Research Committee

How our understanding of human communication can contribute to the design and use of new informational and communication technologies; the role of social factors in the evolution of language and intelligence.

Gillian Griffiths (Director of Studies) is Professor of Cell Biology and Immunology at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.  Her research is focused on understanding the cell biology of polarised secretion from lymphocytes, using insights gained from genetic disease and parallels between different biological systems to identify the molecular mechanisms underlying this process.  Gillian is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Academy of Medical Sciences and an EMBO member.

I am Robin and was myself a student at King’s. I spent a number of years teaching in Oxford before being drawn back by the unique challenges of this place. I teach across the range of Greek and Roman history, art and archaeology, and teach Historians as well as Classicists. Quite a lot of the things I have published have grown out of my teaching. I have been an editor of Omnibus for many years and you can find my contributions, recent and less recent, in the Omnibus archive (https://archive.org/details/omnibuscatalogue).

Dr Hill is the Senior Tutor at King’s College; she oversees the educational and pastoral life of the College.  Before taking on this role Myfanwy was a full time academic with research interests in brain stem cells.  In particular, she worked on regeneration of injury in the brain and spinal cord.  Myfanwy is also a qualified veterinary surgeon treating companion animals.  Alongside being Senior Tutor, she teaches Medical, Veterinary and Natural Sciences students.