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NUFFIELD PROFESSORSHIP OF
COMPARATIVE EUROPEAN POLITICS
JEREMY JOHN RICHARDSON (BA Keele, MA (ECON.), PH.D.
Manchester), Professor of European Public Policy,
University of Essex, has been appointed to the
professorship with effect from 1 October 1998.
Professor Richardson will be a fellow of Nuffield
College.
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SIR JOHN HICKS PROFESSORSHIP OF
ECONOMICS
KEVIN WILLIAM STUART ROBERTS, MA, D.PHIL. (BA Essex),
Professor of Economics, London School of Economics and
Political Science, has been appointed to the
professorship with effect from 1 April 1999.
Professor Roberts will be a fellow of Nuffield
College.
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PROFESSORSHIP OF ECONOMICS
JAMES MARTIN MALCOMSON (MA Cambridge, MA, PH.D. Harvard),
Professor of Economics, University of Southampton, has
been appointed to the professorship with effect from 1
January 1999.
Professor Malcomson will be a fellow of All Souls
College.
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PROFESSORSHIP OF GENERAL
PRACTICE
DAVID MANT (MB, CH.B. Birmingham, MA Cambridge, M.SC.
London), Professor of Primary Care Epidemiology,
University of Southampton, and Director of Research and
Development, South and West Region, has been appointed to
the professorship with effect from 1 October 1998.
Professor Mant will be a fellow of Kellogg College.
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NEWTON–ABRAHAM VISITING
PROFESSORSHIP 1999–2000
STUART ALAN RICE (BS Brooklyn College, AM, PH.D.
Harvard), Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor,
James Franck Institute and the Department of Chemistry,
University of Chicago, has been elected to the
professorship for the academic year 1999–2000.
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NEWTON–ABRAHAM VISITING
PROFESSORSHIP 2000–1
JOSE A. CAMPOS-ORTEGA, Chairman of the Institute for
Developmental Biology, University of Köln, who had
been elected to the professorship for the academic year
2000–1, is now unable to take up the chair.
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CONFERMENT OF THE TITLE OF
VISITING PROFESSOR
On the recommendation of the Board of the Faculty of
Physical Sciences, the General Board has conferred the
title of Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor
in the Principles of Engineering Design on R.D. LOHR
(B.SC. Kingston, PH.D. Bristol), Technical Director,
Instron Ltd., High Wycombe, for a period of three years
from 1 January 1999.
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DIRECTORSHIP OF THE COMPUTING
LABORATORY
On the recommendation of the Mathematical Sciences Board,
the General Board has assigned the laboratory to R.S.
BIRD, MA, Fellow of Lincoln College and Professor of
Computing Science, for a period of five years from 1
August 1998.
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FORD'S LECTURERSHIP IN BRITISH
HISTORY 2001–2
PROFESSOR P.F. CLARKE, Professor of Modern History and
Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, has been
appointed to the lecturership for 2001–2.
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STUTCHBURY SCHOLARSHIP IN
PHARMACOLOGY 1998
The Scholarship has been awarded to MAMAS A. MAMAS, New
College.
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SENIOR MATHEMATICAL PRIZE 1998
The Senior Mathematical Prize and Johnson University
Prize have been awarded to GRAHAM R. SHARP, Queen's
College.
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MRS CLAUDE BEDDINGTON ENGLISH
LITERATURE PRIZE 1998
The Prize has been awarded to ADAM S. THIRLWELL, New
College.
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RAMON SILVA MEMORIAL PRIZE IN
SPOKEN SPANISH 1998
The Prize has been awarded to LOUISE GOULDING, Trinity
College.
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ARTEAGA PRIZE 1998
The Prize for distinguished work in Spanish has been
awarded to LOUISE GOULDING, Trinity College.
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CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF
MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTANTS PRIZE FOR ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT
(SPONSORED BY BOC)
The Prize has been awarded to UROS CVETKO, University
College.
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MARTIN WRONKER PRIZES IN
MEDICINE 1998
The Prize has been awarded to SUSAN E. SHAPIRO, New
College.
Additional grants have been awarded to MATTHEW D. TAM, St
Hugh's College, and KATHERINE H.A. TRIPPE, Lady Margaret
Hall.
A prize for meritorious performance in the dissertation
in the Honour School of Physiological Sciences has been
awarded to MATTHEW C. WILLIAMS-GRAY, University College.
A prize for meritorious performance in Pharmacology in
the Honour School of Physiological Sciences has been
awarded to AUGUSTIN M.S. BROOKS, Hertford College.
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ANDREW HOPLEY PRIZE 1998
The Prize has been awarded to GWILYM M. MORRIS, St Edmund
Hall.
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PHYSIOLOGICAL SOCIETY PRIZE
1998
The Prize has been awarded to ISABEL DEAN, St Hilda's
College.
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HARLEY PRIZE OF THE NEW
PHYTOLOGIST TRUST 1998
The Prize has been awarded to R.A. INGLE, St John's
College.
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SCHACHT MEMORIAL PRIZE 1998
A Prize for Arabic in the Honour School of Oriental
Studies has been awarded to K. HACHMEIER, University
College.
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JAMES MEW SENIOR PRIZES 1998
Prizes for Arabic in the Honour School of Oriental
Studies have been awarded to D. BROOKSHAW, Pembroke
College, M. MÜLHAÜSLER, Wadham College, and
MISS R. SCOTT, Pembroke College.
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GAISFORD PRIZE FOR GREEK PROSE
1988
The Prize has been awarded to SINÉAD WILLIS, New
College.
Proxime accessit: LETIZIA PALLADINI, Balliol
College.
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GAISFORD PRIZE FOR GREEK VERSE
1998
The prize has not been awarded.
Honourably mentioned: LETIZIA PALLADINI,
Balliol College.
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GAISFORD ESSAY PRIZE 1988
The prize has not been awarded.
Honourably mentioned: DAVID HODGKINSON,
Balliol College.
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GAISFORD GRADUATE DISSERTATION
PRIZE 1998
The prize has not been awarded.
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GLADSTONE MEMORIAL ESSAY PRIZE
1998
The Prize has been awarded to JOSEPH BORD, Balliol
College.
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HICKS AND WEBB MEDLEY PRIZES
1998
The Prizes, for the best performances in Economics in the
Honour Schools of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics,
and Modern History and Economics, have been awarded to
TIMOTHY E. EASINGWOOD, Pembroke College, MISS SABINA
KALYAN, Lincoln College, and TIMOTHY J. WARD, University
College.
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GEORGE WEBB MEDLEY
UNDERGRADUATE THESIS PRIZE 1998
The Prize, for an Economics subject submitted in place of
a paper in the Final Honour Schools in PPE, has been
awarded to MISS REBECCA THOMPSON, Brasenose College.
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PRIZES IN BACHELOR OF CIVIL
LAW/MAGISTER JURIS IN EUROPEAN AND COMPARATIVE LAW 1998
Vinerian Scholarship (joint award): HENRY F.
SMITH, Merton College, and SUSAN M.C. GIBBONS, University
College
Rupert Cross Prize for the best paper in
Evidence: SUSAN D. BOUCHER, New College
John Morris Prize for the best performance in the
paper in the Conflict of Laws: AEDIT ABDULLAH,
Worcester College
Herbert Hart Prize for the best performance in the
paper in Jurisprudential and Political Theory:
ANTJE L. PEDAIN, University College
Clifford Chance Prize for the best performance in
the the Magister Juris (joint award): SAMANTHA A.
BESSON, Balliol College, and HANNES UNBERATH, Worcester
College
Monckton Chambers Prize for the best performance in
Competition Law: CHRISTOPHER D. SIMARD, St John's
College
Simms Prize for the best performance in Crime,
Justice, and the Penal System: SUSAN M.C. GIBBONS,
University College
Allen & Overy Prize for the best performance in
Corporate Insolvency Law: CHRISTOPHER D. SIMARD,
St John's College
Civil Procedure Prize for the best performance in
Principles of Civil Procedure: JULIAN LONG,
Worcester College
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OXFORD GRADUATES' MEDICAL CLUB
ESSAY PRIZE 1998
The Prize has been awarded to JOSEPH EKOW ODOOM, Green
College.
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COMPOSITION OF ELECTORAL BOARD
The composition of the electoral board to the post below,
proceedings to fill which are currently in progress, is
as follows:
Appointed by
Professorship of Genetics
Professor S. Iversen (Chairman) Mr Vice-Chancellor [1]
The Warden of Keble ex officio
Professor M. Ashburner Council
Dr P. Nurse Council
Professor N.E. Murray General Board
Professor P.C. Newell Biological Sciences Board
Professor C.J. Leaver Biological Sciences Board
Professor D.J. Sherratt Biological Sciences Board
Dr S.V. Hunt Keble College
[1] Appointed by Mr Vice-Chancellor under the provisions
of Tit. IX, Sect. iii, cl. 2 (Statutes,
1997, p. 67).
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REVIEW OF THE DEPARTMENT OF
EDUCATIONAL STUDIES
Under the University's procedures for the regular review
of faculties and departments, the General Board has set
up a committee under the chairmanship of Dr P.J. Collins
to review the Department of Educational Studies. The
terms of the review are:
(a) to consider the provision and quality of
teaching and research in the Department of Educational
Studies and the balance between the two, having regard to
international standards of excellence;
(b) to review the organisational and
management structures and facilities in the department,
including such matters as academic staff planning and
recruitment, accommodation and future staff needs,
library and IT provision, and facilities for students;
(c) to consider the relationship between the
department and other departments in the University, and
Westminster College;
(d) to make recommendations, bearing in mind
the likely measure of available resources.
Members of the University who wish to contribute to the
review are asked to forward their submission by Friday,
22 October, to the secretary of the review committee,
Miss C.M. Godman, either in writing to the University
offices or by e-mail to: catherine.godman@admin.ox.ac.uk.
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CHANGE IN REGULATIONS
The following Special Regulation concerning dyslexic
candidates in University Examinations will come into
effect on 9 October.
The Proctors
Dyslexic candidates in university examinations
With effect from 1 October 1998
In EXAMINATION Decrees, 1997, p. 1084, after
l. 24 insert:
`DYSLEXIC CANDIDATES
Regulations of the Proctors
The University maintains a Register of Dyslexic Students.
To be placed on the Register, a Junior Member must
forward to the University Disability Adviser, through the
authorities of his or her college or other society, an
assessment by a qualified educational psychologist
carried out not more than six years prior to
matriculation. It is the Junior Member's own
responsibility to obtain such an assessment and to apply
for inclusion on the register prior to being entered for
any university examination for which he or she proposes
to ask (a) for special examination arrangements
relating to the dyslexia and (b) for the
condition to be taken into account as a special factor
affecting performance in that examination.
On each occasion when entering for a university
examination, a candidate who is on the Register of
Dyslexic Students may ask, through the authorities of his
or her college or other society and without submission of
further evidence (unless so required by the Proctors)
(a) for special examination arrangements
relating to the dyslexia to be made and (b) for
the condition to be brought to the attention of the
examiners as a special factor affecting performance in
that examination. Candidates on the Register of Dyslexic
Students will normally be allowed extra time in
examinations (not exceeding fifteen minutes per hour of
written paper). Requests for other special arrangements
(e.g. use of a computer, typing of illegible scripts,
exemption from a written examination) will be considered
by the Proctors on their merits. The Proctors will also
ask the relevant Chairman of Examiners to place the
following statement on the examination scripts of each
dyslexic candidate for whom special arrangements have
been approved:
This candidate is dyslexic. Problems with writing
become acute when writing under time pressure. The most
common indicators, in addition to poor general
organisation of essays, are poor sentence structure and
syntax, inappropriate use of tense, of singular and
plural, and of punctuation and capital letters. The
candidate may use inappropriate words, or in the case of
unstressed words, such as prepositions and conjunctions,
miss them out altogether. All these factors, and spelling
errors, may increase with each page of writing as fatigue
sets in, and can make the candidate's work appear
disjointed, immature, or careless. The dyslexic candidate
is not aware of these errors.
Please mark the script as it stands, but indicate to
yourself in your notes that you have marked the script of
a dyslexic candidate so that, at a later stage in the
examination, you and your fellow examiners can discuss
what, if any, account to take of the candidate's
condition for classification purposes.
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WIDOWS OF FORMER MEMBERS OF THE
UNIVERSITY'S PENSION SCHEMES
From time to time the attention of the University is
drawn to individual cases of financial hardship among
widows of former members of the Federated Superannuation
System for Universities (FSSU) and the University of
Oxford Employees Pension Scheme (EPS). Limited resources
are available to alleviate proven cases of hardship and
any enquiry should be addressed to the Superannuation
Officer, University Offices, Wellington Square, Oxford
OX1 2JD. All cases are dealt with in the strictest
confidence.
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CHRIST CHURCH PICTURE GALLERY
The gallery has closed for conservation and building
work, and will reopen on 7 June 1999.
An exhibition of works from the gallery, including
paintings by Filippino Lippi, Lorenzo Lotto, Annibale
Carracci, Sir Anthony Van Dyck, and Frans Hals, will be
held at the National Gallery, London, 2 October–29
November (admission free).
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BODLEIAN LIBRARY
End Of Summer Visitor
Management Scheme
The visitor management scheme which has been in operation
since early May closed on Friday, 11 September. From
Saturday, 12 September, all visitors have access to the
Old Schools Quad and the Divinity School as in previous
years.
The guided tours of the Library, undertaken by our
volunteer guides, will continue through the winter months
with the Radcliffe Camera being visited while Duke
Humfrey's Library is closed. Tickets for these tours
will again be sold by the duty porter in the Divinity
School.
The Library will be reviewing the operation of this
summer's visitor management scheme with a view to its
development in the summer of 1999.
Further information may be obtained from Dr Judith
Thomas, Assistant Secretary of the Library (telephone:
(2)77224, e-mail:judith.thomas@bodley.ox.ac.uk).
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TAYLOR INSTITUTION LIBRARY
The Taylor Institution Library will be closed on
Wednesday, 4 November, for essential building and
electrical work. Both the Main Library and the Slavonic
and Modern Greek Section will be closed. The Curators and
the Librarian apologise for any inconvenience.
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