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Our academics are the intellectual foundation on which College life is built, and Somerville is committed to providing an environment which nurtures and supports them. This includes securing vulnerable posts;......
Honorary Fellow Averil Cameron is a scholar of the Literature and history of the Late Antique and Early Byzantine Periods. She was Warden of Keble College from 1994-2010, and before......
Honorary Fellow Dr Margaret Casely-Hayford (1980, Jurisprudence) is a lawyer, businesswoman and prominent advocate for diversity in education and public life. She is the Chancellor of Coventry University and Chair......
Honorary Fellow Dame Elan Closs Stephens (1966, English) is a Welsh educator and policy-maker for broadcasting and the arts. She has served as a Governor of the British Film Institute,......
Somerville has always attracted budding writers. As a consequence, the roll-call of influential writers produced by Somerville is a long one, which includes poets, novelists, biographers, playwrights and leading authors......
Honorary Fellow Paula Pimlott Brownlee is an American higher education consultant, and an Honorary Fellow of Somerville College. After studying for a DPhil in Organic Chemistry at Oxford, she became......
Honorary Fellow Doreen Boyce (1953, PPE) is an Honorary Fellow of Somerville and former Provost and Dean of Faculty at Chatham College (1974-1980). An influential campaigner for equal opportunities in......
Honorary Fellow Janet Bately is Sir Israel Gollancz Professor Emeritus of English Language and Medieval Literature, King's College, London. A student at Somerville College Oxford, she began her academic career......
Honorary Fellow Professor Caroline Barron is a medieval historian whose research centres on the late medieval period in Britain. She served as President of the London and Middlesex Archaelogical Society......