Our people

Chris Young is Professor of Modern and Medieval German Studies at the University of Cambridge and was Head of the School of Arts and Humanities prior to his appointment as Master of St Edmund's College. He is also Director of the Cambridge DAAD Research Hub for German Studies, and founder and Director of the Cambridge-LMU Strategic Partnership, Cambridge’s first institution-wide partnership with any university. He is both a medievalist and a prize-winning historian of modern sport.

He is currently co-curating a major exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum on the 1924 Paris Olympics (best known through the film ‘Chariots of Fire’) and serving on the German government’s Historical Commission on the terrorist attack at the 1972 Olympics in Munich. 

Kieron has enjoyed a wide-reaching career spanning different sectors and countries. After university, he joined the government advising industry specialists on the development and accreditation of vocational qualifications. Staying within government, he then led the launch of a new and innovative legal information and advice service aimed at helping members of the public.

Returning to Cambridge, Kieron joined Cambridge University Press and Assessment where he managed several international education reform projects with ministries of education in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. It was during this time that he was approached by KAUST University in Saudi Arabia to work for them. At KAUST, he was responsible for several student-facing initiatives including establishing the University’s inaugural Student Ombudsman Service, where he assisted students with a range of complex issues.

Shortly after returning to the UK, Kieron joined St Edmund’s as its first Director of Education where he continues to support students.

As Director of the Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research, my research spans the domains of housing, digital inclusion, and social policy.

Dr Burgess is Director of the Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research in the Department of Land Economy, Director of the Isaac Newton Trust, Vice-Master of St Edmund's College, and Deputy Senior Proctor, University of Cambridge.

Louisa is Director of Studies for Music.

Emanuela is Director of Studies for Modern and Medieval Languages

Russell Re Manning is the Deputy Centre Administrator at CRASSH (Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities).

Russell joined CRASSH from Bath Spa University where he worked as Programme Leader and Reader in Religions, Philosophies and Ethics. He previously worked in various research and teaching roles at the Universities of Aberdeen and Cambridge and was a Fellow at St Edmund’s from 2004-2011.

Russell’s research interests are at the intersections of religion and culture, with a particular emphasis on the intellectual history of ‘natural theology’ and the work of Paul Tillich (1886-1965).

Russell holds an MA from the University of Oxford (Philosophy & Theology) and an MPhil and PhD (Philosophy of Religion) from the University of Cambridge, during which time he was a student at St Edmund’s (and one of the very first residents in the Richard Laws building!).

Mary is the Outreach Coordinator for German in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, where her role is to coordinate widening participation and student recruitment activity. Mary holds a DPhil in Medieval and Modern Languages and an MSt in Medieval Studies from Merton College, Oxford, and a BA in German with English from King’s College London. She is an Honorary Research Fellow in Oxford’s Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages and her research focuses include nineteenth-century Anglo-German medievalism and medieval pilgrimage writing.

She was previously a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow and Junior Research Fellow at Linacre College, Oxford and an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at Maynooth University. Her publications include International Medievalisms (2023) and Writing the Jerusalem Pilgrimage in the Late Middle Ages (2021). She has also written for the Tablet and History Today. Mary is the co-founder of Teaching the Codex and volunteers as a charity fundraiser.