Gazette - 12 November 2020

Council, Committees & Congregation

Changes to Regulations

Congregation (13 October)

Council's reply to supplementary questions concerning the Crisis Management Framework asked at the meeting of Congregation on 13 October.

Register of Congregation

New members of register (J Cosmidis; M Meyerhof; C G Wood)

Degrees by Resolution (16 November)

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Elections (26 November)

Contested elections

The following elections will be contested and the results determined by an electronic ballot of the eligible electorates. Eligible voters were sent an email with further instructions on Tuesday, 10 November. Voters may wish to read the candidates’ statements, published in the Gazette, before completing their electronic vote. The voting period will close at 4pm on 26 November (more information can be found on the Elections website).

Council, non-divisional vacancy (Professor Myles R Allen; Professor Sir Rory Collin)
Board of the Faculty of Oriental Studies, 3 vacancies (Professor Diwakar Acharya; Professor Edmund Herzig; Professor Dirk Meyer; Professor Asli Niyazioglu)

Uncontested elections

A number of elections were uncontested. Following the close of the nomination period on 29 October, those nominated were deemed to have been elected unopposed to hold office for the periods indicated.

Council, Humanities/Social Sciences vacancy (Professor Diego Sánchez-Ancochea)
Council, MPLS/Medical Sciences vacancy (Professor F D Richard Hobbs)
Curators of the University Libraries (Dr A J Fairweather-Tall)
Curators of the University Parks (Dr Laura M Rival)
Nominations Committee (Anne Harkness)
Pool for Constituting Panels under Statute XII, Humanities vacancies (Karen Brill; Professor T William Child; Dr A J Fairweather-Tall; Dr Elizabeth Gemmill)
Pool for Constituting Panels under Statute XII, MPLS vacancies (Janice French; Dr Jocasta Gardner)
Pool for Constituting Panels under Statute XII, Medical Sciences vacancies (Liz Barnes-Moss; Professor Robert Gilbert; Gillian Morris; Boyd Rodger)
Pool for Constituting Panels under Statute XII, Social Sciences vacancies (Professor A C L Davies; Professor Andrew Dickinson; Dr Nicholas Van Hear; Charlotte Vinnicombe)
Pool for Constituting Panels under Statute XII, GLAM vacancies (Aisha Burtenshaw; Laura How; Linda Pope)
Pool for Constituting Panels under Statute XII, UAS vacancies (Christiana (Kirsty) Allen; Anne Harkness; Sara C Smith)
Socially Responsible Investment Review Committee (Professor H Bhaskaran)
MPLS Divisional Board Engineering Science vacancy (Professor Martin Booth)
MPLS Divisional Board Physics vacancy (Professor Martin Bureau)
Board of the Faculty of English Language and Literature (Dr Kate Kennedy; Professor Paulina Kewes; Professor Lloyd Pratt; Professor Diane Purkiss)
Board of the Faculty of History (Dr John-Paul Ghobrial; Dr Adrian Gregory; John Nightingale; Professor Natalia Nowakowska)
Board of the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics (Richard Ashdowne; Sandra Paoli; Dr Elinor Payne)
Board of the Faculty of Philosophy (Professor Hilary Greaves; Professor Philipp Koralus; Professor Stephen Mulhall; Professor Mark Wrathall)
Board of the Faculty of Theology and Religion (Professor Carol Harrison; Professor Joshua Hordern; Professor Mark Wynn)
Board of the Faculty of Law, Official Member vacancies (Professor Horst Eidenmüller; Professor Luca Enriques; Wolfgang Ernst; Professor Catherine Redgwell)
Board of the Faculty of Law, Ordinary Member vacancies (Sanja Bogojević; Professor Adrian Briggs; Ruth Chang; Professor Tsilly Dagan; Professor James Goudkamp; Laura C H Hoyano; Professor Jennifer Payne; Professor Justine Pila; Professor Fernanda Pirie)

Lapsed vacancies

Vacancies on the following boards and committees have lapsed due to insufficient nominations having been received. In accordance with the regulations, they must now remain vacant until an appointment is made jointly by the Proctors and Vice-Chancellor. Any eligible member of Congregation who wishes to be considered for appointment to one of these vacancies is asked to contact the Elections Officer by 26 November.

Audit and Scrutiny Committee (2 vacancies)
Buildings and Estates Subcommittee (1 vacancy)
Committee for the Nomination of Select Preachers (2 vacancies)
Nominations Committee (2 vacancies)
Panel for Constituting the Visitatorial Board under Statute XII Part C (3 vacancies)
Pool for Constituting Panels under Statute XII (5 vacancies)
Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Divisional Board (3 vacancies)
Medical Sciences Divisional Board (1 vacancy)
Social Sciences Divisional Board (3 vacancies)
Board of the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics (1 vacancy)

University Notices

University Sustainability Strategy

The draft strategy has now been published and feedback is requested on the overall target, priorities and key issues. The draft strategy and survey can be found at https://sustainability.admin.ox.ac.uk (single sign-on required).

Racial Equality Task Force

The Task Force launches this month to address racial equality at all levels at Oxford. More information: https://staff.web.ox.ac.uk/article/equality-diversity-and-inclusion-at-oxford-opportunities-for-progress. Register for an online Open Forum event about the Task Force at 1.15pm on 2 December: http://newsletter.admin.ox.ac.uk/c/1s4L4mziuXCB85f3bSvyIRYY.

People-related notices

Rouse Ball Professorship of Mathematics

Luis Fernando Alday was appointed to this professorship with effect from 2 November; he is also a fellow of Wadham

Recognition of Distinction 2020

Successful Candidates

William Allan
Ruben Andersson
Sonia Antoranz Contera
Elizabeth Ashley
Michael Barnes
Stephen Baxter
Rebecca Beasley
Geoffrey Bird
Stuart Blacksell
Lapo Bogani
Francesca Buffa
Erzsebet Bukodi
Alvaro Cartea
Michael Charles
Yulin Chen
Morgan Clarke
Mark Coles
Garret Cotter
Inge Daniels
Angour D’Armand
John Davis
Thomas Douglas
David Doyle
David Dupret
Carolin Duttlinger
David Dwan
Rebecca Eynon
Dominic Furniss
Jason Gaiger
Anthony Gardner
Jane Gingrich
Andrew Gosler
David Griffiths
Nina Hallowell
Todd Hancock Hall
Edward Harcourt
Heather Harrington
Catherine Holmes
Jemma Hopewell
Laura Hoyano
Antoine Jerusalem
Helen Johnson
Polly Jones
Lindsay Judson
Renaud Lambiotte
Liora Lazarus
Vili Lehdonvirta
Jason Lerch
Jamie Lorimer
James McCullagh
Anna-Maria Misra
Joe Moshenska
Andreas Münch
Gina Neff
Andrea Nemeth
Jaideep Pandit
Aris Theodosis Papageorghiou
Sarah Pendlebury
Justine Pila
John Powell
Kazem Rahimi
Jan Rehwinkel
Armin Reichold
Laura Rival
Tatjana Sauka-Spengler
Elena Seiradake
Joel Shapiro
Hannah Smithson
Susannah Speller
Andrei Starinets
Samuel Staton
Zofia Stemplowska
Peter Stewart
Mark Stokes
William Swadling
Pawel Swietach
Helen Swift
Marion Turner
Ellie Tzima
Carlos Vargas-Silva
Manu Vatish
Andrea Vedaldi
John Vella
Richard Williams
Tim Woollings

Electoral Boards

College obituaries

Exams & Boards

Examination Regulation changes

Humanities Board (Music)
MPLS Board (Mathematical & Theoretical Physics; Mathematical Modelling & Scientific Computing; Mathematical and Computational Finance; Mathematics & the Foundations of Computer Science; Mathematical Sciences; Engineering Science; Mathematics & Statistics)
Medical Sciences Board (Precision Cancer Medicine)
Social Sciences Board (General Regulations for the Degrees of MSc by Coursework and of BPhil or MPhil; Education; Learning and Teaching; Medical Education; Sustainability, Enterprise and the Environment; Global and Area Studies; AI for Business; Economics; EMBA; Financial Strategy; Global Business; Organisational Leadership; Strategy and Innovation)

Viva voce exams