Royal Literary Fund Fellow
Help with your academic writing
Lucy Cavendish has the benefit of an RLF Fellow to help undergraduate and post-graduate students (and staff) with writing.
A free, confidential service to help improve your writing skills
The Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow is a professional, published author whose role is to help you strengthen your academic writing.
Sign up for a free one-to-one tutorial to help you:
- plan your study time
- focus your reading for essay, dissertation or thesis writing
- express your ideas more clearly
- structure your essay, dissertation or report
- answer grammar and punctuation questions
- discover techniques for editing and proofing your work
- increase your confidence about writing and enjoyment of the process.
Lucy Cavendish College's RFL is Susannah Gibson.
Susannah Gibson is a historian specialising in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries with a particular focus on history of science and women’s history. Recent books include Bluestockings (John Murray, 2024) which explores the lives of the pioneering eighteenth-century women who advocated for female education and argued that women were capable of rational thought, and The Spirit of Inquiry (Oxford University Press, 2019) which tells the story of how science changed from a fringe activity pursued by eccentrics into the behemoth we know today.
Susannah began her career in academia and has degrees in experimental physics and history as well as a PhD in history from the University of Cambridge. Since 2015, she has been writing popular history books full time.
You can email her at susannah.gibson@rlfeducation.org.uk.