Happy Birthday Harry
Harrison Birtwhistle HF 1965-67 celebrated his 85th birthday at Dartington International summer School and FestivalRead More »
A Year Becomes Sixteen
Judy Digney, former trustee of HFA, reflects on highlights over her 16 years involvement with the charity.Read More »
Refugees at Home
Three years ago former HF Sara Nathan co-founded a hosting charity to offer rooms to refugees and asylum-seekers in the UK.Read More »
J.G.Farrell
The author remembers a writer whose life was cut short and a friendship that started as Harkness Fellows in the USRead More »
Who would be a Politician?
Chris Barnham and Bob Barr share how and why they became locally elected politicians.Read More »
Stuart Devlin: Designer, Goldsmith, Silversmith.
Stuart Devlin, (1931 to 2018) AO, CMG, was a Harkness Fellow from 1960 to 62 based at Columbia University. A conversation with Stuart’s wife Carole and her sister Victoria throws light on his fellowship and how they came to edit this masterpiece.Read More »
Getting The Questions Right
Prof Pagel shares how she developed survey questions on key political issuesRead More »
Maximising the Harkness Experience
Interview with Jerri Fosdick, former Organisation Development Consultant to the HF programme.Read More »
Smarter Urbanisation & Rapid Growth
Feature by Nicholas Falk, Harkness Fellow at Stanford Business School 1967-69.Read More »
Richard Hooper
Harkness Fellow, Richard Hooper’s wry observations on the Media.Read More »

Features

Colin Blakemore

Even among the many eminent people to emerge from a Harkness Fellowship, it will be difficult to find a person who has collected more honours, awards and prizes than Colin Blakemore (Fellow 1965-68)

The Changing Face of a Harkness Fellowship

This article described the second major change to the Harkness Fellowships in 1996 when the focus changed to health.

Over 5 decades after becoming one of the world’s most famous rugby players, the Harkness Fellow who played for Harvard Business School’s School’s rugby team in 1967-69 was still sought after by the media.

Eleanor Francis

A Harkness Fellow in 1930s Berkeley – from California to Cambridge, Eleanor Francis wrote home describing the species ‘co-ed’.

Harkness & New York

Veronica Plowden, who travelled with her husband William Plowden to New York for three years, describes the first major change to the programme in 1988.

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