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Courtauld, MA Oxf, PhD LondTutor in History of Art Professor of the History Director of the Smith Institute Louise L Fawcett, BA UCL, MA, MPhil, DPhil Oxf Timothy Cook, MA, DPhil Oxf F

Courtauld, MA Oxf, PhD Lond

Tutor in History of Art

Professor of the History

Director of the Smith Institute

Louise L Fawcett, BA UCL,

MA, MPhil, DPhil Oxf

Timothy Cook, MA, DPhil Oxf

Fellow by Special Election

MA, DPhil Oxf Tutor in Materials Sciences Goldsmiths’ Fellow Professor of Materials

Marc Lackenby, MA Oxf,

PhD Camb Tutor in Pure Mathematics Leathersellers’ Fellow Professor of Mathematics

Marc E Mulholland, BA, MA,

PhD Belf, MA Oxf Tutor in History Wolfson Fellow Professor of Modern History Senior Tutor

Gavin Lowe, MA, MSc,

DPhil Oxf Tutor in Computer Science Professor of Computer Science

President of the Senior Common Room (Leave T19)

Richard M Berry, MA,

DPhil Oxf Tutor in Physics Professor of Biological Physics

Ashok I Handa, MB BS Imp,

MA Oxf, FRCS Fellow by Special Election in Medicine

Associate Professor in Surgery

Tutor for Graduates

James L Bennett, BA R’dg,

MA Oxf Fellow by Special Election Home Bursar

David J Womersley, MA,

PhD Camb, MA, DPhil, DLitt Oxf, FBA

Warton Professor of English Literature

Hull, MA Oxf Fellow by Special Election Academic Registrar Secretary to the Governing Body

David R H Gillespie, MA,

DPhil Oxf Tutor in Engineering Science Rolls-Royce Fellow Associate Professor in Engineering Science

Peter P Edwards, BSc, PhD

Salf, MA Oxf, FRS Professor of Inorganic Chemistry

Patrick S Grant, BEng Nott,

MA, DPhil Oxf, FREng Vesuvius Professor of Materials

Justine N Pila, BA, LLB, PhD

Melb, MA Oxf Tutor in Law

Bart B van Es, BA, MPhil,

PhD Camb Tutor in English Sullivan Fellow Sullivan Clarendon Professor

of English Literature

Tommaso Pizzari, BSc Aberd,

MA Oxf, PhD Shef Tutor in Zoology Professor of Evolutionary Biology

Byron W Byrne, BCom,

BEng Western Australia, MA, DPhil Oxf

Fellow by Special Election in Engineering Science Ørsted/Royal Academy

of Engineering Research Professor in Advanced Geotechnical Design Professor of Engineering Science

Oxf, FRS Fellow by Special Election in Physics

Richard M Bailey, BSc Leics,

MA Oxf, MSc, PhD RHUL Tutor in Geography Associate Professor in Geochronology Dean

Gaia Scerif, BSc St And,

PhD UCL Tutor in Psychology Professor of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Karl Sternberg, MA Oxf

Fellow by Special Election

Christoph Reisinger, MA

Oxf, Dr phil Heidelberg, Dipl Linz

Tutor in Mathematics Professor of Applied Mathematics

Kirsten E Shepherd-Barr,

Grunnfag Oslo, BA Yale, MA, DPhil Oxf

Tutor in English Professor of English and Theatre Studies

Angela B Brueggemann, BSc

St Olaf, MSc Iowa, DPhil Oxf Fellow by Special Election in Biological Sciences Associate Professor

James E Thomson, MChem,

DPhil Oxf Fellow by Special Election in Chemistry

Tutor for Admissions

Andrew J Bunker, MA,

DPhil Oxf Tutor in Physics Professor of Astrophysics

MSc Wales, MA Oxf, PhD Nott Tutor in Zoology Associate Professor in Infectious Diseases

Andreas Muench, MA Oxf, Dr

phil, Dipl TU Munich Tutor in Mathematics Associate Professor in Applied Mathematics

Udo C T Oppermann, BSc,

MSc, PhD Philipps Marburg Professor of Musculoskeletal Sciences

Alain Goriely, Lic, PhD

Brussels, MA Oxf Professor of Mathematical Modelling

Naomi Freud, MA, MSc Oxf

Fellow by Special Election Director of Studies for Visiting Students

Duncan A Robertson, BSc

Imp, MA, DPhil Oxf Fellow by Special Election in Management

Peter T Ireland, MA, DPhil Oxf

Donald Schultz Professor of Turbomachinery

Pekka Hämäläinen, MA, PhD

Helsinki, MA Oxf Rhodes Professor of American History

Benjamin A F Bollig, BA Nott,

MA, PhD KCL, MA Oxf Tutor in Spanish Professor of Spanish American Literature

Eleanor P J Stride, BEng, PhD

UCL, MA Oxf, FREng Fellow by Special Election in Engineering Science Professor of Biomaterials (Leave M18-T19)

Fellow by Special Election Director of Development

K W M (Bill) Fulford, MB

BChir Camb, MA, DPhil Oxf, PhD Lond, FRCP, FRCPsych Fellow by Special Election

Heidi de Wet, BSc

North-West, DPhil Cape Town Tutor in Pre-clinical Medicine Associate Professor in Physiology

Philipp E Koralus, BA Pomona,

MA Oxf, PhD Princeton Tutor in Philosophy Fulford Fellow in Philosophy of Mind & Cognitive Science Fulford Clarendon Associate Professor in Philosophy of Mind (Leave M18-T19)

Andrew J Dickinson, BCL,

MA Oxf Tutor in Law Professor of Law

Ian P J Shipsey, BSc QMUL,

MA Oxf, PhD Edin Henry Moseley Centenary Professor of Experimental Physics

Philip H S Torr, BSc S’ton,

DPhil Oxf Fellow by Special Election in Engineering Science Professor of Engineering Science

Fiona R McConnell, BA Camb,

MA, PhD QMUL Tutor in Geography Associate Professor in Human Geography

Laura Tunbridge, BA Oxf, MA

Nott, PhD Princeton Tutor in Music Henfrey Fellow Professor of Music

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College Life The Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professorship 8

Tutor for Admissions’ Report 12Tutor for Graduates’ Report 14Visiting Students Report 15

The Development Office Review 18

Sports and Societies Review 26Finals Results & Prizes 2018 28

Matteo Broketa (2016, Biomedical Sciences) 36Gwendolen von Einsiedel (2017, Music) 40 Michaela Brady (2017, Social Science of the Internet) 42

Guy Bell (1997, Geography) 46Asheem Singh (2000, Law) 50Kashish Saluja (2015, Philosophy) 52

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Master’s

Report

A former Senior Tutor likened my SGM reports to

the Pathé News Reels of the 1950s, in terms of the

trumpeting of positive news This year I have good

cause to get the trumpet out of its case and blow it

harder than ever It has been an outstanding year in

every respect

Our students and their Tutors have excelled themselves

with their performance in Finals this year – 64 Firsts

out of the cohort of 130 sitting Finals, including the

top First across the University in Law (Alex Benn, North

Halifax Grammar School), in Biology (Oliver Mattinson,

Marlborough College) and in History of Art (Nathan

Geyer, Haberdashers’ Aske’s, Hatcham College) The

Lawyers managed the top First too in Law Moderations

(Joshua Wang, Raffles Institution, Singapore) whilst

the Biologists took the top Distinction in Prelims

(Mavis Teo, NUS High School of Maths and Science,

Singapore)

The Academic Office and our Tutors have much to

be proud of in helping our students to realise their

potential, but Marc Mulholland deserves very special

mention in terms of College citizenship He has served

as Dean, now as Senior Tutor, and throughout has

kept his teaching, research and revolutionary interests alive His new book in respect of the latter is called

The Murderer of Warren Street and is sure to be a

bestseller I have already sent him a Gift Aid form.The Development Office team led by Saira Uppal has

had an outstanding year, having raised just over £3M, with a participation rate of 18%, the fifth highest in Oxford In particular, we are extremely grateful for the very significant individual gift this year from Simon Clark (1966, Mod Langs and now Honorary Fellow)

It’s been a great year too in terms of recognition of the achievements of our Fellows:

The Master, Professor Roger Ainsworth

Our students and their Tutors have excelled themselves with their performance in Finals this year.

Lord Bragg of Wigton (Domus Fellow) was made

Companion of Honour in the 2018 Queen’s Birthday

Honours, recognising his long-standing services to

Broadcasting and the Arts Melvyn has been a loyal

supporter of the College in spite of his very busy life

Laura Tunbridge (Tutorial Fellow in Music) was an

invited guest on Melvyn’s Radio 4 programme In Our

Time to talk about the works of Beethoven, and

separately Kirsten Shepherd-Barr (Tutorial Fellow in

English) joined a panel of three to talk about Ibsen Just

before the programme went live on air, Melvyn said to

Kirsten, “You know I’m a Fellow of St Catherine’s too,

don’t you?”, at which point the third member of the

panel, Norwegian Tore Rem chimed in that he too was a

former Fellow of Catz!

The internationally acclaimed pioneering work of our

Honorary Fellow, Nick Stern, Lord Stern of Brentford,

President of the British Academy from 2013 until July

2017, was recognised by the award of an Honorary

Degree, the DLitt, at the University’s Encaenia this year,

always a most glittering occasion

Professor Masaki Orita (Honorary Fellow and Alumnus)

has been awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure,

Gold and Silver Star by HM the Emperor of Japan, an

honour awarded to those who have made distinguished

achievements in civil or military service

Marshall Cloyd (Domus Fellow) has been honoured,

receiving the Admiral of the Navy George Dewey Award

from the Naval Order of the United States This he

receives for establishing a record of exemplary service whilst acting in a civilian capacity in a senior federal government position I believe also that Marshall is the only Fellow here to have had an asteroid named after

him, 15499 CLOYD, discovered in 1999 You may like to

know that it orbits the Sun with a period of 1,902 days

Professor Eleanor Stride (Fellow in Engineering

Science) has been elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering, winning recognition for outstanding engineering accomplishment Her research using nanobubbles to deliver drugs to cancer tumours continues with great intensity One of her current strands of work is at the new national Rosalind Franklin Institute based at Harwell, dedicated to bringing about transformative changes in Life Science through interdisciplinary R&D She is part of the team working

on what will be the first camera in the world able to capture up to 100 million individual frames per second

at 1-megapixel resolution operating across a wide optical spectrum from ultraviolet to infrared The camera will help her to understand the biophysical mechanisms behind drug delivery – critical to perfecting ultrasound targeted drug delivery

Dr Jessica Goodman (Fellow and Tutor in French) was

recently awarded a Rising Star Engagement research award by the British Academy for the project ‘Modern Languages in Crisis: Creating a Support Network for Languages Outreach in the UK’ The idea behind her project is to train Early Career Researchers to think

of using their research to engage school students

Just before the programme went live on air, Melvyn said to Kirsten,

“You know I’m

a Fellow of St Catherine’s too, don’t you?”, at which point the

third member

of the panel, Norwegian Tore Rem chimed

in that he too was a former Fellow of Catz!

Jim Thomson (Fellow by Special Election in Chemistry)

becomes our new Tutor for Admissions, and has assumed the mantle with great gusto You will know that Outreach is a set agenda item for Oxford and therefore for St Catherine’s We have of course been working in this area since the foundation of the Delegacy for Unattached Students, 150 years ago The team led by Jim together with Charlotte Sansome, and supported by our new Outreach

Officer Anna McMurtie, has welcomed over 1,200

prospective applicants to the College, from more than

85 different school groups For well over a century, the Leathersellers’ Livery Company has been a great supporter of St Catherine’s They have good links with schools in South London and because of this we now have a Leathersellers’ Day here, the aim of which is

Subsequently hundreds of pupils across the country will

be exposed to events that should inspire them to see Modern Languages study in a new light, and hopefully encourage them to study it at both school level and – hopefully – beyond

Before I speak more generally about our other Outreach work, I must first of all thank Byron Byrne, our demitting

Tutor for Admissions for his exemplary and skilful efforts over 10 years in our Admissions Office He has resigned from his Tutorial Fellowship, to become the Ørsted / Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Advanced Geotechnical Design He has secured £5M of funding from the Danish firm Ørsted, to work on new design methods for offshore wind turbine foundations We are very pleased to retain him as a Fellow by Special Election

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to inspire pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds who

have outstanding academic potential to apply to highly

selective universities like Oxford 50 came this year,

from four schools

Our students are very active too in this area, as one might

hope and expect, and a good number act as volunteer

tutors to local schools through Schools Plus at the Oxford

Hub, through Students4Students going to local primary

schools to tutor English and Maths, and through Jacari,

providing one hour a week of free home tutoring to

children who speak English as an additional language

In terms of news of some specific students:

Chloe Rooke (2015, Music) was ‘highly commended’

in the ‘Young Star’ category of the Women of the

Future Awards in November last year, and went on to

take part in a prestigious conducting course with the

BBC National Orchestra of Wales She was the only

woman on the course and the only undergraduate – the

others were postgrads She is certainly one to watch

Alissa Hummer (2015, Biochemistry) and Zoe

Catchpole (2015, Biochemistry) won gold medals at

the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM)

competition The iGEM competition attracts 5,600

participants across 42 countries

In March, Sophie Taylor (2013, Medical Sciences) was

elected President of Vincent’s Club – the first female

president since the club was established in 1863

Catz student Sam Edgerley (2017, Modern Languages) represented the University in the Rugby

Varsity Match against Cambridge in December, while

Morgan McGovern (2017, Management Studies)

rowed in the Oxford vs Cambridge Boat Race this year, described as the power in the centre of the boat – where Catz likes to be

Oxford beat Cambridge in both the Men’s and Women’s Varsity Triathlon this year, with Sophia Saller (2011, Mathematics) taking 1st place in the women’s competition

Our students won a Platinum award for the Student Switch Off campaign Let’s hope it’s to do with electricity

Our alumni are not to be outdone by the rest of the College in registering noteworthy achievements Two were honoured in the 2018 New Year’s Honours list:

Joanna Coleman (1986, Engineering), was awarded

an OBE for services to the Energy Sector Currently the Director of Strategy Development for the Energy Technologies Institute, her work there is focused on creating strong partnerships and modelling systems which should have a significant impact on the advancement of low carbon technology for the energy sector

Professor Mark Miodownik (1988, Metallurgy) was

awarded an MBE for his services to Science, Engineering

Chloe Rooke (2015, Music) was ‘highly commended’

in the ‘Young Star’ category

of the Women

of the Future Awards in November last year, and went

on to take part

in a prestigious conducting course

and Broadcasting Recently, in a series of programmes

on BBC Radio 4, he explored our love-hate relationship

with plastic, why we have ended up with oceans of

waste blighting the environment and what science and

society can do about it

The Queen’s Birthday Honours brought further esteem

to the College:

Professor Sarah Harper (1979, Anthropology &

Geography) was made a CBE for services to the science

of Demography She is this University’s first Professor

of Gerontology, and has served on the Prime Minister’s

Council for Science and Technology since 2014, a body

which advises the PM on the scientific evidence for

strategic policies and frameworks

Jeanette Winterson (1978, English) was made a CBE

for services to Literature

In terms of other notable achievements amongst our

alumni, David Waksman QC (1979, Law) has been

appointed a Justice of the High Court, with effect from

October 2018 He has played a leading role in the

training of judges at all levels David has been involved

in the recent development of the Business and Property

Court

Rustam Stolkin (1993, Engineering), Chair in Robotics

at the University of Birmingham, is the Director of

the new National Centre for Nuclear Robotics He

recently won £42 million funding to found the centre,

which aims to establish the UK as a leader in applying advanced robotics to nuclear problems

Diplomacy and politics seems to be a career theme for our alumni this year:

Andrew Pearce OBE (1979, Chemistry) was recently

appointed Governor of Montserrat, his latest posting

in his 30 years of service for the UK Foreign &

Commonwealth Office

Trevor Traina (1990, Visiting Student) has followed in

his grandfather’s footsteps by becoming US Ambassador

to Austria

And Simon Bridges (2004, Law) has been elected Leader

of New Zealand’s opposition party, the National Party

I want to pay a special tribute to Thelma Holt CBE

(Emeritus Fellow), our Cameron Mackintosh Professor

of 1998, who has never stopped helping Oxford students since In the forthcoming year she will be winding down the formal bit of her role here, but she will continue giving students the benefit of her expertise on an ad-hoc basis At the National Theatre with Peter Hall in 1987, she won the Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Theatre for her international work She hasn’t paused for breath since Her theatrical successes as producer after leaving the National Theatre include many outstanding Shakespeare

productions: The Merchant of Venice with Dustin Hoffman, Hamlet with Alan Rickman in the leading role,

I want to pay a special tribute

to Thelma Holt CBE (Emeritus Fellow), our Cameron Mackintosh Professor of

1998, who has never stopped helping Oxford students since

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and Much Ado about Nothing with Janet McTeer and

Mark Rylance Of all her awards, Thelma is most proud

of the Order of the Rising Sun from the Emperor of

Japan ‘for her services to cultural exchange between

the UK and Japan, particularly the work of the director

Yukio Ninagawa’ We are so fortunate that she has

never left us!

The new building work in College is well underway So

many well-motivated young people want to come here

that we have had to expand the numbers in College

The 19 students in 1868 had grown to 600 in 2001,

and to over 1,000 today – now the largest college by

over 200 Ashok Handa, our Tutor for Graduates, and

his supporting team have played a large part in the

growth over the last decade or so These numbers have

provided us with the incentive to build what will possibly

be the last range of buildings on our site here – a

further 78 graduate en-suite rooms in three staircases

and a new Graduate Centre incorporating a new MCR

and further seminar rooms The latter building will be on

three floors and circular in form In the last decade and

a half, we will have more than doubled the number of

student bedrooms from the original 305 to 649

We are very pleased with the design work carried out,

and so far so good with the contractors executing the

plans The journey to this stage has been a complicated

one – for instance, archaeologists got excited about the

possible presence of a Saxon ditch potentially under the

Graduate Centre, the Environment Agency had to be

satisfied over the effect on the flood plain, and Merton

College still held covenants over the land we purchased from them many years ago We are very grateful to

James Bennett, our Home Bursar, in the very detailed

and extensive work he has to carry out in interfacing with the building project He carries a very heavy load, much of it unseen by colleagues In terms of the building project, financing too of course could not be taken for granted, but the skills of Fram Dinshaw,

our Finance Bursar, careful custodian of our financial strength, enable us to take on this project unaffected

by sleepless nights We are deeply grateful for those skills For the record, our initial endowment in 1962 was equivalent to £10.8M in today’s money The 2018 value

of endowment is £85M

Well, there you have it A frenetic year marked by great achievements I am so privileged to have had the role of Master and I thank you for your help and support I will demit from office in December 2019

I hope you will agree that events of this last year have been appropriate cause for wielding the Pathé News Trumpet Q

So many well-motivated young people want

to come here that we have had to expand the numbers in College The 19 students in 1868 had grown to 600 in 2001, and to over 1,000 today – now the largest college by over 200.

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The Cameron Mackintosh

Visiting Professorship

In 1990, Honorary Fellow Sir Cameron

Mackintosh established a Visiting

Professorship at the University, funded

through a grant from the Cameron Mackintosh

Foundation The Visiting Professorship, based

at St Catherine’s College, aims to promote

interest in, and the study and practice of,

contemporary theatre at Oxford

The Visiting Professorship has previously

been held by actors, writers, directors, and

producers including Arthur Miller, Stephen

Fry, Thelma Holt, Stephen Sondheim, Phyllida

Lloyd, Sir Tim Rice, Sir Ian McKellen, and

Claude-Michel Schönberg We are thrilled to

be welcoming Deborah Warner as the 27th

Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor, due to

succeed Sir Tom Stoppard in January 2019

Deborah Warner is a world renowned British

director of theatre and opera Her career

started in 1980, when she founded the Kick

We are delighted announce Deborah Warner CBE as the next Cameron

Mackintosh Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre for 2019.

Theatre Company, which took a play to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival each year Since then, the majority of Deborah’s work has focused on major classics of spoken drama and opera

In 1987 Deborah joined the Royal Shakespeare Company as Resident Director, and from 1989-1997, Deborah was an Associate Director at the National Theatre

Over her career, Deborah has collaborated with actor Fiona Shaw on plays including

Electra (1989); King Lear (1990); Hedda Gabler (1991); Richard II (1995); and Medea

(2000-2001) Many of Deborah’s productions have been widely toured, for example her

production of T.S Eliot’s poem The Waste Land with Fiona Shaw which visited Brussels,

Dublin, Paris, Montreal, Toronto, Brighton, Adelaide, Bergen, Perth London, and New York (where it won two New York Drama Desk Awards)

Deborah has also worked extensively in the field of opera and classical music Examples of

her work as a Director include Britten’s The Turn

of the Screw for the Royal Opera, which won

the Evening Standard and South Bank Awards,

Dido and Aeneas and La Traviata for the Vienna Festival She has also directed Wozzeck and La Voix humaine for Opera North and both Don Giovanni and Fidelio for Glyndebourne

Examples of her work for the English National

Opera include Britten’s Death in Venice and Handel’s Messiah

Deborah Warner © RUPCHRI, Wikimedia Commons

Deborah was created a CBE in the 2006

Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to

drama She has also been awarded the

Chevalier dans l’ordre des Artes et des Lettres

by the French Government in 1992 and Officier

dans l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2000

Commenting on the appointment, the Master,

Professor Roger Ainsworth, said: “We are

extremely excited to know that Deborah

Warner will be arriving as our new Cameron

Mackintosh Visiting Professor of Contemporary

Theatre in January Her breadth of stellar directing will be of immense interest to our community, and great help to the student population.”

Deborah Warner added: “I am delighted and honoured to follow such an illustrious list of chair-holders, and take up the 2019 Cameron Mackintosh Chair of Contemporary Theatre

at Oxford At a moment of such change and uncertainty in Britain and beyond, the nurture and encouragement of future generations of

theatre-makers seems more important than ever I look forward to working closely with the students, offering what benefit I may from my experience across the disciplines

of theatre, opera and installation My own involvement in theatre began in Oxford, so

it is with particular pleasure I return to this wonderful city and great University.”

Deborah’s inaugural lecture will take place during Hilary Term 2019, with further details

to be announced closer to the time Q

Deborah Warner’s production of Handel’s Messiah for the English National Opera in London © Tim Regan, Wikimedia Commons

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Senior Tutor’s Report

The academic year 2017-18 was fizzing

with energy at St Catherine’s On top of the

regular classes and tutorials, tutors provided

study skills sessions to emphasise that

learning, when well directed and planned,

has a much greater reach As Senior Tutor I

met with all the Final Years by subject group

to discuss the particular challenges and

opportunities encountered in the last year of

the undergraduate degree What struck me

impressively was the accumulated experience

and insight the undergraduates were able to

bring to bear Best of all was their willingness

and ability to share tips, hints, and methods

one with another It really reinforced for me

the importance of the collegiate system,

where individual students are able to learn

from each other

This is even more marked, perhaps, in the

scholarly discussion groups run by the

students themselves The Dean Kitchin

Society, many decades-old, has been

resurrected this year by the energy and

enthusiasm of undergraduates They had a

particularly interesting joint meeting with the Catz BME Society on education and black liberation History tutor, Dr Bill Booth, meanwhile, ran a reading-group, open to all students and staff, on C L R James’ classic,

The Black Jacobins It will be great to see

many more student-led discussion groups springing up

Now part of the regular college academic calendar, and a highlight of the year, is the Catz Exchange Conference At this event undergraduate and graduate members of the college community join together to present and discuss short academic papers We had a total of 18 papers presented Titles included

‘Whose Middle Ages? Abuse, alterity, and opportunity’, ‘Spaghetti Monsters, Uncertainty, and the Ethics of Existential Risk’, ‘Distancing death: welfare and slaughter in the British halal meat industry’, and ‘Digitizing the Gothic Cathedral.’ These and others came entirely from the students’ hard work and imagination

A handsome silver cup was awarded the paper judged (by the Senior Tutor) to have been

best constructed and delivered for a wide intellectual audience The winner was Nick

Hu for his paper, ‘Using computers to prove mathematics.’ The conference ended with a drinks reception and a splendid dinner for all participants in the main hall

Our graduate community remains active and energetic, with doctoral work on a huge range

of topic at the cutting edge Mark Peterzan is researching ‘How the heart handles energy’, Viveka Kulharia, ‘Self-driving cars’, Robbie

Professor Marc Mulholland, the Senior Tutor, provides an overview

of the past academic year at St Catherine’s.

Oppenheimer, ‘Programmable nanomachines’,

Gwendolen Von Einsiedel, ‘Hip hop, horses and

zydeco in rural Louisiana’, and Jasmine Proteau,

‘Travel and gendered identities in British and

North American Women’s Guidebooks’

Naturally our staff is research active Dr Jessica

Goodman was awarded the 2018 Women in

French Early Career Conference Paper Award

for her paper ‘Talking Heads: Silenced Female Voices in the Revolutionary Afterlife’, while

Dr Heidi de Wet’s article, ‘A Ketone Ester Drink Lowers Human Ghrelin and Appetite’

was Editor’s Choice in the scholarly journal

Obesity Dr Ashok Handa hosted a symposium

entitled ‘Talking About Dying’ There were 200 participants and the panel was chaired by Evan Davis This kind of work, and I could mention

much more, ensures that our students are taught by research-active specialists

The students performed brilliantly in Finals in

2018 In undergraduate finals an astonishing

64 candidates were awarded a First, up from

40 last year We had 58 receive II(i)s, bringing

us up to number 3 in the Norrington Table It has been quite the year Q

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Tutor for Admissions’ Report

It has been an incredibly busy year for

admissions and outreach at Catz, not least

because there have been several changes in

the Admissions Office over the last twelve

months First of all, I must pay tribute to my

predecessor, Professor Byron Byrne, who did a

fantastic job as Tutor for Admissions for over

nine years before he passed the baton to me

in Michaelmas Term Following the departure

of Charli Hopkins, Charlotte Sansome took

up the role of Deputy Academic Registrar

(Admissions & Access) and Laurel Quinn

was appointed as our Academic Officer

(Admissions) I am also delighted to announce

that Anna McMurtrie has recently joined the

team as our Outreach Officer, in a new post

that was created this year to increase the

scope of our outreach work

As always, the admissions exercise in

December was a huge operation This year

we received 868 applications (compared to

837 applications in 2016 and 794 applications

in 2015), 371 candidates were invited

for interview, and over 1000 interviews

Dr Jim Thomson, Tutor for Admissions, provides an overview on the

work of the Admissions Office over the past academic year.

were conducted in College Despite a heavy snow fall, the interview period went relatively smoothly, thanks in large part

to the essential help from our team of 26 student ambassadors Some of our current undergraduates also played a key role in the Open Days, which took place on 27 and 28 June and 14 September, and I have received several letters of thanks from visitors describing how cheerful and helpful all our student ambassadors were Shortly before the June Open Days we were excited to take delivery of the first print run of our updated undergraduate prospectus (now available to download from the College website), which has undergone a complete redesign

This has also been a very successful year for access and outreach at Catz We have managed to link with a number of new schools and have received overwhelmingly positive feedback from our outreach events

We have engaged with over 1150 students from 85 different schools following a range

of different activities, including the Women

in Science Day, the Spanish and Portuguese Taster Day, and many school visits for pupils aged between 9–17 years old In March,

we hosted the second Leathersellers’ Day as part of the continued relationship that exists between the College and the Leathersellers’ Company The Leathersellers’ Day involved 50 students in Year 10 and Year 12 from four different schools across London In addition to a tour of the College, the students were given a talk about going

to University and the Oxford admissions process, had a Q&A session with current students, and participated in a subject taster session in one of seven different subjects split between the sciences and the arts In June, we hosted 70 students and 26 teachers from 23 schools across Northern Ireland as part of our fourth annual residential summer school, in collaboration with New College The students were given the opportunity

to experience life as an Oxford student, staying in College accommodation, eating meals in hall, and attending tutorials There was also a full programme of events for the teachers, including a Q&A session with tutors In January 2017, the central university Student Recruitment Team became officially responsible for managing outbound outreach

activity in Northern Ireland, bringing the

region in line with Scotland in terms of the

management of outreach in the area Despite

this change, we are committed to running the

residential summer school on an annual basis,

and in March the Deputy Academic Registrar

attended the Oxbridge Student Conference

in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, to reassure our

school contacts about our commitment to the region and to assist the Student Recruitment Team during the transition The College is also involved with outreach at the university level, having recently pledged support for Target Oxbridge, a collaborative outreach programme aimed at UK students of African and Caribbean heritage, and the expansion

of the UNIQ summer school, the University

of Oxford’s flagship outreach programme that supports pupils from under-privileged backgrounds

With the appointment of our new Outreach Officer, we are looking to re-shape our outreach strategy over the coming year and significantly expand the scope of our access work We will be looking for new opportunities to engage with schools and would gratefully receive donations from alumni and friends of the College to help fund further access initiatives

I would like to thank the Academic Registrar, Cressida Chappell, and Professor Byron Byrne for all their help and support this year throughout what has been quite a steep learning curve for me I am also very grateful

to all my colleagues in the Admissions Office for their hard work, dedication and unwavering commitment to admissions and outreach at Catz Looking ahead to the next academic year, we are excited about the launch of our new website and are braced for

a bumper year of applications following our recent success, achieving third position, in the Norrington Table rankings Q

Admissions Team L-R: Anna McMurtrie (Outreach Officer), Jim Thomson (Tutor for Admissions), Charlotte Sansome

(Deputy Academic Registrar - Admissions & Access), Laurel Quinn (Academic Officer - Admissions)

1 4 / T U T O R F O R G R A D U A T E S ’ R E P O R T

Tutor for Graduates’ Report

I am pleased to have the opportunity to report

on the graduate community at St Catherine’s

this year This year has been a record year for

graduate students at St Catz with a total of

442 graduates, made up of 252 undertaking

taught courses and 190 research students

These included 33 undertaking an MBA, 7

an Executive MBA, 28 clinical medics and 16

studying a Masters in Public Policy

We welcomed 256 graduate freshers in

Michaelmas 2017, made up of 80 different

nationalities from 58 countries, making ours

the most international graduate community in

Oxford

One of the most pleasurable responsibilities

each year is to chair the Graduate Scholarship

panels I am most grateful to the Fellows

for their time and diligence in shortlisting

and interviewing the applicants This year

we have a total of 69 Graduate scholars at

Catz, made up of eight Light Senior scholars,

four Leathersellers’ scholars, ten named

scholarships, nine other College or overseas

Professor Ashok Handa, the Tutor for Graduates, provides an

overview of the past academic year for the graduate community at

We also welcomed four graduates awarded

an Oxford-based scholarship targeted at St Catherine’s and a further 21 Oxford-based scholars including five Rhodes scholars, two Commonwealth scholars, one Clarendon scholar and six Chevening scholars

We have a lively and active MCR with a varied programme of social and academic events each year, including the popular MCR Guest Night every Friday in term time I am grateful

to the MCR committee for all their hard work in

keeping the academic and social programmes going throughout the year and in particular making the graduate freshers feel so welcome

at the start of the year

This year has also seen the College invest in our graduate community by beginning the construction of 72 new en-suite rooms for graduate students onsite, and a new Graduate Centre building to house a larger MCR

I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Academic Registrar and her team who provide me with such excellent support in all the administrative tasks needed for admissions, reviewing of reports and the Scholarship panels, with calm efficiency and good humour

It is an exciting time for graduates at St Catherine’s and the future looks bright! Q

Visiting Students Report

Naomi Freud, our Director of Studies for Registered Visiting Students provides an overview of the

Visiting Student Programme at Catz.

I am very proud to direct the Registered

Visiting Student Programme at Catz I write

this as I look forward to a new year of fresh

faces, inspiring talent, humour, and kindness

personified

Each year we welcome around 80 visiting

students who join us for a year, two terms

or one term There are 50 students at any

one time Some take courses alongside their

matriculated college peers and others enjoy

bespoke tutorials enabling them to explore

subjects new to all of us Hostile Architecture

is one that springs to mind and a new one

for this year It comes as my challenge from

Columbia University

What I admire are the ways in which many

of the students fully incorporate themselves

into the busy life of college I enjoy seeing

and listening to the collaborations between

our matriculated and visiting students on

musical and dramatic endeavours It is great

to learn how many of them set up companies

and work together after they graduate from

university There is a real dynamism that is

infectious The continuity of their relationship with Catz lives on after they leave and I know that many have made life-long friends here and have affectionate memories of their time

at Catz

Let me share part of a reflection on Oxford sent to me by a former visiting student who joined us last year Myles Zhang writes:

‘My future has been shaped by the Oxford experience, which often included twelve 2000-word essays and thousands of pages reading per term The year-long rigorous academic programme endows me with an

“Oxford state of mind,” defined by the tutorial process – asking questions, seeking answers through reading and self-reflection, and contemplating conclusions with the tutor My demanding professors always pushed me beyond Oxford’s medieval castles into the real world, in the present and past.

With Oxford’s tutorial system, I enjoyed freedom unavailable in any “traditional”

universities and marvelled at the Bodleian

and over 100 libraries, as well as dozens of college chapels My little red bicycle took

me to surrounding canals, meadows, and even cemeteries, where J.R.R Tolkien, Isaiah Berlin, and James Legge rest Wheels hitting cobblestones during my nightly ride left a comforting sound in my memories My new friends accommodated me in their homes in Bournemouth and Southern Bavaria Most

of all, I even had the great fortune to find someone to share my life with.

Without a doubt, I will treasure this gift through my academic and life journey.’

The academic calibre of our visitors has been tremendous and is matched by their humility and appreciation for those who teach them This last year I was touched by the comments the students gave on their tutorial report forms and in our end of term individual meetings The feedback forms richly demonstrate the wealth of goodwill, inspiration, dedication, passion, flair, kindness and commitment, and expertise recognised by our visiting students in their tutors Q

1 6 / F R O M T H E L I B R A R Y

From the Library

The College Library has recently received an

exceptional bequest of books from Professor

George Holmes Having taught for the St

Catherine’s Society in the 1950s, George

Holmes became a Founding Fellow of the

College and Tutor in Medieval History He also

served for many years as Fellow Librarian,

playing a significant role in building up the

Library from modest beginnings The St

Catherine’s Society had had the use of a

library which chiefly comprised donations in

the fields of theology and classics, two fields

of prevailing interest to earlier generations

but neither of which subjects, ironically, was

offered in the new, and self-consciously

modern, foundation of St Catherine’s College

from 1962 A man of wide culture and

intellectual interests, George worked with

the Assistant Librarians and with academic

colleagues to establish solid foundations

in the Library’s holdings across all of the

subjects now being studied in St Catherine’s

That the collection, now comprising 60,000

volumes, is currently one of the best

undergraduate libraries in Oxford is due not

least to George’s contribution

Professor Gervase Rosser, Fellow Librarian and Fellow in History of

Art, writes about the past academic year for the College Library.

George’s teaching and research extended from the social and economic history of England

in the later Middle Ages to medieval and Renaissance Italy His particular achievement, both in his published scholarship and in the courses which he taught to undergraduates, lay in his distinctive combination of a grounded sense of the fundamental significance of economic relationships in history with a determination to show how cultural forms might

be comprehended in a holistic understanding

of the past The visual arts, in particular, were important to him, and at a time when the Oxford History Faculty remained suspicious of the flighty and decadent connotations of the history of art, George was one of a tiny handful

of tutors who included the critical analysis of images as a significant part of the historical enterprise By doing so, he helped to make possible the eventual creation, in 2004, of the new BA degree course in Art History, in which St Catherine’s participated from the outset

George had left St Catherine’s in 1989 to take

up the Chichele Professorship of Medieval History at All Souls’ College But both he and his wife, Anne Holmes, a Fellow of

Hertford College and tutor in French literature, remained attached to St Catherine’s George died in 2008, and Anne in 2017, after which their three children confirmed their parents’ desire that their books should benefit the community, and especially the undergraduates, of St Catherine’s After the Assistant Librarians, Luda Gromova and Barbara Costa, had sorted the library, more than 1,000 valuable additions were made, principally in the disciplines of History, Literature and the History of Art The presence of George and Anne Holmes will thus continue to be felt in the intellectual life

of the College Q

From the Archive

Barbara Costa, Assistant Librarian and College Archivist, writes

about the past academic year for the College Archives.

Music House since the 1980s were converted into digital fi les

The activity of the Archive is encouraged periodically by internal and external enquiries

The internal enquiries regard mainly the provision of photographs and documents to the Development or the Master’s Offi ces, which organise events with alumni or sponsors

of the College The external enquiries last year concerned the College architects, family history and evidence of alumni who have become prominent in various fi elds Such requests for information stimulate the exploration and promotion of different sections of the Archive and the fi nding of hidden gems, such as the records of College societies since the beginning of the twentieth century

One of these is the History Society, established in 1900 and rechristened the Dean Kitchin Society after the

fi rst sole censor of the Delegacy, the Rev G.W Kitchin In the preliminary meeting minutes, dated 15 March

Despite its modern foundation, St Catherine’s

has an important Archive, with records dating

back to 1868, when it was a Delegacy of

Non-Collegiate Students established to

broaden access to the University of Oxford

The late Derek Davies, Fellow in Law, and

Margaret Davies looked after the Archive for

a number of years Since 2011, the Assistant

Librarian has also taken on the role of College

Archivist, and as the current Archivist I have

been building on previous work and exploring

ways to develop the Archive for the future

During the past year, the Archive has

maintained its role of preserving records

of the life of the College A small number

of these are related to the Delegacy, and

a larger number to the foundation and

subsequent life of the College, in addition to

administrative records They include a variety

of media, primarily paper records, but also

videos and audiocassettes, photographs,

paintings, and memorabilia The videos and

audiocassettes are currently in the process of

digitisation due to their vulnerability, and last

year audiocassettes of concerts held in the

1900, the society stated as its main goal: ‘that papers be read weekly for not more than six weeks in each term by members of the Society, each paper to be followed by discussion That such papers be confi ned to the subjects contained in the syllabus of the Honour school

of Modern History…’ The Society, which has

fl uctuated in the intensity of its activities over the ensuing century, remains today a vibrant space for debate on historical issues

This year will be the College’s 150th anniversary, and the Archive will contribute with an exhibition, provisionally planned to be held in the autumn of 2019 in the Library, of some signifi cant records depicting the history

of the College Q

1 8 / T H E D E V E L O P M E N T O F F I C E R E V I E W

The Development Office

The Development Office exists to maintain and

strengthen our relationship with our 10,000

strong Catz community of alumni, friends and

parents, who are based in over 127 countries

We are very fortunate that our international

community comes from a wide range of

backgrounds, spans several generations, and

works in many different professions Each year,

we welcome back over 700 people to events

and send out over 18,000 publications

Lifelong Catz Community

The day you matriculate, you become a

lifelong member of our Catz community and

in the Development Office we ensure that the

benefits of this membership continue once you

leave Our events calendar continues to grow

in number and variety, offering our alumni,

friends and parents an opportunity to meet with

old friends and make new connections, whilst

keeping up to date with College news

It is always a pleasure to meet the new

members of our community at the Parents’

and Freshers’ Lunch held at the end of Hilary

Term This is always a joyous event with a drinks

reception in the JCR followed by lunch with the

Master in Hall The Master also hosts a garden party for second years and their parents to celebrate the end of Trinity Term This year, even with the traditionally English weather, the beautiful setting of the Water Gardens and strawberries and cream were enjoyed by all

We welcomed over 300 alumni back to College for the Gaudy for 2003 – 2012 matriculands, who enjoyed dinner in Hall followed by drinks

in the JCR bar We were delighted to hold our inaugural Medics’ Gaudy last year, which brought together alumni and current students from a wide range of matriculation years – from

1957 to 2016! Away from College, our London Party was held at The British Academy and was as popular as ever with almost 200 alumni attending, uniting an even greater span of matriculation years

As our Catz community is spread across the world, it is important that we enable our alumni, friends and parents to come together locally too We would like to express our gratitude

to Gerald and Marion McGovern, parents of

Morgan McGovern (2017, Management Studies) and to Anne Bevis Detwiler (m 1988), for

their support in helping us to achieve this in North America Gerald and Marion were the

gracious hosts of our first San Francisco Drinks Reception and Anne opened her home in New York for a drinks reception on the East Coast

We appreciate not all of our alumni can make

it to events, and we hope you enjoy staying in

touch through our publications: CatzEye and The Year To ensure you are kept up-to-date

with our news, it would be much appreciated if you could provide us with your contact details You can do so through this website: www.stcatz.ox.ac.uk/alumni-friends/your-details/

Thank You

We’re delighted to announce that last financial year nearly 2,000 members of our community made a gift to College, donating over £3 million between them This is an incredible result for St Catz, and we would like to express our heartfelt thanks to everyone who donated Philanthropic support has played a vital role in the College’s development over the last 150 years, and we are incredibly grateful that it continues to allow the College to flourish today

Year on year, more of our community choose

to make a donation to the College, and last year was no exception We’re particularly grateful to all those who rose to the challenge The Year in Review

So far, nearly £6m has been raised towards the Graduate Centre, and building started over the summer We plan to open the centre

at the start of our next academic year

150th Anniversary

We’re excited to be celebrating the College’s

150th anniversary throughout the academic year 2018-19, in recognition of our earliest origins as the ‘Delegacy for Unattached Students’

St Catherine’s traces its descent from the Scholares Non Ascripti, or ‘Delegacy for Unattached Students’, established in 1868 The Delegacy was established as part of an expansion of the University so that students would be able to gain an Oxford education without the costs of College membership

We will be marking this momentous occasion with a vibrant events programme, culminating

in an Anniversary Weekend on 14-15 September 2019 We hope that these events will serve as a perfect opportunity for our community of alumni, students, parents and friends to join in celebration The full list of events features on page 54

Thanks again, we hope to see you this year Q

which was set by a generous Catz Couple in

honour of our 150th anniversary They offered

to contribute £150 for every gift made in July,

and donate a further £15,000 if 200 of our

alumni made a gift! It was humbling to see

so many coming together and showing their

support This challenge alone raised £78,000,

which contributed to our £3 million total; we

would like to thank everyone who made this

possible, especially the Catz couple, who wish

to remain anonymous

Our annual Telethon was well received once

again, with 14 of our current students talking

to over 500 of you around the world and

raising more than £200,000 in the process

Not only does the telethon raise funds for the

College, but it is also an excellent opportunity

for our students to speak to our alumni,

compare College life experiences and have

confirmation that there is life beyond Catz!

We look forward to building on these results

throughout our 150th Anniversary year

Building for the future

We are utilising the remaining space we have available on College land to build a new Graduate Centre, housing an MCR, seminar rooms and several versatile academic and social spaces In addition, we are also building three new staircases alongside staircase 23,

to complete the work which was first started

in June

Although we house around 90% of our undergraduates for the entirety of their course, we are facing rising pressure to offer similar levels of accommodation for our graduates These new staircases, earmarked especially for our graduates, will enable us

to protect them from the difficulties of ‘living out’ and remain competitive in the growing contest for exceptional talent The buildings will ensure that our remarkable learning environment, which is at the heart of the Catz Community and for which we are famed, will continue to thrive in the future

2 0 / P O S T C A R D S T O T H E M A S T E R

Every year College Travel Awards are

granted to students who plan, organise and undertake expeditions around the globe Whether undertaking charitable work or fulfi lling lifelong ambitions to

visit other cultures, all the students who take part fi nd their horizons broadened and their educational experience

enriched This year over 50 Travel

Awards were granted Here are four of the many postcards the Master received

Postcards

to the

Master

2 2 / J C R R E P O R T

JCR Report

2017-2018 was an exciting year for college

life at Catz This next section will take you

through the highlights of the Junior Common

Room member activities, events, and

campaigns in the past academic year

Catz JCR members have been particularly

engaged in university level drama, arts and

music this year Catz students produced and

directed Travesties at the Oxford Playhouse

after being inspired by Tom Stoppard’s

lectures as the visiting Cameron Mackintosh

professor Alongside this, many individual

JCR members have been cast in and starred

in plays across the university – including in

Lights Over Tesco Car Park which is making

its debut in London in the coming months

at the Pleasance Theatre Our musicians

can also be found performing in university

ensembles such as OUJO and the Alternotives,

and Catz’s very own band Still Pigeon has

been performing in venues around Oxford

to massive success They will also be taking

their craft to London in the coming months –

watch out Arctic Monkeys! We have numerous

Tiger Hills (2016, Geography), the 2017–18 JCR President, shares some of the highlights of the past

academic year in the Junior Common Room.

students involved in writing for and editing

publications such as Cherwell and The Isis

– two of this year’s editors were Catz JCR members Closer to home, Catz choir sang to

a packed out Harris Manchester chapel at the Christmas Carol Service, and have performed

at JCR music nights throughout the year In general, Catz arts has been thriving with a re-engagement in JCR music nights, regular arts and crafts themed picnics, and an entire Artz week dedicated to putting Catz at the forefront of the university scene – and to a particularly chilly outdoor cinema experience!

Throughout the year, the JCR committee have run events to promote inclusivity and positive engagement in college life These range from weekly ‘Munches’ – themed free Sunday afternoon snacks – to talks given

by external speakers, all the way to hosting International- and Pride-themed Entz During our Artz week, Catz’s spectacular architecture played host to a BME art exhibition which took over the walls of the JCR alongside other key college spaces, and the iconic

fishbowl buildings were engulfed by an interpretive sound installation Catz charities, Emilie’s Charities and Books2Africa, remain well supported with the JCR raising just over

£1,200 for them across the year Money was raised through several events – including our

very own version of Take Me Out – and Catz

students had the opportunity to see where their money was going by meeting Dr Tonson Sango from Books2Africa when he visited us Alongside this, the JCR raised money through our weekly pub quiz, film nights, a charity cookbook and calendar, and a charity polo tournament There was a particular emphasis

on environmental work this year, with successful campaigns to ban plastic straws from the bar, remove paper towels from Old Quad bathrooms, and promote recycling on campus

The JCR was a particularly lively space with plenty to celebrate – Catz won the overall Cuppers championship for all sports, with title wins in Ultimate Frisbee, Pool, Rugby and Rounders, and close seconds in many

others This makes Catz the best college in

Oxford for sports, and has – after coming

third on the Norrington Table – possibly the

most well-rounded students at the university

(who says you can’t do both)! Clubs and

Socs have bloomed at Catz in the past year,

with new societies sprouting incessantly –

pottery, life drawing and lacrosse are now

among some of the best attended societies at

Catz JCR campaigns were equally successful

with highlights being the introduction of a

new JCR committee member to represent

minorities, the free provision of condoms and

sanitary products, and the introduction of

a new college counsellor Alongside this, a

particularly strong JCR campaign has started

and is continuing to push for divestment of St

Catherine’s fossil fuel investments alongside

a continued project to host new portraits of

influential women in the college library

Finally, Catz will be transformed in February

2019 as we host a night to remember in

celebration of 150 years since our founding

Watch this space! Q

JCR Committee 2017–18

Vice-President and Domestic Liaison Officer Will Bennett

Charities, Environment and Ethics Rep Harry Holmes

Careers and Academic Affairs Rep Eva O’Sullivan

2 4 / M C R R E P O R T

MCR Report

The 2017–18 academic year was a great one

for the MCR From discovering potentially

new antibiotics by sequencing the genome of

bacteria to rowing for the Oxford blues team,

Catz graduates have consistently excelled

in both academia and sports So incredible

are our members, that the Friday MCR Guest

Dinners often felt like a utopian dream:

incredibly intelligent people of different

backgrounds engaging in kind and thoughtful

conversations on all sorts of topics A sight of

relief in a world that is ever more divided

The dream-like atmosphere of the MCR,

however, did not distract our members from

the realities of the world This last year,

Catz MCR members founded new social

enterprises, led international summits and

created new businesses In the process, they

helped ease the world’s social burdens and

elevate the wellbeing of many In fact, this

year, perhaps more than others, we took

time to think about our responsibility beyond

the prodigious modernist campus of Arne

Jacobsen Why so?

Eduardo Chazan (2017, Management Studies), the 2017-18 MCR Co-President, reflects on the past

academic year for the Middle Common Room.

The Delegacy for Unattached Students was founded on the 11 June 1868 On that day,

150 years ago, the dream of St Catz was born The Delegacy’s mission, as stated by George Kitchin, was to guarantee a University where “the best education [would be] placed within the reach of all” Its anniversary reminds us that Catz exists to bring positive change to Oxford and beyond It cautions us not to allow our education and research to be limited to the College grounds Together with our motto, Nova et Vetera, our Delegacy’s roots emphasise that we must challenge and update conventions; the MCR is central in this mission

In 1884, Herbert Hensley Henson became the first Delegacy alumnus to be elected, straight from his First-Class degree, as a Fellow

of All Souls In doing so, he also became some sort of proto-Catz MCR member His election as a Fellow meant he had received both superb undergraduate and graduate education in the Delegacy – at least from our current understanding of what superior

education is Quite fittingly, he became famous for campaigning for a more humane and dignified society Henson fought against the exploitation of foreign workers by British companies and oppressive religious laws, and he also publicly denounced Fascism and Nazism before it was common to do so This spirit, of the necessity to bring positive change, is the essence of our MCR

Every year hundreds of students join our common room They come from more than 50 different countries and countless backgrounds Also, every year, hundreds leave our common room, empowered by the knowledge and experience acquired in Oxford They adventure back to the world, fulfilling our mission of challenging conventions and bringing the change that is necessary to countless communities This is how the MCR fulfils its mission, and how the dream of Catz continues to flourish Q

MCR Committee 2017–18

2 6 / S P O R T S A N D S O C I E T I E S R E V I E W

Sports and Societies Review

Clubs and Societies at Catz have had a

fantastic year, with more students than ever

taking part in all sorts of activities at both a

college and a university level

2017-18 saw Catz sport go from strength

to strength, with lots of students playing

for University teams in sports ranging from

rugby to trampolining, as well as playing for

our many Catz teams Following successes

across a range of sports, Catz won Cuppers

overall, which is a massive achievement

We won athletics, equestrian, Eton fives,

handball, netball, polo and pool, and also

did really well in triathlon, Ultimate Frisbee

and American Football These results reflect

the huge variety of sports which Catz

students play to a high level across the

University

One of the highlights of this year has been

the success of Mixed Lacrosse, captained

by Sian Mathur (2017, Experimental

Psychology) and Phoebe Whitehead (2017,

Human Sciences) Enthusiasm for lacrosse

has been enormous, with over 30 people

Meirian Evans (2017, Medical Sciences), the JCR Clubs and Societies Representative, shares some of

the highlights of the College’s thriving culture of extra-curricular activities from the past year.

now playing each week They are now hoping

to find glory in next year’s Cuppers

The five football teams have also had a really good year Ruth Faherty (2016, Engineering Science) captained the Women’s team to the semi-finals in Cuppers, and they also came fourth in the league’s top division, which made them the best undergraduate college team The Men’s 1st XI also reached the semi-finals of Cuppers, and they came second in the league

Catz Rugby, captained by Alex Maguire (2016, History) won division one for the first time in history in Michaelmas, scoring by far the most and conceding the fewest points Injuries prevented a successful title defence in Hilary, but the team avoided relegation and are in a good position to try to reconquer division one next term

Catz basketball crushed the college league played over Michaelmas and Hilary, only losing one game in the process Unfortunately, in Trinity they were then rewarded by being

seeded against the Cuppers finalists of last year Due to some underhand play and suspiciously quick games, they were narrowly knocked out in the Cuppers group stages

We put up a fantastic performance in the more minor college sports this year The Catz rounders team stormed to victory in Cuppers this year, winning against Univ, Teddy Hall and Christ Church Ultimate Frisbee has also done really well this year, winning their league after a tense final against Worcester 2018 also saw a Catz against Catz pool Cuppers final, held in the JCR, with hugely enthusiastic support and live online coverage

The women’s side of the Boat Club has gone from success to success this year, and has almost doubled in size W1 did really well in Torpids, bumping twice on the two days of racing, and would have done even better had the other days not been cancelled due to the snow In Summer Eights, they had a tougher week, rowing over for the first three days, but they managed to bump Trinity on the final day W2 had a stellar week at Eights, bumping

four times to go up a division The four Men’s

teams also fought hard, with M3 bumping

up a remarkable eight places over the week

to win blades, and with the other teams

managing to stay in their divisions

Congratulations to Ruth Faherty (2016,

Engineering Science) who won Catz Sports

Personality of the Year for being a fantastic captain of Women’s football this year Arts Personalities of the year were won by the Arts Reps Cat Cooper (2016, Geography) and Danny Cummings (2016, Music) for pulling off a fantastic Arts week this year, which saw music and comedy nights as well as a BME art exhibition and an outdoor film screening

Thank you so much to everyone who has been involved in such an amazing and successful year for Clubs and Societies at Catz this year! Q

Angus Young - II (ii)

Computer Science (BA)

Till Wicker - II (i)

Thomas Williamson - II (i)

Engineering Science (BA)

English Language &

Literature

Eleanor Bourne - I Michael Delgado - I Jordan Greenwood - I Priya Khaira-Hanks - II (i) Matilda Nevin - I Mayu Noda - II (i) Rosemary Shakerchi - I Emma Woodcock - II (i)

Experimental Psychology

Endi Skenderi - II (i)

Fine Art (BFA)

Chuan-Yueh (Ivy) Chang - I Nour Jaouda - I

Geography

George Carew-Jones - I Naomi Kelly - II (i) Rufin Nowers - I Jack O’Callaghan - II (i) James Piggot - I Lauren Rowley - I Elizabeth Watson - I James Winder - I

History

Antonio Gottardello - I Lauren Milner - I Sienna Rothery - II (i) Mikayla Sinclair - I Verity Winn - II (i)

History & Economics

James Thomas - II (i)

History & Modern Languages

Alexandra West - II (i)

History & Politics

James Evans - I Claire Sims - II (i)

History of Art

Nathan Geyer - I Hannah Kelly - II (i) Fionn Montell-Boyd - I

Human Sciences

Lauren Blum - I Joshua Parker Allen - I Eleanor Potter - I

Law

Alex Benn - I Yearin Cho - II (i) Luca Jezerniczky - II (i) Seon Woo Kim - II (i) Dylan Nathwani - I Thomas Pausey - I

Law with Law Studies in Europe

Luke Cackett - II (i) Sanjana Canumalla - II (i)

Materials Science (MEng)

Kaiyi Chen - I Siyao Du - II (i) Zhangyi Wang - II (ii)

Materials, Economics &

Management (MEng)

Qingyuan Wang - II (i)

Mathematical &

Theoretical Physics (MMathPhys)

Maris Serzans - I & Pass

Mathematics (BA)

Alexander Howson - I

Mathematics (MMath)

Christopher Coombs - I Guillermo Pascual Perez

- II (ii) Nicholas Taylor - II (i)

Mathematics & Statistics (MMath)

Nicholas Yung - I

Medical Sciences

Sheriff Akande - II (i) Nisha Hare - I Ajay Kapur - II (i) James Perring - I Affan Saibudeen - II (i)

Modern Languages

Paulina Barszcz - II (i) Jeremy Bosatta - I Joseph Gentle - II (i) George Hames - II (i) Persis Love - I Charlotte Molony - II (i) Matthew Oxley - I Imogen Reeve-Tucker - II (i)

Modern Languages &

Music

John Lee - I Melissa Morton - I Chloe Rooke - I

Psychology & Linguistics

Luka Nikolic - II (ii)

SCHOLARSHIPS AND EXHIBITIONS

Scholars

Emily Ball (Mathematics)

College Scholar

William Bennett (Human

Sciences) Rose Scholar

Marilena Bescuca

(Computer Science)

Goldsworthy Scholar Lukas Burakauskas

(Physics) College Scholar

Rogan Clark (Physics) Rose

Scholar Benjamin Clingman

(History) Garret Scholar

Rachel Craig-McFeely

(English Language &

Literature) College Scholar

Daniel Cummings (Music)

College Scholar Calum Cunningham

(Materials Science) College

Scholar

Ryan Davison (Philosophy,

Politics & Economics)

Goldsworthy Scholar

Alice Godson (Biological

Sciences) College Scholar

Isabel Goodwin (History)

College Scholar Thomas Graham

(Psychology & Philosophy)

College Scholar Alexander Greenwood

(Psychology & Linguistics)

College Scholar Hassan Haider

(Mathematics & Computer Science) College Scholar

Nisha Hare (Medical

Sciences) Sembal Scholar

Jack Harrison (History) ATV

Mihail Jianu (Computer

Science) College Scholar

Lisa Kladitis (History)

Denitsa Markova

(Mathematics & Computer Science) Brook Scholar

Ethan Martin (Mathematics

& Computer Science)

College Scholar

Frazer Martin (English

Language & Literature)

College Scholar

Delphi Mayther (Modern

Languages) Baker Scholar

Elinor Oppenheim (Human

Sciences) College Scholar

Mia Parnall (History of Art)

Georgina Quach (English

Language & Literature)

Hedda Roberts (Philosophy,

Politics & Economics)

College Scholar

Edward Salkield (Computer

Science) College Scholar

Ruby Sedgwick

(Engineering Science)

College Scholar

Yiyun Shao (Computer

Science) College Scholar

Yuyang Shen (Materials

Science) ATV Scholar

Laura Smith (English

Language & Literature)

College Scholar

James Stacey (Molecular

& Cellular Biochemistry)

Sembal Scholar

Katherine Steele

(Chemistry) F M Brewer

Scholar

Wojciech Szwarc (Computer

Science) College Scholar

Eve Thomson (Law with

Law Studies in Europe)

David Blank Scholar

Hristo Venev (Computer

Science) ATV Scholar

Joshua Wang (Law) David

Blank Scholar Thomas Wernham

(Philosophy, Politics &

Economics) Philip Fothergill

Scholar

Millicent Wild (Philosophy,

Politics & Economics)

College Scholar

Molly Williams (History)

College Scholar

Jek Jin Woo (Economics

& Management) College

(Geography) College

Exhibitioner

Tyler DeBarr (Mathematics)

College Exhibitioner George England

(Mathematics) College

Exhibitioner

Anna Lewis (Molecular

& Cellular Biochemistry)

College Exhibitioner

Alec McQuarrie (Modern

Languages & Linguistics)

College Exhibitioner Rivka Micklethwaite

Egerton Coghill Landscape Prize

Julia Michiewicz (Fine Art)

Gibbs Book Prize

Thomas Pausey (Law)

Gibbs Book Prize for Performance in FHS Part

Michael Delgado (English

Language & Literature)

Gibbs Prize for Performance in FHS

Alex Benn (Law)

Gibbs Prize for Second Best Performance in Prelims

Leonard Lee (Molecular &

Daniya Aynetdinova

(Chemistry)

GlaxoSmithKline 3rd Year Practical Organic Chemistry Prize

Daniya Aynetdinova

(Chemistry)

History of Art Department Prize for the Best Thesis in History of Art Finals

Joshua Wang (Law)

Prelim Prize for Cells and Genes

Mavis Teo (Biological

Sciences)

Quadrant International Trade Prize

Thomas Pausey (Law)

Red Lion Chambers Prize

in Criminology & Criminal Justice

Alex Benn (Law)

Weiskrantz Prize for Best Overall Performance in FHS Part I

Olivia Ong (Experimental

Psychology)

Wronker Prize for Best Overall Performance

in FHS

Alex Benn (Law)

Wronker Prize for Jurisprudence

Alex Benn (Law)

Wronker Prize for Tort

Alex Benn (Law)

Katherine Seaborne

(Experimental Psychology)

Graduates Peter Beaconsfield Prize

best academic performance during the year in an area covering Psychology, Sociology, Geography and Human Sciences was awarded to George

Carew-Jones (Geography) and Eleanor Potter (Human

The Frank Allen Bullock Prize for the best piece of

creative or critical writing was awarded to Kaitlyn

Abrahams (Geography &

the Environment).

The Hart Prize for the

best essay on an historical subject by a first- or second-year undergraduate was awarded to Madeline

McCarthy (History of Art).

The Harold Bailey Prize

for Asian Studies was awarded Jacob Boswall

(Oriental Studies).

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The John Martin Prize for

the best performance in

Materials Science Part I was

awarded to William Roberts

(Materials Science).

The Katritzky Prize for

the best performance

in Chemistry Part I was

awarded to Daniya

Aynetdinova (Chemistry).

The Katritzky Prize for

the best performance

during the year in History

of Art by a second-year

was awarded to Mia Parnall

(History of Art).

The Leask Music

Scholarship was awarded

to Julian Trevelyan (Music).

The Master’s Music

Scholarship was awarded

to Katie Bunney (Music).

The Michael and Lily

Atiyah Prize for the

best performance in

Mathematics by a

second-year was awarded

to Denitsa Markova

(Mathematics & Computer

Sciences) and Miroslav

Marinov (Mathematics).

The Michael Atiyah Prize

in Mathematics for the

best mathematics essay

or project written by a St

Catherine’s undergraduate

in his or her second year

reading for a degree in

Mathematics or joint

school with Mathematics

was awarded to Jake Lee

(Mathematics).

The Neville Robinson Prize

for the best performance in Physics Part B was awarded

to Alexander Langedijk

(Physics).

The Neville Robinson Prize

for the best performance in Physics Part C was awarded

to Peter Stephenson

(Physics).

The Peter Raina Prize

for the best essay by a second-year reading English was awarded to Georgina

Quach (English Language &

Literature).

The Peter Raina Prize

for the best essay by a second-year reading History was awarded to Benjamin

Clingman (History).

The Rose Prize for the

best academic performance during the year in Biological Sciences was awarded

to Mavis Teo (Biological

Sciences) and Oliver

Mattinson (Biological

Sciences).

The Rupert Katritzky Prize

is awarded for the best performance in the Final Honour School in History was awarded to Lauren

Milner (History).

The Smith Award for

services to Drama within the College was awarded

to Beatrice Udale-Smith

(English Language &

Literature).

The Smith Award for

services to Music within the College was awarded

to Melissa Morton Chang

was awarded to Connor

Halleck-Dube (Visiting

Student).

The Wilfrid Knapp Prize

for the best essay by a second-year reading PPE was awarded to Simon

Church (Philosophy, Politics

& Economics) and Hedda

Roberts (Philosophy,

Politics & Economics).

The Wright Prize for

the best performance

in Mathematics Part B was awarded to Emily

Ball (Mathematics)

and Alexander Howson

(Mathematics).

College Travel Awards

Wallace Watson Award

Matteo Broketa (Biomedical

Patricia Knapp Award

Eleanor Duck (Medical

Sciences)

Emma Osborne

(Experimental Psychology)

Philip Fothergill Award

Daniel Cummings (Music) Eleanor Potter (Human

Sciences)

Rebecca Lenihan (Medical

Sciences)

Emilie Harris Award

Anna Redgrave (Modern

Languages)

Bullock Travel Award

Georgia Sandars

(Experimental Psychology)

Bullock Career Award

Lucy Adams (Human

Sciences)

Raymond Hodgkins Award

Oscar Hartman Davies

(Geography & the Environment)

Environmental Travel Award

Gabrielle Kaza (English

Language & Literature)

Mark Davys Bursary

Raphaelle Petit (Law with

Law Studies in Europe)

Teach First Bursary

Thomas Pease (Modern

Languages)

College Travel Awards

Kaitlyn Abrams (Geography

& the Environment)

Benjamin Abraham

(Government)

Charlotte Atkins (Biological

Sciences)

Priyanka Bawa (Social

Policy & Social Intervention)

Simon Church (Philosophy,

Politics & Economics)

Laurel Constanti Crosby

(Biological Sciences)

Laura Coryton (Modern

Languages)

Peter Cullimore (Molecular

& Cellular Biochemistry)

Alissa Hummer (Molecular

& Cellular Biochemistry)

Esther Hung (Physics) Jakob Kaeppler (Medical

Language & Literature)

Brandon Severin (Materials

Zhiwei Xu (Fine Art)

The Charles Wenden Fund

has continued to support the sporting life of the College.

Graduate Degrees & Diplomas

During the academic year 2017–2018 leave to supplicate for the DPhil was granted to the following:

Claire Allen-Johnstone (English Language & Literature)

Dress, Feminism, and British New Woman Novels

Aluvaala Aluvaala (Medical Sciences)

Clinical Prediction Modelling to Guide Decision Making for

Essential Neonatal Services in Kenyan Hospitals

Asha Amirali (International Development)

Market Power: Traders, Farmers, and the Politics of

Accumulation in Pakistani Punjab

Fabio Anza (Physics)

Pure States Statistical Mechanics: On its Foundations and

Applications to Quantum Gravity

William Beuckelaers (Engineering Science)

Numerical Modelling of Laterally Loaded Piles for Offshore

Wind Turbines

Willem Burung (Linguistics, Philology & Phonetics)

A Grammar of Wano

Lianne Castle (Medical Sciences)

Targeting ICL Repair to Improve Chemotherapeutic Strategies

Thomas Chapman (Medical Sciences)

Defining Mechanisms of NOD2 Receptor Function in Myeloid

Cells

Abhijeet Chaudhari (Engineering Science)

Nanoscale Engineering of Guest@Host Metal-Organic

Framework Materials for Optoelectronic Properties

Joon Son Chung (Engineering Science) *

Visual Recognition of Human Communication

Mark Condon (Medical Sciences) *

Axonal Mechanisms Underlying Presynaptic Short-Term

Plasticity of Dopamine Release in Striatum

Martin Cusack (Medical Sciences)

The Role of DNA Methylation on Transcription Factor

Occupancy and Transcriptional Activity

Isabel Diez-Sevilla (Medical Sciences)

Investigating the Support Mechanisms Provided by

Macrophages in Human Erythropoiesis

Akihiro Eguchi (Experimental Psychology)

Neural Network Modelling of the Primate Ventral Visual Pathway

Ryan Foley (Social & Cultural Anthropology) *

“It’s need, not greed”: Needs and Values at Work in an Italian Social Cooperative

Peter Forsyth (Engineering Science)

High Temperature Particle Deposition with Gas Turbine Applications

Natalie Haley (MPLS Doctoral Training Centre) *

Structures and Mechanisms for Synthetic DNA Motor

Carinna Hockham (Zoology)

Exploring the Population Genetics and Spatial Epidemiology of Malaria-Protective Haemoglobinopathies

Ian Houlsby (Chemistry)

Asymmetric Syntheses of Polycyclic Amines

Ayumi Igarashi (Computer Science)

Fairness and Stability in Structured Environments

Savina Joseph (Mathematics)

Current Generation in Photovoltaic Cells

Graeme Keith (Medical Sciences)

An Arterial Spin Labelling Method for the Measurement of Myocardial Perfusion in Humans at 3 Tesla

Anjul Khadria (MPLS Doctoral Training Centre)

Nonlinear Optical Probes for Measuring Membrane Potential

in Neurons

Eleonora Kreacic (Statistics)

Some Problems Related to the Karp-Sipser Algorithm on Random Graphs

James Kwiecinski (Mathematics)

Self-assembly in Mechanical Systems

Raymond Lavertue (History)

Thomas Wilson Dorr and American National Construction from the First Seminole War to the Kansas-Nebraska Act,1816- 1854

Lihao Liang (Computer Science)

Effective Verification of Interrupt-Driven Software

Ondrej Miksik (Engineering Science)

Living in a Dynamic World: Semantic Segmentation of Large Scale 3D Environments

Georgios Ntentas (Medical Sciences)

Radiation Dosimetry for Studying the Late Effects of Radiotherapy

Juan Diego Pelegrin Garcia (Engineering Science)

On the Thermal Behaviour of Gas Turbine Filament Seals

Thomas Riffelmacher (Medical Sciences)

Autophagy-Dependent Generation of Free Fatty Acids is Essential for Normal Neutrophil Differentiation by Guiding an Energy-Metabolic Switch

Ibon Santiago Gonzalez (Physics)

DNA Programmed Assembly of Active Matter at the Micro and Nano Scales

Elizabeth Smethurst (Medical Sciences)

Characterising the Role of TOPBP1/BLM Interaction in Promoting Genome Stability

Pernille Sogaard (Medical Sciences)

Role of the Collagen Receptor DDR1 in Epithelial Morphogenesis and Polarisation

Tess Stanly (Medical Sciences)

Role of the Actin Cytoskeleton in Regulating Lyve-1 Lateral Diffusion and Function

Jakub Tomek (MPLS Doctoral Training Centre)

β-Adrenergic Stimulation and Cardiac Arrhythmogenesis in the Infarct Border Zone

Marketa Tomkova (MPLS Doctoral Training Centre)

The Relationship between DNA Modifications and Mutations

in Cancer

Carla Verdi (Materials)

First-Principles Frohlich Electron-Phonon Coupling and Polarons in Oxides and Polar Semiconductors

Musab Younis (Politics & International Relations)

The Grand Machinery of the World: Race, Global Order and the Black Atlantic

* indicates previous graduate of the College

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The following were successful in other examinations:

Tasnim Abdul Hadi, MBA

Joshua Abey, MSc (C) Comparative Social Policy

Bethany Abraham, MSt British & European History, from

1500 to the present

Issam Abu-Aisheh, MBA

Francois-Xavier Ada Affana, MSc (C) African Studies

Iyone Agboraw, MSc (C) African Studies

Matthias Aicher, MSc (C) Mathematical Finance (part-time) †

Jennifer Allan, MSt British & European History, from 1500

to the present

Lucinda Allen, MSc (C) Migration Studies

Shahira Amr, MSc (C) Experimental Therapeutics (part-time)

Abishek Arora, MSc (C) Neuroscience

Christophe Assicot, MSc (C) Sustainable Urban Development

Ameen Barghi, Master of Public Policy

Vicky Bastock, MSc (C) Learning & Teaching (part-time)

Clarissa Bayer, MSc (C) Sociology

Olivier Bazin, MSt Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy

(part-time) †

Nesrine Ben Brahim, Master of Public Policy

Naomi Benjamin, PGCE Geography

Isabelle Berninger, MSc (C) Visual, Material & Museum

Naser Albreeky, MSt Modern Languages

Aishwarya Anam, MSt Literature & Arts (part-time)

Aalene Aneeq, MSt Modern South Asian Studies

Ifeyinwa Aniebo, MSc (R) Clinical Medicine

Madeleine Ansell, 2nd BM (Graduate Entry)

Wai Yin Au, MSc (R) Oncology

Eduardo Benitez-Inglott Y Ballesteros, MSt Medieval

Studies †

Khadija Berrada, MSc (C) Evidence-Based Social Intervention

& Policy Evaluation

Andrew Binnington, MSc (C) Learning & Teaching

(part-time)

Sophie Boote, MSc (C) Economics for Development

Michaela Brady, MSc (C) Social Science of the Internet

Kathleen Brennan, MSt British & European History, from

1500 to the present

Robert Burdon, 2nd BM * Michael Butler, MSt Diplomatic Studies (part-time) † Ciarán Byrne, MSt English (1900-present day)

Xu Chen, MSc (C) Mathematical & Computational Finance † Zihao Ching, Master of Public Policy †

Serena Yuk Ching Chow, MSc (C) Sociology Morgan Christie, MSt Creative Writing (part-time) † Amalia Christofidou, MSc (C) Law & Finance Clayton Comber, MSt Creative Writing (part-time) † Theodora Constantin, MSc (C) Pharmacology † Laura Coryton, MSt Women’s Studies † William Crona, MSt Global & Imperial History Yanqiu Dai, MSc (C) Visual, Material & Museum

Management

Jasper Gold, BCL * † Johannes Goslar, MSc (C) Computer Science Terrina Govender, Master of Public Policy Ayda Gragossian, MFA

Emily-Keziah Green, MSt Music (Musicology) Anya Hancock, MSt Literature & Arts (part-time) Jill Hanley, MSt English (1700-1830) Catherine Hau, BCL

Alexander Herkert, MSc (C) Contemporary Chinese Studies Emma Hibbett, MSc (C) Water Science, Policy &

Management

Brittany Hilyer, MSc (C) Refugee & Forced Migration Studies

Courtney Hinz, MSt General Linguistics & Comparative

Philology

Kimberly Horner, MSc (C) Migration Studies † Harriet Horsfall, Master of Public Policy * Philipp Huelse, MJuris

Flora Hutchings, MPhil Politics (European Politics & Society) † Lucy Ingham, PGDip Learning & Teaching (part-time) * Jens Jager, BPhil Philosophy †

Robinson Jardin, MSt History of Design (part-time) † Jonathan Jenkins, MSt History of Design (part-time) Xiheng Jiang, Master of Public Policy

Hugh Johnson, 2nd BM * Anthony Jones, MSc (C) Water Science, Policy &

Management †

Artem Katilov, MSc (C) Financial Economics † Matthew Kelson, MSc (C) Comparative Social Policy Norliana Khairuddin, Master of Public Policy Brendan Kilpatrick, Master of Public Policy Jason King, MSt History of Design (part-time) † Joseph Kirk, MSc (C) Mathematical & Computational Finance † Adam Knight, MSc (C) Social Science of the Internet (part-

time) †

Jiaying Kong, MSc (C) Japanese Studies † Titus Krahn, MSc (C) Financial Economics † Karime Kuri Tiscareno, Master of Public Policy Matthew Lee, MSc (C) Sustainable Urban Development

Policy Evaluation

Angelo Lorenzana, Executive MBA (part-time) Dimitri Lozeve, MSc (C) Statistical Science Gabriel Mak, MSc (C) Experimental Therapeutics (part-time) Maria-Isabel Martinez, MPhil Social Anthropology Michael Matthias, MSc (C) Sustainable Urban Development

(part-time)

Adam Megyeri, MPhil Economics † Illona Meyer, MSt Literature & Arts (part-time) Kristin Mitchell, MBA

Noor Mohamed, PGDip Sustainable Urban Development

(part-time)

Dale Munn, MSc (C) Applied Landscape Archaeology

(part-time)

Kamal Nahas, MSc (C) Integrated Immunology

Louis-Marie Neviaski, Diploma in Legal Studies

Eric Ng, BCL

Maxwell Novak, MSt Classical Archaeology

Elizabeth O’Connor, MSt History of Design (part-time)

Mark O’Connor, MSt Music (Musicology)

Fergus O’Leary, MSc (C) Mathematical & Computational

Finance

Danai Papamaximou, MSc (R) Engineering Science

Annabel Parkin, PGCE Physics

Jane Parkin, MSt Legal Research

Helena Parsons, MSc (C) Biodiversity, Conservation &

Management

Chetan Patel, MSc (R) Clinical Neurosciences

Daniel Pesch, MSc (C) Financial Economics †

Nicola Pinzani, MSc (C) Mathematics & Foundations of

Computer Science †

Naomi Poltier Mutal, MSt Creative Writing (part-time) †

Albert Pons, Executive MBA (part-time)

Joshua Potter, MSc (C) Social Anthropology

Stephen Proctor, 2nd BM (Graduate Entry)

Jin Qin, MSc (C) Financial Economics

Marcus Quek, MSc (C) Psychological Research †

Laura Quiroz Lopez, Master of Public Policy

Maryam Rahbar, MSc (C) Clinical Embryology

Wasif Rehman, Master of Public Policy

Henry Richardson Banks, 2nd BM (Graduate Entry)

Georgia Ross, MPhil Oriental Studies (Modern Chinese

Studies)

Shefali Roy, Executive MBA (part-time)

Madeleine Salinger, BCL †

Tim Scherer, MSc (C) Financial Economics †

Nikita Sehgal, Master of Public Policy

Jasminder Sekhon, MSc (C) Criminology & Criminal Justice

Shushma Shankar, Executive MBA (part-time) †

Miaw Ler Sim, MSc (C) Medical Anthropology

Gizem Simer Ilseven, PGDip Diplomatic Studies

Preman Singh, MSc (C) Experimental Therapeutics

(part-time) †

Clare Smedley, 2nd BM *

Carlota Sola Marsinach, MPhil Medical Anthropology †

Akash Sonecha, BCL *

Tiya Sosothikul, MSc (C) Nanotechnology for Medicine &

Health Care (part-time)

Mateusz Szczesny, MSc (C) Financial Economics

Michael Tai, 2nd BM *

Suryanarayana Tamada, Executive MBA (part-time)

Shu Xiang Tan, Master of Public Policy

Fergus Taylor, MSt Literature & Arts (part-time)

Chynara Temirova, Master of Public Policy Jordan Terry, MSt British & European History, from 1500 to

Anna Winestein, MLitt History Elke Wynberg, MSc (C) Global Health Science Paige Zelinsky, MSc (C) Sustainable Urban Development

(part-time)

Mila Zemyarska, MSc (C) Clinical Embryology † Linlin Zhou, MPhil Criminology & Criminal Justice Jessica Zionts, MSc (C) Environmental Change &

Management †

Florian Zobel, MSc (R) Biochemistry

* indicates previous graduate of the College

† indicates candidates adjudged worthy of distinction by the Examiners

Graduate Scholars

Divya Behl (Law) Gabriel Moss QC BCL Scholar Jill Betts (Medical Sciences) Glaxo Scholar Jacob Bird (Music) College Scholar James Breckwoldt (Politics & International Relations) Light

Heath Harrison Scholar

Faraaz Khan (Medical Sciences) Foundation College Scholar Viveka Kulharia (Engineering Science) Light Senior Scholar Frederik Lange (MPLS Doctoral Training Centre) Overseas

Scholar

Namhoon Lee (Engineering Science) Light Senior Scholar

Po Yee Lo (Sociology) Henfrey Graduate Scholar Hibba Mazhary (Geography & the Environment) Light Senior

Scholar

Alexander McCarron (Oriental Studies) Light Senior Scholar Adam McCauley (Politics & International Relations) College

Scholar

Melissa Morton (Music) Allen Senior Music Scholar and

Foundation College Scholar

Catherine Namwezi (International Development)

Berlinski-Jacobson Graduate Scholar

Thomas Pausey (Law) Mr & Mrs Kenny Lam’s Graduate

Scholar and Foundation College Scholar

James Perring (Medical Sciences) Light Senior Scholar Reza Rezaei Javan (Medical Sciences) Leathersellers’

Company Scholar

Aleksandr Rodzianko (Music) Ghosh Graduate Scholar Allison Roth (Zoology) Light Senior Scholar Lauren Rowley (Geography & the Environment) Foundation

3 4 / C A T Z E X C H A N G E 2 0 1 8

In February this year, St Catherine’s hosted the

sixth annual CatzExchange, an interdisciplinary

conference organised by and for members of the

Catz community Nick Hu (2015, Computer Science),

winner of this year’s ‘best speaker’ prize, shares his

experience of the event.

CatzExchange is an annual conference, chaired by

the Senior Tutor, for students of St Catherine’s

College to present their work and engage in academic

discourse As it spans across all subjects offered by

the college, which itself is very balanced between the

arts and the sciences, it is certainly an opportunity

to bridge enormous gaps between the wide range of

interests of the students Four sessions were offered:

attitude, vision, people, and space, drawing on rather

philosophical themes

For my talk, in the ‘space’ session, I presented ‘Using

computers to prove mathematics’; I talked about

what it means to ‘prove’ logical statements, the

differences between deduction and induction, and how

mathematics is fundamentally distinct from science For

instance, that which is scientifi c is falsifi able and backed

up by evidence; mathematicians need no such thing

– as long as each step in reasoning can be justifi ed

according to a rather small set of rules, any derivable

CatzExchange

2018

conclusion is in fact sound In essence, the theorems

of Euclid, proved over 2,000 years ago, are just as valid today as they were then Science can be refuted, but mathematical proof stands tall and infallible But one

of the greatest discoveries of the previous century was that this sort of reasoning can be performed by machines I talked at length about how this connection was not clear to either mathematicians nor computer scientists, both of whom like to work along their lines

of academic tradition, but really there is a mostly unexploited trove of discovery to be made along the boundary between the two subjects My research primarily lies in this boundary: Category Theory is abstract mathematics to some, and theoretical computer science to others, but really it has many faces that surface in all scientifi c disciplines, and even beyond to philosophy and linguistics

I was thrilled to be awarded the prize for best speaker, which came in the form of an engraved CatzExchange Tankard, and soon after everyone was whisked away

to the dining hall to enjoy an extravagant meal over wine and scholarly discussion of the day’s topics If it were not for CatzExchange, then surely I would have taken for granted the vast array of research done by colleagues who live not 500 metres away from me – for

me, it was eye -opening to see what it looked like to be

an academic in the fi eld of History, or how a Geography research proposal is carried out It can only be a good thing that students have opportunities like this to get excited about and present something they have a personal stake in, and there is no better way to draw on

As it spans across all subjects offered by the college, which itself is very balanced between the arts and the sciences, it is certainly an opportunity

to bridge enormous gaps between the wide range of interests of the students.

the intellectual curiosity that we students have

in common All in all, it was a very enjoyable

day full of interesting talks – the kind of which

makes one feel very fortunate to attend a

university like Oxford Q

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through a combination of bushwhacking and unmarked cattle trails, and complete the entirety of the Huella Andina without any detours or assistance by motor vehicle, for a total distance of 950km and net elevation gain of 27km For 22 days I walked from 8am to 8pm, averaging a marathon per day, and took in the great diversity of natural and cultural wonders a wintry Patagonia has to offer

After a total of 38 hours of travel to reach my starting point from London, I arrived in a small town at 10pm in virtual pitch-black darkness I hurried away from the bus stop and into the nearby wooded area to hastily pitch

my tent and rest after my long and bumpy journey

Matteo Broketa (2016, Biomedical Sciences) was

the winner of the 2018 Wallace Watson Award

Here, he shares his experience trekking 950

kilometres of the Huella Andina trails entirely by

foot.

The Huella Andina is a collection of trails that span

over 600 kilometres of Patagonia from North to South,

highlighting several national parks and indigenous

Mapuche reservations along the way However, the

trail requires several detours between segments via car

or bus, due to a lack of constructed trails or diffi cult

terrain, which in total amounted to about 350km My

goal was to traverse these off-trail segments on foot

Matteo Broketa

Tracing the Huella Andina by foot

The Huella Andina is a collection of trails that span over 600 kilometres of Patagonia from North to

South

However, I did not receive the luxury of sleep that fi rst

night as I had yet to meet the welcoming party that

Patagonia had prepared for me At midnight, a chorus

of wild dogs began barking and howling, inviting local

house dogs to do the same and this symphony carried

on for an hour Then, around 2:30am, I was greeted by

the fl ashlights and footsteps of several police offi cers

who had been patrolling the area and happily answered

their questions about my plans until 3am; I was met

by an encouraging round of laughter and then bid

good night Finally, at 4:30am the temperature fell to

-10C and a steady snowfall began, leaving me with a

centimetre of snow to fi nish off the night and dampen

my tent My fi rst night in Patagonia truly made me

realise just what I had got myself into

When the sun arrived to bring an end to that most interesting of nights, I caught my fi rst glimpse of the terrain I would be traversing for the next week or so Due to the rain shadow of the Andes, the area was quite arid in its appearance, in terms of both the plant life and the geography I had naively expected to see a more Alpine landscape, but would liken the terrain far more to the American Rocky Mountains; rocky ground, thorny bushes and trees, and herds of wild horses would become my companions for the fi rst half of this trek Taking my fi rst steps, I set off with the seemingly simple directive to head south as quickly and safely as possible I was slightly overzealous and walked a total

of 66km that fi rst day, a record not to be beaten for

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