Council, Committees & Congregation

Oration by Vice-Chancellor (6 October)

• The Vice-Chancellor addressed the House: a transcript of her Oration is available on the Staff Gateway and will be published as a supplement with the 15 October Gazette
• The Pro-Vice-Chancellors were admitted to office (C Bountra; R Easton*; P Grant; D Prout; AE Trefethen; M Williams; E Angiolini; GW Duff; R Goodman; R Hobbs; J Shaw; RM Surender; L Tarassenko; I Tracey; R Trainor; KJ Willis*)
• The Clerks of the Market were admitted to office (J Hackney; CP Thompson)

*these names were accidentally omitted from the 1 October issue of the Gazette

Degrees by Resolution (12 October)

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Questions to Council and Council's reply (13 October)

A meeting will be held at 2pm in the Sheldonian Theatre, where the questions and replies published in the Gazette of 23 July 2020 will be read out. No debate will be permitted, but supplementary questions may be asked.

Members of Congregation wishing to attend must register by 4pm on 12 October to restrict numbers and for test and trace purposes; anyone who has not registered will be refused entry.

Elections (26 November)

A call for nominations has been announced for the following vacancies:

• Council (2 members of Congregation from Humanities/Social Sciences; 1 member of Congregation from MPLS/Medical Sciences)
• Audit & Scrutiny Committee (1 member of Congregation from Humanities/Social Sciences; 1 member of Congregation from MPLS/Medical Sciences)
• Buildings & Estates Subcommittee (1 vacancy)
• Curators of the University Libraries (1 member of Congregation)
• Curators of the University Parks (1 vacancy)
• Committee for the Nomination of Select Preachers (2 members of Congregation)
• Nominations Committee (3 members of Congregation)
• Pool for Constituting Panels under Statute XII (4 members of Congregation to represent Humanities; 4 members of Congregation to represent MPLS; 4 members of Congregation to represent Medical Sciences; 4 members of Congregation to represent Social Sciences; 4 members of Congregation to represent GLAM; 4 members of Congregation to represent UAS; 1 member of Congregation in a non-divisional capacity)
• Socially Responsible Investment Review Committee (1 member of Congregation from MPLS/Medical Sciences)
• Panel for Constituting the Visitatorial Board under Statute XII Part C (3 members of Congregation required to engage in academic teaching and/or research
• Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Board (1 person from each of the Faculties of: Engineering Science; Zoology; Physics; Mathematics; Chemistry)
• Medical Sciences Divisional Board (1 person (not a HoD or statutory professor) from one of the Faculties of: Biochemistry; Clinical Medicine; Physiological Sciences; Psychological Studies)
• Social Sciences Divisional Board (1 person from each of the Department of Economics; Department of Education; School of Geography & the Environment)
• Board of the Faculty of English Language and Literature (4 faculty members)
• Board of the Faculty of History (4 faculty members holding posts on the establishment or under the aegis of the board)
• Board of the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics (4 faculty members)
• Board of the Faculty of Oriental Studies (3 faculty members)
• Board of the Faculty of Philosophy (4 faculty members)
• Board of the Faculty of Theology and Religion (3 faculty members)
• Board of the Faculty of Law (4 official members & 10 ordinary members)

Register of Congregation

New members of register (Rt Hon Baroness Amos, CL Beltrami, DJ Boxall, A Bueno Orovio, K Cai, RPT Davenport-Hines, C Dye, M Golf-French, X Jie, NK Jones, SR Larsen, PJA Levine, P Marty, S Mastoridis, MM Pfeffer, NE Shasore, J Tasioulas)

Prizes, Grants & Funding

Faculty of English Language & Literature

• Matthew Arnold Prize (best essay; £750; 4 December)
• Chancellor's English Essay Prize (best essay up to 12,500 words on the subject 'Cliché'; £250; 8 March)
• Lord Alfred Douglas Memorial Prize (best sonnet/other poem in English in strict rhyming metre; £500; 26 April)
• Sir Roger Newdigate Prize (best composition in English verse no longer than 300 lines on the subject 'Interruption'; £450; 8 March)
• Shelley-Mills Prize (best essay of ~5,000 words on the subject 'Shakespeare's Silences'; £80; 8 March)
• Jon Stallworthy Poetry Prize (best poem in English verse no longer than 40 lines on the subject 'Scrolls'; £1,000; 4 December)

Job vacancies

College vacancies

• Christ Church; Academic HR Manager;£41,526–£49,553; noon, 29 October; www.chch.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

Cambridge & other vacancies

• Rhodes House: The Atlantic Institute; 5-year Development Lead (Foundations and Partnerships); competitive salary; 2 November; www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/contact-staff/staff-vacancies
• Rhodes House: The Atlantic Institute; 5-year Impact Fund Lead; competitive salary; 2 November; www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/contact-staff/staff-vacancies
• University of Cambridge; Caroline Humphrey Professorship of the Anthropology of Inner Asia; 1 December; www.hr.admin.cam.ac.uk/professorships
• Darwin College, Cambridge; 3-year Henslow Research Fellowship for applicants working in engineering or the physical sciences in fields related to environmental sustainability (from 1 October 2021); 15 November; www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/research-fellowships
• Darwin College, Cambridge; 3-year non-stipendiary Research Fellowships (from 1 October 2021); 15 November; www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/research-fellowships