Deborah Prentice: Cambridge’s ‘pragmatic’ psychologist-in-chief

Princeton ‘lifer’ moves to Cambridge without ever totally shaking off her outsider status

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October 5, 2022

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Deborah Prentice

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Deborah Prentice is now v-c at Cambridge

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Print headline: New Cambridge v-c ‘will see where others faced pitfalls’

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