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University Gazette, 18 February 2010: Notices
CONSULTATIVE NOTICESExternal Membership of CouncilInvitation to Congregation to submit nominations for considerationProcedure for election of external members of CouncilThere will be a vacant place on Council for an external member from MT 2011. External members are defined in Statute VI as 'persons nominated by Council and approved by Congregation who are not when they are nominated members of Congregation or resident holders of teaching, research or administrative posts in the University or in any college, society or Permanent Private Hall'. Members of Congregation are invited to submit nominations for consideration by the Nominations Committee for the place on Council, taking account of the criteria set out below, on a form available at www.admin.ox.ac.uk/councilsec/nomination.shtml or from the Registrar's office (telephone: Oxford (2)80415). The Nominations Committee expects that nominations will be made without any communication by the nominator with the nominee. Nominators should indicate on the nominations form if any informal communication has taken place. The closing date for nominations is 23 March 2010. The vacant place for an external member of Council will also be advertised in The Sunday Times on 28 February, with a deadline for applications of 23 March. The Nominations Committee will act in accordance with Council Regulation 15 of 2002 (available on the Web site at www.admin.ox.ac.uk/statutes/regulations/520-122q.shtml). A list of the current members of Council is available at www.admin.ox.ac.uk/councilsec/gov/council.shtml. The committee is being assisted by Saxton Bampfylde recruitment consultants. The committee will consider all nominations for consideration and applications received by the closing date as well as any candidates proposed by its own members and by the search consultants, select from them having due regard to the principles of equality and diversity and the published selection criteria, and make recommendations to Council. Council will consider all recommendations received from the Nominations Committee and will either propose a candidate for approval by Congregation or will ask the committee to submit further names for its consideration. If a candidate is rejected by Congregation the committee will propose a further candidate or candidates to be put to Council in accordance with the above procedures until the vacancy is filled. The appointment will be for four years, extendable for a further four years. Responsibilities of members of CouncilWhilst Congregation is the University's sovereign body, Council is the University's executive governing body. It is responsible for the advancement of the University's objects, for its administration, and for the management of its finances and property. Council is therefore responsible for the academic policy and strategic direction of the University, subject to the powers of Congregation. Legally, the members of Council are charity trustees and are bound by fiduciary duties. Each has a duty to ensure compliance, and must fulfil the duties of prudence and care. Criteria for external members of CouncilAll members of Council will have a strong personal commitment to higher education and to the values, aims and objectives of Oxford as a collegiate University (i.e. the University and its colleges). In considering nominations for external membership of Council, personal qualities will be the primary consideration, but clearly successful candidates will need to be able to demonstrate significant levels of relevant experience. The Nominations Committee will consider demonstrable evidence of the following:
It is expected that the person appointed to this role will probably also take up the position of Chair of the Audit and Scrutiny Committee. The Nominations Committee will therefore also consider demonstrable evidence of:
The role also requires the willingness and ability to devote a significant amount of time on a voluntary basis. External members of Council are all expected to spend a minimum of two days per month in Oxford, and this role, combined with the chairmanship of the Audit and Scrutiny Committee, is expected to require a time commitment of about four to five days per month. All members have a responsibility for ensuring that Council conducts itself in accordance with accepted standards of behaviour in public life, embracing selflessness, integrity, objectivity, accountability, openness, honesty, and leadership. They must also play an appropriate part in ensuring that the business of Council is carried out efficiently, effectively, and in a manner appropriate for the proper conduct of public business. Biographical information about the current external members of Council, and the external member who will take up his role in 2010Alice Perkins, CB, graduated in Modern History (St Anne's, 1971) and went straight into the Civil Service fast stream. Her career spanned policy and operations in the Departments of Health and Social Security, public spending in HM Treasury and Civil Service reform in the Cabinet Office. In her last job, she reported to the Cabinet Secretary and was responsible for Civil Service-wide policies on human resource management, training and development, and reform. She left the Civil Service in 2005 and has since taken on a number of part-time roles, including non- executive director roles on the boards of BAA and TaylorNelsonSofres. Among other things she is currently on the Saïd Business School's Business Advisory Council. She is also a part- time executive coach at the JCA Group. Ms Perkins has been a member of Council since MT 2006. She is Chairman of the Nominations Committee and a member of the Task Force on Academic Employment. Bernard J. Taylor read chemistry at St John's (1975). He began his career at Smiths Industries, before moving to banking at Baring Brothers and Co. Ltd and then at Robert Fleming and Co. Ltd, where he was Deputy Chairman and Chief Executive. He was Vice-Chairman at J.P. Morgan plc until March 2006. He then became Chief Executive of Braveheart which was acquired in December 2006 by Evercore Partners, of which he is Vice-Chairman and Chief Executive of its European business. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a non-executive director of Oxford Instruments plc. He is also a Royal Commissioner on the Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 and a member of the Investment Advisory Committee of the Royal Society. He is an Honorary Fellow of St John's College. Mr Taylor has been a member of Council since MT 2003, and since his appointment by Council as chairman of the Audit and Scrutiny Committee in January 2006 has played a significant role in making it possible to submit substantially more positive reports to Council and to HEFCE on matters relating to internal control and risk management within the University. He also serves on a number of other University bodies including the Task Force on Academic Employment and the Salaries of Senior Officers Review Committee. He is Chairman of Isis Innovation. He chaired the review of Begbroke Science Park. Sir Crispin Davis graduated in Modern History (Oriel, 1970). He then worked for Procter and Gamble from 1970 to 1990, holding a series of senior positions in the UK and Germany before becoming President of the company's North American food business. Between 1990 and 1993 he was Group Managing Director for Guinness Group, and then became Chief Executive Officer for Aegis Group plc, a leading global media service company, between 1994 and 1999. Between 2000 and 2009 he was Chief Executive Officer of Reed Elsevier plc. He was knighted in 2004, for services to publishing and information. Sir Crispin is a non-executive director of GlaxoSmithKline, a member of the Global Advisory Board for Citigroup, and a member of the Council and the Board of Trustees for the National Trust. He has in the past served on the Development Board of the Tate (2002–7) and the Oxford University Press Finance Committee (1994–9). He has been a member of Council since HT 2009. Sir Paul Nurse will be a member of Council from MT 2010. He graduated in Biology from Birmingham University (1970). His Ph.D was in cell biology and biochemistry at the University of East Anglia. He did postdoctoral work in Bern, Edinburgh and Sussex before joining the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (ICRF) in 1984. He was Iveagh Professor of Microbiology at Oxford, 1988–93, before becoming Director of Research at ICRF, and later Director General in 1996. In 2002 Professor Nurse was appointed Chief Executive of Cancer Research UK, and he moved his laboratory to the United States when appointed President of Rockefeller University in 2003. In 1989 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society, and in 1995 he became a foreign associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences. In 1999 he was knighted for services to cancer research and cell biology; in 2001 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine, and in 2002 he received the Légion d'Honneur. He has received a number of awards, including the Royal Society's Copley Medal in 2005. Amongst other non-executive positions, Sir Paul has been a non- executive trustee of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute since 2006. Joint Social Sciences Board/Education Committee Review of the School of Interdisciplinary Area StudiesTerms of Reference for the Review1. To review the quality of academic activities in the school, by reference to:
In particular: (a) the quality of the research of the school, including its participation in interdepartmental, interdivisional and interdisciplinary activities, its research profile and strategy, and future challenges and opportunities; (b) the quality of undergraduate and graduate programmes and their delivery and related issues, including:
(c) the organisation of the school, its management structures and the relationship between the school and the division, including such matters as:
(d) the relationship (structural and operational) between units within the school, and between the school and cognate subject areas and colleges to which it is linked in teaching and research. 2. To consider the current and long-term financial position of, and funding arrangements for, the school, and its financial strategy. The review committee would welcome written comments on matters falling within its terms of reference. These should be sent to Ms Bhee Bellew (e-mail: bhee.bellew@socsci.ox.ac.uk), Social Sciences Division, Hayes House, 75 George Street, Oxford OX1 2BQ, by Friday, 16 April.
GENERAL NOTICESVice-Chancellor's Question TimeThe Vice-Chancellor, Professor Andrew Hamilton, will be holding a Question Time on Monday, 8 March. The event is open to members of Congregation, staff of the University and the colleges, and current students, who are invited to discuss University issues with the Vice-Chancellor. The hour-long event will be chaired by the Principal of St Anne's College, Tim Gardam. It will be held in Lecture Theatre 4 of the Saïd Business School. The session will start at 4 p.m. and refreshments will be available from 3.15 p.m. Places may be reserved, and questions submitted in advance, by e-mail to internal.communications@admin.ox.ac.uk. A downloadable recording will be available after the event at www.admin.ox.ac.uk/vc. Curators of the University LibrariesProgress Report on the Estates Projects of the Oxford University Library Services: open meetingUnder the aegis of the Curators of the University Libraries, there is to be an open meeting at which Bodley's Librarian and other members of her staff will outline progress to date on library building projects. Topics covered will include the Book Storage Facility, the New Bodleian renovation, improvements to the Underground Bookstore and Old Bodleian and plans for the Humanities and Mathematics Library on the Radcliffe Infirmary Quarter. The meeting is open to staff and students of the University and will be held on Wednesday, 24 February, at 2 p.m., in the University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road. University Gazette: deliveries to the Old Road Campus, HeadingtonIt is regretted that, due to difficulties which have arisen with regard to distribution arrangements, some recent issues of the Gazette have not been delivered to addresses in the Old Road Campus, Headington. The Gazettes affected are those of 28 January (with Blueprint and the Oxford Magazine), 4 February, and 11 February. New arrangements have been put in place, and deliveries will recommence with effect from the 18 February Gazette. Any recipient of the Gazette in the Old Road Campus area who wishes to be sent a copy of any of the issues indicated, or of Blueprint or the Oxford Magazine of 28 January, should contact the Press and Information Office, University Offices, Wellington Square (e-mail: information.office@admin.ox.ac.uk, telephone: Oxford (2)70010). St John's CollegeOpening of collection of medieval vestmentsSt John's College intends to open to the public its collection of medieval vestments on Saturday, 6 March, from 2 p.m. until 5 p.m. The collection is displayed in the Garden Quadrangle and entrance, free of charge, will be via the Main Lodge. Musical EventsHertford CollegeTHE HERTFORD BRUCKNER ORCHESTRA, with SARA JONSSON (soprano), will perform Mahler's Songs of a Wayfarer and Bruckner's Symphony No. 9 at 8 p.m. on Saturday, 27 February, in the University Church, by kind permission of the Vicar and the Parochial Church Council. Tickets, costing £7.50 (concessions £5), may be obtained from Hertford College lodge, or at the door. St Anne's CollegeThe following events will be held at 6.15 p.m. on the days shown in the Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre, St Anne's College. Both events are free and will be followed by complimentary refreshments. Enquiries may be directed to John Traill (e-mail: john.traill@music.ox.ac.uk). Fri. 19 Feb.: CRAIG GREENE (piano) will perform Haydn's Sonata in F major, Hob. XVI.23, and Schumann's Sonata in F sharp minor, Op. 11. Thur. 25 Feb.: THE RIVOLI STRING QUARTET, with soloists from St Anne's College, will perform Ravel's String quartet in F major, Mozart's Oboe quartet in F major, K.370 (soloist JULIAN SCOTT), and Mozart's Flute quartet in A major, K.298 (soloist AMY THOMPSON). Wolfson CollegeCorrespondence 'Hearing/Vision'A performance with MARK ROWAN-HULL, Creative Arts Fellow, Wolfson College, with virtuouso oboist and Royal Academy of Music Research Fellow CHRIS REDGATE, and violinist and composer ROGER REDGATE, Head of Composition, Goldsmiths College, London, will be held at 5.30 p.m. on Monday, 22 February, in the Haldane Room, Wolfson College. Sunday concertPATSY TOH and SARKIS ZAKARIAN will perform the following piano works at 5 p.m. on Sunday, 7 March, in the Hall, Wolfson College: Chopin, Four Mazurkas, op. 30, Scherzo in B flat minor, op. 31, and Twenty-four Preludes, op. 28; and Schubert, Fantasie in F minor for four hands. Admission costs £5 (concessions £3). Proceeds are in aid of the college charity, the African Medical and Research Foundation. The recital is a celebration of the bicentenary of the birth of Chopin.
APPOINTMENTTaylor Professorship of the German Language and LiteratureRITCHIE NEIL NINIAN ROBERTSON, MA Edin, MA D.PHIL Oxf, Official Fellow in German, St John's College, and Professor of German, has been appointed to the Taylor Professorship of the German Language and Literature in the Sub-faculty of German, Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, with effect from 1 October 2010. Professor Robertson will be a fellow of Queen's College.
COMPOSITION OF ELECTORAL BOARDThe composition of the electoral board to the post below, proceedings to fill which are currently in progress, is as follows: Tasso Leventis Professorship of Biodiversity
Appointed by
The Master of St Catherine's Mr Vice-Chancellor [1]
The Warden of Merton ex officio
Professor Ilkka Hanski Council
Professor Angela MacLean Council
Professor Alex Halliday Mathematical, Physical and
Life Sciences Board
Professor Georgina Mace Mathematical, Physical and
Life Sciences Board
Dr Michael Rands Mathematical, Physical and
Life Sciences Board
Professor Paul Harvey Mathematical, Physical and
Life Sciences Board
Professor Charles Godfray Mathematical, Physical and
Life Sciences Board
Professor Peter Holland Merton College
[1] Appointed by Mr Vice-Chancellor under the provisions of Sects. 10 and 11 of Statute IX (Supplement (1) to Gazette No. 4633, 9 October 2002, Vol. 133, p. 108).
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