Education
Elizabeth Jeffreys was educated at Blackheath High School and Girton College, Cambridge. Later in her career she gained a Bachelor of Letters (BLitt) degree from Street Anne"s College, Oxford.
Elizabeth Jeffreys was educated at Blackheath High School and Girton College, Cambridge. Later in her career she gained a Bachelor of Letters (BLitt) degree from Street Anne"s College, Oxford.
She is now Emeritus Professor, and Emeritus Fellow of Exeter College. Jeffreys taught at Mary Datchelor Girls" School (now closed), London, 1965-1969, then became Senior Resident Fellow at the Warburg Institute, University of London, 1969-1972. She was a Visiting Fellow at the Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, 1972-1974, then Resident Fellow at the University of Ioannina, 1974-1976.
She then moved to Australia as lecturer at universities in Sydney, Australia, 1976-1986.
Resident Fellow, University of Melbourne, 1987-1989. And Resident Fellow then Senior Resident Fellow, University of Sydney, 1990-1995, before returning to Oxford as fellow and professor
After retiring she held a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship 2008-2009. Jeffreys is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and honorary Fellow of Street Anne"s College, Oxford.