ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

Dr Birgitta Olofsson is a scientist, former Director of Studies in Biology and Bye-Fellow of Newnham College, turned film maker after a Digital Filmmaking course at Hills Road College. She collaborates with Jonnie Howard Film and has produced several films with a focus on scientists and their life stories. She particularly seeks to promote women researchers, both historical and contemporary. Most of all she wants to tell a story: vivid, compelling and unique.

GILL SUTHERLAND taught and directed studies in History at Newnham from 1965 to 2007 and is now a Fellow Emerita. As a scholar of the social and political history of education and of women in particular, Gill is a fount of knowledge about the history of the College. With Kate Williams she is the editor of a second Newnham anthology, published to celebrate the 150th anniversary, Walking on the Grass, Dancing in the Corridors: Newnham at 150.