Annual Report 2023 by Jesus College Cambridge

ANNUAL REPORT 2023

ONE HUNDRED AND NINETEENTH EDITION

JESUS COLLEGE • CAMBRIDGE

2023

ONE HUNDRED AND NINETEENTH ANNUAL REPORT

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Contents Message from the Master

Fellows and other Senior Members 2023-2024

Articles

College News

Growing the schools of tomorrow Antiopi Koronaki Review of The Earth Transformed: An Untold Story John Cornwell Building a bond index to tackle climate change Lily Tomson Acting on climate change: technology and financing options Peter Williamson Forging a path for community nurses into research Ben Bowers Safe, effective treatment for cancers and cancer-like diseases Elizabeth Coker Using wearable technology to manage health and fitness Cecilia Mascolo Samuel Taylor Coleridge at Jesus College Christopher Burlinson The history of the wine cellars and Committee Anthony Bowen Revealing history through our kitchen development Nicholas Ray In conversation with the Tutorial Manager Jenny Jenyon People Development and Alumni Relations Senior Tutor Bursary Domestic Bursar The Chapel Chapel Music The Libraries and Archives Books and articles by Members and Old Members of the College donated to the Libraries Art at Jesus Careers Programme The Intellectual Forum The China Forum Science and Human Dimension Project

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Societies

101

Sports Clubs

117

Members’ News

People Births Marriages and Civil Partnerships

135 137 138

Obituaries

141

Awards, Results and Prizes

163

Jesus College Cambridge Society (JCCS)

169

MESSAGE FROM THE MASTER I Jesus College Annual Report 2023

Message from the Master I am very pleased to report that this year the College managed to get through an entire academic year with no pandemic interruptions. This occurrence, the first in my tenure as Master, gave me a great chance to welcome our new members, meet Old Members at every event in the calendar and be there to share the special moments when Jesuans were able to celebrate, in the Senate House, the culmination of their studies. We have been a continuous home of academic endeavour since 1496. The shape of our yearly schedule remains pretty consistent. It is a testament to the openness and curiosity of our Fellows, staff and students that mixed into the solid sequence of events and practices that shape our calendar there is room for invention, surprise and some truly magical moments. It is hard to dip into the diary and pick out the best days. Life at Jesus is made up of great conversations and events. I will share the moments in the last academic year when I felt incredibly proud, when I felt really happy and when I felt very spiritual. My proud moment was standing on the banks at Fen Ditton as our rowers had their best Bumps since the 1970s. Eight teams took part and five teams got awarded blades. W1, the women’s first boat, are now Head of the River for both the Lent and May Bumps. The grit and determination of all our sports people is amazing. I hope to be able to attend lots more sporting fixtures in the coming year. My happy moment in Easter occurred when I saw photographs of relaxed and happy Art Club students sitting together in the sun with smiles on their faces and paintbrushes in hand. Their happiness brought a beaming smile to my face. The Art Club at Jesus has been a haven of creative practice since October 2019. I’m looking forward to the opening of the

new Art Room, news of which is included in our Domestic Bursar’s report on page 70. It is going to be a fabulously welcoming space, accessible to students, staff and Fellows with art skills at all levels. My spiritual moment began with the ringing of the gong in Hall. I don’t often get to ring the gong at a dinner, however, I couldn’t help myself on the night of the 22 April 2023 when the College celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Choir at Jesus. The clarion call went out and the result was a hall filled with current and ex-Choir members stretching back over decades. They sang the grace. It is hard to capture in words the magic of that moment. It was the most spiritual start to a meal I’ve ever had. The familiar words and melody of the Jesus grace took on a new meaning as all the combined voices of a very special connected group of people sang from the heart to create an unforgettable moment. For me, all those moments were a reminder of the threads that bind a

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community together in so many ways. As we reflect on this past year, I hope you can think of the moments when you felt proud, happy or spiritually connected to a room of people in a surprising and uplifting manner. My thanks this year go to all our staff, students and Fellows. Do read about the achievements of the Fellowship on page 53. The impressive list is testament to a College which attracts intellectual leaders in their field, thus ensuring our

Art Club students working outside

nurturing and flourishing academic life. I would also like to thank Dr Christopher Burlinson, who passes the important baton of President of the Fellows to Professor Ian Wilson. Finally, thank you for the lovely messages that alumni have been sending in, often after re-connecting with the College. I hope to see many more Jesuans over the coming months. I wish you a healthy, happy and successful year ahead. n

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Fellows and other Senior Members 2023-2024 Master Ms S Alleyne OBE

Fellows Professor D I Wilson ScD CEng (President) Professor P H Nolan CBE (Director of the China Forum) Professor G T Parks (Admissions Tutor) Professor R Cipolla FREng Professor S Fennell Dr J W Ajioka Professor J Clackson Professor M R Laven Dr T S Aidt Professor T D Wilkinson (Graduate Tutor, Fellows’ Steward) Dr V Mottier Dr F M Green Professor I H White FREng Professor N G Berloff Professor S Clarke (Ron Davies Fellow in Natural Sciences) Professor W Federle Professor B Walton Professor O A Scherman Professor C E Chambers (Dean of College) Professor J J Baumberg FRS Professor G N Wells Professor D J Kelly (Financial Tutor) Dr C M Burlinson (Vivian Cox Fellow in English, Admissions Tutor) Professor B M B Post Professor A H Brand FRS Dr M J Edwards (Deputy Graduate Tutor, Keeper of the Old Library, Fellow Librarian, Gurnee F Hart Fellow in History) Professor K S Lilley Professor C Mascolo Professor C-B Schöenlieb Dr R Reich

Chemical Engineering Chinese Management Engineering Engineering Land Economy Medicine Classics History Economics Engineering Social and Political Sciences English Engineering Mathematics Chemistry Biology Music Chemistry Philosophy Physics Engineering Social and Political Sciences

English Linguistics Biology

History Chemistry Computer Science Mathematics MML (Russian)

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Professor F G Stark Professor S Schnall Professor M T Conde (Welfare Tutor) Professor D A Cooper Dr T Savin Professor S J Colvin Dr S V Stinchcombe Professor V M P M D Carvalho Professor K A Steemers Professor Y Peleg (Welfare Tutor) Dr M Harper (Admissions Tutor) Professor U Schneider Professor D Nally Dr S Stacpoole (Assistant Graduate Tutor) Professor H Williams Professor P J Williamson (Keeper of the Plate) Professor S Dutton Professor J Green Professor M Elliott Dr J Huppert (Director of the Intellectual Forum) Dr R F Anthony (Bursar) Dr A J Grant Dr J Berenbeim Ms E Williams (Director of Development and Alumni Relations, JCSU Senior Treasurer, MCR Senior Treasurer) Dr J Bellingham Professor J Danesh Professor R Evans Mrs M de Vincent-Humphreys Rev’d J Crockford (Dean of Chapel, Welfare Tutor Praelector, JCBC Senior Treasurer) Dr R Barr Professor N Guyatt (Welfare Tutor) Ms A Goymour Dr M Wilkinson Dr A R Bowden Mr S Websdale (Domestic Bursar, May Ball Senior Treasurer) Dr M Arbuthnot Dr G Wilkes (Disability Liaison Tutor) Dr D Moulin-Stożek (Senior Treasurer Jesus Africa Fund) Dr N Buitron (Jessica Sainsbury University Assistant Professor in the Anthropology of Amazonia) Dr J Tenney (Curator of Works of Art) Dr E Marek

Law Psychology MML (Spanish/Portuguese) History of Art Engineering MML (German) Medicine Economics Architecture AMES (Modern Hebrew Studies) Pharmacology Physics Geography Neurology Earth Sciences Management Studies Physics Social and Political Sciences Economics

Veterinary Sciences English

Physics Medicine Natural Sciences MML

English History Law Natural Sciences Medicine

History and Modern Languages Mathematics Education

Human, Social and Political Sciences Archaeology Biotechnology

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Dr S Diener (Acting Welfare Tutor) Dr M Long Dr A Chen Dr P Dominiak (Senior Tutor) Prof C Marquis Dr M Brazelton Dr S Zahl Dr A Koronaki Dr B Sheil Mr B Sheen (Director of Music) Dr A Cowan Ms P Keller Dr T Dixit Dr R Fasel (Yates Glazebrook Fellow in Law) Professor J Arday Professor S Gilmore Dr F Moscoso del Prado Martín

Arts Arts Science Management and Human, Social and Political Sciences History and Philosophy of Science Theology, Religion and Philosophy of Religion Architecture, Design and Engineering Engineering Music Philosophy Natural Sciences Law Education Law Computer Science

Emeritus Fellows Dr J A Hudson Dr J E Roseblade Dr W C Saslaw Mr P R Glazebrook MA Professor J T Killen PhD FBA Professor S C Heath LittD (Honorary Keeper of the Old Library) Professor P D A Garnsey PhD FBA Dr S B Hladky Dr D E Hanke Dr M R Minden Mr N J Ray MA ARIBA Professor J B Thompson Dr J R Howlett Professor W J Stronge Professor I Paterson FRS Dr R D Bowers Professor Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn MA ScD HonDLitt FBA FBA (Hon Fellow) Professor M L S Sørensen FBA Dr M P C Oldham Professor J Soskice Professor R Mengham Professor D A S Compston CBE FRCP FMedSci FRS Professor M M Arnot FAcSS Rev’d Dr T D Jenkins Professor Sir Bruce Ponder FRCP FRS Dr A J Bowen MA Professor J C W Mitchell FBA

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Professor S A T Redfern Professor J M Bacon (Hon) DUniv Mr S J Barton MA Professor Lord Mair CBE FREng FRS (Hon Fellow) Professor H le B Skaer Mr R Dennis MA Mrs A Künzl-Snodgrass (Welfare Tutor) Professor J A Dowdeswell ScD

Honorary Fellows The Hon A R Gubbay MA LLM SC HonLLD Lord Renwick of Clifton MA HonLLD HonDLitt FRSA KCMG Professor Lord Rees of Ludlow Kt OM MA FRS HonFREng FMedSci Professor R F Tuck MA FBA Professor Dame Sandra Dawson DBE MA FIPH FCGI HonDSc CIM Sir David Hare MA HonLittD FRSL Sir Antony Gormley OBE MA HonLittD Sir Bernard Silverman MA ScD FRS Lord Watson of Richmond CBE MA FRTS Professor Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn MA ScD HonDLitt FBA FBA (Emeritus Fellow) Mr M Perahia FRCM Professor K E Wrightson MA PhD FBA FRHistS Professor E S Maskin FBAHon MAHon DHL Professor T F Eagleton MA FBA HonDLitt The Rt Hon Sir Rupert Jackson PC Professor J A O’Donnell LVO KCSG MA FRCO HonDMus HonRAM FRCM FRFCM Sir David H Wootton The Rt Hon Sir Colman Treacy PC Sir Richard Long RA CBE Professor Robert Evans FLSW FBA Sir Jonathan Ive KBE Professor Lord Mair CBE FRS FREng (Emeritus Fellow) Professor Sir Alan Fersht The Rt Hon Sir Stephen Irwin PC Professor Roberta Gilchrist DPhil FSA FBA Alison Wilding RA Professor Belinda Wilkes Professor Alison Bashford FBA FAHA Professor Mary Margaret “MM” McCabe FBA Ms Frances Morris Mr Deryck Murray CMT Professor Susan Rutherford Professor Verene Shepherd CD FCCS Ms Veronica Ryan OBE Professor Roy Howatt Mx Helen Macdonald Ms Agnès Thurnauer

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St Radegund Fellows Mr J W Hudleston Mr R P Kwok MA (1972) Mr P J Yates MA (1978) Mrs S J Yates MA (1980) Mr B N Buckley MA (1962) Ms J M Sainsbury MA (1989) Professor P J A Frankopan MA (1990) Dr L Rausing Professor P Baldwin Mr G F Hart (1994) Mr R F Davies MA (1953) Mr J L Marshall MA (1986)

Fellow Commoners Emeritus Mr J Cornwell MA HonDLitt FRSL Professor B A K Rider PhD Hon LLD

Visiting Fellows Ms N Ali OBE Dr G Casely-Hayford OBE Dr L Collingham Dr C Gilbert Dr J Mellad Mr A Mitchell MP Professor C Nwanoku OBE Mr L Sissay OBE Ms S Dodua Otoo Rev Dr Rosemarie Mallett Mr Philippe Sands Mr O Yousefzada Mr C Boardman MBE The Baroness Hunt of Bethnal Green

Academic Year 2021-2024 Academic Year 2021-2024 Academic Year 2021-2024 Academic Year 2021-2024 Academic Year 2021-2024 Academic Year 2021-2024 Academic Year 2021-2024 Academic Year 2021-2024 Academic Year 2021-2024 Academic Year 2022-2025 Academic Year 2022-2025 Academic Year 2022-2025 Academic Year 2023-2026 Academic Year 2023-2026

Visiting Professors Professor Patricia Hill Collins (The Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professor) Professor Annette Spiro (Sir Arthur Marshall Visiting Professor in Sustainable Urban Design) Professor Erika Lee (Pitt Professor)

Mchaelmas Term 2023

Academic Year 2023-2024 Academic Year 2023-2024

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Visiting Scholars Professor Olga Ryabchenko Dr Aline Nardo Rachel Yonan Professor Julie Simpson Professor Bernd Irlenborn Professor Peter Chow-White

Academic Year 2022 – December 2024 Michaelmas Term 2023 Academic Year 2023 – 2024 Academic Year 2023 – 2024 Lent Term 2023 Easter Term 2024

Bye-Fellows Dr G L Taylor Dr O Petri Mr P Fannon Ms K Ollerenshaw Dr C Town Dr C O’Brien Dr M Mihatsch Dr J Hirst (Welfare Tutor)

Assistant Chaplain Rev’d J Torrance

French Lectrice Miss E J Williams

Academic Year 2023 – 2024

College Post Doctoral Associates (CPDA) Dr B Bowers Dr A Boys Dr E Buchanan-Worster Dr F Christie Dr P Cosgrove Dr J Cotton Dr V Gupta Dr H Hadj-Moussa Dr M Hen-Smith Dr T Hollanek Dr F Jephcott Dr X Jiang Dr L Lannelongue Dr K Liu Dr G Markou Dr M Nabugodi Dr J Perry Dr C Platnich Dr A-L Post Dr E Quigley Mr G Rizos Dr M Robbins Dr N Seega

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Dr K Shaw Dr R Shojaei (Ethnic and Religious Minorities Welfare contact) Dr A Smith Ms A Sobey Dr S Soni Dr L Sundaram (Ethnic and Religious Minorities Welfare contact) Dr A Wenger

McDonald CPDA Dr Linda Mbeki Dr Bolaji Owoseni

Academic Year March 2023 – March 2024 Academic Year 2023 – 2024

Some of our new Fellows and academic staff. From left to right: Dr Tanmay Dixit, Miss Eleanor Williams, Dr Alexander Cowan, Dr Fermín Moscoso del Prado Martín, Dr Georgina Wilson, Professor Stephen Gilmore and The Rev’d Jonny Torrance

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Society of St Radegund David Bennett Firdaus Ruttonshaw (1968) Andrew Sutton (1965) Christopher Rodrigues (1968) Alasdair Morrison (1968) Tomás Carruthers (1986) Richard Briance (1971) David Wootton (1969) Patrick Wilson (1974) Peter Day (1968) Charles Hoare Nairne (1989) Martin Clarke (1975) Adrian Frost (1976) Tony Thorne (1958) Michael Booth (1959) Paul Burnham (1967) Christopher Kirker (1969) Albert Goh (1990) D G Marshall of Cambridge Trust David Hibbitt (1962) Susan Hibbitt Stephen Heath (1964)

Bob Rao (1972) Kay Ian Ng (1986) James de Uphaugh (1985) Edward Ma (2000) Kay Ashton (1982) James Ashton (1982) John Sheldrick (1967) Sandy Rattray (1988) Duncan Martin (1987) Andrew Harbor (1975) John Dugdale Bradley (1961) John Driscoll III (1983) James Rudolph (1965) Wang Minming Gavin Stark Emily Winslow Stark Jan Laubjerg (1992) Max Hadfield (1961) William Burnside (1970) Leigh Collins (1967) Ting-Hway Wong (1992)

Articles

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Growing the schools of tomorrow Dr Antiopi Koronaki New College Fellow, Dr Antiopi Koronaki, is an Assistant Professor in Design Computation and Fabrication in the Department of Architecture at the University of Cambridge

With the building and construction sector contributing around 38% of global carbon dioxide emissions,1 natural materials like timber and advancements in their structural applications have been at the forefront of decarbonising the embodied emissions of the built environment. However, there are several policy and operational challenges to integrating engineered timber structures in the current built environment which hinder the seamless collaboration and material flow

across the supply chain. This article contributes to current discussions on the suitability of engineered timber in decarbonisation of the built environment with a focus on school buildings. The significant shortage of school places in the UK and the government’s commitment to deliver a platform for low-carbon schools highlight the importance of reducing their associated carbon emissions. Many government-led school programmes have been carried out since the mid-20th century in the UK. Fig. 1 highlights how such government-led initiatives have evolved over the years to deliver school buildings in a time and cost-efficient manner. While the benefits of prefabrication and modular construction have been exploited over the past decades, it is only recently that the focus of such initiatives has shifted to include sustainability and whole-life emissions. Engineered timber construction combines the benefits of prefabricated construction with carbon sequestration and low whole-life emissions and can therefore help to address this challenge. In order to develop a strategy to promote engineered

Fig. 1: Precedent government-led school programmes in the UK

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timber construction for school buildings, it is essential to identify the challenges and opportunities associated with it. Composed primarily of cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin, timber consists of approximately 50% atmospheric carbon by mass, sequestered through photosynthesis over the lifetime of the tree from which it was harvested. Thus, every tonne of timber contains sequestered carbon equivalent to 1.8 tonnes of atmospheric CO2. Recent studies have highlighted the significant potential for buildings built primarily using timber to act as a global “carbon sink”, safely storing atmospheric carbon for the lifespan of buildings (50-60 years). At the end-of-life of such structures, timber elements may be reused, recycled, or burned as biomass fuel. When combined with sustainable management of forests (replanting, active management), such a construction approach could facilitate the transfer of significant volumes of atmospheric carbon into the built environment for long-term storage in a cost-effective manner. In addition to its sustainability benefits, the use of exposed timber in structures is likely to have physiological and mental health benefits for building occupants (Fig. 2). Spaces with exposed timber elements are found to increase the number of social interactions between individuals and improve the emotional state of users. In educational settings in particular, the classroom design can have a high impact on the learning process of students. Classrooms with exposed timber have been shown to result in reduced heart rate and perceived levels of stress in students compared to classrooms where other materials are used. Procuring engineered timber school buildings can therefore have a long-lasting positive impact on the education and performance of students. The embedded repetitiveness in the programme requirements of schools makes off-site manufacturing a suitable

construction method for this building type. Government-led initiatives have enabled the identification of the different types of activities and programmes carried out in a school building and the generation of a catalogue of the respective room types to accommodate them. Furthermore, the spatial requirements linked to each activity have been defined, depending on the size of the school and the number of pupils, leading to a standardisation of the complete school design programme. These guidelines are freely available online, promoting the adoption of modular designs, standardisation and off-site manufacturing where possible. As of 2019, the UK Government has also committed to a “presumption in favour” of off-site construction for procurement of all new buildings by all key government departments.2 In prefabricated construction, building components arrive on site, where they are assembled and connected to form the final structure. The principles of Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DfMA) enable the evaluation of alternative ways of detailing and manufacturing components, that can facilitate their respective assembly time and cost. The arrangement of structural components on engineered timber panels can also be optimised to minimise waste in the early stages of construction and substantially accelerate the construction process. This is particularly critical in the context of educational buildings, since the tight assembly processes linked to engineered timber construction can be accommodated within school holidays, therefore minimising disruptions to the school programme, which remains in use throughout. The stakeholders involved in a prefabricated engineered timber project may vary significantly when compared to projects using conventional construction materials, such as concrete or steel. The lack of well-established methodology and guidance on the structural analysis of

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some engineered timber materials renders specialist knowledge and skills necessary for the delivery of a prefabricated engineered timber project. The formal education of architects and civil engineers may not incorporate such training or skill development in timber engineering. As a result, the inclusion of a timber engineer or specialist is often required for the successful delivery of a prefabricated engineered timber project. Additionally, input from engineered timber suppliers may be critical in early-stage design to ensure a feasible and practical design given manufacturing and logistics constraints. Limitations in existing contractual frameworks for such projects may impede the timely involvement of such specialists and pose challenges to the clear distribution of legal liabilities between stakeholders. Building on the challenges and opportunities identified, a comprehensive strategy is proposed to address existing obstacles and promote the adoption of engineered timber construction for

government-procured school buildings. The construction process of engineered timber structures requires the early involvement of all stakeholders. While advanced coordination and collaboration are required upfront, this method increases certainty during the construction and procurement process, mitigating the risk and minimising any contingencies that may arise. Policymakers should therefore ease this process by establishing contractual and legal forms that are appropriate for engineered timber and facilitate such collaborative and coordinated projects. A major step in this direction has been the revision of the RIBA plan of work, following feedback from industry.3 These revisions aim to form a new sustainable project strategy. In addition, recommendations and guidance aim to address the changing nature of the commissioning, design and construction team and improve procurement, project coordination and construction. Given the significant skilled labour shortage in the construction sector and the

Fig. 2: Examples of engineered timber school buildings in the UK: (a) Ickburgh primary school, Avanti Architects/Eurban (b) Stephen Perse Foundation, Chadwick Dryer Clarke Architects/Smith & Wallwork Engineers (c) Ralph Allen School, Feilden Fowles Architects, Eurban (d) Holy Cross Primary School, Cullinan Studio/Smith & Wallwork Engineers, Image credit: Paul Raftery.

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relatively small size of the prefabricated timber construction industry in the UK, the government may also have a role to play in the funding of and coordination with industry bodies which deliver skills training programmes for workers across the supply chain of prefabricated engineered timber construction. Such training could build on existing design expertise in engineered timber construction in the UK, and should include both design and engineering training, as well as any skills training required for fabricators, including the use of digital fabrication technologies. Long-term measures to address this challenge include the inclusion of appropriate skill development and training in the formal education of architects and civil engineers. The government plays an essential role in developing design guidance and tools that strike a balance between the need to create healthy and engaging educational environments and achieve savings in the time, cost, and life-cycle impact of new building structures. The automation of the construction process of prefabricated engineered timber lends itself well to this context, allowing for the development of a universal set of interchangeable modular building elements, and the flexibility for designers and manufacturers

to develop innovative and expressive context-appropriate solutions for school designs with a low whole-life impact. It is therefore essential that any design and construction guidance enables and facilitates the consideration of engineered timber as a construction material. This is the most sustainable and efficient way to address the pressing challenges in educational infrastructure in the UK.

References 1. ‘2021 Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction: Towards a Zero‑emission, Efficient and Resilient Buildings and Construction Sector’. United Nations Environment Programme, 2021 https://globalabc.org/resources/publ ications/2021-global-status-reportbuildings-and-construction 2. House of Lords. Science and Technology Select Committee; Technical Report; House of Lords: London, UK, 2019 3. RIBA Plan of Work Overview. 2020. https://www.architecture.com//media/GatherContent/Testresources-page/AdditionalDocuments/2020RIBAPlanofWorkover viewpdf.pdf n

Further reading • Koronaki, A. Bukauskas, A. Jalia, D. U. Shah, and M. H. Ramage, ‘Prefabricated Engineered Timber Schools in the United Kingdom: Challenges and Opportunities’, Sustainability, vol. 13, no. 22, p. 12864, Nov. 2021: https://doi.org/10.3390/su132212864

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Review of The Earth Transformed: An Untold Story Fellow Commoner Emeritus, John Cornwell, reviews The Earth Transformed: An Untold Story by Peter Frankopan (Bloomsbury 2023) From the outset of this prodigious natural and human history, The Earth Transformed, Professor Frankopan makes a connection between our current climate change predicament and the story of Genesis. As John Milton begins Paradise Lost: “Man’s first disobedience” was to eat the fruit “of that forbidden tree” and so “brought death into the World, and all our woe”. The Genesis story relates how human beings became architects of their own demise prompting the ruin of Eden; Professor Frankopan tells a by now familiar parallel story: how our species “works the land, exploits natural resources and treats sustainability” in so damaging and extensive a way that we are changing the climate to the destruction of nature and ourselves. And yet, the manner of his narrative is highly original in its time scales and connections across cultures, societies, scientific information, and many academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Peter Frankopan, graduate in Byzantine history at Jesus (1990), and a St Radegund Fellow, is Professor of global history at Worcester College, Oxford, and Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research. Author of five works of history, his previous much praised book, The Silk Roads, A New History of the World, unfolds the crucial importance of Eastern perspectives on correcting and expanding from the tendencies of

Eurocentric history. His new book begins with the reflection that we are to be grateful for massive, gradual and sudden, climate changes down the millennia. We are here because of climate change! Taking soundings across the stunning drama of geological and astronomical history, he begins with the formation of our planet four and a half billion years back: asteroid strikes, epic volcanic activity, tectonic shifts, the shaping and reshaping of landmasses and oceans, teeming biotic adaptations, the approach and recession of the moon. Were it not for the massive climatic alterations involved we humans would not have evolved to appear in our early hominid form a mere 500,00 years ago. We are comparatively new and late arrivals; and yet, human societies have assumed the right to exploit and dominate the ecosphere to the detriment of the Earth and ultimately ourselves. Tracking the growth of human communities, trade and migration across an era spanning 2200 to 800 BC, Frankopan cites the impacts on landscapes and ecosystem disruptions anticipating the perceived relationship between religion, kingship and nature, not least the historic notion that environmental catastrophes are the work of divine vengeance on evil and folly. He cites the author of The Epic of Gilgamesh who counsels that drought followed deforestation, leading to the

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moment when Gilgamesh kills Humbaba the forest god “whose murder stands for the deforestation of Mesopotamia and humans’ simultaneous encroachment on and lack of respect for the natural world”. In a powerful survey, drawing on both Mediterranean philosophies and spiritualities and the East’s so-called “hundred schools of thought”, Frankopan reveals the growth of a medley of attitudes, positive and negative, towards Earth’s environment, including the followers of Confucius, Buddhism, the meditations of the Stoics, the sages of Ancient Greece and Rome, all three religions of the Book. Later in his narrative, Frankopan develops connections between climate, geological shocks, famine, disease, human creativity, well-being and conflict. The interconnections between climate and social behaviour, between East and West, become all too clear and astonishing in the histories of the great plagues – from the Justinian to the Black Death. Yet it is within the modern period, and new forms of empire and colonialism, with unbridled exploitation and extraction, that Frankopan’s narrative sets out the profound disruption that we call the Anthropocene. He comments, with a modicum of approval perhaps, that the term prioritises humans into a distinguished species that claims to identify what is and is not wild, thus downplaying those of other life forms almost to the point of nonexistence. In a chapter titled ‘The Little Ice Age’ Frankopan ranges over a series of social, political and cultural consequences of the period of bad weather that plagued Europe from c1550 to c1800. From initiatives of adaptation, such as new building techniques, to paranoid reactions prompting witch hunts and armed conflict, the consequences of natural climate change on human communities and behaviour in the past are fascinating and salutary. Yet this is but a prelude to the expanding impact of

human caused climate change in the twentieth century. Frankopan is ultimately pessimistic despite noble attempts to issue warnings. Among many examples, he cites the lone voice of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring at the beginning of the 1960s, pleading for the withdrawal of herbicides, which he contrasts with the devastating use of agent orange in the Vietnam War. Profoundly alarming, moreover, are accidental catastrophes, through chance and human error: the incident at Bhopal, India, 1984, when 45 tonnes of methyl isocyanate escaped from the Union carbide Corporation plant causing 20,000 deaths; the Chernobyl nuclear disaster 1986; the Exxon Valdez accident, 1989, when eleven million tonnes of oil spilled into the Prince William Sound, Alaska. Hovering on the dark horizon of human consciousness, moreover, is the risk of nuclear Armageddon as much by accident, human error, or insane decision. And yet, in his final reflections, Frankopan reminds us of the inexorable realities of natural history, not least the inevitable eventuality of massive volcanic eruptions – catastrophes independent of human responsibility. He writes: “…we may be facing an accelerated timetable for the next mega-eruption that would inject vast amounts of ash and gases into the atmosphere and make discussions about climate change redundant, possibly at the cost of millions or even hundreds of millions of lives as temperatures soar, harvests fail and plants and animals die”. In any case, he insists, even without such a disaster, calculated as one in six by the end of 2021, nature rather than human action will bring net emissions towards zero, through “catastrophic depopulation, whether through hunger, disease or conflict”. Can we avoid such a devastating outcome? “A historian”, he concludes, “would not bet on it”. n

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Building a bond index to tackle climate change Lily Tomson, Senior Research Associate at the Intellectual Forum, Jesus College

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has been clear that there is no room in the carbon budget for investment in new fossil fuels if we are to stay within the 1.5°C boundary. Likewise, the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) finds that the extraction and use of just “a fraction” of available fossil fuel reserves would be consistent with mitigation goals, and that the anticipated emissions associated with existing fossil fuel assets substantially exceed a 1.5°C carbon budget. Banks and insurers are key facilitators of fossil fuel expansion through the provision of new capital and are consistently not addressed in existing net zero or 1.5°C-aligned financial products. Addressing fossil fuel expansionism is the top requirement of a credible climate scenario, yet investors have struggled to find products that allow them to cease financing expansionist activity. To that aim, I work with a team of researchers and practitioners based at the Finance for Systemic Change Centre,

University of Cambridge, testing whether it is possible to build a tool to direct money away from the expansion of fossil fuels and accompanying infrastructure. The project researches how developing an intervention in financial markets around these themes might change the way investors see the fossil fuel industry, as well as assessing whether it might make it harder to gain access to money for expansion – while staying realistic about the energy needs of today’s world. The specific tool our team is working on building to achieve this goal is a bond index. Approximately 90% of new financing for fossil fuel expansion comes from loans and bonds, and this would be the first corporate bond index to exclude fossil fuels, power utilities, and financial sector issuers whose actions would result in a world of dangerous heating above 1.5°C (currently most, if not all of them). The index will be overseen by a group of leading academics from across the world. In working at the intersection of academia and industry, we are trying to balance the academic mindset, which is very evidence-based, alongside what feels much more like a social entrepreneur or intrapreneur mindset, building evidence up through testing it out in the world. We are delighted to have recently received continuation funding from ‘Partners for a New Economy’ to move from our successful feasibility study into implementation. This means that we are currently working out how this project will sit within the University and its 800-year-old governance models. We’ve been really impressed by the ‘can-do’ attitude present across various University teams.

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Jesus College, where I am a Senior Research Associate at the Intellectual Forum, is itself a leader in responsible investment policy within the Cambridge community. In 2021, Jesus launched its Responsible Investment Policy alongside a new Sustainability Strategy, which Dr Ellen Quigley, Special Advisor to the Chief Financial Officer of the University of Cambridge on Responsible Investment, a Jesus College Postdoctoral Associate, and a member of the project team, said, “sets a new standard”. As Emma Robertson, the Investor Engagement Manager for the Responsible Investment Network – Universities, said at the time of the policy’s launch: “This policy, and the resolve to implement it through collaboration, demonstrates the huge power that an asset owner can have when working with others”. In our own work, we’re working with

major global asset owners who take climate change seriously and are keen to develop better architecture for the investment system, considering not just the risk to their investments, but in the way that their investments shape the world. These investors say: “Wow, yes, we get this, we can see the elements that in investment terms you are going to find difficult for building this ambitious intervention, and we want to work with you on those and build this together”. Beyond this ‘inner circle’, it’s early days, but I’ve not had a single negative conversation and it’s been really striking how much interest there is from big asset owners internationally. They can see the need for an index aligned with the 1.5°C goal, and with an independent, evidence-based approach which can tackle a lot of the industry’s “greenwash”. n

Further information • Lily gave an interview about her work recently to the organisation Partners for a new Economy: https://p4ne.org/stories/cambridge-1-5c-aligned-corporate-bond-index/

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Acting on climate change: technology and financing options Professor Peter Williamson, Chair of the Global Issues Dialogue Centre On 29 September 2022, the Global Issues Dialogue Centre hosted a conference on the opportunities for technological and financial innovation in the fight against climate change. The event brought together speakers from academia, industry, start-ups and government organisations, with participants from across Europe, North America and China – countries and regions that hold a key role in the global climate system. The scale of action required to meet the climate crisis is unprecedented, both in the movement of capital and technology. The aim of the conference was to go beyond discussions on international targets and focus instead on how to achieve them Following my initial welcome address, my co-chair, Lord Adair Turner (Head of the Energy Transition Commission) gave a keynote speech about acting on climate change. We then asked participants to give a five-minute commentary to stimulate discussion on each topic. Our first session was on the Potential Contributions of Emerging Technologies, led by Ji Zou, CEO and President, Energy Foundation China. The session began with Louise Horsfall, Professor and Chair of Sustainable Biotechnology at the University of Edinburgh, and Lei Zhang, CEO of Envision Group, who introduced the subject of synthetic biotechnology. Zhang went on to discuss advanced battery technology, alongside Dame Clare Grey, Professor of Chemistry at Cambridge. Green hydrogen was discussed by Dominic Wright, Professor of Chemistry at Cambridge, and Thierry Lepercq, President and Co-Founder of DH2 Energy.

This dialogue highlighted advancements in battery and hydrogen energy technologies, emphasising their potential for effective renewable energy production and storage. Discussions focused on addressing industrial engineering questions regarding practical implementation, considering the current high costs and economic feasibility challenges. Additionally, we talked about the need to integrate these technologies into energy distribution systems, as existing grids are not suitable for large-scale integration. Distributed energy systems, such as energy hubs, offer promising alternatives to long-distance transmission and can bridge the power-supply gap. Synthetic biology has the potential to replace traditional chemical production methods. However, the challenge lies in scaling up economically and commercially to replace fossil fuel-dependent and energy-intensive processes. This lively debate was closed with a summary by Robert Trezona, Head of Cleantech, IP Group. The second session focused on financing action on climate change. The subject of private sector finance initiatives was introduced by Jun Ma, Founder and President of Institute of Finance and Sustainability and Chair of Green Finance Committee of China Society for Finance and Banking. He was joined by Zoe Knight, Managing Director, and Group Head of the HSBC Centre of Sustainable Finance. The debate moved on to the role of international organisations, led by Min Zhu, Dean of the PBC School of Finance at Tsinghua University, and Creon Butler, Head of Chatham House Economics and Finance

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Programme. Finally, Nick Bridge, Special Representative for Climate Change at the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, talked about the issue of government planning versus market competition. Our discussions highlighted the interdependence of finance and technological solutions in addressing the energy crisis. Collaboration and innovation are crucial for generating the necessary solutions. The discussion emphasised the need for a comprehensive societal transformation that includes all actors, addressing activities like fossil fuel extraction. It also recognised the importance of involving smaller players like SMEs who may require support to implement sustainability changes due to limited management bandwidth and resources. The final topic of conversation was the role of carbon markets, led by participants Edmond Alphandéry, former French Minister of Economy and Finance and executive chair of Électricité de France, and Wensheng Peng, Chief Economist at the China International Capital Corporation. The dialogue emphasised the importance of transparency, parity, and regulation to

address the challenges. It highlighted the need for state intervention to deal with market failures. Concerns were raised regarding the potential risks to indigenous peoples and food security in developing nations due to developments in the voluntary carbon market. Capital flows need to shift from fossil fuel financing to support the green transition. Scaling down and defunding current polluting activities is just as crucial as scaling up the new technologies discussed. Continuous dialogue between parties is necessary to achieve these objectives. My co-chair and I closed the conference by stressing the importance of multilateral cross-border engagement for effective action, whilst acknowledging that geopolitical tensions may pose challenges to achieving this. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change refers to this situation as the “rocky road” scenario, which hinders collaboration and slows down emission reductions. Nonetheless, there was a unanimous demand among the experts involved in the conference for increased multilateral collaboration and continued action across organisations and companies involved. n

Find out more about the Global Issues Dialogue Centre on our webpage: https://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/research/global/global-issues-dialogue-centre

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Forging a path for community nurses into research Interview with College Postdoctoral Associate, Dr Ben Bowers, who was recently named by Nursing Times as one of the top 75 nurses and midwives who have contributed in a significant way to the NHS since its creation. Ben received the European Association for Palliative Care Early Researcher Award 2023 and the Queen Elizabeth Award for Outstanding Service 2022 leading interdisciplinary research and innovations in clinical practice. Although I'm one of the first community nurse clinical academics at the University of Cambridge, nobody here has ever treated me as less than an equal.

You joined Jesus College as a CDPA in October 2022. What does it mean to be part of the community? I’ve lived in Cambridge just on the other side of the river since I was sixteen, and whenever I walked past Jesus College on the way to work at John Lewis, I thought how wonderful it would be to study here. I also chose Jesus College because of its friendliness and inclusivity. It took a long time to get here though; I left school with no qualifications after struggling with dyslexia and did an Access Course at Cambridge Regional College in my twenties in order to then train to be a nurse. Now it’s great to be in the place I aspired to be. I’ve participated in events at the Intellectual Forum and Medical and Veterinary Society, and I enjoy getting involved to show the value of nurses in

What attracted you to a career in community nursing and how did you get started? I didn’t know what I wanted to in life. I worked in retail at John Lewis, then became a Special Constable for three years. But I was too nice to be a policeman, I’m a generous soul! I was sitting in A&E with someone after an arrest, when I saw the nurses working and decided this was for me. I became a healthcare assistant at Addenbrookes and loved it. They saw my potential and paid for me to do my nurse training, and I haven’t looked back. One of the exciting aspects of a career in nursing is its rewarding nature and the flexibility to move around and change specialisms; I started out working in neuro rehabilitation, then worked in district nursing for eight years before moving into palliative care. When did you become interested in research? Working as a community palliative care nurse, I saw an opportunity to improve person and family-centred care by advancing the evidence base and involving patients and families more in discussions about how to control symptoms. I was interested in the decision-making process

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around injectable end-of-life symptom control medication: often called ‘anticipatory medication’ as they are put in place ahead of possible need. How do we decide what to prescribe and when? There’s no clear career path from community nursing into research. So, I had to create my own path with the help of two of my amazing mentors, a clinical academic general practitioner and a medical sociologist. It took much longer than I would have liked to find a way into research and there was considerable reluctance among several of my nurse managers to release me from leading teams; patient care needed delivering too. I think it’s vital to spot and support talent early on and to get nurses involved in research because they make up the largest part of the workforce. That’s why I co-founded and lead the Queen’s Nursing Institute (QNI) Community Nursing Research Forum, which is open to all UK-based nurses. I expected 80-100 nurses to join the Forum, but within two months we had 230 members. We grew after receiving an NHS England seed funding grant for the first year. In just over a year, the Forum has grown to over 600 members keen to get involved in and lead research. Community nurses work closely with people in their own homes, so they raise different questions to medical colleagues and research conducted in hospitals. It’s historically been considered notoriously difficult to get community nurses involved in research projects, but we have turned this assumption upside down. Our members are very engaged; they’ve been involved in seven research studies through the Forum so far. Funding for the Forum comes to an end soon, and I’m passionate about finding a way we can continue to grow community nurse-led research and capacity building. It’s hard to secure investment in the current financial environment.

Your focus has been on end-of-life care. How do we currently manage this? Prescribing anticipatory medications is common and recommended best practice but lacks strong evidence. Clinicians believe that having access to injectable medications at home offers reassurance and timely symptom relief. In my research, I found that four standardised medications were often prescribed well in advance of the patient’s death. Discussions about the dying process and the role of these medications were often vague or inadequate. While the medications were generally helpful for symptom control, some family carers had concerns or faced considerable challenges in persuading nurses to administer them when patients had symptoms of pain and distress. What are your research priorities? I’m interested in how we make decisions to use injectable anticipatory medications in a way that is safe, effective and timely. Current processes are overly complex, and we need to involve patients, families and clinicians more to make decisions simpler and more inclusive. This is the focus of my Wellcome Early Career Fellowship, working with colleagues in engineering, patient safety and social sciences. We need more information about the best injectable medications to use in different situations because many of the drugs and dose ranges prescribed today are based on the typical symptom profiles of patients dying from advanced cancer in hospices. Whereas many people dying at home have multiple age-related diseases and fewer complex symptoms so they might have very different needs. How can we make medication prescriptions more individualised and effective? The other area of priority is better understanding last-days-of-life symptom control experiences and concerns of people who are marginalised because of language, healthcare access and cultural barriers. If we tailor end-of-life care to a

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white, middle class and well-educated population, there are many members of the wider community whose needs are not being adequately met. What are your career ambitions now? Will you continue to balance clinical practice with research? It’s important to me to continue my clinical practice because I value the contact with patients and with other clinicians. It grounds my research in real-life questions and gives me credibility when I challenge the status quo (I often do). My ambition is to become a Clinician Professor in Palliative Care, and to continue leading the way for more nurses and allied healthcare professionals to get involved in research. You have been awarded several prizes and accolades in the last year. How does this make you feel, personally and for the profession? You could describe me as a reluctant leader and role model for the nursing profession! I was recently named as one of the top 75 nurses and midwives who

have contributed in a significant way to the National Health Service. To be named as one of the leading lights in my field by Nursing Times, it’s hard to process to be honest. I’m a shy person and presenting my research to date to an audience of over 1,000 people was daunting when I recently collected the European Association for Palliative Care Early Researcher Award at the conference in Rotterdam (see photo below). Having said that, I’m heavily invested in raising the profile of nurse-led research and improving evidence-based palliative care. People have been delighted for me, which feels like validation of the choices I’ve made and the difference I have made in improving patient care. That means a lot to me because I haven’t taken an easy career path. Do you have advice for students considering a career in nursing? And for medics working with nurses? I’d encourage students towards nursing as an increasingly autonomous clinical

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profession with lots of scope to try different specialisms and develop your skills. You must be a people person and able to tolerate bodily fluids! I’d advise medical students to value the continuity of care that nurses provide and to listen to them for insights into how patients are managing and family situations. Newly qualified medics rotate a lot, and it is well worth making friends

with the senior nurses, because they know how everything works and have huge knowledge in their specialities. I do lots of palliative care teaching with the medical students at the clinical school, and they’re often surprised and impressed by the interdisciplinary nature of nursing, and the different insights and skills we bring. n

Ben’s recent anticipatory medications papers • Bowers B, Howard P, Madden B, Pollock K, Barclay S. Is end-of-life anticipatory prescribing always enough? British Medical Journal 2023; 381: p1106 • Bowers B, Antunes BCP, Etkind S, Hopkins S, Winterburn I, Kuhn I, Pollock K, Barclay S. Anticipatory prescribing in community end-of-life care: systematic review and narrative synthesis of the evidence since 2017. BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care Online First: 26 May 2023 • Bowers B, Pollock K, Barclay S. Simultaneously reassuring and unsettling: a longitudinal qualitative study of community anticipatory medication prescribing for older patients. Age and Ageing 2022; 51 (12): afac293 • Bowers B, Pollock K, Barclay S. Unwelcome memento mori or best clinical practice? Community end-of-life anticipatory medication prescribing practice: a mixed methods observational study. Palliative Medicine 2022; 36 (1): 95-104

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Safe, effective treatment for cancers and cancer-like diseases Dr Elizabeth Coker A College Postdoctoral Associate writes about her career in research, and the progression from natural sciences to systems biology

Despite teaching first year medical and veterinary medical students at Jesus College, I am a scientist by background, having studied for a degree in Natural Sciences at Newnham College, Cambridge. At seventeen I was selected for a Nuffield Science Bursary which enabled me to work on mathematical models of infectious disease, and whilst studying Natural Sciences I developed a love of ‘systems biology’. Systems biology is I think best described as ‘biology through the eyes of an engineer’ and was the subject which I took for Part III at Cambridge. This view of biology as a series of weird and wonderful molecular systems has stayed with me throughout my research career. I am passionate about translational research, that is research that brings scientific discoveries from the lab bench to

the hospital bedside. Between my third and fourth years as an undergraduate I was fortunate enough to be able to work with Dr Marco Gerlinger at Cancer Research UK, working on cancer responses to drugs used alone and in combinations. With many diseases, different people will respond differently to the same medications, and in order to ensure the best outcomes for patients and improved care, scientists need to understand why this is. In recent years this has led to the field of ‘personalised’ or ‘precision’ medicine, where the drugs prescribed by a clinician will be dictated by the genetic makeup of the patient, rather than ‘one size fits all’. Understanding which patients will or won’t respond to combinations of two or more drugs is a particularly complex problem, but can be extremely valuable in areas such as cancer and infectious diseases. Trying to disentangle the response of drug 1, drug 2 and the synergies present between the two when used in combination is a puzzle I have found fascinating since that undergraduate summer project and formed the focus of my PhD at the Institute for Cancer Research in London. During my PhD I was based in the Cancer Research UK Cancer Therapeutic Unit, an academic centre focused on creating new drugs to treat cancer. A highlight of my PhD was being selected to give a talk at the AACR Annual Meeting in 2016. This is the biggest cancer conference in the world with more than 20,000 attendees. I was over the moon that the project I had devised had been nominated for a talk,

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yet later struggled to get the same work accepted in a scientific journal. My manuscript received rejection after rejection as editors variously couldn’t see the scientific merit, couldn’t recruit suitable reviewers, or on one particularly frustrating occasion, said I had included two too many references for the journal format! Nevertheless, I persisted, and a version of the manuscript was eventually published in 2022.1 Brexit and COVID19 both presented challenges during my post-doctoral fellowship at the Wellcome Sanger Institute near Cambridge. For example, we were unable to renew funding for a large, EU-funded collaboration with scientists in the Netherlands which had yielded important insights into cancer biology. Whilst I was able to continue my data analysis work from home during lockdowns, numerous funding streams that could have supported the next stage of my academic career dried up as cancer charities and research councils tightened their belts. Despite this, I was able to co-lead a major publication in Nature2 examining over 100,000 cancer drug combinations in breast, colon and pancreatic cancer cells. This was a massive undertaking involving dozens of scientists working for three years and has resulted in new candidate treatments for certain groups of breast and colon cancer patients. I am proud to see the data used by others to inform their research to develop more personalised treatments for cancer: in the year since the paper was published it has been read over 78,000 times and cited in 72 other publications.

Making scientific data freely available to researchers around the world has always been central to the Wellcome Sanger Institute’s work, and our paper is a perfect example of this. I now work for a company named Healx that was spun out of the University of Cambridge: Healx utilises AI and predictive technologies to identify new treatments for rare diseases. Rare diseases form a diverse collection of conditions which individually affect fewer than 0.05% of the population. My work is currently focused on Neurofibromatosis Type 1, a genetic condition that causes tumours to grow along nerves. I am working with colleagues from different aspects of drug development on a potential new drug for this disease, which may result in a clinical trial in the future. One of the first things I instil in my supervisees is the importance of being comfortable saying ‘I don’t know’. Having been a Cambridge undergraduate myself, I understand that university work can be a culture shock for students who have never previously been challenged. Acknowledging one’s limits is an essential life skill and is particularly important for medics. Humility in terms of recognising my own weaknesses as well as strengths has been key in enabling me to work effectively with others who have different skills and experiences. How could my research change things in the future? In a sentence, I hope that it leads to safer, more effective drugs to treat cancers and cancer-like diseases. n

Further information 1 PhD project paper: https://aacrjournals.org/mct/article/21/6/1020/699199 2 Nature paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04437-2

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Using wearable technology to manage health and fitness Professor Cecilia Mascolo is Director of Studies in Computer Science at Jesus College, and Professor of Mobile Systems at the Department of Computer Science and Technology Do you count your steps or measure calories burnt when you exercise? In recent years, wearable devices such as smart phones, watches and earbuds have woven their way into everyday life for many of us, acting as powerful tools for monitoring health and fitness. In the past few years, a Jesus-strong research team has taken this one step further by developing a groundbreaking method to predict fitness levels. The team was led by College Fellow, Professor Cecilia Mascolo, and supported by two Jesus alumni, Dr Dimitris Spathis (2017) and Dr Ignacio Perez-Pozuelo (2017) as first and second authors of the study. Dr Dimitris Spathis was partially

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funded through the Jesus College Embiricos Trust Scholarship. Mascolo and her team have been investigating how to maximise the information gathered by wearable devices, by using machine learning to predict VO2max, a paramount indicator of overall fitness and a significant predictor of heart disease and mortality risk. Until now, accurate VO2max measurement required costly laboratory equipment which meant that its use was primarily limited to elite athletes. Fitness assessments traditionally require people to undergo strenuous exercises and tests. However, this innovative approach eliminates the need for such

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activities. By analysing data collected from wearable devices, such as heart rate monitors and accelerometers, researchers have now developed a way to accurately predict fitness levels. Researchers from the MRC Epidemiology Unit and the Department of Computer Science and Technology, worked across their disciplines to collect activity data from over 11,000 participants wearing the devices continuously over six days. The amount of data amassed was enormous – 60 data values per second was gathered from participants – requiring the design of an innovative algorithm pipeline to process the findings. Spathis said: “We had to design an algorithm pipeline and appropriate models that could compress this huge amount of data and use it to make an accurate prediction. The free-living nature of the data makes this prediction challenging because we’re trying to predict a high-level outcome (fitness) with noisy low-level data (wearable sensors).” The AI model they developed (known as a deep neural network) not only predicts VO2max from the gathered data, but also identifies sub-populations

needing specific fitness-related interventions. A machine learning model was developed and tested against a subset of these participants seven years later and was shown to produce more accurate data than previous methods. Co-lead author Perez-Pozuelo said: “This study is a perfect demonstration of how we can leverage expertise across epidemiology, public health, machine learning and signal processing”. Mascolo highlights the potential of their findings to redefine how we approach fitness measurement: “We’ve shown that you don’t need an expensive test in a lab to get a real measurement of fitness – the wearables we use every day can be just as powerful if they have the right algorithm behind them. Cardio-fitness is such an important health marker, but until now we did not have the means to measure it at scale.” The key to this innovation, according to Professor Mascolo, lies in transparency and the optimal use of data from heart rate and accelerometer sensors. She said: “This clarity, coupled with the ability to detect changes in fitness over time, enables the accurate estimation of fitness levels on a population-wide scale,

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potentially unveiling the impacts of lifestyle trends. Certain commercially available smartwatches and fitness monitors claim to estimate VO2max, but the hidden nature and potential for change in their predictive algorithms make these estimates questionable. In contrast, the Cambridge-developed model is transparent and robust, strengthening its reliability. It’s exciting to see how innovation, transparency, and the power of machine learning can make fitness measurement more accessible, accurate, and informative.” Implications for individual health management include using wearable devices to identify individuals at risk of developing chronic diseases related to low fitness levels, such as heart disease and

diabetes. Early detection could prompt lifestyle changes or medical interventions, helping to prevent these conditions or manage them effectively. The potential of this breakthrough extends beyond individual health tracking; it has far-reaching implications for public health too. By continually tracking and aggregating health metrics from many users, researchers can gain unprecedented insights into population health and disease trends. Research data could be used to inform population health policies, potentially replacing less informative health proxies like the Body Mass Index (BMI). In the future, Mascolo believes that we could all be using our smart devices to track a lot more information than our step counts! n

Research publications • Nature Journal, 2 December 2022: Longitudinal cardio-respiratory fitness prediction through wearables in free-living environments. Spathis D., Perez-Pozuelo I., Gonzales T. I. et al. npj Digit. Med. 5, 176 (2022)

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge at Jesus College Dr Christopher Burlinson, President and Admissions Tutor Samuel Taylor Coleridge came up to Jesus College in October 1791: a “tolerable Journey”, as he put it in a letter to his brother, George, but a less than auspicious arrival. The recently elected Master, William Pearce, was away in Cornwall, “and not expected to return to Cambridge till the Summer”. What was “still more extraordinary” and “rather shameful”, he went on, was that “neither of the Tutors are here”. The College was “very thin”, he concluded, and his schoolfriend Thomas Middleton had “not the least acquaintance with any of Jesus, except a very blackguardly fellow, whose [physiognomy] I did not like. So I sit down to dinner in the Hall in silence – except the noise of suction, which accompanies my eating – and rise up ditto. I then walk off to Pembroke and sit with my friend”.

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Coleridge was born on 21 October 1772, and this year the College marked his 250th birthday with a series of events commemorating his life, his writings and the years that he spent here. ‘Poetry and Politics: Samuel Taylor Coleridge at Jesus College’, an exhibition curated by Dr Mathelinda Nabugodi (CPDA) with the collaboration of Dr Robin Payne (College Archivist), and on display in the Marshall Room between April and July 2023, told the story of Coleridge’s time at Jesus, the intellectual and common life of the College at the end of the eighteenth century, and the traces that his studies left on his later life. Among other records of Coleridge’s time at Jesus, visitors to the exhibition saw the Accounts book which showed Coleridge’s receipt of funds under the Rustat Scholarship that he was first

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awarded in 1791-92. These scholarships, created in 1671 by Tobias Rustat (1608-94), were given to the orphaned sons of clergymen. Rustat Scholars were traditionally appointed after passing an examination and wore a special gown; an annual Rustat Feast was held for Fellows and scholars, which Coleridge would have attended. The Scholarship brought Coleridge a considerable sum of money (27 pounds a year, as he noted in another letter home to George), but his time at Jesus was marked by financial worries and unpaid bills; he was called on by the Master and Fellows with increasing urgency to pay his debts, and early in 1795 he left Cambridge without completing his degree.

The exhibition also brought together evidence of Coleridge’s life of reading and study at Jesus College. The College library register, one of the items on display, showed the books that he borrowed in 1791 and 1792, including the volume of the Greek playwright Aeschylus (also part of the exhibition) from the Old Library that he used to write the poem that would win the University’s Browne Medal in 1792. The Browne Medal was (and still is) awarded annually for the best odes written in Greek and Latin on a set subject. The subject for Coleridge’s first year at Jesus was announced in January 1792, Sors misera servorum in insulis Indiæ occidentalis, literally ‘The unhappy fate of the slaves in

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the West Indian Islands’, and his Greek poem was successful. A copy of this poem was transcribed in a ledger of prize-winning poems; this book now resides in the University Library and was on display in the exhibition. Coleridge remained proud of his poem; fifteen years after leaving the College, he would write to Thomas Clarkson, the prominent abolitionist, that “my first public effort was a Greek Ode against the Slave Trade, for which I had a Gold Medal, & which I spoke publickly in the Senate House”. But Coleridge’s legacy is a complicated one, and the exhibition, along with the other events hosted over the course of the year, sought to explore some of the conflicted contexts and afterlives of his ideas and writings. In spite of his early sympathy and support for the abolitionist movement, Coleridge’s Rustat Scholarship was an indirect link to Tobias Rustat, who had invested in, and had helped to run, three companies that traded enslaved people from Africa to the Caribbean and the Americas. Dr Rebecca Barr’s address in Chapel on 5 March 2023 painted a picture of a man haunted by his failures and disappointments as a poet and political visionary – a student radical whose youthful plans to found an egalitarian community in America had come to nothing. She spoke about

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‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’, Coleridge’s most famous poem, as a text that shows “what can happen when we are shackled by fear, numbed and paralysed by the enormity of the task at hand”, but which also nourishes the “practices of hope and empathy, the creative work of the imagination” that can counteract these fears. Dr Matt Wilkinson’s one-man performance in Chapel in October 2022 (with Corkscrew Theatre) provided another vivid adaptation of the Ancient Mariner, and the exhibition displayed some of the incredible imaginative responses to it over the last two hundred years. A recital in the Chapel on 28 April 2023, given by Choral Scholars of the College Choir with Ben Sheen (Director of Music) gathered together musical settings of Coleridge’s poems from the eighteenth century to the present day (including one by the black British composer and musician, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor). All of these events left a very rich picture of Coleridge’s imaginative and literary power; for over two centuries his writings have been a prompt to other writers, artists and musicians. In his complicated and often contradictory life, he is also an important part of the College’s present. n

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The history of the wine cellars and Committee Dr Anthony Bowen, Emeritus Fellow in Classics at Jesus College and member of the Wine Committee Thirty years ago the College’s Wine Committee was effectively Duncan MacKie, steward of the College under the old dispensation and so in charge of much of its business; he liked German wine and when he surrendered office in the 90s the cellars held more German wine than we knew what to do with. Much was put on the open list (of wine for Fellows to buy, that is), generously priced. He was succeeded as chair of the Wine Committee by Paul Alexander, who bought heavily of excellent Chablis and white Burgundy (there were some exceptional vintages in his time); eventually, when it was clear that we wouldn’t be able to drink what we had before it was past its best, we swapped some off with the Cambridge Wine Merchants (of whom more anon). After Paul came Michael Waring, and his chairmanship ensured a good store of fine wine from New Zealand.

Those ups and downs should be seen, however, as minor and venial blips. Jesus College cellars, like those of the other Colleges in Oxford and Cambridge, carry by very long custom large stocks of good claret and good port, claret for dinner in Hall and port or claret for combining afterwards, and to a considerable extent that is still the scene; but change is upon us, principally because fewer Fellows dine nowadays (though we have a good turnout from younger College associates of various categories) and because our diet contains no red meat (beef and lamb, makers of methane) except on special occasions. Until now our wine was distributed over three cellars in various parts of the College (and when we had all that white wine, some port had to be stored in an old salt mine in Cheshire). Now we have our new wine cellar, as part of the

Commemoration and Audit Feast menu from 1930

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rebuilding of the kitchens. The room is 13.6m long, 5.5m wide and 3m high; it could probably take 20,000 bottles. We have as I write some 13,000 bottles (no number is correct for long as bottles are coming in and going out constantly). Of those 13,000 over 5,000 are claret, a figure which shows well how conservative we have been in buying. The list records one bottle of Ch. Lassalle of 1970, but the vast majority is not older than 2008. There is good variety, but we also stick by old favourites, such as la Tour de By, Angludet, Batailley, Patache d’Aux, Cissac and le Crock, the last a favourite of Michael Waring’s. I wonder what will happen to that solitary survivor of 1970. A long time ago the College bought some 1952 Ch. Pétrus, not the sort of wine we can afford to buy nowadays (I saw recently Ch. Lafite Rothschild 2022 quoted at £7,100 the dozen). One bottle remained undrunk until Paul Alexander, unwilling to let it languish any longer, devoted it to a Wine Committee dinner for our joy and our enlightenment. It might, of course, have gone off, but there was little ullage, the colour was excellent and the cork

came out cleanly in one piece. I remember it well. It was then, and still is, the best wine I have ever drunk, even though I myself agree with George Saintsbury in his ‘Notes on a Cellar-book’: ‘If claret is the queen of natural wines, Burgundy is the king’. That Ch. Pétrus was fresh, fruity, clear and astonishingly vivid. It lasted in glass about 20 minutes, and then oxidised; fortunately we had by then mostly had our measure. Our second largest holding, over 1700 bottles, is from the Rhone, and our third largest, nearly 1200, is of vintage port, much of it Taylor’s. The port is bottle for bottle our most valuable holding. We have vintages of ’94, ’03, ’07, ’11, ’16 and ’17, but there is still a Taylor of 1945 (bought for fifteen shillings and sixpence) and a few from 1948, 1955 and 1964. Only once has the College bought wine to sell: that was some 1982 claret, which went for £1,200 a bottle some 30 years later. Otherwise we sell only to the College and its Fellows. The process of inflation has meant that the wine account is always in the black. Some earlier Bursars were anxious to include it in the general accounts; these days the Bursar is

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a member of the Wine Committee in his own right, and what used to be a sore point is healed. Fourth place is held by red Burgundy, with nearly 700 bottles; nothing there is older than 2008. There are also notable holdings of German wine, Chablis and white Burgundy, Italian red (nearly 500), Champagne and other fizz, and of Madeira,including, it appears, a Bual of 1872, our oldest bottle, and some of 1915 (next oldest is some Ch. Haut Peyraguey of 1929). There is good representation of South African red, of other French red, and of red and white from New Zealand, Portugal and Spain, and there is a fair holding of Italian white and of wines from the Loire both red and white. We may be looking for more Loire red, and perhaps more Beaujolais, to serve the change of diet noted above. Also featured are Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, Chile, Argentina, Morocco and the USA. We have had good wine from Alsace, Armenia, Greece and the Lebanon, but those bins are empty at the moment. Wines worth attention increase in number; I remember twenty years ago coming across a wine from Sicily called Nero d’Avola. Michael Waring was tasting with me. We both said together (or rather, looked) ‘Wow!’ It cost about £4 a bottle then and our cellars have usually held some ever since. The art of our tasting is exactly that: to find good wine at friendly prices. You can always drink well if your pocket is deep. Our dessert wines, typically Sauternes, Barsac and Tokai, well over 300 in number, come into use only at feasts and at our Thursday evening desserts in the combination room, but what there is is good. There too can be found sherry before dinner, and for those who prefer spirits afterwards cognac and a malt whisky. We have bought from over 50 merchants in the last 30 years. In that time we have come to esteem the variety, knowledge and service of Cambridge

Wine Merchants; they now have five shops in different parts of the city, and sometimes hold small tastings in several of them. Their rise is perhaps fortunate: in the plague years nobody offered tastings, but during it they decanted some wines into small bottles so that Nick Ray and I could safely choose wines for a takeaway feast invented by Tom Stewart, then head chef; it was a great success and had to be promptly repeated. Since then few of the big firms have resumed their visits to Cambridge; they used to come two or three a week in the Michaelmas and Lent terms. Charles Taylor is an exception, but his interest and expertise are largely confined to the wines of Bordeaux, Burgundy and the Rhone, and as shown above, we are well stocked in the red wines of those areas even as our need for them diminishes. COVID-19 impacted on our drinking, of course; for a while there was no dining and we bought nothing, but the years 2018, 2019 and 2020 turned out to be particularly good in Bordeaux and Burgundy, and we have now refreshed our stock accordingly. The merchants tend to sing the praises of every year; a quiet word with, for instance, Charles Taylor soon elicits a truer distinction. Unless it is a wine we know and one whose report we trust, we seldom buy without two members of the Committee tasting it and agreeing on a recommendation. There are at the moment ten members of the Committee (there is no fixed number) but it is not easy for most members to get to tastings: tastings are held almost always from 11 or 11.30am to 3pm, mostly in Colleges, and if you are lecturing before lunch and supervising afterwards it is difficult to make the time; most of those who attend are, like Nick Ray and myself, retired. Other times of day are sometimes tried – Cambridge Wine Merchants have tried 4pm, and our Committee meetings at 6pm are often preceded by a small tasting, but the middle of the day is obviously

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The new wine cellars

better suited to merchants bringing their wares from afar. Sometimes no lunch is laid on, sometimes there is bread and cheese, and Charles Taylor, using St John’s College, usually provides roast beef! There are ten of us on the Committee and one is a vegetarian, which is very useful when it comes to tasting for feasts, now that so many more people are vegetarians. We don’t change membership very often: experience is important as well as interest. Our business is mostly to note the stock and its looming gaps and to guide our tasters in what sorts of wine to look for in making recommendations for the cellar. We don’t intervene in the choice of wine for the College bar, which is up to the barman; we have tasted and approved the port

which is sold notably on degree day under a College label; we recently had a tasting of the new College gin in various combinations. The Committee now meets once a term, a week or so before the feast of the term; the last item is to try a pair of wines against each course which the head chef proposes. This business was the invention of Nick Ray when he was acting steward about a decade ago; the responsibility for what is chosen to be drunk is spread among us all, and many guests now comment on the aptness of the wine for the food. Truly, despite many warnings against it in the Old Testament, wine ‘maketh glad the heart of man’ (Ps. 104.15) – and woman also. n

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Revealing history through our kitchen development Nicholas Ray, Emeritus Fellow (Architecture) In last year’s Annual Report I promised a description of the project to extend and improve the kitchens – effectively for the first time in more than six, or perhaps seven hundred years – and also of the archaeological findings, which cast new light on the history of the Convent of St Radegund and the College founded on its site nearly 530 years ago. It will take some months to conclude a detailed description of those findings, but sufficient information is now available for me to give a summary, based on an interim report kindly provided by Craig Cessford of the Cambridge Archaeological Unit. As he writes: “The direct transition from the nunnery, a female institution, to the College, a male institution, is extremely rare. The recovery of significant archaeological assemblages from both the nunnery and the College provides an almost unique opportunity to consider the nature of two successive institutions associated with different genders.” But first, why did the College launch into such a complicated project, right in the middle of its historic site, which in its very nature required such an archaeological investigation? We had other options. Though discussed, the idea of building a completely new kitchen and dining room, associated with the West Court development, was never seriously considered. Such a strategy would have rendered the monastic Dining Hall a facility for occasional use (as sadly happened at Queens’). So, in 2014 Paul Vonberg, the College’s Conservation Architect, was asked to prepare a brief for what would be required in a redevelopment of the kitchens to meet current and anticipated needs to contemporary standards. Following discussions with the kitchen staff,

Kitchen groundworks

the Fellowship and local authority conservation officers to determine the scope of what would be acceptable, he presented a comprehensive report to the Buildings Committee on 1 December of that year. In February 2016, the Buildings Committee listed priorities for the College’s capital projects as follows: • Porters’ Lodge • Main Kitchen • Central Administration • East House • Waterhouse Building Work on the Porters’ Lodge was put in hand straightaway and at the same time the Buildings Committee established a Kitchen Development Working Party (KDWP). Chaired by our vigilant Bursar, it has subsequently held 50 meetings, discussing critical design decisions and monitoring progress and expenditure up until November 2022, as well as holding some post-occupation meetings.

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The KDWP reported regularly to the Buildings Committee and thence to College Council. Room to manoeuvre was very restricted if Pump Court was not to be radically altered; and meeting current legislation for ventilation requirements and disability access meant that there were limited options for re-arrangement. Early feasibility studies suggested that lowering the level of the kitchen floor by about a metre would allow a single storey extension into Pump Court presenting itself simply as a wall with limited low-level windows; everything else could be accommodated either within the existing building envelope or underground, with the exception of a separate three-floor lift and staircase block for staff access and for taking up cooked food. Two separate lifts in the existing building would cater for people at all levels (since the Alcock and Cranmer rooms are on half landings) and for waste, and there would be a fourth lift for deliveries down to the substantial basement for dry storage, a wine cellar and the plant room. As now realised, the basement’s roof is paved in stone and makes a useful space for drinks before dinner in summer months, thanks to a new external stair that connects it directly to the screens passage outside the hall. Paul Vonberg’s solution

was so persuasive that the College decided to award his practice the contract for design and regular inspections during the construction period without competition; his small practice could cope with a large and complex job because the lead-time for its detailed design before work could start on site would be very extended. Indeed, it was not until three years later, in November 2019, following extensive discussions with conservation officers and Historic England, that we were in a position to make an application for planning and listed building consents, and not until 31 March 2020 that these were received (albeit hedged with numerous conditions). One of the critical aspects in such a project is to maintain the College’s operations undisturbed as far as possible. Most colleges faced with similar problems have to erect temporary structures during the contract period at considerable expense. Fortunately, by converting the former Marshall’s garage we were able to duplicate the arrangements for the hall and upper hall. The Domestic Bursar calculated that if that was done to a 25-year standard it would repay the additional investment by continuing to provide useful facilities beyond the kitchen development period – as has proved to be the case. A separate contract was

Mid-project works

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Spolia from the stone store

arranged for this work, though its costs were included along with the main contract, fees and VAT as the “total project cost”. Meanwhile on the main project, assisted by our project managers, Northmores, the KDWP had interviewed and appointed catering specialists and additional consultants to deal with cost control, structural and environmental design and acoustics, by the start of the 2018 Michaelmas Term. In 2020 four contractors were invited to tender on a fully designed scheme, and after a period of negotiation the KDWP, Buildings Committee and Bursarial Committee could recommend to Council at its meeting on 13 July that the lowest tenderer be appointed. The world was in the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic and a bespoke phased contract ensured a cut-off date in the event of major disruption. Fortunately, it proved unnecessary to exercise that option, and the project proceeded to timetable until its final months, despite the pandemic and supply problems for materials from abroad that were held in ports as a result of Brexit. The building as realised has been enthusiastically received. Conditions for the kitchen staff have been immeasurably improved. The rationalisation of the movement of people, food and waste has

made for a much smoother operation than possible in the past. Yet a major aspect of the achievement, for those returning to a much-loved group of buildings, is that the architecture does not call attention to itself. There is a risk, of course, that people may wonder where all the money has been spent. Some years ago, the architect we appointed to oversee the repairs and refurbishment of North Court, John Allan, defined the ambition of conservation architects as being to commit the perfect crime: no one should know they’ve been there. Paul Vonberg’s work achieves just that: the judicious choice of when faithfully to reproduce existing motifs, and where invention is required that is compatible with the context, is exemplary. One instance will convince: the re-use of stone carvings on the new stair and lift tower and part of the existing building. These were spolia from our stone store that, on the advice of the Works of Art Committee, the College agreed were of insufficient historic importance to merit conserving as archival material but would be enjoyable as providing some characterful detail. Yet the new tower is clearly distinguishable as contemporary work, in its detail and brick colour, by those who look closely. If so much of the new construction was

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to lie below Pump Court, there needed to be a major excavation. We anticipated significant archaeological discoveries and indeed a range of features was revealed, associated with both the Benedictine nunnery of St Radegund, founded in the mid-twelfth century, and the development of the College, which succeeded it from the late fifteenth-century onwards. It was critical for the contract timetable that careful excavation and recording take place as soon as possible. But it took an extraordinary amount of time to agree the requirements of the County Archaeologists and to obtain their consent, which was one of the conditions that had to be discharged before we could start on site. We also planned to install ground source heat pumps to heat and cool the kitchens, and in addition to the trial pits and trenches in Pump Court the County Archaeologists asked for individual trial pits to be dug for each of the 52 heat pump locations. So, the contractor agreed to re-programme the work and strip out the existing buildings whilst the archaeological work was undertaken. It will take some time to prepare a full analysis of the archaeological discoveries, which will result in future publications. But, treating chronologically what has been revealed, it's clear that prior to the construction of the nunnery’s refectory (the present-day Hall) and kitchen (which has always been the College’s kitchen and remains part of it) there’s evidence of a ditch and some gravel quarry pits. These could relate to earlier agricultural use of the site, or more probably belong to the very earliest phases of the nunnery before there were buildings in this area. Whatever their function, these features were carefully backfilled, to ensure they didn’t cause structural problems for the later buildings. Recording of the standing buildings of the hall and kitchen then revealed surviving twelfth-thirteenthcentury fabric relating to the nunnery. Of particular interest are parts of a twelfth-century stone window and column,

built into a thirteenth-century wall of the nuns’ refectory. These probably derive from one of the earliest nunnery buildings, demolished as the convent expanded. Architectural fragments re-used in several later structures in Pump Court include elements that derive from elsewhere in the nunnery, including parts of the church nave and grave slabs from the cemetery, contributing to our understanding of other parts of the nunnery. Bishop Alcock was entirely pragmatic in making use of whatever was available to deal with the requirements of the College, as is vividly illustrated in the former Chapter House. While the nunnery was in use, Pump Court functioned as an ancillary service area, with pits dug to obtain gravel, and some lined in clay that would have held water, in which various materials could be immersed, and large clay domed ovens and stone bases. It would have been an area used by the nunnery servants, rather than by the nuns themselves. Some pits were backfilled with kitchen waste, including animal bones and pottery. When analysed, this material will shed light on the nuns’ diet and other aspects of their lives. Some of the archaeology may date to either late in the period of the nunnery or early in the history of the college: a substantial mortared walkway, for instance, ran parallel to the Hall with an attached timber-framed building. There was also a deep stone-lined well, which appears to have had an impressive stone round well house, around two metres in diameter with a domed roof. We hope that further analysis will clarify the dating of these important structures. There was considerable rebuilding in the early years of the College between about 1496 and 1510 that suggests that early college rebuilding was more extensive than has sometimes been argued; although the nunnery buildings were not demolished entirely, the College plan did not completely fossilise that of its predecessor. Tree ring dating of various

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ceiling and floor timbers indicates that the trees were felled no earlier than 1485. Under the Hall were a pair of pits; one had a scorched base and the other contained a large quantity of melted lead, probably reclaimed from windows and other structural features demolished when the nunnery buildings, including a large part of the nunnery church, were converted for collegiate use. In the sixteenth century the College appears to have attempted to significantly raise the height of Pump Court, just as it did in other areas. The deposits contain substantial amounts of material, which will be compared to those from the nunnery, to determine how similar or different the lifestyles of the two groups were. There was also a relatively wide wall foundation running parallel to the hall across Pump Court, which probably demarcated a boundary between different parts of the college precinct. A number of brick drains from a similar period were uncovered, which removed kitchen waste to a ditch leading to the King’s Ditch that formed the western boundary of the college. It is likely that this ditch replaced

an earlier one used by the nunnery, for waste from their communal latrines. In the seventeenth century, the boundary wall was demolished, and the ditch backfilled to make space for a range of buildings constructed in 1638-40. Although these buildings appear relatively unimpressive in contemporary depictions, they had substantial brick cellars that were extensively rebuilt and modified over time. The rest of the investigated area was converted into gardens and yards. Documents from 1822, when this range of buildings was demolished, indicate that they were used as stables and a coach house and for a range of ancillary functions including storing coal, sedge, apples and other materials. The southern and northern accommodation ranges of Pump Court, built in 1638-1641 and 1869-1871, respectively, do survive, of course. Starting as a rather scruffy ancillary service area, mainly used by servants rather than members of the College, the court progressively became part of the College. The next major development in Pump Court was the construction of a

View from Pump Court. Photo credit: David Valinsky Photography

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servants’ hall and staircase leading to the Hall, designed by Alfred Waterhouse and constructed in 1875. The servants’ hall incorporated the stone-lined well, which had been constructed several centuries earlier but was still in use. An Ordnance Survey plan of 1886 shows a pump that was fed from this well, so it was constructed either during the later stages of the nunnery or the early College period, thus providing the origin of Pump Court’s name. The well was backfilled only in 1965 when Waterhouse’s staircase and the so-called Little Hall was demolished, and the stone straight-flight stair was installed. The nunnery of St Radegund is unusual in having such a large amount of its architectural fabric still surviving, because it was incorporated into the College, and retaining informative surviving documents, particularly mid-fifteenth-century accounts. The recent excavations, together with smaller scale archaeological works that have been undertaken since the early 1990s, means that St Radegund’s is also one of the most intensively excavated nunneries in the country. These sources have the potential to provide considerable insight into a relatively neglected aspect of later medieval society. A re-evaluation of the history of the College and convent that preceded it therefore represents one important lesson that came out of this project. The KDWP has held three post-occupation meetings so far to gather others. The design team and contractors worked well together until the final months of the project when the performance of the main contractor was much less satisfactory. Main contractors primarily have a management role, and we were well served by individual subcontractors, particularly stone masons and joiners, but were contractually unable to deal with them directly. Nevertheless, in comparison with contracts of similar scale during this difficult post-Brexit and

Covid-constrained period, the project was remarkably successful, both in timetable and financial outcome. The over-runs in both were comparatively minor and justifiable in relation to the early budgets and programme that had been presented to the Bursarial Committee and Council. Finally, the project must be assessed as to how far it contributes to the College’s long-term ambition to be environmentally responsible, as we re-use and re-interpret the precious fabric we have inherited. In view of the significant embodied carbon in the existing College buildings, it is certainly good sense to make full use of them and to avoid demolitions if possible; but doing so poses considerable challenges. We need to be informed by the latest developments in technique and in the understanding of building performance in use. The College has established a committee to measure the performance of the whole estate and create a decarbonisation strategy; any future projects will have to be assessed in the light of sustainability criteria. In that respect, the kitchen project performs well in that it has heat recovery – making sure fresh air is pre-heated by the heat extracted from air that is evacuated – and uses electricity, not gas, for its energy source, fed by the array of ground source heat pumps. But the embodied carbon in the large quantities of concrete that was required to create the basement is undoubtedly problematic: the only way we can justify it retrospectively is to claim that it can be amortised over a six-hundred-year period. We must hope it will be unnecessary to build below ground for many years to come, and that concretes will be developed by then that have a much lower carbon content – a realistic longer-term prospect in the light of current research. Jesus College should surely seek to be exemplary in every way in its care of its inherited estate. n

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In conversation with the Tutorial Manager Jenny Jenyon I worked on industrial trading estates as a Logistics Manager before joining Jesus College, and you couldn’t get two more different environments! I was amazed by how calm, quiet and green the site was. As a part-time Tutorial Assistant and Praelector’s Secretary, I worked with students from day one and loved it; I felt that I’d found my calling. That was 23 years ago and overall, I still love it. I can’t imagine returning to the commercial sector now. Although my office location has stayed the same, the College and the role of the Tutorial team has changed a lot during my time here. I’ve seen four Masters, four Senior Tutors, lots of Bursars and many changes in the Fellowship. When I started, the College was more hierarchical, with Fellows, staff and students siloed into separate groups. We’ve become more of a community since then, which is great because everyone knows they’re striving for the same thing. Most people are proud to work or study here. My first Senior Tutor was Ian Du Quesnay, a kind and generous man (see obituaries page 141). My second was Dr Stephen Siklos and some of my favourite memories are of standing on the steps of Senate House with him, giggling together waiting for the graduands to come out, and shaking hands with them. I love graduation days. It’s a huge achievement for anyone, but especially for those students who have had a trickier time in life. Some students arrive here after a family loss, or as caregivers. My favourite part of the job is supporting students. Since setting up the student ambassador scheme, I’ve become particularly close to some of the

ambassador students because of working together as equals. I stay in touch with some students years after they’ve left and I feel very proud of them. I don’t mind what they achieve in life – if they’re happy then I’m delighted for them. The hardest part of the job is worrying that I can’t help people enough, due to an ever-increasing workload. I often arrive at 8.30am to an inbox of 100 new emails and I can’t reply to them all in one day. Half my time is spent dealing with urgent matters that have been escalated from the Porters or the Directors of Study. I leave at 7pm or half past, and I know that even if I stayed until midnight, I wouldn’t get the work finished. Our role has changed over the years; we support students on their whole journey now from matriculation, through exams and receiving results, to graduation and beyond. This year, the marking boycott is causing a huge amount of anxiety and upset for the students (and for us too!).

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Jenny Jenyon with previous Master, Robert Mair, circa 2011

I’m proud of the Tutorial team, most of whom are relatively new to their current roles. We support each other when things get busy or stressful, and our regular Friday teatime is a chance to exchange offers of help and advice. Being part of a team makes it easier to deal with the highs and lows both of the job, and of life outside work. Back in 2014, I had intensive treatment for breast cancer. I felt well supported and loved by colleagues and Fellows who sent letters, cards and flowers and even visited me in hospital. Work helped me through that tough period. On the day I was diagnosed, I sat in the hospital writing

handover notes. On my radiotherapy days, I’d come to work first. I always felt safe, supported, and respected. It was important to me not to feel like a victim. Even after 23 years, I still see improvements that I’d like to make to support our students and our staff. I’m excited about working with the new Senior Tutor to continue developing our service. My confidence has grown during my time here because the College has supported and rewarded my efforts. I can talk to 300 students and parents now and know that I’m doing a good job. n

College News

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People Awards, honours, projects, significant lectures Fellows and other senior positions Professor Jeremy Baumberg has been appointed the Harold Aspden Professor of Fundamental Physics in the Cavendish Laboratory. This new professorship is named after Dr Harold Aspden (Trinity, 1950), who was International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)’s Director of Patent Operations in Europe and a dedicated scientist. College Postdoctoral Associate, Dr Ben Bowers was recently named by Nursing Times as one of the top 75 nurses and midwives who have contributed in a significant way to the NHS. Ben received the European Association for Palliative Care Early Researcher Award 2023 and the Queen Elizabeth Award for Outstanding Service (see our interview on pages 25-28). Dr Natalia Buitron contributed to several publications this year, including: (2023) Buitron. “Rule of Self and Rule of Law: Governing Opacity among the Shuar of Amazonia.” Ethnos: Vol 88, No 4 (tandfonline.com). (2023) “Cognitive Science.” In J. Laidlaw, The Cambridge Handbook for the Anthropology of Ethics, University of Cambridge Press, pp. 177-204: The Cambridge Handbook for the Anthropology of Ethics. She also became Chair of XIV SALSA Biennial Conference 2023 ‘Visions and Futures: Amazonia from the Roots’, the flagship Conference of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America, which for the first time took place in the Amazon (in the Triple Frontier (Brazil-Colombia-Peru) and had the unprecedented participation of 101 indigenous/traditional attendees. Professor Clare Chambers published the paperback version of Clare Chambers, Intact: A Defence of the Unmodified Body (Penguin, 2023). Research Fellow Dr Albert Chen co-authored a scientific paper about a bird-like dinosaur called Ichthyornis that provides unprecedented insight into the evolution of the modern bird skeleton. Listen to an interview here. College Postdoctoral Associate, Dr Frazer Christie, is the lead author of a new paper in Nature Communications that finds that ice-sheet-wide collapse in West Antarctica isn’t inevitable – the pace of ice loss varies according to regional differences: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-35471-3 Dr Christie also published a paper with Professor Julian Dowdeswell in Nature which finds that ice sheets can retreat up to 600 metres a day during periods of climate warming: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05876-1 Professor Sarah Colvin was awarded funding for a Horizon Heritage project called The Cartography of the Political Novel in Europe, leading a Cambridge team and working with five other European universities and non-university organisations, to reassess the importance of reading and teaching novels in academic, community and prison settings. Her book Shadowland: The Story of Germany Told by Its Prisoners was published by Reaktion Books in August 2022. Dr Paul Cosgrove has been awarded a three-year UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship to investigate an alternative approach to nuclear reactor multi-physics simulations, a challenging area in nuclear engineering. Read more here.

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Our Senior Tutor, Dr Paul Dominiak published The Falling of Dusk, the Bloomsbury Lent Book for 2023, launched at the Intellectual Forum in January. Read more about the book in an interview on our website here: https://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/articles/i-hopepeople-come-ready-be-disrupted-dr-paul-dominiak-his-book-falling-dusk The Prime Minister has reappointed Professor Julian Dowdeswell, as a Royal Museums Greenwich Trustee, for a four-year term until 2 September 2026. Professor Rachel Evans was elected as a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, alongside other academics from across Welsh and UK universities, writers, researchers and leaders from higher education, medicine and the media. Professor Claire Fenton-Glynn has been offered a Professorship in Law at the University of Monash, Melbourne, Australia. Her husband, Luke, will also be joining Monash as an Associate Professor of Philosophy. Postdoctural Associate, Dr Stephanie Galasso, worked with Professor Sarah Colvin to publish Epistemic Justice and Creative Agency: Global Perspectives on Literature and Film, which questions why and to what effect literature and other cultural forms are often deployed in foundational theories of epistemic (in)justice. Intellectual Forum Director Dr Julian Huppert has been appointed as a Visiting Professorial Fellow at the University of New South Wales. Honorary Fellow and iPhone designer Sir Jony Ive designed King Charles’ coronation emblem. The insignia takes inspiration from King Charles’ “love of the planet, nature, and his deep concern for the natural world”. Postdoctoral Associate Dr Freya Jephcott performed a study on behalf of the WHO on investigations into outbreaks of unknown origin published online here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01459740.2023.2166411 She also co-authored a major WHO Guidance document, published here: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/365730. She went out to Iraq with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in 2022 as the Manager of Epidemiological Activities. Professor Mary Laven was awarded an AHRC grant to investigate ‘Objects and Spaces of Encounter in Renaissance Italy’. The grant is held jointly with Professor Emily Michelson of the University of St Andrews and will involve a redisplay of art in the Italian Renaissance Galleries of the Fitzwilliam Museum. College Postdoctoral Associate, Dr Loïc Lannelongue has been selected as a Software Sustainability Institute Fellow for his work on green computing. The Institute’s Fellowship Programme provides funding for individuals who want to improve the quality and sustainability of the research software used in their areas of work. Visiting Professor, Yasmeen Lari has been awarded the prestigious 2023 Royal Gold Medal for architecture by The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). Read an article on our website here: https://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/articles/visiting-professor-yasmeenlari-wins-2023-royal-gold-medal-architecture Professor Kathryn Lilley was made a member of Academia Europaea in May 2023. The organisation promotes European research and advises governments and international organisations in scientific matters. Postdoctoral Associate and Acting Director of Studies in History of Art (Lent and Easter 2023), Dr Georgios Markou, published an article in the Burlington Magazine called ‘Titian’s Allegory of Prudence and Philip II’, about the range of the visual sources of the iconic painting, housed in London’s National Gallery.

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Emeritus Fellow and former Master of the College Professor Lord Robert Mair CBE contributed to a debate in the House of Lords on the ‘Select Committee Report on Risk Assessment and Risk Planning’ on 12 January 2023. Professor Christopher Marquis won accolades for his book Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise. It was recognised as a Financial Times Best Book of 2022, won a Gold Medal from the Axiom Business Book Awards and was a finalist for the George R. Terry Book Award from the Academy of Management. It was also on the Financial Times “books to read in 2023” list. Dr Harry R. McCarthy was awarded the Early Theatre journal's biennial prize for best theatre history essay, for his article ‘M[aster] Monkesters schollars’: Richard Mulcaster, Physical Education, and the Early Modern Boy Companies’. He has been appointed to a Lectureship in Early Modern Literature at the University of Exeter. Honorary Fellow, Frances Morris, was awarded a CBE for her services to the arts in the New Years Honours 2023. She is the fourth Director of Tate Modern and the first to receive an Honour. College Fellow and Director of Studies for Education, Dr Daniel Moulin, contributed to two publications: Moulin-Stożek, D. (2023) ‘Tolstoy and peasant schools’ in A. Berman, (ed) Tolstoy in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 136-143; and Moulin-Stożek, D. (2022) “‘Religion’, ‘worldviews’ and the reappearing problems of pedagogy”. In P. Barnes (ed) Religion and Worldviews: The triumph of the secular in religious education. London: Routledge, pp.136-151. Postdoctoral Associate, Dr Mathelinda Nabugodi has published Shelley with Benjamin: A Critical Mosaic. You can read an interview on our website. She has also been awarded The 2022 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant to develop her non-fiction memoir The Trembling Hand: Reflections of a Black Woman in the Romantic Archive. Visiting Fellow and prize-winning author Sharon Dodua Otoo has received the Order of Merit of Berlin – the highest award of the German State of Berlin – for her contributions to culture and society. Postdoctoral Associate, Dr Anna-Luna Post, was awarded the 2022 Van Woudenberg dissertation prize, awarded biennially by the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome for the best dissertation in Italian Studies. This enabled her to organise a workshop about scholarly fame and credibility at the Institute on 23 March 2023. Professor Barry Rider OBE published a fourth edition of his book on insider dealing – B. Rider, K. Alexander, S. Bazley and J. Bryant, Market Abuse and Insider Dealing (2022, 4th ed) Bloomsbury. He also edited and co-authored three other books: B. Rider (ed), A Research Agenda for Financial Crime (2022), Elgar; B. Rider (ed), A Research Agenda for Organised Crime (2023), Elgar; and B. Rider (ed), A Research Agenda for Economic Crime and Development (2023), Elgar. He welcomed over 1,800 participants from some 95 different countries to the 39th Ninth Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime. Engineering Fellow, Dr Thierry Savin led research developing an electromagnetic device enabling high-precision measurements of soft biological tissues. Read an article on our website here: https://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/articles/fellow-leads-research-couldcatapult-mechanobiology-advances-clinical-arena

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Postdoctural Associate, Dr Saumya Saxena, published her book Divorce and Democracy: A History of Personal Law in Post-Independence India in September 2022. You can listen to two interviews about the book available here: https://scroll.in/article/1032958/muslim-women-caught-between-bjps-abstract-uniformcivil-code-and-clergys-inviolable-personal-law And here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/deconstructing-democracy-anddivorce-with-dr/id1473918423?i=1000571446565 Dr Brian Sheil won three awards in the last year: the “young researcher award” from the Civil Engineering Research Association of Ireland, the Bright Spark Lecture Award from the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering and the Crampton Prize awarded by the Institute of Civil Engineers for the best paper published in ICE Geotechnical Engineering. Read the news stories online here: https://www.construction.cam.ac.uk/news Postdoctoral Associate Dr Reyhaneh Shojaei was awarded the Social Science Impact Fund to expand the reach of her previous research findings on non-technical inhibitors to uptake digital innovation in the construction and housing industries. She has published the following articles: Non-technical inhibitors: Exploring the adoption of digital innovation in the UK construction industry, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 185, 122036. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2022.122036, Leading UK Construction Companies’ Strategies to Tackle BIM Training and Skills Challenges, International Journal of Construction Education and Research, 1-22. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/15578771.2022.2123071 and Enablers for the adoption and use of BIM in main contractor companies in the UK, Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/ECAM-07-2021-0650 College Postdoctoral Associate Dr Siddharth Soni won the £25,000 Ideas Prize for Non Fiction. His book proposal Monstrous Archives charts the evolution of archives from card catalogues to the cloud. https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/blog/cambridge-academicwins-the-25000-ideas-prize-for-paradigm-shifting-book-to-be-published-by-profile/ Professor Marie Louise Stig Sørensen, Emeritus Fellow and Director of Studies in Archaeology, won the prestigious 2023 Europa Prize from the Prehistoric Society with a conference planned in her honour in June 2023 at Jesus College. Last year she was elected to the British Academy. This year, she has published the following books: Sørensen, M.L.S. and K. Rebay-Salisbury 2023. Death and the Body in Bronze Age Europe: From Inhumation to Cremation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Sørensen, M.L.S. and G. Yang 2023. Clever Hands or How to look at Yangshao Culture Pottery. (bilingual English and Chinese). Shaaxi Normal University General Publishing House. Vicze, M. and M.L.S. Sørensen 2023. Living in a Tell: Memory and Abandonment. Százhalombatta-Földvár Phase I (Late Koszider). National Museum of Hungary. Intellectual Forum Deputy Director Dr Sarah Steele has been awarded a Presidential Fellowship at City, University of London.

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New Fellows Dr Raffael Fasel received his Bachelor of Law in 2010 and his Master of Law in 2012 from the University of Fribourg. He received an MA in Philosophy in 2013 from University College London and an LLM from Yale Law School in 2015, before completing his PhD in Law in 2019 on the theory of human and animal rights, at the University of Cambridge (Sidney Sussex College). In 2021-22, Dr Fasel was a Teaching Bye-Fellow and Director of Studies in Law at Jesus. Dr Fasel is currently an Affiliated Lecturer in Law here at Cambridge and the holder of an Ambizione grant worth £455,000 by the Swiss National Science Foundation for research in constitutional theory. His research interests lie in constitutional law, human rights law and animal rights law. During his doctoral studies, Raffael co-founded the Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law and currently serves as its Executive Director. He also co-created Europe’s first Animal Rights Law course at the Cambridge Law Faculty, which he co-lectures. Raffael is also an Associate Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. Professor Jason Arday’s first degree was Education Studies with Physical Education at the University of Surrey, and he subsequently studied for his MA in Education at St Mary’s University College, and for his MEd in Education and PhD at Liverpool John Moores University. Professor Arday held a number of Senior Lecture positions in Education and Sociology before his appointment as Assistant (and then Associate) Professor in Sociology at Durham University, followed by his election as Professor of Sociology of Education and Director for the Centre of Race and Education in the University of Glasgow. Professor Arday started as Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Cambridge in March 2023. He is the youngest person ever appointed to a professorship at Cambridge. Professor Arday is a highly respected scholar of race, inequality and education, with a particular interest in improving the representation of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic people in higher education. His research cuts across the intersections between race, class, disability, mental health, and neurodiversity in higher education and education more broadly. He has an extensive publication record already in these areas, major funded projects, and is currently supervising a number of PhDs. He has acquired a wide network as a trustee of the Runnymede Trust (the UK’s leading race equality think-tank) and the British Sociological Association, a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Professor Arday has widespread links with numerous professional advisory boards and several charitable trusts and has been called on by numerous organisations including the Government of the UK, and the Scottish and Welsh Parliaments, to help develop anti-racism strategies. Professor Arday has extensive teaching experience. He also brings considerable executive expertise from his time as Deputy Executive Dean (People and Culture) at Durham University and – as already noted – as Director for the Centre of Race and Education in Glasgow. Professor Arday has a clearly articulated vocation to democratise education and redistribute privilege and resources to improve educational and employment outcomes for marginalised and under-represented groups. He expressed a passionate commitment to using his appointment, connections, and opportunities to centre minoritized voices, raise outreach and widening participation aspirations and achievements, and to enrich the diversity of the University and College.

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Professor Stephen Gilmore has been appointed as a University Professor in Family Law and Director of the Cambridge Family Law Centre. After reading law at the University of Leicester and qualifying as a barrister (Lincoln’s Inn), Professor Gilmore obtained an LLM in Family Law and Family Policy with Distinction from the University of East Anglia, and completed a research degree in family law (MSt) at Pembroke College, Oxford. Before arriving in Cambridge, he was Professor of Family Law at King’s College London, and previously a Tutor in Family Law in the University of Oxford, and Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of East London. Professor Gilmore has written extensively about family law and child law, with a focus on parental responsibility and the resolution of parental disputes, as well as analysis of the legal status of transsexual and transgender persons. His most recent work focused on the issue of a parent’s implacable hostility to a child’s contact with the child’s other parent and upon the way in which courts exercise discretion in family law. Professor Gilmore is co-author of several editions of a leading Family Law text, Hayes and Williams’ Family Law (7th Edn, 2020), the leading text on child law, Children: The Modern Law (4th Edn, Family Law, 2013) and of Great Debates in Family Law (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, and 2nd Edn, 2015). He is editor of Parental Rights and Responsibilities (Routledge, 2017) and co-editor of Family Matters: Essays in Honour of John Eekelaar (Intersentia, 2022), Re-writing Children’s Rights Judgments: From Academic Vision to New Practice (Hart Publishing, 2017), Landmark Cases in Family Law (Hart Publishing, 2011) and Responsible Parents and Parental Responsibility (Hart Publishing, 2009). Professor Gilmore’s research connects legal analysis with social science research evidence. He maintains connections with legal practice as an associate academic at 1 Garden Court Family Law Chambers in London. Professor Gilmore brings a wealth of teaching and administrative experience. Most recently he was Vice-Dean (Academic Staffing) in the Law School at King’s College London (having previously acted as Vice-Dean and Lead for Recruitment). Prior to that he was Senior Tutor, with responsibility for the personal tutoring system. He also served for several years as Director of Undergraduate Studies and Chair of the Undergraduate Examination Board, and as Learning and Teaching Coordinator for the School. Dr Fermín Moscoso del Prado Martín is a newly appointed Associate Professor in Computational Linguistics at the Department of Computer Science and Technology. He holds an MEng degree in Computer Science from the Technical University of Madrid and a PhD in Linguistics from Radboud University (Nijmegen, The Netherlands). As a PhD student, he held a Max Planck Stipend at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. He was then a postdoctoral research associate here in Cambridge, at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, holding a Marie Curie Fellowship. From there, he moved onto a tenured senior scientist position at the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (as a joint appointment between the Computer Science, Linguistics and Neuroscience sections). He was then an Assistant Professor in Linguistics (with courtesy appointment in Psychological and Brain Sciences) at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He returned to Europe to set up and direct the Artificial Intelligence lab for Telefonica’s “moonshot factory”, and he worked as scientific director for Lingvist Technologies. Most recently, he returned to academia, holding the chair of Artificial Intelligence and

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Language, Speech, and Communication at Radboud University. Dr Moscoso del Prado’s research investigates how computational and mathematical models can be used for understanding the nature, structure, and processing of human languages, as well as how to develop language-based tools for monitoring language during normal and pathological aging.

Junior Research Fellows Dr Alexander Cowan completed his PhD in Historical Musicology at Harvard in May, having previously gained a First in his BA in Music at Oxford, as well as a Distinction in the MMus at King’s College, London. During his time at Harvard, he was the recipient of numerous prizes, including the Pisk Prize from the American Musicological Society for the best student paper given at their Annual Meeting, two awards for excellence in teaching, and also two prestigious final-year dissertation fellowships, from the American Musicological Society, and from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, where he was recently a Fellow. Dr Alexander Cowan’s doctoral thesis is entitled Unsound: A Cultural History of Music and Eugenics, and explores what he describes as ‘the unlikely and pernicious alliance of music science and eugenics in Britain and the USA’ from the late nineteenth century to the 1940s. Positioned at the intersection of music history and the history of science, it is an inherently interdisciplinary project, but also one that sheds light on some of the most pressing questions facing historical musicologists today in relation to music and race. Why is it, Cowan asks, that ‘music held such a peculiar fascination’ for the eugenics movement, and how did music’s entanglements with racial theory help to shape ideas of race and whiteness during this period, in ways that still leave traces to this day? The external readers found the responses in his submitted work ‘of outstanding quality and originality’ and ‘quite simply different from any of the work on the topic currently existing’. During his Research Fellowship, Dr Cowan will extend this history into the present, examining recent work on music and genetics in the context of later 20th century eugenic continuities, and investigating some of the problematic inheritances linked to ideas of ‘innate musicality’. He will also begin work on a second project considering how the Blues has inspired political discourse from the left, as part of the Black radical tradition, but also from the right. He believes this investigation will offer new insights into music’s capacity to be attributed different kinds of power, but also into how emotions associated with and inspired by music can mediate political experience. Ms Paula Keller submitted her PhD in Philosophy here at Cambridge, where she also studied for both her BA and her MPhil. She achieved a First and several prizes from Newnham College for her BA, and a Distinction and the Matthew Buncombe Prize for the best performance in the Faculty for her MPhil. During her PhD she spent a semester abroad at CUNY, USA. The focus of Paula Keller’s philosophical research so far has been on the acquisition of beliefs about the social world. In her BA thesis (a revised version of which has been published in Erkenntnis, a leading philosophy journal), she argues that some forms of inexplicit communication, often used to convey questionable beliefs about the social world, are testimony. As one external reviewer wrote, “This is one of those articles I began reading with mild amusement, waiting to see just where the author made the fatal misstep that

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would lead her to such an obviously false conclusion. Upon finishing it, I was not only unable to identify such a misstep; I am no longer so sure of its falsity.” Keller’s MPhil thesis, which was published in the Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, compared the Marxist account of commodity fetishism with feminist theories of the objectification of women to show how beliefs both reflect and reinforce social reality. As another external reader wrote, this work is “deep and insightful … a very fine piece of work”. Keller’s PhD moved from a focus on false beliefs to explore true beliefs about the social world, and asks: how can we know what goes wrong in our social, political, and economic world when these very wrongs shape our ways of thinking about them? Knowledge of injustice in an unjust world is, Keller argues, puzzling and in need of explanation, because learning about injustice faces many obstacles. While at Jesus, Paula Keller will undertake research on “Utopia and the Myth of Inevitability”, exploring the question of how we can come to see that the injustices of our present social world are not inevitable. Her thesis is that our ability to imagine a utopian future can destroy myths of social inevitability. In the words of an external reader, “Keller is uniquely equipped to make genuine theoretical headway on issues that often feel too pervasive and pressing to grasp.” Dr Tanmay Dixit started his PhD at the Department of Zoology in Cambridge in 2018, after graduating from his BA in Natural Sciences (Zoology) with the highest mark of the year. His research lies at the interface between evolutionary biology, sensory biology, and applied mathematics, and combines theory, analytical techniques, and experimental field work. It is concerned with the coevolutionary arms race between hosts and parasites, focusing on brood-parasitic birds that mimic their hosts’ eggs. He has conducted field work in Zambia and South Africa to study this interaction. In collaboration with computer scientists and applied mathematicians at Cambridge and Harvard University, he has developed methods to analyse the signatures of identity in hosts, and the forgeries of these signatures in their brood-parasites. Dr Dixit has published 15 papers about the findings of his PhD and previous research in very well-respected journals, a remarkable achievement for someone at such an early stage in their research career. Dr Dixit now proposes to study the mechanisms underlying the arms race between hosts and parasites, in particular how the egg signature patterns are produced, and by what mechanisms the birds can perceive them. By experimentally manipulating egg colours and patterns, he will study whether birds have to learn their own egg signatures or have internal templates. He will investigate whether the host’s cognitive mechanisms evolve together with their eggs signature patterns, and how these mechanisms then determine the antagonistic coevolution of hosts and parasites. Dr Dixit will continue to draw on mathematical and computational techniques to address issues of broad evolutionary significance. In the words of one of his assessors, his work “has the potential to yield really significant advances in our understanding of coevolution, through exploration of its dynamics in ‘real time’ in the field”. Dr Dixit is also an experienced undergraduate supervisor, much admired and loved by his students, which led to his award of the Janet Moore Prize for supervising in Zoology in 2020.

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New Bye-Fellows Dr Georgina Wilson

New CPDAs Dr Hanane Hadj-Moussa Dr May Hen-Smith Dr Xilin Jiang Mr Georgios Rizos Dr Miranda Robbins Dr Kathryn Shaw Miss Aisha Sobey Dr Anna Wenger

Outgoing Fellows Mr Richard Pinel Professor Claire Fenton-Glynn

Outgoing Research Fellows Dr Camille Cole Dr Alexandra Schultz Dr Harry McCarthy Dr Sebastian Marino

Outgoing Bye-Fellow Mrs Kate Ollerenshaw

Outgoing CPDAs Dr J Dudley Dr S Galasso Dr C Henderson Dr T Kara Dr C Rios Rojas Dr Shoshanna Saxe Dr P Chen Dr M Nabugodi

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Development and Alumni Relations Emily Williams, Director of Development and Alumni Relations We would like to extend our thanks to all those alumni and friends who have supported the College this year. Whether it was with your time, by attending an event or cheering on sporting success; your talent, by volunteering through Jesus Connect or the JCCS, or your treasure, by making donations to key funding needs, we are so grateful for your continued engagement with College. Philanthropic income continues to play a key role in the pursuit of the College’s mission. With many financial demands on our donor community and competing charities vying for your donations, we are so grateful that you continue to recognise the importance of giving to your College. Amid the rising cost of living, students are increasingly in need of extra support from the College to ensure they can access the full Jesus student experience, and even pay for basic living expenses. The cost of a Cambridge education is high, but the payoff for students who walk out the Chimney as Cambridge-educated alumni remains invaluable. Our core fundraising priorities continue to focus on providing the best opportunities for our students. We remain steadfast in our commitment to seek support for the unparalleled teaching a Cambridge student receives, for the majestic and magical buildings and grounds we have a duty to look after, and for outreach and widening participation initiatives to inspire future generations of young people to believe they can thrive at Cambridge. Especially this year, we are sincerely grateful to all our donors giving what they can to ensure students can focus their energy on their studies, and not fret about their finances. As heating costs rose ever higher, our expectations for the September 2022 Telephone Campaign were cautious, but we shouldn’t have worried – the red-and-black alumni community showed its strength and pledged over £100,000 to various College purposes. Our new crowdfunding initiative in March was just as successful: Jesus alumni and loyal friends of College gave over £158,000 in total to three highlighted funds – student financial support, undergraduate bursaries, and mental health and wellbeing. A very special thanks goes to the Lund Trust for its incredible gift of £100,000, which is enough to fund 28 full undergraduate bursaries.

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Alumni and friends of the College at the 2023 Donors’ Garden Party

Increasing financial support for postgraduate students has long been an aim of the Development and Alumni Relations office, and this year we were overjoyed to receive a landmark £1m gift from James Marshall (1986) to fund PhD candidates whose research promises significant impact in terms of the response to climate change. We expect the first Cambridge Zero | Marshall Foundation Scholar to start in Michaelmas 2023 and are proud to have played a part in the College’s commitment to sustainability through this studentship. We are keen to strengthen the alumni presence on the College website and have been delighted to feature ‘where are they now’ updates from alumni, as well as messages from donors about why they give back. If you are interested in sharing your story, do get in touch. Delightfully, there was no need to cancel or postpone any of our events this year, indeed we squeezed several extra events into the College calendar in our ongoing quest to reschedule Reunion and Anniversary Dinners for year groups who missed out during the pandemic. A highlight was hosting a Reunion Dinner in January for 184 alumni from five matriculation years at our first event back in the heart of College since the kitchen renovations, taking over Hall and Upper Hall in their entirety. It was wonderful to welcome the College’s supporters to the ever-popular Donors’ Garden Party in July, where guests were relieved to hear a few words from the Master rather than me. Amazingly it was the Master’s first Garden Party during her tenure (having tested positive for COVID-19 on the morning of last year’s event), and a lovely opportunity for those who donate to the College to meet her. Fortunately, College approved the creation of a new role this year to manage our many events, and we were proud to promote our former Development Assistant Gracie Breen into the new position. In other recruitment news, Teddy Mack vacated his role in September for a post in the Alumni and Development Office at Pembroke (although he still visits us regularly for lunch in Hall). His replacement as Development Assistant, Toby Sherwen, was an internal hire from the Catering team here at Jesus. Charlotte Newman, previously a Porter at King’s, filled Gracie’s vacant role, which we share fifty-fifty with the Intellectual Forum.

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The Master with Ting-Hway Wong. Photo by Jamie Andersen Photography

Excitingly, in May we were joined by Catherine Biggs, former Deputy Development Director at Robinson. We are sure she will give a great boost to our fundraising capacity. And I’m certain many alumni will join me in heartily congratulating Nikki Williams, our longest-serving team member, on her deserving promotion to Alumni Relations Manager – a newly-created position that reflects the hard work Nikki continues to commit to our alumni programme. I’m grateful to the College for its investment in the Development and Alumni Relations programme, and to the team of Nikki, Ryan (Senior Development Officer for Regular Giving), Yulia (Database and Prospect Researcher), Gracie, Maisy (Development Officer for Legacies and Stewardship), Charlotte, Toby and Catherine for their hard work and enthusiasm. Recognition of Major Benefactors The College shows its gratitude for acts of remarkable generosity by admission to the Society of St Radegund. At the ceremony this June we were delighted to induct a new Member, Ting-Hway Wong (1992), who has established a fund to help students access work experience and internship opportunities. We look forward to inducting William Burnside (1970), who has endowed a postgraduate scholarship in honour of his Director of Studies John Killen, as well as celebrating James Marshall’s new St Radegund Fellowship at a future ceremony. Bequests The College wishes to convey its sincere thanks for the following bequests received during the year 2022-23: Keith Parsons (1947); Penny Woods; Brian Weatherhead (1961); John Pattinson (1948); Alan Grindley (1950); John Day (1945); Sheila Freeman; Simon Foster (1958); Martin Gough (1945); Malcolm Pines (1943); Mike Fairey (1953). n

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Senior Tutor Dr Paul Dominiak Although I write this almost on the first anniversary of starting as Senior Tutor, I am not new to the College, having formerly served as Dean of Chapel from 2015 to 2019. It has been a delight to return after working as Vice Principal of Westcott House, an Anglican theological college, in the intervening years – just a stone’s throw away from Jesus College. Professor Geoff Parks served as Senior Tutor for ten years and successfully implemented major changes to the Tutorial Department and to welfare provisions more broadly. On a personal level, I must express my gratitude to Professor Parks for a superlative handover of duties, as well as to the whole Tutorial Department for their support and excellence at a time of change. This year has indeed been a time of change. The College’s dedication to widening participation is increasingly apparent in the diversity of our student body and is in line with the University-wide targets in the Access and Participation Plan from the Office for Students. The College community also fully emerged this academic year out of the restrictions of the global coronavirus pandemic. We have embraced as a community the freedom this has entailed. Activities around access, outreach, social events, student support and beyond have returned to pre-pandemic levels. While this freedom has brought with it operational normality, nevertheless we also face the reality of dealing with the residual cost of emotional trauma across the whole community and the social and educational deficits that accrued over the past few years. As reported last year, we recognise, however, that mental health and wellbeing remain key areas to continue to build upon. The increase in mental health needs in higher education over the past decade is well documented, reflecting increased cultural comfort disclosing conditions or difficulties but also proximate causes such as the universal impact of the pandemic on wellbeing. Following the University and Colleges’ Strategic Review of Mental Health Provision in 2021, the University embarked on an extensive programme of work aimed at enhancing support for student mental health and wellbeing. The capstone of this work is the Student Mental Health and Wellbeing Plan 2022-2025. In line with the GuildHE recommendation for a whole-institution approach, the plan contains a collegiate university approach to address student welfare, wellbeing, and mental health provision. The hugely positive impact of this approach in terms of enabling quick access to central university support services for students with disabilities and mental health needs has already been felt across the collegiate university, and we warmly welcome the developments in the University. In light of these developments, within the College we have conducted a strategic review this year of our own welfare, wellbeing and mental health support structures. The review drew from over 200 student, staff and Fellowship voices through focus groups and a questionnaire to craft a picture of the current range of experiences and aspirations for flourishing together. The entire process was co-creative and collaborative, from the design of the research through to the crafting of the report itself. The creativity, passion,

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and insight of all members of the College community who have a stake in student welfare were clear in the review, as was the dedication and commitment of all members of the College Welfare Team (from Welfare Tutors through to Directors of Studies and College Nurses) as well as representatives from the JCSU and MCR committees. The review has made 18 recommendations to improve the welfare, wellbeing and mental health support structures of the College. These have been warmly received by the appropriate committees of the College, and now I am tasked with taking the recommendations forward in the coming years. We are confident that our existing structures are sound and look forward to enhancing them even further to give the best care possible to students alongside the central university support services and beyond. Finally, key to the work of the College Welfare Team in supporting students is, of course, the Tutorial Department. The Tutorial Department has seen lots of changes this year. Mrs Jenny Jenyon was promoted to Tutorial Department Manager in 2021 and has navigated these changes with excellence (see interview on page 47). In August 2022, we welcomed Molly Wilson-Smith as Schools Liaison Officer (SLO) ready for the start of the academic year but were sorry to say goodbye to Katherine Mountford who had covered the combined role of Schools Liaison Officer/Communications Assistant during the coronavirus pandemic. We were also sad to say goodbye to Emma Burnett (10 years’ service), Victoria Hiles (six years’ service) and Thomas Heywood (one years’ service). However, having a major change of personnel at the same time allowed us to restructure the roles and distribute workloads evenly across the office. We have now successfully recruited all three new roles. We were joined this year by Anna Behrens as Admissions and Events Assistant, Rachel Knighton as Tutorial Administrator responsible for Student Rooms and Finance, and Vanessa Bowman as Senior Postgraduate Administrator. It has not all changed. Louise Hind (the Senior Tutor’s Secretary) celebrated 20 years of continuous service. Together, whether they are new or established in their roles, the Tutorial Department team have given invaluable assistance and support to students and College officers to ensure the best possible student experience and excellence of care. The whole College community is indebted to them. n

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Bursary Richard Anthony, Bursar During the past year, the most significant event for the College operationally and financially was the practical completion of the Kitchen redevelopment project in December 2022. Looking back through my emails, the planning for the project started in October 2017 with the first meeting of the Kitchen Development Working Party, the body overseeing the project. Since then we have held over 50 meetings. I would like to thank all of those who were part of the project. There are too many to list here. However, I would like to highlight the leadership of Stuart Websdale, the Domestic Bursar, who managed the project from his arrival in December 2018. What has been achieved is truly remarkable – the redevelopment of the Forum buildings, the installation of a sustainable heating and cooling system fed by a ground-source heat pump with 50 bore holes under the cricket pitch, the building of a beautiful extension and public area in Pump Court, the transformation of the Caf and the kitchens, full disabled access to the Hall and Upper Hall. This is a project that I am sure our successors will look back on with pride. All achieved through the challenges of Covid and a disrupted economy. Meanwhile there have been plenty of other things to keep us busy. An area of particular importance is a series of major upgrades to the IT infrastructure, particularly the WiFi and the College’s external connection. The demand for data and connectivity is always increasing, especially amongst our students, and it is important that we continue to meet their needs into the 2020s. A key part of my responsibilities involves managing the endowment to ensure that it provides a constant source of financial income to the College, and without which we could not support our students and academics in the way that we do. Following the volatility of the pandemic, during which the endowment grew significantly, returns were more muted for the year ended 30 June 2022. Financial markets were challenging and the financial portfolio produced a loss of -3.5%. Positive performance in the latter half of 2021 was more than outweighed by falls in values in the first half of 2022. This contrasted with a positive return on property of 10.6%, benefitting from increases in value across a number of commercial properties in Cambridge, as well as a continuing rise in residential values. As a result, the overall return on the endowment was 3.3%, well below the CPI+5% (14.9%) target that we set. Unfortunately, we appear

The refurbished Hall. Photo credit: David Valinsky Photography

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to have entered a period of high inflation and lower investment returns, which creates a financial headwind for the College, given that many of our costs are linked to inflation. It makes maintaining the financial position of the College all the more challenging. On the positive side, the College sold a farmhouse in Great Shelford at above its previous valuation, and it was gifted a residential property in London. Other key projects in the endowment have seen the completion of eight new housing units on Elm Street (just to the south side of New Square), which replaced some rather dilapidated garages and will be rented on the open market. The College also obtained planning permission for the redevelopment of a redundant farm site in Harston (a village to the south-west of Cambridge) for residential housing. The College continues to work on opportunities to enhance and develop its property portfolio in and around Cambridge, which provides a strong financial underpinning and source of income for the College. For those of you who travel to Cambridge by train, you will have noticed scaffolding up on the large building immediately on the north-eastern corner of the junction of Station Road and Hills Road. This is part of a broader project to upgrade and redevelop the units within that building, following its return to Jesus College ownership in 2017. Sustainability remains at the heart of both the operational and investment activities of the College. Jesus continues to be regarded by many in Cambridge as a leader in this area amongst the Colleges. We became fossil-fuel free in the largest part of the financial portfolio at the end of 2022, and we have established a carbon emissions baseline for all of our buildings, operational and investment, the first College to do so. This gives us a platform for prioritising investments and activities as we continue the urgent work of transitioning to a zero-carbon world. The College is active in engaging, singularly and jointly with other Colleges and endowments, with its fund managers and banks regarding their own actions on sustainability. Though the Intellectual Forum, we continue to support the Universal Ownership Asset Owners group, bringing together some of the world’s largest pension funds and the academic expertise available in Cambridge to address key areas of systemic risk that will affect long-term investors. This demonstrates the convening power of Cambridge and Jesus College, and our ability to have an impact that is much greater and well beyond our own operations and investments. I must return to a regular theme of my annual reports, which is the challenge facing the College in terms of maintaining its ability to fund its ongoing core operations in the

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future. There remains a constant and large deficit on the College’s educational account, with figures shown below from the last set of published accounts in 2021-22. Fortunately, we achieved a rapid recovery in our conferencing business, where Jesus was probably the most successful college in attracting business post-COVID. The return to full residency of students for a whole year also meant an improvement in accommodation and catering income. The previous decade saw significant rises in the financial and property markets from which the College benefitted and has helped us fund the deficits. During 2022 and 2023 we have seen a reduction in investment returns, particularly in real terms. This has come at a time when inflation has risen rapidly impacting on staff, energy and food costs, whilst many of our sources of revenue are either static (undergraduate tuition fees) or increasing at a lower rate (for example student accommodation). To help counter this, we are planning for a further phase of growth in conferencing income with new facilities in place at the Forum and a new kitchen. However, with the College facing a significant financial deficit in 2023, now more than ever, donations and endowment income are the key to maintaining the College’s activities today and in the future. I will finish by saying a huge thanks to our incredibly dedicated and hard-working staff, who are absolutely essential to the success of the College. One of the more pleasurable duties of my position is to write to members of staff, who have been given long-service awards: Ten years Glenys Bacchus – Finance Tracey Couch – Master’s Office Colin Dunn – Gardens Ilona Fazekas – Housekeeping Hannah Garner – Catering Maria Gomez – Housekeeping Jolanta Gurevicciute – Housekeeping Darius Klugiewicz – Housekeeping Dircia Nunes – Housekeeping Lisa Rowe – Domestic Bursar’s Office Elda Sarmento – Housekeeping Fifteen years Stephen McIntosh – IT Rob Shephard – Finance Nathan Simpson – Catering Jason Thulborn – Porters’ Lodge Nicola Wood – Archives Twenty years Louise Hind – Tutorial Twenty-five years Mary Platt – Housekeeping Thirty years Rhona Watson – Quincentenary Library n

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Domestic Bursar Stuart Websdale, Domestic Bursar Whilst the opening of the new kitchen has dominated business for many of us this year, we have continued to make strong progress in the areas of sustainability and other small projects. Many of the compliments that I receive relate to the grounds and gardens, which look especially stunning this year. Lee de Grammont, our Head of Grounds and Gardens, has been working hard to restore the sports fields by overseeding them to rejuvenate and thicken the lawns. This was necessary following rain, drought, hard frosts, and the installation of ground source heat pumps. Investing in new sports equipment including mobile football goals and mobile cricket nets gave us greater flexibility to move sports between the fields, giving the students, Fellows and staff the best possible playing surface whilst the pitches recover. We have also invested in machinery, with a focus on health and safety issues such as anti-vibration control, and battery powered tools replacing petrol based where possible. Our wildlife areas continue to expand thanks to an increase in rewilding of woodland areas, and the conversion of lawns to meadows. The team has been mowing less frequently, to encourage wildlife and to minimise noise disruption. On the outskirts of the grounds, Lee has been liaising with the City Council to manage the waterflow and plant diversity of the Jesus Ditch, which runs alongside Jesus Green. The gardens around Park Street and Lower Park Street have also been under development, with the creation of micro gardens for the use of residents, and the introduction of natural hedges to provide screening of relocated bike parking. Other areas under development include Library Court and the area behind East House, which will retain the gravel, but have increased planting of trees and beds. The gardening team (pictured below) is now fully staffed.

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In April, our kitchen team welcomed new Head Chef, Loic De Coatpont. Loic and the team are developing the menu to create simple, healthy food that is full of flavour, with a focus on sustainable and seasonal produce. When we moved into the new kitchen and back into the old dining halls, our conference and catering team reclaimed West Court including the Forum building. Manciple Alexis Moreau is working on a conference strategy to make the most of the increased capacity to cater for larger-scale corporate and social events and balance the needs of College. Our rooms with double beds are particularly popular with overnight conference guests, so we have started work in North Court to increase the bed sizes. Richard Secker continues to manage our maintenance team, whose work contributes a huge amount to our sustainability strategy. In addition to replacing over 400 lightbulbs in the Quincentenary Library with LED bulbs, the team has installed new solar panels on the Forum roof to generate power and lower the utility costs for the Forum and West Court building. We’ve also reviewed the PV array of solar panels on Chapel Court to increase the number of panels and upgrade the old boiler which services 14 staircases. The installation of smart TRV in North Court will also help us to reduce heat loss, by allowing us to program the heating system to work only when the rooms are in occupancy. Finally, another maintenance project has been reviewing our store of historic stone, to make sure that we’re protecting the most interesting items from weather damage. Congratulations to Mehmet Osman who completed his electrician qualifications this year. The housing team have been kept busy with the development on Elm Street, where we’ve launched eight new accommodation units. Developed with sustainability in mind, they are fossil-free and use the latest technology to minimise impact on the environment. Housekeeping Manager, Sonia Horton, found her remit growing this year after the kitchen project led to an increased number of public facilities at the heart of the College. She continues to focus on recruitment, supervision and management of the team, trying to increase efficiency wherever possible. Housekeeping staff continue to work with the students on recycling, and they constantly review the cleaning products used to make sure they’re the best choice for safety and for the environment.

The newly refurbished Pump Court. Photo credit: David Valinsky Photography

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Our Porters continued to support all members of our community with the many and varied requests that arise. They were particularly pleased to return to the old tradition of ringing the hall dining bell prior to Formal Hall. This was a tradition not carried out whilst the kitchen redevelopment works were in progress but now, once again, a College Porter rings the dining bell for five minutes at 19:25, signifying the duration before all must be seated. There have been some staff changes in recent months, with full time Gate Porter, Steve Nicholls, moving to the Coroner’s Office but remaining as a Relief Porter. Adam Williams is a very welcome addition to our team, taking over from Steve as full time Gate Porter. Adam volunteered in the Archives before working for seven years in the Quincentenary Library prior to this role. It is also a proud moment as we congratulate another of our Gate Porters, Jason Thulborn, for marking 15 years’ service working for the College. Our rowing coach and boathouse manager, Jonathan Conder, was joined this year by a second coach, Callum Bland. Having additional coaching support has helped to bring the team’s performance back up to pre-pandemic levels, with fantastic results at events over the year (see the report in the Sports section). Small projects around College have included the creation of a Multifaith Space, which is carpeted and has showers and bathroom cubicles, a kitchenette area and lockers. For musicians, we’ve established three new practise rooms near the Picken Room, allowing easier access for students. We’re in the process of launching an Art Space off Jesus Lane, which will have natural light, storage facilities, a sink and plenty of workbenches. We’ve improved facilities for sportspeople this year too, by extending our gym building to include two additional multiuse exercise rooms to be used for dance, yoga, pilates and table tennis. A new social area has been created by upgrading the path and the lighting to the Pavilion and installing a huge electric barbecue. We’ve also invested in new outdoor furniture and parasols. Our sustainability strategy continues to guide us in everything we do. This year we outlined our decarbonisation plan and hosted an event for Bursars and Domestic Bursars from all Cambridge Colleges in a bid to encourage greater teamwork and collaboration on sustainability. We also launched an A-Z guide which contains a menu of behavioural initiatives to encourage awareness and respect for the environment, with the hope that it will be used at College and beyond. n

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The Chapel The Rev’d James Crockford, Dean of Chapel The College Chapel is a place set apart: for sanctuary, for worship, for community, for welcome. Chapel provides a space where we can stop, reconnect with ourselves and the needs of the world around us, and learn the gifts of grace that exist beyond our busy preoccupations. These gifts are of profound value to us as humans, whether we identify ourselves with a faith tradition or not. Choral Evensong services, sung four times per week during Term, provide the context for much reflection, quiet, and prayer, enriched by the beautiful sounds of our two choirs. Sunday Evensongs continue to be the highlight of the Chapel week, as Fellows, students, alumni and visitors fill the inner Chapel, and hear a guest speaker on a topical address which seeks to build connections across intellectual disciplines and spiritual traditions to explore issues of human vocation, hope and struggle. In Michaelmas Term, speakers addressed topics around the theme of ‘The Body’. In Lent Term, each speaker chose a ‘Prophet of Liberation’ whose life and legacy they wished to speak on – choices included Mahalia Jackson, Audre Lorde, John Coltrane, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Sunday Evensong is always followed by convivial Chapel drinks off the Cloister before Hall, and alumni and their guests are always most welcome to attend. Participation by College members remains strong, with over eighty students and thirty Fellows on the reading rota for Chapel services, and a strong and happy team of fourteen Chapel Secretaries and Clerks keeping our services running and the Chapel well-maintained. At Tuesday Evensongs, over the course of the year more than twenty students have contributed ‘nanosermons’ – a five-minute opportunity to speak within the service on any topic they would like to speak on (and think people should hear). Chapel also reaches beyond the College walls, not least with our chorister programme and the valued support and contribution of chorister families at services and events. In Easter Term, we welcomed dozens of visitors from local communities across East Anglia whose parishes are in the historic patronage of the College, for afternoon tea and Evensong, which is always very warmly appreciated. In July we took Jesus Chapel (and Choir) out to one such parish, Whittlesford, to be part of their millennium celebrations, with the Dean blessing a new stained-glass window commissioned specially. Beyond its services of prayer and worship, Chapel provides much in serving the pastoral and personal needs of College members. In November, our Assistant Chaplain, Eleanor Lancelot, ran a Wellbeing Week for staff, students and Fellows, a series of events to encourage us to take time out, connect with friends and colleagues, and discover new ways to look after our physical and mental health. The Chapel has run two College Getaways to provide students with an opportunity in the middle of Term to escape together and explore somewhere new for a day. In November, we visited King’s Lynn, with its museums, churches, marketplaces and waterways, and in May took a trip to

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Wells-next-the-Sea in Norfolk before taking a miniature railway ride to Walsingham to visit the medieval Abbey and modern pilgrimage shrine. Pippy the College Welfare Dog, my beagle, has continued to take groups of students out for ‘Walk and Wag’ strolls down the river – with around 40 postgraduate freshers joining to accompany her to Grantchester (perhaps equally lured by the promise of the pub!). In exam season, Chapel helped to run a series of initiatives to encourage healthy breaks and balance: each week, Pippy visited as the JCSU gathered for a break with ice-creams and the chance to let her distract them from the toils of revision; weekly lunchtime sessions of ‘Sacred Stillness’ silent breathing meditations were held in Chapel; and Wednesday Woodland Nature Walks brought a group of staff and students to explore the wildlife that surrounds College. Art and creativity are also, as always, a strong feature in the Chapel’s life, with the Jesus College Music Society in residency for concerts, recitals and weekly orchestra rehearsals. A termly visit by the Art Club has enabled people to sit and spend time in Chapel, paying attention in new ways to its beauties and perspectives, producing works that became a wonderful and varied Art Club Exhibition in Chapel as part of the John Hughes Arts Festival. None of this would be possible without such excellent colleagues throughout. This year we said a sad farewell to Richard Pinel as Director of Music, welcomed Peter Wright as Acting Director of Music in Michaelmas Term 2022, and were thrilled then to welcome Benjamin Sheen as the new Director of Music in Lent Term 2023. Throughout these several transitions, I have been enormously grateful to Eleanor Lancelot, as Choir and Chapel Office Administrator, as well as to our organ scholars, Drew Sellis and Michael D’Avanzo, and to Jacob Partington, Secretary to the Dean and Chapel Office. In addition, Eleanor has served as Assistant Chaplain over the past three years and, whilst she continues in her role with the choir, we offer our gratitude to all she has brought to Chapel services, and to the Chapel and College community more broadly, over the past terms of her chaplaincy role. As ever, I am grateful to other College officers and departments whose support and work enables the work of the Chapel as a place of sanctuary, creativity, and beauty and as a community of reflection, enquiry and care, in service of the wider College. n

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Chapel Music Benjamin Sheen, Director of Music As we come to the end of my first academic year and first six months in post, it seems an apt moment to reflect on the musical achievements of the year here at Jesus College. On a personal note, I am so grateful to all those who have made me feel so welcome here at College and I have enjoyed getting to know the talented musicians of this College and getting to share in their incredible musicianship. In the first truly post-pandemic academic year, the choir has had a packed schedule of services, concerts and recordings and has relished the opportunity to be able to tour internationally once again. I am also immensely grateful to my two predecessors, Richard Pinel and Peter Wright, for all their guidance and support during this transitional period. In Michaelmas Term this year, the choir was expertly led by Peter Wright, former Director of Music at Southwark Cathedral. The term’s highlights included Maurice Duruflé’s Requiem, the annual Remembrance Sunday service, the ever-popular Advent Carol Services and a sold-out Christmas concert featuring Benjamin Britten’s Ceremony of Carols. The choir also joined with local schools (Sancton Wood and the Galfrid School) for two performances of the Britten which was, for many of the students, their first experience of taking part in a performance such as this. The choir also said a difficult goodbye to renowned singing teacher Hilary Jones who taught the choristers at Jesus for over 22 years. Since joining the College in January and mid-academic year, it has been a whirlwind of concerts, events and tours for the choir. In March, the choir premiered a commissioned work by David Bednall, who had been commissioned to write a piece based on the text of the ancient Latin hymn, Vexilla Regis, which is also depicted in the ceiling artwork in the Chapel. In April, we celebrated the 40th Anniversary of the College Choir and women undergraduates at the College with over 100 alumni joining their voices in the Chapel for a thrilling and uplifting Evensong to a packed Chapel. In May, we reinstituted our annual ‘Be a chorister for a day’ afternoon where students aged between five and seven were invited to join the current Chapel choir for an introduction to singing and to participate in Evensong. Many of these boys have since returned to audition for the choir and the recruitment of choristers is flourishing, a position which I feel very fortunate to be in. On a sadder note, we were informed in May of the sudden passing of Charles Rawlinson, long-time supporter of the choir and President of the Friends and Patrons of Music (see Obituaries page 145). I had the pleasure of meeting with Charles several times and his devotion and continued support of musical activities within the College will be sorely missed. The choir sang at both his private family funeral and at the memorial service in June, held in his home village of Arkesden. We were pleased to be able to show our gratitude for all that Charles has given to the musical life of Jesus College and we hope to host a memorial concert for Charles at the College next year.

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The JCMS has continued to thrive after coming out of pandemic restrictions, led by their wonderful President, George Monro-Davies. Highlights this year have included jazz workshops in the Brewery Room and the annual David Crighton orchestral concert, led by student conductors for what was truly a sensational evening of music. An eclectic series of recitals in the Chapel during May Week was enjoyed by many, showcasing the diverse talents of the student body. Our instrumental award holders also continue to make a significant contribution to the musical life of the College, often taking the lead in innovative and new musical ventures. The College Choir has just returned from a successful five-day tour to Sweden where we sung concerts in the magnificent Uppsala and Stockholm Cathedrals, concluding with a Sunday Eucharist in Uppsala, sung in Swedish. The choir performed a challenging programme of motets by J.S. Bach paired with Aaron Copland’s Four Motets which was received extremely well. We were thrilled to also give the Swedish premiere of The Living Fire, written by recent Jesuan graduates Mary Offer and Ella Curry. For some in the choir, this was their only opportunity to tour internationally (because of pandemic restrictions) which made the trip even more special. Just before departing for Sweden, the choir made video recordings of Copland’s motets which will be released later in the year. With the end of the academic year comes the moment where we say farewell to graduating students. This year, I have enjoyed working with an exceptionally talented group of singers and organists, which made the goodbyes particularly difficult. I’d like to thank in particular all those graduating from the choir, for all they have done to enrich Chapel life and we wish them all the very best in their future endeavours. Since joining the College, I am indebted to the help and support of so many colleagues – especially our wonderful organ scholars, choir librarians, Jacob Partington (Secretary to the Dean), and of course James Crockford (Dean of Chapel) and Eleanor Lancelot (Assistant Chaplain and Choir and Chapel Office Coordinator) who are so integral to the running of the department. n

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The Library and Archives Michael Edwards, Keeper of the Old Library & Fellow Librarian; Rhona Watson, Quincentenary Librarian; Robin Payne, College Archivist The Old Library This academic year the Old Library has welcomed a wide range of visitors, from undergraduates encountering rare books for the first time, to alumni and their families visiting the College, to researchers from across the globe. Academic visitors to the Old Library have included researchers working on our medieval manuscripts and on various aspects of the printed book collection. The end of the kitchen development project, which restricted access to the OL for several years, means that the Library is now fully open and ready to receive visitors of all kinds. This year has also seen increasing use of the Old Library’s collections for teaching. Jesus undergraduates studying English and History, as well as visiting students from Wuhan College, have come to the OL for teaching sessions with printed and manuscript materials. For students working on medieval and early modern literature and history, this kind of first-hand engagement with original material is an invaluable learning experience. The opportunity to see early printed books and manuscripts adds a vital material and practical dimension to teaching in these subjects. It also connects students to the College’s collections and pushes them to think about the history of books and reading at Jesus across the centuries. We hope that it will also encourage students to consider returning to research dissertations or coursework essays using the collection. We plan to expand these sessions further in future years, and to encourage Fellows in other subjects to bring in their students. The Old Library has taken part in Cambridge University Library’s Curious Cures research project, funded by the Wellcome Trust, which will conserve and digitise more than 180 medieval manuscripts containing medical recipes from College libraries across Cambridge and make them available online in the Cambridge Digital Library. Seven of our manuscripts are being digitised as part of the project, which will make this fascinating part of the collection freely and publicly accessible. Collaborative digitisation projects like this one offer important opportunities for us to share our collection with a wider scholarly audience and with the public. Printed books and manuscript material from the OL have also been lent for the College’s Coleridge exhibition. Amongst his many other claims to fame, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) is probably one of the Old Library’s best-known student readers. Coleridge, a voracious, critical reader who described himself as a ‘Library Cormorant’, served as a library clerk, responsible for checking out loans and taking care of the collection, whilst he was an undergraduate in the 1790s. The Library’s manuscript borrowing books reveal something of his reading habits at that time. One of the original books borrowed by Coleridge, Estienne’s 1554 edition of Cicero’s works, which the Old Library still has, featured in the exhibition. The ongoing cataloguing project run by Assistant Keeper Chris Barker, which aims to make the entire printed book collection available through the University’s online catalogue, continues. The information it reveals about the provenance and history of the collection continues to provide a vital and growing foundation for all the research and teaching activities that take place in the Old Library.

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The seed library (left to right: Gardeners Danny Lawler and Lee de Grammont with Quincentenary Librarian, Rhona Watson)

The Quincentenary Library The Quincentenary Library has had a busy year supporting teaching, learning and research in College, with large numbers of students and other College members visiting the library in person. As always, the QL supplies its users with more than just books. In Michaelmas Term the Library launched an accessibility collection containing laptop stands, wrist rests, stress balls, and other items to support library users with accessibility needs. The College also won an Excellence award from the University’s Environmental Sustainability Team for its seed library initiative, which was submitted jointly with Churchill College. The seed library provides free seeds for use by members of the College community. It continues to expand and is popular with students, staff and Fellows. There have been a number of staff changes in the Library this year. Chris Barker, Deputy Librarian, who has previously split her time between the Quincentenary Library and the Old Library, moved permanently to the OL. Adam Williams moved to a new role in the Porters’ Lodge and Georgiana Datcu moved to a new post in Buckinghamshire. Both have contributed hugely to the Library in their time here. Two new staff members, Sarah Burton and Diana Caulfield, will join the Library in the autumn.

College Archives It has been another busy year in the College Archives. Our volunteers have continued to discover and catalogue important records that will be significant to current and future generations of Jesus College researchers. Alice Whitehead and Lily Fox have been cataloguing 18th – 20th century receipts relating to goods and services provided to the College. These receipts offer rich information about the history of the College and are also an important resource for local studies. Michael Johnston, and Patrick-Ivan Moore have started work to update the current locations list and produce condition reports for all items in the College’s Muniment Room, which houses some of the College’s oldest records. Chris Krupa has begun the important task of working his way through the College’s Annual Reports to create a fuller and more comprehensive history of the College’s clubs and societies. He started with Athletics, as a pilot, with a view to creating a digest of the key figures and events in that society’s history. Sadly, we have said goodbye to Roisin Donohoe and Grace Whorrall-Campbell, long serving volunteers who are both in the final stages of writing up their PhDs, and Katarina Corovic who has taken up a position as the conservator at Cambridgeshire Archives. We would like to express

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our thanks to them for all the work they have done and wish them well for the next stage of their journeys. The Archivist has begun looking at the possible options for the long-term preservation of the College’s born digital records. He is looking for potential partnerships to create a digital repository that will ensure that the College’s assets are preserved and accessible. Katy Green, the Assistant Archivist, continues to catalogue the College estate papers, which has greatly improved the efficiency with which we are able to answer complicated property-related queries from the College solicitors. Her focus this year continues to be the streets around the College, having already completed the cataloguing of properties in Park Street, New Square and Jesus Lane. Katy has also been very supportive of the Archivist in the establishment and the running of the Marshall Room as a new designated exhibition space. We have had two significant exhibitions within that space over the last year. The first was curated by the College Archives and was on Food and Feasting at Jesus College. It opened in December 2022 to mark the completion of the Kitchen Redevelopment Project: Food and Feasting at Jesus College | Jesus College in the University of Cambridge. The second was an exhibition, curated by Mathelinda Nabugodi with the assistance of Christopher Burlinson and Maximiliaan van Woudenberg in conjunction with Jesus College Archives, entitled Poetry and Politics: Samuel Taylor Coleridge at Jesus College. The use of the Marshall Room as a space for exhibitions has been a great success and we look forward to the next academic year and new opportunities to work with partners associated with the College and the chance to exhibit items from the College Archives. This will start in October with a collaboration between the College Archives and the Legacy of Slavery Working Party, and an exhibition that will support the Working Party’s Report into Jesus College’s links with slavery and empire. We have welcomed researchers into the Archives this year conducting research into a range of subjects including: Jesus College and its legacy of slavery; George Gilbert Scott; Hugo Grotius; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; William Frend; Bachelorhood in the 19th and 20th Century Britain; Peter Hurford; Education policy in the reign of Mary Tudor; Student life pre-1939; Jesus College and the South Sea Company; the restoration of the nave ceiling in the Chapel; and Arthur Gray and the writing of ghost stories. One of our regular independent researchers, Stephen Moss, has continued to conduct research into Jesus College alumnus and fellow Jacob Bronowski. To celebrate the 50th anniversary

Rowing photo, probably from the album of Ian Ernest Humphreys (1935)

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The rowing medals of Percy Illingworth

of the first broadcast of the BBC TV series The Ascent of Man on 5 May 2023 Stephen kindly agreed to write a blog post for the Archives. We continue to receive donations, for which we are very grateful, including a pewter plate; a match holder and striker; a small rug in Jesus College colours; menus from dinners, feasts and lunches from the 1970s and 1980s; two framed photographs of the rowing eight that won the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta in 1947; a tape recording of a meeting of the Roosters from 1961 hosted by Dr Freddy Brittain. (1919), one of the College Fellowship's great characters; papers relating to the Jesus College Cambridge Society; the physical and digital archive of this year’s John Hughes Arts Festival, which took place in February; significant additional items to be added to the personal paper collections of Alan Pars and Peter Hurford; the DLitt gown of Professor Emeritus Geoff Harcourt – previously worn by Freddie Brittain and then Raymond Williams before it was passed on to Harcourt; the rowing medals of Percy Illingworth (m.1887) who went on to become the MP for Bradford and was Chief Whip to the Prime Minister Asquith; a legal copy of the will of Sydenham Malthus (d. 1747) leaving all books to his Son Daniel, father of Thomas Malthus; a manuscript copy of a poem by Terence Tiller – winner of the Chancellor’s Medal in 1936 – and accompanying letters between Tiller and Gittings (Fellow of Jesus). Finally, special thanks must be extended to Dr Perona Prasad of Downing College who came across and purchased a personal photo album in the local charity shop Emmaus and donated it to the College. The album once very likely belonged to Jesus alumnus Ian Ernest Humphreys (m.1935). The album details Humphreys’ time at Westminster School and Jesus College before he joined and served in the Royal Artillery (1939 to 1945). Humphreys was a keen rower, and the album reflects this with many photographs taken from the towpath. An entry in one of the College’s biographical registers refers to Humphreys as ‘a man of quiet and gentle disposition whom his friends were glad to see at Henley year by year’. Gifts to the Archive are always hugely appreciated and any further donations of College related items from alumni are always greatly received. The catalogue descriptions for the collections and documents above mentioned can be viewed on the online archives catalogue at: https://collegecollections.jesus.cam.ac.uk/index.php n

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Books and articles by Members and Old Members of the College donated to the Libraries The donations acknowledged here are those received before the end of June 2023. Any items received after that date will be listed in next year’s Report. ARNOT, M.M. (Fw 1992-2017, EFw 2017-) Language Development and Social Integration of Students with English as an Additional Language/Michael Evans, Claudia Schneider, Madeleine Arnot, Linda Fisher, Karen Forbes, Yongcan Liu and Oakleigh Welphy (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2020) AW, T. (1995) Strangers on a Pier: Portrait of a Family (London, 4th Estate, 2021) BEASLEY-MURRAY, P. (1963) i) Growing Older: Our Story of New Adventures and New Horizons (Chelmsford, College of Baptist Ministers in association with PB-M Books, 2022); ii) Dros Grist a Thros Cymru: A Collection of Essays in Honour of the Life and Ministry of John Griffiths (1875-1947) (Chelmsford, College of Baptist Ministers in association with PB-M Books, 2022) BOWEN, A. (Fw 1990-2007, EFw 2007-) The Story of Lucretia: Selections from Ovid and Livy (Bristol, Bristol Classical Press, 1987) BROADBENT, M. (1973) Getting On, Falling Off: From Adoption and Finding Life and Love in the Far East to Fighting a Losing Battle with Parkinson’s Disease – 2nd Edition (Pearl Escapes, 2018) BUSUTTIL, G.J.A. (1988) Gatley on Libel and Slander (13th ed)/Godwin Busuttil and Richard Parkes joint editors (London, Sweet & Maxwell, 2022) CHITHAM, E. (1952) The Novelist of Wildfell Hall: A New Life of Anne Brontë (Brighton, Edward Everett Root publishers, 2022) CHATRATH, N. (1993) The Threshold: Leading in the Age of AI (Diversion Books, 2023) CLEGG, M. (1955) A Memoir (Michael Clegg, 2022) COLLINS, L.P. (2007) Squawk: a Book of Bird Adventures (Cambridge, Vanguard Press, 2023) CORPE, W.F. (1952) What Made Me/compiled from the writings of Bill Corpe by his wife Rita Corpe (Rita Corpe, 2022) DATE, C.J. (1959) On Cantor and the Transfinite (Sedona, Arizona, Technics Publications, 2023) DERBYSHIRE, I.D. (1977) Railways’ Economic Impact on Uttar Pradesh and Colonial North India (1860-1914): The Iron Raj (Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022) DRINKWATER, M.L.D. (2009) The Voice of the Church: Bells and Bellringers in the Life of the Church of England (Andover, The Clerical Guild of Ringers/The Ringing World Ltd, 2023)

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EDWARDS, M. (Fw 2009-) René Descartes: Regulae ad directionem ingenii – an early manuscript version (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2023) ENONCHONG, N. (1988) Duress, Undue Influence and Unconscionable Dealing (London, Sweet & Maxwell, 2023) FOOTMAN, J.W.F. (1922) Charles Footman of Carmarthen/Robert Footman (Hong Kong, Robert Footman, 2022) FORD, P.K. (1965) i) Advising Sentencers: a Study of Recommendations made by Probation Officers to the Courts (Oxford, Blackwell for the Oxford University Penal Research Unit, 1972); ii) Social workers at Risk: the Prevention and Management of Violence (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1986); iii) Educating for Social Work: Arguments for Optimism (Aldershot: Avebury, c1996); iv) Developing Student Criticality in Higher Education: Undergraduate Learning in Arts and Social Sciences (London, Continuum, 2011) GILLETT, J.E. (1958) Polyanthology (Taunton, Mirador Publishing, 2022) HARWOOD, R.J. (1988) Contested Heritage: Removing Art from Land and Historic Buildings/with C. DOBSON (2002) and D. Sawtell (Minehead, Law Brief Publishing, 2022) HOGWOOD, C.J.H. (HFw 1989-2012) An Account of the Institution and Progress of the Academy of Ancient Music: with a Comparative View of the Music of the Past and Present Times 1770/John Hawkins; With an Introduction and Notes by Christopher Hogwood (Cambridge, 1998) HOON, G.W. (1973) See How They Run (London, Unicorn, 2021) HOWAT, R.J. (Res Fw 1979-1982) i) Complete Songs, Volume 2, 1884-1919: 33 Songs for Voice and Piano [Medium voice]/Gabriel Fauré ; critical edition by Roy Howat and Emily Kilpatrick (Leipzig, Peters Edition Ltd, [2017]); ii) Complete Songs, Volume 2, 1884-1919: 33 Songs for Voice and Piano [High Voice]/Gabriel Fauré ; critical edition by Roy Howat and Emily Kilpatrick (Leipzig, Peters Edition Ltd, [2017]); iii) Complete Songs, Volume 3, The Complete Verlaine Settings (1887-1894): 17 Songs for Voice and Piano [Medium Voice]/Gabriel Fauré ; critical edition by Roy Howat and Emily Kilpatrick (London, Peters Edition, [2015]); iv ) Complete Songs, Volume 3, The Complete Verlaine Settings (1887-1894): 17 Songs for Voice and Piano [High Voice]/ Gabriel Fauré ; critical edition by Roy Howat and Emily Kilpatrick (London, Peters Edition, [2015]); v) Complete Songs, Volume 1: 1861-1882, 34 Songs for Voice and Piano [High Voice]/Gabriel Fauré; critical edition by Roy Howat and Emily Kilpatrick (London, Peters Edition Ltd, c2014); vi) Complete Songs, Volume 4, Four late song cycles: La Chanson d’Eve – Le Jardin Clos – Mirages – L’horizon Chimerique; 26 Songs for Voice and Piano [High Voice]/Gabriel Fauré; critical edition by Roy Howat and Emily Kilpatrick (London, Peters Edition Ltd, c2022); vii) Complete Songs, Volume 4, Four Late Song Cycles: La Chanson d’Eve – Le Jardin Clos – Mirages – L’horizon Chimerique. 26 Songs for Voice and Piano [Medium Voice]/Gabriel Fauré; critical edition by Roy Howat and Emily Kilpatrick (London, Peters Edition Ltd, c2022); viii) Trois Nouvelles Études: (3 Études pour la Methode des Methodes)/F. Chopin; edited by Roy Howat – A new critical edition (London, Edition Peters, [2021]); ix) Vocalises: Voice and Piano [Medium-high Voice]/Gabriel Fauré; critical edition by Roy Howat, Emily Kilpatrick (London; New York: Edition Peters, 2013);

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x) Premier Quintette, Op. 89, Pour Deux Violons, Alto, Violoncelle et Piano/Gabriel Fauré; édition critique de Roy Howat (Paris, J. Hamelle, c2006); xi) Complete Shorter Works for Cello/Gabriel Faure; edited by Roy Howat. (London; New York, Peters Edition Ltd, [2015]); xii) Works for Piano/Emmanuel Chabrier; edited by Roy Howat (New York: Dover, 1995); xiii) Nocturne, pour Piano/Claude Debussy; edition de Roy Howat (Paris, Durand, c2005); xiv) Danse Bohemienne; Danse (Tarentelle Styrienne); Ballade (Ballade Slave); Valse Romantique; Suite Bergamasque; Reverie; Mazurka; Deux Arabesques; Nocturne (Œuvres complètes de Claude Debussy; ser. I, v. 1)/Claude Debussy; édition de Roy Howat (Paris, Durand, 2000); xv) Estampes; D’un Cahier D’esquisses; Masques; L’isle Joyeuse; Serie I [Œuvres pour Piano]; v. 3/Claude Debussy; édition de Roy Howat. (Paris, Durand-Costallat, 1991); xvi) Dolly op. 56 [Edition Peters 7430]/Gabriel Fauré. Urtext edition by Roy Howat. (London, Edition Peters, c1995); xvii) Theme et Variations: [for] Piano/Gabriel Fauré; edited by Roy Howat (London Peters, c2009); xviii) Pieces Breves pour Piano, Op. 84/Gabriel Fauré; edited by Roy Howat (London, Edition Peters, c2003); xix) 13 Nocturnes [for] Piano/Gabriel Fauré; edited by Roy Howat (London; New York, Edition Peters, c2006); xx) Barcarolles [for Solo] Piano/Gabriel Fauré; edited by Roy Howat (London, Edition Peters, 2011); xxi) Berceuse from Dolly, Op. 56, (La Chanson dans le Jardin): For Violin and Piano/edited and arranged by Roy Howat (London, Edition Peters, c2004); xxii) Dolly Op. 56 [Edition Peters 7384]/Gabriel Fauré, edited and arranged by Roy Howat (London, Edition Peters, c1994); xxiii) Pavane, Op. 50: Solo Piano/edited and arranged by Wendy Hiscocks and Roy Howat (London, Edition Peters, c1994); xxiv) Œuvres pour Piano (Joyeuse Marche)/Emmanuel Chabrier. Ron Howat, piano (Paris. Stil, 1995) (CD); xxv) Pan; Michel Bellavance (Flute); Roy Howat, (Piano) (London, Meridian Records, 2004) CD; xxvi) Songs for Bass Voice and Piano/Gabriel Fauré; Jared Schwartz, (Bass); Roy Howat, (Piano) (London, Toccata Classics, c2015) CD; xxvii) Lydia’s Vocalises: Jonathan Freeman-Attwood (Trumpet); Roy Howat (Piano) (Glasgow, Linn Records, 2014) CD; xxviii) The Complete Verlaine Settings/Gabriel Fauré; Tony Boutté (Tenor); Emily Kilpatrick and Roy Howat (Piano) (Leipzig, Edition Peters, 2017) CD JACKSON, R. (1967) (HFw 2009-) The Roman Occupation of Britain and its Legacy (London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2021) JACKSON, R.M. (1967) Jackson and Powell on Professional Liability. (9th ed.) (London, Sweet and Maxwell, 2022), [donated by R.D.P. Stewart (1981)] JEFFCOCK, J.D.N. (1976) Hellfire: Evelyn Waugh and the Hypocrites Club (written under the pseudonym David Fleming) (Cheltenham, The History Press, 2022) KILLINGWORTH, G.C. (1968) Emptying Houses (Guildford, Dempsey & Windle, 2022) McCARTHY, H.R. (Fw 2020-) Boy Actors in Early Modern England: Skill and Stagecraft in the Theatre (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022) MITCHELL, A.J.B. (1975) Beyond a Fringe: Tales from a Reformed Establishment Lackey (London, Biteback Publishing, 2021) MITCHELL, J. (Fw 1996-2008, EFw 2008-) The Rights and Wrongs of Women, edited and introduced by Juliet Mitchell and Ann Oakley (Harmondworth, Penguin Books, 1976) [donated by Madeleine Arnot (Fw 1992-2017, EFw 2018-]; ii) Fratriarchy: The Sibling Trauma and the Law of the Mother (New York, NY: Routledge, 2023)

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MORSE, M.A. and PAPAGIANNI, D. (1992) The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science is Rewriting Their Story (3rd ed) (London, Thames & Hudson, 2022) PARKINSON, T.R. (1997) The Lonely Planet Guide to the Middle of Nowhere (Footscray, Vic., Lonely Planet, 2006) POOLE, J.W. (1928) Cymbals and Dances: a Handbook of Advice for Ministers and Musicians of all Denominations in Cathedrals, Parish Churches, Chapels, Schools, Colleges and Universities on the Performance and the Writing of Christian Liturgies with Examples from Coventry Cathedral (The Poole Family, 2022) RAY, N. (Fw 1979-2014, EFw 2014-) Thinking through Twentieth-Century Architecture (London, Routledge, 2023) SNOWMAN, D. (1958) i) America Since 1920 (New York, Perennial Library, 1968 [1970 reprint]); ii) Eleanor Roosevelt (London, Heron Books, 1970); iii) Eleanor Roosevelt, translated by Henriette Guex-Rolle ([Évreux], Le Cercle du bibliophile, 1970; iv) Britain and America: An Interpretation of Their Culture, 1945-1975 (New York, Harper and Row, 1977); v) America Since 1920 (revised editions hdbk. and pbk.) (London, Heinnemann, 1978); vi) Kissing Cousins: An Interpretation of British and American Culture, 1945-1975 (London, Temple Smith, 1977); vii) If I Had Been: Ten Historical Fantasies (London, Robson, 1979); viii) The World of Plácido Domingo [large print edition] (Santa Barbara, ABC-CLIO, 1987); ix) Plácido Domingo [Hungarian version – translated by Rácz Zsuzsa] (Budapest, Zenemükiadó, 1989); x) The World of Plácido Domingo (London, Arrow Books Ltd, 1986); xi) El Mundo de Plácido Domingo (Barcelona, Versal, 1986); xii) The World of Plácido Domingo (London, Bodley Head, 1985); xiii) Domingo: eine Biographie, translated by Harald Stadler and Angelika Bardeleben (Zürich, Schweizer Verlagshaus, 1992); xiv) Pole Positions: The Polar Regions and the Future of the Planet (London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1993); xv) Frozen Future: The Arctic, the Antarctic, and the Survival of the Planet (Toronto; London, Random House,

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1993); xvi) Nordpol Südpol die Zukunft der Erde, translated by von Bernd Rullkötter (Bergisch Gladbach, Lübbe, 1993); xvii) Nordpol Südpol die Zukunft der Erde, translated by von Bernd Rullkötter (Bergisch Gladbach, Lübbe, 1996); xviii) Plácido Domingo’s Tales from the Opera (Portland, Oregon, Amadeus Press, 1995); xix) Beyond the Tunnel of History: a Revised and Expanded Version of the 1989 BBC Reith lectures (Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1990); xx) Fins de Siecle: How Centuries End, 1400-2000 (New Haven, Yale University Press, 1996); xxi) The Hitler Émigres: the Cultural Impact on Britain of Refugees from Nazism [hdbk.] (London, Chatto & Windus, 2002); xxii) The Hitler Émigrés: the Cultural Impact on Britain of Refugees from Nazism pbk. (London, Pimlico, 2003); xxiii) Past masters: the Best of History Today (Stroud, Sutton Publishing Ltd/History Today, 2001 [2003 reprint]); xxiv) 鎏金舞台: 歌剧的社会史 = The gilded stage / (英)丹尼尔·斯诺曼 (Daniel Snowman) 著; 刘媺, 程任远译 (上海市, 上海人民出版社, 2012); xxv) Hallelujah!: an Informal History of the London Philharmonic Choir (London, London Philharmonic Choir, 2007); xxvi) Historians (Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007); xxvii) La Ópera: una Historia Social; traducción del inglés de Ernesto Junquera (Madrid, Siruela, 2016); xxviii) The Gilded Stage: a Social History of Opera [hdbk. and pbk.] (London, Atlantic Books, 2009); xxix) Giuseppe Verdi (Stroud, The History Press, 2014); xxx) Just Passing Through: Interactions With the World 1938-2021 (Bristol, Brown Dog Books, 2021) TOMLINSON, M.A. (1981) i) The COVID-19 Pandemic: Ethical Challenges and Considerations (Cambridge, Ethics International Press Limited, 2022); ii) Ethical Implications of COVID-19 Management: Evaluating the Aftershock (Cambridge, Ethics International Press Limited, 2022) WARREN, J.F. (1974) Al-Mutanabbi – The Complete Poems translated by James F. Warren (James F. Warren, 2022)

Other gifts, given by the following: BLAKE, L. Margaret Cavendish’s University Years: Batch Bindings and Trade Bindings in Cambridge and Oxford (Brooklyn, NY: University of Chicago Press for the Bibliographical Society of America, 2022) GLAZEBROOK, P. (Fw 1967-2003, EFw 2003-) 150 poems learnt by heart/an anthology compiled by David Arnold (Tolworth: Grosvenor House Publishing Limited, 2022) – includes a poem by Coleridge NICHOLS, A.E. An Index of Images in English Manuscripts: From the Time of Chaucer to Henry VIII c.1380-c.1509. Cambridge II, Jesus College, King’s College, Magdalene College Old Library, Pepys Library, Newnham College, Pembroke College, Peterhouse, Queens’ College, Saint Catherine’s College, Saint John’s College, Selwyn College, Sidney Sussex College, Trinity Hall (London; Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2021) PASCOE, G. The Falkland Saga (vol. 3) (Luton, Platinum Press Limited, 2023) PURDY P. Engineers and Women Changed the World: a Memoir (Tynemouth, Purdy, 2022) (with details on her ancestors – the Fairbairns) WATSON, R. The Nature of Cambridge/edited by Mark Hill (Newbury, Pisces publications, 2022 (with contributions by the librarian) n

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Art at Jesus Professor Jean Bacon, on behalf of the Works of Art Committee This was a year of change and consolidation for the Works of Art Committee, who are currently reviewing College’s requirements to conserve, preserve and curate the art in College. The Committee would like to thank our previous Curator of Works of Art, Dr Jessica Berenbeim, who completed her period of tenure on 1 April 2023. Dr Jonathan Tenney acted as Curator for a term during her tenure and took over as Curator in May. The appointment of a part-time, professional Curator has been approved. We look forward to welcoming a new Curator, and to planning a rich programme of exhibitions, including revitalising the College’s tradition of Sculpture in the Close. With the completion of the rebuilding of the kitchens and the related refurbishment of Hall and Upper Hall, rehanging has been necessary. Some pictures have been returned from the Elena Hall and Sibilla Room to Hall and Upper Hall. The complete 1917 portfolio is now in the Sibilla Room and the fifteen posters from the 1988 to 2017 Sculpture in the Close exhibitions have been hung in the entrance area to the Forum Halls. The Committee are grateful for the work cataloguing the collections, managed by Archives. We are now going through the art in store to rehang the Elena Hall.

Sculpture in the Close posters throughout the years

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‘Landscape with Carlo and Elena’ by Keir Smith In April 2023, we organised the installation of an outdoor sculpture exhibition in the Cloister. The sculpture by Keir Smith called ‘Landscape with Carlo and Elena’ may be a familiar sight for some College members. It has been in our possession since it was exhibited twenty years ago in 2003’s Sculpture in the Close, and we have displayed it for Easter from time to time over the years. You can read more about the exhibition on our website: https://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/college/ events-and-exhibitions/sculptureclose/2003/keir-smith According to legend, the discovery of “the true cross” was due to Helena, mother of Constantine, the Elena of the title. The Carlo of the title is the Italian artist Carlo Crivelli. Smith was intrigued by the dissolution of things meant to last and specifically by the crude nails driven into the fine marble panels of Crivelli’s Madonna della Rondine (Madonna of the swallow) painted in 1491 which can be seen in the National Gallery, London. Another work by Keir Smith, ‘Coastal Path’ is on permanent display by the Quincentenary Library (pictured below). This was made as part of the Iron Road project in 1986, commissioned for the Forest of Dean sculpture project. A series of 20 sculptures was created as carved wooden railway sleepers, recalling the original use of the railway through the Forest. n

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Careers Programme Sarah Richey, Careers Mentor In March 2023, we launched our new and improved version of Jesus Connect, the College mentoring and careers platform, with additional and enhanced functionality. The platform was first launched in 2021 for the exclusive use of alumni and current students, and since then it has facilitated over 130 long-term mentoring partnerships and over 200 connections or ‘flash mentoring’ partnerships between students and alumni. The upgrade was an opportunity to engage hundreds of new users, including those who prefer to use an app to stay connected. We look forward to continuing to build the service with a revamped mentor matching scheme, planned for this summer. This year also saw the launch of our inaugural Tom Parkinson travel award. Two Jesuans who matriculated in 2019 received the first ever Tom Parkinson Travel Writing Bursary, the College’s only award to support post-graduation travel. Selected by the Careers Committee from a set of strong applications, Leah Yeger (pictured left) and Sophie Beckingham (pictured right) each won a grant that enabled them to pursue an exciting international expedition while developing travel writing skills. The grants are the result of a donation made in memory of Jesus alumnus and Lonely Planet writer Tom Parkinson. Also new this year was Hook Line and Lyric @ Jesus, a songwriting competition established by the Master to provide the opportunity for aspiring songwriters to submit their songs, meet fellow songwriters, and get exposure and feedback from a panel of professionals from across the music industry. The competition is supported by the Centre for Music Performance. The first competition ran from the start of Michaelmas and received 28 entries from a mixture of current students and alumni from various colleges and parts of the University. The entries were of very high standard and the competition was extremely well received. The 1st prize winner was awarded to a 1st year student of Magdalene College, the 2nd prize went to a PhD Student at the CRUK Cambridge Institute, and the 3rd prize was awarded to a 1st year Jesuan. The competition is now in its second run and fast becoming part of the creative landscape of the College. In Michaelmas Term, we offered a wide range of events ranging from panel discussions with alumni, to visits from industry experts as part of our ‘In the business of...’ Series. These included two very special guests: David Braben (1982), CEO of Frontier Games and co-founder of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, and the writer and performer Ellie Kendrick (2009) who starred in the HBO series Game of Thrones. We also hosted our second annual Speed Networking event, inviting ten alumni from a range of diverse industry sectors to meet with current students, preceded by a session on ‘How to network successfully’ run by Lene Hansen (1996). The ever-popular LinkedIn/CV workshop and individual clinics also took place, inviting recruitment experts and alumni of the College – Mohan Yogendran (1982) and Douglas Board (1975) – to share advice and best practice on making CVs and LinkedIn profiles stand out from the crowd. Earlier this year, we welcomed Chris Bavin (BBC’s Eat Well For Less? Best Home Cook, Food Truth or Scare), for an event called ‘In the Business of...TV presenting’. Chris regaled current students with tales from his early days as a greengrocer, through to his current position as one of the most recognisable faces on BBC One. We also invited

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Winners of the first Hook Line and Lyric @Jesus competition with the Master

alumna Lene Hansen (1996) founder of The Glass Ceiling Project, to return to College to deliver a series of skills workshops to our current students, including a fantastically engaging workshop on ‘Speaking Powerfully’, and a second workshop on ‘How to network’, as specifically requested by students. Lene is an ex-regulator, litigator, consultant and COO who has lived in four countries and worked in over 20. The busy exam period didn’t stop our events schedule in Summer Term. We started with a central Careers Service pop up for Graduates in the Roost Café bar, shortly followed by ‘In the business of casting and directing’, with Casting Director, Matt Western (1989), who has worked on many high end television dramas including the last ever Inspector Morse (John Thaw), The Sins (Pete Postlethwaite), Gormenghast (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), My Uncle Silas (Albert Finney), 55 Degrees North (Don Gilet), Class of ’76 (Robert Carlyle), Coup! (Jared Harris), Affinity (Amanda Plummer, Anne Reid) and The Roman Mysteries (Simon Callow). We ran a fascinating ‘In the Business of Financial Services ‘discussion with Jordan Osborn (2014) Lily Yi-Bin Woh (2013) and Tom Latimer (2008) who between them thoroughly dissected statistical modelling, forensic accounting, software development and financial law. We were also delighted to be joined by Kamran Hussain (2004) Medical Affairs Lead at Astra Zeneca for ‘In the Business of Pharmaceuticals’ (pictured right with the Master). Kamran leads on medical strategy and resource development across the therapy area working with doctors, pharmacists, nurses, scientists as well as regulatory, marketing and sales to deliver better care for patients through national practice change initiatives. Just before the Long Vacation, we welcomed Fiona Campbell (1988) for ‘In the Business of Broadcasting’. Fiona is Controller, Youth Audiences iPlayer and BBC Three. Fiona commissions content specifically aimed at under 35s across Comedy, Drama, Documentaries and Current Affairs, including the shows Normal People, Ru Pauls Drag Race UK, I Kissed a Boy, The Instagram Effect and Meet the Khans. Fiona was a wonderful speaker and offered some fascinating insights into how she strategically drives the BBC presence off platform in social media and gaming spaces. We would also like to thank Visiting Fellow, Jason Mellad, CEO of Start Codon for continuing to offer his popular monthly entrepreneurship clinics for current students. n

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The Intellectual Forum Dr Julian Huppert, Director The Intellectual Forum team has had a busy year conducting research, hosting professional and educational courses, and holding in-person, online, and hybrid events. Our Senior Research Associates (SRAs) have continued to use the IF as a base for exciting, multidisciplinary research and innovation. In January, we had the opportunity to host the pilot of SRA Bridget Gildea’s Curiosity Incubator, an ‘Accelerator for Good’ which facilitates the testing of ideas to achieve positive social outcomes to our biggest problems. You can learn more about the Curiosity Incubator in IF Director Julian Huppert’s reflection on the pilot. Since then, another successful Curiosity Incubator has been held. SRA Lily Tomson received a P4NE grant to continue her work building a financial tool to tackle fossil fuel investment, which you can read more about in her article on page 21. Over the summer, four student interns, Kefeshe Bernard, Ezra Grosz, Noah Rouse and Lyudmyla Tautiyeva, joined the IF. Kefeshe is continuing research they began last summer on universal school lunch provision in primary schools. Ezra surveyed higher education professionals on their feelings about climate change and eco-anxiety, and Noah researched and is producing a podcase analysing the various relationships humans have with nature and their environment. Lyudmyla created a proposal for how to rebuild Ukraine’s infrastructure in a socially and environmentally conscious way. To share some of this research more widely, we have continued our partnership with education course provider edX. This year, we released a course with IF SRA Tyler Shores on improving digital productivity by developing a sustainable mindset around online behaviours, and over 2000 people worldwide have enrolled in IF Deputy Director Dr Sarah Steele’s course on the active bystander approach to prevent and respond to sexual harassment and violence. We are finalising a professional certificate, developed with Jesus College CPDA Dr Ellen Quigley, on sustainable finance and systemic risk, which will be available next year. Leading Conversations on AI The IF has hosted over thirty events this year covering a wide range of subjects, from a talk about the future of sustainable architecture to a panel on writing American history. One of the recurring themes of this year’s programme has been the rise of Artificial Intelligence and the effect it will have on our society going forward. To address some of the questions arising from the rapid development of this technology, the IF hosted a series of events with industry and policy leaders around the current state of AI, its responsible use, and what it means for our future. Kicking off the conversation, Professor Alexander Evans OBE, Britain’s former chief cyber negotiator, drew on his extensive experience in international diplomacy to discuss how the interplay between geopolitics and technology will shape the decades ahead. Focusing more specifically on AI, SRA Henry Ajder, a world-leading expert on generative AI and deepfakes, considered how the rise of AI is going to affect our lives, exploring the key questions that will define our digital world. A few weeks later, Cambridge policy researchers sat on a panel to discuss how policymakers should respond to the evolving technology landscape. The highlight of these AI conversations came at the Leaders in Responsible AI Summit 2023, which the IF co-hosted with SRA Ramsay Brown, CEO of AI Governance platform Mission Control. The Summit was a day-long series of workshops around the concept of

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Ai Weiwei (see talk overleaf)

‘Responsible AI’: technologies and policies that aim to align trust and safeguarding with fast progress and innovation. The over 70 attendees spanned three continents, reflecting the global reach of the day’s central concerns about how AI would affect the global labour market and how policymakers may better develop informed responses to the growth of AI. We are looking forward to continuing this conversation at a second Leaders in Responsible AI Summit in 2024. Recordings of these talks, as well as many more from over the course of the year, are available on the College’s YouTube channel – https://tinyurl.com/JesusCollegeYouTube. To stay up to date on IF news and to hear about our upcoming events as soon as they are announced, join our mailing list or follow us on Twitter/X @IntellForum. We hope to see you at the IF!

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List of speakers and panels Alison Bashford on the Huxley family Hannah Critchlow on the neuroscience of joined-up thinking Nick Wallis on the Great Post Office Scandal Melissa Pierce Murray hosted interactive art workshop “What is drawing?” Sharath Jeevan OBE on leadership for the future Shoshanna Saxe on infrastructure and time Lemn Sissay OBE gave a reading from his autobiography Farukh Amil, former senior Pakistani diplomat, on geopolitics Charlotte Proudman and Lakshmi Sundaram Lessons for the NHS from high-stakes decision making – a panel with former and current members of the police and military Lessons for the NHS from high-stakes decision making with former and current members of the police and military Harry McCarthy on boy actors in early modern England Sonita Gale screened her film “Hostile” followed by a Q&A Paul Dominiak on suspicious doubt in Christianity Yasmeen Lari on rebuilding sustainable communities after the post-Pakistan floods Hacktivism and Black creativity with George Hofstetter Enhancing vaccine uptake in an age of COVID-19 with the Global Health Security Network Nadine Akkerman on archivists’ biases Alexander Evans OBE on technology and geopolitics Henry Ajder on the rise of generative AI Beyond online safety: AI, web3 and the Metaverse – a panel with Prof Diane Coyle, Sam Gilbert and Alison Kilburn Véronique Mottier on the power of storytelling: care survivors and reparative justice Mathelinda Nabugodi on Romanticism and the Black Atlantic Would I Sci To You? – a comedy science panel show with the Cambridge Science Centre Ulrich Schneider on atoms as quantum sensors for fundamental physics Claire Gilbert on Julian of Norwich Ai Weiwei on memorials, colonisation, and freedom in art Philip Lymbery on how to reach a nature-friendly food future Leroy Logan MBE on his life as a Black police officer in the Metropolitan Police Riccardo Bellini, CEO of Chloé, on embracing fashion sustainability Writing American history in uncertain times with leading USA historians Katherine Hindley on charms and written amulets in medieval England n

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The China Forum Professor Peter Nolan CBE, Director of the China Forum The China Forum was formed from the restructured China Centre at Jesus College, following a recent review of its leadership, purpose and activities. The Forum is committed to maintaining academic freedom (including freedom of speech and expression). It aims to deepen mutual understanding between China and the West by studying the past to understand the present. Interdisciplinary academic seminars held by the Forum involve scholars, policy makers and businesspeople. They are open to all and are attended by the academic community within both the College and the wider University. Proposals for seminar speakers and topics are made by the China Forum Committee, Society members, and from the College's students, research associates, and staff via twice-termly mailings. The China Forum Director also receives recommendations for speakers and topics directly from colleagues within the College and the broader University. Thirteen seminars were held during Michaelmas and Lent Terms, and the summaries below show the vast range and scope of topics discussed. We hope to welcome readers to our future events. Professor Zhiyun Ouyang, renowned ecologist and Director at the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, gave our first lecture of the academic year. He discussed China’s biodiversity, species conservation policies, challenges in conservation efforts (habitat loss, climate change, species extinction), and the integration of biodiversity into government policy innovation using the Gross Ecosystem Product (GEP) accounting framework. Our next event was a roundtable discussion on the development achievements and challenges in China and India. Four leading international scholars spoke on their specialities in the field; Professor Shailaja Fennell, Professor Jayati Ghosh, Professor Huaichuan Rui and Assistant Professor Isabella Weber. Subjects included digital development, industrialisation, political systems, sustainable food supply chains, geopolitical isolation, and constraints upon high technology exports to China. Professor Jean C. Oi from Stanford University delivered a lecture in November on how COVID-19 has affected China’s local government debt. Professor Oi has published extensively on political economy and reform in China. She spoke about the historic and current fiscal relationship between central and local governments, and lessons to ensure financial stability in the future. The same month, we welcomed Dr Roger Hart, Professor of Chinese History and Director of the China Institute at Texas Southern University, who gave a talk based on his book The Chinese Roots of Linear Algebra. His research shows that the essentials of the

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methods used today in ‘Western’ linear algebra – augmented matrices, elimination and determinant-style calculations – were known by the first century in imperial China. Professor Dr Angela Schottenhammer, Professor of Chinese Middle Period and Early Modern World History at KU Leuven University gave a lecture in November on Trans-Pacific trade in the early modern era. She identified the Trans-Pacific routes and described the composition of the trade, which included balsam and chocolate from Spanish America; Chinese ceramic jars and cups shipped to Spanish America; and ivory pieces re-exported from China to the Philippines and carved there. She also spoke about the extent of migration along the trade routes. Ambassador Chas W. Freeman gave the final lecture in November on ‘Refashioning the East Asian Order’. Chas W. Freeman is Visiting Scholar, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University; former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense; former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia; and was the Principal American interpreter during President Nixon’s visit to Beijing in 1972. He examined the way in which the USA filled the power vacuum in the region after Japan’s defeat in World War II, then analysed the changes that have taken place in the region since. He argued that the USA needs to shift its policies, because East Asian states are now prosperous and have developed robust self-defence capabilities. In January 2023, The Rt Hon Lord Willetts gave a lecture on the changed relationship between China and the UK in higher education and research. He recalled the deep historical and cultural connection between Britain and China, including Joseph Needham and Xu Zhimo in Cambridge, and David Cameron’s ‘Golden Era’, which included a close relationship between Vodafone and Huawei. Lord Willetts is President of the Resolution Foundation, Visiting Professor at King’s College London, former Minister for Universities and Science (2010-2014) and former MP for Havant (1992-2015). The first February seminar featured Ms Sihan Bo Chen (Head of Greater China, GSMA) and Dr Paul G. Clifford (Non-resident Senior Fellow, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School). Ms Chen discussed the transformative impact of 5G deployment in China, covering key issues globally and domestically. Dr Clifford’s presentation was entitled ‘Dispelling myths and misconceptions about Huawei Technologies – China’s 5G leader’. Professor Hans van de Ven (Professor of Modern Chinese History in the Department of East Asian Studies at Cambridge) gave a lecture in February on Wendell Willkie’s 1942 circumnavigation of the world. Willkie was President Roosevelt’s special envoy, and the tour was intended to mobilise support for the war effort among America’s allies at a time when the outcome of the war was uncertain. Professor Timothy H. Barrett delivered a lecture in March on ‘China in British education: The Natzler Report in historical perspective’. The report, entitled ‘Understanding China: The study of China and Mandarin in UK schools and universities’, was written by Michael Natzler and produced by the Higher Education Policy Institute in 2022. Professor Barrett is Emeritus Professor, SOAS China Institute and Japan Research Centre; and Member of the Centre of Buddhist Studies, SOAS, University of London. Professor Deborah Brautigam’s lecture in March examined the evolving relationship between China and the G20 in relation to sovereign debt, a key issue for understanding China’s changing role in global governance. Professor Brautigam is Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy Emerita and Director of the China Africa Research Initiative (CARI), Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Washington DC). Cambridge Professor Simon F. Deakin gave a lecture on ‘The rule of law in China’ in which he argued that ‘law’ can be defined as a set of authoritative rules made,

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disseminated and enforced by a state that claims a monopoly of force within a given territory. Thus, law is bound up with the emergence of a particular type of nation state, which, in the Western case, occurred in the medieval and early modern period. Professor Yasheng Huang’s lecture in March, was based on his forthcoming book, The Rise and the Fall of the EAST (Yale University Press, 2023). He spoke about how exams, autocracy, stability and technology brought China success, and why they might lead to its decline. Professor Huang is Epoch Foundation Professor of International Management, and Professor of Global Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management. Full details of our past events and speakers, and a list of upcoming events can be found on our website: www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/china-forum n

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Science and Human Dimension Project Jonathan Cornwell, Executive Director On 3 May 2023, following a series of workshops through the academic year, the Science and Human Dimension Project held a conference on Climate Change in the Mediterranean region. The meeting was a joint venture between Jesus College and Clare Hall, involving the University departments of Geography (focusing in particular on Coastal Research Oceanography), History, English, Classics, the Cambridge Centre for Geopolitics, the Cambridge Theological Federation, with visiting academics from several universities, and interested environmental activists, with a constituency of students, journalists and civil servants in attendance. The event was held in association with the 2023 Ashby Lecture, hosted by Clare Hall, and delivered on the previous day by Orhan Pamuk, Turkish novelist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2006. Before an audience of 350 at the University concert hall in West Road, Pamuk spoke with historian and journalist Christopher de Bellaigue on aspects of Mediterranean history, literature, and the current climate change crisis. His starting point was a reading of The Lost Pool, his elegy on the loss of a shoreline idyll by the Sea of Marmara, leading to other lost environmental and cultural worlds in the Mediterranean. The symposium, titled Fate of the Planet in the Future of “Our Sea”, was introduced by Professor Alan Short, architect, historian of architecture and President of Clare Hall. He spoke on the recovery of ancient methods of “air conditioning” by natural means, focusing on his design of a factory on the island of Malta. The panel sessions argued that the Mediterranean is a microcosm of the planet, a “canary in the climate mine of the Earth”, where an array of catastrophes are already occurring in advance of other regions. At the same time the bordering communities of the sea have endured many disasters, geological and natural, down the millennia, providing literature, histories, art, artefacts and archaeological remains with evidence of adaptation and mitigation, alongside conflict, repression, migration, persecution.

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Left to right: Professor Tom Spencer, University of Cambridge; Jane da Mosto, founder, We Are Here Venice; Dr Emma Boland, British Antarctic Survey; Dr Nassos Vafeidis, Christian-Albrechts Universität Kiel

Oceanography was fundamental to the meeting: Dr Emma Boland, Physical Oceanographer, British Antarctic Survey; Cambridge Centre for Climate Science, pointed out that while atmospheric scientists study how different air masses move around the globe, and how they determine the short-term weather and long-term climate, oceanographers seek to understand how different water masses move around the world’s interconnected oceans and seas, taking with them heat, fresh water, carbon dioxide and other important quantities. “The ocean moves a lot slower than the atmosphere”, she said, “but plays a hugely important role in the climate system – most of the heat we have added as humans to the climate system has ended up in the ocean, over 90% in fact. It has also taken up almost one third of the carbon dioxide humans have emitted. The heat and carbon dioxide added to the ocean is transported around the globe as well as deep into the interior of the ocean depths by the various currents that make up what we call the circulation of the global ocean”. The Mediterranean Sea is particularly interesting to Oceanographers, she claimed, because its circulation is very similar to the circulation of the global open oceans, but being much smaller, things happen much faster – whilst water in the global ocean circulates on timescales of hundreds to even thousands of years, the circulation in the Mediterranean is much faster, with timescales of roughly 60 years. Speakers on the geographic and scientific issues included Professor Spencer, Emeritus Professor of Coastal Dynamics, Director of Cambridge Coastal Research; Jane da Mosto, Environmental scientist and campaigner for the preservation of Venice; and Nassos Vafeidis, Leader CRSLR Research Group, Institute of Geography, Christian-Albrechts Universität Kiel. The scientists and geographers described an array of environmental risks in the Mediterranean region: agriculture; water security; erosion and sediment supply; saltwater intrusion; impacts of heatwaves on human health and ecosystems; heritage sites; wildfires; increased migration. In the second session, Professor Brendan Simms, Chair of the History of International Relations, and Director, Cambridge Centre for Geopolitics, led a discussion

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with Nick Hopton, Diplomat; former UK Ambassador to Libya, Iran, Qatar and Yemen, and Dr Cristina Peñasco, Associate Professor in public policy, POLIS. Their themes covered climate security, energy security; migration; climate change relative to other geopolitical risks; impact of conflict on the environment; the role of order or an order: prospects for global or Mediterranean cooperation to fight climate change. In the third session, Professor Neil Roberts, University of Plymouth and School of Archaeology, University of Oxford; Dr Rebecca Watson, Cambridge Theological Federation; and Professor Jennifer Wallace, English Faculty University of Cambridge, explored the importance of the humanities for deeper and wider understanding of the climate crisis, especially in the realms of History, Ethics and Culture. The discussion ranged over how past climate impacts have impacted human communities in the region, from the late Bronze Age collapse to the Little Ice Age; how philosophical and religious movements have arisen for better and for worse: from Stoicism to current Eco-philosophies; the Anthropocene and Apocalypse in literary and artistic imagination, in particular different notions of time exemplified in Greek Tragedy. In a final session, the writer Christopher de Bellaigue led a group discussion involving the junior members of the conference, including students. Contributions included the importance of an interdisciplinary approach to climate change, the role of the humanities, the arts and religion, and the role of social media. Does media coverage shape policy or the reverse? The session ended with a comment by John Cornwell on the importance of media coverage of climate change, instancing how headlines shape attitudes and policies on migration. Migration, as a consequence of climate change, will be the project’s focus in the coming year, especially from North Africa, the Middle East, and Southern Europe, into Northern Europe. n

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Societies Student Union Reflecting on my first year as a Jesus student, it is difficult to summarise the wide-ranging interests and concerns of our undergraduate community. In what has been the first academic year of the decade to experience no pandemic-related disruptions, the Committee has been working hard to make student life as vibrant as possible. The last year has been marked by several changes around College, most visibly the reopening of the Hall. Having Caff and Formals back in the historic buildings has been central to the social lives of students, who especially rejoiced when toast and hot drinks returned to the much-loved Jesus brunch. From Lent, the Committee began organising themed formals every Wednesday, with decorations and menus celebrating everything from Chinese New Year and Brazilian Carnival to Surviving Week 5 Blues and College Marriages. A priority of the JCSU has also been taking a proactive and holistic approach to student wellbeing. The previous Committee conducted a comprehensive Welfare Review, and its findings motivated our focus on making sure that students have opportunities and spaces to spend time with friends or meet new people. The JCR, Brewery Room, and Games Room have been redecorated, refurbished, and revitalised as hubs of social life and a varied ents programme. Over the last few terms, the College has enjoyed lively events such as Karaoke Night, Casino and Jazz Night, Drag Night, Mario Kart Tournament, and more! There has also been the introduction of Thursday Treats, wherein students catch up over a free donut and hot drink outside the Porters’ Lodge. I am particularly proud of the Committee’s work in supporting the diverse student body at Jesus. Key achievements to highlight are the opening of the multifaith space in Library Court and the provision of free, sustainable menstrual products in College bathrooms, both of which would not be possible without the work of our JCSU predecessors. Students have also been recording ‘Day in my life’ and ‘Why Jesus’ snippets for JCSU and College social media platforms to encourage prospective students to apply, regardless of their background.

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Furthermore, we have been keen to uphold and take further Jesus’ status as a leading institution in sustainability. Through collaborating with the Bursar and the MCR, students and staff were invited to a transparent talk providing updates and future directions for the College’s Responsible Investment Policy. We were very encouraged by the steps taken to achieve our decarbonisation goals, and students remain engaged in sustainability through clothes swaps, limiting food waste with the Jesus Community Fridge, and a C-Sunday clean-up initiative. The JCSU Green Officer also worked with the May Ball Committee on waste recycling and energy usage, ensuring the Ball was an unforgettable and environmentally conscious night. Finally, Jesus students continue to be recognised for our manifold extra-curricular interests and talents. There have been too many sporting successes to count – achievements this year include a historic Bumps, several Cuppers victories, and countless awarded Blues. In the arts, Jesuans are making their mark both within College (and the new College Drama Society) and the University’s theatre scene. The JCSU continues to advocate for sporting and creative pursuits, supporting initiatives such as the Gym refurbishment, the establishment of the Art Room, and petitioning for more university sport subsidies. I have felt honoured to represent the interests of the student community in my Presidency thus far and look forward to the challenges the rest of my term has to offer! Nicole Ling Yan Lee *

Middle Combination Room (MCR) This year has in many ways marked the return to normality after the pandemic; Freshers’ Fortnight was a great start to the year, and walks to Grantchester and Jack’s Gelato, Wine Tasting and a Murder Mystery Night all proved very popular. This is one of the great strengths of Jesus; two weeks of events before the start of Michaelmas Term really enables our new members to get to know each other and the College and helps foster the sense of community that is such a part of Jesus. Many students from other Colleges express a degree of jealousy. Social events have continued through the year, with the Christmas Dinners, Burns Night Dinner and Ceili all being great successes. It was very exciting for everyone to return to the Hall for the Christmas Dinners. As I write, we still have the MCR Garden Party and Annual Dinner to look forward to. The MCR Social Officers have put in a lot of work this year and we have all felt the benefits. The Graduate Conference, organised by the MCR Academic Officer, Sabine Hallamasek, was a great success. This year we had two keynote addresses on the theme of sustainability: Professor Sarah Colvin on ‘What does Sustainable Knowledge look like? Alternative Epistemologies and Sustainable Subjects’ and Professor Shailaja Fennell on ‘Engaging with Sustainability Thinking in the Global South’. The programme was full, with 16 students giving oral presentations on their work and nine poster presentations. Amelia Ford (‘PDI-Trans: a promising target for transmission blocking in malaria’), Ronya Ramrath (‘Who is wrong: Wittgenstein or his interpreters?’) and Steven Morad (‘Long-Term Memory in Reinforcement Learning’) won prizes for their oral presentations. Hannah Copley (‘Alloimmune Risk Stratification in Kidney Transplantation – Development and Validation of a novel HLA Molecular Mismatch Algorithm’), Zara Kesterton (‘Artificial flowers in fashion in late eighteenth-century Paris’) and Callie Belback (‘Sonic Empire: Britain, Hong Kong, and Cold War Radio Broadcasting, 1945-1967’) won prizes for their posters. This gives you a flavour of breadth of the research ongoing in the Jesus postgraduate community which was wonderful to see.

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The delivery of the new Punt in May was exciting for all our community and many members have made use of it since. It has attracted admiring comments from others on the river. Some may be wondering where it lives – we keep it at the St John’s College Punt Pool during the summer, and it will return to Jesus over the winter for storage. As always, the MCR has worked closely with the College, and I am always happy with how keen the staff are to improve the student experience at Jesus. This year we have made it easier for students to work away for fieldwork or work placements, improved bike parking and have held small academic conferences and meetings at Jesus. I am grateful to all I have worked with on these, and countless other issues. I am interested in learning more about the history of the MCR and Graduate Society at Jesus. If you were involved when you were up or have any memories of the MCR or Graduate Society you would like to share, please contact the Development and Alumni Relations Office (development@jesus.cam.ac.uk). Mark Turner *

Africa Fund In an exceptional year for the Jesus Africa Fund (JAF), our student-led body has soared to new heights. We raised £13,004 from our student community (plus generous donations from College and the Master) for charities improving the lives of vulnerable people living across Africa and elevated our presence within the University while magnifying our reach and impact. All these efforts have been channelled towards our unwavering commitment of catalysing meaningful change across the African continent. During Michaelmas Term we expanded our Committee and hit the ground running with our fundraising campaign. By the start of Lent Term we had received over 60 charity applications for our funding, addressing crucial issues across healthcare, education and empowerment in Africa. We spent Lent Term rigorously processing these applications to shortlist the most impactful and sustainable projects. This year, we are pleased to fund six diverse projects across the African continent. One of our projects based in Kibera Slum, Nairobi, will provide care, food and education to vulnerable children, while another will work to improve access to quality healthcare in rural Uganda by repairing and modernising community health centres. We are incredibly proud of our student body for supporting these life-changing projects.

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For the first time in our Committee history, we organised a fundraising formal hall in Lent Term to increase our exposure and celebrate the success of our 36-year history. The formal ended with a special themed drink in the Jesus Bar – a vibrant blue pumulani cocktail from Malawi specially crafted by barman, Daniel. We were pleased to see so many people attend this formal hall in support of JAF. As a Committee, we also spent a wonderful evening with the Master to celebrate JAF and explore our ambitions for the future (see photo). We are incredibly thankful to Sonita and Daniel (the Senior Treasurer) for their support this year. As the academic year comes to an end, we are immensely proud of how JAF has grown and fulfilled our core mission working to improve educational, health, and economic outcomes in Africa. May Hawkings and Nick Ntiruhungwa, Co-Presidents *

Art Club The Art Club has run since 2019, with a pause due to the pandemic. Materials are provided and all are welcome: students, staff and Fellows, beginners and the more experienced. In 2022-23, we met in the Pavilion in term time, with a visit each term to draw in the Chapel. This year, we had an exhibition in the Chapel alongside the John Hughes Arts Festival. Each week we suggest a theme such as still life, plants from the gardens, abstracts, collage, architecture and we tried a craft session decorating paper lanterns which proved very popular. Attendance has been good, varying each week from ten to 30, and the overall email list ended the year at over 50. There was unexpectedly high attendance during the Easter Term and exam period, when we were able to work outdoors in the sun and therefore use paint media. Over the last year we have built a lovely team of undergraduates and postgraduates to help run the club, including publicity. Exciting news is that there’s the possibility of an Art Space at Jesus for the Michaelmas Term. Please see our photos on Instagram: @jesuscollegeartclub Fatima Eshani (Art Club President) and Jean Bacon (Emeritus Fellow)

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Christian Union The Jesus College Christian Union (JCCU) is a group of students that meet regularly with the aim of making Jesus known in Jesus College. The JCCU is part of the Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union (CICCU) which was formed in 1877. Before Michaelmas Term started, the previous JCCU representatives attended CICCU’s annual ‘Freshers’ Getaway’. They warmly welcomed those that came. At the beginning of Michaelmas Term, the JCCU ran ‘Church Search Breakfasts’ which aimed to introduce freshers to the diversity of churches in Cambridge, encouraging and supporting each that came to settle into one of their choosing. As well as this, we met each week to pray together, read from and study the Bible, and consider how to explain it clearly to those around us. Prayer meetings outside of the weekly meetings were particularly encouraging, despite the early starts! In the final week of term, CICCU ran two well-attended carol services at Great St Mary’s; the JCCU encouraged those that showed interest to go, and some of us participated in the services. Lent Term was arguably the busiest time of the year for the JCCU. As well as the normal weekly meetings, the JCCU ran a ‘Ping-a-Pizza' event in College to give students the opportunity to ask any questions they had about Christianity. This event was well-received by students. The annual CICCU ‘Events Week’ also took place during Lent Term, the underlying theme of which was ‘Human: What Are We Searching For?’ Talks considered the topics of truth, the mind and the purpose of life, focusing on Jesus’s claims in the gospel of John and the salvation that God offers through him. The JCCU was actively involved in these events. Easter Term saw the annual change of hands, this time to me, a ‘solo’ JCCU representative. Weekly meetings were relatively quiet during the exam period. CICCU ran its final event for the year at nearby Eden Baptist Church in May Week. The short talk was followed by an extended Q&A session, led by a Theology lecturer from ‘the other place’. Encouragingly, this event was well-attended by Christians and non-Christians alike, and it acted as a reminder particularly of the rationality of the gospel and that we will receive forgiveness if we put our trust in Jesus. I’d like to thank the Jesuans who have supported the JCCU’s mission financially, physically and through prayer this year. Davis Willis

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Eliot’s Face And so, another year goes by and what a year it’s been! With the editorial team – Millie Slack (2020), Joe Smith (2020), and the newly promoted Isabella Cederstrøm Palliotto (2021) – refreshed by the summer, we started the academic year with a bang. We marked the launch of Dustsceawung, our dustthemed edition of EF, with a party. Deep in the bowels of the College in the Brewery Room, a quiet evening of poetry and songs metamorphosed into a joyously sweaty, fantastically euphoric night of godly music, accompanied by the angelic utterances of Bella Cross (Selwyn, 2020) and Gemma Deacon (St Catherine’s, 2020) who strummed and sang with prophetic power. Later, we were joined by Jesus’ own Taming of the Shrimp who, as one is wont to say, ‘took us there’ with some stimulating sonorous sensations. And so the night went by. In Lent Term, we embarked on our now semi-traditional venture with that (other) bastion of the Jesus College art scene, the John Hughes Arts Festival, to produce a tome which any bibliognost would be proud to own. The brochure that accompanied this year’s festival, both titled Retro Future, was the first to be created by our incoming Graphic Designer, Isabel Painter (2021), whose skilled hand will help guide the magazine for the next year. If you want your own copy of the magazine’s JHAF edition, then unlucky for you, it was a sell-out. On the opening night alone, all 200-or-so editions of the magazine were gone! The edition celebrated the amazing talent showcased in the exhibition room itself, bridging the gap between the conceptual and the physical which so often plagues our creative endeavours. It is always so fulfilling to touch art. And so another term went by. This term we will be releasing our latest edition: Snakes and Velvet. What sensual secrets will this edition secrete? What slimy sensations will titillate your fanciful imagination? To what heavenly spheres or devilish depths will we take you? We are yet to find out – we at EF are notorious bibliotaphs; all lock and key, chains and whistles. Given the nature of exam term, we can’t guarantee anything, but we hope to host another launch night soon. Keep your eyes peeled for any terrible trembling! And so, another time comes into view. With all this fun stuff out of the way, it is time for Millie and me (Joe) to say goodbye to the magazine. It’s been a thrilling, chilling, and, at times, fulfilling tenure, but time moves ever forward. We’d like to thank the College for giving us the budget year after year to put all this on, all contributors, without whom EF would flop, and all readers and supporters. And so, we leave. All the best, dear reader. Millie, Joe, Isabella and Isabel

Feminist Society The Jesus College Feminist Society had another great year, filled with discussions and activities led by our Committee members. I would like to thank the Committee for researching and delivering such interesting discussions and for everyone else who joined in the fun – each attendee plays a huge part in making such a welcoming and supportive atmosphere.

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Bella Rawson (2020) kicked Michaelmas Term off with a fascinating discussion about inequalities within the healthcare system, questioning whether Feminism can help to fix a broken system. Subsequent discussions were led by Ezra Grosz (2021) on Donna Haraway’s Cyborg Manifesto and debates around queer ecologies, by Lotte Hondebrink (2020) on femininity and its contentions within popular culture, and by Molly van Buren (2019) on the film ‘Promising Young Woman’, discussing revenge narratives in film and their wider implications. Suining Sim (2020) led a Draw and Dessert session, an opportunity to eat snacks and draw while discussing the implications of capitalism on feminist visual culture. Aimee Croxall (2021) discussed whether a society under a monarchy can ever be feminist, and Zoë Abrams (2020) questioned why there is a gender attainment gap in Cambridge, with more men receiving first class degrees than women. Lent Term followed with further interesting topics such as whether the Women’s Euro win was a turning point for women in football or another missed opportunity for equality in sport, led by Bella Manfredi (2020). Other discussion topics included the reasons behind gendered voting patterns, how diet culture is limited by a paucity of research, race-making techniques and the implications for the Asian woman, sexism within the policing complex, debates around the ‘angry woman’ trope and the rise of viral misogyny. In Lent there was also a fantastic International Women’s Day Formal Hall, held alongside an array of other activities to celebrate the annual ‘Week of the Woman’ organised by the JCSU Women’s and Non-Binary Officer, Helena Kondak (2022). This included a speech and Q&A with Frances Scott from 50:50 Parliament and a fundraising concert for The Red Hen Project alongside other activities. In Easter Term we had our usual pause in activities for finalists to complete their exams, but with Committee applications opening for the following year, I am excited to see what the Feminist Society achieves next year under the leadership of the elected Women’s and Non-Binary Officer, Helena Kondak (2022). Isabella Despositos

Film at Jesus Film at Jesus has had a very exciting year, providing many more opportunities for students to learn about the film industry and spark their creativity. As in previous years, we ran a Winter Short Film Competition over Michaelmas and Lent term, for which students from across Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin University were invited to write, direct and produce their own three-minute short films for the chance to win a prize and have their work shown on the big screen. The submissions we had this year were some of the most innovative, moving and hilarious we have ever seen; the winning short film from Zeb Goriely (Queen’s, PhD Computer Science) used only still photographs and sound to ingeniously document a heart-warming story of family and friendship, and can be viewed – along with the runners up – on our Facebook page: https://fb.watch/kRyl5mIzNc/. On top of our short film competition, we began putting on fortnightly film screenings organised around a different theme each term. For Michaelmas, we asked people ‘What is the Western?’ as we screened films from the classic spaghetti western A Fistful of Dollars to Jordan Peele’s genre hybrid NOPE, exploring how tropes and conventions evolve over time. For Lent, we delved into films with a ‘Mystery’, including the Poirot whodunnit Murder on the Orient Express and the South Korean psychological

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thriller Burning, discussing all the twists and turns that filmmakers employ to keep their audience hooked. And for Easter, we went back in time to ‘1920s Cinema’, watching such masterpieces of the silent era as The Cabinet of Dr Caligari and The Passion of Joan of Arc, and learning more about the foundations of the cinema we all enjoy today. This year we also collaborated for the first time with other student societies, including Jesus’s very own John Hughes Arts Festival for a screening of The Man Who Fell to Earth as part of their ‘Retro Future’ theme, and Cambridge Creatives, with whom we put on Q&As with members of the film and television industry, such as comedy producer Rupert Majendie and award winning writer and director Céline Sciamma (Girlhood, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Petite Maman). The Céline Sciamma Q&A was a particular highlight, booking out overnight and offering students a rare insight into the creative process of one of the most acclaimed filmmakers working today. We look forward to seeing where Film at Jesus goes next. Nathan Brooks and Megan Hickes

Graduate Conference The MCR Graduate Conference 2023 was held on the 4 March 2023 in the Frankopan Hall and the Webb Library. This annual event, dedicated to showcasing and celebrating the diverse research of the students at Jesus College, provided an exceptional platform for the MCR community to share their work with friends and colleagues in a relaxed and supportive setting. Under the theme ‘Celebrating Research at Jesus College’ the conference featured 16 captivating student talks, 10 thought-provoking posters, and two engaging keynote speeches. The first keynote speaker, Professor Sarah Colvin, explored the topic of Alternative Epistemologies and Sustainable Subjects, delving into the fascinating question of what Sustainable Knowledge may look like. The second keynote was delivered by Professor Shailaja Fennell, shedding light on the implications of Engaging with Sustainability Thinking in the Global South, captivating the audience with her expertise.

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The student presentations covered a wide range of subjects, from artificial flowers in 18th century fashion to acoustics in Antarctica, from superconductivity to the suffering of philosophers, and from virology studies to visual arts – the conference showcased a remarkable breadth of research interests. The talks and posters were met with enthusiastic participation from the conference attendees, who actively engaged in the Q&A sessions. The vibrant exchange of ideas fostered an intellectually stimulating atmosphere, fuelling insightful discussions and encouraging further exploration of the topics at hand. As the conference drew to a close, the graduate tutors Professor Tim Wilkinson, Dr Michael Edwards, and Dr Sybil Stacpoole formally announced the recipients of this year's presentation prizes in both the student talks and poster categories. In the student talks category, the first, second, and third places were awarded to Amelia Ford, Steven Morad, and Ronya Ramrath, respectively. In the student poster category, Hannah Copley, Zara Kesterton, and Callie Belback claimed first, second, and third places, respectively. It is worth highlighting that the talks delivered by all presenters demonstrated an impressive level of quality and expertise. Following the conference, a drinks reception took place in the Master’s Lodge, where the conference participants were able to continue their conversations and forge new connections. The stimulating academic discourse seamlessly transitioned into a conference dinner held in formal hall, where interdisciplinary discussions echoed amidst delicious culinary offerings. The MCR Graduate Conference 2023 was a true highlight of the academic year that exemplified the vibrant research culture at Jesus College. Sabine Hallamasek *

The Jambassadors The Jambassador programme has had a successful year, with many first-year students joining us and showing great enthusiasm in leading some of the larger events, such as the Northeast School Tour and Higher Education+ (HE+) residential and leading presentations. Despite the challenges posed by in-person events, the HE+ residential, Northeast and London School Tour were all successful. Both ambassadors and students enjoyed learning more about the University Application process, life at Cambridge and

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having the opportunity to speak to current university students from a similar background to show them that Oxbridge is a possible path for them. In addition to in-person events, the Jambassador programme also included several successful online events, such as websites, allowing us to expand our reach. Since becoming Access Officer, I've focused on promoting more social media and virtualbased access ideas, such as day-in-the-life videos, Q&As, webinars, and study skills sessions, which have further increased outreach and positively impacted students who need support but cannot attend in-person events. The focus on promoting more social media and virtual-based access ideas is set to continue in the coming academic term. The success of the Jambassador programme is due in part to the changes made this year, with some yet to come. As Access Officer I take great pride in the programme and I want to thank the current Student Liaison Officer, Molly Wilson-Smith, and the Jambassadors, who have made the scheme a success this year. Stephen Fajemilusi *

Jews for Jesus College Society What a wonderful year it’s been for the Jewish society of Jesus College! We have had a year filled with Jewish festivals and celebrations, and it has been great to experience these spiritual and uplifting times together as a society. We met at the start of the year for introductions and to discuss different Jewish and ideological ideas. Throughout the year, we continued to meet on numerous occasions, typically around the time of Jewish festivals, to eat classic Jewish foods and talk about how Geshmak it is to be a Yid. We had monthly chaburas where we discussed the halachos of shmiras halashon and kashrut. Our favourite celebration in College was the Shaindel Festival where we customised our prayer books for the year ahead. IYH this year and the future of Jesus College Society should be filled with only Simchas! Hannah Benaim and Josh Kaye

John Hughes Arts Festival The John Hughes Arts Festival 2023 was a blast. With a new creative team on board as directors (Joe Smith (2020), Millie Slack (2020), we made our own small mark on what is becoming a traditional festival in the College calendar. This year we opened the gallery in the West Court Exhibition Room with some fantastic art inspired by the theme Retro Future on 10 February. Throughout the evening we had performers and DJs entertaining in the Brewery Room as well as the open gallery for people to peruse. The gallery featured some fantastic artwork from around Cambridge, including sculpture, painting, lino prints and photography. On Saturday, we hosted an Art Fair in the Forum Hall (now the Elena Hall) which saw artists from around Cambridge selling various wares including knitted cardigans, protest zines, wooden sculptures and headbands. It was amazing to see such a wealth of talent and community hosted at the College. We also hosted a yoga class in the Bawden Room, as well as a screening of The Man Who Fell to Earth in the Webb Library in conjunction with Film at Jesus. The day was a hit with the events packed. On Sunday we held an art walk around the Nature Trail which guided participants around the College grounds, looking out for the College deer, followed by an art session in the Cricket Pavillion which used found materials and paint to create art. In the evening,

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we took over the formal hall following the JHAF evensong, with tables decorated to the theme, encouraging diners to etch an image of the person opposite onto colourful card, giving everyone something to remember the evening by. JHAF teamed up with the College’s Art Club to produce a second exhibition in the Chapel alongside the main one in West Court. The space included some fantastic artwork from the club’s participants, and it was brilliant to arrange this celebration of John Hughes in a space so close to him. The festival served as a fitting tribute to the late Dean of Chapel, John Hughes, and although his parents were unable to attend this year, we hope that the festival was able to aptly celebrate his spirit and memory within the College. Thanks to all who came along and enjoyed the festival, as well as to all those on the creative team and within the College who made it happen. Millie Slack and Joe Smith (Co-Directors)

Law Society Jesus College Law Society had an active and successful year, and we have continued to build rapport with alumni and industry. We were incredibly lucky to engage with representatives from Slaughter and May, Davis Polk, Freshfields, Dechert, and Skadden. This took the form of a variety of events, ranging from social meals to in-depth career presentations. From the other side of the profession, we were blessed to have met with alumni Peter Mantle (Monckton Chambers), Kieran Wilson (Littleton Chambers) and Daniel Petrides (Wilberforce Chambers). We also thoroughly enjoyed meeting alumni at the annual Glanville Williams Society reception, hosted this year by Theo Huckle KC (Doughty Street Chambers). These opportunities have been so important to Jesus College Law Society, allowing us to gain insight into future career pathways. It was lovely to have been a part of these events, and we would like to thank all those who made them possible. This year we were once again joined by a new cohort of undergraduate students. We hope that they have felt welcomed into the Jesus College community and have benefited as much as we have, from their active and thoughtful engagement in social and career events. We were extremely pleased to see friendships develop and continue to flourish. We look forward to this strong sense of community and friendship continuing. A highlight for Jesus College Law Society was the annual moot and dinner, with guest speaker and Jesuan, Dexter Dias KC. The evening began with the moot, where the first-year mooters displayed immense talent and skill. The moot was followed by a drinks reception and dining in the Upper Hall, where we were joined by Law Fellows and Directors of Studies. We would especially like to thank Dexter Dias KC for taking the time out of his busy schedule to attend the dinner, and for his inspiring after dinner remarks. Jesus College Law Society is also supported by Law Fellows and Directors of Studies, and we are grateful for their continued assistance and interest in our society. Unfortunately, we have to say farewell to both Dr Fenton-Glynn and Dr Ollerenshaw. We would like to thank them for their guidance, support, and wisdom and wish them the very best with their future endeavors. Please do not hesitate to reach out if you would like to share your experiences of studying law or working in the legal sphere; our students of Law and other subjects find these conversations incredibly useful. I am excited to see what the future holds for the Law Society and its members. Jesus College will continue to see many successful and wonderful students and I know that the Law Society will remain a valuable part of their experience, as it was for mine. James Kane

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May Ball On 19 June, Jesus College played host to its annual May Ball, welcoming a record breaking 3,000 guests, which for the first time made us the biggest Ball across Cambridge AND Oxford. Headlined by superstar Kelis of Milkshake fame and DJ-extraordinaire ShyFX, JMB23 entertained guests with eight hours of food, drink and music with everything from paella to bubble tea on the menu. Supersonic Queen and Katy Perry tribute acts wowed guests and were part of May Week’s biggest event, with brand new sponsors AU vodka providing even more fun with their colour changing drinks. With other entertainment including fairground rides (the legendary dodgems made a much anticipated return), mini golf, lasertag and karaoke pods, JMB23 was officially a sold-out event, donating almost £11,000 to our four chosen charities. I would like to extend a huge thank you to all 22 members of this year’s Committee, who put their heart and soul into an absolutely fantastic event. Behind the scenes, these students worked for nine months to pull together the event, often giving up other opportunities to work for the Ball. Their achievement is hugely commendable, and I am proud to say I had the opportunity to be their President. It is rare to find such an incredible, hardworking team, and the JMB23 team have been nothing short of some of the best people I have met during my time at Cambridge. Like how Jesus May Ball sounds? Ticket sales for next year’s event will launch in February 2024 – keep an eye on your emails for details on how to purchase them! We’d love to see you come and celebrate with us! JMB23 love. Bella Rawson

Medical and Veterinary Society This year had many highlights. We kicked off with Safari Supper, the annual induction event for our medic freshers at the start of the year. Throughout Michaelmas Term, there were a host of events to keep the medical and veterinary community engaged. One of the best highlights of Michaelmas was our annual Jim’s Mince Pies and Mulled Wine event where the students and Directors of Studies shared some Christmas spirit. Lent Term was even better as we had our biggest event in the last five years: MedVetSoc Day. This was an opportunity for both current students and Jesus alumni to share within our community what they are currently working on, whether that be their student-selected component or project work. These talks were hosted throughout the day, followed by the annual dinner. It was truly rewarding to see students, supervisors, alumni and Directors of Studies all come together as a community to celebrate the hard work of others.

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We continued strong with our speaker events throughout the year, with topics varying from understanding how to improve drug development to hearing stories of Jesus alumni working in the WHO. Other talks were led by students in our Clinical Cases series and the newly implemented “What I wish I knew” series. The aim of the latter was to impart wisdom to the immediate year below before the year started. We are thankful to both the clinical and preclinical students who made these speaker series possible. We rounded off the year with our annual Pimms and Pizza event, allowing us to enjoy the nice weather post-exams. Special thanks to our wonderful Committee: Alby Biju (Vice-President), Imogen Perkins (Treasurer), Arzoo Iqbal (Social Secretary), Froher Yasin (Graduate Representative), and Olivia Fitzpatrick (Vet Representative). We would also like to thank our Directors of Studies Jim Ajioka, Sybil Stacpoole and Ramsay Bowden for their continual support of the MedVet community. We are excited to see what the future Committee will do next year! Bhiramah Rammanohar *

Music Society It has been another year of fantastic music making in the Jesus College Music Society, involving undergraduate and postgraduate students, Fellows and staff. It has been a real pleasure to see such a variety of musical performances from across the College community. The year began with the annual freshers’ recital, showcasing the incoming talent of our new arrivals, and we can certainly say the future of music at Jesus College is in safe hands. The JCMS orchestra has put on two sell-out concerts in the Chapel. Highlights included the performance of Mozart’s Symphony no. 41 in Michaelmas, ably conducted by Drew Sellis. In the David Crighton concert in Lent Term we were joined by soloist Mika Curson in Gordon Jacob’s suite for recorder and strings, conducted by Matthew Chan, and the newly formed David Crighton Choir gave a rousing rendition of Vaughan Williams’ Toward the Unknown Region, conducted by Michael D’Avanzo. This performance assembled what we believe is the largest group of performers in a JCMS concert to date, I hope to see it continue to grow in coming years! The recital series was of a very high standard with a huge variety of free concerts in College, organised by Jeremy Weinstein. Concerts included well-known pieces from the western cannon, hidden gems, and world premieres. This year we also hosted regular gigs and events in the Brewery Room, including a professional jazz workshop, a welcome addition to the social scene here at Jesus, arranged by Elin Douglass. The year was rounded off with a summer showcase concert and garden party including a large Colin the Caterpillar cake, all arranged by Annie Stedman to celebrate another successful year of music at Jesus. My thanks go out to the entire JCMS Committee, whose hard work and support has been invaluable throughout the year, the Dean of Chapel for his permission and support for the use of the Chapel, our new Director of Music Ben Sheen for his insights, and indeed anyone who has attended a JCMS event, either performing or in the audience. George Munro-Davies

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University Challenge The journey from team selection to appearing on University Challenge is relatively long and usually unsuccessful – Jesus last appeared on screen in 2016. I was delighted therefore, along with Sameer Aggarwal, Juliette Thomas, Josh Kaye and reserve Luca Donini, to get the phone call in early 2022 asking us to take part in Jeremy Paxman’s last series. We headed to the studios in Salford just a couple of weeks later for our first game against St Catherine’s, Oxford, with only our mascot (Aloysius the Chapel chicken), some plain shirts (no stripes, no logos) and our brains filled with hastily-memorised lists of Booker Prize winners and chemical elements. Being on set was a strange feeling, but any pre-game nerves were quickly settled as Sameer and Josh got us off to a flying start and we never looked back. We were thrilled with the result (although Sameer and I were slightly frustrated that the gong prevented us finishing the cricket bonuses!). We returned for the second round a few weeks later and dispatched a youthful team from University College, Oxford in similar style to take us through to the quarter-finals. While team spirits were high going into the final stint, by now several of the team were deep into their revision period – Sameer was doing his finals online in the hotel in between filming episodes. Against this backdrop, the results were less spectacular – in our first quarter-final we had no answer to a brilliant one-man show from UCL’s veteran captain James Salmon. A couple of days for sightseeing/revising in Manchester followed, including a very good-spirited pizza with upcoming opponents Newnham College, Cambridge. Having practised with Newnham, we expected a close game. The match, however, turned out quite one-sided, and Newnham had clearly been paying more attention at dinner – two of the questions had been discussed the night before! While we were disappointed to go out, it was great fun and thanks go to the producers and Jeremy Paxman for making us feel very welcome. While this felt like the end for us, of course for everyone else the fun was yet to begin – the first episode aired in November 2022 to an enthusiastic crowd in the Brewery Room. It was fantastic to see the Jesus community getting behind the team and many thanks for the kind messages of support throughout our run. Thanks also to Sameer, Juliette, Josh, Luca and everyone else who helped us along the way – it’s an experience we’ll remember for a long time. Hamish MacGregor n

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2022-2023 Reports Athletics Jesus College is once again brimming with athletic talent, with many of our students showcasing their skills at highly competitive events including BUCS and Varsity. Three main athletics events were the highlight of the season this year, with a few notable Jesuans forming part of the respective teams. The first of these was the Achilles tour at the start of April in which selected athletes from both Oxford and Cambridge competed against respective teams from Harvard/ Yale and Penn/Cornell. Chizute Ogbedeh (100m, 200m and 4 x 100m relay), Philip Odugbile (High Jump) and Reese Robinson (Triple Jump) all represented the Oxbridge squad. Notable mention goes to Reese and Philip for both winning their events against their talented Harvard/Yale counterparts and to Zute for running his first wind-legal sub 11 time in the 100m. Moving on to outdoor BUCS in late April, we saw Reese take the bronze medal in the triple jump, jumping an incredible 12.20m and well over the blues standard of 11.35m. Special mention also goes to Luke McCarron for finishing in the top 11% of cross country runners in BUCS cross country and to Zute for making it to the semi-finals of the 200m. Finally, our year culminated in the 148th Varsity Match against Oxford. We had eight Jesuans feature in this match, a slight increase from last year. Though we lost both the men’s and women’s matches this time, strong athletic talent from Jesus was on full display. Luke earned himself a silver medal in the 5000m, while Reese took home the gold in the triple jump. Zute also managed to dip under 10.9s in the 100m with a time of 10.85s, finally running the blues standard for the event. We hope that next year we can continue to add to our existing pool of talented athletes, and that our Jesuans continue to excel in future events. • Men’s Blues: Oli Hector (100mH, 200mH, 400mH, 4x100m), Chizute Ogbedeh (100m, 200m, 4x100m, 4x400m), Luke McCarron (5000m) • Women’s Blues: Phoebe Schofield (100mH, 200mH, 400mH), Reese Robinson (Long jump, Triple jump) • Men’s Seconds: Thieme Schmidt (Hammer Throw, Pole Vault), Matthew Dubery (3000m steeplechase) • Women’s Seconds: Lavina Delfini (400m). Chizute Ogbedeh *

Badminton It has been another wonderful year for the College badminton club. We have regularly had an amazing turnout to our weekly club nights, helping to introduce the sport to many new players and has built up a community of badminton fanatics in College. We have had a vast range of abilities at these sessions which has allowed players to develop their skills and learn from each other. The friendly and social atmosphere at these club nights has meant that these have been a pleasure for me to run! The new format of the College League this year has made our matches even more enjoyable, allowing us to play both doubles and singles games; not needing so many players meant that more matches were successfully arranged. Our Open 1s team put out

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an admirable performance in Division 1, gaining impressive wins against Trinity and Robinson. We also had some extremely tight and exciting games against St Catherine’s, Downing and Fitzwilliam. We had fewer players than our opponents for these games though, and had to play multiple games each, resulting in close losses. Our Womens’ team this year, captained by Min Xuan Ho, also had a very commendable performance in the College League in Division 2, with successful wins against Queens’, Murray Edwards and Homerton. We also ran a casual Open team this year, captained by Benjamin Zobel, which has allowed many players to enjoy playing competitively for the first time, and the team had a particularly strong victory against Girton 2s. We were unable to build on our previous successes at Cuppers this year, with both our Open and Mixed teams finishing in the group stages being pitted against with particularly challenging teams early in the group stages. I am extremely grateful to the other Captains for their efforts in organising matches and motivating players, as well as to Jia Guo for acting as Treasurer and helping me run the club. I wish the incoming President the very best in leading the club from strength to strength! Nikith Thummalapenta *

Boat Club This year was an extremely successful year for JCBC, especially in Easter Term when five out of eight crews were awarded blades (bumping four times). JCBC has never before seen such an amazing result. Additionally, the students from Jesus College who rowed for the University achieved amazing results too. Seb Benezcry won against Oxford in the blue boat and Sean Hayes, the stroke of the reserve team, rowed to victory as well. Isabelle Bastian and Jenna Armstrong rowed for the blue boat on the women’s side and secured a win against Oxford.

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On the Men’s Side in Michaelmas, four rowers undertook University Fours and lost in a very close final to St John’s. The Fairbairn’s race itself was a strong row. Although unable to repeat the winning performance of last year, they placed 2nd. Significant investment was made this year in the novice programme. With the support of the Boat Club Trust, an assistant coach was hired to focus on overseeing the club’s entire novice programme. This resulted in strong early performances at the Queens’ Ergs, which the NM1 won. The NM1 achieved a second place in the Fairbairn’s race. In Lent Term, the men’s side had three boats which all made it on for this year’s Lent Bumps, with one day cancelled due to bad weather. The M3 were bumped on the first day, but quickly figured out what to do and rowed over the remaining days. The M2, who had sunk steadily for a few years, found themselves back in the competition this year They finished +1. M1 bumped Pembroke and Downing and is now positioned third in the division. For the May Bumps, M1 had two returning university rowers. This helped to make the men’s side even stronger with now four boats competing. Thus, M4, M2 and M1 bladed (bumping four times). The M3 got bumped three times but showed an overall amazing performance. The Women’s side in Michaelmas saw a coxed four win Rob Roy’s Autumn Head, which was followed up by a good performance in the University Fours, although a very close final saw them lose by one second to LMBC. At Winter Head, they gained an excellent win as the fastest women’s crew of the day. The final weeks of preparation for Fairbairn’s was sadly affected by illness among the crew, and the end resulted in a 4th place. The W2 boat came 7th in their category at Fairbairn’s. As with the novice men, the novice women benefitted hugely from having the dedicated coaching support. A second place at Queens’ Ergs gave an indication of their abilities. The Fairbairn’s result of second showed this crew has a lot of potential. NW2 placed 5th in their category in Fairbairn’s. In Lent Term, the women’s side also had three boats which all made it on. The W3 found themselves surrounded with strong W2 crews and got bumped every day.

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The W2 bumped once and ended up as 2nd W2 on the river. The W1 started third and bumped Downing and claimed the Women’s Headship. The women’s side had two returning university rowers which strengthened their squad immensely. W4 and W3 showed amazing results at this year’s May Bumps, avoiding spoons. W2 was awarded blades for bumping four times. Outstandingly, our W1 claimed the Women’s Headship in Mays by bumping every day and were also awarded blades. Dominic Hey *

Boat Club Trust This year’s report is a pleasure to write. Many congratulations to Dominic Hey, President and Men’s Captain; Phoebe Penfold, Women’s Captain; Rachel Gould, Coxing Captain; Jonathan Conder (JC) Head Coach and Boathouse Manager; and Callum Bland, Novice Coach, and all who rowed, coxed or coached, at whatever level, on a remarkable year. From solid but unspectacular beginnings in the Fairbairn Term – lots of second places, one or two wins – if that’s going to happen, that’s the term in which you want it to happen; to a highly successful Lent Bumps – W1 going Head, M1 up two to 3rd, up two overall over six crews, three women’s, three men’s; and onto a truly amazing Mays – W1 “doing the double” and going up four to Head, M1 up four, five of our seven crews winning blades (W1, M1, W2, M2, M4). Scrutiny of the record books has yet to identify a better Mays – 2005 appears to come closest in recent times – and I am indebted to our good friend and supporter, Martin Harcourt-Williams, for the revelation that this was the first year since 1955 that a Jesus crew made four bumps in the first division in the Mays. The stuff of legends, making all Jesuans proud: the scenes in the Paddock on the last day and at the Mays Dinner will be long remembered. In addition, for the University, Jenna Armstrong and Isabelle Bastian rowed in the Women’s Blue Boat; Seb Benzecry in the Men’s; Sean Hayes in Goldie; and Liv Alliott in the Women’s Lightweight crew, all victorious over their Oxford opposition in this year’s “clean sweep”. Since then Jenna has been elected President of the women’s side of the CUBC and Seb of the men’s: a rare achievement for both Presidents to come from the same College, and the first time at Jesus since 2000. We wish them all success in the coming year. Within a general framework of only spending our income, the Trustees adapt policy and priority to circumstance. The Trust was formed with the explicit object of providing boats and other equipment. The husbanding of our resources allowed us some years ago to expand our contribution to part-funding of training camps in January, with the participating students paying half the cost themselves. In the last few years we sensed that there was a need to develop a better programme for those beginning rowing at Jesus so that the club could offer the opportunity to experience rowing to maximum effect to the maximum number. This has been a traditional strength of the JCBC but it became clear that the student demographic merited greater investment in our novices, and two years ago the Trust decided to make a donation to the College to enable it to employ a professional novice coach to support JC and allow him to concentrate on the senior crews. Since last September this has been Callum Bland, and we are delighted that Callum will be with the JCBC again this coming year. The impact of Callum’s efforts can be seen in the results of the lower boats and in the extremely rapid progress of a number of novices into upper boats. The Trust is unable to fund this excellent initiative indefinitely out of income and will

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need to look at additional resources if we wish to continue to do so. Meanwhile, we maintain our policy of funding the training camps – this year a week in January at a rowing centre in Portugal for twenty-four rowers, four coxes and four coaches, rowing twice a day, a very worthwhile foundation for the rest of the year. Our focused investment over many years in boats and equipment has put the club in a strong position sufficient to allow us to make a small adjustment in our acquisition profile, for example to supporting a new eight every four years rather than three. The Trust will continue to be able to fund small, more routine items; we have authorised, for example, the refurbishment of our women’s coxed four, Elizabeth Dann. Overall, the Trust has in the past five years spent in excess of £200,000 across equipment, coaching and training camps. The Trust continues its long-term investment strategy of “inflation + 4” as our benchmark for capital growth and income. Over the medium term, we have continued to exceed this target in capital growth, although the last 12 months have seen only 4.5% growth. For income growth – the more important of the two targets – we have achieved about I+3½%, but with the current very high inflation rates, we are nowhere near that target this year. However, we have built up a significant capital buffer over past years and have a sensible investment policy that together mean we do not believe policy or strategy changes are needed. We do have the facility to divert some capital to fund the JCBC, but do not deem that necessary at present. Our investments are managed solely by CCLA. They perform well, providing steady increases at moderate risk. After reaching a record high 18 months ago, our managed capital has fallen back slightly to £1.57m. Some further generous and regular donations have restricted this fall; our huge thanks to all of those donors. Over the first six months of 2023, our capital is up 4.9% and income by 1.7%, mainly due to a well-diversified and defensive portfolio. Our plan is still to switch some capital into Infrastructure in order to pick up yield and better match our liability profile, when that becomes possible. CCLA have continued to pay out steadily rising dividends, at an acceptable yield, providing us the main source of our funding for the JCBC. Much work is being done on the JCBC Bicentenary in 2027. Christopher Rodrigues and Sheena Cassidy Hope are Co-Chairs and there are four working groups: JCBC Strategy, led by Jon Hutton; Projects (Capital and Participation), led by Nick Tubbs; Celebrations, led by Richard Tett; College liaison, led by James Crockford working with College Director of Development and Alumni Relations, Emily Williams. All involved are keen that the Bicentenary be seen not as solely for the JCBC but as marking the contribution which the JCBC has made and continues to make to the College, and we have in mind a project which will bring that point out clearly. If you are interested in helping or being involved in the Bicentenary, please get in touch with any of us: contact details below. We are very grateful to those alumni who have, in increasing numbers, coached JCBC crews. We continue to need more alumni to help: if you can, please contact Jonathan Conder on boatman@jesus.cam.ac.uk, or Trustees Sheena Cassidy Hope on sheena.cassidyhope@mishcon.com or Matt Jones on mattjones@cantab.net We also encourage those who have not already done so to make a contribution to the JCBC by joining the Friends of the JCBC. Further information about the Trust can be found on www.jcbc.jesus.cam.ac.uk/trust; about the Friends on www.jcbc.jesus.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/JCBCFriendsSO+GA and, for younger supporters, our graduate donor scheme: www.jcbc.jesus.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/JCBCTrust_GraduateDonation.pdf In any event, David Reid would be very pleased to hear from you on judgedreid@sky.com

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The Trustees and their responsibilities are: Chairman Treasurer Investments Secretary College Links The Friends:

David Wootton Danny White Ewan Pearson Louise Couch James Crockford Richard Tett David Reid Helen Boldon Women’s Club/London Link Sheena Cassidy Hope Training/Coaching/ Quality of Rowing Matt Jones Boat Club Strategy/ Boatman/Boathouse Jon Hutton

dhwootton@gmail.com danny.c.white@hotmail.com e.pearson@gpb.eu louisecouch@gmail.com j.crockford@jesus.cam.ac.uk richard.tett@freshfields.com judgedreid@sky.com helenboldon@gmail.com sheena.cassidyhope@mishcon.com mattjones@cantab.net jon_hutton@hotmail.co.uk

Finally, we wish the incoming JCBC leadership – Rachel Gould, President; Sarah Sharp, Women’s Captain; Ruari McColl, Men’s Captain, and Lara Peralta, Coxing Captain – all success, with our full support, as they take the JCBC forward. David Wootton, Chair of Trustees *

JCBC Bicentenary 2027 With JCBC’s 200-year anniversary now only four years away, preparations have begun in earnest; our goal is to celebrate the Club’s past, inspire the present and ensure its future. Four working groups have formed to deliver the following: • JCBC strategy: We are developing a new overarching JCBC strategy of which the bicentenary will form a part; • Capital projects: We are identifying capital projects to drive accessibility and engagement with the Club, and its long-term success – both on the river and in supporting the health and wellbeing of its members; • Celebrations: A range of celebratory events and memorabilia, such as an update to JCBC’s “red book”, will be organised to mark the occasion, and early work has produced a range of exciting ideas; and • College liaison: We are excited to be working closely with College on ensuring that the bicentenary, as does JCBC as a whole, fits within Jesus College’s broader ambitions and strategy. Further details, including of opportunities to get involved, will also be circulated on the JCBC mailing list kindly managed by College – if you have not already signed up, you can do so using the form accessible by scanning the adjacent QR code, or by contacting the Development and Alumni Relations Office. The JCBC mailing list is also an excellent way to keep in touch with the Club more broadly, and through which the JCBC Trust’s termly newsletter is circulated and events are advertised. Nick Tubbs (2014)

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Climbing Climbing has seen a boom in popularity over the last few years, both within the University and nationwide, and Jesus College climbing club has continued to thrive this year. The academic year started off with an introductory session at Kelsey Kerridge, which was well-attended. We continued to run meets throughout the year at Kelsey Kerridge and Rainbow Rocket, as well as many members joining the University climbing club at their weekly sessions. Our climbing meets continued to be well-attended and well-enjoyed through the year, with more experienced climbers helping to guide newer climbers and reinforcing a great sense of community within the club The club helped fund our members’ climbing sessions through the year, allowing more people to try climbing and get involved with a new sport alongside their studies. Many thanks to Adam Jenkins, our treasurer, for dealing with the constant flow of receipts and reimbursements throughout the year. In addition to climbing, the club has branched out into slacklining! Slacklining involves trying to maintain balance on an elastic tightrope set up between two trees. It is a sport that often goes hand in hand with climbing, so this summer we invested in our own slackline for members to use at their leisure. Members enjoyed using this on sunny days throughout Easter Term and May week, and we are sure this will continue to see good use in the coming years. Luca De Flammineus *

Cricket After a victorious Cuppers campaign last year, the Jesus College Cricket Club (JCCC) were hungry to defend our title this year, however the heavens opened and the first half of our season was a complete washout. Problems with our pitch and an unfortunate drawing in the Cuppers (meaning many of our players were unavailable) led to us not making it to the knockout stages of the Cuppers competition this year Despite this, we had an incredible positive come out of this season – for the first time in 4 seasons, a JCCC team played on The Close, our home ground, which had been out of action due to building works. For many of our longest serving players, this was their first game on one of the best grounds in Cambridge, and we started our season with our annual game against The Jesters, a team consisting of many ex-Jesuans and JCCC captains. A brilliant bowling performance restricted them to under 100 which we knocked off with ease. Unfortunately, due to various scheduling conflicts and the bad weather we only managed one more game, our Old Boys’ game. Again, the weather intervened, giving the Old Boys a DRS win, but the highlight was seeing a few complete newcomers to the sport play and perform very well. Even though we only played three games this season, we had many JCCC debutants who will all play a significant role in our quest to regain our title next year. Whilst we didn’t get the volume of games or results that we hoped for this year, it was an honour to captain the JCCC this year alongside Billy Hughes as my vice-captain, and I am excited to play under Aditya Mishra, the captain for the 2024 season, as we look to get even better as a team. Krish Nanavati *

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Football Men’s team Following last year’s promotion and a 3-year hiatus from the topflight of college football, JCFC men’s 1s were eager to build on the strong foundations laid by Jamie Newnham’s captaincy. One wouldn’t have blamed the Freshers for mistaking the Jesus pitches with fortress Anfield, as our home dominance produced 11-1 and 6-2 wins over Selwyn and Queens and left us comfortably top of Division 1. However, our form soon changed for the worse. A game dominated by key injuries saw us crash out of the first round of Cuppers, losing 4-2 to Churchill, and the resulting absences of our star-studded blues players, Cai and Fortina, meant we whimpered to two losses to Caius and Pembroke before the end of Michaelmas. Yet, all hope was not lost. Genius from Bangor’s Gareth Bale helped us edge past Sidney Sussex 5-4 in the illustrious Plate competition, and an emphatic 4-1 win over Jesus Oxf*rd saw us (rightly) retain the Jesus x Jesus title. The new term came to be defined by woeful weather, changed tactics, and changed form. Moving myself to centre-mid and Boris to centre-back revolutionised our team. We began playing a brand of football akin to Cruyff’s Barcelona or Lasso’s AFC Richmond. Pitches across Cambridge were graced with our tiki taka as we romped to 4 consecutive victories: 13-0 vs Peterhouse (Plate quarters), 7-3 vs Robinson, 6-3 vs King’s (Plate semis), and finally a MOTM return for Jonny in a 7-3 win vs Churchill (revenge is sweet!). Three games left. First up a winner takes all match vs Homerton, the title race and the Plate final on the line. With our best performance of the season, and an Isaac Ogunyemi masterclass, we dismantled a Homerton side dominated by CUAFC players, winning 6-2, taking home our second piece of silverware and sustaining our dreams of a treble. Soon after, the long-awaited game vs Jesus Alumni further extended our win streak, but only thanks to a last-gasp winner from Will Zeng. Our efforts had meant that in our final game of the season we only needed to beat Fitz to win the division 1 title. No easy feat. Despite an iconic link-up between Cai and Boris which gave us hope, their 6 blues players ensured our title charge fell at the final hurdle. Nevertheless, the 2022/23 season will be remembered as one for the ages in JCFC history. Two cup wins, another year unbeaten at home and a second-place finish in our return to the Cambridge footballing elite. An impressive year for many, but our player of the season could only go to one man; with 57 goal contributions in 14 games, where would we be without Cai?

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Another exciting year in the topflight awaits us with Dilan and Boris at the helm of our charge for a historic treble, made even more difficult by the departure of key veterans, central to the ethos of JCFC. Here’s to hoping Fitz get charged with 115 breaches of FFP. Alex McDonald Women’s and non-binary team The 2022/23 season was an excellent one for the Jesus College Women’s and Non-Binary Football Team. An exciting taster session meant our season started fantastically, with both experienced players and those new to football being warmly welcomed into the team. Alongside the men’s teams, we purchased new kits this season adorned by a shiny new sponsor – the much-loved Gardies. This year’s league games were a mixed bag; we had a series of convincing wins followed by a couple of heavy defeats. However, the team showed extraordinary strength and resilience to fight for all games whether we were five goals up or down. A highlight of the season was our 13-0 win against Jesus College Oxford at Jesus-Jesus Varsity. Whilst we narrowly missed out on repeating our Cuppers victory of 2021/22, we finished the tournament in a respectable 2nd place. Outside football, we have also had a lot of fun. The year finished with a big barbeque to celebrate our season. Our team has learnt a lot this year – we have grown stronger together and have played some brilliant football across the year. We are particularly proud of all our new players this season who completely threw themselves into the sport, all improving immensely across the year. Bring on next season! Mia Barnes *

Hockey Jesus Hockey came back to the first division with a vengeance, and the mixed team leapt out of the blocks with four successive wins. With veterans and new talent, we were in pole position. Unfortunately, we had a fight on our hands. Week 5’s resounding win over a strong Caius-Girton team was not enough. We lost to St Catherine’s, Selwyn-Trinity Hall and St Johns-Newnham in the last three weeks of term. Despite this, JCHC finished with an impressive bronze in the Michaelmas League 2022.

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Before our Cuppers success, JCHC was tested in Lent. Sadly, the combination of academic study and sports was too much, and several fixtures were played below strength. Nonetheless, we beat Caius-Girton 10-6 (there is a trend here) and a four-player team thrashed Downing 7-1, with six goals from Matt Levine. Unfortunately, Jesus was relegated from the first division in Lent Term 2023. In Easter Term, Jesus returned to our hunting ground, Cuppers. In glorious weather we saw off our old rivals, Selwyn-Trinity Hall in a 5-2 victory. With slightly sunburnt necks, the defending champions were in the semis. The semi-final was a tough game in drastically different weather, against Fitzwilliam-Trinity. The methodology was attack, attack, attack. Olly Doggett scored three goals before Lucy Wimhurst slotted in a slick team move. With a 4-3 win for JCHC, the final was set up against St Johns-Newnham. This was always going to be a challenging game because St Johns-Newnham are titans in the college hockey league. So, an Olly Doggett shuffle in the first two minutes saw Jesus take a surprise lead. The game turned with two goals from the opposition. This tit-for-tat continued, with Jesus 4-2 up at half time. All hope seemed lost, when midfield maestro Ryan Lynch got cramp, and we were 5-4 down. Yet, like a phoenix, Jesus equalised via a dubious ghost-goal scored by Lizzie Jack. Johns-Newnham were not impressed. They lost the mental battle and gave Jesus the edge. Then, Olly Doggett scored his fifth goal of the match to give Jesus Hockey the Cuppers title 2023, with a 6-5 win. We do not know how many titles this is on the trot. It is at least our sixth title in a row, but we might be up to 8. Therefore, if any alumni readers have Jesus Hockey Cuppers trivia from the past couple of decades, we would love to know! Nick Power and Patrick Thomson *

Mixed Lacrosse This year has been an extremely strong one for Jesus College Mixed Lacrosse. We started the year with a small team, many former players having graduated. This meant we were able to welcome lots of new faces, all of whom showed real commitment and worked hard to develop their skills on the team. This effort and motivation really paid off and left us in the strong position of 4th place in Michaelmas, having faced some very tough competition. New challenges came in Lent Term, when we struggled to find enough players for each match due to clashing schedules. This meant we often played with a

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reduced team, against a side with more players than us. Despite this, we managed to retain our position of 4th place in our division, which was a huge success. There were two important days that really showed the strength of our Mixed Lacrosse team. Jesus-Jesus Varsity, against Oxford, brought out one of the biggest teams we have seen so far, as well as one of the strongest games we have ever played. This strength led to us securing an extremely impressive 5-2 victory against our rivals. We showed strength again in the Cuppers tournament. We were missing a few of our key players, but nevertheless managed to get to the quarter finals, playing a few brilliant matches to get us there. The quarter finals were extremely close, with the match ending as a draw at full time, meaning that we continued play to golden goal. An injury to one of our star players was followed quickly by a goal from the other team, halting our progress, but it was an incredible performance for our team. On behalf of Nadia and myself, I would like to say a huge congratulations to the team this year, as well as a massive thank you to all who have supported us. We wish our new captains, Thea Watts and Georgia Baker, the best of luck for next year! Georgia King *

Netball The 2022-2023 year for Jesus College Netball Club has been one of the most successful to date. Recruiting many freshers at the beginning of the year, we were able to maintain two mixed netball teams and a ladies’ team, while introducing a new male team to the men’s Cuppers tournament. All the matches, scores and action shots were shown on our Instagram @jesusnetball After last year’s highly successful performance, the ladies team started in Division 1 with the Mixed 1s team, and the Mixed 2s started the year off in Division 2. Being the only Mixed 2s team in Division 2, the team performed well every week against every other team ending the season 3rd in the division. Mixed 1s had an unbeaten season once again, and placed 1st in Division 1. The ladies’ team did not back down from the

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challenge either and secured a respectable joint 3rd place in Division 1 at the end of the season. In Michaelmas, Jesus College Oxford arrived at Jesus College Cambridge with the aim of redeeming themselves from last year’s loss on their home courts. However, the mixed team showed no signs of weakness in their defence and managed to get back-to-back wins against the other place! After a high performing season, we were all raring to go when the Cuppers matches were announced. Mixed 1s started off strong, unbeaten in the group stages, with a similar performance from the ladies’ team. Mixed 1s showed no signs of weakness all the way to the final where we played Pembrooke. After last year's narrow loss, the team wanted redemption and managed to secure the win becoming the 2023 Mixed Cuppers champions! The ladies too showed a robust performance to the final, for a nail-biting match against St John’s. Scoring evenly throughout the final then extending the game into extra time, the ladies narrowly lost a very tough match. The new men’s team played in a round robin Cuppers tournament and became runners up to Pembroke. Lucy, Liv and I are enormously proud of the club and every one of its members for the performances shown this year and we are excited to pass leadership to the next captains for what I am sure will be another successful year! Harry Marsh, Liv Fitzpatrick and Lucy Thompson *

Rugby Jesus returned for another season with a very strong squad, motivated for success in both the league and Cuppers. However, with the absence of the Blues from the league matches, we were reunited with Queens in the league and “Queesus” was continued. As a combined team, we made an early impact in pre-season with a dominant 40-10 victory over Caius placing us into division 1 for the season, alongside seven other teams. Our first league match was against Trin-Christs, where determined to make a statement, we won 43-5. The following week was a quieter 12-5 win against a forward-heavy Robinson side where a last-minute tackle from Dan Starkey saved the game.

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Unfortunately, our success was ended by a very well drilled Fitz-Sidney side in a 26-0 defeat. Despite this, Michaelmas ended successfully as we beat Jesus College Oxford in Cambridge 21-5. Lent Term started slowly due to frozen pitches and winnable games against Pirton and Downing were cancelled, costing the team valuable points. Lent also saw the start of the Cuppers campaign against the All Greys. With the Blues away on tour, and struggling for numbers, the game was a grueling 10-a-side match. The boys displayed real heart and coming back from being behind twice, we headed into the next round with a narrow 28-21 win. However, problems with numbers persisted and we were forced to forfeit the next round. Elsewhere, league games in Lent saw a spectacular 31-31 draw against Johns, leaving us as the only team undefeated against the Red Boys since the pandemic, and a 27-24 victory against Catz-Homerton, with the team overall coming fourth in the division. Easter Term saw the continuation of Cuppers where in the Plate semi-final we faced a derby match against our league counterparts Queen’s. Proving that we were the better half of the team, we cruised past them 57-5 leaving us to face Catz-Homerton in the final. Unfortunately, a lack of discipline resulting in three yellow cards during the game lead to a 24-19 defeat. Individually, the players must also be commended, with 8 players representing the University across union and league Varsities, including four named in the Blues union squad. Congratulations also to Sam Brookes for winning the player of the season award. Finally, good luck to the new captain and president, Charles Kantolinna and Sam Brookes, who are already taking significant steps to ensure the club continues in a positive direction. James Bacon *

Sailing Jesus College Sailing Club enjoyed a successful year which culminated in an excellent day at Cuppers. The club sent three teams of four sailors to compete in a day of two-boat team racing at Grafham Water sailing club. As the team with the most entrants, the day was looking good for Jesus. The first team won two races in the top league but sadly this was not enough to prevent a dominant Caius team from winning the overall event.

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Meanwhile, the twos and threes showed great team spirit to win a race each in the third division, especially given the number of sailors in their team who had little race experience. At the University level, both Will Adler and Oliver Dennis competed in the Varsity match, with Oliver helping to secure victory in the ‘A’ string Varsity Match Race. We look forward to building on our successes next year. Will Adler *

Squash This year saw a strong performance from the Jesus College squash club, enjoyed by casual and competitive members alike. On the competitive side, we ran two mixed squads this year, each of which fielded teams of 5 players for weekly league matches, as well as Cuppers, which ran throughout Lent Term. Both teams performed well in their respective leagues. The firsts achieved a respectable position in division one, while the seconds showed their strength in a division almost entirely made up of College first teams, finishing second and narrowly missing promotion to the first division. Jesus teams also did well in the Cuppers group stage, with both teams progressing to knockout rounds. Whilst Cuppers was cut short due to problems within the University squash club, our promising performance this year has given us high expectations for next year’s contest! Squash is a beginner-friendly sport, and this year saw lots of new players giving it a go, with many going on to play socially throughout the year. New players made good use of the equipment provided by the club (leading to an ever-growing pile of broken rackets beside the court!) and we are looking forward to some of these players getting involved in the more competitive side of the sport next term. While there were no league or Cuppers matches in Easter Term, we organised weekly training sessions for team members, with more experienced players leading the sessions and giving guidance. Special thanks to Matthew Levine for leading these sessions. They introduced newer players to more drills and skills to incorporate into their game and helped to grow the sense of community within Jesus College Squash Club. Luca De Flammineis *

Table Tennis This year was very successful for the Jesus College Table Tennis Club. In the league, Jesus 1s started Michaelmas Term in division 4 (out of 7). Throughout Michaelmas and Lent, our 1st team lost only two matches, both to a solid Pembroke side. These strong performances allowed us to gain back-to-back promotions, seeing us in division 2 at the start of the next academic year! On the Cuppers competition front, Jesus managed to get to the quarter finals when faced with a formidable King’s side. Although we fought hard, we ultimately lost to King’s, the eventual winners of this year’s Cuppers tournament. Congratulations to all those who represented the JCTTC this year. Special mentions go to Susan Bikram Thapa (Jesus 1s), Jamie Newnham and Martin You (co-captains of Jesus 2s). Also, to James Cain (Jesus 1s) who has served the club for the last three years, however, is unfortunately leaving this year. For the coming academic year, the captaincy will be passed on from myself to Susan Bikram Thapa, who looks to help the JCTTC progress further! Raunak Khanduja

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Ultimate Frisbee From the start of the year, Jesus Ultimate Frisbee was strong, recruiting many freshers and newcomers at the Freshers’ Fair. Our first big event was Varsity: Jesus Oxford versus Jesus Cambridge, which this year Cambridge was hosting. Jesus Oxford brought a fairly small team, but they were all keen and athletic which made for some tough matchups! We gave them our returning alumni players to even up the numbers, but despite Oxford’s best efforts, we took a convincing 9-3 win. A fun day was had by all, and many of our frisbee players competed in other sports across the day too. On cold and rainy days in Michaelmas Term, we were lucky to have the budget to book indoor courts at Kelsey Kerridge Sports Centre to train for the upcoming indoor Cuppers. Indoor ultimate frisbee is played as a five aside game on a basketball court – compared to its outdoor counterpart, a seven aside game on a rugby pitch – and this comes with a different set of tactics, especially as you can’t blame the wind when your throw goes off course! Armed with these training sessions, we were seeded fourth team out of fourteen going into the Cuppers tournament. After three wins in our pool, and two bracket game wins against Trinity and then ‘Thundercatz’ (composed of Colleges including Fitz, Catz and Caius), we were through to the final. Here we faced ‘Purple Squirrels’ (Girton and Magdalene) who were a sporty and talented team, yet the game went our way with a score of 10-2, making us indoor Cuppers champions! We were incredibly proud and happy that our hard work in training had paid off. Commendations go to Luke Piggott (2022) and Jago Foord (2022), our players of the tournament. In addition to indoors, we trained and played matches outdoors on our rugby pitch throughout the year. We caught regular sightings of deer, foxes and fox cubs at our Thursday evening trainings, perhaps keen to see what Ultimate Frisbee is all about! In Michaelmas, we topped College league division 2, and took bronze in division 1 in Lent. At outdoor Cuppers in Easter Term, we won four successive games, only to be narrowly beaten 4-6 in the final against Thundercatz, earning us a proud 2nd place! A special mention to Miles Alfrey (2020) who is one of our top scorers and has shown incredible commitment to the team for the past three years – we wish him every success as he graduates this year.

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I am incredibly proud of all that our team have achieved this year, and I wish to congratulate our fantastic new leaders: captains Luke Piggott and Jago Foord, and vice-captain Helen Soane (2022). I can’t wait to see what successes next year will bring. Imogen Perkins *

Volleyball Jesus College Volleyball was reignited this year with the team attending regular indoor sessions as well as opportunistic indoor and outdoor sessions. JCVC competed in the indoors Cuppers tournament in Easter Term and were proud to be one of the only Colleges that was able to field a team without help from others! Some highlights from the year include Aiden putting up a monster block, winning us the point and then immediately attempting a jump serve that didn’t even make it to the net! Another example is Shreyaa managing a perfect pass without even realising the game had started! Next year we are hoping to put on a stronger performance in Cuppers and welcome the incoming freshers into the team. Mason Frudd n

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Members’ News People K P ADDO KUFUOUR (1964) became Chancellor of the Kumasi Technical University, Ghana in September 2022. A L ARTER (1985) was awarded a CBE in the King’s New Year Honours List 2023 for services to the pensions industry and to charity. J C BARON (1978) was appointed a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in the King’s Birthday Honours List 2023 for his public and political service. John has served as the Member of Parliament for Basildon and Billericay since 2001. A M BRYCE (2012) published their first book Grounded (Text Publishing), a popular science book about soil in August 2022. M J CIECHANOWICZ (2002) moved to Hampton School from the City of London School where she continues to teach Spanish and French. She was promoted to Assistant Head of UCAS and Careers in 2022. J L CHEN (2010) completed his PhD at Jesus College with a thesis entitled The spread of pathological assembilies in neurodegenerative disease. M G CLARKE (1974) was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath for public service in the King's Birthday Honours List 2023. Martin has been the Government Actuary and head of the actuarial profession in government since 2014. T A DARNTON (1986) has published a new picture book with Simon & Schuster entitled My Brother is an Avocado, a warm and funny stage-by-stage tour through all the sizes of a growing baby. I D DERBYSHIRE (1977) published The Iron Raj: Railways’ Economic Impact on Uttar Pradesh and Colonial North India (1860-1914) with Cambridge Scholars Publishing. N E DIMMOCK (1998) is undertaking a temporary posting to Tokyo until August 2024, along with his wife R J DIMMOCK (2002) and their two children. Nathan and Rosie would be very pleased to hear from other Jesuans in Japan. H T G DRUMMOND (2008) has published his first book, The Cantigas de Santa Maria: Power and Persuasion at the Alfonsine Court, which offers a new perspective to the song collection, probing how the Cantigas use their music and text, together with rhetorical devices, to communicate with their desired audience. N A FLECK (1976) was awarded The William Prager Medal 2023 by the Society of Engineering Science (SES) for his outstanding contributions in combining theoretical and experimental research in micro-architected materials, composites, ferroelectrics, and strain gradient plasticity, which have significant engineering implications in aero-engines, defence and ship-building. D V GIBBS (1984) has been awarded a PhD from London University for his thesis, The laws of King Aethelberht. J R GIBBS (1986) was appointed Bishop of Rochester in March 2022.

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M J HAYHURST (1962), D R TANT (1961), M P KENDALL (1969) and R J COWPER (1978) represented Jesus College in the annual Inter-College Alumni Golf competition at Gog Magog Golf Club in April. They finished halfway down the table with Fitzwilliam College emerging victorious. Expressions of interest in playing in next year’s competition would be most welcome and should be directed to Mike Hayhurst via the Development and Alumni Relations Office. A R C KERSHAW (1971) has taken on the role of chairing the Architects Registration Board since June 2020 and, from April 2023, will become the Chair of the Legal Services Board. D KOHN (1991) was awarded the 2022 RIBA House of the Year Award for The Red House. R J LLOYD (2011) was appointed Canon Chancellor and Director of Learning and Participation at Gloucester Cathedral. J A O’DONNELL was appointed Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO) by the King in the 2023 New Year Honours and, in the same month, made Organist Emeritus of Westminster Abbey. He was also appointed Professor in the Practice of Organ and Sacred Music at Yale University. E M PERCY (1982) was appointed Senior Lecturer in Feminist Theology and Ministry Studies at Aberdeen University in January 2023. M D PIERCE (1983) retired as Bursar and a Fellow of Selwyn College Cambridge in November 2022. He has taken up the role of interim Bursar and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College for the academic year 2023-24. M RADIVOJEVI´C (2015) was promoted from Lecturer to Associate Professor in Archaeological Science at UCL. Dr Radivojević also published The Rise of Metallurgy in Eurasia: Evolution, Organisation and Consumption of Early Metal in the Balkans monograph in December 2021 as the lead editor and lead author of this Open Access volume. C L REES (1992) was appointed King’s Counsel in March 2023.

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J E REES (1996) was appointed Recorder of the Crown Court and assigned to the Wales Circuit in May 2023. S M H SHUBBER (1965) published his latest book, The United Nations Convention Against Corruption, which was published in Baghdad in Arabic. A STILLMARK (1958) received the Austrian Federal Chancellor’s Office prize for literature translation for his translation from German of Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s classic comedy The Incorruptible Servant. It is the first translation to English of this work. Mr Stillmark also received the award in 2002 and again in 2017 making this a hat-trick for him of Austrian translation awards. M A TOMLINSON (1981) has published chapters in two recently published books, the first Balancing the Rights of the Individual with the “Common Good” – Ethical and Policy Frameworks for Covid-19 Pandemic Management, in The COVID-19 Pandemic Collection, and the second Risk, Proportionality and Necessity: An Evidence-Based Critique of COVID-19 Pandemic Management Strategies, in Ethical Implications of COVID-19 Management. M H I TURNER and R LEVY (both 2019) created an app for the 2023 May Ball which featured an interactive 3D map of Jesus College. Their company – BlueProof – was founded in 2022 and specialises in building interactive digital 3D maps for events. For more information contact them at: https://www.blueproof.online/ D E TYRRALL (1973) splits his time between drumming in London, aquatic activities in Dorset and Munro-bagging in Scotland, but still undertakes some research with the Jesus College Intellectual Forum and at Staffordshire University where he is a Visiting Professor. To keep in touch, email david.tyrrall@cantab.net

Births Liam and Georgia ATWAL (both 2004) have a son, Conor William George, a brother to Jackson. Marina BANSARD (née BRADBURY) (2003) and her husband Arnaud have a son, Gabriel Archie Julien and a daughter, Juliette Poppy Marcelle. James CHERVAK (2003) and his wife Jacqueline have a daughter, Isabella Marie. Marta CIECHANOWICZ (2022) and her husband Steven have a daughter, Thea Petronella Fletcher. Tim and Christie CROWTER (both 2012) have a son, Reuben. Ken EAMES (1996) and his wife Ellen (Corpus Christi, 2006) are delighted to announce the arrival of their son, Geoffrey Peter Maximilien, a brother to Alexander. Anna GRUNSEIT (2013) and her husband Gwilym have a daughter, Aurelia Elsie Blunt. Chris HELLMUND (2010) and his wife Louise have twin daughters, Clara and Annabelle. Kimberley SLADE (nee Whittaker, 2005) and her husband Aeron, have a daughter, Margaret.

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Marriages and Civil Partnerships Samantha BASTIAN (2014) and James POLLARD (2013) married on 1 September 2023 at Jesus College. Alexander Harri BELL-THOMAS (2016) married Elizabeth ROBSON (2014) on 18 September 2022 at Jesus College. Marina BRADBURY (2003) married Arnaud Bansard on 26 November 2022 at Vincennes Town Hall, France. Isabel BRÜGGEMANN married Arthur NEUBERGER (both 2014) on 20 August 2022 at Jesus College. John CHEN (2010) married Yitong Shen on 21 August 2022 in Jesus College Chapel. Stephen ELHABBAL and Molly LEWIS (both 2013) entered into a civil partnership on 13 December 2022 at Treseren, Cornwall. Kathryn-Anne FRAZER (2019) married David Masters on 7 August 2021 at Willowfield Parish Church, Belfast. Chris HELLMUND (2010) married Louise Ainsworth on 28 May 2021 at Old Marylebone Town Hall, London. Chris PAVLOU (2009) married Eleanor Walter on 9 May 2022 at South Farm, Cambridgeshire. Daniel Lee PETRIDES (2012) married Victoria Louise Yee on 13 August 2022 at Jesus College. Luke SPERRIN (2007) married Alexandra Nicholson on 20 August 2022 at Jesus College. Anthony SPICE (2013) married Priscilla Tse on 15 July 2023 in Jesus College Chapel Madeleine STEER (2013) married Erik Landin (Selwyn, 2012) in April 2022 at Cefn Tilla Court, Wales. Alison WYCINOWSKI (2018) married Giles Maund on 22 July 2022 in Branford, Connecticut, USA. n

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Obituaries Fellows Ian Mark Le Mercier Du Quesnay was born on 25 April 1947 and died on 12 October 2022 aged 75. Ian was elected a Fellow of Jesus in 1983 on his appointment to a University Lectureship in Classics. He held many College Offices over a period of 19 years, including Director of Studies in Classics, Admissions Tutor and Senior Tutor (1992-2002). After leaving Jesus, Ian took up the position of Bursar at Newnham College, which he held until his retirement in 2014. Throughout his career, Ian continued to carry out academic research, writing and publishing books and articles well into his retirement. He was the author of various studies of Republican and Augustan poetry and co-editor of Catullus: Poems, Books, Readers (2012) and The Cambridge Companion to Catullus (2021). Ian enjoyed a happy childhood in Skegness with his sisters, Denise and Karen and his brother Andrew. He shared a love of animals with his father, and together they kept jackdaws, magpies and other small pets. He reminisced about fun times dancing in the kitchen with his mother. He attended Skegness Grammar School, before winning an undergraduate place to study Classics at the University of Birmingham. It was on an induction visit to Birmingham that Ian first met his future wife of 53 years, Heather Openshaw. A fellow Latin student, she says that they were academics rivals before they became friends. Both Ian and Heather were awarded first-class degrees and stayed on for PhDs, although neither finished their doctorates. Ian was appointed to a temporary lectureship after only one year, which later turned into a permanent position. Ian and Heather married on 30 August 1969 and owned two beloved Burmese cats, before becoming parents to two daughters, Anna and Eleanor. They shared the care and upbringing of their children; Ian often picked them up from nursery and school, and then later, parented alone for extended periods when Heather took a position in Hong Kong. Family life was busy and happy, and they all shared a love of annual family holidays on the Isles of Scilly. Academic collaborator and lifelong friend Professor Tony Woodman is Gildersleeve Professor of Classics Emeritus at the University of Virginia, USA. He first met Ian in 1973 at the AGM of the Classical Association when Ian was a young lecturer in Birmingham. In his tribute at Ian’s funeral, he spoke about Ian’s eagerness to meet fellow Latinists from different institutions. Classics Professor at Newcastle David West established a forum for northern Latinists called Seminar Boreas in the 1970s, and Ian became a regular attendee, leading him to meet Francis Cairns who took over the society. Tony describes this as a “crucial friendship” because Francis persuaded Ian to publish the results of his research (he had his own publishing business). This resulted in two papers in Papers of the Liverpool Latin Seminar (PLLS) and two papers on the Eclogues. Woodman finished his tribute: “When David West, whom Ian so much admired, published his Inaugural Lecture at Newcastle in 1970, he entitled it Individual Voices. For half a century Ian’s has been an individual voice in Latin scholarship, instantly recognisable and always enlightening. Throughout that time, I have enjoyed the privilege

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of Ian’s scholarly advice. Like Francis Cairns, I showed Ian drafts of almost everything I wrote, knowing that I could rely on him to give generously of his time to read what I had written and to give me honest and sometimes brutal comments. The future will be very bleak, now that he is no longer at the other end of a phone call or email, ready to debate with relish the questions, large or small, to which his scholarly life was devoted.” Many former students have shared fond memories of Ian. Tom Stuttard (Classics 1994-7) wrote: “I used to love visiting his large study, covered floor to ceiling in Classical books for supervisions. These sessions of intense analysis of Latin texts were regularly interspersed by Ian’s wonderfully dry sense of humour, and he would often make an observation that resulted in the whole room (himself included) collapsing with laughter. As Classicists in Jesus we were also blessed by Ian’s generosity as a host. I remember with such fondness the Beaujolais Nouveau evenings in the Michaelmas term, the annual Classics dinner in the middle term and the garden party in the summer. As a Director of Studies Ian was more than just a supervisor who taught us how to interpret Latin texts and how to think, he also had a genuine care for each of his charges and was a hugely influential source of guidance and advice for life outside of and after Cambridge. For the learning, the fun, the laughter and the mentoring I will always remain grateful to him.” Professor Roy Gibson said that as an undergraduate during the 1980’s, he was entranced by Ian’s lectures. Ian was atypical of Cambridge Classics academics at the time and was “unlike anyone else”. As a second year PhD student, Roy’s original supervisor left for the USA, and he was pleased to be transferred to Ian. He said: “Ian always took the texts seriously. He took my work and my questions seriously and was generous with his time; supervisions could last for two and a half hours. He was intellectually serious, thoughtful and honest.” Roy remembers that Ian would pause before responding to students and always gave a considered approach, saying: “I’ve learnt from him to never answer a question until I’m sure what I want to say.” Ian supported Roy in the early years of his career, first finding him a Research Fellowship at Sidney Sussex, then providing encouragement and a glowing reference to apply for a role at Manchester. Roy said: “Coming from Birmingham, Ian was unusually openminded about academic life outside Oxbridge, and he was the main factor in me getting my first job.” Ian continued to support Roy over the years by reading his work and advising him how and where to get it published. Former student Verity Harte is now Professor of Philosophy and Classics at Yale in the USA. She said: “I am enormously grateful to Ian, whose Latin literature supervisions shaped my intellectual habits as I pursued my own obsession with ancient philosophy into an academic career. Something about the detail, precision and care with which he engaged the classical texts stayed with me, although I cannot possibly compete with his incomparable learning or voracious reading.” Current Director of Studies in Classics at Jesus, Professor James Clackson, wrote about Ian’s time at Jesus: “I joined Jesus in 1998 when Ian was Senior Tutor. It was a time of transition at the College, with a new Master – soon to be diagnosed with cancer leading to a tragically early death, the Domestic Bursar also absent on sick leave, and a quick succession of College Bursars. Ian consequently did far more than is normally expected of a Senior Tutor, and took over much of the day-to-day business of running the College when other College Officers became unable to perform their duties. Ian’s attention to detail, his quick grasp of complex situations, and his ability to see all sides of a question made him a superb administrator. Administrators are sometimes viewed as pen-pushers who delight in the accumulation of paperwork, but Ian was not of that sort. For him, people came first, and if the rules stood in the way of treating everyone fairly, then the

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rules had to be changed or subverted. In meetings Ian took time to explain his proposed course of action to those with other views. His patience and persistence in arguing what he knew to be right (with justification, as future events revealed in most cases) was sometimes mistaken for stubborn ponderousness, but no one who listened when Ian spoke could be in doubt about his mental speed and agility. He was one of the most acute judges of people that I have ever known, able to sum up strengths and weaknesses of individuals with a memorable turn of phrase. “As a Director of Studies, Ian was a gifted teacher who inspired devotion in his students. He was a firm believer that a classical education should mean that graduates knew how to translate Latin and Greek. Students were sometimes thrown by Ian’s preference for them to prepare for supervisions by reading the set text in the original Latin rather than writing an essay on the basis of an English translation or a summary of recent literary criticism, but they all soon came round to Ian’s way of doing things. Ian did not turn his back on the latest scholarship – indeed he had a phenomenal knowledge (and a large personal library) of contemporary research, but he always maintained that students should be given the opportunity to engage directly with Homer, Virgil, and other classical authors. Ian’s insistence on the importance of an excellent training in Latin and Greek and his support for those who were beginners in the languages led to a distinctive Jesuan approach to the subject within the University. More widely, he was a strong voice for reform of the Classical Tripos, and one of the people who did most to bring about a new degree course which could be taken by those who had not been taught Latin at school. He was a huge support to me personally when I took over as Director of Studies. We held a formal meeting every year for reflection on good practice and planning and Ian was always ready to discuss issues as they arose or answer questions with characteristic sharp wit and warm humour. Among many things, he taught me the need to care for all the students reading the subject, not just those who worked hard or who would achieve first-class grades. He treated all undergraduates equally, listening to their concerns and finding solutions to their problems. Ian knew that academic performance could not be separated from a student’s general well-being, and he was the exemplary embodiment of a Director of Studies who was concerned for the whole person, not just a student’s place on the class-list.” Dr Penny Wilson, Emeritus Fellow of Murray Edwards College, was a friend and colleague of Ian’s for over fifty years, in Birmingham and Cambridge. She wrote: “In fifty years of knowing him, my closest interactions with Ian came in the years we spent in intercollegiate activity as Senior Tutors, and especially over the development of CamCORS. Both a maverick and a consummate team-player, he was a listener, a visionary, and a problem-solving genius. I and Cambridge owe him so much.” Matthew Lavy KC was a postgraduate student when he worked with Ian on a new supervision reporting and accounting system called CamCORS. He wrote: “Ian has for many years been something of a role model for me: I have always hugely admired the way he combined his intellect with pragmatism, persistence, humanity, and just a smidgeon of mischief, to galvanise the Colleges and University into improving their processes and systems for the greater good. CamCORS was a paradigm example: it would never have been possible but for Ian’s extraordinary feat in persuading the entire cohort of Senior Tutors that they should bypass central University purchasing bureaucracy and instead fund a small, home-grown development implemented by a couple of postgraduate students (me and Alistair Turnbull). CamCORS brought the supervision reporting process into the early 21st century for the benefit of Colleges and

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students alike. Through its use of data analytics (Ian’s idea), it significantly increased transparency, thereby highlighting the extent of inequality of provision of supervisions as between the Colleges. Ian was ahead of his time; use of data analytics to expose unfairness may be common now but was rather less so in 2001. I am very much indebted to Ian for his support when I decided to leave Cambridge and become a barrister – both in terms of the generous references he provided and in terms of his projection of utter conviction that I was making the right move.” Ian leaves behind his wife Heather, their two daughters Anna and Eleanor, and grandson Charles. The College held a funeral service for Ian on 17 November 2022. Written by the editor with thanks to Heather Du Quesnay, James Clackson, Matthew Lavy, Penny Wilson, Tony Woodman and for their contributions. Thanks also to Ian’s past students Tom Stuttard, Roy Gibson and Verity Harte.

Society of St Radegund Lady Christine Dorothy Jennings (née Bennett) was born on 30 December 1927 and died on 17 June 2022 aged 94. Christine arrived at Jesus College in October 1952 to work as Tutor’s Secretary, where she met Robbie Jennings, then Senior Tutor/Tutor for Admissions. Their working relationship grew into a romantic one, and they married in 1955. Sir Robert Yewdall Jennings (19 October 1913 – 4 August 2004) was Whewell Professor of International Law at Cambridge University from 1955 to 1982 and a Judge, and then President, of the International Court of Justice from 1982, the year that he was knighted. Together, they enjoyed holidays in the Lake District, trips to Glyndebourne, but, more than anything, spending time with their children and grandchildren. Christine sang in the Cambridge University Music Society choir for many years and was a keen researcher and writer of local history, notably of Grantchester, the village where they lived. After her husband’s death, Christine endowed a bursary fund in his name to the College. The Sir Robbie Jennings Memorial Fund made a significant difference to many students over the years, enabling them to support their studies through travelling and training projects that wouldn’t otherwise have been possible. Lady Christine became a member of the Society of St Radegund in 2006 and attended College events regularly including St Radegund dinners and alumni garden parties. She wrote a book about her late husband called: Robbie: The Life of Sir Robert Jennings, which was published by Troubadour in 2019. Christine is survived by her children Dick, Pippa and Jo, her nine grandchildren, and a growing number of great grandchildren.

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Charles F. M. Rawlinson MBE, MA, FCA, FCT, FRSA was born on 18 March 1934 and died peacefully at home on 21 May 2023, aged 89. Charles Rawlinson was born in Rugby and educated at Canford School and Jesus College, Cambridge to which he won an open exhibition in History in 1951. He then read law, graduating his BA in 1955 and his MA in 1966. He rowed head of the river in the College First Lent Boat and sang in the Chapel Choir. Returning to Rugby, he took articles with A. E. Limehouse and Co., chartered accountants and qualified as a chartered accountant in 1958, taking sixth prize in the country in the final examination. He joined Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. (now KPMG) in November 1958, working in London, Milan and, for seven months in 1960-61 in Toronto. In 1962 he joined Morgan Grenfell & Co. in the corporate finance department, which led to a long career, including roles as managing director of The Investment Bank of Ireland, partner in the corporate finance division, Group Finance Director, joint Chairman of the bank, and Vice-Chairman of Morgan Grenfell Group plc. He also served as Chairman of Morgan Grenfell (Asia) Ltd in Singapore for 13 years. After retiring from the firm in 1994, he became a Senior Advisor to West Merchant Bank. He travelled extensively for Morgan Grenfell, covering various countries and regions. Additionally, he was involved with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), serving on various committees including serving as Chairman of the Institute’s Industrial Members’ Advisory Committee on Ethics. He served as Chairman of the Hundred Group of Finance Directors from 1984 to 1986, an exclusive organization for the largest UK companies’ finance directors. He co-founded the group, served as its Chairman, and was awarded honorary life membership. He was also a Fellow of the Association of Corporate Treasurers and the Royal Society of Arts. In 1974 Charles became involved with the National Association of Boys’ Clubs (now known as Clubs for Young People) initially as a member of the finance committee but later as honorary treasurer and Chairman from 1992 to 1994 during which time he oversaw the controversial admission of girls; he remained an Honorary Vice-President of CYP. Charles was a board member of the following listed companies: Willis Faber plc, Jefferson Smurfit Group plc, API Group plc, of which he was Chairman for twelve years, and Yule Catto & Co. plc. In retirement, he became Chairman and later an adviser to the privately-owned Boxford Group which, from its origins in fruit-growing in Suffolk and the production of Copella Apple Juice, has developed a leading golf and leisure complex known as The Stoke-by-Nayland Club. He was also for some years a director of Hedley Wright & Co. Ltd, a wine importer in Bishops Stortford. Charles served numerous roles in the community, including as parish treasurer and churchwarden in Arkesden, as Chairman of the Peache Advowson Trust and as a member of the Central Board of Finance of the Church of England. In 1988 he joined the board of the Cambridge Symphony Orchestra, then became Chairman. He led the organisation through its transition into the Britten Sinfonia, founded by Charles together with artistic director Nicholas Cleobury and the great oboist Nicholas Daniel. He remained as Deputy Chairman as the BS became one of the leading chamber orchestras in Europe under the brilliant management of David Butcher.

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Charles also devoted much time and resource to the music at Ely Cathedral, where he was a trustee of the Ely Cathedral Trust and a member of the Council of the Order of St Etheldreda. At Jesus College he was a member of the Society of St Radegund and President of the Choir Patrons (our Musical Director, Benjamin Sheen, pays tribute to him on page 75). Charles was elected to the Vice-Chancellor's Circle in recognition of his major support of the choir. Charles is survived by Jill (Wesley from Wisbech in Cambridgeshire), whom he met in Toronto in 1961. They had three children; Julia, Eleanor and Charlotte, and six grandchildren; Flora, Alexander, Chloe, Phoebe, Frederick and Oriana.

Old Members ANGUS, Ian Donald (1944) died on 30 October 2022 aged 96. Ian Angus was born on 10 May 1926 in Brixton. Educated at Battersea Grammar School, he came up in 1944 to read English. His studies were interrupted by National Service with the Royal Navy. After returning he graduated BA 1949; MA 1958. Subsequently he embarked on a career as a Librarian. He spent many years as Deputy Librarian at University College London, where he was responsible for running the library and the George Orwell archive. This led to his working with Orwell’s widow, Sonia, and between them they edited the four volumes of The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell (1968). In 1974 he was appointed Librarian at King’s College, London. He remained at King’s until 1982 when he took early retirement. For the next three decades he and his wife, the potter Ann Stokes, shared their time between their house in Tuscany and Hampstead. During this time, he published with fellow editor Peter Davison the 20 volume Complete Works of George Orwell. When health changes required them to stay in England, his and Ann’s focus switched to a monograph on Ann’s work published in 2008. Following her death, he continued living in their Hampstead home with the help of carers and Ann’s son Philip.

ANSLOW, David Keith (1960) died on 30 March 2023 aged 81. David Anslow was born on 3 May 1941 in Northampton. Educated at St Paul’s School, London, he came up in 1960 to read Economics. He graduated BA 1963; MA 1967. He went on to pursue a career in business and corporate finance after qualifying as an accountant. He also held various non-executive directorships and was chairman of a number of listed companies. He married Angela Colburn in 1980; they had two children, Alexander and Louisa.

BEAUFOY, Harold (1945) died on 19 June 2022 aged 94. Harold Beaufoy was born on 23 August 1927 in Coventry. Educated at Bablake School, Coventry, he came up in 1945 to read Modern and Medieval Languages. He graduated BA 1948. He spent his career working for Courtaulds and at his retirement was chairman of Courtaulds Fibres. He married Silvia Harman in 1953; they had two sons and a daughter.

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BLACK, Alexander John (1952) died on 1 September 1934 aged 88. Alec Black was born on 3 March 1934 in Birmingham. Educated at Cambridgeshire High School, he came up in 1952 to read Natural Sciences with a view to becoming a doctor. Whilst at college he was in the boat which won the Fairbairn Cup in 1954 and came head of the river in the Lent Races of 1955 and May Races of 1956. He graduated BA 1955; MB BChir 1960; MD 1969. After undertaking National Service in the parachute regiment, he completed his training at St Thomas’ Hospital, London, where he met a nurse called Alison Butters. He went on to become a Consultant Haematologist at the Norfolk & Norwich Hospital. Whilst at the Norfolk & Norwich he led a team which successfully argued for the relocation of the hospital to Colney, and he investigated a new strain of haemophilia which became identified and named Haemophilia B Norwich. He married Alison in 1966; they had four sons.

BLACK, Michael Hugo (1945) died on 16 June 2022 aged 94. Michael Black was born on 7 June 1928 in Tempsford, Bedfordshire. Educated at Falmouth Grammar School, he came up in 1945 to read English and Modern and Medieval Languages; he was deeply impressed by the teaching of A. P. Rossiter. He was awarded a half-blue for fencing in 1947 and graduated BA 1948; MA 1952. He then undertook National Service with the Intelligence Corps in Austria. From 1951-1987 he worked for Cambridge University Press, as editor and eventually University Publisher. He was appointed a fellow at Clare Hall in 1982. He had a deep interest in various subjects including the history of the printing of the Bible, but perhaps his proudest achievement was the Cambridge edition of the works of D.H. Lawrence in 39 volumes. His publications include: The Literature of Fidelity (1975); Poetic Drama as Mirror of the Will (1977); Cambridge University Press: 1584-1984 (1984); D. H. Lawrence: the early fiction: a commentary (1986); D. H. Lawrence: the early philosophical works: a commentary (1991); D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers (1992); Lawrence’s England: the major fiction 1913-20 (2001); and Learning to be a Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1951-1987, personal reminiscences (2011). He married Fay Bice Goodyear in 1953; they had one son and two daughters.

CAMPBELL, Duncan Archibald (1971) died on 12 August 2022 aged 68. Duncan Campbell was born on 7 September 1953 in Uganda. Educated at Monkton Combe School, he came up in 1971 to read Engineering. He graduated BA 1974; MA 1978. He went on to undertake an MSc at City University, London, whilst also working for JD & DM Watson, a water treatment business. After a couple of years, he moved to CACI Limited, an information technology consultancy where he remained until he died. He married Judith Wragge in 1974 in the college chapel; they had three children.

COWDEROY, James Anthony Frank (1978) died on 24 March 2023 aged 63. James Cowderoy was born on 8 February 1960 in London. Educated at The King’s School, Canterbury, he came up in 1978, to read History. Whilst at university he coxed the Men’s Lightweight Blue Boat and rowing remained an enduring passion throughout

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his life. He graduated BA 1981; MA 1985. He went on to take an MBA at Stanford University before pursuing a career in the maritime industry. He married Iona Gwendolyn Laurentie Harrison in 1984; they had three sons and one daughter.

COX, Dick Patrick Alison (1946) died on 14 June 2020 aged 98. Dick Cox was born on 4 November 1921 in Oxton, Cheshire. Educated at Bradfield College he enlisted with the British Army after completing his A levels. Whilst with the Army he landed in Normandy on D-Day + 3 and was injured in the Battle of Caen. After recovering he served in Egypt. Following demobilisation he came up in 1946 to read Modern & Medieval Languages. He graduated BA 1948. He went on to spend a career in hospitality working for Charrington Brewery, Young & Co’s Brewery and Sunningdale Ladies Golf Club. He married Elizabeth Beaumont Newell in 1953; they had two children, three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

CRAVEN, John Anthony (1958) died on 30 March 2022 aged 81. John Craven was born on 23 October 1940 in Leominster, Hertfordshire. Educated at Michaelhouse School, Natal, South Africa, he came up in 1958 to read Law. He graduated BA 1961. After qualifying as an accountant in Canada, he went on to pursue a career in investment banking with, amongst others, Warburgs, Morgan Grenfell, Deutsche Bank and Flemings, after having a central role in the reinvention of the City after the Big Bang of the 1980s. In 1996 he was knighted for his services to banking. He brought his skills in the boardroom to public service as a director of the Royal Marsden Hospital. Outside his work, he was a keen skier, and later in life learnt to play the piano and had great pleasure in hosting Chopin Society concerts at his home with his wife, Ning. He married Gillian Murray in 1961; they had a son and a daughter. He married Jane Stiles-Allen in 1970; they had three sons. He married Ning Zhang in 2005.

CRICK, David William (1951) died on 2 April 2023 aged 91. David Crick was born on 24 May 1931 in Portsmouth. Educated at the Royal Hospital School, Ipswich, he joined the Royal Navy in 1947 and was sent to Dartmouth College. Thereafter he was sent by the service to the college in 1951 as a Naval Electrical Engineering entrant. He graduated BA 1954; MA 1958. After graduating he joined Decca Navigators where he remained for sixteen years before setting up his own business, BA Security Systems. In 1977, he was appointed Managing Director of First Security Group. In 1985 he was appointed Group Managing Director of First Technology plc and received the Queen's Award for Industry. In retirement, he was chair of the Compton Village Association and President of the Molesey Art Society. He married Pauline Fletcher Jones; they had four daughters.

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DAVIES, John Michael (1953) died on Boxing Day 2022 aged 89. Michael Davies was born on 22 July 1933 in Flixton, Lancashire. Educated at Haileybury, he came up in 1953 following National Service to read Classics, and was soon joined by his brother Brian (1954). He graduated BA 1956; MA 1961. He joined the Church Commissioners in 1956 and remained with the body until 1993. In the year of his retirement, he was appointed Chairman of the Southwark Diocesan Advisory Committee for the Care of Churches; he stepped down from the role after a decade’s service. He married Susan Margaret Haworth in 1967; they had two daughters, Kate and Charlotte.

DIXON, Peter John (1951) died on 18 July 2022 aged 91. Peter Dixon was born on 19 April 1931 in London. Educated at Hertford Grammar School he came up in 1951 following National Service in Malaya where he was Sergeant-Instructor, teaching English to local troops. He read English and Modern and Medieval Languages, graduating BA 1954. He went on to teach English in secondary schools in Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt. He then taught French for two years in Colne Valley High School. The rest of his teaching career was spent preparing foreign students for the Cambridge Proficiency and Diploma of English Studies at West London College where he was a Senior Lecturer. They loved his classes, especially the literature ones, and missed him greatly when he took early retirement in 1989. He had a passion for nature and birds fascinated him; in the mid 1970s he undertook a Certificate in Ecology and Conservation at the University of London. In later years he developed a great interest in India, writing that it had become “quite an obsession” with him. He went to Urdu classes, read Indian authors, and visited the country three times. He married Nadine Vitols in 1957, with his close friend Chris Britt (1951) as one of the witnesses. He and Nadine had two children, Marianne and Tom, and two granddaughters. A great-grandson was born three months after he died.

FAIREY, Michael John (1953) died on 19 November 2022 aged 89. Mike Fairey was born on 20 September 1933 in Barnet. Educated at Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet, he came up in 1953, after National Service, to read History. He graduated BA 1956; MA 1961. He spent his career in the NHS eventually becoming a member of the first NHS Management Board. Other highlights included: leading the development of strategies to link computing to medicine; overseeing the construction of numerous new hospitals; and serving as chief executive of The Royal London Hospital Trust. He was appointed CB in 1989 for services to the NHS. In retirement he was Chairman of the London Hospital League of Friends, President of the London Hospital League of Nurses, and a volunteer in an Oxfam bookshop. He was a Freeman of the City of London, made an honorary member of The Athenaeum, and was one of the very few non-medical members of the Society of Apothecaries. Throughout his life he retained his love of history, particularly exploration, and in 2021 he donated 160 volumes of his much-loved Hakluyt Society books to the college. He was a member of the JCCS Committee for many years. He married Audrey Kermode in 1958; they had three children, Anne, Mark and Jon (1986). He married Victoria Hardman in 1990.

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FIELD, Ellis Simon (1955) died on 28 August 2022 aged 86. Ellis Field was born on 15 August 1936 in Hackney. Educated at Christ’s College, Finchley, he came up in 1955 to read Natural Sciences with a view to becoming a doctor. He graduated BA 1958; MA 1962. He went on to qualify as a consultant surgeon and worked at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Trust, London. He married Monica Rose Murphy in 1962; they had two sons and a daughter.

FOSTER, Simon Ridgby (1958) died on 6 June 2022 aged 82. Simon Foster was born on 1 September 1939 in Calcutta, India. Educated at Shrewsbury School, he came up in 1958 to read History. He graduated BA 1961; MA 1965. He had a global business career working for Dunlop International, ending up as President of Dunlop France. In 1988 he returned to the UK to run the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) and then Toyota GB. In later years he enjoyed life in Kent and Norfolk, raising sheep, sailing on his 125-year-old Dutch barge and spending time with friends and family. He first married Mairi-Angela Chisholm and had three children: Shamus, Jessica and Tamsin. In 1990 he married Philippa Back.

GILLETT, John Edward (1958) died in February 2023 aged 85. John Gillett was born in August 1937 in Buckingham. Educated at Magdalen College School, Brackley, he came up in 1958, to read Natural Sciences and elected to take Chemical Engineering for Part II. In his final year he was President of the Cambridge University Caving Club. He graduated BA 1962; MA 1965. He spent all of his career with ICI which became Astra Zeneca in the 1990s. He received an Honorary Doctorate from L’Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse in 1999 for his work in the field of chemical engineering education. He was Chair of the Education working party for the European Federation of Chemical Engineering from 1996 to 2001. His published works included Hazard Study and Risk Assessment in the Pharmaceutical Industry (1996); Caves and Caving: A Way and a Life (2002); and three poetry books raising funds for East Cheshire Hospice following the death of his wife. He married Dilys Margaret Lewis in 1964; they had a daughter, Catherine.

GODDARD, Rex Edmund (1938) died 15 February 2022 aged 102. Rex Goddard was born on 6 November 1919 in London. Educated at Solihull School he came up to read Mathematics in 1938. He was called up in 1940 and joined the Royal Artillery. Due to his war service, he was exempted from undertaking some tripos examinations and graduated BA 1946; MA 1948. Following demobilisation he taught at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. He subsequently joined Epsom College, Surrey, where he became Head of Mathematics and Housemaster of Wilson House. He was also master in charge of rifle shooting and for 20 years organised the annual national exchange between the UK and Canadian shooting cadets. In 1974 he was appointed MBE for services to cadet forces. He taught at Epsom College until retirement in 1980. He married Hilda Ryall, known as ‘Jill’, in 1949; they had two sons and a daughter.

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GOUGH, Hugh Martin (1945) died on 26 June 2022 just after his 95th birthday. Martin Gough was born on 23 June 1927 in Leeds. Educated at Leeds Grammar School, he came up in 1945 to read Natural Sciences with a view to qualifying as a doctor. He graduated BA 1948; MA 1952; MB BChir 1952 and alongside his degrees took with him a lifelong love of playing the organ. Whilst working as a houseman he met Marianne Platts at Sheffield Women's Hospital where she was a midwife. They married in 1956 and soon after emigrated to Canada. He went on to become a Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist at the Royal Jubilee Hospital and the Victoria General Hospital, Canada. He and Marianne had three daughters and two sons.

GRACEY, Lionel Rodney Hubert (1946) died on 23 October 2022 aged 94. Lionel Gracey, the brother of Basil (1946) and Nigel (1950), was born on 31 July 1928 in what was then Penang. Educated at Beaumont College, Windsor, he came up in 1946. He read Natural Sciences with a view to becoming a doctor and graduated BA 1948; MB BChir 1951; MA 1952; MChir 1962. Whilst studying he was awarded a Blue for Golf and in 1952, he played at The Open. He went on to become a Consultant Surgeon at the Royal Free Hospital, London; he also carried out private work across the world and was able to use his talent as a linguist to put his patients at ease. After retiring he started a second career as a specialist in religious art; he undertook a degree in Theology at Maryvale Institute, Birmingham. He married Angela Mary Fleming in 1971; they had six children.

HANSON, Philip (1957) died on 26 March 2022 aged 85. Phil Hanson was born on 16 December 1936 in Hampstead, London. Educated at Highgate School he came up in 1957 following National Service. He read Economics, graduating BA 1960; MA 1964. After teaching at the University of Exeter, he undertook his doctorate at the University of Birmingham, graduating PhD 1971. He remained at Birmingham, was appointed a professor and in 2001 was made director for the Centre for Russian and East European Studies. He was an associate fellow at Chatham House and worked for the UN Economic Commission for Europe. His published work included The Consumer in the Soviet Economy (1968); Trade and Technology in Soviet-Western Relations (1981); From Stagnation to Catastroika (1992); and Regional Economic Change in Russia (2000). He was appointed OBE in 2011 for services to Soviet and Russian Studies. Away from academic research he pursued three lifelong hobbies, bird watching, cricket and jazz. He married Evelyn Rogers in 1960; they had two sons.

HARSANT, John David Uden (1950) died on 17 July 2022 aged 92. John Harsant was born on 31 January 1930 in Harrow. Educated at Tiffin School, Kingston, following National Service with the British Army, he came up in 1950 to read Mathematics. He graduated BA 1953; MA 1957. He went on to qualify as an actuary and set up his own firm. He married Eileen Benton in 1955; they had two daughters and a son.

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JEPHCOTT, Francis (1948) died on 12 January 2023 aged 96. Francis Jephcott was born on 15 November 1926 in Erdington, Birmingham. Educated at King Edward’s Grammar School, Aston. Following National Service in the Royal Navy on minesweepers, he came up in 1948 to read Geography. He graduated BA 1951; MA 1955. Whilst at college he rowed for the Jesuan boat which won the Fairbairn Cup twice and came head of the Reading & Tideway Races. After graduating, he spent two years in industry then joined his father's firm of stockbrokers, George and William Beech. He was chairman of Birmingham Stock Exchange in 1965 and 1966 and President of the Council of United Stock Exchanges also for two years. He was a director of Birmingham Midshires Building Society and of the Wesleyan Assurance Society. He was involved in numerous charities and was appointed MBE in 1999 for his charitable work. He married Marion Palmer Thompson in 1955; they had three children.

JEREMIAH, John David (1952) died on 24 February 2023 aged 89. David Jeremiah was born on 9 August 1933 in West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire. Educated at Nottingham High School, he came up in 1952 to read Natural Sciences with a view to becoming a doctor. He graduated BA 1955; MA 1959, MB BChir, 1958; FRCS 1962. He qualified as a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon and worked for Forest Health Care Trust. He married Gillian Mary Stearns in 1959; before their divorce they had two sons, Nicholas (1979) (obituary below) and Andrew (1982), and a daughter, Elizabeth.

JEREMIAH, Nicholas David (1979) died on 3 September 2021 aged 60. Nik Jeremiah, the son of David (1952) and older brother of Andrew (1982), was born on 3 November 1960 in London. Educated at Oundle School he came up in 1979 to read Engineering.

JOHNSTON, Robert Campbell (1958) died on 8 February 2023 aged 84. Bob Johnston was born on 4 August 1938 in London. Educated at Highgate School he came up to Jesus College in 1958, following two years of National Service in Germany. He graduated with a BA in Classics in 1961 and went on to complete professional training in accountancy. He spent his working life in public service as a financial officer at the county level, first at Hertfordshire, then Kent and then Northamptonshire. He dedicated the remainder of his career (1973-1996) to South Yorkshire County Council. His contributions were key to the establishment of the Joint Secretariat in 1986 which he led during the last years of his career as County Treasurer and in executive roles. During this time, he worked tirelessly on community services – as lead advisor to the Association of Metropolitan Authorities on police and police funding, creating the Local Authorities Pension Fund Forum to work towards socially responsible investments, and battling to support public transport and fire services in South Yorkshire. He married Judith Mary Bottom in 1962; they had three children, Bridget, Desmond and Kathryn (1988).

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MASSY-BERESFORD, Michael James (1956) died on 26 September 2022 aged 87. Michael Massy-Beresford, the grandson of John George Massy-Beresford (1874), was born on 10 April 1935 in Hertford. Educated at Eton College he came up in 1956 following service in the Army. He studied Mechanical Sciences and graduated BA 1959. He returned to the Army and remained with it until retiring in 1980. He went on to be a director of Miltrain Ltd and became, in 2008, a founding trustee of the The Veterans Charity.

MAWER, Nicholas Jesse (1967) died on 2 November 2022 aged 74. Nick Mawer was born on 15 February 1948 in Eltham. Educated at Eltham College he came up in 1967 to read History. He graduated BA 1970. After college, he worked as a journalist on the Liverpool Daily Post and Echo for three years and was remembered for his sharp dress sense, his prowess on the tennis court and soccer pitch, and the white Mini Cooper he drove around Merseyside with style. He left the North West in 1973 to join ITN in London as a scriptwriter and producer. In 1978 he moved to Thames TV as the chief sub-editor, working on the daily news programme. In 1982 he joined TVS (Television South) as the senior news producer and he also had his own weekly talk show. From 1989 he was a freelance journalist and producer for Newsflash, CNN, CNBC, EBN and Sky Business News.

MOURITZ, Adrian Paul (1987) died on 4 March 2023 aged 59. Adrian Mouritz was born on 18 April 1963 in Melbourne, Australia. Educated at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) where he graduated BSc 1984; MSc 1986. He came up in 1987 and undertook a doctorate in Materials Science, graduating PhD 1992. He returned to Australia and eventually became a professor at and the inaugural Dean of RMIT’s School of Engineering. He remained there until ill health forced him to stand down at the start of 2023. He married Jennifer Majoor in 1991; they had a son and a daughter.

OGDEN, Frank (1952) died on 15 November 2022 aged 88. Frank Ogden was born on 29 November 1933 in Bury, Lancashire. Educated at King Edward VII School, Sheffield, he came up in 1952 following National Service. He read Mathematics, graduating BA 1955; MA 1960. At college he was remembered for his twinkling sense of humour and large fund of common sense. After graduating he taught at William Hulme’s Grammar School, Manchester, before becoming a Senior Lecturer at Sheffield City Polytechnic. He married Margaret, a nurse, in 1960; they had three children.

ORDE-POWLETT, Patrick Christopher (1951) died on 11 January 2023 aged 91. Kit Orde-Powlett was born on 9 April 1931 in London. Educated at Eton College he came up in 1951 to read Estate Management following National Service. He graduated BA 1954; MA 1958. He began his career as a forestry consultant before becoming a financial adviser. He married Elizabeth Jane Kent in 1962; they had two daughters and two grandchildren including Cosmo Lupton (2019).

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POOLEY, Roger Francis (1966) died on 22 May 2022 aged 74. Roger Pooley was born on 19 June 1947 in Watford. Educated at Watford Grammar School he came up in 1966 to read English. He graduated BA 1969; MA 1973; PhD 1977. After graduation he went on to teach at Keele University for 40 years and was a President of the International John Bunyan Society from 2007 to 2010. He was also a lay preacher, and his faith informed his teaching in a gentle and undogmatic way. He married Helen Dent in 1988; they had three sons.

POSEY, Robert Bomberger (1965) died on 9 February 2023 aged 79. Bob Posey was born on 27 April 1943 in Lititz, Pennsylvania. Educated at Warwick High School, Lititz, and Rutgers University, he came up 1965 to read International Law. He graduated LLB 1967; LLM 1987. He pursued his legal studies at Duke University and then joined the International Labour Organization (ILO). After leaving the ILO in 1977, he held roles in Public Relations and Corporate Communications with various international organisations in Switzerland. In 1997 he founded a consultancy and advisory business, working in the field of career transition counselling and executive coaching. In 2008, he sold the company and retired to his home in Montreux, on the shores of Lake Geneva. From the early 1990s and for fifteen years, he was a Member of the Board and then a Trustee of Aiglon College in Villars.

PULFORD, John Shirley Walter (1952) died on 7 February 2022 aged 90. John Pulford was born on 29 September 1931 in East Horsley. Educated at Christ’s Hospital, Horsham, he came up in 1952 to read Theology following National Service with the Royal Artillery. He graduated BA 1955; MA 1959. After graduation he was ordained as a priest; his ministry took him to what is now Zimbabwe, various prisons in the United Kingdom as well as parishes in London and Lincoln. In the late 1970s, he took a diploma in counselling at Birkbeck College, London. He went on to become the head of the Cambridge University Counselling Service, leading it from 1982 to 1996. In semi-retirement he worked in private practice in Cambridge and Bury St Edmunds; he was also an External Examiner for the University of Reading. He married Ann Hatherley in 1960; they had three sons. He married Vivienne Clark in 1975; they had a daughter. He married Diana Thurley in 2002.

RAINBOW, Geoffrey Arthur Francis (1949) died on 25 November 2022 aged 93. Geoff Rainbow was born on 5 July 1929 in Wanborough, Surrey. Educated at Latymer Upper School he came up in 1949 to read Modern & Medieval Languages following National Service. He graduated BA 1952; MA 1957. After more than a decade with the British Ceramic Research Association he became a teacher. He taught at Stanfield High School for 23 years before retiring in 1986. He had an active retirement and was involved with several charities including the Samaritans and Staffordshire Alcohol Advisory Service. He married Brenda Muriel Adderley in 1958; they had two children.

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RAMSAY, Patrick George Alexander (1946) died on Boxing Day 2021 aged 95. Patrick Ramsay was born on 14 April 1926 in Bristol. Educated at Marlborough College where, to his chagrin, his elder brother, taught mathematics. He enlisted with the Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm in 1944, though his pilot training in Oklahoma was cut short by the end of the war. Following demobilisation, he came up in 1946 to read History, graduating BA 1948; MA 1966. In 1948 he married Hope Markham, also the child of a bishop. Joining the BBC in 1949, he was posted to a listening station in Cyprus. After a polio outbreak threatened his young family, he returned to Britain and subsequently rose through the managerial ranks at Bush House and Television Centre. His final BBC appointment was as Controller for Scotland; he was proud to promote Gaelic services. In retirement he advised the Oman Broadcasting Service and served on the board of Windsor’s Festival where he had also been a Liberal councillor and alderman. In later years he and Hope moved to Shropshire where they restored a magnificent Tudor manor house and garden in the village of Clungunford, where Patrick also served as Chairman of the Parish Council. He and Hope had two sons, six grandchildren and one great-granddaughter.

REVILL, Edward David Tyas (1958) died on 10 January 2022 aged 84. David Revill was born on 28 August 1937 in Nottingham. Educated at Nottingham High School, he came up in 1958 to read History. He graduated BA in 1961, having also served as JCR Secretary of the Amalgamated Clubs. He pursued a career in teaching and taught at Exeter School from 1964 to 1998. He was fondly remembered as the Boarding House Master and Deputy Headmaster. He had a lifelong interest in art and architecture and was a keen collector of both maps and British 20th century printmakers. He married Ann Hebden in 1962; they had two sons, Richard and Charles.

RICE, Alastair Lynas Grant (1958) died on 3 January 2023 aged 86. Algy Rice was born on 12 June 1936 in Birmingham. Educated at Felsted School he came up in 1958 to read Economics. Much to the surprise of his supervisors he failed his first-year exams. Unfortunately, due to the pressure on places College Council decided he could not remain in residence. This was a great disappointment to him and to the senior tutor D. J. V. Fisher who regarded him as a ‘first class man’ and recommended him strongly to Trinity College, Dublin. After National Service with the Royal Marines, he read Law at Trinity and then pursued a career as a stockbroker. He married Wendy D’Arcy in 1964; they had two children, Julie and Craig. He married Diana Standen in 1988.

RIDEHALGH, John (1959) died on 9 September 2022 aged 83. John Ridehalgh was born on 16 March 1939 in London. Educated at St Edward’s School, Oxford, he came up in 1959 to read Mechanical Sciences. He graduated BA 1962; MA 1977. After graduating he worked at the Atomic Weapons Establishment, Aldermaston, and then joined Noble Denton, working on high profile marine structures such as the Troll platform in Norway and the raising of the Mary Rose. He was a keen

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sailor with a lifelong passion for boats, having rowed and sailed at Jesus and later taken part extensively in ocean racing. In retirement he enjoyed encouraging his grandchildren in sailing and in all aspects of science, the cosmos, and steam engines. He married Nan Conway in 1969; they had a daughter and son.

RODITI, Hubert Paul (1978) died on 26 May 2022 aged 63. Paul Roditi was born on 11 July 1958 in what was then Salisbury, Rhodesia, and is now Harare, Zimbabwe. Educated at Peterhouse, he came up in 1978 to read Engineering. He graduated BA 1981. After graduating he worked in the oil industry before training to be a commercial pilot; he could fly a range of planes including Tiger Moths, Jumbos and Gulfstreams. He enjoyed drawing, dance and the Spanish guitar, and made a significant contribution to his neighbourhood through his generous support of local projects including a food bank and art group.

ROSS MARTYN, John Greaves (1962) died on 10 April 2022 aged 78. John Ross Martyn was born on 23 January 1944 in Stockport. Educated at Repton School, he came up in 1962 to read History and Law. He graduated BA 1965; LLM 1966; MA 1991. He went on to become a barrister and was appointed a Bencher at Lincoln's Inn and a Recorder. He was noted for his expertise on the law of succession and inter alia jointly edited Williams, Mortimer & Sunnucks on Executors, Administrators and Probate (1993) He married Pauline Jennings in 1973; they had a son and a daughter. He married Beryl Cook in 2005.

ROWSELL, James Herbert (1951) died on 22 September 2022 aged 90. We are grateful to Herbert’s grandson James Buckman for the following: “Herbert Rowsell, the son of John (1904), nephew of Herbert (1906), and brother of John (1943), was born on 15 October 1931 in Halifax. Educated at St John's School, Leatherhead, he came up in 1951 following National Service in the RAEC. He read History, graduating BA 1954; MA 1958. He undertook the Post Graduate Certificate of Education at the University of Leeds before becoming a teacher. His first teaching job was at Cockburn High School in Leeds. It was during his time there that Herbert met Jennifer Jane Lynas, his future wife, in church; the couple would be together for over sixty-six years; they had four children including David (1977). Herbert went on to become Head of History and Head of Sixth Form at Halesowen Grammar School. In 1968, Herbert was appointed Deputy Head at Nantwich and Acton Grammar School, but on the sad passing of the previous incumbent, Herbert became Acting Head immediately and then became permanent Headmaster in December 1968. He remained at the school for 23 years before retiring in 1991 having overseen the successful transition to comprehensive education as Malbank School. His contributions to the school are commemorated with a memorial plaque and tree and The Herbert Rowsell Award for Outstanding Achievement. He and his wife spent their retirement years in Nantwich. Herbert contributed to Nantwich society in countless ways. He founded the Nantwich Historical Society. He also

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chaired committees to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s Silver Jubilee and the Quatercentenary of the Great Fire of Nantwich. He was both a member of the local Rotary Club and a Lay Reader at St Mary’s in the town for over 50 years.

SCOTT, Leighton Ross (1968) died on 20 December 2022 aged 84. Leighton Scott was born on 31 October 1938 in Easton, Pennsylvania. Educated at Haverford College and Pennsylvania State University, he came up in 1968 to study for his doctorate in History. He graduated PhD 1973. He went on to join Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. After a brief stint in the History faculty, he moved to Interdisciplinary Studies where he taught such popular courses as “Dangerous Ideas”, “Big Fat Books’ and “The New Yorker”. In addition to scholarly works, he also published short stories and poetry. He married Rebecca Lovell in 1970; they had three children.

TAJIMA, Yutaka (1974) died on 29 September 2022 aged 82. Yukata Tajima was born on 30 April 1940 in Aichi, Japan. Educated at Aichi University, the University of Tokyo and the University of California, Berkeley, he came up in 1974 to study Law. He graduated MLitt 1979. He was appointed a Professor of Law at Osaka City University, University of Tsukuba, and Dokkyo University, Japan. He also taught as a professor at Berkeley, Harvard, and the University of Birmingham. He received an honorary OBE in the 1999 New Year Honours List for his outstanding contribution to the development of relations with the UK over many years through legal education.

THOMPSON, Peter (1952) died on 19 October 2022 aged 90. Peter Thompson was born on 27 February 1932 in Grimsby. Educated at Wintringham Grammar School, he came up in 1952 following National Service in the RAF, serving in Suez. He read Mathematics, graduating BA 1955. He intended to take his PGCE at Oxford, but, after meeting Barbara Taylor, he decided to take the course in Cambridge whilst she completed her degree at Newnham. The couple married soon after Barbara graduated and went on to have three children, who all studied at Cambridge including one at Jesus, Helen Druiff (1981) and one, Mary, who married Leslie Bolton (1980). He spent his working years in education, teaching mathematics at William Hulme School, Manchester, before becoming Head of Mathematics at Hinckley Grammar School. He left the classroom to become an Advisor for Mathematics and Secondary Education for Manchester, then Chief Education Advisor for Derbyshire. On his retirement, he was National Chairman of the Association of Education Inspectors, Advisors and Consultants, and continued as a consultant and casework officer for this organization. He had a passion for hillwalking which he pursued with Barbara, his children and his grandchildren. He retired early to care for Barbara through her cancer until she passed away in 1994. In later life, he developed a close friendship with Karen Schofield with whom he had many happy years walking and skiing in Italy and Austria. He chaired a local group campaigning to oppose quarrying of a local landmark, edited the newsletter of the Edale Mountain Rescue, led Ramblers walks, was Footpaths Officer for the local

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parish council, and campaigned for the Liberal Democrats. In 2004 he suffered a stroke, causing partial paralysis of his left side, but continued to walk and travel as much as he could. As well as their three children, David, Helen and Mary, he and Barbara had seven grandchildren.

TUCKETT, Robert Francis (1950) died on 11 November 2022 aged 92. Robert Tuckett was born on 19 October 1930 in Winchester. Educated at Charterhouse he came up in 1950 following National Service. He read Natural Sciences with a view to becoming a doctor and graduated BA 1953; MB BChir 1956. He went on to qualify as a General Practitioner and worked for most of his career in New Zealand. He married Susan Wingate in 1975; they had two children, James and Fiona.

WALKER, Roger Malcolm (1954) died on 1 January 2023 aged 87. Roger Walker was born on 28 October 1935 in Skegness. Educated at King Edward VII School, Sheffield, he came up in 1954. He read Mathematics then Engineering, graduating BA 1957; MA 1961. After graduating he worked at A. V. Roe & Company and British Steel, then taught Mathematics at High Storrs Grammar school for boys until 1969 when the school merged with High Storrs Grammar for girls to become a comprehensive school. He taught Maths at the re-named High Storrs School until he retired in 1993 and was the ‘go to’person when any colleague needed help with a mechanics problem. During the school summer holidays he enjoyed cycling round Europe and the UK. He had a very active retirement until his last years. He married Judith Jennifer Anne Richardson in 1962; married for sixty years they had two daughters, five grandchildren and one great-grandchild born shortly after his death.

WELBOURNE, Daniel (1954) died on 23 January 2023 aged 87. Dan Welbourne was born on 21 April 1935 in Cambridge. Educated at Shrewsbury School he came up in 1954 following a year in Switzerland as an apprentice at an engineering firm. He read Mathematics/Mechanical Sciences, and graduated BA 1958. Whilst at college he rowed as stroke of the eight winning the Fairbairn Cup in 1956 and as bow of the boat which came Head of the Lents in 1957. After graduating he joined Marconi's in Chelmsford before moving to English Electric Atomic Power Division in Leicester. He remained at the latter when it became National Nuclear Corporation before finally retiring 38 years later. During his time with NNC, he worked on installing and programming one of the first online computers installed on a power plant at Wylfa in Anglesey and became head of the Control and Instrumentation group for the Hartlepool and Heysham plants. In retirement in Lincolnshire, he was asked to take part in producing various documents by the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna and also continued as a member of the UK British Standards committee responsible for instrumentation and control of nuclear plants. Never a project manager at work, he found himself in retirement managing a Heritage Lottery Fund grant to repair his village church. He married Katharine Laird Peers in 1969; they had three sons and two daughters.

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WELCH, Elizabeth Mary (1997) died on 10 February 2022 aged 91. Elizabeth Welch (usually known as Betty) was born on 22 December 1930 in Alton, Hampshire. After Eggars Grammar School in Alton, she started training as a radiological assistant in Winchester but gave this up to marry David George Welch, whom she had met at a Young Farmers Club in Alton. After working on farms and as an assistant at Plumpton Agricultural College she returned to formal education. A levels at evening classes were followed by a degree at the Open University and then an MA (1997) in European Studies from the University of Exeter. She matriculated at Jesus in 1997 and undertook a Master of Studies in English Local History, graduating MSt 2000. In retirement she had an enduring interest in the local history of the agricultural economy around East Devon, in particular of the wartime years. She and David had one son, Philip.

WELLS, Andrew David (1979) died on 4 August 2022 aged 61. David Wells, the son of Colin (1956), was born on 16 February 1961 in Morpeth, Northumberland. Educated at the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe, he came up in 1979 to read Natural Sciences. He graduated BA 1982; MA 1986. His early career was as a software designer and innovator with particular experience in computer-aided design, artificial intelligence and data science. His first job was at the Computer Aided Design Centre in Cambridge, but when the opportunity arose to work on a robot programming system and study part time for a PhD, he moved to Edinburgh. Whilst working in Scotland he was head-hunted to come back to Cambridge to work for Prosys – a start-up that grew out of CADC. He worked extremely hard at Prosys, but they were ahead of their time and the market was not ready for their product. His first-hand experience of the struggles of bringing an innovative product to market did, however, provide the basis for his later career as an analyst and market strategist. He next worked for Racal Redac – more computer-aided design – and then for the HP Labs in Bristol where he worked on applying artificial intelligence to business systems. In 1995, he switched from research and development and became a Principal Analyst and Senior Consultant at Ovum. After a period of ill health, he recovered sufficiently in 2005 to recommence his career as Research & Business Development Manager – ICT, part of the Research & Enterprise team at Royal Holloway University of London. After 14 years he moved to a post in London in 2019, working for IDC as Senior Research Manager, European Big Data and AI. Then the Covid pandemic struck, and because of the downturn in business, IDC made him redundant in July 2020, resulting in further deterioration of his health. During the final two years of his life, his health declined significantly. He attempted to set himself up as an Independent IT Consultant in analytics and AI software and processes, but his now life-limiting illness made this impossible. Although he never married, he was blessed with the friendship and love of some very loyal friends and partners who appreciated his warmth and wit.

WHALLEY Michael Frederick Reginald (1959) died on 8 January 2023 aged 82. Michael Whalley was born on 9 November 1940 in Nottingham. Educated at Nottingham High School, he came up in 1959 to read Modern & Medieval Languages. He graduated BA 1962; PGCE 1963. After teaching for nearly a decade, he became a school inspector for Essex County Council and then Ofsted. In his spare time, he wrote

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This is France (1973); and Face à Face/Unter Vier Augen (1978). In 1990 he was admitted to the Ordre des Palmes académiques for services to the teaching of French in England. He married Ann Brooke in 1966; they had two daughters.

WILLS, Colin George (1963) died on 21 May 2022 aged 77. Colin Wills was born on 5 January 1944 in Norwich. Educated at City of Norwich School he came up in 1963 to read Natural Sciences, switching to Architecture. He graduated BA 1966; MA 1970. After initially pursuing a career in architecture he attended a course at The London College of Furniture and learnt how to make violins, violas and cellos. In 1978 he moved with his partner, Gabriella Falk, to the Exmoor National Park. By that time the violin obsession had fully developed, and he set aside his architectural career to make instruments and to teach others to do the same. The biennial International Violin Conferences he ran were highly influential in the establishment of the British Violin Makers Association. In 1981 he participated in the Facta Britannia Violin Making Competition, won the first prize for Tonal Quality for a violin, and was runner-up in the competition overall. The following year his cello won the overall prize for best instrument. During the subsequent five years he made approximately 65 instruments, including 9 cellos, and was profiled in ‘The Strad’. After 1986 his architectural work took precedence. Following retirement, he was the conductor of the Culm Valley Orchestra. He and Gabriella had two children, Sebastian and Camilla (Lil), and four grandchildren.

YORKE-DAVIES, Hugo Raven (1957) died on 30 May 2022 aged 85. Hugo Yorke-Davies was born on 28 March 1937 in Kenya. Educated at Stowe School he came up in 1957 to read History. He went on to become a Tea Planter on the East African Highlands in Kenya. He married Gillie Coulton in 1960; they had two children. n

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Awards and results The Marking and Assessment Boycott means that not all students have results yet for the academical year 2022-23. Once all results are published, the Educational Board will be able to recommend awards and prizes. We hope to include these results in next year’s Annual Report.

PhDs Vytaute Boreikaite, In vitro reconstitution of the human pre-mRNA 3 end processing machinery and mechanistic insights into endonuclease activation John Chen, The spread of pathological assemblies in neurodegenerative diseases Jack Davies, Self-assembly of tetra-anilines into metal-organic architectures Xiaolei Feng, Geochemical insights into earth materials from quantum mechanical computation William Fleming, Health and wellbeing strategies in British workplaces: an empirical and sociological analysis Rebecca Forster, The preparation of cucurbit[8]uril-based hydrogels for delivery applications Patricia Galbraith-Olive, Radial miscible viscous fingering of Icelandic mantle plume Brittany Hanlon, ‘Hwonnw We Donne Ne Gemotad?’; Narrative strategies in tenth- and eleventh-century English property disputes Connor Hayden-Pawson, The chemical evolution of galaxies explored through multi-object integral field spectroscopy Anna Howes, How is ataxia-telangiectasia mutated protein kinase activated? Yiru Jia, The development and management of gated communities in China: the case of Shanghai from a new institutionalist perspective Edward Kiely, The camouflaging of austerity: institutional geographies of mental health in contemporary England Adrian Leathers, Engineering internal and external moelcular pathways in artificial cells Philippa Liggins, The atmospheric fingerprints of volcanism: simulating volcanic outgassing and secondary atmospheres on rocky planets Theodor William Lundberg, Dispersive readout and spin-state spectroscopy of industrially-fabricated silicon quantum dots Javiera Marfan Sanchez, Schools deciding the purpose of education: policy enactment in a context of goal-expanding, high-stakes accountability reform Dennis Mayk, Environmental change impacts on shell formation in the muricid Nucella lapillus Francesco Milella, Beyond Italian opera. Manuel García in postcolonial Mexico City (1826-1828) Michael Miller, ‘After modernity’, from Solovyov to Bulgakov Emily Mort, Adult behaviour and cerebral cell densities after maternal or postweaning consumption of an obesogenic diet in mice Jake Moscrop, Exploring strategies to enhance pollination and yield in the field bean, Vicia faba L Kaloyan Naydenov, Modelling and enhancement of the channel mobility of 4H-SiC power MOS devices Timo Neumann, Magneto-optical effects in manganese-doped lead halide perovskite Denis Niedenzu, Transforming linear to reuse circular supply chains

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Athanasios Ntelezos, Motor control and directional accuracy of phonotaxis in female field crickets Michael Overton, Rewilding in the Oder Delta, Germany-Poland: ecological, social and economic drivers of landscape change Thomas Parton, Chiral self-assembly of cellulose nanocrystals for photonic films Katerina Pavlidi, The materiality of language and body in Vladimir Sorokin’s twentieth-century works Marina Perkins, Communication, relevance, and power in Montaigne’s ‘Essais’ Syamala Roberts, Conceptions of hearing in German modernist writing Laura Rogers, Observational insights into white dwarf planetary systems Alisa Santikarn, The last elephant catchers (in) visible indigenous heritage in Thailand Olivia Shears, Biophysical interactions and stability at salt marsh margins Jakub Sobiecki, Application of biomarker-based assessment of dietary patterns to nutritional epidemiology: observational and interventional investigations with a focus on the Mediterranean diet and type 2 diabetes Ben Stoddart-Stones, Spin transport through nanopillar superconducting spin valves Hamish Symington, Petals, pigments and pollinator preferences Anthony Tan Kok Cheng, Imaging nanoscale spin textures with scanning diamond quantum microscopy Dolly Theis, What influences government policymaking? The case of childhood obesity in England Niels Van Fraassen, Metal oxide thin film transistors for CMOS applications Lisa Marie Vickers, The Women’s Equality Party: sustainability, longevity and impacts Fan Yang, Next generation algorithms for high-quality holographic displays Yuqi Zeng, Novel thin film nanogap device fabrication and 3D integration enabled by adhesion lithography Yiran Zhao, Play more and play better: wy play in early years is important for children’s future language, mathematical and mental health development? Zijian Zhao, Hierarchical carbon structures for advanced high areal capacity lithium-ion battery electrodes SPREG (PhD by Special Regulation) Michela Jane Wrong, Politics and International Studies

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Creative prizes Over the past few years, Jesus College has introduced several new prizes to encourage and reward creativity. This summer, the Master held her first creative community garden party to gather the students, Fellows and staff who have made contributions creatively and in the wider community (pictured below).

Creative writing The Jesus College creative writing club is open to all members of the community and led by novelist and memoirist Emily Winslow. She judges an annual competition alongside fellow writer, Tabitha Siklos. The theme this year was Sci-Fi and Futurism, and the competition received 24 entries. Winning stories can be read online here: https://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/articles/winner-announced-college-short-storycompetition Winners: Best Tragic Sci-Fi story: Echoes in the Chapel by Kate Coghlan (staff) Best Heroic Sci-Fi story: Major Moon, Astroentomologist by Ella Curry (staff). Best Psychological Horror Sci-Fi story: Feel No Evil by Deborah Omolegan-Obe (undergraduate). Best Physical Horror Sci-Fi story: Enhanced by Arabella Tedder (undergraduate).

Film The popular film club run by students (with the support of the Careers Team) organises a themed film season each term including talks and a short film competition, in which students from Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin University write, direct and produce three-minute films. Winner: Zeb Goriely (Queen’s College, PhD Computor Science)

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Song writing: Hook Line and Lyric @ Jesus This bi-annual competition encourages aspiring songwriters to submit their songs, meet fellow song writers and get exposure and feedback from a panel of professionals, including judge Preye Crooks from Sony Music Entertainment. The competition is open to all students from Cambridge University and Anglia Ruskin, and it is supported by the Centre for Music Performance. Winners first round: 1st prize: Spinning by Iona Luke (1st year, Magdalene College) 2nd prize: Ceasefire by Eli Bre (PhD student, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute) 3rd prize: Run by Aker Okoye (1st year, Jesus College) Winners second round: 1st prize: Melancolia by Talula Thomas (2nd year, Newnham College) 2nd prize: Teen Queen by Georgia Fearn (1st year, Lucy Cavendish College) 3rd prize: Finlay Gerrand (PhD, Gonville & Caius College) Honourable mention: Loftsong by Jonah Tufton (1st year, Magdalene College)

Travel writing The Tom Parkinson Travel Writing Bursary offers a young Jesus College graduate £2,500 to travel while developing the skills and experience needed to further their travel writing career. Applications for the bursary will next open in Lent 2024. Winners: Leah Yeger (2019, HSPS) Sophie Beckingham (2019, History of Art) Read more on our website at: https://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/articles/inauguralalumni-travel-bursaries-awarded n

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Jesus College Cambridge Society Committee as of 1 October 2023 President and Chair Ms S ALLEYNE

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(Helen) (Narveshwar) (Richard) (Claire) (Paul) (Reginald) (Mark) (Theo) (Omaid) (Victoria) (Clive) (Guy) (Jasmynne) (Geoff) (Richard) (Eric)

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JCCS I Jesus College Annual Report 2023

Annual General Meeting 2023 The Annual General Meeting of the Jesus College Cambridge Society took place on Saturday 23 September 2023 in the Prioress’s Room, Jesus College at 6.30pm. The Master, Ms Sonita Alleyne OBE, was in the chair and welcomed everyone to the meeting. Minutes of 2022 AGM The meeting accepted the minutes with no amendments. Secretary’s report John Halsey reported that, since the 2022 AGM: • The JCCS Committee has been at its full constitutional strength throughout the year, with the Master as President and Chair, three Trustees, three Officers, two College Council representatives and sixteen Year representatives. Four Year representatives retire today having served their four-year term: James Hilton, Ken Eames, Felicity Barratt and Nick King. • The Annual Dinner in 2022 was held in West Court with Lieutenant General Sir Nicholas Pope, KCB, CBE (1981) Guest of Honour. This year, the Right Revd The Lord Bishop of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich, Martin Seeley (1972) is Guest of Honour as our Annual Dinner returns to College Hall. • Other JCCS events during the year were: a Reception in College in December including tours of the refurbished kitchen and College Halls; our Spring Dinner in the Oxford & Cambridge Club; and the Bumps Lunch in June. • It is pleasing to report that by offering this range of different events, we continue to attract different cross-generational groups of Jesuans, partners, families and guests, in line with our core purpose which is to promote social connections between Jesuans, and between Jesuans and the College. And make a modest surplus. • JCCS has made donations to the Jesus College Student Union annually since 1990 and donations for Travel Bursaries annually since 2005. This year, using dividends from JCCS’s investments portfolio, managed by our Trustees, together with subscriptions from current students, collected for us by the College, the Executive Committee gave a total of £8,000 in grants: £3,000 to Jesus College Student Union, £2,500 for Travel Bursaries and £2,500 in student Hardship support, to be allocated by the Tutorial Office. • The JCCS was founded in 1903. A few months ago, John transferred historic JCCS Minutes books and other papers, which have for decades been held by the JCCS Secretary, to Dr Rob Payne, College Archivist. These have now been catalogued and a listing may be inspected on the College archives database, with the exception of some restricted items (i.e. items related to living people). Treasurer’s report and annual accounts to 31 December 2022 Mary Bienfait presented the annual accounts which had been signed by herself and by the Independent Examiner, and approved by the Executive Committee on 25 March 2023. There were no purchases or sales of investments during the year. The movement of the investment portfolio is due to a demerger of GSK into GSK and Haleon, and the merger of Standard Life and Aberdeen funds. The accounts reflect two events held in 2022, the London Dinner and the Cambridge Dinner, generating, in total, a surplus of £887. The donations to College are shown in the accounts as

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the Honorary Secretary has described, with a total of £8,000 donated to the College for the benefit of students. The market value of the investments held by the Society at the end of 2022 was just over £87,000. The meeting accepted the annual accounts. Election of Honorary Officers for 2023/24 The three serving JCCS Honorary Officers were willing to continue for a further year. Each was proposed and seconded: Secretary, John Halsey (1977); Treasurer, Mary Bienfait (1988); and the Dinner Secretary, Mark Hayes (1976). The Master declared the three officers elected. Appointment of Independent Examiner for 2023 Mary Bienfait proposed Hamilton Faber to serve for a further year, and this was approved by the meeting. Election of new members of the Executive Committee The Master thanked members of the committee who completed their term in September 2023: James Hilton (1996), Ken Eames (1996), Felicity Barratt (1999), Nick King (2000). The Secretary reported that the following had agreed to stand at the AGM to serve on the committee 2023-27: Jasmynne Bushrod (2014), Geoff Hudson (1972), Richard Northern (1973) and Eric Boston (1970). Each was proposed and seconded. The Master declared these four elected. JCCS Autumn Reception 2023; Spring Dinner and Annual Dinner 2024 Mark Hayes (Dinner Secretary) reported: The Autumn Reception will be held at the Oxford & Cambridge Club, Pall Mall on Wednesday 15 November, 6.30pm-9pm. Ticket price £40, with twenty reduced £30 tickets for recent graduates on a first come, first served basis. The Spring Dinner 2024 will be held at the Oxford & Cambridge Club, Pall Mall on Saturday 16 March. There was a substantial price increase from the O&C for the Spring Dinner 2023, but it is hoped to hold the ticket price at last year’s level, despite the inflationary environment. This would probably require a subsidy by the JCCS of the reduced-price tickets for recent graduates. The Annual Dinner 2024 will be on Saturday 28 September when the Guest of Honour will be the broadcaster Ros Atkins (1993). Date of next AGM This is planned for Saturday 28 September 2024, immediately before the Annual Dinner. n

This year’s JCCS Buffet Lunch was held in the West Court garden

Over Five Hunded Years of History & Eight Personalities

JESUS COLLEGE HISTORY AND PERSONALITIES by Peter Glazebrook Emeritus Fellow This fully illustrated 64 page booklet is available for those who want to know something, but not too much, about the College and its more notable members. Copies are £7 (including P&P in the UK) by emailing development@jesus.cam.ac.uk

VISIT OUR ONLINE GIFT SHOP www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/alumni/gift-shop

We are very pleased to be able to offer a wide range of gifts and mementoes including cufflinks, silk ties, silver pins, coasters, tote bags, paper weights, tea towels, prints and books, embossed Moleskine notebooks, cuddly teddy bears, the College flag and CD recordings of the Choirs of Jesus College. You can also purchase any of these items by phone on +44 (0) 1223 339301 or by dropping into the Porters’ Lodge when you next visit College. Please contact the Development and Alumni Relations Office at development@jesus.cam.ac.uk for information on overseas posting or bulk orders

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The Jesus College Works of Art Committee is proud to offer:

“Art for Tomorrow”

A portfolio of 10 original prints specially curated for Jesus College, with works by world-famous artists including Cornelia Parker RA, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Humphrey Ocean RA and Alison Wilding RA.

A special price for College members of £3600 inc. VAT for the full portfolio.

A limited number of individual prints are also available for sale separately – please contact Nikki Williams in the Development and Alumni Relations Office for further details.

A limited-edition silk square scarf

Designed by Stephen Chambers RA and printed by the Armani silk printers, Maver of Como, featuring the cockerel emblazoned with the College motto and complete with presentation box. £325 inc. VAT

For further information, or to purchase the portfolio or the scarf, please contact the Development and Alumni Relations Office, Jesus College Tel: +44 (0)1223 339301 or E-mail: development@jesus.cam.ac.uk

Thirty Years of Contemporary Art: Jesus College, Cambridge 1988-2018 by Jean Bacon and Jim Roseblade

This is a richly illustrated photographic memoir of three decades of Sculpture in the Close biennials at Jesus College and the development of the permanent sculpture Available from Jesus College Porters’ Lodge, collection. online at www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/chapel-and-choir/choir-shop £12 plus postage and packing - available at the online shop: or from Amazon, iTunes and major retailers https://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/alumni/gift-shop

CARDS AND PRINTS by NAOMI DAVIES Well known Cambridge artist Naomi Davies (née Williams, 1987) has created these pen and watercolour paintings of the College which are available as limited edition prints, tea towels, coasters and greetings cards.

More of Naomi’s work featuring Cambridge and bicycles can be found on her website

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JESUS COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE

Data Protection Statement How we use your personal information This statement explains how Jesus College (“we” and “our”) handles and uses data we collect about alumni (“you” and “your”). In broad terms, we use your data to manage the ongoing relationship between the College and you as part of our lifelong community of scholars, including keeping in touch with you, keeping up to date on your achievements, and engaging with you on how you can continue to contribute to College life and otherwise support the College. We will retain your data indefinitely or until you request us to do otherwise. When changes are made to this statement, we will publish the updated version to our website and notify you by other communications channels as we deem appropriate or necessary. The controller for your personal data is Jesus College, Cambridge CB5 8BL. The person responsible for data protection at the time of issue, and the person who is responsible for monitoring compliance with relevant legislation in relation to the protection of personal data, is the Bursar, Dr Richard Anthony (bursar@jesus.cam.ac.uk). The legal basis for processing your personal data is that it is necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests, where we have concluded that our interests do not impact inappropriately on your fundamental rights and freedoms, except where elsewhere in this statement we have indicated otherwise. You may ask us to explain our rationale at any time.

How your data is used by the College We collect and process your personal data, as specified below, for a number of purposes, including: A.

maintaining a formal record of your academic progress and achievements at the College and the University of Cambridge and elsewhere;

retaining a formal record of your career or other life achievements in order to promote and improve the reputation of the College and help you to network with other College members effectively;

engaging you in College and University events that we believe will be of interest to you, including alumni and open events, volunteering opportunities, and other ways you can contribute to the life of the College;

providing you with information about College life and the development of the College, including major initiatives and programmes relating to either the academic endeavour or the provision of services and facilities to members and the wider public;

encouraging you to make a financial contribution to the College and/or the University, and processing any such contributions;

assessing the likelihood that you will, now or in the future, make a financial contribution (gift) to the College;

promoting third party services we believe will be of interest to you:

Further details are provided in the Annex. If you have concerns or queries about any of these purposes, or how we communicate with you, please contact us at the address given above.

Communications If you are a new contact for our Development and Alumni Relations Office, we will ask you at the outset how you would like to receive news and other communications from us. If you are already receiving such communications, you may change your preferences or ask us to stop sending you news and other communications completely by contacting the Development and Alumni Relations Office (development@jesus.cam.ac.uk). You may request changes at any time.

How we share your personal data We believe that most alumni understand in detail the complex and many interactions of the College with the University of Cambridge. Personal data of our members is shared with the University routinely throughout any course of study, and it is our strong preference to continue such collaborative working thereafter. The University and its partners (including the College) have a data sharing agreement to govern the sharing of personal data of alumni and other supporters. This is necessary because they are distinct legal entities. The agreement outlines that, depending on constraints set by you, and which you may change at any time, the University and College may share any of the above categories of personal data with the University, and can be viewed in full (https://www.alumni.cam.ac.uk/data-protection). Any transmission of data to or from the University is managed through agreed processes which comply with UK data protection legislation. For clarity, the College has a separate database from the University, but has access to the University’s database: additionally, we maintain other electronic and paper records. The University has its own data protection statement and procedures – see: https://www.alumni.cam.ac.uk/data-protection Additionally, we share data on a considered and confidential basis, where appropriate, with: • Cambridge in America (the University’s affiliate alumni office in the US); • selected companies who provide College-branded or College-endorsed products and services, as outlined above; • volunteer partners closely related to us (e.g. College trustees, development board members, alumni group representatives); and • contractors providing services to you on our behalf or services to us (our “data processors”), as outlined above. We also facilitate communication between individual alumni (of the College or the University), but in doing so we do not release personal contact details without prior permission. Any transfers of your data overseas or to international organisations, as set out above, are protected either by an adequacy decision by the European Commission or by standard data protection clauses adopted by the European Commission (which are available from our Data Protection Officer) or, before 25 May 2018, by a self-assessment of adequacy.

Your rights You have the right: to ask us for access to, rectification or erasure of your data; to restrict processing (pending correction or deletion); to object to communications or direct marketing; and to ask for the transfer of your data electronically to a third party (data portability). Some of these rights are not automatic, and we reserve the right to discuss with you why we might not comply with a request from you to exercise them. Where you opt out of all future communications or exercise your right to erasure, we will continue to maintain a core set of personal data (name, subject(s), matriculation and graduation details, unique University identification number and date of birth) to ensure we do not contact you inadvertently in future, while still maintaining our record of your academic achievements. We may also need to retain some financial records about you for statutory purposes (e.g. Gift Aid, anti-fraud and accounting matters). You retain the right at all times to lodge a complaint about our management of your personal data with the Information Commissioner’s Office at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/

Annex We collect and process your personal data, as specified below, for a number of purposes, including: A.

Maintaining a formal record of your academic progress and achievements of the College and the University of Cambridge and elsewhere: We retain personal data (provided by you or by the University of Cambridge, or created by us), including: i) ii) iii) iv) v) vi) vii)

your current name and any previous names you have had; unique personal identifiers (e.g. student number, CRSID, date of birth, photograph); your current and previous contact details; your application details, our assessment of your application and the details of any offer(s) of study we have made; records of your academic provision from the College (including supervisions, College examinations and other academic support); matriculation and graduation details and records of your academic qualifications (including those prior to becoming a member of the College); other details of your academic progress or achievement (e.g. College or University awards or prizes).

Retaining a formal record of your academic, career or other life achievements in order to promote and improve the reputation of the College and help you to network with other College members effectively: We retain personal data (provided by you), including: i) ii) iii)

details of your achievements since you completed your course(s) of study; membership of College and external clubs and societies (including alumni groups); your previous and current employment status (including retirement), including job title, sector, income and work contact details, dates of employment.

When you provide this information, we will assume (unless you notify us otherwise) that we can promote these achievements in our public literature, and can use this information for other purposes outlined in this statement. We may supplement information from other public sources that we consider to be reliable (e.g. your public social media profile(s), Queen’s Honours List, Companies House, high profile news reports or articles) and may check their accuracy with you from time to time. C.

Engaging you in College and University events that we believe will be of interest to you, including alumni and open events, volunteering opportunities, and other ways you can contribute to the life of the College: We retain personal data (provided by you or by the University of Cambridge, or created by us), including: i) ii) iii) iv) v)

known relationships with other members (past or present) of the University of Cambridge or any of the Colleges; your previous attendance at College or University events; information about your areas of personal interest; personal data relating to your attendance at events and your personal preferences (e.g. dietary or accommodation requirements or requests); records of any communications (verbal or written) we have had with you, including the purpose and outcome of those communications.

When you provide this information, we will assume (unless you notify us otherwise) that we can use this information for other purposes outlined in this statement. We may supplement information from other public sources that we consider to be reliable (e.g. your public social media profile(s), University publications, high profile news reports or articles) and may check their accuracy with you from time to time.

Providing you with information about the development of the College, including major initiatives and programmes relating to either the academic endeavour or the provision of services and facilities to members and the wider public: We retain personal data (provided by you or by the University of Cambridge, or created by us), including: i) ii)

any communication preferences confirmed by you; ways in which you have supported the College.

By providing us with email addresses and telephone numbers, we have taken this to be consent to use those channels to contact you for this and other purposes outlined in this statement, unless you have expressed your preferred communication channels. When you provide this information, we will assume (unless you notify us otherwise) that we can use this information for other purposes outlined in this statement. E.

Encouraging you to make a financial contribution to the College and/or the University, and processing any such contributions: The College’s income consists of gifts and benefactions, income derived from prudent investment of any endowment and student fees. We value any financial contribution from our members and, accordingly, retain personal data (provided by you or by the University of Cambridge, or created by us), including: i) ii) iii) iv)

the purposes and amounts of any donations or other support previously provided to the University or the College by you; the method(s) of payments used and related payment references; your bank details (for processing direct debit or other financial transactions); your tax status and Gift Aid declaration.

Some of this financial information needs to be retained for statutory purposes for a number of years (e.g. Gift Aid, anti-fraud and accounting matters). When you provide this information, we will assume (unless you notify us otherwise) that we can use this information for other purposes outlined in this statement. F.

Assessing the likelihood that you will, now or in the future, make a financial contribution (gift) to the College: The College undertakes research to determine your capacity to provide financial support. This results in us creating and using personal data including: i) ii)

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your estimated income or asset worth (where this is not provided by you); your potential capacity to make a gift, including our internal classification of you as a major gift prospect which is determined by a combination of your giving history, your attendance at College and University events, and your other interactions with the College since you graduated, including any positive or negative indications from you about your capacity or willingness to give to the College; gifts you have made to other charitable organisations.

Our research includes incorporating information from public sources that we consider to be reliable (e.g. your public social media profile(s), Queen’s Honours List, Companies House, high profile news reports or articles). In using these sources, we have considered the potential intrusion of your privacy. In most cases, our assessment above aims to exclude you from unwelcome or inappropriate approaches so as not to compromise your ongoing relationship with us. G.

Promoting third party services we believe will be of interest to you: We retain personal data (provided by you), including: i)

any preferences to be excluded from such services.

We do not sell your personal data under any circumstances.If you have concerns or queries about any of these purposes, or how we communicate with you, please contact us. https://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/college/about-us/data-protection

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Please return to: The Development and Alumni Relations Office Jesus College Cambridge CB5 8BL e-mail: development@jesus.cam.ac.uk

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