Los Angeles

 

An Update on Life at St John's College from the President, Professor Lady Sue Black, with drinks and canapés

 

Date: Friday 27 March 2026
Timing: 6.30pm-8.30pm

Ticket price: free

Venue: Cara Cara Lower West Deck, Proper Hotel, Los Angeles

 

Please RSVP by Friday 23 January 2026.

 

This event is free to attend and you are welcome to bring a guest with you. You will receive a confirmation email once you have registered. If you have any questions about your booking, please email alumni@sjc.ox.ac.uk.

 

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President Lady Sue Black is delighted to come to LA and update alumni about life in College. St John’s is only one part of her esteemed career and she looks forward to chatting about everything from the College cats to her work as a forensic anthropologist over a margarita!

 

Professor Lady Sue Black is the 37th President of St John's. She took up post in September 2022.  Professor Lady Black has most recently been the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Engagement at Lancaster University, tasked with raising the University’s profile locally, regionally and nationally whilst championing the economic growth and regeneration of North West England.

 

Since graduating from the University of Aberdeen in human anatomy and forensic anthropology, Professor Lady Black has had a varied and distinguished academic career, she was the lead forensic anthropologist during the international war crimes investigations in Kosovo. From 2003 to 2018 she was Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology at Dundee University.

 

Professor Lady Black has written widely and has made regular media appearances, including on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs and The Life Scientific. She was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2016 Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to Higher Education and Forensic Science and in 2021 entered the House of Lords as a crossbencher peer as Baroness Black of Strome.  In March 2024 Professor Lady Black was appointed to the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, the highest honour in Scotland.