Officers:
The College Visitor
The President:
Professor Ann Loades, CBE
The Secretary:
David
Crookes
The Treasurer:
Andrew Hunt
The College Council
Representative:
Andrew Hunt
The Senior Common Room represents the interests of the Fellows and other senior members of College. It exists to further the aims of the College and to encourage links among all sectors within the College. The SCR gathers together socially twice a week to dine –– a time not just to share food, but chiefly to share ideas and to welcome guests to the College.
The SCR has its own common room; and, like the other common rooms, its members help to manage the College by sitting on various College committees. SCR members sponsor lectures, have access to guest and function rooms, and dine on High Table at formal meals.
Academic events
A feature of the Chad's SCR is the regular 'colloquy'. Several times a term before Formal Hall, two or three members of the SCR (and or guests) have a two-way or three-way conversation in public, usually in their area of academic expertise. This allows members to be kept abreast of each other's work, without requiring one another to give onerous lectures. After the colloquy, everyone joins in the fray. And it can become a real fray when controversial issues are addressed and when passions are really engaged. At those moments, no one is in any doubt that ideas matter.
The SCR also sponsors lectures, poetry readings, round-tables, literary and musical events throughout the year, bridging the worlds of the academy, business, government and culture. The various artists, poets and writers in residence, as well as Visiting Fellows are all encouraged to share in the life of the SCR and indeed to introduce members to their work.
Social events
In addition to regular termly business meetings, the SCR sponsor a number of purely social events throughout the year. These range from guest nights and wine-tastings to dances and film-nights. SCR members are asked to give the College at least one week's advance warning of their intention to attend social events by ringing the Academic Office on 334 3337; bookings for normal sittings of high table should be made by lunchtime of the day in question on the same number.