Dr Matthew Harris

2010s, All Harkness Stories, Health & Social Care, Higher Education

was at New York University mentored by Prof James Macinko (UCLA) and Dr Don Goldman (IHI).  Looking at the barriers and challenges to Reverse Innovation (adopting low cost solutions from low-income countries), he published several studies during that year, including a...

Luke O’Shea & Martin Sixsmith

Podcasts

Despite fellowships more than thirty years apart and on opposite sides of the USA, Luke and Martin find they have much in common. From school drills for security, through living in communist countries and a common interest in the needs of vulnerable people, they...

Maddy Phipps-Taylor & Peter Jenkins

Podcasts

Despite such differences in their backgrounds, one went to Oxford, one to Cambridge; one an engineer, the other a classicist, Maddy and Peter find that understanding human motivation and human behaviour has been at the centre of their careers. The Harkness experience...

Emmert Roberts & Evan Davis

Podcasts

In a wide-ranging conversation, Evan and Emmert contrast east and west coasts of America, and how travel showed “the US isn’t one place at all”. An economist/broadcaster and addiction psychiatrist find much to share about their experiences 25 years apart, including...

Emma Watson & Malcolm Singer

Podcasts

Listen as Emma and Malcolm find common ground about young clinicians and international musicians. They explore the key role of effective leadership in academic departments, rural hospitals, string quartets and beyond. Reminding us of the disorientation in those first...

Dr Claire Wilson & Dr Mary Ethna Black

Podcasts

https://harknessfellows.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Wilson-Ethna-Black-Podcast.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download From reserved young doctor in Northern Ireland to having her first book published, via designing the medical evacuation airlift from Sarajevo...

Dr Saira Ghafur & Peter Sands

Podcasts

https://harknessfellows.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Ghafur-Sands-Podcast.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download What does a global pandemic have in common with a financial crisis? The worlds of finance and public health are explored in this interview as a...

Tom Hayhoe

1970s, All Harkness Stories, Economics, Finance & Business, Health & Social Care, Politics & Public Services

currently chairs the Taxation Disciplinary Board and the Legal Services Consumer Panel.  He is also a disciplinary committee chair for the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants, an external assessor for the College of Policing, and a governor of West Thames...

Sir Christopher Hogg

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...

Bamber Gascoigne

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...

Professor Koen Lenaerts – Court of Justice of the European Union Contribution to EU Integration

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...

Can we deliver Sustainable Food Production?

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...