Education
She was educated at the University of East Anglia where she graduated with a Bachelor of Science and a Doctor of Philosophy entitled "The energy implications of alternative rural development patterns" in 1981.
She was educated at the University of East Anglia where she graduated with a Bachelor of Science and a Doctor of Philosophy entitled "The energy implications of alternative rural development patterns" in 1981.
She joined the University of Cambridge as an academic in 1981. She was made an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1998, and a Fellow of the British Academy in 2011.