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CONNECT The magazine of Kellogg College | 2020CONTENTS Produced using FSC certified papers and printed using vegetable-based inks. The mailing wrapper can be recycled. When you’ve finished with your copy, please pass it on for others to read or dispose of it responsibly. Designed by juicy-designs.com5 24 16 36 46 6 26 18 40 48 10 31 20 42 50 14 32 22 23 44 Welcome From the President Presidential reflections Meet four of Kellogg’s presidents, past and present Alpine influence A striking new sculpture gifted to Kellogg Hearts & minds Mindfulness explained Transforming futures Scholarships that change lives A Fine Fellow The Bynum Tudor Fellowship welcomes HRH The Prince of Wales Reconstructing lifelong learning The Centenary Commission Healthy options Improving quality of life amid rapid urbanisation The need for speed Developing treatments for rare neuromuscular diseases in children Snapped Who’s been spotted at our recent events? Come into the garden Reimagining Kellogg’s outside spaces Alumni profile Max Buston Growing numbers Kellogg at 30 Profile: Rodrigo Hernandez Sustainability champion The many levels of discrimination Shreya Atrey explains How gardens can heal Health beyond medicine Sharing knowledge to save lives Developing childrens’ surgery in Africa Alumni profile Joy Richardson Kellogg sport All the latest news and developments Colloquially speaking Highlights from the Graduate Symposium It may be hard to believe, but until Kellogg College was formed in 1990, Oxford students were not permitted to undertake paid work during term time. Sometimes I’m told, “That can’t be true, since you can’t have a Business School without an Executive MBA, in which the executives continue to work” – to which I have to say “Seriously? You think Oxford would have permitted a Business School, in 1990?!”. So, first came Kellogg College, then came part-time graduate degrees – including Oxford’s Executive MBA and Business School. The founding of Kellogg thus heralded a new era in the University’s 900-year history. We have moved from being a primarily undergraduate university to a primarily postgraduate university, with a significant and growing proportion of those graduate students studying on a part-time basis. There has been a huge growth in research funding and activity. A Business School was established, followed by the Blavatnik School of Government, and the University is now in the process of establishing an additional graduate college – Parks College – to help support the growing graduate intake. Alongside this, three years ago the Times Higher for the first time ranked a UK university the world’s number one – Oxford, which has retained the top place since. This year for the first time the Times Higher also compiled a list of the world’s most global universities, and Oxford topped that too. Kellogg has played a full part in this past thirty years of Oxford success. We remain the main supporter of the University’s significant body of graduates studying whilst continuing to pursue their careers or other responsibilities, with our students regularly praising us in the annual barometer student surveys. Our Bynum Tudor Fellowship includes the likes of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Sir David Brown, Dr Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Dr Marcy McCall MacBain, Lord Bilimoria, Dr Ralph Walter, and HRH the Prince of Wales. We’re successfully developing our Norham Manor site and with students currently from 98 countries, we are Oxford’s most international college. Our College is committed to the principles of excellence, inclusion, innovation, diversity and sustainability. When opening our ‘Hub’ café and common room three years ago, the Vice-Chancellor and Kellogg Fellow Professor Louise Richardson urged the rest of the University to follow Kellogg’s lead in having achieved Passivhaus accreditation for the building; today it remains the University’s only Passivhaus building. Last year a ranking was created of how environmentally sustainable college catering was, with Kellogg in third place; this year we rose to second. We’ve also launched a Global Centre on Healthcare and Urbanisation which has drawn in the large number of University colleagues working in Asia and Africa. Two of our Fellows were this year awarded full professorships – Therese Hopfenbeck and Niall Winters – with their inaugural lectures embodying the principles of the College in action, reporting respectively on research into how we can ensure that education develops in students the values needed to tackle the great global challenges, and how applying education and technology can enhance healthcare in Africa. Members of the Kellogg community continue to play an active role in creating our traditions. This year we created the post of Artist in Residence with Kenneth Lonergan taking up the role, where he gave a series of fascinating talks and presentations. All members and friends of Kellogg should be immensely proud of what you have achieved. In just thirty years you’ve helped establish and develop a college that has – quite literally – opened the doors of Oxford to recruit the best students, no longer limited to the pool of those able and willing to become full-time residential students in Oxford. There is no doubt that Kellogg’s success has strengthened the University’s positive impact locally, nationally, and globally. With many thanks, Professor Jonathan Michie President, Kellogg College Welcome 5 CONNECT MAGAZINE6 CONNECT MAGAZINEAFINE FELLOW In 2019 the College bestowed its highest honour – a Bynum Tudor Fellowship – on His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales. In March 2020, the Prince visited Kellogg to receive the award. 7 CONNECT MAGAZINE8 CONNECT MAGAZINE On his previous visit in 2017 His Royal Highness, The Prince of Wales was introduced to the work his Foundation was supporting through the Kellogg Urban Knowledge Exchange series of seminars. The success of that partnership led to the creation of the Global Centre on Healthcare and Urbanisation at Kellogg, and during his visit the Prince was able to meet representatives of the Centre to learn more about its plans and ambitions. Navlika Ramjee, Kellogg’s first MCR President, described the artwork ‘Flying Colours’ which hangs in the College reception, and was commissioned for the visit of Bishop Desmond Tutu, another Bynum Tudor Fellow. Professor Jonathan Michie greeted the Prince on his arrival and introduced him to a number of other Bynum Tudor Fellows: Lord Bilimoria, Sir David Brown, and Dr Ralph Walter. Welcoming his return visit, Professor Jonathan Michie, said: ‘’Each year Kellogg appoints one additional Bynum Tudor Fellow. We are absolutely delighted this year to be honouring, because of his tireless work promoting sustainability and wellbeing, His Royal Highness, The Prince of Wales.’’ In accepting the Fellowship, the Prince expressed his admiration for what the College had achieved since its foundation: ‘’I must say, I am enormously touched and flattered that you should have decided to present me with the Bynum Tudor Fellowship and, therefore, to be joining so many distinguished recipients. It has also been a very special pleasure to have had the opportunity to speak rapidly to alumni, students, staff and those involved in current Kellogg initiatives. It is clear I think that since the College was founded three decades ago it has picked up significant momentum and, indeed, scale, empowering so many students to make positive changes in the world.’’ He expressed his particular approval with the focus placed on social prescribing by the new Centre. Social prescribing recognises that people’s health is determined by a range of social, economic, and environmental factors, and seeks to address people’s needs in a holistic way. It also aims to support individuals in taking greater control of their own health. Green spaces form an important resource in urban environments, giving people vital leisure and relaxation opportunities, and the Prince was introduced to the College’s plans to redevelop its gardens. Designer Andy Sturgeon was on hand to explain his reimagined scheme – one which creates an outside environment that contributes to the health and wellbeing of the whole College community. In front of a gathering of Kellogg fellows, students, academics, and alumni of the University of Oxford’s graduate programmes in Sustainable Urban Development and Evidence Based Healthcare, The Prince said: ‘’I could not be more delighted with the formation of the new Global Centre on Healthcare and Urbanisation - a partnership between Kellogg College and my Foundation. The impact of urbanisation on human health, on wellbeing and prosperity are so clear that it is surprising, to say the least, that very little research seems to exist in this area. The Centre’s potential though for convening and coordinating evidence-based research that makes the connections between urban form and human health could not, therefore, be more timely and critical. ‘’I would particularly like to thank President Jonathan Michie and all those from Kellogg College, both for giving me this prestigious Fellowship and also for being such a valuable partner to my Foundation.’’ The Prince had previously visited Kellogg in 2017, just after the opening of the Hub – the University’s first building constructed to Passivhaus standards of sustainability. 9 CONNECT MAGAZINENext >