SEVEN NEW Fellows, Bye Fellows and Junior Research Fellows were recently sworn-in, in a ceremony presided over by the Principal, Lord Simon Woolley, and Senior Tutor, Dr Georgina Horrell.
The new Fellows are:
Fellows: Samantha Skeaping, Sarah Harwood, Dr Boryana Hadzhiyska, Dr Carolin Hoeltken
Bye Fellow: Dr Pui Ki Patricia Kwok
Junior Research Fellows: Dr Chloé Guillaume, Dr Daniele Palmer
Samantha Skeaping
Sam Skeaping joined Homerton College in August as Bursar. She previously served as Finance Director for the NASDAQ-listed technology company specialising in AI, ARM Holdings. Sam is a strategic leader with over two decades in senior leadership roles in research, technology and the arts. She has led transformational initiatives, and brings a wealth of skills and experience to this role.
Sarah Harwood
Sarah Harwood, Homerton's new Director of Development, also joined the Fellowship. Sarah has hit the ground running and has already turbo-boosted our actions to lay the foundations for the long term, which promises fundraising success. Sarah has more than 15 years’ experience as a senior fundraiser and leader within education, the arts, and heritage, with an impressive track record at Bletchley Park, where she was also Development Director.
Dr Boryana Hadzhiyska
Dr Boryana Hadzhiyska is a cosmologist broadly interested in understanding how the Universe evolved from its initial conditions to the complex large-scale structures we observe today. Her research sits at the intersection of cosmology, astrophysics, and data science, using both observations and simulations to map the distribution of dark matter across cosmic time.
Dr Carolin Hoeltken
Dr Carolin Hoeltken is Director of Studies in Land Economy, and until last month was Deputy Director of MPhil in Real Estate Finance. Her research interests include housing economics, household finance, and economic and urban history. In particular, how people make their housing decisions, what factors play into these decisions and what the outcomes are to better understand what determines demand for housing and financial investment.
Dr Pui Ki Patricia Kwok
Dr Pui Ki Patricia Kwok is Project Associate at the Cambridge Centre for Teaching and Learning. Her research draws on a wide range of innovative qualitative methods to engage with educational stakeholders, particularly in exploring how they play important roles in enabling complex systemic reforms and institutional change. She is deeply committed to identifying culturally responsive pedagogical practices which promote quality and inclusive education across international contexts. Most recently, she has been co-leading multiple strands of participatory research with staff and students across academic disciplines and colleges at Cambridge. Findings will provide important implications for policies and practices, which can tackle awarding gaps experienced by different student groups.
Dr Chloé Guillaume
Dr Chloé Guillaume is a neuroscientist specialising in the neuronal mechanisms underlying olfactory perception, the sense of smell. She earned her PhD in Neuroscience from Nantes University (France) in 2023. Since then, she has been based at the University of Cambridge in the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, where her research explores how neurons in the ol-factory bulb contribute to odour signal integration. Passionate about smells, earlier this year she organised the symposium Scent and Imagination at CRASSH (Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences), fostering interdisciplinary dialogue around the sensory experience of smell.
Dr Daniele Palmer
Dr Daniele Palmer is a historian and political theorist. His research looks at the intersection of the history of European political thought and contemporary political theory, with a particular interest in how ideas of social and communal life shape our understandings of voluntary association, the state and governance. His current project unearths the intellectual origins of individualism as a political critique, which he has traced to early-nineteenth-century France. In parallel to this, he is also working on questions of labour and migration in late-twentieth- and early-twenty-first-century political thought.
