The Committee is the governing body that represents graduate students at Wadham College and looks after the Graduate Centre on the college site. It is a democratically run institution and is governed by its Constitution. Regular internal meetings are held to discuss key issues and to vote on proposed motions; if you wish to attend, details are distributed via the internal MCR mailing list.
If you would like to propose a motion, please email the president.
The Executive is elected on a yearly basis and compromises the President and the Vice Presidents for Finance, Communications, Welfare, Academic, and Domestic. Various Officer roles on specific topics are appointed by the Executive on a rolling basis. If you are interested in becoming an officer, get in touch with an executive member of the committee (via their emails below or on social media) to discuss anything that you would be willing to do for the MCR.
Executive members of the committee are responsible for managing most of the important affairs involved with the smooth running and provisioning of the MCR, including regular meetings with college committees and bodies. This page currently contains the committee elected in Michaelmas 2023, who will serve for the period of a year.
Executive
Lara Mudarra
President
mcr.president@wadham.ox.ac.uk, (she/her)
Lara is an MPhil student in Law. As President, she is responsible for the smooth running of all MCR affairs and is the contact person for all general inquiries.
Ludo Fraser-Taliente
Vice President Communications
mcr.secretary@wadham.ox.ac.uk, (he/him)
Ludo is a DPhil student in Physics. As VP Communications, he is responsible for communicating MCR matters and events and for keeping minutes of MCR meetings.
Jacob Tharayil
Vice President Domestic
mcr.domestic@wadham.ox.ac.uk, (he/him)
As VP Domestic, Jacob is responsible for the maintenance the physical MCR space – contact him with any problems you have!
Laurence Peinturier
Vice President Finance
mcr.treasurer@wadham.ox.ac.uk, (she/her)
Laurence is a DPhil student in Engineering Science. As VP Finance, she is in charge of the MCR’s budget. Requests for reimbursements of MCR expenses can be made using the 2024 reimbursement form.
Dane Luo
Vice President Academic
mcr.academic@wadham.ox.ac.uk, (he/him)
Dane is a BCL student with research in constitutional law. As VP Academic, he is in charge of graduate academic affairs as well as maintaining the functionality of the MCR library space.
Welfare Vice-Presidents
The VP Welfare team is responsible for everything related to welfare, events, and social affairs of the MCR. Feel free to contact them for anything related to wefare, BOPs, trips, and the like!
Sara Dobbs
Sara is a Master of Fine Art student. (she/her)
Yevhen Yashchuk
Yevhen is a DPhil student in History. Feel free to contact them! (he/him)
Rice Siu
Rice is studying for a DPhil in neuroscience. (she/her)
Anna Kenyon
Anna is an MSc student in Water Science, Policy and Management. (she/her)
Jonny Worden
Johnny is studying a MSc in Mathematical and Theoretical Physics. (he/him)
Officers
Hank Wu
Exchange Officer
hank.wu [at] wadham, (he/him)
Hank is the current MCR Exchange officer, in charge of organising exchange dinners with other colleges in the university and beyond. Get in touch if you would like an exchange!
Zarin Fariha
EDI officer
zarin.fariha [at] wadham, (she/her)
Zarin is one of the EDI officers of the MCR.
Beverly Adrian
Exchange Officer
beverly.adrian [at] wadham, (she/her)
Beverly is the incoming MCR Exchange officer.
Hannah Biddle
EDI Officer
hannah.biddle [at] wadham, (they/them)
Hannah is one of the EDI officers of the MCR.
Charles Burns
Provisions Officer
charles.burns [at] wadham, (he/him)
Charles supplies the MCR kitchen with tea, coffee, and other essentials.
Alaina Shreves
Wine Officer
alaina.shreves [at] wadham, (she/her)
Alaina is in charge of organising the MCR’s very important wine tastings.
Governance
All graduate students at Wadham are full members of the MCR, and have full voting rights in MCR elections. Full members can also stand for election, and have access to the MCR library/study space.
Recent Wadham MCR leavers who are still in Oxford but have no other college affiliation (i.e. postdocs, research assistants, etc.) have the right to apply for associate membership, as do spouses and partners of current MCR members. Wadham undergraduates progressing beyond their third year of undergraduate study are automatically granted associate membership of the MCR, as are mature undergraduate students. Undergraduate students visiting for the year as part of the exchange programme with Sarah Lawrence College are also automatically associate members of Wadham MCR.
Associate members have no voting rights within the MCR, but can stand for election, and are encouraged to volunteer for officer roles. Associate members who are also full members of Wadham SU (i.e. current undergraduates) have access to the main MCR, but not to the quiet study areas. Associate members who are not currently members of the college must ask the porters for access to any part of the Graduate Centre.