[2][3] Bammel remained at Girton College to research "the continuity and discontinuity between the 'classical' Greek and Latin world and the new attitudes brought into being as people in the Roman Empire became Christian",[2] and completed her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1966.

[3] and her thesis was entitled 'The manuscript tradition of Origen's commentary on Romans in the Latin translation by Rufinus'.

[4] For the 1965/1966 academic year, Bammel was an Alexander von Humboldt research fellow at the University of Munich.

[1] In 1979, the then Caroline Hammond married Ernst Bammel, a fellow lecturer in the Faculty of Divinity.

[2] On 31 October 1995, after a number of years living with the disease, she died in Cambridge, England; she was aged 55.