Philippa Garrett Fawcett was an English mathematician and educator. She was the first woman to obtain the top score in the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos exams. She taught at Newnham College,Cambridge,and at the normal school in Johannesburg,and she became an administrator for the London County Council.
Newnham College Boat Club is the rowing club for members of Newnham College,Cambridge. The club has a year-round senior squad and invites all members of the college to learn to row by joining the novice squads during Michaelmas or Easter terms.
Kathleen Winifred Hughes was an English historian,her specialisation was Irish ecclesiastical history,particularly the early Christian Church in Ireland.
Patricia "Pat" Simpson FRS is a distinguished British developmental biologist. Simpson was a professor of Comparative Biology at the University of Cambridge from 2003 to 2010,and was the University's Director of Research for the academic year 2010/2011. She is currently an Emeritus Professor of the Department of Zoology of the University of Cambridge,having previously been Professor of Comparative Embryology,and a Fellow of Newnham College. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2000.
Beğlan Birand Toğrol was a Turkish scientist,best known for her contributions to medical and experimental psychology.
Alixe Bovey FSA is a Canadian medieval art historian and Dean and Deputy Director at the Courtauld Institute of Art,a college of the University of London. Her research has been chiefly concerned with pictorial narratives and their cultural and literary context. She has also written on medieval monsters.
Carolin Susan Crawford is a British communicator of science and astrophysicist. She is an emeritus member of the Institute of Astronomy,Cambridge and an emeritus fellow of Emmanuel College,Cambridge.
Joyce Maire Reynolds was a British classicist and academic,specialising in Roman historical epigraphy. She was an honorary fellow of Newnham College,Cambridge. She dedicated her life to the study and teaching of Classics and was first woman to be awarded the Kenyon medal by the British Academy. Among Reynolds' most significant publications were texts from the city of Aphrodisias,including letters between Aphrodisian and Roman authorities.
Alison Jane Rose is a British former diplomat and the Principal of Newnham College,Cambridge. She was the British ambassador to Belgium from 2014 until 2019.
Helen Gladstone was a British educationist,vice-principal at Newnham College in Cambridge,and co-founder of the Women's University Settlement.
Róisín Owens is a professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology,University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Newnham College,Cambridge. Her research investigates new engineering technology for biological applications with a focus on organic bioelectronics,developing electroactive materials that can be used between physical transducers and soft biological tissues.
Claire Harvey Craig is a British geophysicist,civil servant and science communicator. Since 2019,she has been Provost of The Queen's College,Oxford.
Lisa Jayne Jardine-Wright is a physicist and educator at the University of Cambridge. She is Director of Isaac Physics,a Department for Education and The Ogden Trust supported Open Platform for Active Learning that supports school students learning physics.
George David Smith Henderson is a British art historian,author,and Emeritus Professor of Medieval Art at the University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of The Society of Antiquaries of London and a member of the Association of Art Historians. He was awarded the Reginald Taylor Prize by the British Archaeological Association in 1962 for his paper "The Sources of the Genesis Cycle at St.-Savin-sur-Gartempe".
The Suffrage Science award is a prize for women in science,engineering and computing founded in 2011,on the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day by the MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences (LMS). There are three categories of award:
- life sciences
- engineering and physical sciences
- mathematics and computing.
Susila Anita Bonnerjee was a medical doctor,educator and suffragist who advocated for women's education and health in England and India in the late 1800s.
Jason Arday FRSA is a British sociologist,writer and fundraiser. His research interests and publications include education,social mobility,mental health and race. In March 2023,he began an appointment as Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Cambridge,UK,becoming the youngest black person ever appointed to a professorship at Cambridge. He had previously been a Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Glasgow in the College of Social Sciences,and before that Associate Professor of Sociology and Deputy Executive Dean of People and Culture in the Faculty of Social Science and Health at the University of Durham,as well as visiting professor at Nelson Mandela University in the Centre for Critical Studies in Higher Education Transformation,South Africa. He is an Honorary Doctor of Education at Anglia Ruskin University.
Margareta "Greta" Burkill born Margareta Braun was a German-born British refugee worker who was a member of the Cambridge Children’s Refugee Committee. They brought hundreds of children to the UK from 1933 onwards on the Kindertransport. She later became an Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College.
Anna Bateson was an English suffragist who aided with the foundation of Newnham College,Cambridge.
The Bathurst studentship was a fund for graduates of the natural science tripos at the women's colleges at the University of Cambridge to continue their scientific research.
