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 had worked at Trevelyan College for 30 years, and was the Operations Manager until July 2025. 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.
Since 1975 over 150,000 civilians have died in Vietnam from the leftovers of the Vietnam war. Almost on a daily basis echoes of the Second World War are heard across Europe as unexploded munitions and mines from that war emerge to disrupt lives and livelihoods.? Our seas and oceans are graveyards of military vessels harbouring dangerous cargo that remain beyond our reach. War makes a lot of mess and the images of war - the death, destruction, dislocation, carnage, helplessness - shown on our screens daily remind us of the toll. We watch in horror as we see lives destroyed and futures wrecked. But what happens to a country, a space, when the guns finally fall silent? What do we find when quiet returns? In this year's Global Dynamics Lecture Series we will look at a much-neglected part of the crisis of war, the environmental legacy and impact of war. How do militaries impact the environment and what do they leave behind following conflict? In five lectures this year we will be hearing from leading commentators, scholars and experts on how war machines and conflicts are degrading the very land survivors tread - not just in terms of unexploded munitions and landmines, but in the damage caused on a much bigger scale.
All lectures are free to attend and all are welcome, booking is advised.
Global Dynamics Lecture 1 - Scorched Earth: An Introduction to the Environmental Dimensions of War
Dr Oliver Belcher, Durham University
28 October 2025 at 17:30
Dowrick Suite, Trevelyan College
Dr Belcher is a prominent human geographer based at Durham's School of Government and International Affairs. He is a leading scholar on global environmental politics and is currently engaged in a major collaborative research project that is examining the role of military emissions in global environmental change. In this lecture, Dr Belcher will provide the contextual and analytical introduction to this important subject area. Dr Belcher has spent years researching and studying the impact of war, and indeed militaries, on the environment and will help us acquire the tools for comprehending the ways in which the preparation and the conduct of war is scaring the living planet.
Book your place here.
Global Dynamics Lecture 2 - The War May Be Over, Now the Complexity of the Cleanup
Dr Mark Griffiths, Newcastle University
2 December 2025 at 17:30
In this lecture we will be looking forward to hosting Dr Griffiths from our sister institution in Newcastle. Dr Griffiths is a political geographer and has extensive experience of investigating the fallout from war. His interest in understanding what he calls 'military ecologies' and the 'beforemath' and 'aftermath' of war and his hands on research have led him to conduct pioneering research on the aftermath of the war in Mosul in Iraq, in Palestine, and in Rwanda. His research is informing our understanding of the 'aftermath' in new ways. Dr Griffiths' collaborative work through 'War and Geos' project (https://warandgeos.co.uk/) in breaking new ground and is widely used as a major source of information and analysis.
Global Dynamics Lecture 3 - The US Military, Conflict, and the Environment
Professor Neta Crawford, University of Oxford
3 February 2026 at 17:30
In this lecture we are delighted to be welcoming to Durham the award-winning Prof Crawford, the holder of the prestigious Montague Burton Chair in International Relations at Oxford. She has established herself as one of the world's leading and most authoritative scholars and commentators on the environmental impact of America in combat. Her pioneering work on carbon emissions from military activities, on America's conduct of war, on the US Navy and climate change, place her as the go-to person for commentary and for analysis of the impact of war on people, societies and the environment. She will talk to us about the biggest and best-endowed military machine in history.
Global Dynamics Lecture 4 - Climate Change and the Coming Transformation of International Politics
Professor Jan Selby, University of Leeds
3 March 2026 at 17:30
Professor Jan Selby has devoted his career to studying the impact of climate change and natural resource scarcity on human life. Indeed he is so immersed in this important field of study that he holds the chair of International Politics and Climate Change at Leeds. In his lecture, Prof Selby will show us the links between climate and other environmental changes, and structures and dynamics of politics and power. He will be exploring both the political - including international political and political-economic - causes of environmental changes and crises, as well as the consequences of environmental changes and crises for politics, and the political responses to them.
Global Dynamics Lecture 5 - How Russia Has Wrecked Ukraine's Landscape
Mr Yevhen Tkach
5 May 2026 at 17:30
In this final lecture in our GD Lecture Series we will spend our time looking at the environmental impact of Russia's conduct of war in Ukraine. We will examine Russia's battlefield tactics as well as its strategy of degrading Ukraine's agricultural capacity and power. How has Russia's efforts to diminish Ukraine as a major provider of food for the world been done, and how successfully?
The 2024-2025 Global Dynamics lecture series can be viewed 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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