Annual Review 2012

Our Annual Review shows the many different faces of St Anne’s. It sets out in facts and figures our size and shape. Many of our senior members and supporters will be struck by the way the College changes shape over the generations; our graduates now are as much a part of our identity as our undergraduates, though undergraduate tuition remains the heart of what we do. However, the most important characteristic of St Anne’s is the one that never changes. We were founded to promote opportunity and emancipation; we open the path to those, wherever they come from, who have the talent to flourish here, but who might believe, because of circumstance, that Oxford is a place that would never consider them.

The Review also explains how we manage our finances, all the more important in a world where sustaining the character of a tutorial education now depends so much on the generous donations of so many. Above all, however, we hope we reflect the lives of the many different people who breathe life into St Anne’s work: our students, at work and at play; our Fellows, committed to teaching as they forge their own research reputations; our administrators, whose responsibilities range from reaching out to the schools to steering our students through to graduation; our former students now distinguished in many different fields; our Development officers who connect together St Anne’s’ different generations; our staff who make the College run and who turn it from academic community to conference centre at different times of the year; our Scouts who provide a kindly perspective of the real world to our students as they cope with the stresses of the high octane life in the “Oxford bubble”.

St Anne’s must be seen in the wider context of the University. Oxford is inevitably changing as it ensures it keeps its place as one of the foremost centres of learning in an increasingly competitive world. It can call upon all the strengths of its collegiate system that allow its members the advantages of an interdisciplinary community connecting the depths of knowledge in its individual departments.

Every year Oxford is becoming more international as research networks become global. In colleges, students from divergent backgrounds can understand each other’s differences through their common intellectual ambition, and become friends. At St Anne’s, our students from across Europe and the rest of the world add a richness

of experience that allows our British students to encounter the globalised society of the future in which they will make their careers. St Anne’s, always the College that has looked outwards to the world, wants to be the college that reflects the University as it will have to be if it is to retain and enhance still further its reputation.

In the past year, we have strengthened our capacity to make real these ambitions, thanks to the extraordinary support of so many of our senior members.

We are at the point of being the first College to have endowed, under the University’s matched funding scheme, three Fellowships - in Earth Sciences, Classics and Philosophy - that will secure these subjects far into the future.

The 60th anniversary celebrations of the granting of our Charter saw the Hall and Quad restored, the new kitchen built, the eyesore that was the temporary kitchen removed.

You will read of the transformational gift of Mike and Helen Danson which will do so much to meet the costs of our student bursaries. The Danson mentoring scheme also offers our undergraduates internships; the Michelle Clayman Scholarship once again gave a St Anne’s student the remarkable experience of working on Wall Street; other alumnae also offer similar opportunities in the UK, Europe and Asia; our undergraduates are deeply in their debt.

St Anne’s remakes and reshapes itself all the time; each generation of students leaves the mark of its collective character on the College. What remains constant is that, in learning here how to think and work well, they learn to live well too.

From the Principal

Photographs (not credited inside)Front cover: Summer Eights, W2 (women’s second boat) – Hannah Morris; pages 2, 12, 13, 18, 19 (bottom), 20 (top), 24 – Keith Barnes; pages 7 and 22 – Wouter te Kloeze; page 16: A Cultures of Knowledge visualization workshop in 2011 – James Brown; page 20 (bottom): Interior of the New Library – Fletcher Priest Architects.Designed and printed by Windrush Group.

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St Anne’s todaySt Anne’s is now the second largest college in Oxford – an academic community and home to 422 undergraduates and 307 graduates. We offer all of our undergraduates and Visiting Students the opportunity of a room in College for all of their time here and we aim to accommodate half of our graduate students who are in residence in Oxford.

Student support and bursariesOxford awards bursaries to students according to University criteria based on parental income. In 2011–12 full Oxford Opportunity Bursaries were awarded by the University to students whose combined household residual income was under £18,000; 60 of our students were on full bursaries, with a total of 115 students on bursaries. St Anne’s students were awarded a total of £285k in bursaries in 2011–12. From October 2012, in line with the University’s eligibility criteria, full bursaries will be on offer to students with residual household incomes of under £16,000. As the first students paying £9,000 fees arrive at St Anne’s, bursary support will be increasingly important to ensure that St Anne’s continues to attract those who might not otherwise apply to Oxford.

St Anne's today

Undergraduates (422)

Graduates (307)

Visiting Students (30)

Academics (118)

Administrative Staff (115)

12%

11%43%

31%

3%

The Danson Foundation donates £1.5 million

A gift of £1.5 million from The Danson Foundation to St Anne’s College will transform our provision of undergraduate bursaries, and will offer students from low-income backgrounds a comprehensive mentoring and internship programme.

The donation from Mike and Helen Danson is the most generous lifetime gift the College has received from a senior member. From this October, the Danson benefaction will fund students from the lowest-income backgrounds. The timing and size of the donation is particularly significant: with students preparing to bear the cost of £9,000 tuition fees, this donation will underpin Oxford’s and St Anne’s undertaking that all students with the ability to succeed will have the opportunity to do so, regardless of background. In 2012 the Danson Scholarship will fund around 43 students across all years in the college.

In addition, all undergraduates of the College receiving a bursary will be invited to apply for the Danson Mentoring Scheme. Under this scheme, at least 3 students per year will complete up to 5 weeks of paid internships during the vacations before their final year in College. Those involved will benefit from careers advice over the course of the mentoring programme, as well as the opportunity

to network and make professional connections that will outlast their university years.

The objectives of the Danson Mentoring Programme reflect The Danson Foundation and St Anne’s undertaking that all students with the ability to succeed should have the opportunity to do so, regardless of background. The Programme will include long-term follow-up and careers guidance, and has been designed to ensure that financial pressures and lack of personal contacts do not prevent students from gaining the work experience required to help them succeed.

Mike Danson is a Law graduate of St Anne’s. He founded the online information company, Datamonitor, which was sold in 2007. He now has a range of business and philanthropic interests. These include the current affairs magazine the New Statesman, Progressive Digital Media Group, Globaldata and a number of other media and internet companies.

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Annual Review 2012

Admissions In December 2011, more than 532 applicants came through the College for an interview (including applicants to other colleges) and around 24 per cent gained a place. The majority of applicants received two interviews and some were interviewed at more than one college. Of our current Freshers, 112 studied A-levels, 7 the IB, and 8 for other qualifications. 97 were UK nationals, 17 were from the EU, and 13 were from outside the EU.

St Anne’s students assist with admissions every December (Anna Fowler)

Outreach to schoolsSt Anne’s remains as committed as ever to encouraging school students who otherwise might not consider applying for Oxford and we continue to seek out schools and colleges where there will be potential applicants. The support of the Drapers’ Company has made it possible for us to be in contact with over 100 schools and colleges in the UK, and more than 1,500 students from over 300 different schools have come to St Anne’s on open days, subject masterclasses and visits.

Dr Martin Speight and Dr Eleanor David ran a series of interview workshops for Oxford applicants in the Northeast in September 2012.

Helen Robb (PPE, 2010) – internship at the

New Statesman

Internships are often seen as a necessary evil: a shot to get some experience and a CV boost at the expense of a summer, many nights sleeping on a friends’ couch and countless trips to fetch staff coffee. Internships with the New Statesman are different. They are defining opportunities. Far from the nightmare of ‘The Work Experience’, my internship gave me the confidence, clarity of vision and insight to understand where I want my career to lead me and how to steer it in that direction. From my first day I was entrusted with writing news articles

and blog posts, transcribing interviews and taking part in meetings with the senior editorial team of the magazine. Working closely with Medhi Hasan and Sophie Elmhirst, I was able to gain advice and contacts for starting out in the media sector; in one-on-one meetings with the New Statesman’s Editor, Jason Cowley, I was able to discuss my ideas about the magazine and make a contribution to the publication; and in the opportunity to spend time in the office I was able to get an insight into how it would feel to work for a magazine. And I didn’t even have to make the coffee.

Get in touch with Dr Eleanor David (née Parker),

Schools Liaison and Outreach Officer, for more

information on schools projects at St Anne’s, or if you

would like to volunteer to help with our outreach

programme. Email: schools.liaison@st-annes.ox.ac.uk

Tel: 01865 274825

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Under the University’s Regionalisation Scheme (www.admissions.ox.ac.uk/regionalisation), St Anne’s is linked with schools in the Northeast of England and with Hillingdon and Southwark in London. The Regionalisation Scheme was launched in 2009 and the Senior Tutor, Dr Anne Mullen (1988), along with a number of colleagues, notably Dr Geraldine Hazbun and Dr Martin Speight, set about establishing key contacts across the Northeast, including Newcastle, Sunderland, Gateshead, Tyneside and Northumberland.

In September 2012, thanks to the generosity of the Ferreras Willetts family, St Anne’s ran a series of interview workshops for Oxford applicants in the region, to help demystify the interview process for more than 200 Year 13 students. The events were run by Dr Eleanor David, Schools Liaison and Outreach Officer and Lecturer in Italian at St Anne’s, jointly with Dr Martin Speight, Fellow and Reader in Biology. A number of current and former St Anne’s students who went to schools locally helped at the events and similar workshops were held in Hillingdon and Southwark, with support from students and tutors Dr Don Porcelli, Fellow in Earth Sciences, and Dr Lonnie Swift, Lecturer in Biochemistry.

St Anne’s continues to build relations with schools in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and the USA that have sent us many good students in the recent past. In September 2012, the Senior Tutor, Dr Anne Mullen, made her third visit to Southeast Asia and this time she was accompanied by the Vice-Principal, Dr David Harris, Fellow and Tutor in Biochemistry. In the space of five hectic days, they met with over 300 pupils and teachers from over 20 different schools at events organised in Kuala Lumpur, Penang and Singapore. Dr Mullen and Dr Harris were joined in the Kuala Lumpur schools by two current Malaysian students, Scholars in Engineering, Rabin Suguna Balan and Jordan Seo. A particular highlight of the trip was being able to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Oxford University Malaysia Club as well as co-host with them their annual pre-departure dinner for all incoming Oxford Freshers from Malaysia. The patrons of the Oxford University Malaysia Club are Datin Kathleen Chew Wai Lin and her husband Dato Yeoh Seok Hong. They are both Johnson Honorary Fellows of St Anne’s in recognition of their generous benefaction to the College. The Principal, having been in Hong Kong and Singapore, arrived in Kuala Lumpur and gave the keynote speech at the dinner.

From left to right: Datin Kathleen Chew Wai Lin (Johnson Honorary Fellow), Tim Gardam, and Margaret Hall (Geology and Mineralogy, 1969), current President of the Oxford and Cambridge Society Malaysia.

Our undergraduatesSt Anne’s continues to stand out as a down-to-earth College, committed to emancipation and equality. We attract students who have the potential to develop academically and intellectually, from a range of different nationalities and cultures. Today, our student body is one of the most wide-ranging in the University, comprising 26 different nationalities, with students from China, South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa, Thailand, Germany and the USA to name but a few. Our 340 British-born students come from across the country, from a range of different educational experiences and ethnic backgrounds.

53%

Maintained school*

*Maintained school includes state secondary school, sixth form college and further education college.

Independent school International

35%

12%

Educational background of St Anne's undergraduates

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Annual Review 2012

Visiting Student programme

Each year, St Anne’s welcomes 30 Visiting Students from the United States for a “junior year abroad”. Visiting Students at St Anne’s are fully integrated into undergraduate life here (including accommodation), and we encourage our Visiting Students to take advantage of the opportunities available to them both in College and as a member of the University, academically and socially. St Anne’s has a number of direct links with colleges in the USA including Bryn Mawr, Cornell, Brown, and Penn, Johns Hopkins University, Indiana University, The George Washington University and Mount Holyoake. We also work with The College of Global Studies at Arcadia University and the Institute for Study Abroad Butler University to recruit students. Visiting Students undertake a full academic course load which is credited to their home institute and there are a wide range of courses available to them including Biochemistry, Biomedical Sciences, English and PPE.

Academic performance

The number of First Class degrees awarded this year totalled 31, spread across 15 degree subjects, including: Mathematics (5), Modern Languages (4), Medicine (2), Biological Sciences (2) and Modern History (2).

Year Firsts 2.1 2.2 Third

2008 34 74 11 1

2009 29 94 4 0

2010 32 80 9 1

2011 26 77 6 1

2012 31 85 13 1

Subjects studied by undergraduates

Humanities

Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences

Medical Sciences

Social Sciences

15%

36%

37%

12%

EU

International

UK

Nationalities of St Anne'sundergraduates

80%

9%

11%

Des Berdini (Visiting Student from Johns Hopkins University 2011-12)

My experience at St Anne’s has changed the way I look at education. The personalized Oxford tutorials have given me the possibility to explore in depth the subjects I love, mathematics and economics, and focus on those topics that interest me the most. St Anne’s and Oxford have taught me that education is not only about memorizing a few notions to get the highest mark but is also about discovering one’s true potential and creating a solid basis on which to build one’s future. Beside the many educational opportunities, Visiting Students at St Anne’s become part of an active and welcoming community. I met students from a variety of different backgrounds who have given me new perspectives on topics ranging from religion to science. I remember fondly the pub outings with my fellow students bonding over the shared experiences at St Anne’s.

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Scholarships and exhibitions

These are awarded to those who gain a Distinction or come extremely close to a Distinction in their examinations. As a result of their performance in Prelims and Final Honour School, 61 students were awarded scholarships; a further 45 scholarships and 11 exhibitions were renewed.

Travel grants

St Anne’s offers travel and research grants from funds, built up over the years from endowments by many generous benefactors, for those vacation projects that enhance or

support the student experience. Last year, the College gave £14,330 in such grants to 61 students.

Grants allowed students to undertake a broad range of different activities, including athletics/cross country training in Portugal, mural drawing in Sicily, a materials science/engineering industrial tour of companies in Milan, working in a school for deaf and disabled children in Rwanda, a summer mapping project in Naxos, Aegean Islands, Greece and study at the International Polar Year Arctic Field School at the University Centre in Svalbard, Norway.

EU

International

UK

Nationalities of St Anne'sundergraduates

80%

9%

11%

Mathematics at St Anne’s

Dr Graham Nelson, Supernumerary Fellow and Lecturer in Mathematics, writes:

Mathematics lies between science, philosophy, practical computation and art, and it has a wide reach. Professor Hilary Priestley, our senior pure mathematician, studies logical structures of great relevance to computing (and is also the author of two standard textbooks). Dr Sarah Waters was recently awarded the Whitehead Prize by the London Mathematical Society for work on blood flow in bioengineered tissue; Professor Ben Hambly, who leads the St Anne’s school, is a probabilist studying how commodity prices fluctuate, among other things. Professor Peter Jeavons, in computer science, works on how scheduling conflicts can be resolved, which has unexpected applications: to development of the brain, for example. Dr Graham Nelson, a former student of Sir Simon Donaldson (St Anne’s Honorary Fellow), combines teaching with work as an academic publisher. Our newest teaching Fellow, Dr Dmitry Belyaev, joined us

from Princeton in 2011, and works on random fractals. Thomas Reuss is just beginning a Graduate Development Scholarship: he studies the distribution of prime numbers, a field directly relevant to cryptography and Internet security. The Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance is directed by Professor Terry Lyons, now also President-Elect of the London Mathematical Society.

The Mary Kearsley prize is awarded to our best applied mathematics student at our annual dinner, and fittingly remembers our longest-serving applied mathematics tutor of the 20th century. We value academic performance: in Mods alone, we had the highest-placed student in the University in 2011, and in 2012 we achieved six Firsts and one 2:1 from seven students. But our contribution to Oxford mathematical life is to be not just a “large” college but a cohesive one. We hold frequent events bringing the whole maths community together. Each long vacation, one or two students work with Fellows on research. Above all, we have a long tradition of a team-based approach to teaching and student welfare.

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Sport Sport is a key part of our students’ lives. The College nurtures a number of teams and eights, and we have many blues and half-blues amongst the student body. To cover an extensive range of sports, Oxford colleges club together to share amenities and playing fields. St Anne’s shares pitches for rugby, hockey, soccer and cricket with St John’s. St Anne’s has recently installed a new gym and cardiovascular equipment.

In football, the Mint Green Army had a good season which saw them achieve a second successive promotion – this time from JCR league 2 into JCR league 1. Winning every game before the Christmas break, the M.G.A suffered only one defeat. Coupled with that was an unprecedented Cuppers run which saw off St Peter’s, Oriel, Trinity and Teddy Hall before they lost 1-0 in the final at Iffley Road to a talented Worcester side which contained five full Blues. This was only the second time St Anne’s have made the final of Cuppers.

In the league the 2nds had a difficult season in which they suffered a number of narrow one-goal defeats. However, they finished mid-table and will remain for another season in the top division of Reserves football. In the Reserves Cuppers tournament, the 2nds progressed to the semi-finals before they were defeated 1-0 by New 2nd in a very close match.

St Anne’s vs. Teddy Hall in the Cuppers semi final (Zap Mole Images)

In ice hockey, the Mighty Beavers reached the quarter final of Cuppers which was particularly impressive given that most of the team had never played ice hockey before.

St Anne’s had a successful season in netball. The team reached the semi-final of netball Cuppers but were defeated by a very strong Worcester who went on to win the final.

In the cross-country event, Teddy Hall Relays, Kellen McGee (Visiting Student from Johns Hopkins University, English, 2011), Alison Walsh (Modern Languages, 2011) and Camilla Reece-Trapp (Classics, 2009) came in first place in the Female College teams. Tom Frith (Physics, 2010) represented England in the Home Countries Cross Country International competition in March 2012 and came in third place in the Under 20 Men category; this was his international debut at the event in Glasgow, Scotland.

Erika Joseph (Oriental Studies, 2009)

I am a student of Japanese; however I took up Chinese as a subsidiary language at the beginning of my third year. As we do not have classes dedicated to learning spoken Chinese on our subsidiary course, I was very keen to visit China for the first time this summer and learn as much Chinese as possible there while experiencing the country.

I stayed on the extensive campus of the Beijing Language and Culture University, where I attended Chinese classes for four hours every morning. I enjoyed discovering the similarities and differences between Chinese and Japanese words, and seeing the various grammatical structures we learned being put in context.

Most helpful for my language learning was simply being in the country and hearing Chinese spoken all around me and reading Chinese characters on signs each day. My everyday interactions with local residents of Beijing, many

of whom were extremely kind and friendly and would come and try to talk with me, were especially significant for my language practice.

I also had plenty of opportunities to explore the city when classes were over for the day – the highlight was my visit to the section of the Great Wall at Mutianyu, where the wall snakes through forests and over mountains as far as the eye can see – an astonishing spectacle to behold.

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This last year St Anne’s Boat Club (SABC) has enjoyed great success, with the boys bumping their way up into Division 1 at Torpids, and the women’s squad not only maintaining four crews, but receiving only one bump collectively in both Torpids and Summer Eights combined. The men’s new boat has been a welcome and successful addition to the club. Due to the flooding in May, many external regattas were cancelled, but SABC were invited to a number of Parisian regattas by Sara Houghton (Modern Languages, 2009).

There were two regattas, one at the Chateau Chantilly (Trophée des Rois) and the other on the Seine (Régates en Seine) - right under the Eiffel Tower. Despite only being able to borrow a wooden boat they put in a good performance, winning their heats in both regattas.

Opportunities for undergraduates St Anne’s undergraduates are fortunate in the generous opportunities provided by our senior members and supporters. Students highly value and learn from interactions with alumnae while alumnae find it rewarding to share their experiences.

The Eurex Scholarship and Internship is awarded thanks to the generosity of Deutsche Börse. The scholarship contributes to the fees of one or more undergraduates and offers the opportunity of an internship at Deutsche Börse’s offices.

Each year, five Year in Japan Scholarships are awarded to St Anne’s undergraduates who are paid to spend a year at the Japan University of Economics in Fukuoka to learn Japanese and teach English language to students. They are partnered by five scholars from Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.

The Berlin Landesbank Internship offers two St Anne’s students experience working in Berlin each summer. This

is thanks to the initiative of Kai Uwe Peter (History, 1994).

The Ely Carter Fund provides prizes to St Anne’s law students to reward academic excellence and encourage students to perform to the very best of their ability.

Diageo internships in their Asia-Pacific marketing department have been made available thanks to James Thompson (English, 1981), Chief Marketing Officer at Diageo, Asia-Pacific. Gemma Dick (Biochemistry, 2008) was the successful candidate in 2012.

Since 1994, the Clayman Scholarship has given an undergraduate the chance to spend the Long Vacation in New York working for New Amsterdam Partners, the investment firm founded by Michelle Clayman.

Michelle Clayman (PPE, 1972)

Michelle Clayman is the Founder, Managing Partner & Chief Investment Officer of New Amsterdam Partners LLC, an institutional asset management firm in New York. Ms Clayman has been published in the Financial Analysts Journal, the Journal of Investing and NYSSA Financial Professionals’ Post, and is a frequent commentator on Bloomberg and other financial media. In addition, Ms Clayman sits on the Boards of US SIF (the Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment), the Society of Quantitative Analysts (of which she is a past President), and The Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance, and is a volunteer for the CFA Institute. She is Chair of the Advisory Council of the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University, as well as a member of Stanford’s Humanities and Sciences Advisory Council. Michelle was the first woman to win the Stanford Graduate School of Business Excellence in Leadership award in 2008, and was also recognized with a 2010 National Council for Research on Women (NCRW) ‘Making a Difference for Women’ award. Michelle Clayman has also endowed the Clayman Junior Research Fellowship in Politics at St Anne’s which is currently held by Dr Sophie Nicholls.

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Our graduatesIn Autumn 2012, St Anne’s admitted 129 graduate freshers, bringing the total number of graduate students here to 307. Last year 24 achieved their DPhil. Our graduate students included 15 PGCE students who spend most of their year in the classrooms of Oxfordshire schools, and with whom we hope to keep in close contact throughout their teaching careers. We have 15 postgraduates training to be doctors.

Our graduates increasingly cluster around certain subjects: Chemistry (10), Educational Studies (21), Engineering Science (13), English (14), Major Programme Management (13), and Mathematics (23).

Graduate scholarships, travel and

research grants

The College awarded 25 new graduate scholarships and bursaries in addition to 10 scholarships which were renewed, totalling £86k. These included nine much-prized Graduate Development Scholarships and Graduate Teaching Bursaries, two of them matched funded by the Drapers’ Company.

At a time when graduate funding is increasingly difficult to obtain, the College also awarded 11 scholarships for 2012–13 to fresher graduates without which they would not have been able to pursue their course of study.

Key to a graduate’s research career is the opportunity to present a paper at a conference. St Anne’s offers its graduates grants to pay for travel and accommodation at international conferences. In 2011–12, College grants, funded from endowments built up by College donors over many years, made possible 79 graduate travel grants totalling more than £20k. The grants enabled graduate students to attend the America Conference for Irish Studies in New Orleans, collect archaeological site

Humanities

Mathematical, Physical & Life Sciences

Medical Sciences

Social Sciences

Education

12%16%

36%

24%

12%

Subjects studied by St Anne's graduates

Zareen Ali (History and Economics, 2010,

Clayman Scholar 2012)

My excitement about spending the summer interning in New York was put to its first test on the eight hour plane journey to JFK. However, approaching Manhattan by taxi, the lights of the City That Never Sleeps soon perked me up – though at around 2am that morning I wished it would take a nap so that I could. On my first day, not ready to dare the subway yet (I persisted in miscalling it “the Tube” until well into my third week) I decided to walk to the office. A few blisters and a near death experience later, I was too relieved to have made it to the office to be nervous. It turns out there was no need to be. Ms Clayman herself, after a knowing and pitying glance at my ravaged ankles, was very welcoming, as were all the staff at New Amsterdam Partners.

I was set to work on an intimidating pile of preparatory reading which my History training soon devoured and then was given the task of writing an equity research report. I chose to research the newspaper industry and the difficulties it faced switching from a print to an online business model. Although sometimes challenging, the subject was stimulating and the autonomy I was given allowed me to frame my work around the aspects which most interested me. All the staff were very helpful and would always take the time to answer any questions I had, as well as just to stop for a chat. The highlight of my time there was giving an ethics presentation to the whole firm with the other interns.

All in all it was an amazing experience which gave me a strong basis from which to launch my future career, as well as being enjoyable while doing so. I would like to thank College, and of course, Ms Clayman for making this unique opportunity possible.

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reports and attend an archaeological colloquium in Paris, undertake a field study in the Indian Himalaya and assess opportunities for a sustainable wood-biomass energy system in Southeast Alaska.

Seminars

The MCR organises twice-weekly seminars during term time – one for the Sciences and one for the Humanities. In the past year talks included:

• Professor Fraser Armstrong, F.R.S., Professor of Chemistry, University of Oxford: ‘Making Fuels Using Sunlight and Surplus Electricity’.

• Professor Mary McCabe, Professor of Ancient Philosophy, King’s College London: ‘The Cave in Plato’s Republic’.

• Professor Kate Purcell, Warwick Institute for Employment Research: ‘What is a Graduate Job? The Changing Contours of the Graduate Labour Market’.

• Dr Janet Bultitude, Fellow in Psychology, St Anne’s College: ‘How does action shape the way we think? Our sixth sense, and the power of prediction’.

• Professor Jean Seaton, Professor of Media History, Official Historian of the BBC and Chair of the Orwell Prize: ‘The Orwell Prize: holding journalism to account and making political writing better’.

Will Crouch (Third year DPhil in Moral

Philosophy)

My research is within moral philosophy, and during my time at St Anne’s I’ve been keen to take good ideas out of the academy and put them into practice. In accordance with this, I’ve co-founded two not-for-profit organisations.

The first, founded in 2009, is Giving What We Can, which encourages individuals to give at least 10% of their income to the most cost-effective development charities, and does in-depth research to work out what those charities are. So far, Giving What We Can has moved over $2 million to the most cost-effective charities and raised almost $100 million in future pledges.

The second, 80,000 Hours, takes these ideas and goes one step further, asking how one can use one’s time as well as one’s money to help others: it provides evidence-based advice about how one can use the 80,000 hours of one’s working life to do as much good as possible. Some of our ideas have proved controversial, and I was interviewed about them by John Humphrys on the BBC’s Today Programme.

Last year I was delighted to receive the Vice-Chancellor’s Civic Award - the equivalent of a charity ‘blue’ - and had the chance to meet Aung San Suu Kyi. This year I’ll continue my work in Princeton, which I’m visiting on a Fulbright scholarship.

Caroline Ardrey (Graduate Development

Scholar in Modern French 2011–2013)

Now beginning the third year of my DPhil in Modern French literature at St Anne’s, it has been a real pleasure and a privilege to teach undergraduates in college as part of my role as a Graduate Development Scholar. The Graduate Development Scholarship is a particularly exciting opportunity for DPhil students as it provides valuable teaching experience which is an essential part of building the foundations for an academic career. My research focuses on the work of the nineteenth-century poet Stéphane Mallarmé. I particularly enjoyed giving revision classes on Mallarmé and his contemporary Baudelaire – both components of a course which I, myself, studied as an undergraduate here at St Anne’s not so long ago.

It has been really exciting for me to make the transition from tutee to tutor and I feel more than a little nostalgia as I talk both to excited second years, preparing to go on their years abroad, and to streetwise finalists who have reaped the benefits of this experience. Aside from enjoying teaching and interacting with students, I feel that the teaching component of the Graduate Development Scholarship really benefits my research: preparing and giving tutorials helps add clarity to ideas dreamed up during lonely hours in the library and often pushes these ideas in unexpected directions. Combining teaching in literature and language with my own research makes for a varied and enjoyable life as a doctoral student; I am most grateful to be in receipt of a Graduate Development Scholarship, and thankful for the support I have received from St Anne’s during my seven years (and counting!) as a student here.

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Graduate Journal: STAAR

The St Anne’s Academic Review (STAAR) is an online journal run by the college MCR. STAAR was launched at the beginning of 2010 and included submissions from a diverse group of participants including undergraduates, graduates, and the faculty at St Anne’s. The journal aims to promote the academic interests and achievements of St Anne’s researchers to a wider community through articles that are accessible and of interest to non-specialist readers. Furthermore, it is intended to help build the College’s research community and celebrate academic success. The third volume can be found on the MCR website.

Intellectual life and events in CollegeEvents at St Anne’s this year have included:

• Ali Smith, author of There but for the, Hotel World and The Accidental, Weidenfeld Visiting Professor of European Comparative Literature 2011–12: ‘On Time’, ‘On Form’, ‘On Edge’, ‘On Offer’ and ‘On Reflection’. Ali Smith has recently published a book Artful (Hamish Hamilton) based on this series of lectures. She was elected to an Honorary Fellowship of St Anne’s in 2012.

• Professor Kathleen Lennon, Ferens Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hull, gave the Philosophy Reunion Seminar on ‘Emotion, Imagination and Education’. The panellists were Dr Dawn Wilson (Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Hull), and Dr Constantine Sandis (Reader in Philosophy at Oxford Brookes University), and the session was chaired by Professor Roger Crisp (Literae Humaniores, 1979), Uehiro Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at St Anne’s.

Professor Kathleen Lennon and Gabriele Taylor at the Philosophy Reunion 2012 (Keith Barnes)

• The Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2012. The prize was awarded to Judith Landry for her translation of New Finnish Grammar by Diego Marani (Dedalus).

• Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminar: Transitional Justice as an Instrument for Political Struggles in Burundi, by Sandra Rubli, Research Analyst, Swisspeace. Convenor: Dr Nicola Palmer, Global Justice Research Fellow.

• Professor Alain Goriely, Director of the Oxford Centre for Collaborative Applied Mathematics, ‘The Mathematical Mind of Professor Moriarty: All the mathematics you didn’t see in the last Sherlock Holmes movie’.

• Exhibitions included work by Jan Kaesbach (November 2011), Katja Lehmann (February 2012) and Dr Hazel Rossotti (May 2012).

Royal Charter Celebration – Saturday 19 May

The College celebrated its 60th anniversary in true St Anne’s style with a full day of events including a lecture, ‘Women and Higher Education in the 19th Century’ by Sally Shuttleworth, Professorial Fellow in English at St Anne’s; St Anne’s in our Time featuring alumnae and chaired by Vincent Gillespie; St Anne’s and British Public Life with Una O’Brien (History, 1977), Paul Donovan (PPE, 1990) and Jackie Ashley (PPE, 1974); St Anne’s and the Imagination with Penelope Lively (Modern History, 1951) and Patrick McGuinness, Professor of French and Comparative Literature; and St Anne’s and the Sciences with Jean Golding (Mathematics, 1958) and Linda Partridge (Zoology, 1968). The Chancellor of the University of Oxford, Lord Patten of Barnes, and the Vice Lord-Lieutenant of Oxfordshire joined us for an outstanding lunch, the first of many to be produced in the new Kitchen.

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Domus Seminars:

• Dr David Smith, Librarian and Alumnae Relations Fellow: ‘Volcanoes, broad beans, and poetry: Goethe’s Italian Journey revisited’.

• Professor Mike Barnett, Fellow in Management: ‘The alchemy of altruism: How corporate contributions to the public good (sometimes) produce private gain’.

• Professor Paresh Vyas, Professorial Fellow at St Anne’s, Reader and Honorary Consultant in Haematology and Group Leader MRC Molecular Haematology Unit: ‘Blood stem cells – insights into why stem cells sometimes make the news’.

Subject Family Seminar speakers have

included:

• Dr Kate Watkins, Tutorial Fellow and University Lecturer (Experimental Psychology): ‘How does the human brain perceive speech?’.

• Dr Sarah Waters, Fellow and Tutor in Applied Mathematics: ‘Mathematical Modelling of the Voice’.

• Dr Trevor Wishart, Plumer Fellow (Music): ‘Morphing the Human Voice’.

• Dr Dmitry Belyaev, Fellow and Tutor in Mathematics: ‘Statistical Physics Lattice Models and Mathematics’.

• Samantha Akomeah, MSc in Major Programme Management: ‘Management of major programmes: problems and their causes’.

• Dr Nicola Palmer, Global Justice Research Fellow, ‘Testifying to Genocide: Witness protection and governance in Rwanda’.

Dr Andrew Klevan, our Fellow in Film Studies, is responsible for the Digital Ciné Club, with its weekly screenings of important films from around the world. The Literary Society, Classics Society, PPE Society and Creative Writing group organise regular talks and activities.

We have recorded a number of our talks as podcasts (including some from the events on Saturday 19 May) and these are available on the Oxford University iTunes site (http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/units/st-annes-college).

Music Recitals organised by St Anne’s Director of Music, Dr John Traill, have included performances by St Anne’s students: Julian Scott (Oboe), Joshua Poole (Saxophone) and Daniel Swain (Piano). We have also welcomed David Sadlier (Tenor) and Lelia Sadlier (Piano), Abigail Ellison (Soprano), Toby Huelin (Piano), Laura Lucas (flute), and Mami Shikimori (Piano). There is a College swing band and a joint orchestra with St John’s.

The Senior Common Room The Governing Body is made up of the Principal, 38 Tutorial Fellows, 11 Professorial Fellows, five College Officers and one University Officer. They are supported by 36 College Lecturers, 23 Research and Junior Research Fellows and 10 Supernumerary Fellows.

In 2012 we welcome a number of new members of academic staff including Professor Derek Penslar, Professorial Fellow in Israel Studies, Dr Antonios Tzanakopoulos, Tutor and Fellow (Law), Dr Salvador Luque and Dr Cosimo Mazzoni, both Mitsubishi Senior Research Fellows (Engineering), Dr Corin Sworn, Supernumerary Fellow (Fine Art), and Dr Neil Carrier, Research Fellow (African Anthropology).

In 2011–12, we said goodbye to Professor Georg Gottlob, Fellow in Computing Science, who has been appointed Fellow of Informatics at St John’s College, Oxford, and Professor Mike Barnett, Fellow in Management, who has been appointed Professor in the Management and Global Business Department and Vice Dean of Programmes at Rutgers Business School. After over 22 years’ dedicated service, we bid a fond farewell to Mrs Christine Foard, who retired as College Secretary and Registrar, and we are pleased to say that she will continue as an Emeritus Fellow.

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Our academics’ many awards in 2012 include:

• Dr Alexander Anievas, Anna Biegun Warburg Junior Research Fellow, has been awarded the Political Studies Association’s Lord Bryce Prize for Best Dissertation in International Relations/Comparative Studies for his Dissertation ‘Capital, States, and Conflict: International Political Economy and Crisis, 1914-1945’. He has been recently awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship to be taken up in 2013 at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge.

• Dr Johannes Abeler, Fellow and Tutor in Economics, has been awarded an ESRC Future Research Leaders grant, to fund a three year project entitled ‘Preferences for truth-telling’. By combining theory and tightly controlled empirical evidence, this project will try to advance the understanding of how people report their private information and add to the interdisciplinary debate on honesty and lying.

• Professor Jo-Anne Baird, Fellow, Pearson Professor of Educational Assessment and Director of Oxford University Centre for Educational Assessment (OUCEA), has been elected as Vice-President of the Association for Educational Assessment-Europe. She will take up the position in November 2012 for two years, following which she will take on the post of President for a further two years.

• Professor David Banister, Professor of Transport Studies and Fellow of St Anne’s College, Director of the Transport Studies Unit has been awarded the first BIVEC-GIBET Chair. The Benelux Interuniversity Association of Transport Researchers (BIVEC-GIBET) organizes the BIVEC-GIBET Chair for the first time in 2012. This Chair is awarded to an individual who has important scientific and/or social merits related to transport and mobility within Europe.

• Professor Roger Crisp, Professor of Moral Philosophy, Uehiro Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, was invited to be the keynote speaker at the Third Arizona Workshop on Normative Ethics, held in Tucson in January and at the Thirteenth Conference of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies, held in New York City in August.

• Dr Andrew Goodwin, Fellow and Lecturer in Chemistry, was awarded a New Directions for EPSRC Research Leaders grant in April 2012 to study ‘Local Structure and Dynamics in Framework Materials’.

Professor Dame Gillian Beer (Thomas, English, 1954)

St Anne’s Honorary Fellow Dame Gillian Beer (Thomas, English, 1954) was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters from Harvard University in May 2012; she received an Honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of Oxford in 2005.

Dame Gillian completed her undergraduate and graduate studies at St Anne’s, where she also received the Charles Oldham Shakespeare Prize. She was a Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge between 1965 and 1994, becoming King Edward VII Professor of English Literature and President of Clare Hall, Cambridge in that year. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature.

Her academic honours and DBE in 1998 are largely in recognition of her outstanding contributions as an eminent writer, lecturer and scholar, and her exploration of the relationship between literature and science in nineteenth century and twentieth century writing. Her books include Darwin’s Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot, and Nineteenth-Century Fiction (CUP, 1983; third edition, 2009) and Open Fields: Science in Cultural Encounter (Clarendon Press, 1996). She has written extensively about George Eliot and Virginia Woolf and her latest book is Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense, an annotated edition of the collected poems of Lewis Carroll (Penguin, 2012).

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• Dr Imogen Goold, Fellow and Tutor in Law, has been given an OxTALENT (Teaching and Learning Enhanced by New Technology) award in recognition of her work in using WebLearn to create a learning community where students learn not only from the tutor and the materials, but also from each other. Dr Goold has been particularly recognised for her use of electronic submission and plagiarism education tools to share examples of good writing among her students.

• Dr Liora Lazarus, Fellow and Tutor in Law; University Lecturer in Human Rights Law and Member of the Centre for Criminological Research, has been awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship to develop her research on Juridifying Security. In addition, an interdisciplinary research group including Professsor Sandra Fredman, Mr Dapo Akande and Dr Liora Lazarus, has been awarded a substantial three-year grant from the Oxford Martin School to investigate the role of human rights in addressing global challenges.

• Professor Terry Lyons, Wallis Professor of Mathematics, University of Oxford, has been elected as President-Designate of the The London Mathematical Society. Professor Lyons will take over from the current President, Dr Graeme Segal, FRS, in November 2013.

• Professor Patrick McGuinness, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Sir Win and Lady Bischoff Fellow in French, and Tutor in Modern Languages, has been named winner of the Wales Book of the Year Award 2012 for his debut novel, The Last Hundred Days (Seren Books).

He also won the 2012 Writers’ Guild Award for ‘Best Fiction Book’ and was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize for best first novel and shortlisted for the Authors’ Club best first novel prize.

• Dr John Murphy, Royal Academy of Engineering/EPSRC Research Fellow and Lecturer in Materials Science, has been awarded an EPSRC First Grant entitled ‘Gettering of impurities in silicon: delivering quantitative understanding to improve photovoltaics’. The grant was awarded in March 2012.

• Dr Don Porcelli, Ferreras Willetts Fellow in Earth Sciences, is leading a consortium that has been awarded an EU grant of 13.5 million for a research and training network that will focus on using advanced isotope techniques for understanding the behaviour of metals in the environment. It will employ 13 postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers, and involves academic and industrial partner institutions in 6 countries. Fieldwork is planned in Iceland, the Baltic, and Spain.

• Professor Kathryn Sutherland, Professorial Fellow in English, has been awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship, for three years, beginning October 2012 (to October 2015), to work on ‘Manuscript and the practice of meaning: a study of Romantic-period fiction’.

• Dr Sarah Waters, St Anne’s Fellow and Tutor in Applied Mathematics, has been awarded the Whitehead Prize by the London Mathematical Society for ‘her contributions to physiological fluid mechanics and the biomechanics of artificially engineered tissues’.

Professor Jo-Anne Baird – Pearson Professor of Educational Assessment and Director of the Oxford University Centre for Educational Assessment

I conduct research related to large-scale examinations, including issues of standards and grading. One theme of my work is on the reliability of marking. Together with George Leckie from the Centre for Multilevel Modelling at the University of Bristol, I published a paper that showed that senior examiners are more prone to using the entire mark scale. Less experienced markers are well known to ‘play it safe’ and not allocate marks at the extreme scores. This is the first time that characteristics of the marker (in this case seniority) has been shown to moderate this effect. Also on this theme, I have been working with colleagues in several teams internationally to investigate training team effects in marking. This project also compared different analytical methods. Quality of marking is a complex area and several studies are planned on this topic for the coming years.

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Professor Howard Hotson – Fellow and Tutor in Modern History, Professor of Early Modern Intellectual History

The Andrew W Mellon Foundation of New York has awarded a grant of $758,000 for a two-year extension of the collaborative research project ‘Cultures of Knowledge: An Intellectual Geography of the Seventeenth-Century Republic of Letters’, of which I am the Project Director.

Established in 2009, Cultures of Knowledge is an interdisciplinary collaboration between the Humanities Division and the Bodleian Library, and one of the largest humanistic research projects currently ongoing in Oxford. The second phase of the

project will use state-of-the-art digital technology to assemble a union catalogue of the learned correspondence scattered across and beyond Europe in the intellectually formative years of the seventeenth century. As well as providing tools for finding, analysing, mapping and visualising this huge body of complex data, the system aims to connect transnational interdisciplinary research across the broad field of early modern intellectual history and thereby to facilitate radically multilateral new forms of international scholarly collaboration.

Dr Imogen Goold – Fellow and Tutor in Law

Enhancing Our Cognitive Capacities

We normally think that people’s responsibility diminishes when mental capacities are lost, and that responsibility is restored when those capacities are regained. This is, for instance, why children and the mentally ill are considered less than fully responsible for what they do. It is also why children can acquire more and/or greater responsibilities as they grow up, and how responsibility is reinstated on recovery from mental illness.

But how is responsibility affected when mental capacities are extended beyond their normal range through cognitive enhancement? For instance, might some people – e.g. surgeons working long shifts in hospital – have a responsibility to take cognitive enhancement drugs to boost their performance, and would they be negligent or even

reckless if they failed or refused to do so? My research examines the legal implications of cognitive enhancement, particularly whether the use of (or failure to use) an enhancer might be negligent.

Dr Martyn Harry – Tutor in Music, Dorset Foundation Lecturer in Music, Annie Barnes Fellow in Music

2012 has been a breakthrough year. My children’s opera, ‘My Mother Told Me Not To Stare’, was toured nationally in June by Theatre Hullabaloo. The production was created with funding from Arts Council England and the John Fell Foundation, and a recording of the opera has been made for commercial release next year. My new orchestral piece, Galgenhumoreske (which means ‘Gallows Humoresque’), was premiered at the Barbican Concert Hall in London on 12 June by the Oxford Philomusica under the direction of Marios Papodopoulos. Finally, the early music ensemble, His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, have recorded the first-ever complete CD of my music, to be released by Sforzando Records in October. My seventy-five minute composition, ‘At His Majesty’s Pleasure’, is scored for four cornets, four sagbutts, harpsichord and chamber organ, and consists of nineteen short movements, each portraying a department of the Royal Household (e.g., His Majesty’s Customs and Excise, His Majesty’s Livery and Regalia, His Majesty’s Horses and Hounds etc.).

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Dr Don Porcelli – Ferreras Willetts Fellow in Earth Sciences

I hold the recently endowed position of Ferreras Willetts Tutor and Fellow in Earth Sciences, and spent much of the summer on an expedition across the Lena River system in eastern Siberia. The research, in collaboration with colleagues from the Natural History Museum in Stockholm, seeks to understand how weathering in the region supplies the rivers in nutrients and trace metals that ultimately reach the Arctic Ocean, and how this will change as the thickness of permafrost that underlies the entire region changes in response to climate change. Starting in Yakutsk, almost 2000km were covered on rivers through remote regions. Overcoming dense fogs from large forest fires, rivers clogged with debris from flooding, and bureaucratic hurdles to transporting equipment and samples, an extensive sample collection of over 200 litres was returned and is presently undergoing analysis.

Dr Sam Thompson – Lecturer in English Language and Literature

As a Lecturer in English Language and Literature at St Anne’s, I specialise in teaching Renaissance literature, Shakespeare and modern fiction. Alongside my teaching and research I write for The Times Literary Supplement and the London Review of Books, and I have recently written my first novel, Communion Town, which was published by Fourth Estate in July and was longlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize. Since 2010 I have acted as director of studies for Visiting Students in English at St Anne’s, and this year, as in previous years, I have been very pleased to see our new Junior Year Abroad students integrating with our undergraduates and graduates to form the College’s large and thriving English school.

Dr Kate Watkins – Fellow and Tutor in Experimental Psychology

I work with children and adults with speech and language disorders, such as stammering and specific language impairment. My research explores how the brain communicates using speech and language. I use psychological tests to measure differences in behaviour and MRI scans to see the areas of the brain involved. My research shows that people who stammer have an abnormality in the wiring of the brain. This abnormality might cause stammering to occur because it links the brain areas involved in speech production and speech perception. We know that if we prevent or change people’s feedback during speech production in people who stammer, we can improve their speech fluency. Understanding the interactions between brain areas during speech is key to understanding speech disorders and helping to treat them.

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The Library The Library caters for all College members (including senior members for reference use), and for associated students on Study Abroad and Summer School programmes. Current readers this year numbered 1,029: 452 undergraduates, 257 postgraduates, 115 staff, and 205 associated students and other visitors. 2,536 items (books, periodical parts, DVDs, pamphlets) have been added to the Library at a total cost of £39,249. This year there were 36,479 “loan transactions” (loans plus renewals). We have 102 reader seats, with wireless internet throughout the Library for access to the University’s networked electronic resources. For College members the Library is open 24 hours a day throughout the year. We have recently introduced printing in the Library, and plan to develop this facility and integrate it with photocopying and scanning.

The Library is staffed by David Smith (Librarian), Sally Speirs (Deputy Librarian), and Jocelyn English (Reader Services Librarian).

IT servicesOne of the major developments of 2012 has been the extension of wireless networks across the College in support both of academic and of conference users. Whilst the wired networks continue to be used for laptops and desktop machines, we have seen an explosion of tablet and smartphone use over the last year with 200-300 such devices connected to the wireless network at any time.

The Library is now the centre of computing and printing in College. Computers continue to migrate from dedicated IT rooms into the Library as changes such as the digitisation of journals and other academic resources alter student working patterns. Plans to enhance the front of College with a more modern, IT-equipped library seem to be wholly in line with the demands of today’s students!

College continues to invest both in infrastructure and systems to support the academic mission. Following

on from an administrative staff away-day, development of some of our major IT systems is now being driven by working groups comprised of those who best know what is needed – the administrative staff themselves.

Building projectsIn the past year, various projects have taken place throughout College to ensure that we continue to provide facilities to enable future generations of students and Fellows to live and work in an environment which meets their needs, and to realise their full potential here.

In addition to building the new Kitchen and refurbishing the Hall, other recent works have included the cleaning of the stone work on Hartland House and the painting of the window frames, re-paving of the area in front of the Quad and Dining Hall, and the refurbishment of the Junior Common Room (JCR). Based on the requirements of the JCR, the IT Room and the Student Meeting Room have been converted into two fitness rooms. Additional computer facilities have been placed in the Library to ensure that access to IT is not restricted. We are currently investigating the options for the expansion of St Anne’s Library, and further detailing our plans for the new front of College building.

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College staff College has been a busy and often challenging environment for staff this year, whose continuing dedication and professionalism ensured that College continued to run smoothly during the refurbishment of the Dining Hall and building of the new Kitchen. With such large scale projects, one might have imagined that normal service would be disrupted but it is to the credit of all our staff that it was very much business as usual. During the year we welcomed new members of staff including the new College Registrar, Mrs Nicola Crowley. In the summer we celebrated 25 years of dedicated service of Mrs Janet Smith (a Scout). We are also delighted that our Estates Manager, Mrs Jane Reid, achieved her Level 6 Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety (British Safety Council). The Principal and College Fellows wish to thank warmly all the staff for their hard work this year.

St Anne’s financesAt the end of the financial year in July St Anne’s finances were in good shape with an increased surplus and good prospects for the next year. The signs a year ago were not that auspicious with continuing uncertainty about government funding and the double-dip recession upon us. We expected some disruption to normal operations due to building work on the new Kitchen and refurbishment of the Dining Hall. We set a cautious budget including a reduction in costs in domestic departments and events.

The year started with a record intake of postgraduate students. Fee income for each UK and EU undergraduate student fell by 4.6 per cent following the third year of government cuts in funding; however, there was a welcome shift of government funding to UK postgraduates. The increase in postgraduate student numbers meant that tuition fee income for UK and EU students increased by 5.7 per cent. Conference income held up very well throughout the building works and in fact returned to the level of two years ago. Investment income continued at a consistent level to previous years and the annual fund at £555k was a record.

Expenditure increases were constrained to one per cent and after depreciation and interest costs a surplus of £255k was recorded in the management accounts. Legacies and donations with a restricted use were greatly above last year leading to a surplus in the annual accounts of £3.2m (see table on page 21).

Dr Shirley Sherwood (Briggs, Botany, 1952)

In recognition of the generous donations given by Dr Shirley Sherwood, Seminar Room 3 in 48 Woodstock Road has been refurbished and renamed the Shirley Sherwood Room.

Dr Shirley Sherwood (Briggs) came up to St Anne’s College in 1952 to read Botany. She completed her DPhil with the team that discovered the important drug Tagamet. She has been an Honorary Fellow of College since 2009. She started the Shirley Sherwood Collection of Botanical Art in 1990 and it now includes more than 800 paintings representing the work of 240 contemporary artists from over 30 countries around the world. The Collection has been exhibited worldwide including at the

Smithsonian Institution in Washington, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and the Real Botánico in Madrid. The Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, was opened in 2008. She is author of a number of authoritative works on botanical art and was awarded the OBE for services to botanical art in 2012. She has served on the board of the Smithsonian Institution, is a Fellow of the Linnean Society and a recipient of the Royal Horticultural Society’s Veitch Memorial Medal. Dr Sherwood is a generous benefactor to College and has donated the botanical art displayed in the seminar room named after her.

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BuildingsBuildings are a major asset to the College and improvements are essential to ensure standards are maintained as usage adapts to current requirements. The new Kitchen and Dining Hall refurbishment project commenced construction in July 2011; the Kitchen was completed in time for the Royal Charter event on 19 May although its full operation had to wait until September 2012 when the refurbishment of the interior of the Dining Hall was completed. The Dining Hall, built in 1959, was the first Dining Hall for the College and represented a major advance in the establishment of a residential community of women students. The project has enabled the College to restore its main quad to its original aspect and provided the facilities required to cater for the College and its conference business.

The total cost of the new Kitchen and Dining Hall refurbishment is £4.2m. A new bank loan of £2m was drawn down during the year as part of the funding of the new Kitchen. The loan is from RBS plc, on a variable interest rate, and is repayable in full after two years. Interest costs reduced during the year as the opportunity was taken to fix the interest rate on the long term borrowings from Yorkshire Bank at a lower rate than previously. This was possible owing to the reduction in ten year rates during 2011 and the rate is now fixed until 2022.

Future plansThe new fee regime for UK and EU students and the completion of the Kitchen building project provide a natural opportunity to review the size and shape of the College in terms of the student body and the infrastructure. The number of new postgraduate students will reduce in 2012/13. Planning permission for a new library building on the Woodstock Road was obtained in 2010 and this would provide much needed workspace and seminar rooms for students and staff and is a real statement of the academic mission of the College.

The campaign to fund the New Library and complete the front of College will be launched in 2013. St Anne’s Library has been at the centre of the College’s identity since its foundation, when the book collection was its only shared possession. However, it is now seriously overcrowded. Books on crammed shelves are hard to find and easily damaged, accessibility for users with disabilities is in places compromised and there is a shortage of working spaces. Built in stone to last for centuries, the New Library will be positioned at the front of the College site where its public visibility will open St Anne’s to the wider world: it is designed to attract students to Oxford who otherwise might not apply. The building will provide an adaptable space to meet the changing needs of future generations, providing space for collaborative working as well as individual study. Additionally, it will allow new academic research centres to be housed within the College, building on Oxford’s international renown for interdisciplinary research and consolidating St Anne’s reputation for being at the forefront of academic scholarship.

At the same time accommodation for first year undergraduates needs modernisation. Feasibility studies will be undertaken in the coming year.

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Development and fundraising

The College depends on the generosity of its many supporters – senior members, both graduate and undergraduate, former Fellows, friends, and the parents of present and past students. Your donations ensure that we can continue to support those students in need of bursary funding, promote the quality of tutorial teaching and academic research, and improve the infrastructure of the College.

Thanks to the generosity of senior members and friends total funds raised in the year were £3.7m (2010/11: £1.6m). Gifts to the annual fund of £555k are mentioned on page 19; gifts to the endowment were £2.8m including £2.2m of a most generous legacy from a former Fellow of the College; the amount raised towards the new Kitchen building was £201k which took the total for this project to £1.3m. Thank you to everyone who gave to St Anne’s in 2011/12.

The overall fundraising objective is to build up endowment funds to a level which allows the tutorial system to flourish and students to be admitted with adequate support when levels of income to the College are not adequate to do this alone. The success with fellowships and the wonderful gift from Mike and Helen Danson of £1.5 million for bursaries received after the year end is very encouraging and should see the endowment exceed £30 million by 31 July 2013.

Telethon£262k was pledged in the 2012 telethon: the most that has ever been pledged in a telethon at St Anne’s. We were extremely fortunate to secure matched funding for the 2012 Telephone Campaign from senior member, Mike Danson.

Twenty-two undergraduates and graduates spent the evenings and weekends of the first three weeks of January enjoying conversations with over 1,300 senior members, parents and friends, with half of those contacted choosing to donate. The money raised will go to the Student Support Fund, directly benefiting all St Anne’s students. All donations help the College provide the bursary and scholarship support that enables students to study here irrespective of their background and means. The fund also ensures that we are able to maintain the College Library and provide excellent accommodation and facilities for all students.

St Anne’s College Accounts Summary

2011/12£000

2010/11 £000

Income

Academic fees 2,885 2,771

Residential charges 2,265 2,294

Conferences 2,016 1,869

External grants 506 453

Donations (annual fund) 555 472

Investment income 1,257 1,239

Other 235 295

Total income 9,719 9,393

Expenditure

Tutorial expenses 1,750 1,680

Bursaries, scholarships, prizes and grants

548 492

Library 170 174

JCR/MCR 89 94

Academic administration 858 875

Domestic support 2,006 1,999

Supplies and services 1,300 1,348

Buildings and grounds 776 719

Professional services 576 524

Other 62 73

Total expenditure 8,135 7,978

Subtotal 1,584 1,415

Depreciation 898 847

Operating surplus 686 568

Interest payable 431 443

Surplus per management accounts 255 125

Donations with restricted use

Gifts to the endowment 2,804 252

Donations for buildings (deferred capital)

115 281

Other donations/income 26 350

2,945 883

Surplus per annual accounts 3,200 1,008

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Kitchen and Hall appealInternal and external work on the new Kitchen was completed in April 2012 and then work started on the removal of the temporary kitchen and refurbishment of the Dining Hall. This work, which included the installation of the Circle of Names (where alumnae and friends donate £1,000 to have their name recorded in Hall), and provision of new tables and chairs, was completed in September 2012. Donations from over 360 senior members and friends have raised a total of £1.3m for the new Kitchen, including 132 donations to the Circle of Names, 55 chairs and 4 tables; thank you to all those who have donated. It is still possible to name a chair or table, join the Circle of Names or make a donation to the Kitchen Fund. Please contact the Development Office for further information.

FellowshipsThe ambitions of the College depend on significantly increasing our endowment for teaching Fellowships to ensure financial independence and to protect the tutorial system. We have set out to secure the future of Philosophy, Mathematics, Earth Sciences and Classics.

Philosophy

The campaign to endow a Fellowship in Philosophy in perpetuity was launched on 25 February 2012. The post will be named after Gabriele Taylor in recognition of her 34 years teaching at St Anne’s and her contribution to philosophical thought. The post holder will start in October 2013 and will provide teaching for the College on a range of Philosophy subjects for PPE and the Joint Schools. The Gabriele Taylor Fellowship in Philosophy has

been chosen by the University to be supported by the Oxford Teaching Fund. When we succeed in raising £1.2 million, the remaining £800,000 will be contributed by the Teaching Fund. Thanks to the many generous donations already received, we have raised over 85 per cent and given assurances to the Teaching Fund that we will raise the outstanding £170k in order not to delay the recruitment process. Heartened by the support to date, we believe we can reach the target before the new Fellow is appointed.

Mathematics

St Anne’s has a long and distinguished history of teaching and research in Mathematics. The undergraduate school in College is one of the largest and most successful across the University. St Anne’s is launching a campaign for a Mathematical Sciences fund that will support the teaching and learning of Mathematics and Computer Sciences, and joint degrees with Philosophy and Statistics, and maintain and build on the College tradition of excellence in these subjects.

Earth Sciences

In 2012, one of St Anne’s two Tutorial Fellowships in Earth Sciences was fully endowed thanks to a substantial donation to the University and a generous donation from Maria Willetts (Ferreras, Modern Languages, 1974) and David Willetts, who are both Johnson Honorary Fellows of St Anne’s.

Dr Don Porcelli will now be known as Tutor and Ferreras Willetts Fellow in Earth Sciences at St Anne’s College. His University post has also been endowed, through the generosity of Mr Lobanov-Rostovsky (an alumnus of Christ Church) and in that capacity he will also be the Lobanov-Rostovsky University Lecturer in Planetary Geology at the University of Oxford.

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Classics

After launching the campaign at the Classics Reunion on 19 February 2011, we were able to announce in the Annual Review 2011 that we had succeeded in raising the £1.2 million required to fund the A.E. Hubbard Fellowship in Classical Languages and Literature. The many donations from senior members, parents and friends, as well as a generous legacy from Miss Margaret Hubbard, made this possible. The £1.2 million will be matched by the Oxford Teaching Fund, which will contribute the remaining £800,000 ensuring that the post is funded in perpetuity.

Margaret Hubbard by Judith Tucker (Fine Art, 1978)

Professor Matthew Leigh, who holds the post in

Classical Languages and Literature said:

“The help of former Classics students, parents and

friends of the St Anne’s Classics School has allowed

us to achieve this goal. My sincere thanks for your

support in preserving the teaching of Classics for the

next generations of students”

Legacy campaignLeaving a gift in your will gives you the opportunity to make a lasting impact and help to provide vital funding for the College. It is possible to support St Anne’s by leaving an unrestricted legacy which can be used where the need is greatest, or by specifying those aspects of College life that reflect your own interests and priorities.

The legacy from Margaret Hubbard has made it possible for us to fund the Classics Fellowship, securing the future of Classics at a time when funding to arts and humanities subjects is being cut. Elizabeth Catherine Ashford-Russell (Todd, Modern History, 1945) left £5,000 to the Marjorie Reeves Memorial Fund, which supports bursaries for St Anne’s undergraduates. Mary Laurella Matthews (Thomas, English, 1947) bequeathed £10,000 to be used at the discretion of the College. Her gift was assigned to the Student Support Fund. These two gifts helped St Anne’s to award five bursaries.

The Plumer Society was founded to acknowledge those who inform us of their decision to make a bequest to St Anne’s. Members will be invited to a Plumer Society event every two years, which allows us to thank our legators for their commitment. If you wish to receive our legacy brochure, or would like further information about legacies, please contact legacy@st-annes.ox.ac.uk.

Stephanie Kenna (Hamilton, Geography, 1968)

“I have always felt privileged to have been an

undergraduate at St Anne’s and consider that my

time in Oxford influenced the rest of my life and

my career. I also very much enjoyed it! I wanted to

express my thanks and give something in return.”

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Wednesday 6 February 2013: London Drinks – St Anne’s alumnus Sunnil Panjabi (Metallurgy, Economics & Management, 1983) will kindly host a St Anne’s drinks event in the function room at his bar, The Punch Tavern, Fleet Street, London.

Saturday 2 March 2013: Careers Day and ASM Spring Quiz Night.

Saturday 9 March 2013: Fresher Parents’ Brunch – breakfast/lunch options will be available in our College Dining Hall between 11am and 12.30pm on Saturday 9 March. The date has been selected because it is the last Saturday of Hilary term.

Saturday 16 March 2013: Reunion Dinner for all those who matriculated in the years 1979 to 1983.

21-23 March 2013: North American Reunion (San Francisco and Los Angeles).

Saturday 25 May 2013: Summer Eights event.

Saturday 1 June 2013: MA Reunion Dinner for all graduates who have been admitted to the degrees of Bachelors of Arts or Fine Art and who are therefore eligible to receive an MA in, or at any time after, the twenty-first term from their Matriculation (i.e., seven years after you started studying at Oxford). This event will be primarily aimed at those who matriculated in 2005 and 2006.

Saturday 15 June 2013: Parents’ Garden Party to celebrate the end of the academic year.

Sunday 16 June 2013: Donors’ Family Garden Party – a garden party to thank all regular donors.

Saturday 22 June 2013: Reunion Dinner for all those who matriculated prior to and including 1961.

Friday 20 September – Sunday 22 September 2013: Alumni Weekend and Gaudy – the Founding Fellows lecture, Annual General Meeting of the ASM and Alumni Weekend dinner will be on Saturday with the Gaudy service, Gaudy seminar and lunch on Sunday.

For a full and up-to-date list of upcoming events, please see our website www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk/about/events.

Speakers and venuesThere are a range of opportunities to pass on your knowledge and experience at St Anne’s events and we are always on the lookout for speakers for careers events and alumnae events including St Anne’s in the City, as well as for interesting venues that alumnae will enjoy visiting and will help make an event memorable. Please e-mail Kate Davy, Alumnae Relations Officer, at kate.davy@st-annes.ox.ac.uk if you are able to help.

Please find below a list of forthcoming events for senior

members and friends. Events will be held at St Anne’s

College unless otherwise indicated. Please contact Kate

Davy in the Development Office for further information.

Email: kate.davy@st-annes.ox.ac.uk.

Upcoming events at St Anne’s

St Anne’s College, Woodstock Road Oxford OX2 6HS

+44 (0)1865 274800 www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk