Our people

Neville is the Director of the King’s Centre for Strategic Communications (KCSC), the leading global centre of academic expertise in Strategic Communications. He is Reader in Strategic Communications and Convenor of the Masters programme in Strategic Communications in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. And he is Senior Fellow at SCERU, University of Tokyo. Bolt is Editor-in-Chief of Defence Strategic Communications, the peer reviewed academic journal of NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence.

He has convened the Masters course Evolution of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency and the International Relations course Transnational Movements, Networks and Revolutionary Strategy. He supervises PhD students researching topics including empathy in international negotiations; trust in the revolutionary theatre; counter-conduct & democratic dissent; materiality of communication in urban space; Cold War metaphor of containment; strategic communications policies in Afghanistan; phenomenology of the information environment; constructing political memory; jazz diplomacy in the Cold War; memory construction in Latvian independence; influence networks in South Caucasus; Brazil’s Amazonia dilemma. He was the Teaching Excellence Award Winner 2017.

Much of his career was spent as a television journalist and producer-director at the BBC, ITV, and CBC (Canada). Working in news and current affairs, he specialised as a producer of war zone documentaries, covering conflicts in Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, and Indian subcontinent. Later he created strategic communications campaigns for Britain’s Labour Party; Amnesty International; the African National Congress (ANC)/Anti-Apartheid Movement. He served too as communications advisor to UEFA Champions League football.

His book The Violent Image: Insurgent Propaganda and the New Revolutionaries (Columbia UP) was published in 2012, 2^nd revised edition, 2020 (Oxford UP), winning the CHOICE ‘outstanding academic status award’. Unmapping the 21^st Century: Between Networks and the State (Bristol UP) was published in 2022. He is writing Strategic Communications: Information, Disinformation & The Human Condition, and producing a volume of field-defining Perspectives from Defence Strategic Communications journal to appear late 2022.

Former Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge

Director of Development, Schools and Non-Clinical Academic Programmes

Josh Bowerman serves as Director of Development at the University of Cambridge for the University’s School’s Programme within the central Cambridge University Development and Alumni Relations team (CUDAR). In this role, his primary responsibility is to oversee the teams responsible for designing and executing fundraising and external relations activities on behalf of the University’s six non-clinical academic programmes—including the School of Arts & Humanities, the School of the Biological Sciences, the Cambridge Judge Business School, the School of Humanities & Social Sciences, the School of the Physical Sciences, and the School of Technology.

Josh holds an undergraduate degree in Rhetoric (1997; Hardin-Simmons University, Abilene, TX, USA) and a graduate degree in Business Administration (2001; Bellarmine University, Louisville, KY, USA), and was awarded a fellowship by the US-Germany Fulbright Commission in 2019.

Josh and his spouse, Jennifer Shimp-Bowerman (who also holds a senior post on the CUDAR team), live in Cambridge near Addenbrooke’s and are the parents of one daughter (Emily), who lives and works in Charleston, SC, USA.

Lewis is Director of Studies for History and Philosophy of Science (HPS)

My research focuses on educational policy and practice in the UK and internationally.

Professor Bridges is probably best known for his work in philosophy of education through which he engaged critically with evolving educational policy over six decades. He was elected Chair of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain (of which he is now Honorary Vice President) and was founder and Co-Convenor of the Philosophy Section of both the British and European Education Research Associations. However, from an early stage in his career he was also drawn into empirical studies, mainly employing ethnographic and case study approaches. This work took him into many different spheres including, school accountability, policing, an Evaluation of the Engineering Councils Neighborhood Engineer scheme and multiple evaluations for local authorities of their responses to government initiatives in teacher training. Professor Bridges bridged the philosophy of education community and the wider educational research community and became a member of the Council of the British Educational Research Association and represented the UK on the Council of the European Educational Research Association. He was twice a member of the Education panel for the UK Research Assessment Exercise. A lot of his later philosophical writing addressed issues arising out of contemporary practice in educational and wider social science research.

In parallel with this academic work, Professor Bridges took on a succession of leadership positions in higher education:, first as Deputy Principal of Homerton College (in which his early career was based) and as Professor and Dean of the School of Education and then as Pro Vice Chancellor in the University of East Anglia. On retiring (early) from this he came to St Edmund's as Visiting Fellow and then remained as Director of the Von Hugel Institute. In parallel with this he was appointed first Director of the newly established Association of Universities in the East of England, which was an HE response to the government's creation of Regional Development Agencies and a Regional Assembly. Through most of his career Professor Bridges has had extensive international engagement both as an academic (Addis Ababa -- for 26 years -- Hong Kong, University of Illinois, Oslo and Chung Chen University in Taiwan, Nazarbayeth University in Astana) and as a policy consultant (Ethiopia, Guyana, Belize, Ghana, Iran, Mongolia, and, Kazakhstan). The work in Mongolia and Kazakhstan was carried out under the auspices of the Cambridge University Faculty of Education which he rejoined in 2011 and with Cambridge Assessment. A number of Professor Bridges' publications are the product of these international partnerships or arise out of reflections on this international work.

Publications

• Bridges,D. (2023) Ethics in educational practice, policy and research. Ethics International Press.
• Bridges,D. (2017) Philosophy in educational research: Epistemology, ethics, politics and quality. Springer
• Bridges,D. Ed. (2014) Educational reform and internationalisation: The case of school reform in Kazakhstan. Cambridge University Press.
• Bridges,D, Smeyers,P. & Smith, R.D Eds. (2009) Evidence-based educational policy: What evidence? What basis? Whose policy? Wiley Blackwell (Originally as a special issue of the Journal of Philosophy of Education).?
• Bridges, D. and McLaughlin T.H. Eds. (1994) Education and the market place. Falmer Press

Awards & Recognitions 

• Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences
• Honorary Doctorate of the Open University
• Honorary Vice President of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain
• Honorary Member of the European Education Research Association

Consultant Anaesthetist, West Suffolk Hospital and Clinical Tutor, Cambridge Graduate Course in Medicine

Former Vice-Chancellor of University of Cambridge, Lord Broers worked in the research and development laboratories of IBM in the United States for 19 years before returning to Cambridge in 1984 to become Professor of Electrical Engineering (1984–96) and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge (1985–90). He is a pioneer of nanotechnology.

Barry studied Architecture and Fine Arts at the University of Cambridge as a member of St John’s College.

In 1983 he formed Bland, Brown & Cole with Julian Bland and was made a Fellow Commoner of St Edmund’s College in recognition of this work in doubling the size of the College.

Mike Brownnutt obtained his first Master’s degree (MSci in physics) and his PhD (in experimental quantum mechanics) from Imperial College London, UK. He then worked at the University of Innsbruck for eight years, writing his habilitation on his research there, which developed scalable architectures for trapped-ion quantum computers. He completed a second Master’s degree (MA in theology from the University of Chester, UK) considering how faith is understood by various parties in discourse on the relationship between Christianity and science.

He spent seven years at the University of Hong Kong, serving as Associate Director of the Faith and Science Collaborative Research Forum, and researching framings for science and religion which do not pre-suppose Modernist assumptions. He now serves as Course Director of the Faraday Institute. In his spare time, he is working on a PhD (with University of Birmingham) on non-Modern philosophy of science and religion.

Graham Budd's professional background is in engineering, computer science, microelectronics and AI. His research interests lie at the intersection of science, technology and religion – in particular the ethics of AI and its application as a trustworthy, beneficial tool to support human flourishing.

Graham Budd is the Executive Director of The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion. He was previously President and COO at Arm, before his retirement from the company in 2021.

He read Engineering at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, before starting his career in technology at Thorn EMI Electronics. He has over 30 years experience in computing and the global semiconductor industry, including his work leading the development of several of Arm’s pioneering early single-chip computer designs. In 2005 he became Executive VP and General Manager of Arm’s Processor Division, then Chief Operating Officer from 2008. He was a member of Arm’s Executive Committee from 2005 and joined the main Arm Board in 2017.

Graham has held a number of business and charity Board roles and is currently Chair of the Aidan Charitable Trust. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and a Commissioner at the AI, Faith and Civil Society Commission.

Luana is Director of Studies for our Computer Science degree.

Isabella Buono read Law at Magdalene College, Cambridge (MA) and St John’s College, Oxford (BCL), before qualifying as a barrister. She is currently the Judicial Assistant to the President of the UK Supreme Court, Lord Reed of Allermuir. Isabella has supervised European Union Law at St Edmund's since 2017.

Professor Maria Burke's research expertise concerns the application of new digital technology to economic, environmental and social systems. She has a particular interest in the regulation of AI. 

Professor Maria Burke, PhD, MBA, MA, DMS, SFHEA, FRSA, is an academic and researcher at Birkbeck, University of London, and an Emerita Professor at the University of Winchester where she served as Head of Research for almost a decade. A Bye Fellow of St Edmund's College, she co-founded the Fragility and Flourishing research group at the Von Hügel Institute. Her research examines the intersection of digital technology and its economic, environmental, and social impacts, with a focus on AI regulatory frameworks. In 2023, she was honoured to receive the Society for Research in Higher Education (SRHE) Accolade Award. Professor Burke continues to contribute to international academic and policy discussions on AI regulation. In 2025 she was an invited speaker at New York University and the European Women’s Technology Conference in Amsterdam.