No 6592
Wednesday 21 October 2020
Vol cli No 4
pp. 67–82
The Council submits the following Graces to the Regent House. These Graces, unless they are withdrawn or a ballot is requested in accordance with the regulations for Graces of the Regent House (Statutes and Ordinances, 2019, p. 105) will be deemed to have been approved at 4 p.m. on Friday, 30 October 2020. Further information on requests for a ballot or the amendment of Graces is available to members of the Regent House on the Regent House Petitions site.§
1. That, with effect from 23 October 2020, the first sentence of Regulation 7 of the Ordinance on Supplicats (Statutes and Ordinances, 2019, p. 174) be amended to read as follows:1
By 4 p.m. on the day before the date appointed for each Congregation at which any degree is to be conferred (other than a degree for whose conferment a Grace has been approved by, or will at that Congregation be submitted to, the Regent House) the Registrary shall cause to be posted on the University website[1] (or if that is not possible, in the Schools Arcade) a list of names of persons whose Supplicats have been received and who are certified by the Registrary to have done all that is required of them by the Statutes and Ordinances and to be qualified to proceed on that day to the degrees for which they have applied.
[1] https://www.student-registry.admin.cam.ac.uk/graduation/supplicat-lists-degree-ceremonies
2. That the El-Erian Professorship of Behavioural Economics and Policy (Statutes and Ordinances, 2019, p. 761) be assigned to the Department of Politics and International Studies.2 *
3. That the regulations for the Leslie Stephen Lecture (Statutes and Ordinances, 2019, p. 997) notwithstanding, the Lecturer elected in Michaelmas Term 2018 be permitted to lecture out of the time specified in Regulation 3, but for the purposes of Regulation 6, it be deemed as delivered in the year 2020–21. Furthermore, that Regulation 2 notwithstanding, the Electors shall have discretion to delay making an election in Michaelmas Term 2020 and to elect later, or to make no further election until that required in 2022.3
4. That the regulations for Sermons and Commemorations (Statutes and Ordinances, 2019, p. 185) and for the Lady Margaret’s Preachership (Statutes and Ordinances, 2019, p. 915) notwithstanding, the Vice‑Chancellor be permitted, if necessary, to appoint an alternate to the Preacher appointed in the Lent Term of 2020, and to authorise the delivery of the Sermon and the holding of the Commemoration of Benefactors for the year 2020–21 on a day other than the first Sunday in November.4
1The Council is proposing this change to enable the list of names of persons whose Supplicats have been received and certified to be posted online at a site accessible to those with a Raven password, retaining publication in the Schools Arcade as an alternative option if online publication is not possible. This change is proposed to have retrospective effect, so that the list can be published online on the Student Registry website ahead of the Congregation on 24 October 2020 during the closure of the Old Schools and Yard. This Grace would in part supersede Grace 3 of 17 June 2020, making permanent a change to publication online as the default method for providing lists of Supplicats (and confirming a different website as the location for the lists). The authority of the Registrary to confer degrees in absence without a Congregation remains in place until 31 December 2020.
2The Professorship was originally established as the El‑Erian Professorship of Economics by Grace 2 of 2 December 2015 and assigned to the Faculty of Economics. It was retitled by Grace 8 of 24 July 2019. The Council is proposing the reassignment of the Professorship to the Department most relevant to its field.
3The next Lecture, by Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah, CL, is due to be given on 12 November 2020, but with the agreement of the Lecturer and the Electors and owing to the current COVID‑19 pandemic, authority is now sought for a delay. The other temporary changes relate to future payment of the stipend and the requirement to elect again before the end of the current Term.
4Authority is sought for such alterations as are necessary to fulfil the Statutory requirements regarding Commemoration and the Lady Margaret’s Preacher during the current COVID‑19 pandemic and to allow the Preacher appointed in Lent Term 2020, Ms Sarah Teather, JN, to preach at a later time.
§See https://www.governance.cam.ac.uk/governance/key-bodies/RH-Senate/Pages/RH-Petitions.aspx for details.
*22 October 2020: A correction has been made to Grace 2 to amend the assignment of the Professorship from the Faculty of Human, Social and Political Science to the Department of Politics and International Studies.
The Council has sanctioned the submission of the following Graces to the Regent House at a Congregation to be held on 24 October 2020:
That the following persons be admitted to the degree of Doctor of Philosophy by incorporation:
1.David Alan Friedman, Fellow of Darwin College, Doctor of Philosophy of the University of Oxford (2017).
2.Michael Russell Wheldon Rands, Master of Darwin College, Doctor of Philosophy of the University of Oxford (1983).
That the following persons be admitted to the degree of Master of Arts under the provisions of Statute B II 2; in the case of Grace 11 notwithstanding Regulation 3(c)(iii) of the Ordinance on the degree of Master of Arts (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 447):1
3.Shawn Michael Bullock, of Emmanuel College, Reader in the Faculty of Education.
4.Nigel Henry Collier, Fellow of Murray Edwards College and Professor of Natural Language Processing in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics.
5.Richard Mark Darnton, Director of Studies in General Practice in the Department of Public Health and Primary Care in the Faculty of Clinical Medicine.
6.Theodora Foukaneli, Associate Lecturer in the Faculty of Clinical Medicine.
7.Nebojša Radić, of Darwin College, Senior Language Adviser in the Language Centre.
8.Francesco Simone Ruggeri, Fellow of Darwin College.
9.Charu Singh, Fellow of Darwin College.
10.Matthew Thomas Skipper, Computer Officer in the Institute of Criminology.
11.Graham Titmus, of Gonville and Caius College, formerly Senior Computer Officer in the Faculty of Computer Science and Technology.
12.Helen Elizabeth Turner, Senior Assistant Treasurer in the Finance Division of the University Offices.
13.Samuel Oliver Venn, Fellow of Darwin College.
1Publication of the Reporter was suspended in response to the initial phase of the COVID‑19 pandemic (Reporter, 2019–20: 6583, p. 435; 6584, p. 449). As a result, it was not possible to publish a Grace seeking approval for the conferment of the degree of Master of Arts on Dr Titmus before his retirement from a position qualifying him to be admitted to the degree. The Council has agreed to submit a Grace to seek approval for the conferment of the degree on Dr Titmus, notwithstanding that he is no longer eligible.
E. M. C. RAMPTON, Registrary
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