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Magazine to make a recording of Hubert
Parry’s Songs of Farewell and a selection of
his other part-songs. The disc will feature
as the free cover CD to the magazine’s
October 2018 issue, which will coincide
with the centenary of Parry’s death. Other
events that the ensemble have lined up for
this year, include performances of the Songs
of Farewell at Oakham School, Ludlow
Festival of English Song, Cheltenham Festival,
and Pinner Music Festival.
Rupert Shipperley
(H, 2006-2011) recently
represented Wales in hockey at the Gold
Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games scoring
against Pakistan in their opening game.
2012
Farbod Akhlaghi-Ghaffarokh
(B, 2008-
2012) is reading for a DPhil in Philosophy at
Oriel College at the University of Oxford.
His doctoral research is in metaphysics,
moral philosophy, and their intersection,
and is funded by a full Arts and Humanities
Research Council (AHRC) studentship
from the University of Oxford Arts and
Humanities Research Council Doctoral
Training Partnership. In Hilary Term 2018, he
taught Moral Philosophy at Oriel College, and
the Philosophy of Logic and Language at St
Anne’s College. Before Oxford, Farbod did an
MPhil in Philosophy at Darwin College at the
University of Cambridge (funded by a Darwin
Philosophy Studentship), a MLitt in Philosophy
from the University of St Andrews (with
Distinction and funded by a Philosophical
Quarterly Scholarship), and received his BA
(Hons) in Philosophy from the University
of Reading (with First Class Honours, the
Alex Burns with Ruairi Keeley (C, 2007-2012) and Ollie Smith (C, 2007-2012).
Ed Lea
(H, 2006-2011),
Ella Phillips
(K, 2008-2013),
Sam Macdonald-Smit
h (H, 2008-2013) and
Lily Hinton
(M, 2008-2013)
Philosophy Department Prize, the Laurie
Brain Prize, and a Chancellor’s Award). He
is currently a mentor on the Minorities and
Philosophy UK Mentorship Scheme, and
as a member of the Oriel College MCR
Committee as Organiser of Oriel Talks.
He has also served as the President of the
British Postgraduate Philosophy Association
and the British Undergraduate Philosophy
Society (being the first person to have held
both roles), as well as the President of the
University of Reading Philosophy Society.
In 2018, Farbod’s first academic philosophy
paper ‘Existence, Mathematical Nominalism,
and Meta-Ontology: An Objection to
Azzouni on Criteria for Existence’ will be
published in Philosophia Mathematica.
Alex Burns
(E, 2007-2012) passed out from
RMA Sandhurst on 14th April 2108.
2013
Sam Macdonald-Smith
(H, 2008-2013)
passed out from RMA Sandhurst and
received an offer for a commission into the
Grenadier Guards.
Daniela Rowe
(D, 2008-2013) has
completed her degree in Electrical
Engineering at Brunel University in London.
During her time at university, Dannii did an
industrial placement for a year at a world-
leading engineering technologies company
called Renishaw which she thoroughly
enjoyed. She brightened up the office with
her female influence including pink Excel
spreadsheets which she was asked to tone
down. The company were so impressed
with her that in order to encourage her to
return after her degree she was nominated
for an award under the Student Bursary
Rupert Shipperley