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Contested Elections in Michaelmas Term: 26 November 2009


The following election will be contested:

Candidate statements were published in the 12 November issue of the Gazette.


Buildings and Estates Subcommittee

One person elected by and from among the members of Congregation

Current/Retiring Member

To hold office until

Dr P. Kohl, Balliol

MT 2011

The following nominations have been received:

Laurence Leaver, MA Camb, BM MA Oxf, Fellow of Green Templeton, Faculty of Clinical Medicine

Nominated by:

C J Bundy, Principal of Green Templeton

Sir Derek Morris, Provost of Oriel

A S Goudie, Master of St Cross, Faculty of History

S P Hesselbo, Vice Master of St Peter's, Faculty of Earth Sciences

Sir Ivor Crewe, Master of University, Faculty of Social Studies


Jonathan Michie, MSc Lond, MA DPhil Oxf, President of Kellogg, Department for Continuing Education

Nominated by:

A W M Graham, Master of Balliol, Faculty of Social Studies, Faculty of Management

C A Lewis, Dean of Christ Church, Faculty of Theology

F Lannon, Principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Faculty of History

D M Walford, Principal of Mansfield, Faculty of Clinical Medicine

S J Nickell, Warden of Nuffield, Faculty of Social Studies

G I Henderson, Master of Pembroke

M O MacMillan, Warden of St Antony's, Faculty of History, Faculty of Social Studies

A M Buchan, Corpus Christi, Faculty of Clinical Medicine

R J Goodman, St Antony's, Faculty of Anthropology and Geography, Faculty of Oriental Studies

S A Shuttleworth, St Anne's, Faculty of English Language and Literature


R G Ratcliffe, MA DPhil Oxf, Fellow of New College, Faculty of Plant Sciences

Nominated by:

Sir Curtis Price, Warden of New College, Faculty of Music

N D Brown, Linacre, Faculty of Plant Sciences

S G Davies, Magdalen, Faculty of Chemistry

A G Galione, Lady Margaret Hall, Faculty of Physiological Sciences

S J Gurr, Somerville, Faculty of Plant Sciences

N P Harberd, St John's, Faculty of Plant Sciences

N J Kruger, Pembroke, Faculty of Plant Sciences

J A Langdale, Queen's, Faculty of Plant Sciences

J A C Smith, Magdalen, Faculty of Plant Sciences

M S Tsiantis, Wadham, Faculty of Plant Sciences


Further information on the Subcommittee can be found at: www.admin.ox.ac.uk/statutes/regulations/520-122d.shtml. For further information, please contact the Secretary.

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Nominations Committee

One person elected by and from among the members of Congregation

Current/Retiring Member

To hold office until

Professor F. Stewart, Somerville

MT 2011

The following nominations have been received:

M E Blowfield, BA Newc, MA PhD Sus, The Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment

Nominated by:

C Dolan, Green Templeton, Faculty of Management

D J Frame, Jesus, The Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment

Professor Sir David King, University, Faculty of Social Studies

F Pirie, St Cross, Faculty of Anthropology and Geography, Faculty of Law


Donald G Fraser, BSc Edin, MA DPhil Oxf, Fellow of Worcester, Faculty of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Chemistry

Nominated by:

R W Ainsworth, Master of St Catherine's, Faculty of Engineering Science

R G Smethurst, Provost of Worcester, Faculty of Social Studies

N C Bamforth, Queen's, Faculty of Law

S C Cooper, St Catherine's, Faculty of Physics

E J Garnett, Wadham, Faculty of History, Sub-Faculty of the History of Art

B Harriss-White, Wolfson, Faculty of Social Studies

S M Lovibond, Worcester, Faculty of Philosophy

J B W Nightingale, Magdalen, Faculty of History

G D W Smith, Trinity, Faculty of Materials, Faculty of Chemistry

C P Thompson, St Catherine's, Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages


Further information on the Committee can be found at: www.admin.ox.ac.uk/statutes/regulations/520-122q.shtml. For further information, please contact the Secretary.

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General notes:

Where it is specified in the above list that the nominee must be from among certain persons 'working in' a Department or other institution, both the nominee and the nominators must be persons so working at the time of the election.

Nominations in writing for the election on 26 November, by four members of Congregation other than the candidate, will be received by the Elections Office, at the University Offices, Wellington Square, up to 4.00 p.m. on Thursday 29 October 2009.

Nominations should show for each signatory the name and college or department in block capitals: any names which are not so shown may not be published.

At least one nomination in respect of each candidate must be made on an official nomination form.

Please email the Elections Office to obtain hard copies of the nomination form. Electronic versions are available from the 'Forms' section of the Elections Office website.

Candidate statements can be viewed here. Voters may wish to wait until they have read these before returning their ballot papers.

Ballot papers will be sent out to members of Congregation as soon as possible after the closing date for nominations. Completed ballot papers must be received by the Elections Office not later than 4.00 p.m. on 26 November 2009.

For further information about the committee or body concerned, please contact the individual Secretary, either via the e-mail links above, or as listed in the University Calendar, 2009-10.

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