News: Visiting Fellows - Epiphany Term 2010

Robin Brooke-Smith is Holgate Fellow this term. He read history at Grey College before entering a career in the teaching profession. He has held the distinguished senior posts of Principal of the University of Toronto Schools (2001-04) and Principal of Edwardes College, University of Peshawar, Pakistan (1995-2000). Most recently he was Director of Consultancy Services at the National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth at the University of Warwick (2005-07). He taught at Shrewsbury School (1986-95), Backwell Comprehensive, Bristol (1981-86), and was Assistant Director of the British Council in Tanzania (1978- 80). He is currently an International Educational Consultant and Hon. Lecturer at the School of Education at the University of Birmingham. He has led expert teams at the European Commission in Brussels and worldwide. He has published extensively on school leadership and his book Leading Learners, Leading Schools (Routledge Falmer, London and New York, 2003) has received international recognition. He authored The Scramble for Africa, McMillan, a significant contribution to historical scholarship. He is spending the Epiphany Term at Grey completing a book which is a personal account of everyday life on the frontier, both physical between Pakistan and Afghanistan and between cultures; and also an attempt at an analysis of the geopolitical and cultural dimensions of the global tensions that emanate from the region.

Professor Nils-Peter Skoruppa is Isobel Holgate Fellow in Mathematics this term. Professor Skoruppa currently holds the Chair for Algebra and Number Theory  at the University of Siegen in  Germany. He has held academic posts at:  the  University of Bonn; the Max-Planck-Institut fűr Mathematik, Bonn; the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA; and the University of Bordeaux. He has also been Dean of the Department of Mathematics, University of Siegen. Professor Skoruppa has published extensively in the fields of Modular Forms.

This term, the College also welcomes the following Academic Visitors:

• Professor Joel Kaminsky, Smith College, Massachusetts. Professor Kaminsky is working in the Theology Department this term with professor Hayward.
• Professor Luiz  Ferreira, Sao Carlos University, Brazil. Professor Ferreira is working this term in the Mathematics Department  with Professor Zakrewski.

Added Thursday 4th February 2010