Lucy Ward

Lucy Ward is a journalist and communications specialist with over 25 years' experience writing about education, politics and social affairs.

She has worked as an education correspondent for The Guardian, Independent and the Times Education Supplement, and was a Guardian Lobby journalist based at Westminster. From 2015 to 2019, Lucy worked in communications at the University of Cambridge; first as Head of Communications at Gonville & Caius College and then as Communications Manager at the Faculty of Education. She has now returned to freelance writing.

Lucy grew up in Manchester and read English at Balliol College, Oxford. She lives in Saffron Walden with her partner and three children.

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