Tanner Day: celebrating the Tanner revolution in Hertford & Oxford admissions

5 September 2015

This special occasion will pay tribute to Neil Tanner’s legacy and showcase Hertford’s commitment to outreach. We will also be demonstrating how Hertfordians past and present promote diversity, inclusivity, and equality (values that underpin Hertford’s access ethos) in their careers.

Programme (talk synopses and speaker profiles below)
12.00 Welcome reception
12.30 ‘How Good We Can Be’ by Will Hutton
13.15 Tanner recollections; access at Hertford today with Dr Catherine Redford (Outreach Fellow)
14.15 Buffet lunch
15.15 TEDx talks on diversity, inclusivity and equality by Sukhvinder Kaur Stubbs (1981), Dr Alison Woollard, and Andrea Hartley (1991), introduced by Dr Katherine Lunn-Rockliffe (1992)
16.30 Champagne reception in Hall and portrait unveiling with talk from Professor Pat Roche

Charge: £25 per person (includes welcome reception, buffet lunch and champagne reception).

Our Tanner Day speakers

Andrea Hartley
Modern Languages alumna, 1991

‘Access All Areas: Collaborative Positive Change’ – In order to tackle global issues such as gender equality and health, Andrea believes we need to bring the best people together to create and accelerate the most meaningful positive change. Reflecting on her own experiences and inspirations she will provide a behind the scenes look at some of the alliances and initiatives that drive some of the most impactful campaigns and will highlight the potential we all have to help create positive change.

Profile: Andrea founded Skating Panda, a collective that empowers people to create, influence and accelerate positive change. She has worked for 20 years across both private and public sectors, creating strategies and delivering campaigns around the world to deliver positive change. These campaigns have provided access across a broad spectrum from health to education, from gender equality to digital safety. The organisations and individuals with whom Skating Panda partners range from universities to charities, corporates to celebrities and philanthropists to foundations.

Will Hutton
Principal

‘How Good We Can Be’ – Will Hutton argues that capitalism in the coming century will flourish in economies and societies which do their best to make sure the mass of the population are educated, citizen innovators, workers and customers – and there is the maximum opportunity for small companies embodying new technologies and ideas to scale up to large. In this talk, Will explores what could be done to make things much better.

Profile: Will Hutton is Principal of Hertford College, Oxford. In addition he chairs the Big Innovation Centre, a charity devoted to promoting open innovation, is a director/trustee of the Scott Trust which owns the Guardian and Observer newspapers and is a non-executive director of the Satellite Applications Catapult. He writes a column for the Observer and appears regularly on television and radio commentating on economic, financial and business issues. He is also chair of the Independent Fees Commission, established to investigate the impact of £9,000 annual fees at English universities.

Sukhvinder Kaur Stubbs
Geography alumna, 1981

‘Equality and Elitism – Surely Not?’ – Sukhvinder will be exploring the links between equality and elitism, and looking at the new work by John Hills and What are Universities for? by Stefan Collini.

Profile: Sukhvinder is Chair of the Taylor Bennett Foundation which addresses the needs for greater diversity in the public relations industry. She is MD of Engage-Building Networks of Trust which develops and implements leadership models for reciprocal relationships between organisations and people they serve. Primarily, her career has been in the voluntary sector where she led the Barrow Cadbury Trust, a grant making agency promoting social justice and, the Runnymede Trust – an international think tank on diversity and identity. She founded and chaired ENAR, the European network that mobilised mass civic action across the member states to secure the Equal Treatment Directive and chaired Volunteering England during the Olympics.

Katherine Lunn Rockliffe
Modern Languages alumna, 1992 & Hertford Fellow

Katherine received her undergraduate and graduate education in Oxford, being awarded her BA in Modern Languages (first class) in 1996. Thereafter, she was awarded the degrees of M.St. (distinction) and DPhil. Following a period as Junior Research Fellow and then British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at St Anne’s College, Katherine returned to Hertford in 2005 to take up a fellowship.

Catherine Redford
Outreach Fellow

Profile: Catherine joined Hertford as Outreach & Career Development Fellow in 2015. Before this, she was a Lecturer at St Hilda’s College, Oxford. Catherine’s research interests lie in Romantic and Victorian literature, and she has published on Mary Shelley, Romantic depictions of ruined cities, and the Gothic. She was awarded Highly Commended in the Keats Shelley Prize (2012) and was a finalist in the BBC’s New Generation Thinkers competition (2013). As Access and Outreach/Career Development Fellow, Catherine spends 50% of her time on research and 50% on access and outreach work with schools. She is always happy to answer questions on Hertford College and Oxford University from prospective applicants and their teachers, and is particularly keen to work with schools from our link regions (Essex, Camden, Medway, and Southend on Sea).

Pat Roche
Fellow & Tutor in Physics, Neil Tanner’s successor

Profile: Patrick graduated from University College London with a BSc in 1976 and a PhD in 1982. He worked at the Anglo-Australian Observatory from 1979 to 1985, before returning to UCL as a research fellow. He relocated to the Royal Observatory Edinburgh in 1986, before moving to work in Oxford on a two-year secondment in 1989 on a proposal for a UK 8-m telescope, The proposal was approved and led to the UK involvement in the Gemini Observatory. He was appointed as a University Lecturer and Tutorial Fellow in Physics at Hertford College in 1995. Pat also succeeded Neil Tanner as Senior Member of the Hertford College Boat Club.

Alison Woollard
Fellow in Biochemistry

‘Women in Science – a view from the coal face’ – Hot on the heels of the furore around Tim Hunt’s ‘the trouble with girls’ speech, Alison Woollard will look at the real story of women in science.

Profile: Alison is Associate Professor in the Biochemistry Department and has been a Tutor at Hertford since 2000. Alison leads a research team working on the developmental genetics of the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans. Her current work investigates the mechanisms by which cells become different from one another as an organism develops from egg to adult.  She also has a developing interest in the biology of ageing. Alison has shared her passion for genetics, cell and developmental biology with diverse audiences and fervently believes that good education is transformative, both in individual lives and in society as a whole. She was recently elected Vice President of the Genetics Society with a special responsibility for public understanding of genetics. Alison presented the 2013 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures series “Life Fantastic”, and since then has taken part in a diverse range of activities, from festivals to stand-up comedy!