Homerton College is pleased and proud to swear in new Fellows, amongst them new Honorary Fellow Baroness Louise Casey.
Dame Louise Casey has had a distinguished career in public service: her work has focused on finding solutions to some of the most difficult societal challenges facing our country.
In 2021, in the wake of the murder of Sarah Everard, Baroness Casey was appointed to lead an independent review of culture and standards in the Metropolitan Police. The findings of the Casey Review (delivered in 2023) found severe institutional failings. This groundbreaking and hard-hitting report offered an opportunity for positive change to an institution such as the Metropolitan Police and we are very proud to have Dame Louise join our community at Homerton.
New Homertonians pledge ‘to promote the peace, honour and well-being’ of the College and we welcome them all as new members of the Homerton community.
Honorary Fellow
Dame Louise Casey has had a distinguished career in public service: her work has focused on finding solutions to some of the most difficult societal challenges facing our country.
In 2021, in the wake of the murder of Sarah Everard, Baroness Casey was appointed to lead an independent review of culture and standards in the Metropolitan Police. The findings of the Casey Review (delivered in 2023) found severe institutional failings. This groundbreaking and hard-hitting report offered an opportunity for positive change to an institution such as the Metropolitan Police and we are very proud to have Dame Louise join our community at Homerton.
Dame Louise is a former Director General of the UK Government Department for Communities and Local Government and became Head of the Rough Sleepers' Unit in 1999, before becoming a director of the national Anti-Social Behaviour Unit in 2003 and then head of the Respect Task Force in 2005.
In 2010, Louise became the UK's first Victims' Commissioner, and in 2015 was appointed Director General of the government's Troubled Families programme. In 2017 she left civil service and co-founded the Institute of Global Homelessness whose Advisory Committee she now chairs. She Chair of the Covid-19 Rough Sleeping Taskforce as part of the government’s emergency pandemic response.
Professorial Fellow
Professor Rachael Garrett is the Moran Professor of Conservation and Development in the Department of Geography. Her research examines the drivers and impacts of land change, primarily in forest landscapes in territories from Switzerland to Brazil.
Fellows
Dr Gavin Davies is Course Director for the part-time Construction Engineering Masters degree course, and the Director of Studies at Homerton for Year 3 Engineering students. Gavin has spent over 25 years working the construction industry. He is passionate about educating the next generation of engineers and about promoting diversity and inclusion in the construction industry.
Dr Jon Phelan is well known to Director of Studies in Philosophy asks questions such as:
What is literature? What separates literature from fiction? Does a literary work’s moral value affect its literary value? Where does literature stand in relation to truth, knowledge or understanding?
Bye -Fellows
Mr Neil Donnelly is a consultant Ear Nose and Throat surgeon who has been supervising Homerton students on the Head and Neck anatomy course for 3 years. He is keen to contribute more widely to the Homerton medical community and to our ethics and professionalism teaching, where he will be teaching our Veterinary Medicine students as well. Neil has an impressive number of clinical publications and is internationally recognised for his surgical expertise.
Associate Fellows
Dr Graham Dow is a group leader in the National Institute of Agricultural Botany. He combines
plant physiology, ecology, molecular biology, and genetics, to answer fundamental questions about the relationship between plant cells, the plant, and our changing environment.
Tripping lightly from one Ivy League university to another, he studied first at Cornell, then at Stanford for his PhD, and moving to Harvard for postdoctoral research. With Rachael, he comes to us from ETH Zurich, so has been Europeanized already!
Rupert Baines is a seasoned start-up entrepreneur and CEO of technology companies. As CEO of UltraSoC, he led a struggling academic spinout to success, defining a new category in the semiconductor industry, winning multiple business awards, and securing several very high-profile customers across the globe.
He participates in the startup mentoring program of Cambridge Judge Business School, and has just become Entrepreneur in Residence at the Cambridge Innovation Capital.
From 2020, Rupert has been actively involved with Changemakers, giving pro bono talks and workshops; mentoring Catalyst Fund winners; and donating the ‘Ivan Baines Prize’ to one of the Catalyst Fund winners.
Dr Gill Stevens is Academic Director of a new MSt in Coaching at the Institute of Continuing Education (ICE), a programme which will see a diverse new cohort of postgraduate students joining Homerton.
Gill is a professionally qualified coach whose coaching practice and experience span a range of organization levels, generations and cultures; and with experience of designing and delivering coach training programmes for different purposes within different industry sectors.
She has a Masters from Roffey Park Management Institute (University of Salford) and a PhD in Management Education from the University of Bristol.
