Susan Elisabeth Kelly is a British medievalist.
Kelly attended Clare College, Cambridge, from 1979 to 1985, [1] graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1982 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1987. [2] Her doctorate was awarded for her thesis "The Pre-Conquest History and Archive of St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury". [3]
From 1985 to 1988, Kelly was a Rank Foundation Research Fellow at St Catherine's College, Oxford. She was then a British Academy Research Fellow at St Catherine's from 1988 to 1991. From 1991 to 1996, she was a researcher in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at the University of Cambridge, before working as a research fellow at the University of Birmingham from 1996 to 1997 and from 1998 to 2012. [1] In the meantime, she was principal editor (from 1998 to 2011) of the British Academy's Anglo-Saxon Charters series; she has authored or co-authored fourteen volumes of charters for the series. [4] She has been a Marc Fitch Senior Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia since 2015. [1] [4] In 2016, she received the President's Medal from the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences; awarded to up to three people annually, the medal recognises "outstanding service to the cause of the humanities and social sciences". [5]
Susan Elisabeth Kelly is a British medievalist.
Kelly attended Clare College, Cambridge, from 1979 to 1985, [1] graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1982 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1987. [2] Her doctorate was awarded for her thesis "The Pre-Conquest History and Archive of St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury". [3]
From 1985 to 1988, Kelly was a Rank Foundation Research Fellow at St Catherine's College, Oxford. She was then a British Academy Research Fellow at St Catherine's from 1988 to 1991. From 1991 to 1996, she was a researcher in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at the University of Cambridge, before working as a research fellow at the University of Birmingham from 1996 to 1997 and from 1998 to 2012. [1] In the meantime, she was principal editor (from 1998 to 2011) of the British Academy's Anglo-Saxon Charters series; she has authored or co-authored fourteen volumes of charters for the series. [4] She has been a Marc Fitch Senior Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia since 2015. [1] [4] In 2016, she received the President's Medal from the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences; awarded to up to three people annually, the medal recognises "outstanding service to the cause of the humanities and social sciences". [5]