Trevelyan's SCR, or Senior Common Room, is a community for staff, academics, alumni, and various friends of the College. The SCR host regular dinners and events and sit on the high table during College formals. The SCR are encouraged to integrate with the wider College community as much as possible, offering guidance, giving careers talks, and providing mentorship.
Professor Anoush Ehteshami
Professor Anoush Ehteshami has had a long association with the College, dating back to the year of his appointment at Durham in 1993. Soon after his appointment he became directly involved with the launch of the Sir William Luce Fellowship which was established in the College in the mid-1990s and continues to this day. Anoush has been a member of the SCR for much of this period and has immensely enjoyed his many interactions with the College. He is Professor of International Relations, holder of the al-Sabah Cahir in International Relations and Director of the al-Sabah Programme in the School of Government and International Affairs.
Mr Martyn Berry
Martyn graduated from Warwick in 1975 and taught in four Secondary schools in East and South London, including secondment to a Research Fellowship. He was an “O” and “A” Level examiner and GCSE Moderator for English. Postgraduate studies in business administration and management gave him the opportunity to become an independent consultant for financial and strategic management. He was elected as FRSA in 1995 and became a tutor at Trevelyan College in 1999. He follows politics in UK and USA closely. He writes for Fusion Magazine and will become a member of the Editorial Team from September 2025.
Mrs Kayleann Hoye
Kayleann has worked at Trevelyan College since October 2020. In March 2021 she was appointed College Administration Coordinator and secretary to the College Principal. She thoroughly enjoys being involved in student life and enhancing student experience, while delighted to be elected secretary of the SCR.
Mrs Janice Ware
Janice has worked at Trevelyan College for 30 years, and is currently the Operations Manager. As SCR Treasurer she manages the SCR bank account and signatory arrangements, and processes payments on behalf of the senior common room.
Mr Nick Gilboy
Nick was elected as SCR Events Officer in April 2024. He is here to find interesting, novel, challenging, thought-provoking and, above all, fun events throughout the university terms for our SCR members. Keep your eyes peeled for the details as and when they are sent out and please do share with him any ideas you may have.
Professor Adekunle Adeyeye
Adekunle graduated with First Class Honors from the University of IIorin, Nigeria in 1990. He obtained his MPhil in Microelectronics Engineering and Semiconductor Physics; PhD at the University of Cambridge in 1993 and 1996 respectively.
Adekunle was the founding Master of Ridge View Residential College and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National University of Singapore, where he has worked from May 2000 to January 2020. He has conducted pioneering research work in the field of nanomagnetism and magnonics. He has won many awards including being named one of the top 100 young innovators in the world by TR100, an award-winning MIT magazine on technology. In 2013 he was selected Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturer. Adekunle is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, Fellow of the Institute of Physics and Fellow of the Institute of Nanotechnology
Dr Martin Brader
Martin joined Trevelyan College as Vice-Principal in October 2021. As Vice-Principal, Martin supports the Principal with the management of the College and implementation of the College’s strategy. At Trevelyan, he has responsibility for student enrichment and works alongside student leaders and groups to develop opportunities across the wider student experience. He is an ex-officio member of the SCR Committee in his role as Vice-Principal. Martin completed a BSc, MSc and PhD in the Department of Geography, Durham University.
Trevelyan College Senior Common Room and in partnership with the al-Sabah Programme’ launched a major new Lecture Series called 'The Global Dynamics Lecture Series' in 2023/2024.
Over the last two years around half the world’s population has had the opportunity to participate in a series of national, local, provincial, presidential and parliamentary elections. While some, Russia for example, have been little more than show elections, and while in some others countries elections have not changed the political landscape of the country concerned, Türkiye and Iran for example, in many others national elections have proved to be decisive, indeed consequential. But the coverage of these important elections have been patchy and insufficient to provide interested parties with an in-depth understanding of the electoral process, an explanation of the outcome of these elections, and their meaning in domestic and foreign policy terms. The Trevelyan College’s new season of Global Dynamics Lecture Series, hosted by the College’s Senior Common Room and in partnership with the al-Sabah Programme, intends to address this apparent gap by focusing on elections in five important cases of the United States, the United Kingdom, EU elections, India, and Mexico in 2024, each ‘historic’ in its own right.
All lectures are free to attend and all are welcome, booking is advised.
Further information can be found here.
The Senior Common Room Committee arrange an annual summer barbeque for members to get together and socialise.
The Senior Common Room Committee arrange one SCR social during Michaelmas Term, and another during Epiphany Term. This provides an opportunity to bring members together and offers a chance to network, connect and socialise.
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