About Grey College SCR
The Senior Common Room, together with the Middle Common Room (a self-governing body of graduate students) and the Junior Common Room (the self-governing body to which all student members belong) constitutes Grey College. The Senior Common Room, situated in a pleasant room in the main building of Grey College, provides an attractive and relaxed environment for colleagues to meet and bring visitors.
Further details of the facilities are available.
Members of the SCR are encouraged to attend and become actively involved in various College functions, including:
- Formal Dinners and Guest Nights
- Chapel Services
- Art Exhibitions
- Student Drama and Musical Productions
- Phoenix Ball
In addition, the SCR committee organises particular events and these include:
- Talks on a variety of topics
- Wine Tastings
- Croquet
- Trips and Visits
Further details of forthcoming events can be found in the diary.
The Role of the Senior Common Room
The Senior Common Room exists to contribute to the life, enrichment and development of the College as an all-age community of scholars. This is achived through meeting socially and the sharing of ideas. Our particular aims are:
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helping to create an appropriate intellectual, pastoral and spiritual environment for student members of the College; -
providing an academic forum for members of the College, University and wider community;
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serving as a base for our visiting and honorary fellows, offering to them a genuine collegiate atmosphere of conviviality, intellectual stimulus, networking and recreational opportunities etc.;
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helping to develop links with a range of University Institutes and Departments;
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supporting students through their University education; and
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playing a key role in developing links with the wider community.
Message from the President
Welcome to Grey College SCR. I am sure that you will enjoy the Fellowship with the other SCR members and with the students at Grey College. Please come to as many of the SCR events as you can. I am very grateful for your support.
Professor Alan Martin, FRS
President, Grey College SCR
Message from the Master
Durham is a first-class University. As England’s third oldest it has a long tradition of international excellence in learning. Durham is also a collegiate university, outward looking and actively engaged in a range of innovative and exciting developments. Grey is proud to be a constituent part of this University with undergraduate and graduate students, senior members, alumni and staff who all contribute to the life of the College.
The College Senior Room (SCR) forms an integral part of this College community, where our students are given the help they need to obtain the most from their academic studies and to develop new interests and responsibilities. In particular, the SCR has a strong commitment towards College tutors and to all who can enhance experience of being a graduate or undergraduate student at Grey.
In addition to its role in supporting students, the SCR plays a distinctive part in assisting the University’s research agenda. The SCR provides a congenial meeting place for Durham academics, for University administrators, college residents and tutors and for visiting Fellows at Grey. The special atmosphere that this creates enables the exchange of ideas and views on all manner of topics, promoting the intellectual, cultural and spiritual life of the wider University and benefiting the whole community in the region and beyond.
You are very welcome to the SCR web pages; I hope that you find something of interest here.
Professor Martyn Chamberlain
Master, Grey College