The THA Annual Dinner (FULLY BOOKED)

Panel 1: Exploring our past

Chair: Mary Hockaday (Master)

Speakers: Alexandra Browne, Drs Justin Davies, Dr Sandra Raban

Alexandra Browne has been the College Archivist and Records Manager at Trinity Hall for 10 years. She is originally from California and came to the UK in 2010 to do a MLitt in Medieval Studies at the University of St Andrews. Before coming to Trinity Hall, she did her MSc in Information Management and Preservation at the University of Glasgow and worked at Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies.

Justin Davies graduated from Pembroke College with a degree in history. After Sandhurst and serving as an officer in the Grenadier Guards, he worked for the Foreign Office in war zones and was attached to International Organisations engaged in crisis management and post-conflict reconstruction. In 2016, he co-founded the groundbreaking Jordaens Van Dyck Panel Paintings Project in Belgium and is a specialist on Anthony van Dyck. He has published widely in art historical journals, including The Burlington Magazine. He is currently a Visiting Fellow of the Rubenianum/Rubenshuis in Antwerp and an AHRC IAA Knowledge Exchange Fellow in the History of Art Department in Cambridge.

A historian of medieval England by discipline, Sandra Raban was one of the first two women to be admitted to the College. Their portrait hangs in the Hall, a gift of the Trinity Hall Association. She served variously as Director of Studies in History, Archivist, Admissions Tutor and finally Senior Tutor. She also taught for many years at Homerton College and was an active member of the Cambridge Examinations Syndicate. Until recently, she spent half the year in SW France following her retirement. She is a patron of the 1350 Society.

Panel 2: To the next 50 years

Chair: Dr Rachelle Stretch (Development Director)

Speakers: Mary Hockaday (Master), Tim Harvey-Samuel (Bursar), and Dr Michael Sutherland (Senior Tutor)

Mary Hockaday is Master of Trinity Hall, elected in 2022 as the College’s first female Master. She studied English at Trinity Hall and then pursued a career in Journalism, reporting from Prague for the BBC and The Independent  after the fall of the Berlin Wall.  She then worked at the BBC in London, becoming  Head of the BBC Newsroom and Controller BBC World Service. She is the author of a biography of Milena Jesenska and a Trustee of the British Library. She has two growing-up children.

Tim Harvey-Samuel joined Trinity Hall as Bursar and Steward in March 2020. He graduated in English from Queens’ College and then worked in banking for 26 years, mainly in equity capital markets at Schroders and Citigroup where he headed that business for Europe, Middle East and Africa. Before joining Trinity Hall, Tim was Bursar of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Judge Business School (where he has lectured on the MBA and MFin programmes) and a Trustee and Hon. Treasurer of Gates Cambridge. Tim has a lifelong association with Cambridge and a deep commitment to the educational mission of the College and the University. He is currently Deputy Chair of the Bursars’ Committee. Tim is also a Trustee of the Swaffham Bulbeck Community Land Trust and the Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust.

Michael Sutherland joined Trinity Hall in September 2023 as Senior Tutor. He has responsibility for the overall academic and pastoral welfare of our students. Dr Sutherland holds a BSc, MSc and PhD in physics from the University of Toronto. His research involves the study of materials that exhibited strongly correlated electron behaviour, including superconductors, topological insulators and novel magnetic materials. He runs the Quantum Matter Group’s ‘Big Fridge’ cryogenic facility.