Prestigious visiting professorship awarded to Prof. Arlene Holmes-Henderson

The Professorship sees Portuguese higher education institutions host visiting professors from international universities with distinguished academic record and Humanities expertise.

Prof. Holmes-Henderson will take up the Professorship at the Universidade de Lisboa during the academic year 2026–27. She will work with Portuguese colleagues on Classics education, pedagogy, assessment and policy, co-authoring publications meeting policymakers and hosting an international conference.

Please join us in offering our deep congratulations to Prof. Holmes-Henderson on this very competitive and prestigious award.

• Learn more about Arlene's work and research
• Further information on the Gulbenkian Professorship
• Read about Arlene's current secondment to the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
• Help Arlene and colleagues to bring Classics education into more UK prisons