News stories about College Fellows
Talks by Trinity Fellows at the Hay Festival 2017 are now available online (for a small fee). Among the Fellows speaking at the 30th Hay Festival were Professor Catherine Barnard, Dr Hugh Hunt, Professor David Tong, Lord Rees, Professor Greg Hannon and Professor Simon Baron-Cohen.
Trinity Fellow, Professor Sarah Worthington, QC, has been appointed a Deputy High Court Judge by the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd.
Nearly 100 people attended the panel discussion, Women Making Waves, which explored the gamut of women’s experience in education, from school and university, through career progression as teachers or academics, to balancing professional and home life in a leadership role.
Research into hundreds of people’s views about Brexit and the future UK-EU relationship led by Trinity Fellow, Professor Catherine Barnard, found ‘a striking degree of moderate consensus’ on both sides of the debate – and not the ‘hard Brexit’ currently being pursued by the UK government.
Girls do much better than boys in GCSEs and A-Levels. Across UK higher education, female students outnumber men, 57% to 43%. But at top levels – in exams, professorial roles and university leadership – men are still ahead.