Ensuring key teaching posts are retained by the College is one of Queen’s ongoing priorities and this has been generously supported by Old Members over the years.
A number of Fellowships have already been endowed, including both of those in Chemistry, as well as Fellowships in Medicine, Physics and more recently The Roger Pearson Fellowship in French and the Brittenden Fellowship in History. We are hugely grateful to all those who have enabled the College to commit to these subjects in perpetuity.
The current Fellowship fundraising priorities, as agreed by Governing Body are:
The John Prestwich Fellowship in History
John Prestwich Fellowship in History has now passed £2.2M of the £3M amount required for full endowment. We are grateful for all those who have supported this important post to date. We are now seeking to close the final funding gap to safeguard this position in perpetuity. This would mean that both of the Tutorial History Fellowships at Queen’s would be fully endowed following the endowment of the Brittenden Fellowship in History in 2020, thanks to the generosity of Old Member Frederick H. Brittenden (1946, Modern History). To make a donation,please visit our giving page, or alternatively, to find out more or to discuss your giving, please contactdevelopment@queens.ox.ac.uk.
The Peter Neumann Fellowship in Mathematics
The Queen’s College has a long teaching tradition in Mathematics. There are two-full time Mathematics Fellows, neither of which are endowed.
In December 2020, the College was saddened to learn of the death of Dr Peter Neumann OBE, Old Member (Maths, 1959) and Emeritus Fellow of The Queen’s College. In celebration of the life and work of Dr Neumann and his contribution to College, Queen’s now seeks to raise support and funds to endow the Mathematic Fellowship.
The cost to endow this post at Queen’s is £2 million, with over £500,000 raised in cash and pledges to date. Following the formal launch of this fund at the Subject dinner for Mathematicians (June, 2022), we hope that that many more Maths Old Members, and those who knew Peter in one of his other College Officerships, would seek to join those already supporting this fund and help us secure this post in perpetuity.
To make a donation,please visit our giving page, or alternatively, to find out more or to discuss your giving, please contactdevelopment@queens.ox.ac.uk.
The Centenary Visiting Professorship in PPE
In November 2021, thanks to an anonymous gift from an Old Member of Queen’s College and a friend of University College, the two colleges were delighted to announce the creation of a visiting professorship to mark the 100th anniversary of the creation of the Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) degree at Oxford University.
This shared gift, which also contains additional funding for a generous living stipend, will endow a visiting professorship that rotates annually between the two colleges and the individual subjects.
The Centenary Visiting Professorship will become a key feature in both colleges’ undergraduate teaching and research programmes, and each looks forward to being able to welcome some of the world’s top academic talent to Oxford from the 2023-24 academic year, when we will be welcoming Prof. Christina Davis (Harvard) as the inaugural Centenary Visiting Professor in PPE for Politics.
We are now looking to raise additional support to enhance the Fellowship further. This will include opening up the College and the PPE curriculum to some of the world’s top academic talent outside of Oxford, enhancing our current students’ educational experience. To date, over £1,675,000 has been raised of the £2,000,000 required to complete the permanent endowment on the College’s side.
To make a donation,please visit our giving page, or alternatively, to find out more or to discuss your giving, please contactdevelopment@queens.ox.ac.uk.
We hope you will help us to preserve this system for generations of Queen’s students to come in other subject areas. To make a gift to help endow Fellowships in History or Maths, or to discuss ways in which you might support the tutorial system, please contactdevelopment@queens.ox.ac.uk.