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

Professor Bridges' 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 and 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.

Nicky is Director of Studies in Graduate Medicine (Clinical)

Dr Sean Butler is an Emeritus Fellow at St Edmund's College. His main field of research is animal rights law.

Dr Sean Butler studied Law at Oxford (St Edmund Hall) and the LSE, London, as well as Genetics at Cambridge (CPGS) before taking his PhD in social science at Imperial College, London. He supervises Roman Law and lectures Animal Rights Law in the Law Faculty, and is Co-Director of the Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law.

Academic Profile

Malcolm Cameron is a consultant Head and Neck Maxillofacial Surgeon and clinical lead at Addenbrooke’s, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust where he has worked for over two decades.  He qualified in Medicine from St Bartholomew’s Hospital after his Dental degree at Guy’s Hospital, London.

His training involved time at The Royal Marsden Hospital and completed at University College Hospital in London including Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital and Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead.

Within Oral and Maxillofacial surgery, his special interests are head and neck oncology with special reference to mouth cancer and reconstruction. Additionally, he manages adult and paediatric facial trauma and he also looks after salivary gland pathology and complex cutaneous malignancy.

At Addenbrooke’s he is a trainer for medical and dental core trainees plus surgeons in higher training.  He hosts student selected components (SSP’s) for clinical medical students at the University of Cambridge Medical School and is the supervisor for head & neck anatomy at St Edmunds College, Cambridge.

He is a contributing author to the medical text books: Essential Surgery, Maxillofacial Trauma and Aesthetic Reconstruction.