Features
Edward Harkness would have been proud of Chris who died on December 7th, 2021 aged 85. Chris was an exceptional man who took full advantage of the opportunity that his Harkness Fellowship gave him to study business at the Harvard Business School and to return to the...
All Harkness Stories, Humanities, Journalism, Broadcast, Films & TV, Up to 1959
FRSL is best known for his television role as chairman of University Challenge for twenty-five years (1962-1987). He can be thanked for introducing the following catchphrases into our daily language – “Your starter for ten” and “fingers on the...
2022 Event Reports, Event Reports
Professor Lenaerts led his audience through the growth and development of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), often citing similarities with the development of the Supreme Court in the USA, a theme that he has studied in detail. He recalled that courts...
2022 Event Reports, Event Reports
Professor John Pickett joined the University of Cardiff’s School of Chemistry programme on sustainable agriculture in 2017 from Rothamsted. Rothamsted Research is one of the oldest agricultural research institutions in the world having been founded in 1843. John’s...
1970s, All Harkness Stories, Economics, Finance & Business, Health & Social Care, Politics & Public Services
is chairman at West London NHS Trust which, as well as providing mental health services in west London, operates Broadmoor Hospital. Prior this appointment he served as chairman of West Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust. He attended Stanford Graduate School of...
1970s, All Harkness Stories, Economics, Finance & Business, International Affairs, Journalism, Broadcast, Films & TV
OBE was a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for International Studies, MIT, collaborating on projects and publications at both MIT and Harvard on European security and east-west relations. Among many other things, she also learned how to calculate the kill...
1970s, All Harkness Stories, Higher Education, Journalism, Broadcast, Films & TV
was the demonstrator in experimental Psychology at Bristol University completing his PhD in December 1974. He applied for the fellowship to continue his research with the world leaders in his field in order to pursue a research career in human memory. His fellowship...
All Harkness Stories, Higher Education, Science, Technology, Engineering & Maths, Up to 1959
OM, FRS, FRSE, FMedsci, FAA, FREng studied at Princeton, Institute of Advanced Study, for his fellowship to which he later returned as Professor for three years (69-72). His academic career started in Cambridge (student and early academia), transferring to Oxford for...
2016/2017, Recent Returners
Dr. Ghafur is the lead for digital health policy at the Institute of Global Health Innovation, Imperial College. She also practices as an honorary consultant in Respiratory Medicine at St Mary’s Hospital. During her Harkness fellowship, Saira was based at the...
2015/2016, Recent Returners
Daniel Northam Jones, M.A., was a 2015–16 U.K. Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice. Prior to completing the Fellowship he worked as a programme manager at NHS England, leading on the design and implementation of the first access and waiting-time...
2015/2016, Recent Returners
Dr Irene Papanicolas, Ph.D., (HF 2015–16) was an assistant professor of health economics in the Department of Social Policy/LSE Health at the London School of Economics when she applied for a Harkness fellowship. She had previously served as a research officer at LSE...
2010s, All Harkness Stories, Economics, Finance & Business, Health & Social Care, Politics & Public Services
applied to the Harkness Fellowship programme while working as a Senior Policy Advisor to PM David Cameron at No 10 Downing Street. She had, at that point, experience as a management consultant with the Boston Consulting Group and a Civil Servant following an education...
