News from Fellow-Commoners, Honorary and Emeritus Fellows Lucy welcomes new Emeritus Fellow Dr David Carter The Governing Body appointed Dr David Carter to an Emeritus Fellowship on 9 October 2019. Dr Carter is the previous Bursar of Lucy Cavendish and a continuing supporter of the College. David is the first male to become a Fellow at Lucy following the wide ranging changes now under way in the College. He has thanked the President and the College community for what he described as a ‘signal honour’ and for the trust shown in him. He expressed his “surprise and delight at the appointment”.
Fellow-Commoner Professor Mary James awarded a BERA lifetime achievement Professor Mary James received one of the three BERA (The British Educational Research Association) lifetime achievement awards ‘For her outstanding contribution to educational research and its application for the improvement of practice and public benefit’. The award, given to her at the 2019 annual conference in Manchester, is named the ‘John Nisbet Fellowship’, after the first President. BERA is a membership association and learned society committed to advancing research quality, building research capacity and fostering research engagement. It aims to inform the development of policy and practice by promoting the best quality evidence produced by educational research. Mary James retired in 2014 from her positions as Professor and Associate Director of Research at the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education. During her career she directed the ESRC ‘Learning How to Learn’ project, within the Teaching and Learning Research Programme (TLRP), of which she was Deputy Director; she was President of the British Educational Research Association and a member of the Expert Panel appointed by the UK Coalition Government to assist the review the National Curriculum in England. She has been an adviser to the Hong Kong Education Bureau and to the NordForsk ‘Education for Tomorrow’ programme. She was a member of the UK Assessment Reform Group and a non-executive director of Bell Educational Services. She has published more than 100 books, chapters and articles and in 2013 her selected works were published by Routledge.
Professor Anna Sapir Abulafia elected to a Fellowship of the British Academy We are delighted that our Emeritus Fellow, Professor Anna Sapir Abulafia, has been elected to a Fellowship of the British Academy. This is a singular honour and demonstrates the extremely high regard in which Anna and her academic work are held by her peers. We congratulate her warmly. Anna was a Fellow at Lucy Cavendish College from 1987 to 2015 when she moved to Oxford University to take up the Chair of the Study of the Abrahamic Religions. While at Lucy, Anna held several key positions including Research Fellow, College Librarian, College Lecturer and Director of Studies in History, Tutor for Graduate Students, Senior Tutor and Vice-President.
Professor Janet Todd publishes new novel Early 2019 saw the publication of former Lucy Cavendish President Janet Todd ‘Don’t You Know There’s a War On?’ The protagonist of her story is Joan, a widow, an outsider in post-Second-World War England, bereft of its empire and global status. She lives with her only daughter, Maud, angrily conforming to a culture she feels has left her behind. When Maud is threatened, Joan begins a diary to make sense of her alienated past, before and during the War. Giving rein to a loathing for the society that has thwarted her aspirations, she is merciless, her writing often sublimely funny; but Joan has a secret, never confided, which binds Maud to her. As Joan chronicles her life, her observations reveal psychological dramas, which, once uncovered, lead to a shocking conclusion. ANNUAL REVIEW 2019/2020
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