A panel of prominent female journalists will lead a discussion this evening at Lucy Cavendish College on Women in the Media: Publish and Be Damned.

The panellists will present their thoughts on the effect media has on women. They will examine the roles women fill writing for and running the media, as well as how women are portrayed, made and broken by it.

Louise Foxcroft, Lucy Cavendish College alumna, historian and author, will chair the discussion and invite audience comment.

The panel will include:

  • Author and journalist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, who has served as a columnist on the Independent and the Evening Standard and as a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Centre.
  • Independent on Sunday columnist Rowan Pelling who was a prize judge for the 2004 Booker prize and is a former editor of the Erotic Review.
  • Journalist and author Irma Kurtz who is an Agony Aunt for Cosmopolitan magazine.
  • Chronic and cancer pain specialist Marcia Schofield, who is a Lucy Cavendish College alumna and a former keyboard player with The Fall.

Presented in association with Granta Books, the event will take place in the WoodLegh Room, in the Strathaird building at Lucy Cavendish from 6 to 7:30pm. The doors will open at 5:30pm.

Lucy Cavendish is an all-female college for mature students which was founded in 1965 by a group of women determined to challenge the exclusivity of Cambridge. The College is named after a leading Victorian campaigner for the reform of women's education.

The ethos of the collegiate community is to create an environment that enables women to make things happen in their own lives, to broaden the parameters of their expectations and to make their own valuable contribution to society.

The College recognizes that the structures of women's lives are often different from those of men. To that end, it offers flexibility in the shape of access to the highest standards of tertiary education at the time of women's lives they choose.

The College celebrates and promotes the wide range of skills women can bring to the educational process, and nourish the confidence needed to speak with a voice worth hearing. The College is committed to widening women's participation in higher education.

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