Reports

Report of the General Board on the establishment of certain Professorships

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

1. The General Board recommends the establishment of a Caroline Humphrey Professorship of the Anthropology of Inner Asia and a Professorship of Management Studies as set out in paragraphs 2 and 3 below. The funding arrangements were approved by the Chair of the Resource Management Committee, on behalf of the Committee, on 15 October 2019.

2. The Board has accepted an academic case from the Council of the School of the Humanities and Social Sciences for the establishment of a Caroline Humphrey Professorship of Inner Asia, from 1 October 2020, in the Department of Social Anthropology. The costs of the Professorship will be met from a benefaction of £2.5m from the Sigrid Rausing Trust as an endowment to be held on trust by the University, to be called the Sigrid Rausing Fund for the Anthropology of Inner Asia. The School accepts that it will cover the costs of the Professorship stipend in the event that the Fund does not do so. In addition, the Sigrid Rausing Trust as part of a total donation of £5m, has also provided funding for a Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Associate (£1.5m), a Ph.D. Studentship (£750k) and a research fund (£250k). The funding will ensure the long‑term future of the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit (MIASU) based within the Department of Social Anthropology. The Board has agreed that election to the Professorship shall be made by an ad hoc Board of Electors and candidature open to all persons whose work falls within the title of the Professorship.

3. The Board has accepted an academic case from the Council of the School of Technology for the establishment, for a single tenure, of a Professorship of Management Studies from 1 September 2021 in the Judge Business School. The full costs of the Professorship will be met from a combination of recurrent Chest income and the trading income available to the Judge Business School. The office-holder will also be appointed as the Director of the Judge Business School and thus provide senior and academic leadership to the Judge Business School as Head of Department. The Board has agreed that election to the Professorship shall be made by an ad hoc Board of Electors and candidature open to all persons whose work falls within the title of the Professorship.

4.The General Board recommends:

I.That a Caroline Humphrey Professorship of the Anthropology of Inner Asia be established in the University from 1 October 2020, placed in the Schedule to Special Ordinance C (vii) 1, and assigned to the Department of Social Anthropology.

II.That regulations for the Sigrid Rausing Fund for the Anthropology of Inner Asia, as set out in the Annex to this Report, be approved.

III.That a Professorship of Management Studies be established in the University from 1 September 2021, placed in the Schedule to Special Ordinance C (vii) 1, and assigned to the Judge Institute of Management (Judge Business School).

5 November 2019	Stephen Toope, Vice-Chancellor	A. L. Greer	Richard Rex
	Philip Allmendinger	Nicholas Holmes	Graham Virgo
	Kristine Black-Hawkins	Ali Hyde	Chris Young
	Ann Copestake	Patrick Maxwell
	John Dennis	Anna Philpott

Annex

Sigrid Rausing Fund for the Anthropology of Inner Asia

1. The funds received from the Sigrid Rausing Trust, together with such other sums as may be received or applied for the same purpose, shall form an endowment fund called the Sigrid Rausing Fund for the Anthropology of Inner Asia to advance anthropological research in the field of Mongolian and Inner Asian Studies.

2. The Managers shall be responsible for the administration of the Fund and the application of its income and shall comprise the Head of the School of the Humanities and Social Sciences (or nominated deputy), the Chair of the Faculty Board of Human, Social and Political Science, and the Head of the Department of Social Anthropology, one of whom shall be appointed Chair by the Faculty Board of Human, Social and Political Science.

3. Subject to Regulation 4, the income of the Fund shall be applied at the discretion of the Managers towards the following:

(a)the stipend, national insurance, pension contributions, and associated indirect costs of a Caroline Humphrey Professorship of the Anthropology of Inner Asia payable by the University;

(b)the stipend, national insurance, pension contributions, and associated indirect costs of a Sigrid Rausing Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Associate in the field of the Anthropology of Inner Asia payable by the University;

(c)a Sigrid Rausing Research and Engagement Fund to support the research conducted by the Professor and the Associate, including but not limited to the funding of research costs and seminars and other events to disseminate research findings.

4. Any unexpended income in any financial year, including income accrued during a vacancy in the Professorship or the Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Associate may, at the discretion of the Council of the School of the Humanities and Social Sciences:

(a)be applied to support research in the field of Mongolian and Inner Asian Studies in the University in such manner as may be recommended by the Managers; and/or

(b)be carried forward for use as income in accordance with Regulation 3 in any one or more subsequent financial years.