1. Catherine Joanna Rowett was born on 29 December 1956, previously publishing as Catherine Osborne from 1979 to 2011 and is a British academic and former Member of the European Parliament representing the Green Party of England and Wales.
13 Facts About Catherine Rowett
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Catherine Rowett is Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia.
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Catherine Rowett is known in particular for her work on Greek Philosophy, especially the Pre-Socratic philosophers.
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Catherine Rowett was a Green Party Member of the European Parliament for the East of England from 2019 until 31 January 2020, when the United Kingdom left the European Union.
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Catherine Rowett became a Junior Research Fellow of New Hall, Cambridge in 1984.
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From 1990 Catherine Rowett was a lecturer in philosophy at Swansea University.
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On leaving Swansea in 2000, Catherine Rowett became Reader in Greek Culture at the University of Liverpool and then 2003 she moved to the University of East Anglia as a lecturer in philosophy.
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Catherine Rowett became Reader in 2006 and then Professor of Philosophy in 2008.
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Catherine Rowett was the Head of the School of Philosophy from 2005 to 2008.
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Catherine Rowett was awarded a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship from 2007 to 2009 for her work on knowledge and truth in Plato, which formed the foundation of her work published as Knowledge and Truth in Plato: Stepping Past the Shadow of Socrates by Oxford University Press in 2018.
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Catherine Rowett stood as a Green Party candidate for the constituency of South Norfolk in the 2015 and 2017 general elections.
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Catherine Rowett's seat was dissolved on 31 January 2020, following the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union.
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On 13 July 2023, Catherine Rowett was elected as a Green Party councillor on Norfolk County Council when she won the West Depwade by-election.