The Council of University Classical Departments (CUCD), founded in 1969, is the association of university departments in the United Kingdom in which Classics (the study of Greek and Roman antiquity) and related subjects are taught and researched. As such, it is one of the principal voices of Classics in the UK (alongside others such as the Classical Association, the

Joint Association of Classical Teachers The Joint Association of Classical Teachers (JACT) was a UK organisation for the encouragement of the teaching of Classics in schools and universities. It was merged into the Classical Association with effect from 2 January 2015. The JACT Summer ...

, and Friends of Classics), and the only one with a distinctive focus on Higher Education. The Council is composed of a Representative of each member institution (there are currently 29), and normally meets once a year in November in London. The Standing Committee, with a membership of around 18, normally meets three times a year in London. The Council has published an annual ''Bulletin'' since 1972. In recent years CUCD has been increasingly active in defending and advancing the position of Classics in the UK. On 17 March 2005 the Council, together with Friends of Classics, hosted a reception for parliamentarians and others in the Palace of Westminster, to promote the cause of classical subjects. CUCD maintains strong links with other Arts, Humanities, and Law subject associations, as well as with the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Classics. The former chair, Robin Osborne, has more than once spoken for the concerns of Humanities subjects in general.

Present and past chairs of CUCD

(As recorded in the ''Bulletin''; earliest years not recorded there.) * 2018–present Prof. Helen Lovatt * 2012-18 Prof. Greg Woolf * 2006–12 Prof. Robin Osborne * 2003–6 Prof. Graham Shipley * 2001–3 Prof. Gillian Clark * 1999–2001 Prof. Robert W. Sharples * 1997–9 Prof. Christopher J. Rowe * 1993–7 Prof. John S. Richardson * 1991–3 Prof.

P. E. Easterling Patricia Elizabeth Easterling, FBA (née Fairfax; born 11 March 1934) is an English classical scholar, recognised as a particular expert on the work of Sophocles. She was Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge from 1994 to 2001 ...

* 1988–91 Prof.

T. P. Wiseman Timothy Peter Wiseman (born 3 February 1940), who usually publishes as T. P. Wiseman and is named as Peter Wiseman in other sources, is a classical scholar and professor emeritus of the University of Exeter. He has published numerous books ...

* 1985–8 Prof. Donald C. Earl * 1982–5 Prof. Trevor J. Saunders * 1979–82 Prof. Fred Robertson * 1976–9 Prof. Eric W. Handley * 1973–6 Prof. George B. Kerfer * 1972 Prof. H. C. Baldry

References

{{Reflist Academic organisations based in the United Kingdom Classical studies College and university associations and consortia in the United Kingdom Educational institutions established in 1969