Congratulations to three members of Robinson College who have been promoted by the University of Cambridge, with their new roles taking effect on 1 October 2026.

Dr Brian Sloan, Director of Studies and Fellow in Law, has been promoted to Professor of Property and Family Law.   Brian read for his BA in Law (scholar) and LLM (Wright Rogers scholar, Faculty of Law) at Robinson College.  He then took up a W.M. Tapp doctoral studentship at Gonville and Caius College. He has been a Fellow of Robinson since 2012, where he supervises Equity, Family Law and Land Law and serves as a Graduate Tutor. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law.

Brian’s research interests are Informal carers in comparative private law; the regulation of adult relationships; the application of property law in the domestic sphere; child law (in particular the law of adoption); the law of succession. Read more about Dr Brian Sloan here

Dr Elizabeth (Lizzi) Rawlinson-Mills received a grade promotion which recognises her research and teaching contributions as Associate Professor. Lizzi is a Fellow in English and Education, Director of Studies for Education, and Director of Studies Academic Director of Pegasus Scholars, Robinson College’s bridging programme for incoming undergraduates from disadvantaged backgrounds. She is also the Faculty of Education's representative on the University Steering Group responsible for a partnership with the BBC on the National Short Story Award and Young Writers’ Award.

Lizzi’s work is primarily around poetry and poetry education. Her recent publications demonstrate the lasting impact of school poetry teaching on beginning English teachers, and the implications for their students, and her current project takes forward key themes from this work (creativity, playfulness, autonomy and community) as principles for both poetry pedagogy and research design. As well as having an immediate impact on classroom practice, this research proposes a framework for noticing, recording and evaluating qualities of the aesthetic/poetic encounter – a problem still unsolved by academic research, but vital for assessments of poetry pedagogy that go beyond what is easy to measure and instead capture the richness of a truly authentic classroom experience. Read more about Dr Lizzi Rawlinson-Mills here

Dr Iza Kavedžija received a grade promotion which recognises her research and teaching contributions as Associate Professor.

Iza, a Fellow at Robinson, is a social and medical anthropologist specialising in Japan, with primary research interests spanning health and wellbeing; aging and the life course; and art and creativity. She has conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork with two distinct groups of people in the Kansai region of Japan: independently living older people (and those in their circles of care); and contemporary artists. Among both groups she has been especially interested in themes of motivation and purpose, life choices, reflexivity, and agency. Find out more about Iza here