On Friday 1 December Homerton swore in new Fellows to join the College.
Fellows:
Professor Rachael Garrett
Rachael Garrett is the Moran Professor of Conservation and Development at the University of Cambridge in the Department of Geography. She conducts research at the intersection of food systems, development, and the environment with a focus on land use in the tropics.
Dr Jan Ewing
Jan Ewing is an Assistant Professor in Family Law and Deputy Director of the Cambridge Family Law Centre. Her research interests are in children’s rights, particularly the exercise of those rights when parents settle out of court following separation.
Professor Joanne McPeake
With a clinical background in critical care nursing, Joanne McPeake is the first Professor of Nursing at the Department of Public Health and Primary Care for Cambridge University and Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. She is a Fellow of THIS. Institute.
Mr Matthew Norton
Matthew Norton is Head of Strategic Communications/Deputy Director of Communications at the University of Cambridge, having worked previously as Head of Policy and Strategy for Alzheimer’s UK and a Director of Corporate Affairs and Policy for Apetito.
Junior Research Fellows:
Dr Theo Di Castri
With a thesis in the History of prevention science, 1960-present, Theo Di Castri has research interests in risk; prevention; history and philosophy of the social and behavioural sciences; history of public health and epidemiology; history of adolescence and youth; history of criminal justice; history of welfare; history of drugs and alcohol; transnational history with a focus on the Americas.
Dr Mary Ononokpono
Mary Ononokpono is an MPhil student in African Studies from the University of Cambridge and is an AHRC funded PhD Candidate researching Atlantic and Colonial West Africa. Her research examines gendered socioeconomic and cultural transformations across the Bight of Biafra (Coastal Nigeria) in the nineteenth-century.
Dr Federico Zangani
Frederico Zangani is an Egyptologist and ancient historian focusing on globalization, imperialism, and mobility in ancient Egypt, the Near East, and the Mediterranean particularly during the Late Bronze Age (ca. 16th-12th centuries BC). He is a Renfrew Fellow at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.
Bye-Fellows:
Dr Andrii Smytsniuk
Andrii Smytsniuk is the Slavonic Section's first full-time Ukrainian Language Teaching Officer at the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics. Andrii leads the development of the Ukrainian language programme at the University of Cambridge.
Dr Debashis Puhan
Debashis Puhan has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering and is a research associate in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. He is working on understanding the lubricant composition and structure-surface property relationship.
Associate Fellows:
Dr Graham Dow
Dr Graham Dow is the Group Leader for Ecophysiology and Climate Adaptation at NIAB in Cambridge, UK. His research focuses on genetic and physiological mechanisms that can enhance plant resilience to environmental stress.
Mr Matthew Moss (MVO)
Matthew Moss is the former Director of External Relations and Development at Homerton, having been Head of the Vice-Chancellor's Office at Cambridge from 2004-14. He is currently Senior Consultant at Global Philanthropic (Europe).
Dr Maha Shuayb
Maha Shuayb is a sociologist of education and a Visiting Fellow at the Faculty of Education. She is the British Academy Bilateral Chair in Conflict and Director of the Centre for Lebanese Studies.
