In 2012 I made a shift in my focus as a musician from singing as a soloist in International opera houses to being a fulltime composer of operas. At the time I was singing regularly with many opera companies in particular those in Antwerp, Strasbourg and Salzburg. The lifestyle was Read more…
I joined Eddies to study an MPhil in Criminology in 2016. I was a fresher again but not fresh to Cambridge having spent three years as an undergraduate at Gonville & Caius college. However, by the time I dragged my suitcases into Eddies I had been away from Cambridge for Read more…
When I think back to my time at Cambridge I see things in snapshots; tea and biscuits in the CR, fancy dress bops, dusty sunlight glancing through the Benet House windows, the tiny bar which seemed to always be open at 3am, formal halls full of gowns and people trying Read more…
Upon completion of my PhD in Immunology in 2007 with Nobel Laureate Peter Doherty and Prof Stephen Turner, after a worldwide search of the best labs to study the cell biology of the T cell immune synapse, I could not go past Prof Gillian Griffiths, who was a senior fellow Read more…
Coming to St. Edmund’s as an undergraduate when I was 75, and spending three years in college, was one of the richest experiences of my life. I must admit, though, that I had applied to study English Literature because of ignorance: when a lecturer at the International Summer School said Read more…
St Edmund’s College has been a huge part of my family for almost twenty years. I fondly remember my first visit as a guest of my husband to be (Andy Harter, Fellow), and being seated with the then Dean, Dr Michael Robson, who some two years later was to officiate at Read more…