MICRO-BIO

• My husband and I are retired academics who have the privilege of living in Italy and the UK and, during our retirment, of visiting a number

  My husband and I are retired academics who have the privilege of living in Italy and the UK and, during our retirment, of visiting a number Less

EXPERIENCE

• University of Kent (retired)

  • January 2020 to Present

• University of Kent (retired)

  • Retired senior lecturer
  • Education
  • St Martin’s Windmill, 6 Windmill Close
  • September 1995 to Present

• Universities and Colleges Admissions Service

  • Head of Department
  • Research & Statistics
  • September 1993 to October 2003

• University of Kent (UK)

  • Retired Senior Lecturer, 2018 awarded second PhD from University of Bristol
  • Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies
  • September 1985 to August 1993

• City of London University

  • Senior Lecturer
  • Politics and Government
  • June 1977 to August 1985

EDUCATION

• University of Bristol

  • PhD Saint as Superman
  • January 2009 to August 2017

  I was attracted to the depiction of the Blessed Agostino Novello flying in to each of the four panels which flank the altarpiece to him painted by the Sienese artist, Simone Martini between 1324-28. Since I was retired, I had the privilege of being able to visit with my husband many of the cities surrounding the Mediterranean Basin to study the visual depictions of saints and beati and how these varied medieval representations might have been brought to Italy during the Crusades, by pilgrims and traders, and itinerant artists. On several occasions I have spoken to audiences in the UK, Italy, where I have a house, and Cyprus sharing with colleagues my theories and ideas and gaining from them insight and knowledge of different iconographic traditions.

• The London School of Economics and Political Science

  • PhD in The Sociology Of Creativity
  • October 1980 to July 1988

  Under the guidance of Professor Eileen Barker, I studied and recorded interviews with the artists who exhibited in the 1978 Hayward Annual, the first exhibition of Women Artists in the UK, coordinated by painter and sculptor, Liliane Lijn. I examined the type of artistic paths they pursued, the people and events that had inspired them, and the obstacles they had to overcome to achieve acclaim for their work.

• Queen's University of Belfast

  • MSSc
  • September 1972 to July 1974

  For my MSSc, I undertook a study of 'Religiosity in the Shankill and Falls Road' in which I devised a Gutmann Scale to establish at what point identification with people and the lengths people would go to defend them switched to a feeling of 'otherness' and sometimes hostility. During this period I gained a scholarship to the University of Chicago where I studied forms of Data Analysis while working with Professors Nie and McCready on the Five-Nation Political Study.

• Queen's University of Belfast

  • BSSc
  • October 1968 to July 1971

  The first year of the BSSc degree included courses in Sociology, Psychology and Politics. In the second year I specialised in Sociology with Psychology as a minor subject. In my final year I conducted research into the paintings on the walls of the Falls Road and Shankill Raod in Belfast and interviewed people in those communities regarding the stereotypes they had of the Catholics and Protestants currently engaged in what has become known as The Troubles.

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