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		</div><p>Screen stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Emma Watson have been handed new roles – as visiting fellows at Oxford University.<br />
Sherlock actor Benedict and Emma, who made her name as Hermione in the Harry Potter series, are among 11 notable non-academics to have accepted appointments at Lady Margaret Hall.</p>
<p>Pet Shop Boys frontman Neil Tennant, film director Beeban Kidron – who helmed Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit and Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason – and former children’s laureate Malorie Blackman have also accepted visiting fellowship roles at the college.</p>
<p>Benedict, who more recently earned positive reviews for his role in Shakespeare’s Hamlet at the Barbican Centre in London, has shifted to the centre of political debate with a number of impassioned comments on the refugee crisis and Syria.</p>
<p>His portrayal of Cambridge code-breaker Alan Turing in The Imitation Game earned him an Oscar nomination last year for best actor. He was also awarded a CBE for services to the performing arts and to charity.</p>
<p>Emma, who studied for a year at Worcester College Oxford as a visiting student, is a UN Women Goodwill Ambassador advocating equality and promoting education for girls.</p>
<p>Visiting fellows are normally appointed for three years, and are encouraged to attend debates and perform at the college.</p>
<p>LMH’s college principal Alan Rusbridger, former editor in chief of the Guardian, wrote about the expectations of a visiting fellow in a blogpost.</p>
<p>“At a minimum we’d like them to drop in occasionally at college, eat with us and meet informally with a variety of the LMH community.</p>
<p>We’d like them to do one thing a bit more structured: it could be a conversation or debate, a performance, a lecture or seminar, a form of outreach – or something we haven’t thought of. We can imagine fascinating interactions or collaborations between them.</p>
<p>“They are welcome to come and stay in college if they’d like a place temporarily to think or work. And some have already suggested other ways in which they might engage with a body of 700 incredibly smart students and tutors in order to stimulate their own thinking or work in progress,” he wrote.</p>
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