Women's Centenary Project

The year 2020 marked 100 years since women were first awarded degrees at Oxford. Our Centenary Project is part of a wider University of Oxford initiative to celebrate the many ways in which women graduates have contributed to University and gone on to make their mark in the world. It casts a spotlight on 100 amazing women who have graduated from EP (undergraduate or graduate).

"I was 19 years old when I started on my first research project... After two years of collecting and analysing the data, the upshot of my effort was nothing...It seemed like science working the way it is supposed to – the real world falsifies bad hypotheses, pushing the scientists to try again."

Gillian Finchilescu

Emeritus Professor

Cordelia Fine

Author and Professor in the History & Philosophy of Science programme at the University of Melbourne, Australia

Ione Fine

Professor, Director UW Center of Human Neuroscience

Rachel Free

Partner CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang, LLP

Frances Gardner

Professor of Child and Family Psychology

Annabel Gillings

Freelance Documentary Filmmaker

Silke Goebel

Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of York

Catherine Gosling Fuller

TV producer, Utterly Lovely Productions, and comedy writer

Usha Goswami

Professor of Cognitive Developmental Neuroscience, University of Cambridge

Margriet Groen

Senior lecturer, Department of Psychology, Lancaster University

Lorna Halliday

MRC Senior Research Fellow and Principal Research Associate

Francesca Happe

Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London

Shannon Hayes

Actor and Broadening Horizons Fellow

Emma Hayiou-Thomas

Senior lecturer in Psychology, University of York

Suzanne Higgs

Professor in the Psychobiology of Appetite, School of Psychology

Sophie Hodge

User Experience Designer

Emily Holmes

Professor of Psychology & Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Karolinska Institutet

Isabelle Hung

Clinical Psychologist, University College Hospitals London; Clinical Psychologist, Schoen Clinic; London Expert witness work; Co-founder, Divorceclub.com

Beth Jefferies

Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology

Heidi Johansen-Berg

Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging