Elizabeth Scurfield
Elizabeth Scurfield was born in 1950 in Don Valley, England, the youngest of four children to Ralph Scurfield and Ella Jessie Barnes Scurfield (née Barnes). She graduated with a degree in Chinese (First Class Honours) from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London.
Scurfield co-founded the Chinese Department at the University of Westminster[1] in London, where she was also Evening Programme Director, Principal Lecturer in Chinese, and Chair of the Department of Modern Languages. She is a member of the British Association for Chinese Studies[citation needed], and was appointed specialist assessor with Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) for the period October 1996–September 1998[citation needed].
Scurfield joined the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in 1995 and from 2002 onwards worked as representative at the Quaker Council for European Affairs in Brussels.[1][2]
