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No 6551

Wednesday 12 June 2019

Vol cxlix No 33

pp. 666–692

Reports

First-stage Report of the Council on the construction of the National Centre for Propulsion and Power and re-development of the Whittle Laboratory

The Council begs leave to report to the University as follows:

1. In this Report the Council is seeking approval in principle for the construction of a new National Centre for Propulsion and Power and re-development of the Whittle Laboratory at West Cambridge as set out below.

2. The Whittle Laboratory has been successful in securing funds from the Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) and various industrial partners to establish a new experimental facility at Cambridge to serve as a National Centre for Propulsion and Power. The Whittle Laboratory has a distinguished record of translating fundamental research into design technologies which have been incorporated in many types of commercial aircraft engines. The resulting increases in efficiency, given the number in commercial service, has given savings in fuel burn and carbon emissions amounting to many times that incurred by building the proposed new facility. The aim of the Centre is twofold: to change radically the technology transfer process in aerospace and turbomachinery science; and to develop new technologies with the aim of decarbonising the propulsion and power sector.

3. The new facility will be located adjacent to the existing Whittle Laboratory on the West Cambridge site. As part of the project, existing accommodation for the Whittle Laboratory will be upgraded and expanded to provide new workshops and offices and the current single-storey office accommodation will be demolished. In total, approximately 3,550m2 (gross internal area) of new building will be added to approximately 2,100m2 (gross internal area) of retained laboratories and workshops. The investment will include a Propulsion and Power Challenge Space. This space will allow the wider University and industry to co-locate and to take on the challenge of decarbonising the propulsion and power sector. The Centre will work in partnership with the University’s Carbon Neutral Futures Initiative.

4. The capital cost of the proposed development is approximately £44m including the specialist equipment for the National Centre for Propulsion and Power. A grant of £13.5m has been secured from the ATI. £2m is expected to be secured from various industrial partners. An allocation of £5m has been committed by the University. At least £10m of the remaining funds are expected to be raised from external sources with the balance underwritten by the University. The costs of loose furniture and equipment and IT and AV costs will be funded by the Department of Engineering. As part of the investment the industrial partners have agreed £8m in direct support for research.

5. The construction works are planned to commence in 2021 and to be completed by December 2022. The works will include infrastructure enhancements to support the project and align with the West Cambridge Master Plan. These infrastructure works will be funded separately as a charge on the West Cambridge Infrastructure account.

6. The Concept Case for the project was approved by the Planning and Resources Committee on 22 May 2019. Further details relating to the design, maintenance, recurrent costs and proposals for funding will be brought to future meetings of the Buildings Committee and the Planning and Resources Committee. A Full Case will be prepared and a Second-stage Report will be published in due course to seek approval to implement the project.

7. A plan indicating the location of the project is below. Drawings of the proposed development are displayed for the information of the University in the Schools Arcade and are reproduced online at https://www.prao.admin.cam.ac.uk/capital-planning/plans-and-drawings.

8.The Council recommends:

 I.That approval in principle be given for the construction of the National Centre for Propulsion and Power and the associated Whittle Laboratory redevelopment.

II.That the Director of Estate Strategy be authorised to apply for detailed planning approval in due course.

12 June 2019

Stephen Toope, Vice-Chancellor

David Greenaway

Michael Proctor

Sam Ainsworth

Jennifer Hirst

Sofia Ropek-Hewson

Evie Aspinall

Nicholas Holmes

Andrew Sanchez

R. Charles

Christopher Kelly

Sara Weller

Sharon Flood

Mark Lewisohn

Mark Wormald

Anthony Freeling

Jeremy Morris

Nicholas Gay

Richard Penty

Location plan: proposed National Centre for Propulsion and Power and Whittle Laboratory redevelopment

Report of the General Board on Senior Academic Promotions

The General Board begs leave to report to the University as follows:

1. The senior academic promotions exercise in respect of promotions to take effect from 1 October 2019 has been completed. The General Board, at its meeting on 5 June 2019, considered recommendations from the Vice-Chancellor’s Senior Academic Promotions Committee in respect of promotion to personal Professorships, Readerships and Senior Lectureships. With the recommendations the Board received an extensive report, which provided the Board with an account of the procedure followed for the evaluation and comparison of the evidence for all applicants. The Board was able to see how recommendations had been arrived at so that, without repeating the entire exercise, it could either approve the recommendations or, if it so wished, consider the basis on which any of the recommendations had been made.

2. The contents of the report were as follows:

minutes of the Vice-Chancellor’s Committee and School Committees;

summary lists of Faculty Committee and School Committee evaluations and bandings, indicating adjustments and any special or non-standard aspects of applications;

summary tables giving names of applicants in priority order by School Committee for each of the senior academic offices;

funding and statistical information;

equal opportunity report on all applications received;

feedback statements.

3. The Board now recommends the establishment of 43 Professorships from 1 October 2019, as set out in Recommendation I. The establishment of these Professorships is proposed on condition that in each case where the person currently holds a permanently established office, that office should be placed in abeyance during the tenure of the Professorship.

4. The Board also proposes the establishment of 46 Readerships from 1 October 2019, as set out in Recommendation II. The establishment of these Readerships is proposed on condition that in each case where the person currently holds a permanently established office, that office should be placed in abeyance during the tenure of the Readership.

5. In order to avoid delay in publishing the Report, the Board has put forward its recommendations before the titles of the Professorships and Readerships have been agreed. The Board will announce these titles at a later date, after consultation with the individuals concerned.

6. The Board has also agreed, in accordance with Special Ordinance C (ix) 1 and the special regulation for University Senior Lectureships (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 760) to appoint the 34 individuals listed in the Schedule to this Report to University Senior Lectureships.

7. The estimated total additional cost to central funds in the first year of the proposals for promotion to personal Professorships and Readerships and of the appointments to University Senior Lectureships of the persons named in this Report will be approximately £876,458.

8. The General Board recommends:

I. That, with effect from 1 October 2019, Professorships be established for each of the following named persons for one tenure, placed in the Schedule to Special Ordinance C (vii) 1, and assigned to the Faculty, Department, or Institution named in each case, as follows:

School of Arts and Humanities

Dr Caroline Vout, CHR, assigned to the Faculty of Classics

Dr Raphael Lyne, MUR, assigned to the Faculty of English

Dr Helena Sanson, CL, assigned to the Department of Italian

School of the Biological Sciences

Dr Uta Paszkowski, JN, assigned to the Department of Plant Sciences

Dr Jonathan Simons, EM, assigned to the Department of Psychology

Dr Mark Holmes, CHU, assigned to the Department of Veterinary Medicine

Dr Elizabeth Murchison assigned to the Department of Veterinary Medicine

School of Clinical Medicine

Dr Edmund Kunji, TH, assigned to the Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Dr George Vassiliou assigned to the Department of Haematology

Dr Menna Clatworthy, PEM, assigned to the Department of Medicine

Dr Anthony Davenport, CTH, assigned to the Department of Medicine

Dr Jason Carroll, CL, assigned to the Department of Oncology

Dr Masashi Narita assigned to the Department of Oncology

Dr Daniela De Angelis assigned to the Department of Public Health and Primary Care

Dr Martin White assigned to the Department of Public Health and Primary Care

School of the Humanities and Social Sciences

Dr Catherine Burke assigned to the Faculty of Education

Dr Nidhi Singal, HH, assigned to the Faculty of Education

Dr Andreas Stylianides, HH, assigned to the Faculty of Education

Dr Annabel Brett, CAI, assigned to the Faculty of History

Dr Peter Sarris, T, assigned to the Faculty of History

Dr Sujit Sivasundaram, CAI, assigned to the Faculty of History

Dr Paul Warde, PEM, assigned to the Faculty of History

Dr David Sneath, CC, assigned to the Department of Social Anthropology

Dr Duncan Bell, CHR, assigned to the Department of Politics and International Studies

Dr Judith Browne, K, assigned to the Department of Politics and International Studies

Dr Albertina Albors-Llorens, JN, assigned to the Faculty of Law

Dr Jens Scherpe, CAI, assigned to the Faculty of Law

Dr Benjamin Crewe assigned to the Institute of Criminology

School of the Physical Sciences

Dr Marie Edmonds, Q, assigned to the Department of Earth Sciences

Dr Jason Miller, T, assigned to the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics

Dr Vasily Belokurov assigned to the Institute of Astronomy

Dr Caterina Ducati, T, assigned to the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy

Dr Jason Robinson, JN, assigned to the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy

Dr Erika Eiser, SID, assigned to the Department of Physics

Dr Austen Lamacraft, JN, assigned to the Department of Physics

School of Technology

Dr Ahmed Khwaja assigned to the Judge Business School

Dr Wah Mak assigned to the Judge Business School

Dr Alastair Beresford, Q, assigned to the Department of Computer Science and Technology

Dr Paula Buttery, CAI, assigned to the Department of Computer Science and Technology

Dr Mateja Jamnik assigned to the Department of Computer Science and Technology

Dr Andrew Moore, CC, assigned to the Department of Computer Science and Technology

Dr Per Kristensson, T, assigned to the Department of Engineering

Dr Sebastian Savory, CHU, assigned to the Department of Engineering

II. That, with effect from 1 October 2019, Readerships be established, as follows, and that the General Board be authorised to appoint to each Readership the person for whom its establishment is proposed:

School of Arts and Humanities

Dr Emily So, M, assigned to the Department of Architecture

Dr Michael Rand assigned to the Department of Middle Eastern Studies

Dr Philip Connell, SE, assigned to the Faculty of English

Dr Michael Hurley, CTH, assigned to the Faculty of English

Dr Maria Conde, JE, assigned to the Department of Spanish and Portuguese

School of the Biological Sciences

Dr Louise Boyle, ED, assigned to the Department of Pathology

Dr Ewan Smith, CC, assigned to the Department of Pharmacology

Dr Andrew Tanentzap, PET, assigned to the Department of Plant Sciences

Dr David Belin, HO, assigned to the Department of Psychology

Dr Cinzia Cantacessi assigned to the Department of Veterinary Medicine

School of Clinical Medicine

Dr Evan Reid, ED, assigned to the Department of Medical Genetics

Dr Mark Evans assigned to the Department of Medicine

Dr Sanjay Sinha assigned to the Department of Medicine

Dr Angela Wood, DAR, assigned to the Department of Public Health and Primary Care

School of the Humanities and Social Sciences

Dr Chrysi Giannitsarou, K, assigned to the Faculty of Economics

Dr Donald Robertson, PEM, assigned to the Faculty of Economics

Dr Shawn Bullock, EM, assigned to the Faculty of Education

Dr Yongcan Liu, DOW, assigned to the Faculty of Education

Dr Amy Erickson, R, assigned to the Faculty of History

Dr Renaud Morieux, JE, assigned to the Faculty of History

Dr Adam Branch, TH, assigned to the Department of Politics and International Studies

Dr Jonathan Morgan, CC, assigned to the Faculty of Law

Dr Sarah Nouwen, PEM, assigned to the Faculty of Law

Dr Stephen Watterson, TH, assigned to the Faculty of Law

Dr Daniel Margocsy assigned to the Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Dr Richard Staley, CAI, assigned to the Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Dr Jacob Stegenga, HH, assigned to the Department of History and Philosophy of Science

School of the Physical Sciences

Dr Luke Skinner, M, assigned to the Department of Earth Sciences

Dr Iris Möller, N, assigned to the Department of Geography

Dr Ian Willis, CTH, assigned to the Department of Geography

Dr Rajen Shah assigned to the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics

Dr Perla Sousi, EM, assigned to the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics

Dr Peter Varju assigned to the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics

Dr Rachel Evans, JE, assigned to the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy

Dr Alexander Archibald, EM, assigned to the Department of Chemistry

Dr Goncalo Lopes Bernardes, TH, assigned to the Department of Chemistry

School of Technology

Dr Christos Genakos, F, assigned to the Judge Business School

Dr Hatice Gunes Smith, TH, assigned to the Department of Computer Science and Technology

Dr Robert Mullins, JN, assigned to the Department of Computer Science and Technology

Dr Cesare Hall, K, assigned to the Department of Engineering

Dr Hannah Joyce, JN, assigned to the Department of Engineering

Dr Ajith Parlikad, HH, assigned to the Department of Engineering

Dr Stuart Scott, G, assigned to the Department of Engineering

Dr Ljiljana Fruk, SID, assigned to the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology

Dr Andrew Sederman, T, assigned to the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology

Non-School Institutions1

Dr Samantha Williams, G, assigned to the Institute of Continuing Education

5 June 2019

Stephen Toope, Vice-Chancellor

A. L. Greer

Helen Thompson

Philip Allmendinger

Nicholas Holmes

Graham Virgo

John Dennis

Patrick Maxwell

Mark Wormald

Abigail Fowden

Richard Rex

Chris Young

Footnote

  • 1Included under the School Committee for Humanities and Social Sciences in the statistical summary.

SCHEDULE

The General Board has agreed to appoint the following to University Senior Lectureships, with effect from 1 October 2019 to the retiring age.

School of Arts and Humanities

Dr Myrto Hatzimichali, HO

Faculty of Classics

Dr Amy Morris

Faculty of English

Dr Sophie Read, CHR

Faculty of English

Dr Charlotte Lee, MUR

Department of German and Dutch

Dr Rebecca Reich, JE

Department of Slavonic Studies

School of the Biological Sciences

Dr Darerca Owen

Department of Biochemistry

Dr Aikaterini Artavanis-Tsakonas

Department of Pathology

Dr Elizabeth Soilleux, CHU

Department of Pathology

Dr Matthew Harper, JE

Department of Pharmacology

Dr Amy Milton, DOW

Department of Psychology

Ms Laura Owen

Department of Veterinary Medicine

Dr Timothy Lee Williams, F

Department of Veterinary Medicine

School of Clinical Medicine

Dr Paul Wilkinson, EM

Department of Psychiatry

School of the Humanities and Social Sciences

Dr Jenny Gibson, LC

Faculty of Education

Dr Riikka Hofmann, HH

Faculty of Education

Dr Rosalind McLellan, HO

Faculty of Education

Dr Julie Barrau, EM

Faculty of History

Dr Paul Cavill, PEM

Faculty of History

Dr Julia Guarneri, F

Faculty of History

Dr ChaiYi Leow, MUR

Faculty of History

Dr Mark Brian Smith, K

Faculty of History

Dr Hratch Papazian

Department of Archaeology

Dr Peter Sloman, CHU

Department of Politics and International Studies

Dr Lauren Wilcox, SE

Department of Politics and International Studies

Dr Ella McPherson, Q

Department of Sociology

Dr Dominic de Cogan, CHR

Faculty of Law

Dr Claire Fenton-Glynn, JE

Faculty of Law

Dr Kirsty Hughes, CL

Faculty of Law

Dr Surabhi Ranganathan, K

Faculty of Law

Dr Matthias Felix Steffek, N

Faculty of Law

Dr Maria Abreu, PEM

Department of Land Economy

School of Technology

Dr Ronan Daly, CHU

Department of Engineering

Dr Thierry Savin, JE

Department of Engineering

Dr Bart Hallmark

Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology

STATISTICAL SUMMARY

Attached as Annex A to this Report is a statistical summary of the number of successful and unsuccessful applications for promotions by Professorships, Readerships and Senior Lectureships.

Senior Academic Promotions, 2019 – Annex A:
Statistical summary of outcomes

Professorships

School Committee

Successful

Unsuccessful

Total

Arts and Humanities

3

(1M 2W)

6

(5M 1W)

9

(6M 3W)

Biological Sciences

4

(2M 2W)

4

(4M 0W)

8

(6M 2W)

Clinical Medicine

8

(6M 2W)

0

(0M 0W)

8

(6M 2W)

Humanities and Social Sciences

13

(8M 5W)

3

(2M 1W)

16

(10M 6W)

Physical Sciences

7

(4M 3W)

4

(1M 3W)

11

(5M 6W)

Technology

8

(6M 2W)

5

(4M 1W)

13

(10M 3W)

Total

43

(27M 16W)

22

(16M 6W)

65

(43M 22W)

Readerships

School Committee

Successful

Unsuccessful

Total

Arts and Humanities

5

(3M 2W)

7

(3M 4W)

12

(6M 6W)

Biological Sciences

5

(3M 2W)

4

(4M 0W)

9

(7M 2W)

Clinical Medicine

4

(3M 1W)

1

(1M 0W)

5

(4M 1W)

Humanities and Social Sciences

14

(10M 4W)

7

(3M 4W)

21

(13M 8W)

Physical Sciences

9

(6M 3W)

1

(1M 0W)

10

(7M 3W)

Technology

9

(6M 3W)

1

(1M 0W)

10

(7M 3W)

Total

46

(31M 15W)

21

(13M 8W)

67

(44M 23W)

University Senior Lectureships

School Committee

Successful

Unsuccessful

Total

Arts and Humanities

5

(0M 5W)

1

(1M 0W)

6

(1M 5W)

Biological Sciences

7

(2M 5W)

2

(2M 0W)

9

(4M 5W)

Clinical Medicine

1

(1M 0W)

0

(0M 0W)

1

(1M 0W)

Humanities and Social Sciences

18

(6M 12W)

5

(4M 1W)

23

(10M 13W)

Physical Sciences

0

(0M 0W)

0

(0M 0W)

0

(0M 0W)

Technology

3

(3M 0W)

0

(0M 0W)

3

(3M 0W)

Total

34

(12M 22W)

8

(7M 1W)

42

(19M 23W)

Report of the General Board on the establishment of a Professorship of Ophthalmology

The General Board begs leave to report to the University as follows:

1. The General Board recommends the establishment of a Professorship of Ophthalmology as set out in paragraph 2 below. The Resource Management Committee scrutinised the funding arrangements at the meeting held on 8 May 2019.

2. The Board has accepted an academic case from the Faculty Board of Clinical Medicine and the Council of the School of Clinical Medicine for the establishment for a single tenure for five years, from 1 August 2019, of a Professorship of Ophthalmology in the Department of Clinical Neurosciences. The salary costs of the Professorship will be shared as follows: 50% from Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, 20% from the Van Geest Foundation Fund for Brain Repair and Neuroscience, 20% from the Cambridge Eye Trust, and 10% from Department funds. The tenure of the Professorship is limited to reflect the duration of the funding from the Van Geest Fund for Brain Repair and the Cambridge Eye Trust. The Board has agreed that election to the Professorship should be made by an ad hoc Board of Electors and that the candidature should be open to all persons whose work falls within the general field of the title of the office.

3.The General Board recommends:

I.That a Professorship of Ophthalmology be established in the University, for a single tenure, for five years from 1 August 2019 or the duration of the funding, whichever is the longer, placed in the Schedule to Special Ordinance C (vii) 1, and assigned to the Department of Clinical Neurosciences.

12 June 2019

Stephen Toope, Vice-Chancellor

Nicholas Holmes

Helen Thompson

Philip Allmendinger

Matthew Kite

Graham Virgo

John Dennis

Patrick Maxwell

Mark Wormald

Abigail Fowden

Richard Rex

Chris Young

A. L. Greer

Sofia Ropek-Hewson