Alumnae Profiles

Notre Dame girls always aim high and none higher than Francesca Edwards, who has recently begun training as a commercial pilot with Easyjet.

A bright idea at uni has grow into a multi-award winning digital fashion company for entrepreneur Jenny Griffiths MBE

Now as at home in Hollywood as she is in London, Ruth is a constant presence on our TV and cinema screens.

‘Unbearably good’ – that’s how the Daily Telegraph’s theatre critic Dominic Cavendish described alumna Patsy Ferran’s performance in Tennessee Williams’ rarely performed play ‘Summer and Smoke’, which returns to the Duke of Yorks Theatre in London’s West End this winter

Visitors to the Main Avenue show gardens at this year’s RHS Show at Chelsea will have admired the work of Sarah Price, who won the coveted Gold Medal for her Mediterranean Garden.

When it comes to competitive sport, it doesn’t get much bigger than playing for your country and alumna Fi Tillman continues to be a leading member of the Team GB Wheelchair Basketball team.

Making a splash in Tokyo in 2020 is the goal of our champion swimmer Hannah Burvill, who crossed the Atlantic in 2016 to take up a full four-year swimming scholarship at the University of Iowa.

The UK fashion industry is booming and so is the career of Sophie Lightowlers, who graduated in 2017 with a BA in Fashion and Textiles from Winchester School of Art (part of the University of Southampton.)

Former Head Girl Claudia hadn’t even left Durham university when she co-founded a network called Fractio Vitri (www.fractiovitri.com), aimed at helping young women under 35 to ‘break the glass ceiling’.