The Master of Caius, Professor Sir Alan Fersht, today congratulated Caius Research Fellow Katherine McDonald, who has been awarded a permanent Lectureship in Classics at the University of Exeter from September 2016.

Katherine is the latest of the outstanding Caius Research Fellows to secure prestigious posts after having furthered their studies over three years at Caius. Her research interests include Oscan and Italic languages, Greek in Italy, language contact in the ancient world (especially in pre-Roman Italy), onomastics and ancient epigraphy.  

Prof Fersht said: "Successes such as Katherine's are a great boost to those of us involved in running the Research Fellowship competition and also raising funds for it, especially as we believe it is one of the most important and enjoyable facets of Caius."

The Research Fellowship had given her the opportunity to publish her monograph and start on a second big project, which has made a huge difference to her research, she told Fellows. She thanked the fellowship - especially the other Research Fellows, the historians and the many Fellows who share her interest in Italy - for "the fantastic research environment at Caius, which has been so characterised by mutual support and the exchange of exciting new ideas".

The interdisciplinary elements of her CV which helped her secure the new post came as a direct result of inter-subject collaboration and discussion at College, she added.