our student accommodation, providing modern facilities with a smaller
carbon footprint suitable for today’s students. None of this would have been possible without
the generosity of our members. You can read more about the Campaign at www.wolfson.cam.
ac.uk/alumni/50th_Anniversary Please do contact the College if you can help us on
development@wolfson.cam.ac.uk or you may wish to complete the donation form at the end of
this Review or make your gift online at www.WolfsonGiving.com
“The focus of the festivities will be a weekend-long celebration on 4 and 5 July 2015”
The celebrations for 2015 will begin with a new event for Wolfson alumni living in Cambridge.
We have over 400 such members, and a festive cocktail reception will be held to launch the
Cambridge Wolfson Alumni Group. Details of other Wolfson groups around the world can be
found at www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/alumni/associations We hope that our overseas groups will
also mark this important anniversary with fundraising events and celebrations: please contact
alumni@wolfson.cam.ac.uk to discuss your plans.
Officers
Celebrations and academic events to mark the 50th Anniversary in 2015 will take place
throughout the calendar year. The focus of the festivities will be a weekend-long celebration on
4 and 5 July 2015, when all Wolfson members will be invited to return to College and
commemorate this momentous point in our history. There will be a keynote lecture from the
President, a dinner in marquees set in the College grounds, a Sunday-morning concert and a
garden party. Invitations will be sent at the end of 2014 and online booking will be available.
Our ‘Wolfson in 50 words’ project is also gaining momentum. You can see entries received so far
at www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/alumni/50words Please let us have your own record, in 50 words, of
what Wolfson means to you and send it to communications@wolfson.cam.ac.uk
Also being planned is a series of 10 high-profile lectures by Wolfson speakers on the last 50 years
in their subject. The lectures are listed in the calendar on the back cover and speakers include
Professor Conor Gearty (1980), Professor of Law at the London School of Economics, and the
University’s Vice-Chancellor, Wolfson Fellow and Honorary Fellow, Professor Sir Leszek
Borysiewicz (1988). The lectures will be recorded and available online so that all members will
be able to participate.
2015 events will also take place in the USA, Germany and the UK. Invitations will be sent by
email to members in each area, so please send your up-to-date contact details to
communications@wolfson.cam.ac.uk
The Lent Term Concert on 15 March will take the form of a ‘Come and Sing’ with a vocal
workshop and alumni celebration concert conducted by Lynette Alcántara, our Director of
Music. Please complete the questionnaire online at bit.ly/1tmjquP if you are interested in
taking part.
All event and booking details will be listed at www.WolfsonEvents.com as they become
available, so do check the calendar regularly.
Wolfson College has, over 50 years, built a unique place at the heart of the University of
Cambridge, and Wolfson alumni – national leaders, senior judges, leading cultural figures,
academics and entrepreneurs – have gone on, in their own ways, to change the world. Please
do join us in the celebrations for our first 50 years, and help us to maintain this excellence into
the future.
Officers
“None of this would have been possible without the generosity of our members”
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A Eurosceptic Nation?
Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon (2013) is the Cleveland C. Burton
Professor of International Programs at the University of Arkansas.
Here he describes his research as a Visiting Fellow (which will be
published in a book The British and Europe).
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As an historian of contemporary Britain, I am sometimes struck by how
quickly events unfolding around me become part of my teaching and
research. One such occasion was in the early hours of 26 May 2014 as I
watched the results trickling in from the European elections.
No one could deny it was a major historical event, a ‘political earthquake’ as many on the BBC
called it. For the first time in over 100 years, neither the Conservatives nor the Labour Party had
won a national election and the Liberal Democrats – the most explicitly ‘European’ party – were
relegated to fifth place, losing all but one of their seats in the European Parliament.
Britain had come a long way since Winston Churchill delivered his famous 1946 speech in Zurich
calling for a United States of Europe, the two Harolds (Macmillan and Wilson) campaigned for
British entry into the EEC and Margaret Thatcher donned a jumper emblazoned with all the flags
of the Community whilst calling for Britain to stay in ‘Europe’ in the 1975 referendum campaign.
The historian can make a strong case that Britain was, for much of the post-war period, a ‘European’
country. The more vexing question is how (and when) Britain ceased to identify as such, to instead
become a Eurosceptic one. It is this difficult problem that I have grappled with at Wolfson.
The answer seems to be a complicated mix of economics, politics and national identity. In the
immediate aftermath of the Second World War, many within Britain expected the UK to remain
one of the ‘Big Three’, the British Empire lasting for Churchill’s ‘thousand years’. So long as Britons
remained imperial, they could simultaneously embrace a European identity and seek to lead an
integrated Europe.
Yet, as empire collapsed, not only was Britain’s economy imperilled, but questions of national
identity came to the fore. Whilst those within Scotland and Wales could turn to a pre-imperial
past for solace, in England the future was less clear. When various governments sought entry
into the fledgling EEC to meet the economic challenge, ‘Europe’ seemed an unwanted
replacement for empire, and a post-imperial Euro-scepticism was born.
My journey to Wolfson
Alireza Tabatabaie (2010), Student
I was admitted to study clinical medicine at the University of
Tehran. Having been raised in a Muslim environment and
being a practising medical doctor, I observed the
shortcomings in effectively helping Iranian people on issues
concerning sexual and marital health and satisfaction.
Therefore, against all the odds, I moved to the UK with my
(newly-wed) wife to seek training with the aim of becoming a
sexual health specialist who can support individuals, couples
and families in their sexual, relational and marital difficulties. I
was admitted to the Porterbrook Clinic in Sheffield, received
my qualification in sex and relationship therapy and started
practising for a while. With a doctorate in clinical medicine, I
initially had no intention to do a PhD, let alone in the field of education, which was a huge shift
for me from clinical practice to the social sciences. But as a clinical sexologist, I had increasingly
become aware that inadequate education regarding sexual and relational matters made a
massive contribution to the development of sexual problems. I learnt that the basis of anything
constructive to be done for satisfying sexual relationships should be rooted in education. I had
already had previous experience in the education sector as an instructor and consultant in
schools. Hence, I decided to involve myself academically in the field of education in order to
tackle sexual health in a more fundamental and constructive way. In 2010, I was admitted to the
Faculty of Education as a graduate student to investigate issues that concern sexual health and
education in Muslim young people. We moved to Cambridge and, luckily, Wolfson became
our host.
I am now in the final year of my PhD and Wolfson has been a cosy home for me and my wife. We
both appreciate its peaceful and relaxing environment and its spectacular gardens, as well as the
varied social life – I could not live without my singing.
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© Alireza Tabatabaie
Here is my story: I was born in Iran and raised in a
moderately religious Iranian environment. During my
childhood and adolescence, I never received proper sex
education, neither from my family nor school. Sexual issues
were something not to be discussed and I grew up with too
many unanswered questions.
© T.R. Hamzah & Yeang Sdn. Bhd. (2014)
My life since Wolfson
Forty years after Wolfson, celebrated designer of ‘green’
skyscrapers and Wolfson alumnus Dato’ Dr Ken Yeang (1971)
recently gave a lecture at an alumni gathering in Kuala Lumpur.
The meeting left him wondering whether he should go back
to academia.
In the week I left Wolfson in the mid-seventies, I flew to Kuala
Lumpur to start work, on the day after arrival, at a large architect
firm. It was an instantaneous displacement – straight from the
comfort of College to traumatically entering a fast-moving,
commercially-driven developing world in the Far East.
© T.R. Hamzah & Yeang Sdn. Bhd. (2014)
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Before Wolfson and architectural school in London, I had been to Cheltenham College public
school, and perhaps my most relevant formative experience was an appreciation of the quirky
British sense of humour, which made this transition bearable. The exposure to strict academia
An example of Dato’ Dr Ken Yeang’s green architecture.
at Wolfson and being a Cambridge alumnus gave me a slight social edge in status and a
confidence which I would not have, had I been a totally home-grown professional or had
attended a lesser university.
A year after starting work in Malaysia and still innocently foolish, I left the security of the firm to
start a practice as an architect, together with a former colleague I had befriended at architectural
school. My subsequent doctoral dissertation rekindled a keen interest in research and I continue
to research all aspects of ecological design – even though professional architectural practice is
really much more of a craft.
Publishing articles on my work progressed to authoring my first book on urban design a
few years later, and my dissertation was also published. Since then I have written several
monographs on theoretical aspects of green architecture, concurrently while running a busy
architectural practice. Twelve books later, I seem to have acquired a profile which has kept me
busy on the international lecture circuit.
What next – should I go back to academia?
Humour as history? First World War cartoons
from the trenches
Since 2011, College Research Associate Jane Chapman (1971) and her AHRC-funded team
have been researching, as a cultural record, comics produced during the World Wars. The
publications they have studied include soldiers’ own cartoons in trench journals from World
War One. These were the subject of a talk she gave in a Wolfson Lunchtime Seminar.
Trench newspapers or trench journals were news-sheets, magazines and similar periodicals
produced by the soldiers themselves, often within the range of the guns at the front. Troops of
all nationalities produced them during the War, and almost 1,000 titles still exist in archives and
libraries, including Cambridge University Library.
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Looking back, perhaps the biggest impact of my time at Wolfson was acquiring an interest
in research, and continuing to put the principles of my dissertation on ecological design into
practice. In the mid-seventies my work was certainly not as topical as it is today – then I was
regarded with suspicion as a displaced hippie! My original research has now become my life’s
agenda which drives the design work in my architectural practice today – and in many ways this
gives it a competitive business edge.
Chronicles of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (NZEF), reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of
Cambridge University Library.
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Although textual expressions by the armed forces in their own trench and troopship newspapers
are relatively well known, the way that the men created and used the cartoon multi-panel
format is not. Humorous visual self-expression provides a record of satirical social observation
from a ‘bottom up’ perspective. I would argue that the contribution made by these hundreds
of illustrative narratives during World War One needs to be acknowledged as early citizen
journalism. Soldiers’ universal concerns about daily life, complaints and feelings about officers,
medical services, discomforts, food and drink, leave, military routines and their expectations
versus emerging reality are all emphasised.
Cartoons were created as a satirical reaction to the patriotism and political rhetoric of the homefront mainstream press. Their content was inspired by daily events and inside jokes about life at
the front. Through their newspaper articles, letters to the editor, doggerel verse, poetry, jokes,
spoof advertisements and cartoons, the soldiers satirised and ridiculed the hardships of war.
As historical sources, written and drawn by the men for the men themselves unlike the poems
by officers like Wilfred Owen or Siegfried Sassoon, the cartoons in trench newspapers show the
concerns and the lives of the soldiers themselves. Much of the visual comedy in these cartoons
was common to all troops serving during the War whatever the theatre, their unit or indeed
their nationality.
The concerns that emerge from the cartoons in Australian, Canadian, New Zealand and British
publications were similar: food, drink, leave, inadequate medical facilities, hierarchical military
discipline and seemingly pointless routine.
A podcast of the talk is available at
www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/podcasts
Further information and pictures are available at:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlUe1P8K7vY
https://theconversation.com/comics-tap-into-the-real-emotions-of-the-world-wars-26018
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi4A6IJnLO0
Teacher leadership in Portugal
Liz Brown, Robyn Gilbert, Sophie Horncastle, Liza Timpson, Kanchana Gamage, Beth Roberts
Jones and Jo Ryan, HertsCam MEd students
In May we travelled to the University of Minho, Braga to participate in a remarkable two-day
teacher leadership event with a grant from the Wolfson Travel Fund. We were part of a 14-strong
group from the HertsCam Network which has been led by Wolfson members for the last 14
years. The first day featured a seminar involving 70 teachers, head-teachers, university staff and
research students. It began with the presentation of findings from a three-year investigation of
teachers’ professionalism by Portuguese academics. Wolfson Fellow David Frost, our network
co-ordinator, gave a keynote address which provoked a lively debate about the struggle
between demoralisation and hope: www.lflteacherleadership.org
(L-R): Sophie Horncastle, Robyn Gilbert, David Frost.
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The second day was for networking. We each presented our projects and discussed leading
change in our schools. It was encouraging to see how our approach in HertsCam has been
adopted by teachers in other countries and that problems facing teachers are similar. It was
inspiring to see the reach of the International Teacher Leadership initiative which started at
Wolfson in 2008.
The Library
Meg Westbury, Lee Seng Tee Librarian
The Wolfson College Library continues to be a well-loved and
much-used institution. As I write, every desk is filled with
hard-working students managing piles of notes, books,
multiple electronic devices and an assortment of helpful
amenities such as jars of coffee, alarm clocks and massage
balls! It’s gratifying that students continue to find the space a
productive place to work.
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When I started as the new Lee Librarian in November 2013, I inherited a friendly and well-run
library from my predecessors Jenny Sargent and Anna Jones. I have come to appreciate the love
and dedication these two librarians have put into developing the services and collections over
the years, and I hope to build on their successes.
Running a library is an ever-evolving role based on the changing needs of how students find,
consume and manage information. Twenty years ago, few could have predicted the wealth of
online information now at our fingertips, the rate of development of social media or the
open-access publishing movement. As a librarian, my central concern is to understand how
Wolfson students navigate the plethora of available scholarly resources and to provide tools and
information that make this sometimes confusing process easier.
I continue to purchase many books, mainly to support taught undergraduate and postgraduate
courses, but I also have been expanding other services: this spring, I offered new classes on
referencing and plagiarism, using Zotero for referencing, academic blogging, Twitter for research
and managing one’s LinkedIn profile.
I have also been involved in some Cambridge-wide efforts to improve information about finding
scholarly resources on the University Library Gateway and the new University-wide virtual
learning environment, as well as helping to share good practice among College Librarians in my
new role as Convenor of the Cambridge College Libraries Forum.
Finally, I have a strong interest in how and why students use the space of the Lee Library. They
have many choices of where to work, so why choose our Library and how best make the space
conducive to learning? Over the next year, I hope to put more comfortable seating throughout
the Library, reduce noise from the foyer and improve the flooring, lighting and furniture in the
ground-floor rooms.
The College Archive
Frieda Midgley, Archivist and Records Manager
My first year as Archivist at Wolfson has been a wonderful
voyage of discovery. I’ve been delighted to find that we have a
very full photographic record of the development of the
College buildings, and even a number of video recordings of
significant events in the life of the College, including the Royal
Opening in 1977. We also have a series of 29 oral history
interviews, conducted by Emeritus Fellow Bill Kirkman, which
have now been transcribed so that we can make full use of
these fascinating accounts of the development of the College,
its characters and its culture.
Do look out for exhibitions of material from the College archives at alumni and benefactors’
events, and for a special exhibition on the history of the College for our 50th Anniversary in 2015.
I will also be developing exhibition galleries on the College website at www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/
fine-arts
I am keen that the 50th Anniversary exhibition should reflect not just the formal life of the
College, but the great variety of the College experience. If you have items that you think might
be of interest (such as posters, leaflets and programmes produced by Wolfson Clubs and
Societies, photographs or even audio and video recordings), I would love to hear about them:
archivist@wolfson.cam.ac.uk
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To celebrate the centenary of Bredon House, which was built in 1914, I put together an
exhibition charting its transformation from family home to the heart of Wolfson College. Bredon
House was built for Professor of Zoology John Stanley Gardiner (1872–1946), biochemist Edith
Gertrude Gardiner (née Willcock, 1879-1953) and their two daughters Nancy (1911-c.1955) and
Joyce (1913-1994). We are particularly fortunate that the family has given us photograph albums,
paintings and even writings by Edith Gardiner, which give some wonderful insights into their life
in the house, from the antics of the gardener, to accounts of raising pigs for food production and
experiencing their first Zeppelin raid.
That’s All Folks
Our Executive Chef Ray Palmer (1975) wrote an article for the then College Magazine
19 years ago, on his return to Wolfson. Now he is writing as his retirement is imminent.
For 47 years I have been working in an industry that has changed beyond all recognition from
when I started in the mid-1960s. The first restaurant that I noticed was opened in our town by an
Italian family and once, when walking past it, I was aware of this amazing smell. This was my
Proustian moment, not of a tea-soaked madeleine, but of garlic frying in butter.
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What gave me my initial interest in cooking was helping my mother and grandmother in the
kitchen at home. Our whole year was structured around the planting, harvesting and cooking of
fruit and vegetables. And I’m still doing this: the pudding at last year’s Alumni Reunion Dinner
was Wild Bramble Brulée with the brambles picked from the by-ways of Cambridge; each
autumn I make quince jelly from the tree in the President’s garden and come spring, elderflowers
are turned into cordial for a fragrant soft drink. In summer, cherries are picked at Quy Fen and
bottled in alcohol for decoration on desserts. And my grandmother’s Christmas pudding recipe
is the one I use each year for the 112 puddings made for sale and use at Christmas functions.
Ray Palmer with the menu he prepared for Her Majesty the Queen during her visit to Wolfson in 1977.
After a two-year catering course at Croydon Technical College I worked at a number of hotels
and, in the early 1970s, I moved to Cambridge to work as the Pastry Chef at the Garden House
Hotel. Sadly the Hotel suddenly went into receivership and I had to find a new job.
Thus I arrived at Wolfson in July 1975 as Head Chef, leading a team of one plus a part-time cook.
Soon, the main College building opened containing a new kitchen and, a year later, Her Majesty
the Queen opened the College and had lunch with 150 guests in the Dining Hall. My overriding
impression of those early years was the informality and friendliness of everyone, with students
and staff both mixing socially. The Catering department was kept running by the co-operation of
friends and families. We had three generations of one family washing up in the evenings after
Formal Halls; husbands and wives have worked together and their sons and daughters have
worked here during or after their parents have left. It was the variety of the work which attracted
me and the reason why I stayed for 10 years, as I could cook whatever I liked and so I tried out as
many different dishes as possible.
There are many things I will miss about Wolfson: the community of staff and College members,
of course, and the cooking too. I won’t miss my early arrival at 6.15am but the routine of opening
up the kitchen, unlocking the cold-rooms, making a cup of coffee, putting on my Chef’s uniform,
checking emails and signing invoices before the rest of the Catering team arrives has become a
kind of ritual.
It has been said that for many students, the time spent at Wolfson College was ‘a life-changing
experience’. That is also true for me, as in 1982 I met a postgraduate student of Wolfson – and we
have been partners ever since.
The most that anyone can hope for on leaving a job is that they leave it in a better shape than
when they started. I hope that I have achieved this but now it is up to another, younger team to
move the department into a new era. I believe they will prove more than a match for this.
This article has been extracted from a Lunchtime Seminar that Ray gave at Wolfson on
4 June 2014. It is available as a podcast on www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/podcasts
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Then, in need of a change, I joined Cambridge Regional College (CRC) as a lecturer in Catering
which brought home to me just how much there was to learn about cooking. Whilst teaching
others, I also improved my own skills, taking advanced bakery and pastry courses. However, the
catering students were not that motivated and the daily paperwork required was somewhat
overwhelming. So I took the opportunity of going to New Zealand for a year on a job exchange.
The students there were very enthusiastic and this made returning to CRC more than a little
dispiriting. So it was something of a relief when Wolfson recruited me as Executive Chef! College
had become a lot bigger since my earlier days, but with a still small enough Catering team to
feel immediately at home. And whilst many things had changed, I was surprised at how familiar
everything felt.
Citizen media and the fourth estate
Press Fellow Cindy Yeap (2013) is Deputy Editor (Capital
Markets & Companies) for The Edge, the leading business
weekly in Malaysia.
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Everyone can write, and proponents of ‘citizen journalism’ will
say the process of recording and sharing what doesn’t feel
quite right is journalism. The footage of Ian Tomlinson’s
mistreatment at a G20 protest in London shortly before he
died, sent by an American fund manager to The Guardian in
2009, is cited as an example of the rise of citizen media and
how technology is changing the future of news.
It is precisely because of this great surge in information that quality journalism is needed more
than ever. Not everyone will deliver the kind of journalism required for the media to be a
genuine fourth estate because the alternative is easier. There’s plenty of evidence of how the
press is increasingly compromised, due to sheer lack of time, by relying on public relations
material and questionable news sources. What is worse, because blogs are presenting what is
‘too good to check’, newspapers now have to decide whether to go down that path or risk
losing readers should rival publications do so.
I’d like to think that discerning readers choose newspapers they trust to have checked the facts.
The chances are that even quality bloggers, some of whom are not anonymous, also read the
quality press. I believe there will always be people who value trustworthy information, because a
society without enough citizens who read and think is done for.
Marketing and Finance will probably say journalism needs more people willing to pay the price
of a decent coffee for The Financial Times or for The Guardian’s brand of quality journalism. Alas,
the latter are a minority. For me, it is quality investigative and data journalism that needs
defending, and Wolfson College has been helping for over three decades. Through its Press
Fellowship, over 310 journalists from 46 countries have been empowered by gaining access to
the vast knowledge-base at Cambridge.
I’m told Cambridge will probably never have a journalism school, so that makes the Wolfson
Press Fellowship even more special.
Wolfson gardens: ‘True Blue’, the Holy Grail
for rose breeders
Philip Stigwood, Head Gardener
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Roses come in many colours and forms except for the ‘True Blue’ colour. This is the Holy Grail for
Rose breeders, as a true blue rose would be a bestseller and highly desirable.
Blue roses do not exist in nature as they lack the specific gene that produces true blue petals.
Many roses have been bred and sold as a ‘blue type’, but none are truly blue. These include ‘Blue
Moon’ (lilac-mauve), ‘Blue For You’ (purple-mauve), and ‘Rhapsody In Blue’ (iridescent purple).
Many florists sell blue roses whose white petals have been dyed electric blue!
In 2004, a Japanese company managed to insert the blue gene delphinidin from petunia into a
white rose and the resulting colour was disappointingly lilac-mauve. There was clearly some pink
colouration in the genes of the white rose. The geneticists then inserted the blue pigment from
pansies into a purple rose, but this genetically-modified rose has not been a success because it is
very expensive and the public are not convinced that it is a real ‘true blue’.
Over the past two to three years, we have planted many roses of the ‘new English’ kind bred by
David Austin which combine the delicious old rose fragrance and complex flower with a long
repeat-flowering season from June to September (unlike the old English roses which flower only
once for a few weeks). Amongst the new roses are ‘Winchester Cathedral’ (white, Chancellor’s
Centre), ‘Morning Mist’ (peach/salmon, Western Field courtyard and Sundial Garden border),
‘Strawberry Hill’ (pink, near wisteria pergola), ‘Graham Thomas’ (yellow, Western Field courtyard),
‘Golden Celebration’ (gold, Morrison House), ‘LD Braithwaite’ (rich crimson) and ‘Maid Marion’
(pink), both in Lee Court.
All garden photographs: Philip Stigwood
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For many years, the College gardens were
lacking in the most important scent of all,
the scent of roses, but not any more. All of
our new roses were chosen because they
received the highest awards from the Royal
Horticultural Society and because of their
fantastic scent. Enjoy them and keep an eye
out for a ‘True Blue’ rose in the future!
Keith Heppell
Events
More College members than ever attended Wolfson events around the world this year. Thank
you to everyone who came along.
Our events calendar is updated regularly at www.WolfsonEvents.com
Henry Rogers
RUGBY VARSITY MATCH (DECEMBER)
2013 ALUMNI REUNION (SEPTEMBER)
HALF-WAY DRINKS (FEBRUARY)
Will Miller
LONDON RECEPTION (JANUARY)
SANTANDER SCHOLARS (FEBRUARY)
CAIRO (MARCH)
MADRID (APRIL)
TOKYO (APRIL)
BEIJING (APRIL)
WOLFSON RESEARCH EVENT (MAY)
Will Miller
STEINWAY RECEPTION (MAY)
BENEFACTORS’ RECEPTION (JUNE)
GENERAL ADMISSION (JUNE)
SUNWAY, MALAYSIA (APRIL)
Lee Seng Tee Distinguished Lecture 2014:
The flesh is weak: a history of pain from the
1760s to the present
Professor Joanna Bourke is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London,
and is well-known as author of The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers. She gave the
seventh lecture in this series on 1 May 2014. 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 Professor Bourke provides a
summary of her lecture.
Pain is “like a storm”, observed the distinguished surgeon René Leriche in 1939, in which the
patient is “beyond all capability of analysing it”. Taming this storm was a task fraught with anxiety
for physicians as well as patients.
One of the major debates about encounters between patients and physicians concerns the
function and reliability of pain narratives in aiding the diagnosis of illness. Is there any value in
listening to how patients describe their pain? Between the mid-eighteenth century and the
present, there has been a major shift in the answer given to this question.
When pain narratives were valued as contributing to accurate diagnosis – as well as being an
integral part of the healing process itself – they were encouraged, elicited and elaborated upon.
The act of communication itself was posited as a sign of hope, for patients and physicians alike.
Increasingly, however, from the nineteenth century on, pain narratives were stripped of any
significance beyond the rudimentary information imparted by the cry “But it hurts, here!” Pain
narratives became mere ‘noise’, serving little diagnostic purpose. Rhetorical flourishes were
increasingly side-lined, even discouraged. For clinicians, the person’s misery was reduced to its
separate component parts (nervous, visceral, chemical, neurological and so on) within the
physiological body. Protracted grumbling by patients was little more than an impediment to the
future ‘conquest of pain’. For patients, complex and elaborate pain narratives became shameful
(might their very ‘richness’ indicate malingering, exaggeration or liability?) and potentially
indicative of their status as ‘bad patients’.
There are many reasons for the ‘thinning’ languages of pain in clinical settings, including the
introduction of diagnostic classification systems and changing medical technologies, which
effectively rendered patients’ descriptions of pain more peripheral to the healing process.
Anaesthetics silenced the acute pain sufferer; effective analgesics blunted the minds of chronic
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sufferers. Knowledge taken from microbiology, chemistry and physiology enabled physicians to
by-pass patient narratives in their search for an ‘objective diagnosis’. In addition, medical
commentators identified three fundamental problems with pain narrative: the complexity of the
body, the untrustworthiness of patients and the inherent difficulties of language.
From the late-twentieth century, pain languages have been revived with the creation of the
McGill Pain Questionnaire, which seeks to put words into patients’ mouths. This attempt to give
patients a language to speak about pain is highly prescriptive, nonetheless. Lengthy, narrativedriven stories like the kind promoted in earlier centuries are jettisoned for (largely) adjectival lists.
In fact, despite the numerous difficulties people face when attempting to communicate their
pain, many sufferers turn out to possess a much richer language for pain than is made available
through the questionnaires.
At the other extreme, there has been the resolute stripping away of language with the
introduction of Visual Analogue Scales (1 to 10) and the Holy Grail of objective detection of pain
in brain imaging. In the latter case, the complex phenomenon of being-in-pain is reduced to
one, rather small, part of painful experiences – and indeed a moment that the sufferer herself
might not recognise as painful.
Humanities Society
Jane Chapman (1971), College Research Associate
This year, the Humanities Society has been in expansive mode, contributing intellectual content
to the Cambridge Festival of Ideas, podcasts and new connections with other universities. Very
often, talks have addressed big questions, such as the future of humanities, the nature of power
and the true functions of education. These ambitions have been mirrored by a larger organising
committee and higher regular attendance at the 21 events throughout the academic year.
We have defined our field broadly, to include politics, law history, fashion history, literature, visual
arts, education and anthropology. This leads to Termly programmes with a huge variety of topics:
a history of corsets and calories has shared a programme with visions of power, climate change
and conspiracy, feudalism and Cold War survival, whilst the bohemians of Covent Garden have
been scheduled along with a rogue judge, a Fiji exhibition and Allende’s Chile.
Some speakers can be described as rising stars, whilst others are already big names – such as
Professor David Runciman, Professor Sir Tony Wrigley, Professor Chris Clark, Professor Philip Allott
and our President, Professor Sir Richard Evans. All have, in different ways, provoked discussion,
criticism and reflection.
As for awards, the prize for attracting an audience goes to Professor David Runciman, and for
catchy wording of a title to ‘Fidgets, Scoundrels and Mummy’s Boys: Performing Masculinity in
the Victorian House of Commons’ (Dr Ben Griffin), or possibly to ‘Wax, Wood and Narrative: the
Miraculous Culture of Renaissance Italy’ (Dr Mary Laven). It is difficult to single out merit, or
indeed to describe fully the enjoyment that we have all had. Yet I have to mention my volunteer
co-organisers, without whom none of the above would have happened – Dr Christine Corton,
Mr Sebastiaan Keibek, Ms Polly Dickson and Dr Elizabeth Blake – and to thank those who
attend regularly. We continue to have fun, while raising the intellectual profile of the College.
www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/seminars/humanities
Science Society
Karyn Mégy (2008), College Research Associate
This year, our series took us from theoretical physics, with introductions to the origin and
evolution of the universe (Professor John Barrow), the dark matter mystery (Professor Ben
Allanach) and gravity and black holes (Dr Pau Figueras), to the applications of technology, with
presentations on nanotechnologies in healthcare (Dr Luis Garcia-Gancedo), human-computer
interaction (Dr Pradipta Biswas) and magnetic resonance imaging (Dr Nick Mantle).
We travelled from the traditional field of biology and cancer in the Tasmanian Devil (Dr Hannah
Siddle) to the large but maybe less well-known territory of computational biology, where we
learned of strange usages of the DNA code for storing data (Dr Nick Goldman) and finding a
personal meaning in the human genome (Dr Manuel Corpas).
We even made an expedition to the extremes with non-scientific talks about the history and
philosophy of Science (Dr Jenny Mander) and the harsh environment of Open Access in
publishing (Dr Ben Johnson).
As our talks became more popular and exceeded the capacity of the Old Combination Room, we
changed course and headed to the Seminar Room, as did our supplies of drinks and nibbles. All
our talks are accessible to non-initiates – so whether it’s your first trip to the science world, or
whether you are a seasoned traveller of that realm, join us on our next journey!
Details of the talks are available at www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/seminars/science
Podcasts
To hear a range of talks and lectures from Wolfson College,
you can scan this image with your phone, or go to
www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/podcasts
The Science Society aims to explore various facets of science, for the benefit of members of the
College and of the larger Cambridge community, and to encourage new journeys into science.
Lunchtime Seminar Series
Meredith Hale (2009), Fellow
The Wolfson Lunchtime Seminar Series hosted speakers from a wide variety of backgrounds on
equally varied subjects from post-Qadhafi Libya to the Wolfson gardens.
Archaeology was represented by: Mr David Jacques’ examination of a Mesolithic site near
Stonehenge; Professor Phillip Lindley’s 3D scanning of Renaissance monuments in Framlingham;
Dr Laurence Smith’s report on archaeological work in Suakin, Sudan; and Dr Shadia Taha’s
consideration of Sudan’s cultural heritage.
Contemporary politics in Libya featured in PhD student Jason Pack’s talk, and the politics of
education in Britain was discussed by Dr Steve Watson. The social sciences were represented by
PhD student Xuan Li, comparing eastern and western parenting models, and Dr Richard
Meiser-Stedman, considering post-traumatic stress in children and adolescents.
Europe featured prominently in this year’s series. PhD student Mathias Haeussler spoke on British
membership of the EU; Dr Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon on ‘British approaches towards Europe in
the post-war world’; Wolfson JRF Valia Babis on a solution to the EU’s banking troubles; and
Professor Spyridon Flogaitis on ‘The Roman tradition and the rebirth of public powers in Europe’.
Dr Alexander Geppert considered Europe’s space programme.
Historical subjects included Dr Anne-Christin Sass on ‘Eastern European Jews in Weimar Berlin’;
Professor Stephen Ahern’s ‘Coming to Grips with Forced Migration: Attending to History and
Discourse’; PhD candidate Nicholas Williams on historical memory in Las Terrazas, Cuba; Dr
Charles Jones on the activism of four sisters in the Ashurst family; Professor Jane Chapman on
First World War cartoons and Iain King CBE, former Press Fellow, on the philosophers of war.
Literature and philosophy were represented by PhD student Michael Engel’s ‘The Influence of
Aristotle’s Psychological Theory on Late Medieval Philosophy’ and Professor Howard Wolf on
creative non-fiction writing in post-1960s America.
Two seminars featured as part of our sub-series on Wolfson life: Head Gardener Philip Stigwood
discussed the gardens; and Executive Chef Ray Palmer reflected on his time at Wolfson in ‘40
Years of Food’.
The seminars take place on Wednesdays during Term and we welcome contributions from all
College members. Please suggest topics at www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/seminars/lunchtime
Eli Keren (2013), Student and Wolfson Research Event Committee member
Between the oral presentation sessions, the audience was invited to refreshments as they
explored an equally diverse array of interactive poster presentations. The concluding reception
and Formal Hall gave our presenters a chance to relax and talk to their fellow researchers in a
congenial environment.
Looking to next year, the 2015 Research Event will be held over two days and will have more
speakers, topics and time to explore in detail the ways in which Wolfson students, and our
contemporaries at St Antony’s, are making an impact on the world we live in. Next year, we
hope for presentations from our Junior Research Fellows alongside our students, thus bridging
the gap between subjects and experience.
Finally, the Committee would like
to express its lasting gratitude
to those who supported our
endeavours, Dr Steve Hoath,
Professor Ian Cross, Dr Elizabeth
Blake and Dr Carmine D’Agostino,
as well as to every student
who gave an oral or poster
presentation. We may have done
the organising, but it was the
presenters that came together
to make it an event we can all
remember. Here’s to next year.
Wolfson Research Event Committee (L-R): Ginez Gonzalez, Eli Keren,
Kerensa Gimre, Justin Goulding, Tara Cookson.
Last year’s success set the bar high for the 2014 Wolfson Research Event on 2 May – and the day
left no-one disappointed. After an opening talk by our President, Professor Sir Richard Evans,
and a keynote speech from Vice-President Professor John Naughton, we went right into our
first talk of the day. Addressed to a full Lee Seng Tee Hall, talks were given by Wolfson students
and invited students from St Antony’s Oxford on an excitingly diverse range of topics. We were
given a taste of the hard sciences with biochemical computational simulations, introduced to
the spiritual with a talk on what it means to be conscious, enjoyed a seamless merger of science
and art in a talk on the fundamental difference between improvised and learned musical
performance, and the field of history was represented by a talk on the relationship between
God and justice hundreds of years ago. There really was something for everyone.
Wolfson College Student Association
Alexandra (Sasha) East (2012), Student and WCSA President, and Toby Moncaster (2011),
Student and WCSA Vice-President
WCSA has gone from strength to strength this year. On the social front, we’ve aimed to provide
a broad range of events, from the traditional bops, regular swaps and annual Wolfson’s Got
Talent competition, to quizzes, pool and darts evenings and even a cheese tasting! Events out
of Term have catered especially for PhD students, and we embraced the College’s international
character with an extremely popular Bollywood dance night and Chinese New Year
celebrations. In Easter Term we focused on relaxation events to help with exam stress, such as a
massage class and a ‘Pet-a-Puppy’ day, as well as initiating weekly welfare coffee sessions. We
increased our visibility by launching a new website early in Easter Term and by engaging with
our community via social media.
We’ve continued to work closely with College on matters affecting students. This has included
providing feedback from a widespread catering survey, securing funding for a permanent
barbeque in the Sundial Garden and providing a student voice on the many committees that
are central to the smooth running of Wolfson.
JET Photographic
Looking to the future, the impending changes in the College Statutes provide an opportunity
to modernise WCSA’s own Constitution. We are also starting the process of preparing for a
hectic Freshers’ Week – always an exciting time in Wolfson!
Back row (L-R): Toby Moncaster, Nikolas Mavreas. Front row (L-R): Eli Keren, Tali Caldecott, Sasha East, Katie
Cornish, Lou Fioravanti.
Skills for Academic Success
Gillian Sanders, Postgraduate Administrator
Workshops take place on Thursdays during Term from 6–7pm. The sessions are informal, with
refreshments provided, and everyone is encouraged to take part in friendly debate. They are
designed to complement any subject-specific seminars offered in departments and, although
the main focus is on skills for students, we also introduced topics to interest the wider Wolfson
community.
We organised 15 presentations to help students sharpen up their writing, learn how to get their
points across in a presentation and acquire tips for exam preparation. Speakers included College
Research Associates, Librarians from the Lee Library and University Medical Library, University
staff and academic visitors.
Workshops in Michaelmas included ‘Planning your Writing’ and ‘Revision and Exam Skills’
(Richard Berengarten) and ‘Oral Presentation Skills’ (Ana Luisa Toribio). Lent Term covered ‘The
First Year Report’ (David Barrowclough); ‘Language and Style’ (Richard Berengarten); ‘How do I
avoid plagiarism?’ and ‘Stress-Free Referencing with Zotero’ (Meg Westbury); ‘The ‘Big Four’
Databases for your Literature Search’ (Isla Kuhn); and ‘Improve your Scientific Writing’ (Mary
Chester Kadwell).
Easter Term opened with ‘Cross-training for the Brain: an antidote for exam term stress’ (Melanie
Taylor) which aimed to refresh students’ concentration with a mix of physical and verbal games.
Meg Westbury ran three workshops demonstrating the benefits of blogging, LinkedIn and
Twitter, which proved popular with visitors, members and students.
Florian Urmetzer’s workshop ‘Transition from Academia into Business – Applications, Processes,
Thoughts’ shed light on this significant step, while ‘Preparing for the Viva from the Examiner’s
Perspective’ (Michael Langford) provided insights into a successful viva.
We wish to thank all the speakers and our students whose support made the programme such a
success. We welcome suggestions for future topics to pgadministrator@wolfson.cam.ac.uk
The invitation to “sign up for Wolfson Skills for Academic Success sessions – lively, practical and
fun” signalled the renaming and launch of our new study skills programme, merging with the
Thesis Writing Group. The programme has been put together by Jane McLarty (Senior Tutor),
Sally Church (Tutor) and Lesley Dingle (Academic Support Officer) with input from Meg
Westbury (Librarian) and assistance from myself.
Wolfson Music Society
Andrew Goldman (2010), Student and Society President
Andrew Goldman, Dr Roger Briscoe and Professor
Linda Wicker with the Steinway.
The Music Society has continued to provide
opportunities to participate in College musicmaking and to host concerts by professional
musicians for its three concert series. The Lunchtime
Concerts have continued a productive partnership
with the Cambridge Szeged Society in bringing in
top-quality performers for these free Saturday
concerts. The Early Music Recitals, organised by
College Research Associate Dr Dan Tidhar (2011),
have continued to make the most of our beautiful
harpsichord and the Music and Madeira evenings
have again drawn large audiences.
The Wolfson College Free Jam Society allows musicians to use a newly-acquired set of electric
instruments. Several bands have formed from this project, playing gigs at Wolfson and
elsewhere. Science! The Musical (pictured on p.25) also involved a host of Wolfson students.
The Choir has performed a wide variety of sacred and secular choral works at College Services
and the Termly College concerts, and has been invited to perform at other events, including
the University Sermon. This summer, the Wolfson Chamber Singers toured Southern France,
hosted by Fellow Dr Conrad Guettler (1995) and his wife Judith Graham, performing Sacred
Music in the historical churches of Minerve, Lagrasse and Rieux-Minervois in the Languedoc.
Notably, this year saw the acquisition of a Steinway piano, generously donated by Fellow
Professor Linda Wicker (2007) and Senior Member Dr Roger Briscoe (2004). With all our
performances at Wolfson, having a professional instrument has filled an important need.
Our fundraising has proved successful in allowing for the transport, service and maintenance
of the instrument to ensure that it is,
and will remain, in peak condition.
The College is enormously grateful to
Calling all musical alumni
Linda and Roger, and to all members
If you would like to take part in the ‘Come and Sing’
who have generously made gifts to
on Sunday 15 March 2015,
the Piano Fund: the Steinway will
please complete the survey at bit.ly/1tmjquP
serve Wolfson well for many years
or email alumni@wolfson.cam.ac.uk
to come.
Ballroom Dancing Society
Susie Hoelgaard (1976), Senior Member and Organiser
One spin-off of the Society this season was offering some private tuition to several College
couples who were getting married and wanted to prepare for their wedding dance. One
couple, Clara and Stephen, kindly invited me and some of their fellow dancers along to their
celebrations at St John’s. Here they are, showing off their elegant waltz on the College lawn!
Noodle Club
Corinne Duhig (1981), College Research Associate
The Noodle Club provides an opportunity for international students and visitors to practise their
conversational English with native English speakers in a very relaxed and friendly environment.
Every Friday lunchtime, College provides instant noodles and snacks (kimchi is currently popular),
coffee, teas and biscuits. We have a serious or fun theme or a media report to discuss and the
conversation ranges round, on and off the subject – often we get so engrossed we don’t even
start on it! We make friends and learn about everyone’s different languages and cultures.
Look out for the weekly notices and come and join us!
The Ballroom Dancing Society has been at Wolfson since the
early 1980s and I sometimes think it may be time to call it a day,
but then every Michaelmas Term brings new enthusiasts. This
year was no exception and another cohort arrived for weekly
lessons with our charming teacher, Claire, and me assisting. We
teamed up to initiate the novices in basic steps and routines,
starting with the cha-cha and jive, and moving on to the waltz,
quickstep and foxtrot. They all made rapid progress, with Claire
nudging them gently along and me alternately humouring and
bullying them into shape. I also encouraged them to mix and
change partners so they would feel comfortable stepping out
with others in social situations. Everyone enjoyed the sessions
Stephen and Clara.
and our pupils seemed to respond well to our combined
easy-going and more directive approach. So if the lessons continue to be popular next year, it
looks like we’ll keep going.
Senior Members
Neville Silverston (2004), Senior Member Observer
The two Senior Member Observers on the Governing Body have continued to organise social
activities, not only to increase a corporate feeling within the Senior Membership, but also to
integrate with Visiting Academics and Wolfson students. Senior Members organise three Tea
Parties a year to welcome Visiting Academics, the last one of which is a Garden Party in the
Easter Term.
On the last working day of every month during Term, Senior Members are encouraged to come
in to College to enjoy eating with fellow Senior Members in the Dining Hall, where tables have
been reserved. At our meeting following the last lunch of Term, a speaker, usually from the
College, talks about the details of their role within the organisation.
A successful ‘Hospitality Scheme’ has been launched whereby Senior Members invite students
to their homes during the Christmas vacation. Altogether, about 60 students were invited to a
variety of social functions – morning coffee, afternoon tea, lunches, dinner and drinks parties.
Society of Emeritus Fellows
Tom Davies (1996), Secretary of the Society of Emeritus Fellows
Apart from the contribution to College life by individual Emeritus Fellows, the members of the
Society like to emphasise that, collectively, their major strength is the comprehensive nature of
their experience of Wolfson over its fifty-year life. In the past year this has been brought to bear
on the College’s Statutes. Revision is as tedious as it is important but close examination, mainly
by two Emeritus Fellows, helped produce a clear set of revisions.
Members of the Society will contribute to the 50th Anniversary celebrations as part of the efforts
of all College members but, in particular, the Emeritus Fellows are taking the lead in producing a
small illustrated book.
The Society continues to organise visits both inside Cambridge (museums and departments)
and outside, and most of these are open to all College members. We have been to the Sainsbury
Laboratory in Cambridge, several stately homes and various notable places in Whitehall. All of
these have been very ably organised by Eric Miller.
Wolfson Howler
Kirsten Barnes (2009), Student
The Howler got off to a flying start with a ‘top-secret’ headline act at the first
event. With a leak by The Tab, the queue for the show reached the car park.
An incredible night of comedy headed by Russell Howard cemented the
Howler’s reputation as the place to be for stand-up comedy in Cambridge.
The buzz surrounding the event lasted the year, due to the incredible headline acts, including
Nick Mohammed, Romesh Ranganathan, John Kearns and Paul Sinha, and the strong crop of
University student comedians such as Ken Cheng, Rosalind Peters, Harry Wright, Jamie Fraser,
Bargav Narayanan, Adrian Gray, Ted Hill, Dan Eastment, Stephen Harrison and Tom McClelland. An
increasing number of others, such as Jack Campbell, Andy Field, Ali Warwood and Victor Herrero,
have greatly diversified the comedy. Special thanks to compères Ed Gamble and Nish Kumar.
The Howler has attracted the best acts and the friendliest audiences. Here’s to more amazing
comedy at Wolfson!
June Event 2014: New York, New York
(2013), Students and June Event Presidents
The 2014 Wolfson June Event offered 900 guests
a taste of New York. With hot dogs in Coney
Island, baseball in Queens and life drawing in
NYU School of Arts, the party was a rousing
success. After ambling past the Statue of Liberty,
June Event Committee (L-R): Kevin Maloney, Justin
guests took photos in Central Park and danced
the night away to the beats of 16 bands and DJs. Jensen, Michal Barabas, Hans Werner, Sonny Smart,
Anthony Wainman, Theresia Rother, Ismail Najim,
After the arrival of a classic yellow NY taxi cab,
‘better than Trinity’ was on everyone’s lips. After Mandy Leung, Guilhem Aulotte, Matt Yan, Nilman
Ekanayake (not pictured Michael Friedman).
nearly nine hours of non-stop food, drink and
entertainment, over half the guests remained for the annual Survivor’s photo. The June Event
Committee would like to thank Wolfson’s staff for their support through every step of the
planning, and its guests, who made the night unforgettable. Ring True, Wolfson!
Shaun Scott Photography
Kevin Maloney (2012) and Michal Barabas
Art at Wolfson
Our 2013 exhibitions’ programme began with a popular show of original cartoons by Peter
Brookes, principal cartoonist of The Times and Cartoonist of the Year in 2013. His trenchant
political cartoons explored topical themes including the death of Nelson Mandela.
An exhibition from the College archive followed: Bredon House – the first 100 years; an online gallery
and a seminar of reminiscences complemented this exhibition. We agreed to partner the Museum
of Classical Archaeology in hosting a colourful, touring exhibition entitled Myths, Memories and
Mysteries: how artists respond to the past (30 June-2 November). This exhibition of contemporary,
mainly Greek, artists explores the influence of the past upon artists’ work. Taking Byzantine culture
as its starting point, it covers a period from late antiquity to the twentieth century.
The College art collection is growing steadily
with the gift of a print by Kip Gresham, of the
Print Studio, and our commission to Peter
Mennim to paint an oil sketch portrait of
Professor Mary Hesse.
See www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/fine-arts for our
online exhibitions.
© Peter Mennim
Margaret Greeves (2006), Emeritus Fellow and Meredith Hale (2009), Fellow
Myths, Memories and Mysteries exhibition.
Professor Mary Hesse.
Law Society
Valia Babis (2009), Junior Research Fellow and Society President
More broadly, legal scholars have presented Lunchtime Seminars and Humanities Society talks.
Associate Professor Ramu de Bellescize discussed the difference between English and French
law, and I spoke on reforming European financial regulation and supervision to prevent and
resolve banking crises. Professor Flogaitis spoke again on the Roman tradition and rebirth of
public powers in Europe.
In order to build stronger links between academia and practice, law students from Wolfson
attended events sponsored by City firms. One of our aims is to promote links with practitioners
for the benefit of Wolfson students considering a law career.
But the WLS is not just about work! Throughout the year, we held several social events, formal
dinners and drink receptions. So, stay tuned!
Language and Culture Society
Varun Khanna (2010), Student and Society President
Wolfson is the most cosmopolitan College in Cambridge, and the Language and Culture
Society aims to take advantage of this unique melting-pot of languages and cultures by
offering College members a chance to learn or teach a language. For more information, please
visit our website sites.google.com/site/wolfsonlcs
This year we continued to expand our culture aspect, hosting another two ‘Travellers’ Tales’
events in association with WCSA. We offered classes in Hebrew, Korean, Mandarin, Sanskrit and
Swahili. We will continue exploring our language and culture frontiers, incorporating new
languages and hosting more talks in the coming year.
This year we have been more active than ever, with a diverse series of topical seminars by
prominent speakers. Professor Spyridon Flogaitis spoke of Greece’s weak public institutions and
drew links with the current economic crisis; Professor Nina Persak dealt with the challenges of
bringing legitimacy and trust in criminal justice; Mr Rod Thomas spoke on automated land
registration systems and Professor Dr Kadriye Bakirci discussed the filtering mechanism of the
European Court of Human Rights.
Christian Society
Charlotte Matthews (2011), Student
The Wolfson Christian Society has had a packed year. We are a very diverse group, which is
something we celebrate. We enjoyed reading Saint Mark’s Gospel together in Michaelmas, and in
Lent we embarked on Saint Paul’s Letter to the Romans. In between our weekly Bible studies and
prayer meetings, we also enjoyed hosting meals and evangelistic events. Tom Dennison gave a
popular talk on ‘Does society’s view of Christianity reflect the truth?’ and we held a screening of
‘Nefarious: a merchant of souls’, a documentary highlighting the current problems of the global
sex trade. We were pleased that our project to buy a goat and 20 pairs of shoes for primary
school children with cerebral palsy in Kenya (organised by Alice Gathoni) was successful. We also
had a pleasant morning cleaning the ‘Winter Comfort’ homeless shelter in Cambridge.
We meet every Wednesday evening at 9.30pm in the Lee Room during Term. Do feel free to
join us! Next year the group will be led by Andy Gales: ag551@cam.ac.uk
Wolfson Contemporary Reading Group
Christine Corton (2010) and Kim Allen (2008), Senior Members
The WCRG meets throughout the year on Wednesday evenings and is open to all. Books discussed
included Alice Munro’s short stories centred in a remote area of Canada, Dear Life, which garnered
praise for its style but criticism for its unvaried content; slightly closer to home, Charles Moseley’s
Out of Reach: An elegy for a Cambridgeshire Village sneaked into the reading group’s usually fictionbased territory because the author was able to come to the group to discuss the problems of
writing a non-fiction biography of a village; and Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the time being and Jennifer
Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad, which were both enjoyed for narratives that jumped across time
and place. Andrea Levy’s The Long Song, set in the slave-owning states of the USA, failed to
convince many readers that she had captured the authentic voice of the slaves. Nathan Filer’s The
Shock of the Fall was compared unfavourably to Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the
Night-time. John Williams’ re-discovered classic Stoner achieved high marks but was beaten by
Robert Harris’ An Officer and a Spy, with a final score of 8.2: a resounding vote of confidence in Harris’
ability to spin a good yarn and, according to our visiting French historian, Dr Robert Priest,
remarkably true to the actual events of the Dreyfus Case.
Sport
Sport
Wolfson Sports
Nikolas Mavreas (2013), Student and WCSA Sports Officer
Wolfson has had another successful year in sport. In American football, George Bickers took part
in the Varsity Match. In Rugby Union, Sam Farmer competed in the University’s First 15 Blues in
their Varsity Match at Twickenham, which our side unfortunately lost. In Rugby League, Tom
Hughes played with the Green Lions in the 34th Varsity Match, sadly with the result again going
in favour of The Other Place.
In tennis, Constantine Markides captained the University to its ninth win, earning his third
Blue. He was awarded a grant from the Hawks Trust and he will also represent Cambridge
and Oxford at the Prentice Cup tour of the US. And Wei-Hsin Chen gained a Half-Blue in
table tennis.
Table Tennis
Varun Khanna (2010), Student and Team Captain, and Julian
Conrad (2009), Student and Society President
It has been an extremely successful year for table tennis in
Wolfson College: our First Team won the University
Intercollegiate League (First Division) thanks to a particularly
hard working team: Longzhu Cai, Wei-Hsin (Wilson) Chen,
Premal Kamdar, Varun Khanna (Captain), Michael Wolfgang
Müller and Kevin Schlegel (Coaches) and Julian Conrad
(Society President). Our Second Team also took first place in
the Fifth Division of the same League.
Back row (L-R): Michael Wolfgang
Müller, Kevin Schlegel (Coaches). Front
row (L-R): Julian Conrad, Varun Khanna,
Wei-Hsin (Wilson) Chen.
Wei-Hsin (Wilson) Chen, who contributed to Cambridge’s
10-0 victory in this year’s Varsity Match, will be awarded a
Half-Blue. And as always, our Society is grateful for all the
support received from the College.
Football
Alex Martin (2011), Student and Football Social Officer
By any measure, our football team should struggle. The yearly turnover of players and the
omnipresent pressure of academic work should interrupt the stability and camaraderie
necessary for sporting success. Yet we have not struggled. We have been victorious in every
More like a family than a group of friends, neither injuries, essay deadlines nor the weather have
prevented us from going out to eat together, or watching games in the Lee Room, or endlessly
mocking the Social Officer for making a mess of his single chance to score.
The entire team thanks Alex Bergin for his
excellent Captaincy. We would not have
enjoyed this year’s success without him, and
our best wishes go to Andy Gales who will
be wearing the armband next season.
Back row (L-R): Farakh Shahzad, Justin Goulding,
Rob Jefferies, Simon Lambracos, Paul Mignanelli,
Guilhem Aulotte. Middle row (L-R): Richard
Bunworth, Georgios Drakakis, Jonathan Haines,
Musa Chunge, Andy Gales, Tomas Miranda. Front
row (L-R): Adam Tynan, Alex Martin, Alex Bergin,
Nikolai (Nick) Pashkunov, Adam Cooper.
Squash
Saadiq Moledina (2012), Student and Club Captain
This year, the Squash team was one of the top eight teams in the University during both
Michaelmas and Lent. We have had a mixed bag of results, with some incredibly tough matches.
Unfortunately, injuries set in towards the end of Term and we were not quite able to finish
with a flourish!
The popularity of our weekly coaching sessions has been steadily rising, with new recruits rapidly
improving their game. This coming October, we are looking to attract more members, building
on this year’s result and aiming for promotion.
Cricket
Pradipta Biswas (2013), Junior Research Fellow and Captain
This year the Wolfson Cricket team has merged with the Trinity cricket team and already played a
few friendly matches. Wolfson players put up a good show in the joint WolfTrin team. The MCR
tournament matches have not been scheduled as I write this report, while the match against the
President’s XI is scheduled for 29 June. (Sadly, the match was rained off.) Notable performances
so far are Kamlesh Pillay’s super-fast threatening bowling in nets, which is expected to claim
many wickets over the summer, and skipper Biswas’ 13 runs against the mighty Jesus team,
which turned out to be the best score after Extras.
Sport
single League game we’ve played this year and have now been promoted to the highest levels
of MCR football in Cambridge. Kind words of congratulations offered by everybody in College
and their generous interest has spurred us on to excellence.
Tilman Lesch (2011) and Kevin Maloney (2012), PhD Students and Captains
This season has been the most successful in Wolfson’s basketball history. For the first time, our
team is the winner of the Basketball Cuppers Championship. It also won its second consecutive
League title and finished the season undefeated. The Cuppers finals took place in the University
Sports Centre at the beginning of Easter Term against Pembroke College. The entire Wolfson
team played some of their best basketball and the final score was 70 to 49.
Back row (L-R): Ernest Chow, Tilman Lesch, Jin Zhang, Kevin Maloney,
Swift Gao, Jyothish Soman, Chris Ren, Alex Hull, Darren Xu. Front row (L-R):
Vaggelis Giannikas, Tao Liu, Glen Thompson, Zoltan Asztalos, Dan Quek.
As Captains, we would like
to thank all players who
have attended our weekly
practices and supported
our team in its games.
With more than 15
members, the Wolfson
team is one of the largest
in Cambridge. Special
thanks to the Bursar for a
new outdoor hoop and to
WCSA for covering the
expense of our gym
training sessions! We look
forward to another
successful year of Wolfson
basketball. Go Wolfson, go!
Badminton
Joachim Dias (2012), Student and Men’s Team Captain
Badminton is a great team sport that requires complete concentration, mental and physical
fitness, agility and precision. Whether playing competitively with our team or just in our social
sessions, it is a great way to release pressure and get some exercise.
This year, our club dominated their Divisions in the
College League. The men’s team won the Second
Division in Michaelmas and came fourth out of seven in
the First Division in Lent. The women’s team won the
Third Division in Lent and moved up to Second Division.
This is an unprecedented achievement for Wolfson, but
it is still not good enough. That’s why we need you! If
you can play badminton to a high standard, please get
in touch with me at jovd2@cam.ac.uk to organise trials.
Joachim Dias
Sport
Basketball
Aerobics, Zumba and Pilates
Zenobia Ismail (2013), Student and Jane Kloda
(2012), College Research Associate
The Aerobics and Zumba Society offers three
great ways to work-out in a non-competitive
environment. Aerobics is a multi-level class
combining dance, interval training and body
conditioning. In Zumba the emphasis is on fun,
easy-to-follow choreography. Both are set to
great music. This year we added Pilates: a
relaxing way to increase strength and flexibility
as well as relieve neck and shoulder strain.
We would like you to drop your text books for
an hour and break into a sweat because, as
well as being tremendous fun, research
suggests that exercise can improve academic
performance by increasing blood flow to the
brain, reducing stress and improving mood.
Exercise can also help you sleep better and
improve learning capacity.
Back row (L-R): Nungari Mwangi, Marie-Louise
Van Spyk, Helena Middleton, Hui Ben, Claire O’Brien,
Swati Ogale, Simin Zeng, Edyta Jackiewicz, Natalia
Kudryashova. Front row (L-R): Charlotte Matthews,
Samantha Lee, Jane Kloda, Zenobia Ismail, Nuri
Purswani Ramchandani.
All our classes are taught by professionals and are free for Wolfson members.
Other Sports
Other regular sports activities during the year not mentioned separately were Pool, Yoga, Salsa
and Tango sessions.
Rowing
Nick Salisbury (2011), Student and Captain, Rhys Coleman (2011), Student and Men’s Captain,
Lily Chan (2010), Student and Women’s Captain
Wolfson College Boat Club has enjoyed a very successful year, with three men’s crews training
throughout the year. In Easter Term, our M3 narrowly missed out on competing in Bumps but
W1 won the overall Mays category for the St Radegund Mile and took third place in their Division
in the Cambridge Head to Head, followed by victories in the Champs Eight Head and Nine’s
Regatta. These cemented their place in the Second Division.
Sport
All the training takes place at the brand new University Sports Centre, with an excellent coach,
and it’s completely free for Wolfson members! Our Facebook group, Wolfson College Badminton
Club, also provides another platform for members to interact and socialise.
Sport
M1 and M2 trained for the 7km Head of the River Race, but unfortunately the race was stopped
due to high wind and tides causing boats to sink towards the finish line. The men competed in a
number of races throughout Term, with M1 finishing second in the IM3 Division at Peterborough
Regatta and winning their Division at the X-Press Head Race.
M2 kicked off May Bumps week with a strong start, securing a quick bump on Selwyn III on day
one, followed by a row over on day two and quickly catching Downing III on day three. After a
long chase on St Catharine’s III, M2 were unfortunately taken by surprise by a very fast St
Edmund’s II hungry for blades and were over-bumped, putting them down one position from
where they started.
For W1, day one got off to a very close start with Downing II just a canvas away from Lady
Margaret II when W1 caught them, just 10 strokes ahead of their possible bump. Day two was a
very fast bump on Lady Margaret II to secure more greenery and, keen to impress all the
Wolfsonites at the marquee on day three, W1 quickly caught Clare II. The next day, Blades were
secured after a quick and anti-climatic final bump on Robinson I. After again being denied a
long, hard chase, W1 battle paddled home with glory and greenery, with the flag held up high.
Giorgio Divitini
M1 started off Bumps on a difficult position, chasing Darwin I who had the luxury of a slowmoving Pembroke II ahead of them. This forced a row-over; however, a quick bump on
Pembroke II on day two was followed by a similarly fast bump on Sidney Sussex I on day three.
Finally, Queens’ II were also bumped, giving M1 a solid up-three.
The successful W1 crew on their way to Blades.
News
Members’ News
Dr Hannah Elson (1970)
Dr Elson retired after spending the last 12 years as a Project Director at Fisher BioServices
where she managed over $100 million in contracts with the National Institutes of Health. She is
currently writing blogs for her former company and her website.
Professor Gordon Klein (1970)
Professor Klein gave invited talks in 2014 at Columbia University College of
Physicians and Surgeons, and in London, Oxford and Vienna.
Professor Jane Chapman FRSA (1971)
Professor Chapman was a researcher for the BBC ‘WW1 at Home’ project and was interviewed in
relation to the project.
Dr Eva Lloyd-Reichling OBE (1971)
In 2013 Dr Lloyd-Reichling was awarded an Honorary OBE for services to
education.
Professor Stephen Hodkinson (1975)
Professor Hodkinson is Director of the Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies at the
University of Nottingham. He was elected an Honorary Citizen of the modern city of Sparta for
contributions to Spartan history. He has also been acting as historical consultant to the author
Kieron Gillen, on his graphic novel Three for Image Comics.
Dr Thomas Buchsbaum (1978)
News
Dr Buchsbaum has been appointed Austrian Ambassador to Poland, after
having served as Ambassador to Iran for four years.
Members’ News continued
Dr Otto Lampe (1979)
Dr Lampe has assumed a new position as German Ambassador to Switzerland.
Professor Janet Ulph (1979)
Professor Ulph has been appointed as an Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellow to work
on the legal and ethical regulation of museum collections.
Mr Jonathan Brown (1981)
Mr Brown won an Association for Recorded Sound Collections award for
Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research for his book Great Wagner
Conductors – a Listener’s Companion published in 2012.
Professor Brian Moore FRS (1983)
Professor Moore received the Gold Medal of the Acoustical Society of America
at their spring 2014 meeting in Providence, Rhode Island. The citation reads
“For leadership in research on human hearing and its clinical applications”.
Professor Mark Skilton (1983)
Since September 2013, Professor Skilton has been a part-time Professorial Teaching Fellow at
Warwick Business School, University of Warwick.
Dr Huw Kruger Gray (1989)
Dr Gray is Director of the Flow Cytometry Core Facility at the University of
Miami. He was appointed Research Assistant Professor in the Medical School.
Dr Ivor Day FREng (1990)
Dr Day and four colleagues at the Whittle Laboratory in Cambridge received
the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Gas Turbine Award for 2012
at the International Gas Turbine Conference in Düsseldorf in June 2014. The
Award is for the best paper published in all gas turbine related disciplines and
Dr Day received it for an unequalled sixth time.
Mr Greenhalgh is a Governor of Comberton Village College and in 2014 was appointed a Trustee of
Comberton Academy Trust (chaired by Dr Gordon Johnson, former President of Wolfson College).
News
Mr Colin Greenhalgh CBE DL (1990)
Dr David Wills (1992) Dr Wills and Miss Victoria Carpenter were married on 27 July 2013 at
The Vean, Cornwall.
Professor Matthew Baillie Smith (1993)
Since February 2013, Professor Baillie Smith has been Professor of International Development at
Northumbria University.
Professor Evan Bukey (1993)
In April 2014, the Austrian government awarded Professor Bukey the Karl von Vogelsang State
Prize for historical scholarship.
Mr Paul Deal (1994)
Mr Deal has been appointed Communications Officer to the Police and Crime Commissioner for
Wiltshire and Swindon. Before joining the Wiltshire Police in 2010, Mr Deal was a senior broadcast
journalist at BBC News in London.
Mr Sumio Saito (1995)
Mr Saito has been involved with the English translation publishing project of Shiba Ryotaro’s
historical novel Clouds Above the Hill and has donated Volumes One to Four to the College.
Ms Lynette Alcántara (1996)
The Director of Music was part of an historic performance of Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 in
King’s College Chapel, directed by Sir John Eliot Gardiner to mark the 50th anniversary of his
undergraduate performance.
Dr Ming-Chin Monique Chu (1996) and Dr Guillaume
Bascoul (2001)
Drs Chu and Bascoul are delighted to introduce their threeyear old identical twins, Sophie and Olivia Bascoul, to members
of Wolfson College. Since October 2013 Dr Chu has been a
Research Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford.
Mrs Mandakini Kaul (1996)
News
Mrs Kaul and her husband Mr Jinesh Prasada are proud to announce the birth
of their first child, a boy named Janmejay, on 7 August 2012.
Professor Lawrence Hamilton (1997)
In July 2014, Professor Hamilton took up a Chair of Political Studies at the
University of Witwatersrand, South Africa.
Mr Guillaume Piel (1997)
Mr Piel and Ms Corinne Frasson were married in 2012 and a baby girl joined the family
in August 2013.
Dr Sally Church (1998)
The Heritage Lottery Fund has awarded Dr Church another significant grant for an educational
project to expose East Anglian schoolchildren to Britain’s Viking heritage at the West Stow
Anglo-Saxon Village in Suffolk.
Mr David Jacques (1998)
Mr Jacques’ continuing archaeological dig at Amesbury has revealed that this
site near Stonehenge is the oldest UK settlement. The excavations will be the
subject of a future BBC documentary.
Dr Alessio Ciulli (1999)
Dr Ciulli left Cambridge in April 2013 and moved his laboratory to the University of Dundee,
where he took up a Readership in Chemical and Structural Biology.
David J Hall FSA (1999)
David Hall has been appointed Founder and Distinguished Benefactor of the Friends of
the National Libraries and also Honorary Life Member, Friends of Palace Green Library,
Durham University.
Professor Peter J Lucas FSA (2000)
Professor Lucas contributed an Anglo-Saxon voice-over to the Triquetra
film project on Anglo-Saxons and Vikings at the Illuminating York Festival in
October 2013.
News
Professor Peter J Lucas FSA (2000) and Mrs Angela M Lucas (2002)
Professor and Mrs Lucas have been working jointly on the Medieval
Manuscripts at Maynooth, where the library houses the collections of St
Patrick’s College founded in 1795. Under the auspices of the British Academy,
they have been awarded a generous grant-in-aid by the Trustees of the Neil
Ker Memorial Fund to support the publication of illustrations and their book
will be published by Four Courts Press (Dublin) later in 2014.
Mrs Karen Pearce (2000)
Pari Naderi
Mrs Pearce is one of 20 women featured in the book The Meaning of Success:
Women at Cambridge published by the University in March 2014.
Mr Paul Sutton (2000)
Following the success of authorised biography Becoming Ken Russell (2010), Mr Sutton was asked
to write the definitive history of the arts on the BBC. During the last three years, Mr Sutton has
spent the summer months in Wyoming writing scripts with John McTiernan.
Professor John Gillroy (2002)
Professor Gillroy is Professor of International Relations and Public International Law and
Founding Director of the Environmental Policy Design Programs at Lehigh University, USA. He
has been made editor of a new Palgrave-Macmillan book series: Philosophy, Public Policy And
Transnational Law.
Dr Stephen Livermore (2002)
Dr Livermore and his wife are pleased to announce the birth of their first child, Isla Helen, on 5
April 2013 in Glasgow.
Dr Aldo Faisal (2003)
Dr Faisal’s work was featured on the Science Club programme on BBC2. He is developing a robot
arm which can be controlled by movement of the eyeball, something which has important
applications for severely disabled individuals.
Mr Jan Filochowski (2003)
News
Mr Filochowski has recently retired as Chief Executive of Great Ormond Street
Hospital. Since 2004 he has been a Visiting Professor in the Department of
Information Systems at Brunel University.
Mrs Meredith Hooper (2003)
Mrs Hooper was honoured as ‘Australian of the Year in the UK 2014’ by the Australia Day
Foundation for her passion and dedication to educating the world about Antarctica.
Professor Vassilis Koronakis (2003)
Professor Koronakis has won a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award for seven years to
work ‘towards a high definition view of cytoskeleton remodelling by the bacterial pathogen
Salmonella’ and has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology.
Dr Jeremy Webb (2003)
Dr Webb was awarded one of 12 Pilkington Prizes by the University of Cambridge, which honour
excellence in teaching. The awards ceremony was attended by Vice-Chancellor, Wolfson Fellow
and Honorary Fellow Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz.
Dr Martin Allen FSA FRHistS (2004)
Dr Allen has been awarded the degree of Doctor of Letters in recognition of
his published research on monetary history. This was the only higher doctorate
received by a member of the College in 2012–2013. His recent publications
include Mints and Money in Medieval England (CUP, 2012).
Mr Ryan Costella (2004)
Mr Costella and Ms Anna Hundtoft were married in Omaha, Nebraska, USA on
28 June 2014. After their honeymoon in Jamaica, they plan to reside in Reno/
Tahoe, Nevada, USA.
Dr Rupert Gill (2004)
Since completing his thesis, Dr Gill has been working as a civil servant in the Treasury,
10 Downing Street and in the private office of Iain Duncan Smith.
Mr Iain King CBE (2004)
Mr King was awarded a CBE in June 2013 for frontline bravery in Libya, Afghanistan and Kosovo.
He is one of the youngest people ever to become a CBE.
Dr Lesley MacVinish (2004)
News
Wolfson and Lucy Cavendish Colleges welcomed eleven prospective students from underrepresented groups in a shadowing scheme which gave them the opportunity to attend three
days of lectures, supervisions and social activities. Dr MacVinish said: “It was a pleasure to host
such a talented and enthusiastic group of people at Wolfson, and invite them to witness at first
hand the level of intellectual adventure that Cambridge affords.”
Mr Matthew Moss MVO (2004)
Mr Moss has been appointed Director of External Relations and Development at Homerton
College. Previously he helped set up the University’s first International Office and since 2004 he
served as Private Secretary to the Vice-Chancellor.
Dr Rebecca Simmons (2004)
Dr Simmons is one of 20 women featured in the book The Meaning of Success:
Women at Cambridge published by the University in March 2014. In July 2014
she moved from being a Senior Investigator Scientist at the MRC Epidemiology
Unit to an appointment as Head of the Vice-Chancellor’s Office.
Mrs Anne Smit-Klijnstra (2004)
Mrs Smit-Klijnstra and her husband are pleased to announce the birth of their second son, Jari
Benjamin, on 3 October 2013.
Professor Richard Taylor (2004)
Professor Taylor gave a keynote lecture at Madingley Hall, Cambridge in July 2013 to celebrate
the centenary of the Eastern Division of the Workers’ Educational Association. He was Chair of the
WEA Board of Trustees from 2005-2012.
Professor James Wood (2004)
Professor Wood became Head of Department of Veterinary Medicine in October 2013. He is still
very involved in the Cambridge-Africa programme (www.cambridge-africa.cam.ac.uk) which
Wolfson College has strongly supported.
Mr Neeraj Agarwal (2005)
Mr Agarwal recently set up a social enterprise, Tea People, that uses the profits generated from
importing and selling speciality teas in the UK for educational development in the under-served
tea-growing areas of India (www.teapeople.co.uk).
Dr Patrick Skinner (2005)
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Dr Skinner set up Timetrekkers (timetrekkers.co.uk), an archaeology holiday and
cultural adventure business.
Dr Christopher Town (2005)
Dr Town and Ms Suvina Jayatilaka are delighted to announce the birth of
their daughter, Aylini Katharine, on 17 April 2014. This year, Dr Town was
awarded a grant to work on pattern recognition algorithms for the automated
photographic identification of humpback whales. In addition, Dr Town,
together with Professor Rebecca Kilner of Harvard University, has developed a
new computer vision algorithm which helps to understand how birds recognise their own eggs
and differentiate against unwanted ones deposited by cuckoos.
Ms Eva von Redecker (2005)
Ms von Redecker runs the Cambridge-based micropublisher Peer Press (www.peerpress.co.uk).
Mr Anthony Teo (2006)
Mr Teo has become an Adjunct Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National
University of Singapore.
Dr Katherine Thomas (2006) and Dr Samuel James Wright (2006)
Drs Thomas and Wright (both Wolfson members) were married on 31 August
2013 at St Peter’s Church in Stanton Lacy.
Professor Howard Wolf (2006)
Professor Wolf is teaching a mini-course on Travel Writing as Emeritus Professor at SUNY-Buffalo
and is also writing plays.
Dr Adam Cobb (2007)
Dr Cobb has been appointed a Research Professor and Director of the Mahan
Advanced Research Project at the United States Naval War College in Newport,
Rhode Island.
Dr Anil Madhavapeddy (2007)
Dr Madhavapeddy has led the creation of Mirage OS, an open source
operating system, at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.
Mr Christopher Taylor (2007)
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In 2013, Mr Taylor was awarded the John Coles Medal for Landscape Archaeology by the
British Academy.
Dr Christopher Wilkinson (2007)
Dr Wilkinson has been appointed as Independent Expert Consultant to the
European Commission on Human-Computer Interaction. After his doctorate
in Engineering Design, he held a Research Associate position at the University
of Trento, Italy and since August 2013 he has been at the National Centre of
Product Design and Development Research. His latest EU-funded project is to
develop a device to help older people maintain their out-of-home mobility.
Mr Ioannis Avgenikou (2008)
In 2013, Mr Avgenikou began his PhD research on the Ethics of Space at the National Technical
University of Athens.
Dr Carmine D’Agostino (2008)
A paper by Dr D’Agostino has recently won an award as ‘highest quality article’ in the Royal
Society of Chemistry journal Catalysis Science & Technology. Dr D’Agostino is a Lecturer in Catalysis
and Reaction Engineering at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology and
holder of a Wolfson Junior Research Fellowship.
Professor Erol Gelenbe (2008)
Professor Gelenbe holds the Dennis Gabor Chair at Imperial College London
and, in 2013, was elected a Foreign Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences
for his leading position in science and his contributions to the development
of co-operations with Poland. In 2010, Professor Gelenbe was also elected to
Honorary Membership of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Professor David Hendy (2008)
Professor Hendy joined the University of Sussex as Professor of Media and Communications in
2012, after 19 years at the University of Westminster. At Sussex, he runs the newly-established
Public Culture Hub.
Mr Vsevolod Samokhvalov (2008)
Mr Samokhvalov gained three grants for organising events at the University of Cambridge
in 2014: a conference on ‘Eurasia: geopolitical project or geo-economic reality?’ in January, a
workshop on ‘Bringing Humanities Back: Studying Politics and Foreign Policy through Research
in the Humanities and Popular Culture’ in April, and a conference on ‘Russia, Ukraine and NATO:
Scenarios of future relations’ in June.
Dr Frank Schoofs (2008)
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Dr Schoofs and Miss Sian Herschel were married in St Mark’s Church,
Cambridge in Spring 2014 by Wolfson Chaplain The Reverend Canon
Dr Maggie Guite.
Dr Terance Hart FRSC (2009)
Dr Hart is responsible for the scientific activities of Geistlich Pharma AG in the materials and
product applications for patients’ research and development fields. He has set up consultancy
agreements with scientists in Cambridge and is seeking to establish further scientific
collaborations.
Mr Richard Hayes (2009)
Mr Hayes was awarded a fellowship to Yaddo, the artists’ colony in Saratoga Springs, New York.
Mr Neil Hunter (2009)
Mr Hunter is Lead Staff Officer for Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary for England
and Wales with lead responsibility for Protective Services. He recently completed a criticallyacclaimed inspection of the Police Service of Northern Ireland Historical Enquiries Team.
Professor Tahir Kamran (2009)
Professor Kamran is currently working on a book on Lahore: A portrait of a Colonial City.
Professor Donald Sharpes (2009)
Professor Sharpes is Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University and has
been commissioned by Wiley-Blackwell to edit a Handbook on Comparative
and International Studies.
Professor Sir Richard Evans FBA (2010)
The President was appointed Provost of Gresham College, London, a part-time post. He was
awarded the Norton Medlicott Medal of the Historical Association for services to history.
Dr Sam Aaron (2011)
Dr Aaron’s work on the Raspberry Pi computer has received a major boost through the Sonic
Pi: Live & Coding project funded by the Digital R&D Fund for the Arts. A podcast of his talk to the
Science Society can be found at www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/podcasts
Mrs Wendy Andrews (2011)
Mrs Andrews is about to start a PhD in Architecture as a member of Queens’ College.
Mr Marco Bonnington-Carter (2011)
Mr Bonnington-Carter and his wife are pleased to announce the birth of their son, James Henry
Charles, on 18 April 2013.
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Dr Stephen Hoath FInstP (2011)
Dr Hoath has been appointed as Editor for a new textbook by Wiley-VCH on
Fundamentals of Inkjet printing: The Science of Inkjet and Droplets. In January
2014 he was appointed a Senior Research Associate at the Inkjet Research
Centre in the Department of Engineering.
Mr Tom Hughes (2011)
Mr Hughes played for Cambridge in the Rugby League Varsity Match at the Honorary Artillery
Company Ground in central London.
Dr Xiaoguang Vincent Qi (2011)
Dr Qi returned to Wolfson as a Visiting Fellow. As a representative for Huayang International,
he gave a presentation at the FNC Group International Freight Conference in November 2013
in London.
Dr Naures Atto (2012)
Dr Atto and her husband are delighted to announce the birth of their son, Narsay Gabriel Atto,
who was born on 3 December 2013.
Dr Haider Butt (2012)
Dr Butt is now a Lecturer at the University of Birmingham and has been awarded the prestigious
Philip Leverhulme Prize.
Dr Ritika Dave (2012)
Dr Dave was shortlisted for the 2013 Women of the Future Awards and was also shortlisted
for an MBA Star Award.
Dr Stefan Dorondel (2012)
Dr Dorondel recently won a research grant of €205,000 for research on floods along the Lower
Danube (www.politicalecology.ro).
Dr Adam Barlow (2013)
Dr Barlow was awarded the Medawar Medal by the British Transplantation Society in February
2014 for the best paper presented at their annual congress.
Mr Hubert Fenwick (2013)
Wolfson student Mr Fenwick achieved the highest score in the whole of Europe, Middle East and
Africa in the Bloomberg Aptitude Test in February 2014, placing him in the online ‘Hall of Fame’.
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Mr Julius Weitzdörfer (2013)
Visiting Scholar Mr Weitzdörfer was elected to a three-year postdoctoral Research Fellowship at
Darwin College. He will pursue research on energy and disaster law in Japan and Europe at the
Faculty of Law.
Donations to Wolfson College
We are grateful to the following, as well as those who made donations anonymously during
2013–2014
Professor Doctor Winfried
Baumgart (1974)
Professor Lawrence Baxter (1987)
Mr Jonathan Beart (1991)
Dr Peter Beaumont (1990)
Mrs Barbara Bell (1994) and
Professor Richard Bell
Mr David Bennett (2005)
Mr Ronald Bennett (2004)
Mr Anders Bentzon (2012)
Mrs Anna Berzins Forkner (2009)
Mrs Sheila Betts (2002)
Mr Charles Bicker FRSA (2007)
Dr Kerrie Bigsworth (1975)
Emeritus Professor Alan Bishop
(1974)
Dr Barbara Blacklaws (1983)
Mr Gregory Blain (2006)
Professor R H A Blum (1984)
Mr Paul Bompas QPM (1988)
Mr Conor Bowman (1989) and
Professor Sylvia Draper (1988)
Mrs Susan Bowring (1972)
Mr Mark Boyce (1993)
Mr Alexander Bradley-Sitch
(2012)
Dr R H Bradshaw (1991)
Dr Stephen Bragg FREng (1982)
Dr Andrew Brown (2001)
Dr Jason Brown (1992)
Mr Jonathan Brown (1981)
The Estate of Mrs Patricia Brown
(2008)
Mr Paul Brown (2007)
Dr Richard Brown (2005)
Mr F Richard Bruce (2007)
Mr David Buck (2002)
Mr Jonathan Buggins (2008)
Mrs Doreen Burgin (1997)
The Estate of Mr Leonard Burt
(1974)
Professor Robin Butlin (1986)
Cambridge Commonwealth,
European and International
Trust
Cambridge University Press
Professor Charles Carlton (1981)
Miss Emma Carter (2010)
Dr Glenn Cartwright (2005)
Mr Robert Catton (2010)
Ms Elif Cetin (2008)
The Reverend Professor Owen
Chadwick OM KBE FBA (1977)
Miss Lily Chan (2010)
Mrs Lilian Chan Keller (1979)
Professor Jane Chapman FRSA
(1971)
Mr Mark Chatterton (2008)
Mr Vishavjeet Chaudhary (2012)
Mr Aymeric Chauve (2001)
Dr Hong Chen (1987)
Professor James Cherry MD
(2000)
Mr Tony Chew Leong-Chee and
Dr Melanie Chew
Dr Cyrus Chothia (2002)
Professor Michael Churgin (1992)
Miss Charlotte Chuter (2011)
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Dr Fernando Abegão (2006)
Mr Niyi Adewale (1990)
Mr Neeraj Agarwal (2005)
Miss Sylvia Agathou (2011)
Ms Vinyo Aidam (2007)
Mr Simon Aitken (2013)
The ALBORADA Trust
Ms Lynette Alcántara (1996)
Mr Peter Aldred (1976)
Mrs Julia Aldridge (1987)
Mrs Lenore Alexander (2008)
Professor Robin Alexander FBA
(2003)
Mr Alexander Alexandrov
(2009)
Mrs Kim Allen (2007)
Dr Martin Allen FSA FRHistSoc
(2004)
Professor Alfred Aman Jr (1983)
Dr Leticia Álvarez-Recio (2009)
Mr Robert Amundsen (1979)
Professor Yuko Asaka (1993)
Ms Lana Ashby (2011)
Ms Antoinette Askin (1998)
Dr Guido Bacciagaluppi (1991)
Professor Michelle Baddeley
(1991)
Emeritus Professor David Barker
AM (2005)
The Hon Sir Ian Barker QC (2006)
and Dr Mary Barker (2011)
Mr Adrian Barlow (2005)
Miss Terry Barringer (2009)
Mr Stephen Bates (1990)
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Donations to Wolfson College continued
Mrs Martha Clymer (1996)
Professor R S (Dicky) Clymo
(1996)
Dr J F (Chip) Coakley (2007)
Dr Rosalind Codrington (2000)
Mr Rhys Coleman (2011)
Dr Robert Conti (1990)
Dr Alison Cooke (1984)
Miss Biebele Cookey (2012)
Professor Ann Copestake (2000)
Dr Christine L Corton (2010)
Dr Brian Cox (1996)
Mr Ciarán Coyle (1998)
Mrs Johanna Crighton (1990)
Mr Carlo Crooks (1996)
Dr Patrick Crouch (1994)
Mr Kevin Crowe (1987) and Dr
Nicola Totterman Crowe
(1984)
Mrs Sally Cullen (2007)
Dr Nicholas Cutler (2001)
Dr Carmine D’Agostino (2008)
Dr Margaret Joy Dauncey (1970)
Mr Rhys David (1985)
Dr Thomas Davies (1996)
Dr Ivor Day FREng (1990)
Mr G Hugo C de Chassiron
(2001)
Professor Nicholas de Lange DD
FBA (1984)
Mrs Barbara de Smith (1970)
Mr Michael DeFrank (1973)
Dr Francisco Del Rey (2000)
Mr Thomas Dennison (2011)
The Dickens Fellowship
Cambridge Branch
Mrs Lesley Dingle (2001)
Mr Miles Dodd
Mr James Dodds (2007)
Professor Gordon Dougan
FMedSci FRS (2007)
Dr Christof Drechsel-Grau (2006)
Mr Hugh Duberly CBE (2005)
Professor Timothy Duff (2004)
Mr Colin Dunnighan (1992)
Dr Robert Duplock (1992)
Professor Marguerite Dupree
(1982)
Mr Robert Durrant (1977)
Mr Tom Durrant (2009)
Mrs Jacqueline Easter (2001)
Professor John Edwards (1983)
Dr Owen Edwards (1977) and
Mrs Josephine Edwards (2007)
Dr Patricia Eisenach (2009)
Ms Jamee Elder (2013)
Dr Susan Elliston (1976)
Dr Hannah Elson (1970)
Mrs Susan Eltringham (2005)
Miss Monika Erlinghagen (1983)
Mr Nikolai Eurich (2010)
Mrs D H Evans (1974)
Professor David Evans (1991)
Professor Sir Richard Evans FBA
(2010)
The Fairleigh S. Dickinson, Jr.
Foundation, Inc.
Dr Andrew Farley (1996)
Mr Christian Fink (2005)
Mr Lou Fioravanti (2011)
Dr John Firth (2000)
Mr Richard Fisher FRHistS (2003)
Professor Peter Fitzgerald (2009)
Miss Olive Forbes-Madden
(1969)
Dr Anne Forde (2006)
Mr Aidan Foster (2000)
Dr Tim Fowler (1980)
Ms Tiffany Franke (2012)
Dr David Frost (2000)
Professor Akira Fujimaki (1994)
Mr Shinji Fukuda (2011)
Mr Andrew Gales (2013)
Mrs Kay Gobby (2010)
Mr Andrew Goldman (2010)
Mr David Goode FRSA (2010)
Mr Neil Gostick (1985)
Mr Michael Goulborn (1986)
Dr Thomas Grant (1995)
Mr Colin Greenhalgh CBE DL
(1990)
Mrs Margaret Greeves (2006)
Miss Lesley Griffiths (1987)
Dr Conrad Guettler (1995)
Dr Audrey Guinchard DEA PhD
(2009)
Mr D G (Ben) Gunn CBE QPM
(1979)
Mr Bryan Guttridge (1996)
Mr Philip Hadridge (1988)
Dr Hannelore Hägele (1998)
Mr Christopher Hale (1982)
David J Hall FSA (1999)
Dr Geoffrey Hall (1981)
Professor Michael Hall (1983)
Mr Timothy Hallett (1992)
Dr Nneka Handschin (2008)
Professor Richard Harding (2005)
Dr Ulrich Hardt (1983)
Mr David Harris (1977)
Dr Catherine Harter (1998)
Dr Jürgen Harter (1998)
Mr Richard Hayes (2009)
Dr Peter Heaney (1990)
Mr Randolph Henry (1968)
Professor Shael Herman (1988) in
memory of Tony Weir
Professor Mary Hesse ScD FBA
(1965)
Mr George Hickerton (2002)
Mrs Lynn Hieatt (2000)
Dr Alfred Hirt (2009)
Ms Sayuri Hiwatashi (2001)
Dr Stephen Hoath FInstP (2011)
Dr Joachim Höchel DVM (1993)
Professor Thomas H Hodgson
(1994)
Dr Suzanne Hoelgaard (1976)
Mr Rick Holman (1979)
Mr Anthony Hopkinson (2007)
Mrs Sylvia Hopkinson (2007)
Mrs Anne Horne (2008)
Professor Paul Latimer (1990)
Mr Christopher Lawrence (2007)
Dr Sandra Leaton Gray (1998)
Dr Trevor Lee (2001)
Mr Massimiliano Lehnus (2013)
Dr Alison Lennox (1976)
Professor Antony Lentin (1981)
Les amis des Orgues de Lagrasse
Les Théophanies
Dr Adah Leshem (1980)
Mr Ed Lewis (2003)
Professor Kevin Lewis (1998)
Mr Honghai Li (2005)
Mr George Liebmann (1996)
Mr Hsin-Hin Lim (1999)
Dr Janet Littlewood (1984)
Lloyds TSB Bank plc
Professor Justin London (2004)
Dr Eric Yu-En Lu (2003)
Ms Yidi Lu (2005)
Mrs Yunzhi Lu (2004)
Professor Peter J Lucas FSA
(2000) and Mrs Angela M
Lucas (2002)
Mr Robert Lyford (1976)
Ms Wai Lin Winnie Ma (1992) and
Dr Yu Sheng Hsu (1992)
Dr Donald MacDonald (1994)
and Dr Mary MacDonald
(2007)
Dr Lesley MacVinish (2004)
Mr Daniel Magill (2005)
Mr Marco Magnani (1978)
His Excellency Mahfouz Marei
Mubarak bin Mahfouz, Lord
and Baron of Abernethy,
GCMLJ, FRSA
Mrs Sheila Major (1974)
Professor Ivana Markova FBA
FRSE (1967)
Professor Duncan Maskell
(1998)
Dr Timothy Massingham (1999)
Mr Chris May (1984)
Mr Alexander McCarthy-Best
(2002)
Mr Gareth McFeely (1996)
Professor Thomas McGinn (1978)
Dr Jennifer McKay FRCPath
(1993)
Marjorie J McKinney (2011)
Dr Jane McLarty (2009)
Mr Richard Meade (1999)
Mr Jeremy Meek (2009)
Dr Karyn Mégy (2008)
Dr Barbara Metzler (1990)
Dr Eric Miller (1980)
Mr Will Miller (2009)
Mrs Ann Miller Watkins (1969)
Dr Louise Mirrer (1975)
Mr Richard Morgan (1970)
Mr Roger Morgan (2002)
Dr Steven Morrison (2008)
Mrs Marilyn Motley (1991)
Mr John Mott (1996)
Mr Samuel Muir (2013)
Mrs Lesley Murdin (2005)
Professor Paul Murdin OBE
(1990)
Dr Ronjon Nag (1984)
Professor John Naughton (1992)
Dr Peter Newman (1985)
Mr Timothy Newton (2010)
Dr Nikolay Nikolov (2008)
Dr Phillip Nissen (1984)
Mr Raymond Nixon (2012)
Professor Celia Nyamweru
(2003)
Dr Christopher Oldstone-Moore
(2007) and Dr Jennifer
Oldstone-Moore (2006)
Dr Alan O’Leary (2001)
Lady (Sally) Oliver (1976)
Dr Susan Oliver (1998)
Dr Steven Olswang (1994)
Dr Ian O’Neill (1995)
Professor Christine Oppong
(2006)
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Mr Michael Hosking (1976)
Professor James Hughes (2004)
Mr Ahloy Hunt (2009)
Mrs Gulser Hurton (1984)
Dr Masato Ikegami (2011)
Dr Jonathan Ingham (2005)
Professor Keiichi Ishikawa (2013)
Dr E C Israel (2006)
J.P. Morgan Chase
Mr Raymond Jack (1999)
Professor Douglas James (1994)
Dr Laura Jardine (2004)
Dr Oliver Jardine (2004)
Mr Teng Jiang (2004)
Dr Gordon Johnson (1993) and
Mrs Faith Johnson (1993)
Mr Gregory Johnson (1987)
Mr J Ieuan Jones (1996)
Professor Peter Jones (2002)
Mr Nicholas Judkins (2012)
Dr Kriti Kapila (2004)
Mr Zhixiang Ke (2002)
Dr Catherine Keetch (2001)
Mr Derrick Kelleher (1996)
Mr Dong Gun Kim (1982)
Mr John Kim (2013)
Dr Allan King (1970)
Mrs Ruth King (2006)
Mr James Kinnier Wilson (1968)
Mr Bill Kirkman MBE (1967)
Professor Gordon Klein (1970)
Mr Weng-Keong Kong (2010)
Dr Claudio Köser (2013)
Mr Kai Kretzschmar (2007)
Mr Tenparai Krishnamachari
(1974)
Mr Hans Kuehn (1989)
Dr Melanie Kuhn (1992)
Mallam Abba Kyari (1980)
La Mairie de Minerve
Dr Yin-Lok Lai (1968)
Mr Andrew Lantry (1991)
Mrs Janet Lash (1974)
Mr Matthew Laskey (2013)
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Mr Michael O’Sullivan CMG
(1984)
Dr Karen Ottewell (2004)
Mr Keith Ovenstone (1997)
Dr Anne Owen (1976)
Oxford and Cambridge Society
of Kenya
Dr Stefan Paetke (2007)
Dr Yvonne Parrey (2010)
Dr Anushka Patchava (2007) and
Dr Paul Hurst (2008)
Dr William Paterson (1999)
Mr Timothy Pearce-Slade (1982)
Putnam H Perry (1984) and Dr
Carole A Cheah (1983)
Mr Robert Pilsworth (1975)
Dr Graham Pluck (2008)
Dr Julia Poole (1979)
Dr Jocelyn Probert (1998)
Dr Xiaoguang Vincent Qi (2011)
Mrs Ruth Quadling (1967)
Mr Derrick Quandt (2012)
Mr Connor Quinn (2010)
Mr Roy Rainford (1989)
Mr Claudio Ravasio (2013)
Mrs Anna Reavell (1993)
Dr Elizabeth Reavill (1980)
Mr Charles Reese (2008)
Dr L John Reeve (2009) and Mrs
Barbara Reeve (2009)
Mr Andrew Reid (2000)
Dr Daniel Renner (1976)
Dr Wyn Richards (1968) and Dr
Sandy Richards (1968)
Dr Alan Rickard (2005)
Dr Sam Ridgway (1970)
The Reverend Dr Keith Riglin
FRSA (1998)
Professor Pere Pau Ripolles
Alegre
Dr Peter Roberts (1981)
Dr Brian Robertson (2012)
Mr Henry Rogers (1974)
Dr John Rolfe (1984)
Rolls-Royce plc
Professor Arthur Rothman (1985)
Mr Michael Russ (2001)
Mr Daniel Rust (2004)
Dr John Rutter (1988)
Mr Harold J Ruvoldt Jr (1994)
Mrs Ursula Sainsbury (2007)
Mr Sumio Saito (1995)
Mr Nicholas Salisbury (2011)
Dr Mercedes Salvador-Bello
(2008)
Mr C Asela Samaratunga (2001)
Dr Jordi Sánchez-Martí (2001)
Santander Universities UK
Professor Alberto Saravalle
(1981)
Ms Lisa Sargood (1992)
Professor Susumu Sato (2008)
and Professor Akiko Sato
(2008)
Mr Susumu Satomi (1990)
Mr Barry Saunders (1986)
Professor Frederick Schauer
(1977)
Dr Henrik Schoenefeldt (2006)
Ms Marlene Schoofs (1983)
Professor Johan Schreiner
(1969)
Dr Antonio Scialà (2007)
Ms Christine Seeliger (2009)
Dr Yoichi Sekita (2009)
Professor Marshall Shapo (1991)
Mr Robert Shaw (2008)
Dr Margaret Shepherd (1985)
Mrs Inga and Mr Richard A
Shervington DL (1992)
Mrs Frances Huimin Shi (2010)
Dr Jay Shieh (1998)
Ms Aysha Shoman (2008)
Mr Michael Simmons (2005)
Dr David Simon (1988)
Dr Shivani Sivasothy
The Hon Robert Smellie CNZM
QC (1990)
Herchel Smith Fund
Mr Ian Smith (2011)
Mrs Jennifer Smith (2008)
Dr Tyrell Smith (1995)
The Society of Emeritus
Fellows
Professor Rajindar Sohal (1975)
Mr Konstantin Sold (2010)
Sir John Sparrow (1987)
Mr Nigel Stead (1996)
Ms Tamara Steijger (2009) and
Mr Pascal Maas (2010)
Mrs Eileen Stephenson (2010)
Ms Karen Stephenson (2008)
Mrs Maureen Sullivan Kennelly
(1974)
Professor Daniel Sutherland
(2005)
The Reverend Margaret Sweet
(1998)
Dr Shadia Taha (2007)
Dr D R Tallentire (1969)
Mr Wai Leung Jimmy Tao (2006)
Associate Professor Kumi Tateoka
(2009)
Dr and Mrs James J Tattersall
(1988)
Mr Christopher Taylor (2007)
Professor Richard Taylor (2004)
Mr Davide Testuggine (2011)
Mr Keith Tibbenham (1974)
Ms Anne Ticehurst (2006)
Dr Evelyn Tichy (2009)
Dr Han Chong Toh (1987)
Dr Gianpaolo Tommasi (1985)
Dr Christopher Town (2005)
Mr Ewan Tozer (1986)
Dr Gee Tsang (1986)
Professor Witold Tulasiewicz
(1983)
Mr Valtteri Tulkki (2013)
Mr Ezekiel Tuma (1999)
Mrs Sonia Tunnicliffe (1989) and
Mr Derek Tunnicliffe
Professor Teruyo Ushiyama
(1983)
Mr Humberto Valverde Prado
(2007)
Dr Jan van Dieck (2006)
Dr Jurgen Van Gael (2007)
Dr Evy Varsamopoulou (2009)
Professor John Wall (2002)
Miss Chloe Wallis (2012)
Miss Li-Ching Wang (2011)
Professor Malcolm Warner (1987)
Dr Ellis Wasson (2003)
Dr Andrew Wear (1994)
Dr W Jeremy S Webb (2003)
Dr Peter Webster (1997)
Mr Alexander Weissburd (2012)
Mr Robin Weyell (1993)
Dr Margaret Whichelow (2004)
Professor Victor Whittaker
(1967)
Dr Fletcher Wicker (2007)
Professor Linda Wicker (2007)
and Dr Roger Briscoe (2004)
Mrs Jill Wilcox (2009)
Dr Hayden Willey (1974)
Dr Olwen Williams (2001)
Mr Roy Williams (1991)
Lady (Sally) Williams (1980)
Dr Lucy Wilson (2007)
Mrs Rachel Wilson (1990)
Mrs Sue Wiseman (2002)
Professor Howard Wolf (2006)
Dr Paul Wolfson (1993)
The Wolfson Foundation
Mr James Ching Tung Wong
(2005)
Dr Terence Kin Shun Wong
(1988)
Mr Yuen Pau Woo (1984)
Mrs Custis Wright (2000)
Professor Toshiki Yamamoto
(1974)
Mr Ka Yin Matthew Yan (2013)
Professor Kevin Xiaoyu Yang
(2006)
Professor Yuhiko Yasunaga
(1990)
Ms Ai Suan Cindy Yeap (2013)
Mr Royston Ying (1970)
Professor Nobuo Yoshioka (1981)
Dr Elias Zahar (1996)
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Philanthropy in Action
A key aim of our 50th Anniversary Campaign is to increase financial support for our
students. Below, some of them recount the ways in which grants and scholarships have
made a difference to them. Thank you to all donors who have made this support possible.
Miss Nikita Appaswami (2013), Professor Sir David Williams Fund
I completed my undergraduate Law studies in India in 2013. The unique
Master of Corporate Law programme at Cambridge was an ideal opportunity
to further my interest in this dynamic field of commercial law. Being a David
Williams Law Awardee eased much of the financial burden by funding a
significant portion of the College fees. I am grateful and humbled to be
selected for the award and would like to thank Wolfson for playing a key role
in making my Cambridge experience a most memorable one, academically
and socially.
Mr Gabriel Constantinescu (2013), Wolfson Cambridge
Trust Scholarship
Just before starting my MPhil course in Physics last year, I was generously
awarded a Wolfson Cambridge Trust Scholarship. This greatly-appreciated
help from the College has allowed me to focus all my attention in pushing
the boundaries of research in theoretical condensed matter physics. Through
my work, I am striving to honour the benefactors who have given me a great
chance to a bright future.
Mr Perica Hadzi-Jovancic (2012), President’s Scholarship
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After completing my MPhil in Modern European History in June 2013, I
continued with a PhD on the topic of the German-Yugoslav relations before
the Second World War. Almost all of my primary sources are located in archives
scattered around Germany and the former Yugoslavia, necessitating a number
of research trips abroad. Without receiving the President’s Scholarship I could
simply not afford this essential foreign travel, or expect to complete my PhD to
the high standards set by the University of Cambridge.
Mr Kai Yuan (Danny) Huang (2013), Yidi Lu Scholarship
Last October I started on the MPhil in Physics (by research) course at
Cambridge. I was delighted to be given the opportunity to conduct research
at the Cavendish Laboratory, one of the most prestigious physics laboratories
in the world. However, being a self-funded student, finance has always been
one of my concerns. I am truly thankful to Wolfson for supporting me through
a generous scholarship that has covered some of my expenses, and has really
allowed me to focus on my research.
Mr Guanchen Lai (2013), Yidi Lu Scholarship
I began my MPhil course in Modern South Asian Studies in October 2013
and greatly appreciate that the College generously granted me a Yidi Lu
Scholarship, which reduces the financial burden for me and for my family.
With the help of the College I am able to concentrate more on my studies and
participate in various activities. I am extremely thankful to Wolfson for offering
me the opportunity to join this vigorous and hospitable society.
Mr Massimiliano Lehnus (2013), Roger Needham Award
After studying genetics in the USA and nanotechnology in London, then cofounding an e-health startup, commencing my PhD studies here at Wolfson
has been the culmination of my interests. I am developing a portable lab-on-achip diagnostic biosensor and I hope to turn this project into a business reality
after my PhD. I am so very grateful to have been selected for a Roger Needham
Award, which has allowed me to make the most of everything that Wolfson
and Cambridge have to offer.
Miss Sahar Mansoor (2013), Santander Universities Scholarship
and Wolfson College Travel Grant
I am currently pursuing my MPhil in environmental policy at Wolfson. Every
time I walk across College, I am reminded in my heart and mind of the strong
sense of community and opportunity that surrounds me. I am so grateful to
Santander Universities for helping my dream of attending the University of
Cambridge to become a reality! I am also very thankful for the Wolfson College
Travel Grant that allowed me to conduct my fieldwork on the role of mobile
phone technology in urban planning and policy in Bangalore, India. News
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 our annual Commemoration of Benefactors’ Dinner, 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 Hall FSA
The Hon Justice Susan Kiefel AC LLM
Mrs Angela M Lucas
Professor Peter J Lucas
Mr Richard C Meade
Mrs Ruth Quadling
Dr Margaret E Shepherd
Dr Laurence Smith
Dr Anna Snowdon
2010
Dr R H Bradshaw
Dr Brian D Cox
Dr Thomas Davies
Dr Margaret Whichelow
2011
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 ScD FBA
Dr Peter Roberts
Mr Barry Saunders
Professor Anthony Swain
Professor Christopher Todd
John V Ward
Mr David Weatherup
Dr Janet West
2012
Professor R H A Blum
Dr David Frost
The Reverend Peter Hayler
Mr J Ieuan Jones
Mr George Liebmann
Professor William Lubenow
Mr John Sanford McClenahen
Marjorie J McKinney
2013
Mr Conor Bowman
Professor John Edwards
Dr John T Grantham
Philip Kirk Esq
Mr Jonathan Louth
Professor Roger Middleton
Dr Dorrie L Rapp
2014 Dr Peter D’Eath
Dr Mellor Hennessy
Mrs Lynn Hieatt
Books by College Members
Professor Stephen Ahern (2012) (ed)
Affect and Abolition in the Anglo-Atlantic, 1770-1830 (Ashgate, 2013)
Dr Naures Atto (2012)
Hostages in the Homeland, Orphans in the Diaspora: Identity Discourses among the Assyrian/Syriac
Elites in the European Diaspora (Leiden University Press, 2011)
Dr David Barrowclough (2007)
Prehistoric Lancashire (History Press, 2011, reprint)
Prehistoric Cumbria (History Press, 2010)
Dr David Barrowclough (2007) and C L (Kate) Morrison
Ely: The Hidden History (History Press, 2013)
The Reverend Professor Jeremy Begbie (2007)
Music, Modernity, and God: Essays in Listening (Oxford University Press, 2013)
Dr Pradipta Biswas (2013)
Inclusive Human Machine Interaction for India: A Case Study of Developing Inclusive
Applications for the Indian Population (Springer, 2014)
Dr Pradipta Biswas, C Duarte, P Langdon, L Almeida and C Jung (eds)
A Multimodal End-2-End Approach to Accessible Computing (Springer, 2013)
Group Captain Bruce Blackney (1967)
A Trek to Solomon’s Throne and the Valley of the Assassins (Woodfield Publishing, 2013)
Dr Paola Bocale (2010)
The category of gender in the Slavic Languages: Morphosyntactic, pragmatic
and sociolinguistics aspects in Bulgarian, Russian, Ukrainian and Polish (Roma:
Aracne, 2013)
Following a thorough description of the gender systems of Bulgarian, Russian,
Ukrainian and Polish, this volume presents the patterns of agreement of hybrid
and epicene nouns in these languages.
Professor Jane Chapman (1971)
Gender, Citizenship and Newspapers – Historical and Transnational Perspectives
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
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Books by College Members continued
Dr Ming-Chin Monique Chu (1996)
The East Asian Computer Chip War (Routledge, 2013)
The book examines the impact of production globalisation on security with
reference to the semiconductor industry.
Dr Anna Collar (2002)
Religious Networks in the Roman Empire: The Spread of New Ideas (Cambridge University
Press, 2013)
Dr Jacques Colom (1998)
Le Développement Constitutionnel dans les États du Sud-ouest de l’océan Indien (Presses
Universitaires d’Aix-Marseille, 2013)
Professor Sir Richard Evans FBA (2010)
Altered Pasts: Counterfactuals in History (Little, Brown, 2014)
Mr Jan Filochowski (2003)
Too Good to Fail: why managers get it wrong and how you can get it right
(Pearson, 2013)
The book, published in 2013, was shortlisted for the 2014 Management Book of
the Year and will be published in Korea and China.
Professor John Gillroy (2002)
An Evolutionary Paradigm for International Law: Philosophical Method, David Hume and the Essence
of Sovereignty (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
Dr Bryan Glass (2000)
The Scottish Nation at Empire’s End (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
This book investigates Scotland’s reaction towards the end of the British Empire following the
Second World War and the implications for the British state today.
Dr Hannelore Hägele (1998)
Colour in Sculpture (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013)
The Eye and the Beholder (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014)
Professor Lawrence Hamilton (1997)
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Freedom is Power: Liberty through Political Representation (Cambridge University Press, 2014)
Are South Africans Free? (Bloomsbury, 2014)
Professor Michael Kenny (2010)
The Politics of English Nationhood (Oxford University Press, 2014)
Professor Gordon Klein (1970) (ed)
Bone Drugs in Pediatrics: Efficacy and Challenges (Springer, 2014)
Dr Evelyn Lord (1997)
The Great Plague: a people’s history (Yale University Press, 2014)
Times Book of the Week, 26 April 2014.
Professor Peter J Lucas FSA (2000) and Mrs Angela M Lucas (2002)
The medieval manuscripts at Maynooth (Four Courts Press, 2014)
Dr Anil Madhavapeddy (2007), Jason Hickey and Yaron Minsky
Real World OCaml: Functional programming for the masses (O’Reilly Media, Inc, 2013)
Dr Justin Meggitt (2010)
Early Quakers and Islam: Slavery, Apocalyptic and Christian-Muslim Encounters in the
Seventeenth Century (Swedish Science Press, 2013)
Mrs Lesley Murdin (2005)
How Money Talks (Karnac, 2012)
Dr Jeremy Mynott (1999) (ed and translator)
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Thucydides: The War of the Peloponnesians and the Athenians (Cambridge
University Press, 2013)
This edition seeks to present the author and the text in their proper
historical context and the new translation is particularly sensitive to the risks
of anachronism.
Dr Alan O’Leary (2001)
Fenomenologia del cinepanettone (Rubbettino, 2013)
On the critically despised but hugely successful genre of the Italian Christmas film,
this is an academic study – but also a polemical volume intended to take popular
taste seriously.
The Hon Justice Michael Pembroke (1978)
Arthur Phillip: Sailor, Mercenary, Governor, Spy (Hardie Grant Books, 2013)
This book was launched at Australia House in London on 1 October 2013.
The Reverend Dr William S F Pickering (1979) (ed)
Durkheim: Essays on Morals and Education (James Clarke, eBook 2014)
The Reverend Dr William S F Pickering (1979) and Herminio Martins (eds)
Debating Durkheim (Routledge, 2014)
The Reverend Dr William S F Pickering (1979) and Geoffrey Walford (eds)
Durkheim and Modern Education (Routledge, 2014)
Professor Jason Pomeroy RIBA (2003)
The Skycourt and Skygarden: Greening the Urban Habitat (Routledge, 2014)
Using full graphic and colour images throughout, Pomeroy explores 40 current
and forthcoming skycourt and skygarden projects from around the world, and
draws conclusive ‘prompts for thinking’ for future designs.
Dr Alexandra Stara (1992)
The Museum of French Monuments 1795-1816: Killing art to make history (Ashgate, 2013)
Professor Daniel Sutherland (2005)
Whistler: A life for Art’s Sake (Yale University Press, 2013)
The first biography of James McNeill Whistler in more than 20 years. It was begun
whilst the author was a Visiting Fellow at Wolfson.
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Mr Paul Sutton (2000)
Six English Filmmakers (Buffalo Books Cambridge, 2014)
The book draws on conversations with Lindsay Anderson, Kevin Brownlow (on
Chaplin), Clive Donner, Mike Hodges, Ken Russell and Michael Winner.
Professor Richard Taylor (2004) and Roger Fieldman (eds)
E.P. Thompson and English Radicalism (Manchester University Press, 2013)
Dr Emel Thomas (2008) (ed)
Education in the Commonwealth, Caribbean and Netherlands Antilles (Bloomsbury, 2014)
Professor Malcolm Warner (1987)
Understanding Management in China: Past, present and future (Routledge, 2013)
Dr David Wills (1992)
Greece and Britain since 1945, Second Edition (Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2014)
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Recent University Appointments
Appointments
Assistant Director
University Offices (Academic Division). Mrs Alice Margaret Benton appointed from 1 January 2014
until the retiring age.
Clinical Lecturer
Surgery. Dr Adam d’Arcy Barlow appointed from 2 January 2014 until 1 January 2018 and
subject to a probationary period of twelve months.
Senior Assistant Registrary
University Offices (Secretariat). Dr Clara Anne East appointed from 14 October 2013 until the
retiring age and subject to a probationary period of nine months.
Reappointments
Associate Dean
School of Clinical Medicine. Dr John David Alastair Clark reappointed from 1 April 2014 to
31 March 2019.
Grants of Title
Human, Social, and Political Sciences. Dr Lorraine Macmillan and Dr Sara Silvestri have been
granted the title of Affiliated Lecturer from 1 October 2013 for two years.
Law. Dr Eva Nanopoulos and Mr Brendan Plant have been granted the title of Affiliated Lecturer
from 1 October 2013 for a further year. Mr Peter William Neyroud and Dr Felix Steffek have been
granted the title of Affiliated Lecturer from 1 October 2013 until 30 September 2014.
Modern and Medieval Languages. Dr David Kenyon Money has been granted the title of Affiliated
Lecturer from 1 October 2013 for a further two years.
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Music. The Reverend Professor Jeremy Sutherland Begbie has been granted the title of Affiliated
Lecturer from 1 October 2013 for a further two years.
List of appointments extracted from The Reporter 2013–2014.
Obituaries
Dr Colin Lachlan Forbes
Fellow
Clare College
22 November 1922 – 12 May 2014
Dr Forbes was a Fellow of Wolfson College from 1980-1983 and an
eminent geologist. He served with the Royal Engineers in Ayr and India.
During his career he was Curator of the Sedgwick Museum, a University
Lecturer and geological consultant to the Cambridge Water Company.
He was responsible for siting new boreholes that continue to provide Cambridge’s reliable water
supply. Dr Forbes was on the board of Cambridge Water from 1985 until 1996, when it became a
PLC. He was an alumnus of Clare College and Elizabeth de Clare Fellow from 2010.
Professor (Ernest) Stewart Lee
Emeritus Fellow
7 June 1934 – 15 October 2013
Stewart Lee received his Bachelor and Master’s degrees from McGill
University and his PhD from the University of Toronto. He became a full
Professor in both Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1975
and was influential in incorporating software engineering into what
had been an electrical engineering department.
Professor Lee’s research covered a wide range of topics in the area of computer software and
computer networks. He was a dedicated teacher and researcher, with many patents to his name.
He was elected as a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers
and of the British Computer Society.
In 1996 he was elected a Fellow of Wolfson College alongside his Professorial appointment at
the University, which he very much enjoyed. On retirement, he became an Emeritus Fellow and
returned to his native Canada to pursue his love of country life.
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Obituaries continued
Dr (Ronald) Stuart McGregor
Emeritus Fellow
24 October 1929 – 19 August 2013
Gordon Johnson
Stuart McGregor was born in New Zealand and read English Philology
at Oxford before learning Hindi at the University of Allahabad. Apart
from specialised linguistic studies, he published An Outline of Hindi
Grammar (1986) and, his best-known achievement, The Oxford HindiEnglish Dictionary (1993).
He was appointed as a Lecturer in Hindi at the Faculty of Oriental Studies and became a Fellow
of Wolfson College in 1980. He devised an option in the Tripos that allowed candidates to
combine study of language with modern Indian History. There was a steady stream of rather
unconventional undergraduates taking the course which became the pre-cursor of the current
MPhil in South Asian Studies. He was a dedicated teacher and, beneath a shy exterior, had an
unassuming and warm sense of humour. He became a University Reader at a time when such a
promotion was not part of regular professional progress but a mark of particularly distinguished
contribution to scholarship. He became an Emeritus Fellow on his retirement in 1997.
The Reverend Professor Ernest Wilson Nicholson DD FBA
Honorary Fellow
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26 September 1938 – 22 December 2013
Gordon Johnson
Ernest Nicholson was a leading Old Testament scholar of his generation.
At school in Ireland, and then Trinity College Dublin, he wrote his PhD
thesis for Glasgow University. His first appointment was in Hebrew and
Semitic Languages at TCD, and from there he came as the first Visiting
Fellow of University College. He had fondest memories of the College in the pioneering days of
the 1960s. While on his sabbatical, out of the blue, but in a brown paper envelope (as he told
the story), he was amazed to receive a letter from the University Registrary appointing him to
a lectureship in Divinity in Cambridge – a post he had neither known about nor applied for. He
returned for a Term to Dublin and then in October 1967 settled in Cambridge where, until he
moved to Pembroke to be its Chaplain in 1969, he was a Fellow of the College and threw himself
wholeheartedly into its early development. He subsequently, in 1979, became the Oriel Professor
of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture, and then Provost of Oriel College, Oxford, from 1990 until
retirement in 2003. He was a devoted enthusiast for Wolfson, right from his first encounter with
University College in 1966. After his election as an Honorary Fellow in 1992, Ernest missed few
opportunities to visit the College when in Cambridge. He was tremendously good company and
the College was fortunate to include him among its members.
Gordon Smith-Baxter Photography
Mr John Michael Sharman MBE
Emeritus Fellow
17 September 1933 – 20 December 2013
Tom Ridgman
Mike Sharman became a Fellow of Wolfson in 1982 and an Emeritus
Fellow in 1996. After graduating in engineering from St John’s College
Cambridge, his initial career included roles in the de Havilland aircraft
company, technical journalism and as a lecturer at Hatfield Polytechnic.
In 1966, he was recruited as Founding Director of Cambridge’s Advanced Course in Production
Methods and Management (ACPMM). He designed and developed this course using a range of
radical and innovative methods that focused on experiential learning through short industrial
placements and a wide range of factory visits.
The Course was very successful, with many of the participants going on to leading positions
in industry, never forgetting the high standards that Mike insisted on. These included not only
approaches to problem-solving but also dress code and punctuality. While the Course has
evolved over the years into the current ISMM, Mike’s philosophy still sets its core values and
many of his ideas have now been taken up in mainstream engineering education. He was
awarded the MBE in 1994 for services to engineering education.
Mike was an avid collector and, in addition to his collection of Course memorabilia, he had a
collection of railway artifacts and was a national expert on historic railway lamps, which he was
pleased to show off to visitors. His railway benches adorn Wolfson’s Lee Room.
Dr Frank Peter Whitford
Senior Member
11 August 1941 – 11 January 2014
Professor Sir Richard Evans
Frank Whitford became a Senior Member of Wolfson College in 1985.
He was raised in Hampshire and went to Wadham College, Oxford,
where he neglected his studies in favour of other pursuits, teaching
himself to draw and working on student dramatic productions,
films and magazines. After graduating in English language and literature in 1963 he pursued
his real passion: modern German art. In 1965, he obtained a diploma in the History of Art at the
Courtauld Institute followed by a degree in Art History from the Free University Berlin in 1969.
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He became a Lecturer in the History of Art first at UCL, and then at Homerton College,
Cambridge. When the department at Homerton was closed, he worked freelance as a Tutor at
the Royal College of Art, where he was awarded a higher doctorate.
Frank also worked on and off as a cartoonist for daily papers. You could always recognise his
cartoons because, as he explained, he could not draw feet and left them below the frame-line or
disguised them in shapeless Doc Martens-style boots. Frank published his cartoons sometimes
under the name Rausch, the German for ‘intoxication’ – he was indeed a bon vivant, and
described his principal recreation in one biographical dictionary as ‘cooking’.
His research work in Berlin, Dresden and Dessau led to numerous articles on modern German
art, and short introductory books on Expressionism, Egon Schiele, the Bauhaus, Understanding
Abstract Art and a substantial biography of Oskar Kokoschka. He was always close not only to
early twentieth-century Central European art but also to the artists of his own generation, many
of whom he knew well.
Frank enjoyed the informality and community spirit of Wolfson College, and played a key role on
its Fine Arts Committee, using his many contacts to help it put on exciting exhibitions of work by
living artists. The many exhibitions he curated included works by Paolozzi at the Tate and Pop Art
in England at the Kunstverein Hamburg; he was an adviser to the Nationalgalerie in Berlin for an
exhibition of the work of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. In 2002 he was awarded the Federal Cross of the
Order of Merit by the German government.
Several years ago his wife Cici (Cecilia) Dresser was seriously injured in a car accident and has
been cared for in a nursing home, which Frank visited almost daily.
Reproduced in abridged form with the kind permission of The Guardian
Professor Leslie Zines AO
Honorary Fellow
Lesley Dingle
12 December 1930 – 31 May 2014
Lady Sally Williams
Leslie Zines was an outstanding Australian Constitutional lawyer. He
graduated from Sydney University in 1952, qualified as a barrister,
worked in the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department and
spent two years at Harvard University before joining the Faculty of Law
at the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra in 1962 and becoming Professor in 1967. In
1992 he was awarded the Order of Australia for services to the legal system.
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Leslie first visited Cambridge in the late 1970s and joined Wolfson in 1988, a direct result of his
long friendship with Professor David Williams, the then-President of the College. The friendship
had begun in Australia in 1967 when Zines succinctly (and correctly) advised that David’s next
sabbatical should be at ANU. David was delighted to be able to offer similarly direct advice about
colleges to Leslie 20 years later. Leslie was made an Honorary Fellow of Wolfson in 1995, and he
visited the College several times thereafter, lastly in 2011.
Leslie had met Judith Wilson, the love of his life, shortly after moving to Canberra. Judith helped
Leslie in his work and, when he returned to Cambridge as the Goodhart Professor of Law in 1992,
they enjoyed being generous hosts in the Goodhart Lodge and part of the Wolfson Fellowship.
Judith was by Leslie’s side when he died after some years battling cancer.
He was immensely popular with fellow academics, students and friends’ young children, whom
he always treated as adults.
Gordon Johnson adds:
Professor Zines was a member of the Faculty of Law, ANU, for 30 years and taught mainly on the
subject of Commonwealth Constitutional Law and the Law of Trusts. His chief research interests
were in Australian and comparative and constitutional law, federalism and the European Union.
His published works include The High Court and the Constitution (4th edn 1997), Constitutional
Change in the Commonwealth (1991), Federal Jurisdiction in Australia (2nd edn 1978) (jointly) as
well as other books, articles and chapters.
Besides being such a good academic lawyer, Leslie was also a great conversationalist, full of
witty anecdotes and unlikely stories: an enlivening presence at Formal Hall. He is remembered at
Wolfson with affection and the College values the part he played in its life.
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In Memoriam
Mr Beligahage Karunasena Abeyaratna (Alumnus, 1969): College informed 10 October 2013
Dr David Braybrooke (Visiting Fellow, 1985): 18 October 1924 – 7 August 2013
Dr Dolores L Burke (Visiting Scholar, 2002): 28 May 1934 – 23 April 2014
Mr Patrick Gavin (Wolfson Course, 1977): August 1999
Miss Gloria Goldman (Visiting Scholar, 1979): College informed 2 July 2014
Ms C M (Karin) Groen (Senior Member, 1983): College informed 22 September 2013
Professor Hunein F (John) Maassab (Visiting Fellow, 1982): 11 June 1926 – 1 February 2014
Dr Peter Alan Mason (Alumnus, 1966): 16 January 2013
Dr Ronan McElroy (Alumnus, 1986): 4 March 1965 – 5 April 2014
Dr Hugh F McKeegan (Alumnus, 1975): 20 October 2012
Professor Elliot Offner (Visiting Scholar, 1989): 12 July 1931 – 15 October 2010
Professor Marvin Spevack (Visiting Fellow, 1984): 17 December 1927 – 6 February 2013
Professor Emeritus Yoshinori Suzuki (Visiting Scholar, 1985): 7 August 1945 – 2013
Mrs Anne Jennifer Turner (Alumna, 1971): 13 May 1949 – 2013
Mr Terence Patrick Waldron (Fellow, 1967): College informed 3 March 2014
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Mr James Millar Wilson (Alumnus, 1991): 11 April 1931 – 7 May 2014
Student Record
Full size prints available from www.JETPhotographic.com
Row 1: H.L.Hartman Jenkins Y.R.Goon A.N.Starukhin A.M.Lau J.A.Thomas K.Y.M.Yan J.Min L.Xu J.M.Fruhman D.Tesha S.Ghoussain M.J.Toseland L.H.Tam Q.Y.Ho B.Zhuo G.E.D.G.Laurel
Row 2: D.Liu H.Lee R.Albrecht L.Fink B.Qubaty X.Fu M.Wignall (Head Porter) D.Frost (Tutor) K.Greenbank (Tutor) J.Dekkers (Tutor) M.St Clair (Tutor) D.Barrowclough (Tutor) R.J.Evans (President)
C.S.M.Lawrence (Bursar) J.D.McLarty (Senior Tutor) K.A.Stephenson (Development Director) B.D.Cox (Praelector) A.Bagnoli (Tutor) G.Yeo (Tutor) S.K.Church (Tutor) L.J.MacVinish (Tutor)
S.Maccullum (Nurse) L.Fioravanti A.Kamenska G.F.Bickers A.Evangelou
Row 3: E.Drazich H.Y.M.Leung M.Lai A.Schumann G.Ren C.Breteau P.Dickson Z.Ismail K.H.Gimre K.Svitakova A.M.N.Solstad P.F.Sutton M.J.Gomez E.Shechtman L.S.Leonard U.B.Nazlican
N.Appaswami M.F.Chowdhury W.Cui R.Kabra S.Shareef D.J.White S.Mansoor S.Lee Y.Wu T.Carvalho L.Peddakota T.Röther
Row 4: R.Guo M.Welch J.Franck M.Usman N.S.Pashkunov A.Hussein S.Smart A.Collure J.Kelleher J.Jensen S.Padhani H.Jimenez B.Adams E.K.Sørensen R.Seymour S.J.Willis Y.Minakata S.M.Awoyemi
F.Krause T.Li E.Akbas I.S.Ab Rahim M.Wang M.Bertinelli K.Erfort M.Barabas X.Gao H.Guo W.N.D.Gao M.Abdelhafez M.Rahman M.Raven J.Goulding L.Fu S.Bloempott G.Thompson
D.Voulgarelis R.Jefferies A.Bell K.Pillay M.Laskey A.Phillips G.Aulotte I.Najim J.P.Taylor W.Scarrold T.Mehta M.B.Ramzan R.Oblozinsky
Row 5: A.Gales J.Monica D.Hall M.H.R.Werner T.N.Tengku Abdul Aziz K.Schlegel A.Bowring J.O.V.Dias M.Farhadul Alam G.Cardoso S.T.Helmersen N.Ridi A.Elmi A.J.Wainman V.H.J.Tulkki N.Mavreas
P.Brzostek P.Loiseau S.Datta M.J.E.Westbroek S.Helfand J.Lu B.Tomé
Row 6: B.Shen D.Shapiro J.Park A.Gathoni M.Turyamureba E.N.Mwangi M.P.M.Chunge O.Ozdemir C.S.Ravasio D.C.Aristidou Y.Herbert P.Kamdar M.W.Müller H.Fenwick S.Muir S.S.K.Guttula
A.Rathore N.A.P.Worsley J.A.Griaznova E.Konstantinou S.Kovacevic N.Riyanti G.Lee W.Wannakrairoj
Row 7: G.Lai C.Wu T.Mullners J.Lee J.P.Lee D.Quek S.L.D.Chong N.M.B.Ekanayake E.M.Lawan M.A.Rahman E.A.Aguilar P.B.M.Oliva P.M.Badenes A.Lambert S.J.Farmer A.Biciunaite P.G.S.Man
N.Incham A.Neaverson I.Anagnostopoulos A.S.Kattuputhur Prasad S.Ravnaa J.Ehret W.H.Chen
Row 8: C.Y.Lim T.E.Miranda Z.A.Deissler Ziller M.G.Friedman F.O.Chadwick H.L.Lie C.X.Chong A.C.Ogale J.A.McCune K.Kebaikanye Y.Miao S.L.Lightfoot R.Lyons J.Cevriz S.K.Parikh V.Shankar
M.Kammerer B.Laws M.Akyol S.Blapp E.A.C.Beale T.C.B.Nutz S.Coombes
Row 9: A.K.Anwar S.Flynn J.E.Sanger E.B.F.Hullis T.P.Suppiah R.E.R.Smith M.Z.Othman L.R.Oakley M.H.Abdelaal C.Ane A.Matthews P.Hertenstein G.C.Constantinescu H.L.Lawrence K.Petkevicius
O.Prizant S.Aitken M.Sunilkumar R.Tanno M.Cao P.Wang R.Asong J.C.H.Lingard K.C.Wertelecki
Row 10: M.Halliwell-Ewen A.Jones L.Kemp C.Sharp M.W.Worth R.Cook L.H.S.Yu L.Endl K.Srinin V.Sadovskis T.S.Stewart C.H.Buck X.Fang J.Robertshaw K.Y.Huang M.Macallister M.Gordon M.Carreon
J.Weander H.Beg M.Tykac J.Elder P.Dunne P.Wongsirichot A.Tan
Freshers 2013
Student Record
Prizes and Studentships
To July 2014
College Prizes
Dato Ng Kong Yeam Prize
(for the best First Class performance by an
undergraduate in Part I of the Law Tripos)
Not awarded this year
Sir David Williams Prize
(for the best First Class performance by a Wolfson
student in Part II of the Law Tripos)
Max Kasriel
Hugh Bevan Prize
(for the most distinguished performance by a
Wolfson student in the LLM)
Ridhi Kabra
Jennings Prize
(for a First Class and/or a *Distinction in a University
Examination, awarded to those who had not
already won a named Law prize as above)
*Mohamed Abdelhafez, Mathematics, MASt
Desmond Chong, Geography, Part I
*Timothy Goh, Computer Science, Part III
Tuukka Kaikkonen, Archaeology, Part IIB
Joe Petty Prize (2013)
(for the best performance in the MPhil in
Criminology)
Gordon Chun Wei Oh
Tunnicliffe Prize
(for the best performance by a student returning to
academic study after a break of more than 30 years)
Not awarded this year
Student Record
Jack King Prize (2013)
(for the best performance in the MPhil in
architecture, engineering or history related subjects)
Nicolas Gontran Parisot, Engineering
Megan Kammerer, LLM
Chris Koay, Law, Part II
Tiansheng Li, Economics, Part I
Benedict Lim, Economics, Part IIA
Sze-Xian Lim, Engineering, Part IIA
Johanna Lukate, PPS, Part II
Constantine Markides, Land Economy, Part II
Samuel Muir, LLM
Michael Wolfgang Müller, LLM
* Thomas Nutz, Physics, MASt
Claudio Ravasio, BA/MEng, Part IA
Erik Rosen, BA/MEng, Part IIB
Oliver Shand, Economics, Part IIA
Anne Solstad, HSPS, Part I
Yi Ren Thng, PPS, Part IIA
Matthew Toseland, Computer Science, Part IA
Adam Tynan, Linguistics, Part IIB
Luechao Wen, BA/MEng, Part IB
Changwei Zhou, BA/MEng, Part IB
Hanfei Zhu, Economics, Part IIA
Prizes and Studentships continued
College Studentships
ALBORADA Scholarships
Paul Doran, Veterinary Medicine, BA
Max Welch, Veterinary Medicine, BA
CHESS Award
Tilman Lesch, Psychiatry, PhD
David Williams Law Fund
Nikita Appaswami, Law, LLM
Donald and Beryl O’May Fund
Anthony Howarth, Social Anthropology, PhD
Dr Vincent Xiaoguang Qi China Research
Trip Award
Farakh Shahzad, Graduate Course in Medicine,
BChir/MB
Jack King Fund
Andrew Presti, German, PhD
Angel Ramsey, Social and Political Science, PhD
John Morrison Fund
Simon Aitken, Classics, BA
Student Record
Joe Petty Bursary
Aimee Smith, Criminology, PhD (p/t)
Medical Research Studentship
Jia Lu, Pathology, PhD
President’s Fund
Perica Hadzi-Jovancic, Modern European
History, PhD
Roger Needham Fund
Ammar Anwar, Engineering for Sustainable
Development, MPhil
Masimiliano Lehnus, Engineering, PhD
Santander Universities Scholarships
Yusuf Ali, Engineering, PhD
Piotr Brzostek, Law, BA
Tiago Carvalho, Sociology, PhD
Sahar Mansoor, Environmental Policy, MPhil
Nungari Mwangi, Development Studies, MPhil
The Fairleigh S. Dickinson, Jr. Foundation,
Inc. Awards
Emil Bulatov, Chemistry, PhD
Yingjun Liu, Materials Science, PhD
Ujejski-Williams Bursary
Awarded to anonymous recipients
Wolfson Cambridge Trust
Edgar Aguilar-Lozano, Mathematics, MASt
Mario Carreon, Advanced Computer Science,
MPhil
Gabriel Constantinescu, Physics, MPhil
Jamee Elder, Philosophy, MPhil
Lauren Fink, Music Studies, MPhil
Maria Gomez Vazquez, Biology, MPhil
Julia Griaznova, Education, MPhil
Ridhi Kabra, Law, LLM
Samantha Lee, Management, MPhil
Tessa Stewart, Graduate Course in Medicine
Mark Turyamureba, Law, LLM
Callie Wilkinson, History, PhD
Yidi Lu Scholarships
Awarded to anonymous recipients and
Kai Yuan Huang, Physics, MPhil
Guanchen Lai, Modern South Asian Studies,
MPhil
Lu Heng Yu, Applied Mathematics, MASt
Degrees Awarded
To July 2014
Doctor of Letters
Martin Robert Allen (awarded 2013)
Doctor of Medicine
Smriti Agarwal: Interaction of age with physiological determinants of the ischaemic penumbra
and its outcome in acute stroke
Doctor of Philosophy
Aikaterini Katherine Anagnostou: Peanut oral immunotherapy in children: insights from a
clinical trial
Paul Leonard Baker: Essays on international taxation and investment
Trisha Marie Biers: Investigating the relationship between labour, material culture, and identity
at an Inca period cemetery: a regional analysis of provincial burials from Lima, Peru
Timothy Butler: The interaction of light with vertically aligned arrays of carbon nanotubes
Daniel Barnaby Carter: Narratives of nation, frontier and social conflict in Chile: the province of
Cautín during the agrarian reform period, 1962–1973
Fernando Pedro Marinho Neto Pires de Carvalho: ‘Powellsnakes’, a fast Bayesian approach to
discrete object detection in multi-frequency astronomical data sets
Ernest Ho Hin Chow: The study of organic crystals by atomic force microscopy
Mark Nicholas Condos: British military ideology and practice in Punjab c.1849–1920
Christos Constantinides: ‘Magneto-structural Correlations’ in some organic radicals
Karol Czarnota: Phanerozoic epeirogeny of Australia
Daniel Harvey Jonathan Davis: The impact of delirium on cognitive outcomes in populationbased studies
Ying Di: Regulation of PrP biology by small RNA and the GPI anchor
David James Guist Dillon: HIV and ART as risk factors for cardio-metabolic disease
in sub-Saharan Africa
Student Record
Elif Cetin: Political debates, policy objectives and outcomes in British and Italian immigration
policy, 1997–2010
Degrees Awarded continued
Tom Durrant: Dissection of Class IA Phosphoinositide 3-kinase signaling using knock-in mice
expressing endogenous subunits fused to a biotinylatable AviTag
Jose Angel Garcia Melendrez: Ferroelectric and Ferroelastic phenomena in PZT thin films
Maria Filipa Gonçalves de Azevedo: The effects of natural and forced convection on low
temperature combustion
Julia Mairi Edith Graham: Neurobiological models of depression in adolescence: fMRI of affective
memory processing
Deepti Gurdasani: Design strategies in the study of genetics of complex disease in
diverse populations
Gitte Marianne Hansen: Navigating contradiction: Female characters, normative femininity and
self-directed violence in contemporary Japanese narrative and visual culture
Joseph Christopher Helps: Cultivar mixtures and the control of plant pathogens
Imohiosen Michael Ilevbare: An investigation into the treatment of uncertainty and risk in
road-mapping: a framework and a practical process
Alan Patrick Jackson: Debris in planetary systems
Yoon Hee Jin: Energetics and mechanism of multidrug transport by the MATE transporter NorM
from Vibrio cholerae
Avidan Kurt Kent: International trade, investment and climate change: a tale of legal and
institutional fragmentation
Kai Kretzschmar: Remodeling adult mouse skin by epidermal ß-catenin activation
Armin Lak: Encoding of economic value by midbrain dopamine neurons
Marcella Ka-Li Ma: Studying the biochemical function of FTO
Student Record
Nicholas Maciolek: Justifiability before the International Court of Justice
Lukasz Pawel Magiera: Mesenchymal fibroblast activation protein a-expressing cells are essential
for tumour growth and accumulate at the site by proliferation
Sita Narayan-Dinanauth: Inter-domain interactions in drosophila CHD3
Anika Oellrich: Supporting disease candidate gene discovery based on phenotype mining
Emmanuel Oluwatobi Ogunnowo-Bada: The role of brain glucokinase and Bcl-2-associated
death promoter in the control of blood glucose homeostasis
Ester Oras: Practices of wealth depositing in the 1st–9th century AD Eastern Baltic
Krste Pangovski: Temporal pulse design and analysis of silicon ablation using advanced pulse
shaping and digital holography in the nanosecond domain
Beniamin Pascut: Forgiveness and divine identity in Judaism and Mark 2:1–12
Michelle Elizabeth Phillips: Experience of elapsed duration music listening and its relevance to
the Golden Section debate
Giulia Privitera: Nanotube and graphene based transparent conductive films
Andrew Rankin: Mishima Yukio’s critical writings
Austen Grant Saunders: Marked books in early modern English society (c.1550–1700)
Juan Pablo Scarfi: International Law and Pan-Americanism in the Americas, 1890–1942
Jeremiah William Schwarz Jr: American defense policy and the Bosnian War 1991–1995
Christine Seeliger: Spatial and stochastic modeling of TrkB mediated signaling pathways
involved in long term potentiation in the dendritic spine
Sonali Setua: Development of targeted Nano-medicine for glioblastoma therapy
Tamara Steijger: Transcriptome sequencing analysis with application to embryonic stem
cell self-renewal
Tomasz Szejner: Developing new criteria for EFQM Business Excellence Model for use in
transition economies
Hean Cheong Michael Tai: What factors determine trust between states? The case of
US-China relations
Howard Henry Zappe Thom: Structural uncertainty in cost-effectiveness models
Evelyn Maria Tichy: Mechanistic, structural, and regulatory characterisation of the Serratia
sp. 39006 carbapenem resistance determinants, CarF and CarG
Andrew Reid Tillman: Hugo Chávez and the uses of the past: the return of partisan histories and
historians in Venezuela, 1999–2013
Paolo Visigailli: The Cultural Genesis of Systematic Inquiries into Language in Ancient India
Kunal Vyas: Magnetic microcarriers for a suspension assay technology
Taeko Wachi: Police interrogations and confessions in Japan
Daniel Gary Wakeman: Multi-Stage Evaluation and Improvement of MEEG
Gihan Weerasinghe: Applications of stochastic methods to correlated electron systems
Noham Wolpe: Mechanisms of abnormal awareness and control of voluntary action in
disorders of movement
Yang Xia: Characterising patterns of injecting drug use
Po Jen Yap: Constitutional dialogue in Common Law Asia
Michael Spiro Youtsos: Numerical analysis of thermal enhanced oil recovery methods
Chang Zhang: Mammalian prion toxicity studies in cytoplasmic ovine PrP transgenic Drosophila
Chengcheng Zhu: High resolution black blood magnetic resonance imaging of
atherosclerotic plaque
Yiqian Victor Zhuo: Resistive switching in tantalum oxide for emerging non-volatile
memory applications
Student Record
Ouge Wang: Data mining, mapping and modeling of the strength of cement-stabilised soils
Master of Arts
(under provision of Statute BIII6)
Gordon Dougan
Janet Alison Gibson
Pradeep Jonathan Nathan
Roland Felix Schwarz
Master of Arts
(under provision of Statute BII2)
Michael Hrebeniak
Master of Arts
(by incorporation)
Peter Andrew Jestyn Phillips
Master of Arts
Kai Florian Aeberli
Melissa Valerie Coles
Maria Farrukh Khan
Student Record
Master of Law
Ida Suryati Ab Rahim
Goncalo Cardoso
Janja Cevriz
Muhsina Chowdhury
Noelia Cisneros Quesada
Peter Dunne
Sondre Torp Helmersen
Shena-Ann Ince
Natthawit Incham
Ridhi Kabra
Megan Kammerer
Abinavasankar Kattupthur
Prasad
Sofia Kovacevic
Patrick Loiseau
Samuel Muir
Michael Wolfgang Müller
Shreya Parikh
Muhammad Bilal Ramzan
Niccolò Ridi
Varun Shankar
Mark Turyamureba
Adrien Van Den Branden
De Reeth
Peipei Wang
Master of Corporate Law
Nikita Appaswami
Mason Gordon
Master of Research
Longzhu Cai
Juergen Fink
Jianwei Hang
Elena Itskovich
Bo Li
Pedro Francisco Orozco Nieto
Master of Philosophy
Ebru Akbas
Riccarda Natalie Albrecht
Yusuf Olanrewaju Ali
Clémence Aubert
Hamza Mohammed Beg
Dmitri Belan
Hui Ben
Jonathan Breidbord
Jie Cai
Mario Carreon
Peerapat Chokesuwattanaskul
Ka Yin Ferra Chu
Aanjalie Collure
Evan Compton
Sarah Coombes
Aiden Cope
Georgios Depastas
Olena Dmytryk
Jamee Celine Elder
Antigoni Eleftheriou
Tobias Etzel
Amelia Evangelou
Masaru Joe Fuse
Andy Giarto
David Michael Goessmann
Yi Ren Goon
Hanafi Nabil Hadjadj
Edward Hayes
Joanis Holzigel
Robert Jefferies
Justin Dan Jensen
Josef Jisa
Premal Kamdar
Tarek Kheireddine
Hyungsun Kim
Ondrej Kokes
Fabian Krause
Guanchen Lai
Emmanuel Metana Lawan
Samantha Lee
Rebeca Leon Garcia
Laura Siobhan Leonard
Kai Wing Kevin Leung
Wayne Lim
James Christopher Henry
Lingard
Yunxiang Liu
Zhi Zhan Lo
Miles Ian Hamilton Macallister
Kyle Joseph Maggard
Philipp Gregor Man
Samuel Mann
Lorenzo Masini
Xue Winnie Mei
Salavatore Morra
Linda Carol Morris
Evelyn Nungari Mwangi
Aisha Nabiyeva
Ulku Buket Nazlican
Andrew Levi Opiyo Olando
Omar David Padron Castro
Nicolas Gontran Parisot
Ji-Young Park
Vaibhav Rana
Ashok Rathore
Thomas Rutendo Ratsakatika
Neil Sarkhel
Markus Wilhelm Schneemann
Robert Graham Seymour
Margarita Shevchenko
Zoe Rebecca Joanna Strimpel
Long Hin Tam
Barbara Lee Da Silva Tome
Nikolaos Tsamis
Kseniya Tyshkevych
Zhihua Wang
Wit Wannakriroj
Janne Aarne Valtteri Weander
Tobias Wenzel
Konstantin Wertelecki
Yuchun Xie
Liyang Yang
Soon Meng Jeffrey Yoong
Huifeng Yu
Rui Zhang
Sining Zhang
Chunlin Zhu
Master of Engineering
and Bachelor of Arts
Master of
Advanced Study
Applied Mathematics
Master of Finance
Pure Mathematics
Kevin Schlegel
Ryutaro Tanno
Physics
Thomas Nutz
Marise Westbroek
Master of Business
Administration
Pablo Andres Blancas Velasco
Ritika Singh Dave
Yuki Furuya
Saumitra Ganguly
Benedikt Maximillian Herweg
Raymond George Nixon
Minsuk Park
Derrick John Quandt
Ananya Sen
Yuan Shangguan
Donauly Elena Situmorang
Dimitar Petrov Spasov
Cristian Stephens Alfaro
Andrei Tyschenko
Pranav Vijaykumar Agarwal
Shaikha Mohd Khalfan Saeed
Almarri
Sridhar Chandran
Si Chen
Master of Education
Paul Kevin Andrew
Lindsey Ann Bryant
Lia Commissar
Josephine Cowley
Helen Foy
Timothy Paul Gately
Peter Stephen Hambridge
Katherine Mary Hammond
Simon James Hanse
Master of Studies
Safiyyah Aboo
Majd Aboul Hosn
Daniel Michael Agnew
Roshan Sabir Ahmad
Charles Patrick Anderson
Wendy Andrews
Chamindika Ishani Ariyaratne
Jason Barisano
Matthew McManus Barnes
Laura Bergh
Marco Charles Spyrou
Bonnington-Carter
Sarah Lindsay Borg Bonnici
Niall James Bourke
Amy Lynn Boyington
Andreas Brandt
Joel Brounen
Tessa Jane Brunette
Peter Miles Joseph Cambrook
Yadviga Clark
Stuart Clouth
Santiago Creuheras Diaz
John Denley
Karey Lee Draper
Ian Dunn
Andrew Tobin Earl
Shameela Ebrahim
Elwood James Egerton
Nadja El Fertasi
Ravindra Ajith Fernando
Student Record
Mohamed Abdelhafez
Edgar Aguilar Lozano
Glendon Thompson
Dimitrios Voulgaris
Liyan Xu
Lu Heng Sunny Yu
Ke Chen
Francis Godden
Timothy Goh
Erik Rosen
Zhuoyu Zhu
Victoria Lyon
Claire McGrath
Michael Luke McIlvenna
Nicola Maria O’Connell
James Rudd
Martin Anthony Serrao
Helen Claire Shay
Claire Simmons
Tom Southall
Katie Victoria Thomas
Student Record
Rati Forbes
Georgia Giannakorou
Nigel Stonhewer Goddard
Ping Gong
Sebastian Greco Saba
Margaret Greenfields
Diana Barbara Hare
Conor William Oliver Hayes
Stephen Head
Michael John Hulett
Edyta Jackiewicz
Diana Antonia Jacobs
Basit Javid
Peter James Edward Johnson
Robert Kearns
Beverley Jayne Kerr
Asma Khan
Ping Kong
Sultan Kus
Brandon Robert Langley
Drummond Lawson
Sze Kuen Victor Lee
Danliang Lian
Paloma Lopez
William Manion
Margaret Victoria Marale Sande
Gerasimos Mattios
Ana Mera Vazquez
Nicholas John Mills
Sanam Moshar
Fredrick Mukonoweshuro
Hoi Lam Karen Ng
Enoho Mariam Paul-Ebiai
Surajdeen Persad
Richard John James Read
Robert John Redfern
Arnavaz Saljooghi
Judith Katharina Schulz
Hanifa Shah
Amie Shuttleworth
Gary Christopher Slack
Glenda Helen Smith
Myles Jerome Stacey
Jane Frances Stockdale
Manjit Singh Thandi
Marco Tomasi
Todd Julian Treusdell
Vincent Triesschijn
Sujitha Trowsdale
Ronel van der Merwe
Lena Wall
Chris Walsh
Martin Watson
Keith Wolahan
Fouzia Younis
Bachelor of Medicine
Sinead Angelique Boughey
Alan Kershaw
Christopher David Tong
Bachelor of Surgery
Kathleen Breslin
Alexander de Costa
Matthew Hawkins
Aliki Kosteli
Kate O’Connell
Defne Saatci
Emma Stevens
Bingyuan Yang
Bachelor of Arts
Joey Jeremy Chidera Akubeze
George Bickers
Antoine Bovon
Alexander James Bradley-Sitch
Natalia Caldecott
Cemal Timur Cetin
Charlotte Chuter
Rhys Coleman
Biebele Obayemisi Cookey
Luis Cortez Valderrama
Thomas Wynyard Dennison
Paul Doran
Liujun Duan
Lou Fioravanti
Thomas Fitzmaurice
Jonathan David Haines
Rachel Elizabeth Heyworth
Tuukka Mikko Paavali
Kaikkonen
Max Kasriel
Christopher Koay
Konrad Wilhelm Friedrich Laker
Cassidy Lim
Sze-Xian Lim
Johanna Melissa Lukate
Constantine Anthony Markides
Alexander James Martin
Charlotte Christine Matthews
Helena Sophie Sirene
Middleton
James Mitchell
Stephanie Mullen
Edward Naylor
Timothy O’Brien
Tom Perski
Erica Petrillo
Tanawat Phaovibul
Johannes Ruckstuhl
Patrick Scopes
Morial Shah
Curtis Jon Manooj Sharma
Sarah Sofer
Bernard Toh Choon Xien
Adam Tynan
Marie-Louise Van Spyk
Dan Zhao
Bachelor of Theology
for Ministry
Giles Jonathan Clark
Jane Melanie Jemmett
Diploma in Economics
Raahil Rai
Membership
Wolfson College
College Officers
President: Richard Evans Kt MA DPhil DLitt LitD (Hon) FRHistS FRSL FLSW FBA
Vice-President: John Naughton BE MA FRSA
Bursar: Christopher Lawrence MA MSc ARCM
Senior Tutor: Jane McLarty MA MPhil PhD
Development Director: Karen Stephenson MA PGCE
Praelector: Brian 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
Lesley MacVinish BSc 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)
Brendan Plant BEcon LLB MSc (Law)
Povilas Lastauskas BA Cert Econ MPhil ASP Dip (Economics)
Director of Music
Lynette Alcántara BA BMusEd AMusA MA
New Fellows 2013–2014
Ms Valia Babis is a Junior Research Fellow in Law. Her expertise covers financial regulation and
supervision, crisis management and resolution of banks. Valia completed her LLM and PhD at
Wolfson and attended Harvard Law School. Previously, Valia worked in the banking division of an
international law firm.
Dr Niladri Banerjee is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Materials Science
and Metallurgy. His research focuses on the experimental investigations of the coupling of
superconductivity and magnetism in nanoscale devices.
Dr Pradipta Biswas works at the Engineering Design Centre, where he investigates human
machine interaction issues for end-users with diverse backgrounds ranging from Indian farmers
to Eurofighter Typhoon pilots. He completed his PhD in Computer Science at the Computer
Laboratory and Trinity College in 2010.
Dr Rafael Castrejón-Pita is an Isaac Newton Trust Fellow in Engineering. His research interests
include fluid dynamics, liquid breakup, drop formation and impact. He has an MSc from the
National University of Mexico and PhD from Imperial College. Rafa joined Wolfson in 2007 and
supervises Mathematical Methods for Part 1A and 1B students.
Dr Carmine D’Agostino is a Lecturer at the Department of Chemical Engineering and
Biotechnology. His research focuses on heterogeneous catalysis and porous media for catalytic
applications, including those relevant to the field of Sustainable Chemistry.
Professor Christi Deaton is the Florence Nightingale Foundation Professor of Clinical Nursing
Research in the Department of Public Health and Primary Care. Her research interests include
physical activity as therapy for people with heart failure and other long-term conditions,
adherence to physical activity, patient self-management, palliative care in long-term conditions,
cardiovascular prevention and nurse-led services.
Membership
Dr Nicholas Carroll is a consultant gastrointestinal radiologist specialising in endoscopic
ultrasound. He qualified from Cambridge University and Kings College Hospital, and trained in
radiology at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. He undertook a Fellowship in gastrointestinal imaging at
the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, has developed the EUS service for the Eastern
region and is currently the President of the UK EUS user group.
New Fellows 2013–2014 continued
Professor Simon Griffin is Professor of General Practice, Group Leader at the Medical Research
Council Epidemiology Unit, Deputy Director of CEDAR (the UKCRC Public Health Centre of
Excellence for Diet and Activity Research), Honorary Professor of General Medical Practice
at Aarhus University Denmark, Honorary Consultant at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS
Foundation Trust and an assistant General Practitioner at Lensfield Medical Practice. His research
aims to reduce the growing burden of diabetes, obesity and related metabolic disorders.
Dr Peter Jönsson is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Department of Chemistry. His
research involves development of new methods to study and manipulate single molecules in
the membrane of living cells. A particular area of interest to Dr Jönsson is the interaction and
spatial organisation of molecules in the cell membrane of cells involved in the adaptive
immune system.
Membership
Professor Tahir Kamran is the Allama Iqbal Fellow and works at the Centre of South Asian Studies
as an historian of South Asia, with a special research interest in Islamic movements in the early
modern and modern periods. He has published on sectarian violence and religious extremism in
Pakistan and its transnational impact.
Dr Claudio Köser is a postdoctoral scientist at the Department of Medicine. His main interest is
to harness the recent advances in DNA sequencing to accelerate the diagnosis of drug-resistant
tuberculosis and infection control in general.
Professor Alexei Lapkin is a Professor of Sustainable Reaction Engineering in the Department of
Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology. He is interested in new ways of producing chemicals
using industries that do not compromise on safety, environmental and sustainability impacts.
Mr Povilas Lastauskas is a College Teaching Officer and Director of Studies in Economics. His
research focuses on modelling global economic interactions both in time and in space, mainly
manifesting through international trade, technology diffusion and production factor movements
(which include labour, capital, other non-tangible factors such as ideas, and entrepreneurship).
Dr Ella McPherson is an ESRC Future Research Leader Fellow at the Department of Sociology and
a Research Associate of the Centre of Governance and Human Rights. Her research on social
media use at human rights organisations and on human rights reporting at Mexican newspapers
is concerned with pluralism and accountability in the context of digital and democratic
transitions. She received her PhD in Sociology in 2010 and previously was a Teaching Fellow in
the London School of Economics’ Department of Media and Communications.
Mr Paul Mylrea was appointed the University’s Director of Communications in September 2013.
He has previously held communications roles at Oxfam, Transport for London, the Department
for International Development and the BBC, and was a foreign correspondent for Reuters. Paul
is a Chartered Manager and has been an Associate Lecturer at the Open University Business
New Fellows 2013–2014 continued
School. He is a past President and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations and a
Visiting Fellow at Bournemouth University’s Media School.
Dr Lee Roberts is the Elsie Widdowson Fellow at the Medical Research Council Human Nutrition
Research Unit. His research focuses on metabolism and the phenotypes and mechanisms of
metabolic disease. Following completion of his PhD he was awarded the Leducq Foundation
Career Development Award to conduct postdoctoral research at Massachusetts General
Hospital, Harvard Medical School.
Dr Sue Swaffield studied part-time at Wolfson for an MEd and a PhD. She is a Senior Lecturer
at the Faculty of Education, works closely with the University of Cape Coast in Ghana on a
professional development programme for school leaders and is an Adjunct Research Fellow
at the Griffith Institute for Educational Research, Brisbane. Her research and teaching interests
include leadership and assessment for learning.
Mr Jamie Trinidad is a Junior Research Fellow who conducts research in the fields of public
international law, constitutional law and human rights. He has a particular interest in selfdetermination issues, territorial disputes and the constitutional arrangements of British Overseas
Territories. He is also a practising barrister.
Dr James Westbrook is a postdoctoral organologist whose particular interest is in guitar
construction. He was awarded Wolfson’s O’May Studentship for his doctoral research into Guitar
Making in Nineteenth-Century London at the Music Faculty. Currently, he is investigating the
life and work of the musical instrument maker David ‘Jose’ Rubio. He is also a consultant for
Brompton’s, musical instrument auctioneers in Mayfair and a part-time luthier and restorer.
Membership
Dr Jan Vermunt is Professor of Education and Deputy Head at the Faculty of Education. He is a
psychologist who seeks to understand how people learn and differ in their pathways to growth
and development.
Fellows
As at 31 July 2014, in order of election to the Fellowship
1982
Marguerite Dupree BA MA MA DPhil PhD FRHistS; Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Glasgow
1987
John Henderson BA MA PhD FRHistS; Professor of Italian Renaissance History, Birkbeck College, University
of London
Membership
1989
Duncan McCallum MA 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
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
Ian Cross LRAM ARCM BSc PhD; Professor of Music & Science, Faculty of Music and Director of Studies in
Music, Wolfson College
Geoffrey Khan PhD FBA; Regius Professor of Hebrew, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
Norbert Peabody AB 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 School, School of the Biological Sciences
Thomas Ridgman MA CEng FIET; University Lecturer, Dept of Engineering
Fellows continued
Sally Church BA MA PhD; Tutor, International Student Liaison Officer and Director of Studies in
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Wolfson College and Affiliated Researcher, Faculty of Asian & Middle
Eastern Studies
Peter Sewell MA MSc PhD; Professor of Computer Science and EPSRC Leadership Fellow, Computer
Laboratory
John Sinclair MA PhD; Professor of Molecular Virology, Dept of Medicine
1999
Raymond Bujdoso PhD; Senior Lecturer in Molecular Immunology, Dept of Veterinary Medicine and Director,
Wellcome Trust Summer School
Susan Bowring MA PGCE; formerly University Draftsman, Secretariat
Graham Allen MA MA; Academic Secretary, Academic Division
2001
Ann Copestake MA Dip Com Sci DPhil; Professor of Computational Linguistics and Deputy Head of
Department, Computer Laboratory
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, Dept of Surgery;
Honorary Consultant Surgeon and Clinical Director of Transplantation, Addenbrooke’s Hospital
2002
Nigel Kettley BA MPhil PhD FRSA; University Lecturer and Academic Director for Education & 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
Membership
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 FAAM; Professor of Molecular Microbiology and
Deputy Head of Department, Dept of Biochemistry
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 Dept
John Firth DM FRCP; Consultant Physician and Nephrologist and Clinical Director of Renal Services,
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Associate Dean and Associate Lecturer in Clinical
Medicine, Clinical School and Director of Studies in Clinical Medicine, Wolfson College
David Frost BEd MA MA PhD FRSA; Senior Lecturer in Educational Leadership & School Improvement, Faculty
of Education and Tutor, Wolfson College
Fellows continued
Adrian Kent MA PhD; Reader in Quantum Physics, Dept of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics
Susan Oosthuizen BA MA PGCE PhD FSA; Senior Lecturer for Historic Environment, Institute of
Continuing Education
2003
Nicholas Wareham MB BS MSc PhD FRCP FFPHM; MRC Research Professor of Epidemiology, Faculty of
Clinical Medicine; Director, MRC Epidemiology Unit; Director, Centre for Diet & Activity at the University of
Cambridge (CEDAR) and Honorary Consultant, Addenbrooke’s Hospital
Jonathan Crowcroft MA MSc PhD FREng FIET FBCS FIEEE FACM FRS; Marconi Professor of Communications
Systems, Computer Laboratory
Peter Jones MD PhD FRCP FRCPsych FMedSci; Professor of Psychiatry and Head of Department, Dept
of Psychiatry
Membership
2004
Vassilis Koronakis MA PhD FAAM; Professor of Molecular Biology, Dept of Pathology
2005
Lesley MacVinish BSc 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 and Deputy Director of Education for Biology (Medical & Veterinary Sciences Tripos),
Faculty of Biology
Christopher Town MA PhD; Research Fellow in Computer Science, Computer Laboratory and Co-Founder &
Chief Technical Officer, Imense Ltd
Christina Skott Kantor-organist Cand phil 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 Deputy Junior Proctor
2006
David Baguley BSc MSc MBA PhD; Head of Service (Audiology/Hearing Implants), Cambridge University
Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Visiting Professor, Anglian Ruskin University
Kevin Greenbank BA MA PhD; Archivist & Administrator, Centre of South Asian Studies and Tutor, Wolfson
College
Jeremy Webb MA MRCP DRCOG MRCGP; Tutor, Graduate Course in Medicine, Clinical School; Director of
Studies for Graduate Course in Medicine, Wolfson College and General Practitioner
Richard Fenner BSc PhD CEng MICE FCIWEM; Senior Lecturer and Course Director, Engineering for
Sustainable Development, Dept of Engineering
Simon Pattinson MBA DipM MCIM; Course Director, Industrial Systems, Manufacture & Management,
Institute for Manufacturing, Dept of Engineering
2007
Christopher Lawrence MA MSc ARCM; Bursar, Wolfson College
David Barrowclough MA PhD; Postdoctoral Researcher, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research,
Dept of Archaeology; Director of Studies in Archaeology & Anthropology and Tutor, Wolfson College
Alice Benton BA MA; Assistant Director, Academic Division
Linda Wicker BS PhD; Professor of Immunogenetics, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research
Fellows continued
2008
Gordon Dougan BSc MA PhD FMedSci FRS; Head of Pathogen Research and Management Board Member,
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
Sir Anthony Brenton KCMG MPhil MA; formerly British Ambassador to Russia
Michael O’Sullivan CMG MA MPhil; Chief Executive, Cambridge International Examinations
Virginia Newcombe BSc MPhil MB BS PhD MRCP; NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in Neurocritical Care,
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; Director, Cambridge Infectious Diseases Consortium and Head of Department,
Dept of Veterinary Medicine
Sergey Nejentsev MD PhD; Royal Society Research Fellow, Dept of Medicine
Stephen Oliver BSc PhD FAAM FMedSci FAAAS; Professor of Systems Biology & Biochemistry and Director,
Cambridge Systems Biology Centre
2010
Conrad Guettler BSc PhD MA; Freelance Publishing Consultant and Review Editor, Wolfson College
Anil Madhavapeddy BEng PhD; Horizon Research Fellow, 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 MA MRACI CCHEM FCP; Senior Scientific Director and Head of Pharmaceutical
Clinical Trials, Cambridge Cognition Ltd; Professor of Neuroscience, Monash University, Australia and
Affiliated Lecturer, Dept of Psychiatry
Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz DL BSc MB BCH PhD FRS FRCP FRCPath FMedSci (1989); Vice-Chancellor,
University of Cambridge and Honorary Fellow, Wolfson 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 and Lecturer in Psychological
Criminology, Institute of Criminology
Membership
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; Assistant Director, School of Biological Sciences 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
Xavier Moya BSc MSc PhD MA; Research Associate, Dept of Materials Science & Metallurgy
Timothy Justin MB BS DM FRCS; Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, West Suffolk Hospital and Tutor, Graduate
Course in Medicine, Dept of Medicine
Alun Williams BVMS PhD DipECVP FHEA MRCVS; Professor of Veterinary Diagnostic Pathology, Dept of
Veterinary Medicine
Fellows continued
Membership
2011
Pedro Ballester Aristin Licenciatura MSc PhD DIC; MRC Methodology Research Fellow, EMBL-European
Bioinformatics Institute
Stefan Baur Vordiplom MS PhD; Research Associate, TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory
David de Sancho BSc BSc MSc Dip PhD; FEBS Long-Term Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept of Chemistry
Harry Leitch MA PhD; Research Associate, Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute
Richard Meiser-Stedman BSc PhD DClinPsy; MRC Clinician Scientist Fellow and Clinical Psychologist, MRC
Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit
Jiaxiang Zhang BEng MSc PhD; Investigator Scientist, MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit
Stephen Hoath BA DPhil MA FInstP; Research Associate, Inkjet Research Centre, Dept of Engineering and
Director of Studies for Engineering, 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
Wansu Kim BSc PhD; Herchel Smith Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept of Pure Mathematics & Mathematical Statistics
2012
Stephen Evans BSc PhD CEng FIET; 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
Brendan Plant BEcon LLB Grad Dip (Leg Prac) MSc; College Teaching Officer and Director of Studies in Law,
Wolfson College; Associate Fellow, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law and Affiliated Lecturer,
Faculty of Law
Sreenivas Chavali BSc MSc PhD; EMBO Long-Term Fellow, Structural Studies Division, MRC Laboratory of
Molecular Biology
Simon Elsässer Diplom PhD; Herchel Smith Research Fellow, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Magnus Kjaergaard BSc MSc PhD; Postdoctoral Researcher, Dept of Chemistry
Meng-Chuan Lai MD PhD; Research Associate, Autism Research Centre, Dept of Psychiatry
Jeremiah Schwarz BA MPhil PhD; Principal and CEO, PLIIX LLC and Independent Researcher
Tongtong Zhu BEng MRes PhD; Research Associate, Cambridge Centre for Gallium Nitride, Dept of Materials
Science & Metallurgy
Kei Miyamoto BSc MSc PhD; Herchel Smith Postdoctoral Fellow, Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon
Institute
Vijay Narayan BSc MS PhD; Herchel Smith Research Fellow, Semiconductor Physics Group, Cavendish
Laboratory
George Karekwaivanane BA MA MSc DPhil; Smuts Research Fellow, Centre of African Studies
Britta Schilling BA MPhil DPhil; Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Faculty of History
Governing Body Fellows appointed thereafter are listed in the New Fellows’ section on pp.93–95. 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.
Honorary Fellows
As at 31 July 2014, in order of election to the Honorary Fellowship
2005
2006
2008
2009
2010
2011
The Rt Hon the Lord Soulsby of
Swaffham Prior (1978)
Professor David Crystal OBE FBA
Professor Neil Gorman DL FRCVS
(1978)
Dr David Grant FREng CBE (2000)
HE Tharman Shanmugaratnam
The Hon Justice Susan Kiefel AC LLM
Dr Judy McGregor
Dr Louise Mirrer
Mr William H Gates Sr
Miss E Kirsten E Rausing DUniv
Professor Wang Gungwu CBE
The Rt Hon the Lord Collins of
Mapesbury PC LLD FBA (1975)
Dr Gordon Johnson (1993)
Dame Janet Wolfson de Botton DBE
Judge Sang-Hyun Song
Dates in brackets indicate the year of first
election to the Fellowship. All dates denote
calendar year, rather than academic year.
Bredon Fellow
2013 His Excellency Mahfouz Marei Mubarak bin Mahfouz, Lord and Baron of Abernethy,
GCMLJ, FRSA
Membership
1977 The Revd Professor Owen Chadwick
OM KBE FBA
1986 Dr Lee Seng Tee FBA AAAS
1987 Sir John Sparrow
1990 Sir Christopher Benson DL FRICS
Professor Sir Hans Kornberg FRS
1992 Professor Hugh Bevan
1994 Professor Mary Hesse ScD FBA (1965)
1995 The Rt Hon Sir Michael Hardie Boys
GNZM GCMG QSO PC
1997 Dame Kiri Te Kanawa ONZ DBE
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 Revd Dr Anthony Russell
2002 Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz DL FRS
FRCP FMedSci (1989)
Professor Andrew von Hirsch
2003 Professor Dame Alison Richard DBE DL
General Sir Michael Jackson GCB CBE
DSO DL
Emeritus Fellows
As at 31 July 2014, in order of election to the Fellowship
Membership
1965
1967 1968 1969 1971 1975 1976
1977
1978
1980
1981
1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 Professor Mary Hesse ScD FBA (HF)
Dr David Franks
Dr Bridget Allchin
Dr Arthur Jennings
Mr Richard Nicholls
Mr Bill Kirkman MBE
Mr James Kinnier Wilson
Dr Donald Wilson FRCS
Professor Paul Hirst
Mr Roger Akester
The Rt Hon the Lord Collins of Mapesbury
PC LLD FBA (HF)
Dr Cecil Treip
Dr David Briggs
Dr Owen Edwards FRCP
Dr Henry Tribe
The Rt Hon the Lord Soulsby of Swaffham
Prior (HF)
Dr Eric Miller
Dr John Cathie
Dr Marie Lovatt
Mr Edward Johnson
Professor Tony Minson FMedSci
Dr Stephen Bragg FREng FRAeS
Professor Rudolf Hanka FRSS FRSM
Professor John Hughes FRS
Dr Iain Wilkinson
Dr Roger Connan
Professor Witold Tulasiewicz
Dr James Garlick
Dr Roy Switsur
Professor William Blakemore FRCVS
Professor Brian Moore FMedSci FRS
Dr Joan Whitehead
The Reverend John Snaith
Dr David Bostock
Dr Sheelagh Lloyd
Professor Nicholas de Lange FBA
Mr Colin Gill
Dr David Clode
Mac Dowdy
Professor Malcolm Warner
1988 Dr Stephen Large
Professor Michael Redhead FBA
Professor David Hargreaves
1989 Dr Alexander Tait
Dr John Rees
1990 Dr Peter Beaumont
Dr John Brackenbury FRPS
Dr Abraham Karpas
Professor Barry Kemp CBE FBA
Dr John Seagrave
Dr Janet West
1991 Professor Malcolm Burrows ScD FRS
Mr Michael Richardson
1992 Professor John Naughton FRSA
Dr Patricia Hyndman
1993 Dr Margaret E Shepherd
Mr Anthony Wilson
Dr Gordon Johnson (HF)
1994 Dr Norma Emerton
Dr Donald MacDonald
1995 Dr Tyrell Smith
1996 Dr Brian D Cox
Dr Thomas Davies
Dr John Flowerdew
1997 Dr Evelyn Lord
Dr Timothy Mead
1999 Dr Jeremy Mynott
Mr Michael Bienias
Dr Charles Jones
David J Hall FSA
2000 Professor William Marslen-Wilson FBA
Professor Andrew Pollard
2001 Professor Martin Bobrow CBE FRCP FRCPath FRS
Professor Andrew Herbert OBE FBCS FREng
2003 Dr Cyrus Chothia FRS
Professor Gillian Murphy FMedSci
2004 Professor Philip Arestis
Professor Robin Alexander FBA
Professor Richard Taylor
2007 Mrs Margaret Greeves
HF indicates that this person is also an Honorary Fellow.
All dates denote calendar year, rather than academic year.
Senior Members
As at 31 July 2014
Our Senior Members are holders of University Offices or, in long-standing Wolfson tradition, distinguished
members of the local community who have been invited to join the College.
Dr Lorenzo Corti
Dr Christine L Corton
Mrs Sherry Coutu CBE
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
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 FRHistS
Sir Ronnie Flanagan GBE QPM
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 Enrico Gili
Dr Hedwig Gockel
Dr Isabel Gonzalez
Mr David Goode FRSA
Dr Gareth Goodier
Dr Felicia Gordon
Professor Philip Goyal
Ms Lesley Gray
Mr Anthony Green RA
Mr Colin Greenhalgh CBE DL
Dr Emmanouela Grypeou
The Reverend Canon Dr Margaret
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 Reverend Peter Hayler
The Rt Hon the Lord Hemingford
Membership
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
FRSC
Dr Zoltan Asztalos
Mr Mirza Baig
Mr Sebastiano Barassi
Mr Adrian Barlow
Dr Philip Barlow
Miss Terry Barringer
Dr Nicholas Baylis FRSA
Mr Jonathan Beart
The Reverend Professor Jeremy
Begbie
Mr David Bennett
Mrs Doreen Bennett
Mr Ronald Bennett
Mrs Sheila Betts
Dr Pamela Black
Dr William Block
Dr R H Bradshaw
Dr Kathleen Breed
Mr Allan Brigham
Dr Roger Briscoe
Dr Luis Briseño-Roa
Mrs Doreen Burgin
Dr Andrea Cantone
Dr Emma Cavell
Mr Gaston Chan
Mr Wing-Kee Chan
Dr Alessio Ciulli
Dr Nicholas Clemons
Mr Richard Collet-Fenson
The Reverend Dr Geoffrey Cook
Membership
Senior Members continued
The Reverend Christian Heycocks
Mrs Lynn Hieatt
Dr Karen Hills
Dr Suzanne Hoelgaard
Dr Mark Hogarth
Miss Amanda Hollands
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
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
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 GBM
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 J Lowe
Mrs Yunzhi Lu
Mrs Angela M Lucas
Professor Peter J Lucas FSA
Dr Carlos Ludlow-Palafox
Mr David Luhrs
Mr Terry Macalister
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
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
Professor Irene Ng
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 Scott Owens
Dr Stefan Paetke
Dr William Paterson
Dr Elinor Payne
Mrs Hilary Pennington
Ms Hilary Perrott
Dr Fabien Petitcolas
Mr Gautam Philip
Dr Matthew Piccaver
The Reverend Dr William Pickering
Dr Julia Poole
Mr Ian Purdy
Mrs Ruth Quadling
Dr Ashwin Rao
Mr Ian Rhodes
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 María Ruiz-Tagle
Mr Manas Saikia
Mrs Ursula Sainsbury
Mr Sumio Saito
Dr Jennifer Sambrook
Dr Robert Sansom FREng
Mr Bob Satchwell
Professor Akiko Sato
Professor Susumu Sato
Dr Alexander Schekochihin
Dr Jochen Schenk
Mrs Michelle Searle
Dr Nick Segal
Mr Richard Senior
Mr Andrew Shaw
Mr Richard A Shervington MA 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
Mrs Sheila Stuart
Dr Li Su
Senior Members continued
Mr Richard Synge
Mr David Tang
Mr Christopher Taylor
Mr Donald Taylor
Professor Göran Therborn
Mr James E 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
Dr Margaret Whichelow
Professor John White
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
Professor Kevin Xiaoyu Yang
Dr Elias Zahar
College Research Associates
As at 31 July 2014
Dr Samuel Aaron
Dr Martin Allen FSA FRHistSoc
Dr Tatsuya Amano
Dr Naures Atto
Dr Adam Barlow
Dr Elizabeth Blake
Dr F Pedro Carvalho
Professor Jane Chapman FRSA
Dr Jonathan Clarke
Dr Rosana Collepardo-Guevara
Ms Claire Constant
Ms Christine Counsell
Dr Barry Dixon
Dr Corinne Duhig FSA MIFA
Dr Anton Enright
Ms Natália Ferreira de Castro
Dr Camillo Formigatti
Dr Rocío García Carrión
Dr Jane Goodall
Professor Thore Graepel
Dr J Miguel Hernández Lobato
Dr Grant Hill-Cawthorne
Mr Carl Hogsden
Ms Vanessa Holzer
Dr Theodore Hong
Dr Sven Huettner
Dr Monique Ingalls
Dr E Annabel S Keeler
Mr Carsten Kern
Dr Elizabeth Klemm
Dr Jane Kloda
Dr Julia Krivoruchko
Dr András Lakatos
Dr Yinglin Liu
Mr Louis Major
Dr Nahal Mavaddat
Dr Patrick McCabe
Mr Andrew McKenzie-McHarg
Dr Karyn Mégy
Dr David Money
Dr Sarah Monk
Dr Alfred Moore
Dr Sebastian Mosbach
Dr Mary Newbould
Dr Joel Peck
Dr Adar Pelah
Dr Anabela Pinto
Dr Anthony Podberscek
Dr Jocelyn Probert
Dr Daniele Quercia
Ms Maria Quispel
Dr Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann
Dr Gisela Redonda-Sama
Dr Stefanie Reichelt
Dr Laura Rimell
Dr Brian Robertson
Mr William Robinson
Dr I Alasdair Russell
Dr Zineb Saghi
Dr Laurence Smith
Dr Akeem Sule
Mr Tomasz Szejner
Dr Shadia Taha
Dr Dan Tidhar
Dr Ana Toribio
Dr Olga Ulturgasheva
Dr Florian Urmetzer
Dr Petra Vértes
Dr Jinhong Tracy Wang
Dr Andrew Webb
Mr Timothy Winter
Dr Huan Xu
Dr Natallia Yakavets
Dr Amy Tsz Yan Yeung
Membership
Our College Research Associates are actively engaged in research in the University and its allied institutions, and
contribute to the College in many ways.
Membership
Academic Visitors between
1 August 2013 and 31 July 2014
Professor Stephen Ahern; Acadia University, Canada, Dept of English & Theatre
Mr Abdul Razak Ahmad Idris; The Star, Malaysia
Dr Steven Aupers; Erasmus University Rotterdam, Dept of Sociology
Professor Dr Kadriye Bakirci; Hacettepe University, Turkey, Law Dept
Professor Bruce Berman; Queen’s University, Canada, Dept of Political Studies
Professor Evgenii Bershtein; Reed College, Oregon, Russian Dept
Dr Michael Carrel; University of Cambridge, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law
Dr Yunlian Chen; Nagoya University, Graduate School of Environmental Studies
Dr Christof Dejung; University of Konstanz, Germany, Dept of History & Sociology
Mr Yi Aaron Ding; University of Helsinki, Dept of Computer Science
Dr David Dodoo-Arhin; University of Ghana, Dept of Materials Science & Engineering
Dr Norman Domeier; University of Stuttgart, Historical Institute
The Reverend Dr Mervyn Duffy; Good Shepherd College, Auckland
Professor Suhai Fan; Nanjing University of Technology, Dept of Industrial Engineering
Dr Lincoln Flake; National Intelligence University, Washington DC, Center for Strategic
Intelligence Research
Professor Spyridon Flogaitis; European Public Law Organization, Greece and University of Athens,
Faculty of Law
Professor Mary Footer; University of Nottingham, School of Law
Dr Lucy Frith; University of Liverpool, Dept of Health Services Research
Dr Alexander Geppert; Freie Universität Berlin, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut
Professor Shmuel Glick; The Schocken Institute for Jewish Research and Schechter Institute for
Jewish Studies, Jerusalem
Dr Stefan Goltzberg; University of Cambridge, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
Dr Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon; University of Arkansas, Dept of History
Dr Alan Guy; formerly The National Army Museum, London
Professor Gohei Hata; Tama Art University, Tokyo
Dr Michael Heinz; Purdue University, Indiana, Auditory Neurophysiology & Modeling Laboratory
Mr Eike Hosemann; Max Planck Institute for Comparative & International Private Law, Hamburg
Dr Wolfgang Huber; European Bioinformatic Instititute, Heidelberg
Professor Keiichi Ishikawa; Kyoto Women’s University, Dept of English
Dr Axel Jansen; Universität Tübingen, Dept of History
Dr Vandana Joshi; Humboldt University, Berlin, Institute for Cultural Studies
Dr Sarinder Kaur Kashmir Singh; University of Malaya, Institute of Biological Sciences
Dr Shelley Katz; University of Surrey and Queen’s University, Canada
Academic Visitors continued
Membership
Professor Michael Kenny; University of Cambridge, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social
Sciences & Humanities (CRASSH) and Queen Mary University of London, School of Politics &
International Relations
Dr Harshan Kumarasingham; University of Potsdam, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences
Dr Sabine Lee; University of Birmingham, Dept of History
Professor Young-Suk Lee; Gwangju University, Republic of Korea, Dept of English & English
Literature
Professor Zhen Li; Peking University, Dept of Philosophy
Professor Samuel Nan Chiang Lieu; Macquarie University, Dept of Ancient History and Ancient
India and Iran Trust, Cambridge
Professor Justin London; Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota
Professor William Lubenow; Richard Stockton College, New Jersey, Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Dr Christos Lynteris; University of Cambridge, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences &
Humanities (CRASSH)
Dr Isabella Matauschek; Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Dept of Modern & Contemporary
History
Dr Humphrey Mazigo; Weill-Bugando University College of Health Sciences, Tanzania, Dept of
Parasitology & Medical Entomology
Dr Wencke Meteling; Philipps-Universität Marburg, Dept of History
Dr Simon Mills; University of Cambridge, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences &
Humanities (CRASSH)
Mr S Javed Nazir; University of Cambridge, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences &
Humanities (CRASSH)
Professor E Okello Ogwang; Makerere University, Uganda, School of Languages, Literature &
Communication and University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
Mr Albert Oppong-Ansah; Ghana News Agency
Dr Joy Pachuau; Jawaharlal Nehru University, Centre for Historical Studies
Dr Sanjay Pandey; Jawaharlal Nehru University, Centre for Russian & Central Asian Studies
Dr Meritxell Pérez Ramírez; Institute of Forensic & Security Science, Autonomous University of
Madrid and European University of Madrid, Faculty of Social Sciences
Professor Dr Nina Peršak; University of Ghent, Belgium, Faculty of Law
Professor Dr Petra Pohlmann; Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institute for
International Business Law
Dr Achille Puggioni; Bank of Italy, Regional Economics Research Office
Dr Xiaoguang Vincent Qi; Vision Bridge Group Companies, Beijing and University of Liverpool
Dr Shirley Sou Li Quo; Auckland University of Technology, School of Law
Dr Swarnalatha Rangarajan; Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Dept of Humanities
& Social Sciences
Dr John Rapley; University of Cambridge, Centre of Development Studies
Dr Matteo Rizzo; University of Cambridge, Centre of African Studies
Dr Peter Roberts; University of Kent
Ms Karen Rothmyer; The Star, Nairobi
Dr Anne-Christin Sass; Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, Essen
Membership
Academic Visitors continued
Professor Dr Ulrike Schaper; Freie Universität Berlin, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut
Dr Susan Schroeder; University of Sydney, Dept of Political Economy
Dr Nazreen Shaik-Peremanov; University of South Africa, Dept of Constitutional Public &
International Law
Professor Deuk-il Shin; Kosin University, Republic of Korea, Faculty of Theology
Dr Helen Siedel; Independent Researcher
Dr Kimberley Skelton; Independent Historian
Professor Gerd Strohmeier; Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany
Dr Eric Stryker; Southern Methodist University, Dallas
Professor Sasu Tarkoma; University of Helsinki, Dept of Computer Science
Dr David Taylor; University of Toronto, Dept of English
Mr Kazuo Teranishi; The Asahi Shimbun, Foreign News Section
Mr Roderick Thomas; Auckland University of Technology, Law School
Professor Yoshifumi Ukita; Yokohama College of Commerce, Dept of Information Management
Professor Yurika Umeda; St Andrew’s University, Osaka, Faculty of Economics
Dr Emanuele Vaccaro; University of Cambridge, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Mr Martin Van Beynen; The Press, New Zealand
The Reverend Dr Chad Van Dixhoorn; Reformed Theological Seminary, Washington DC
Professor Tuija Virtanen-Ulfhielm; Åbo Akademi University, Dept of English Language & Literature
Professor Dr Spyridon Vlachopoulos; Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of
Athens and Council of State, Athens
Professor George Walker; Queen Mary University, London, Centre for Commercial Law Studies
Dr Ying Wang; Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, Institute of Literature
Dr Kathryn Wegner; Independent Historian
Mr Julius Weitzdörfer; Max Planck Institute for Comparative & International Private Law, Hamburg,
Dept of Japanese Law; Goethe University Frankfurt, Interdisciplinary Centre for East Asian
Studies and University of Cambridge, Darwin College
Mr Michael White; North & South Magazine, Bauer Media, New Zealand
Ms Ai Suan Cindy Yeap; The Edge, Malaysia
Dr Daniel Long Zhang; Communication University of China, Beijing
Dr Laura Zucconi; Richard Stockton College, New Jersey, Faculty of Arts & Humanities
College Staff
As at 31 July 2014
Accommodation, Catering &
Conferences
Information Technology
Domestic Bursar: Alan Fuller
Accommodation Manager: Marilyn Motley
Accommodation Administrator: Katia Averina
Housekeeper: Anne Saunders
Assistant Housekeeper: Christine Jarv
Head Chef: Helen Trundley
Butler: Ian Smith
Cafeteria Supervisor: June Webster
IT Manager: Mirza Baig
IT Officer: Graeme Dyas
Senior IT Technician: Alex Rizzo
Lee Seng Tee Library & Archives
Librarian: Meg Westbury
Library Assistant: Laurence Smith
Archivist & Records Manager: Frieda Midgley
Maintenance & Gardens
Alumni Relations Manager: Kate McKechnie
Fundraising & Communications Administrator:
Timothy Jones
College Secretary & Registrar
College Secretary and Assistant to the
President, Bursar and Domestic Bursar:
Sheila Betts
Registrar: Michelle Searle
Clerk of Works: Neil Newman
Head Gardener: Philip Stigwood
Porters’ Lodge
Head Porter: Mike Wignall
Deputy Head Porter: Miles Stratton
Press Fellowship
Director: John Naughton
Administrator: Michelle Searle
Finance & Personnel
Tutorial
Finance Manager: Wendy Dyce
Accounts Assistants: Barbara Aloi; Katerina
Gargaroni; Elizabeth Paterson; Natalia
Ponomarchouk
Personnel & Payroll Manager: Sally Cullen
Tutorial Office Manager: Kim Allen
Tutorial Administrator (Postgraduates):
Gillian Sanders
Tutorial Administrator (Undergraduates):
Birgit Lintner
Praelector’s Secretary: Lesley Wilkes
Student Finance Officer: Sue Sang
College Nurse: Sally Maccallum
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should be made in the first instance to the
Accommodation Administrator at
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
(including Guest Night) at their own expense
as often as they wish, with up to three guests.
Informal meals are paid for with a Catering
Card, available from the Porters’ Lodge.
Formal Hall is held on Tuesdays from 2
September 2014 to 14 July 2015 and on Fridays
in Full Term: please note that there is no
Formal Hall during the Christmas/Easter
breaks: see below 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 email to
guest-night@wolfson.cam.ac.uk. 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: 7 October to 5 December 2014
Lent: 13 January to 13 March 2015
Easter: 21 April to 12 June 2015
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 to
communications@wolfson.cam.ac.uk
Your news may be included in the next issue
of the Wolfson Review or on the College
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Published in 2014 by Wolfson College, Cambridge
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Cover photograph
Executive Chef, Ray Palmer (1975), retired in July 2014
Photographer: Fran May
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Friday 12 June: May Bumps marquee
January: Royal Academicians at Wolfson
College exhibition (until 2016)
Sunday 14 June: Benefactors’ Reception,
College Garden Party and Mary Bevan
Recital
Saturday 10 January: Staff New Year
party: 1960s theme
Wednesday 17 June: 50th Anniversary
Lecture
Wednesday 21 January: First 50th
Anniversary Lecture: Professor Conor
Gearty, introduced by the Chancellor,
Lord Sainsbury of Turville
Sunday 28 June: President’s Cup Cricket
Match
Thursday 29 January: London drinks
reception
Saturday 4 July and Sunday 5 July: 50th
Anniversary weekend, including
President’s 50th Anniversary Lecture,
Dinner and Garden Party
Wednesday 18 February: 50th
Anniversary Lecture
September: Henry Moore as a
Photographer exhibition
Tuesday 24 February: Humanities Society
Seminar: Dr Rowan Williams
Saturday 26 September: Alumni Reunion
(-5s and -0s) and ‘A Conversation with
Dr Gordon Johnson’
Thursday 26 February: Lee Seng Tee
Distinguished Lecture
Wednesday 11 March: 50th Anniversary
Lecture
Sunday 15 March: Lent Term Concert and
‘Come and Sing’
Saturday 21 March: ‘Cambridge in
America Day’ and Wolfson event,
New York
Michaelmas Term: Henry Moore exhibition
lecture
Michaelmas Term: ‘Cambridge in America
Day’ and Wolfson event, San Francisco
Wednesday 21 October: 50th Anniversary
Lecture
Wednesday 18 November: 50th
Anniversary Lecture
Saturday 28 March: Global Cambridge
Germany and Wolfson event, Berlin
Thursday 19 November: Commemoration
of Benefactors’ Dinner
Wednesday 15 April: 50th Anniversary
Lecture
Thursday 10 December: Rugby Varsity
Match
Friday 1 May and Saturday 2 May:
Wednesday 16 December: Final 50th
Anniversary Lecture: Vice-Chancellor,
Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz
Tuesday 26 May: Humanities Society
Seminar: Professor Sir David Cannadine
The 50th Anniversary events calendar will be updated regularly at
www.WolfsonEvents.com
2013 – 2014 No.38
Wednesday 20 May: 50th Anniversary
Lecture
THE
Wolfson Review
2013 – 2014 No.38
Friday 19 December 2014: ‘Wolfson
Alumni in Cambridge’ launch event
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