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We are delighted to learn of the success of our academic staff in the University's 2025 promotions exercise.

Dr Lydia Hamlett, Institute of Professional and Continuing Education

Lydia is a Fellow in History of Art and Director of Studies at the College and Associate Professor at the Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge.

Before coming to the Institute of Continuing Education, Lydia was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of History of Art at Cambridge. She was Programme Curator for the University of Cambridge Museums, when she co-curated 'Discoveries: Art, Science and Exploration' (2014), and a post-doctoral researcher on 'Court, Country, City: British Art 1660-1735' (AHRC), based at the University of York and Tate, where she curated 'Sketches for Spaces: History Painting and Architecture 1630–1730' (2013-14). Before this, she was on the research team for 'The Art of the Sublime' at Tate (AHRC). Lydia was a curator at the National Trust from 2008-9, and also at The Fitzwilliam Museum where she worked on exhibitions including 'From Reason to Revolution: Art and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain' (2008) and 'Paul Mellon: A Cambridge Tribute' (2008). She has taught History of Art at Cambridge since 2003.

Her current research interests are in British visual culture, classical reception, gender and patronage.

From 2022–2024, Lydia was Principal Investigator on a two-year research project that aimed to maximise the role of The Women’s Art Collection within research and teaching activities at the University of Cambridge and unlock the Collection as a resource for the broader public. The project was called ‘Investigating the role of The Women’s Art Collection: Research & Teaching’,  Lydia is now working with Ella Nixon to turn this research into a book.

Dr Amy Tobin, Department of History of Art

Amy is Bye Fellow in History of Art at Murray Edwards and Associate Professor in the History of Art, University of Cambridge.  She is also the Curator of Contemporary Programmes at Kettle’s Yard.

At Cambridge, Amy teaches modern and contemporary art across the Tripos, and convene the special subject module 'Vision and Representation in Contemporary Art', which focuses on the politics of representation, figuration, surveillance and censorship in recent art and visual culture.

Her research is concerned with histories of feminism and art. She is currently working on a book project on sisterhood and the women's liberation movement in Britain and the US, which emerges from her PhD thesis 'Working Together, Working Apart: Feminism, Art and Collaboration in Britain and North America, 1970–1981' completed in 2017 at the University of York under the supervision of Jo Applin. She has written on numerous artists including Helen Chadwick, Rose English, Rose Garrard, Eva Hesse, Candace Hill, Alexis Hunter, Suzanne Lacy, Linder, Rosemary Mayer, Julie Mehretu, Howardena Pindell, Cecilia Vicuña, Jo Spence and Hannah Wilke, and curated exhibitions on , , , , , and Sutapa Biswas at Kettle's Yard. She also regularly writes art criticism for .

Amy acts as an advisor to the Womens’ Art Collection.