Barbara Wittman

This September, we held our first residential Creative Writing Course. Attendees spent the week learning from published authors, fellow writers and industry experts in a relaxed and creative environment. Speakers included published authors who discovered success through the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize, Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott (Swan Song), Laura Marshall (Friend Request, Three Little Lies) and Emily Midorikawa (A Secret Sisterhood: the Hidden Friendships of Austen, Brontё, Eliot and Woolf).

‘Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has’ Margaret Hamilton. Why has the percentage of undergraduate physics students who are women been stuck at 20% for over 20 years? How can we better support the 30% of gender non-conforming people in STEM who report feeling uncomfortable in their workplace? When will black female professors at scientific conferences no longer be mistaken for catering staff?

Hi, my name’s Lindsay; I’m just starting my second year of the Graduate Medicine course at Lucy Cavendish and have been awarded a grant from the Women’s Careers Foundation towards my studies. I’m really enjoying studying Medicine at Lucy. Being a doctor is an aspiration I had for a long time before applying here, and it’s an ambition that I never really thought possible until now. Studying Medicine is exciting, interesting and challenging, and no two days are the same.