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| Nicola (Nicky) Margaret Helme [CFT #8470] Born: 1955 |
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| b Windlesham, Surrey Nicola Padfield read Jurisprudence at St. Anne's College, Oxford for a BA in 1976. The following year she read for a post graduate diploma in Criminology at Darwin College, Cambridge. During 1978/79 she completed a diploma in French Law at the University of Aix-Marseille. Called to the bar 27th July 1978, she practised as a criminal law barrister. From 1990 to 1991 she was an Alumni Affairs Officer at Cambridge University being elected a Fellow of Fitzwilliam College the latter year. In 1992 she became an affiliated lecturer in Crimonology; in 1996 a lecturer and in 2002 a senior lecturer. On 31st October 2002 she was appointed a Recorder sitting on the South Eastern Circuit and the Crown Court and in February 2009 a Bencher of the Middle Temple. For the 2008/2009 academic year she was Visiting Professor at the University of Poitiers in France. 2002 saw her promoted to Reader in Criminal and Penal Justice and in October 2013 she took up her appointment as the 8th Master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. In 2018 she was made an honorary QC. On 24th September 2020 the Faculty of Law issued the following statement: The Faculty is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Nicky Padfield as the Faculty’s inaugural Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity (EDI). This new role has been created following the Faculty’s receipt, earlier this year, of an Athena SWAN Bronze Award, which recognised the Faculty’s commitment to addressing matters of gender equality. In preparing its Athena SWAN application and associated action plan, the Faculty undertook a process that involved considerable engagement — with students, academic staff and professional services staff — and self-reflection. That process underlined the need for equality, diversity and inclusivity-related matters to be fully embedded within the Faculty’s governance and decision-making processes. The establishment of the post of Director of EDI is key to the achievement of that objective — and while the creation of the post emerged from a process that was primarily concerned with gender equality, the remit of the role has been framed with reference to equality in its myriad forms and on all relevant grounds. Professor Padfield has worked in the University of Cambridge for 30 years, serving for six years as Master of Fitzwilliam College. She has also been a Tutor, an Admissions Tutor and a part-time judge. Her research has long been concerned with throwing light on disadvantages and injustice within the criminal justice system. Welcoming Professor Padfield’s appointment, Professor Mark Elliott, Chair of the Faculty of Law, commented: "This appointment underlines our commitment to ensuring that the Faculty of Law is a welcoming and inclusive environment for all students and colleagues, and builds on the Faculty’s access and widening participation work that seeks to ensure that our student body fully reflects the diversity of our society. I look forward very much to working with Professor Padfield as she begins in this new role." Nicky Padfield commented: "I am pleased to take on this role in the Faculty. I know it will be a challenge: although the University and the Faculty have made significant progress in recent years in this area, there is also a great deal of work that remains to be done. I shall bend over backwards to work with staff and students to help ensure that the values of equality, diversity and inclusivity are advanced in ways that really make a difference." Professor Padfield formally takes up her role as Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity on 1 October 2020. |
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