1960s, All Harkness Stories, Health & Social Care, Humanities
(1935 – 2023) was born in London and evacuated in WWII to Lincolnshire, staying at the station-master’s house near the Lancaster bomber base where his father was posted. He went to school at Westminster, where he coxed the school Eight, and in 1953 went to...
1980s, All Harkness Stories, Higher Education, Humanities, International Affairs
is a historian of the role of media and culture in foreign policy. Educated at a suburban London comprehensive school, Nick’s BA degree was in International History at University of Leeds. He spent his Harkness time at Princeton, researching British propaganda to...
1960s, All Harkness Stories, Economics, Finance & Business, Politics & Public Services
read classics and history at Oxford before joining HM Treasury in 1961. Involvement in an intended reform of social security (aborted by the result of the 1970 election) sharpened his interest in the impact of macro-economic policy on the development of society. At...
2023 Event Reports, Event Reports
Jacob West – More with Less? How AI could revolutionise productivity in health care – and beyond. It seems that AI is now everywhere. With frequent attention-grabbing headlines about the impact of AI, it seems that the fast-pace of AI development in 2022 and 2023 has...
2022/2023, Recent Returners
Aoife McDermott, PhD, is continuing her work in the US and will return in the new year to take up a post as Professor of Human Resource Management at Aston University. Prior to her fellowship at University of California, Berkeley, Aoife was Professor of Human Resource...
2022/2023, Recent Returners
Zainab Garba-Sani, MSc, is an alumna of the NHS Graduate Management Training Scheme and holds an M.Sc. in Health Policy from Imperial College London. Upon completing her B.Sc. in Clinical Sciences at the University of Bradford, she was introduced into the policy world...
2022/2023, Recent Returners
Becks Fisher M.A. (Cantab), MB BChir, MRCP (UK), MRCGP, FHEA spent her fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco, mentored by Urmimala Sarkar, M.D., M.P.H., (Professor, Division of General Internal Medicine; Associate Chair for Faculty Experience,...
2022/2023, Recent Returners
Emmert Roberts MA MSc BMBCh PhD MRCP MRCPsych DFSRH, is a Senior Clinical Lecturer in Addiction Psychiatry at the National Addiction Centre, King’s College London (KCL) and a Consultant Addiction Psychiatrist at the South London and the Maudsley (SLaM) NHS Foundation...
2023 Event Reports, Event Reports
When Anthony Cary first joined the Diplomatic Service there were no job objectives as such; management consultants had yet to take over Whitehall. Lord Salisbury famously likened a sound foreign policy to “floating lazily downstream occasionally putting out a...
2023 Event Reports, Event Reports
Sir Laurie Bristow, until 2021 a member of the Diplomatic Service, and ambassador to Russia from 2016 to 2020, set out his perception of what motivated President Putin to order the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, of how the invasion had not gone to plan, of the...
