Imperial College London is a public research university located in London. In 1851, Prince Albert built his vision of an area for culture, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, Natural History Museum, Royal Colleges, Royal Albert Hall, and the Imperial Institute. In 1907, Imperial College was established by royal charter, merging the Royal College of Science, Royal School of Mines, and City and Guilds of London Institute. In 1988, the Imperial College School of Medicine was formed by combining with St Mary's Hospital Medical School. In 2004, Queen Elizabeth II opened the Imperial College Business School.
Dame Julia Stretton Higgins is a polymer scientist. Since 1976 she has been based at the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London, where she is Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Investigator.
Dame Frances Anne Cairncross, is a British economist, journalist and academic. She is a Senior Fellow at the School of Public Policy, UCLA. She chairs the Executive Committee of the Institute for Fiscal Studies. From 2004 to 2014, she was the Rector of Exeter College, Oxford.
Louise Mary Richardson FRSE is an Irish political scientist whose specialist field is the study of terrorism. In January 2016 she became the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, having formerly served as the Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of St Andrews, and as the executive dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
Dame Henrietta Louise Moore, is a British social anthropologist. She is the director of the Institute for Global Prosperity at University College, London (UCL), part of the Bartlett, UCL's Faculty of the Built Environment.
Richard John Bradley, is a British archaeologist and academic. He specialises in the study of European prehistory, and in particular Prehistoric Britain. From 1987 to 2013, he was Professor of Archaeology at the University of Reading; he is now Emeritus Professor. He is also the author of a number of books on the subject of archaeology and prehistory.
Joni Lovenduski, is Professor Emerita of Politics at Birkbeck, University of London.
John Gareth Darwin, is a British historian and academic, who specialises in the history of the British Empire. From 1984 to 2019, he was the Beit Lecturer in Commonwealth History at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford. He was a lecturer in history at the University of Reading between 1972 and 1984.
Zara Steiner, is an American-born British historian and academic. She specialises in foreign relations, international relations, 20th century history of Europe and of the United States. From 1968 to 1995, she was a Fellow of New Hall in Cambridge. In 2007, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the UK's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences.
Dame Rosemary Jean Cramp, is a British archaeologist and academic specialising in the Anglo-Saxons. She was the first female professor appointed at Durham University and was Professor of Archaeology from 1971 to 1990. She served as President of the Society of Antiquaries of London from 2001 to 2004.
Henry Ruxton Woudhuysen,, is a British academic specialising in Renaissance English literature. He is the Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, having been appointed in 2012. He was previously Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at University College London.
Charlotte Ann Roberts, FBA is a British archaeologist, academic and former nurse. She is a bioarchaeologist and palaeopathologist, whose research focuses on health and the evolution of infectious disease in humans. Since 2004, she has been Professor of Archaeology at Durham University.
Catriona Helen Moncrieff Kelly, FBA is a British academic specialising in Russian culture. She is Professor of Russian at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of New College.. Catriona Kelly was brought up in London. Her parents were pianist Alexander Kelly and cellist Margaret Moncrieff. Her sister is the cellist Alison Moncrieff-Kelly and she is married to neuroscientist Professor Ian Thompson. Her grandfather was Alexander Moncrieff and Hope Mirlees was her mother's first cousin. She was educated at Our Lady of Sion Convent (1969-1970) and at Godolphin and Latymer School (1970-1977). After spending six months living in Vienna, she read Russian and German at the University of Oxford, including a year (1980-1981) as a visiting student at Voronezh State University, USSR, sponsored by the British Council. She went on to complete a doctorate in Russian at Oxford in 1985. She was a Senior Scholar and Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford (1983-1993) and then Lecturer in Russian at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (1993-1996), before taking up her present position at the University of Oxford and New College. Catriona Kelly is the author of many books about Russian history and culture, including Petrushka, the Russian Carnival Puppet Theatre, A History of Russian Women's Writing, Refining Russia: Advice Literature, Polite Culture, and Gender from Catherine to Yeltsin ,Russian Literature, A Very Short Introduction ,Comrade Pavlik: The Rise and Fall of a Soviet Boy Hero, a study of the boy hero Pavlik Morozov, St Petersburg: Shadows of the Past, Socialist Churches: Radical Secularization and the Preservation of the Past in Petrograd and Leningrad, 1918-1988, and articles for professional journals and for the general press. She is the editor of Utopias: Russian Modernism, 1905-1940 and of Russian Modernism and the Visual Arts. In 2015, Catriona Kelly was President of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, the first person working at a university outside the United States to be appointed to this position.
Cécile Fabre is a French philosopher, serving as professor of philosophy at the University of Oxford. Since 2014 she has been a senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. Her research focuses on political philosophy, the ethics of war, bioethics, and theories of justice.
Dame Madeleine Julia Atkins, is a British academic administrator, scholar of education, and former teacher. Since 2018, she has served as the 9th President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. She was formerly vice-chancellor of Coventry University, and the Chief Executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (2014–2018).
Emily Meg Jackson, is a British legal scholar who specialises in medical law. She has been a Professor of Law at the London School of Economics since 2007 and Head of its Law Department since 2012. She has previously researched or lectured at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, at Birkbeck College, University of London, and at Queen Mary, University of London.
Janet Bately is a British academic, the Sir Israel Gollancz Professor Emeritus of English Language and Medieval Literature, King's College London, since 1977.
Dame Angela Rosemary Emily Strank is head of downstream technology and chief scientist of BP, responsible for technology across all the refining, petrochemicals, lubricants and fuels businesses.
Michael Wright FBA is professor of entrepreneurship at Imperial College Business School. He is a fellow of the British Academy elected in 2016.
Philomen Probert is a British classicist and academic, specialising in linguistics. She is Professor of Classical Philology and Linguistics at the University of Oxford.
