Claire Nicholson has been awarded a PhD for her dissertation entitled In Woolf's Clothing: Clothes and Fashion in Virginia Woolf's Fiction.

Claire obtained an MA Women's Studies with distinction at Anglia Ruskin in 1998 and, after having taught for many years at the Cambridge Regional College, returned to Anglia Ruskin in 2007 to fulfil her lifelong ambition to read for a doctorate.

She has also been teaching English Literature for us on a part-time basis and is well known outside the university as an organiser of Cambridge's 'To the Lighthouse Festival', for her popular walking tours around Virginia Woolf's Cambridge, her lectures in Granchester orchard about the Bloomsbury Group and to many local community groups including the Women's Institute and the WEA. Her first supervisor was Professor Mary Joannou and her second supervisor Dr Tory Young. The Internal Examiner was Dr Jeannette Baxter.

The External Examiner, Dame Gillian Beer was also Mary Joannou's Ph.D supervisor. Mary Joannou said: "This makes three generations of Cambridge-based Virginia Woolf scholarship so I am naturally delighted. I am confident that it will only be a matter of time before this wonderful research finds its way into print."

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