No 6770
Wednesday 12 February 2025
Vol clv No 19
pp. 263–271
Elected to a Fellowship in Class A from 3 February 2025:
Richard Charles Leather, B.A., Macquarie (Bursar)
Clare College: Development Director; closing date: 3 March 2025; further details: https://www.clare.cam.ac.uk/development-director and https://www.minervasearch.com/current-opportunities/clarecollege
Downing College: Everitt Butterfield Research Fellowship 2025 (in the Biological Sciences related to Medicine or Clinical Sciences); tenure: three years from 1 October 2025; stipend: £35,116 (may also be non‑stipendiary); closing date: 3 March 2025 at 12 noon; further details: https://dow.cam.ac.uk/people/vacancies/academic-vacancies
Kim and Julianna Silverman Research Fellowship 2025 (in Physical and Biological Natural Sciences, Engineering or Computer Science); tenure: three years from 1 October 2025 (with the possibility of renewal for a further two years); stipend: £35,116 (may also be non-stipendiary); closing date: 30 March 2025 at 12 noon; further details: https://dow.cam.ac.uk/people/vacancies/academic-vacancies
Gonville and Caius College: Cook–Crone Research Bye-Fellowship 2025–26 (in Biblical studies, the comparative study of religion, Ancient Eastern languages and literature, or the history and social anthropology of West Asia / the Middle East prior to c. 1750); tenure: one year from 1 October 2025 (or as agreed); stipend: up to £30,000; closing date: 22 April 2025 at 12 noon; further details: https://www.cai.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/cook-crone-research-bye-fellowship-2025-26
St John’s College: College Research Associates Competition (up to eight posts available); tenure: up to three years from 1 September 2025; non-stipendiary but collegiate benefits apply; closing date: 26 March 2025 at 2 p.m.; further details: https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/college-research-associates-competition-0
Seminars will take place on the following Thursdays in Lent Term, from 2.15 p.m. to 4 p.m., in the Richard Eden Suite, West Court, Clare Hall: 20 February (Tim Cornell), 27 February (John H. Arnold) and 13 March (Katherine Harloe). For further details and booking, see: https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/the-betty-behrens-seminar-on-classics-of-historiography-4
Finnian O’Cionnaith will present ‘‘A peculiar survey… for our peculiar purpose’: Founding the Ordnance Survey of Ireland’, on Tuesday, 25 February 2025 at 5.30 p.m., online via Zoom. All welcome. Further details and joining instructions at https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/departments/maps/cartographic-events/camsem
‘Avoiding catastrophic climate change: Technological possibilities, political challenges, and international cooperation’, a virtual lecture by Lord Adair Turner (Chair, Energy Transitions Commission), will take place on Thursday, 13 February 2025 from 5 p.m. to 6.30 p.m.; further details and booking: https://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/events/avoiding-catastrophic-climate-change-technological-possibilities-political-challenges-and