Abisola Babalola is a development practitioner, with research interests surrounding the achievement of good governance, development and peace in developing countries/contexts. Prior to joining the Cambridge MPP, Abisola devoted her career to supporting the cause for global food and nutrition security, working in agencies such as the International Fund for Read more…
First and foremost, I am a doctor. I always wanted to be a doctor, and after a long career in clinical medicine I can honestly say it is core to who I am. However, ironically, for someone who as Clinical Dean in the University was responsible for medical education in Cambridge from 2003 – 2020, what I Read more…
Let me tell you how old I am. My boyfriend had a Sony Ericsson flip phone (with a collapsible antenna) when I went to Eds. And it wasn’t a retro thing. It was cool. When I got my Eddies acceptance letter in the postal mail – there was no website Read more…
When coming to the University of Cambridge to study, the biggest fear is ‘I will not belong here’. This terrible self-doubting feeling, rampant in academia also known as ‘imposter syndrome’ can be debilitating for anyone. Especially someone from a small country, that had finished a degree in a Greek University, Read more…
When I arrived at St. Edmund’s in April 1969 I learned that I was the first woman to live in college. Housed in the cottage behind the main house,, I was joined a couple of months later by Margaret Geib. I was a graduate (research) student at the University of Notre Read more…
After graduating from the University of Washington, I embarked on a sports career as a professional tennis player representing Hong Kong. I reached No. 1 in Hong Kong and No. 340 in the world during my tennis career. The end of 2012 was a low point in my life because Read more…
I remember fervently praying and checking my student portal to hear back on whether I had got in. From the extensive education and financial checks to the college acceptance (where Eddie’s was my first choice – my incredible supervisor Neil is from the same college and recommended I apply to Read more…
It’s funny how things turn out. Here’s a family snap in the early 1980s. We are posing outside my digs on Huntingdon Road. And in the background……Mount Pleasant House! It is safe to say I couldn’t have imaged then how much a part of my life that building was to Read more…
Like an indelible pen across a page, St Edmund’s has made such a mark on my life. When I arrived at St Edmund’s for Michaelmas term in 2000, I felt unsteady, unsure as to what lied ahead. I was coming to Eddies to study medicine, but rather than the wide-eyed excitement Read more…
A dare took me to Cambridge and changed the course of my life. After I finished my undergraduate degree at Bond University, Australia, I was at a loose end. I was planning to continue to run a business that I started some years earlier, but I unexpectedly walked away. I Read more…