SCIO - Key Persons
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- Operations, Finance, and Properties Administrator
Anneke matriculated from Pro Arte Alphen Park High School in South Africa, where she studied hospitality studies, accounting, maths, and business economics. After graduating, Anneke initially came to the UK for a two-year working holiday, working in various pubs and hotels, and then went back to South Africa, where she gained 14 years' experience in different areas of finance including bookkeeping, stock control, operations, and office management. Anneke has now resettled back in the UK. She loves nature and spending time outdoors and enjoys interacting with people from all walks of life.
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- Lecturer in English Language and Literature
Dr Stainer graduated in Classics and English from Oriel College, Oxford and went on to pursue her graduate studies in Victorian literature at the University of Leeds. Her doctoral thesis explored the nexus of relationship between history, tragedy and the novel in the work of Henry James, and she has a continuing interest in Victorian receptions of Classical literature and the nineteenth-century engagement with Classical forms, publishing on Arnold, James, Hardy and Tennyson. Since returning to Oxford, she has taught literature 1760-present day for various Oxford colleges, including a stint as a lecturer at Pembroke, and several American programmes. Her principal specialism is in the novels and poetry of the long nineteenth century, but she also has interests in women's writing - particularly that of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Virginia Woolf - children's literature, detective fiction and contemporary poetry. A widely published poet herself, she also teaches creative writing for SCIO.
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- Academic Director and Director of Studies in Philosophy
- Senior Tutor and Academic Director
Dr Pascal is the Senior Tutor Academic Director at SCIO and Associate Tutor at Wycliffe Hall. She joined SCIO from Regent's University in London, where she was Reader in Philosophy and Public Ethics, and Director of Liberal Arts programmes. She has over twenty-year experience of teaching and research at universities in Europe, the USA, and the UK. She specializes in post-Kantian philosophy, metaphysics, hermeneutics, ethics, and the Patristic tradition. Her practical experience includes policy-work on corporate accountability, health and safety law enforcement and migrant workers' rights as UK Director at the Centre for Corporate Accountability (2006-9). She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her research interests lie at the crossroads between metaphysics and religion on the one hand, and public ethics, on the other. She is the author of Narratives and the role of philosophy in cross-disciplinary studies (2018), co-editor of European developments in corporate criminal liability (2008), editor of Multiculturalism and the convergence of faith and practical wisdom in modern society (2017), as well as author of numerous articles on hermeneutics, metaphysics, business ethics, and human rights. Her current research focuses on apophatic thinking in multiple traditions, for a long-term project in comparative metaphysics, and she is writing a book on exile.
Dr Pascal has been external examiner for various universities, since 2013; and a QAA reviewer, since 2011. During Michaelmas term 2021, she was Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan. She is Editor for Philosophy of Management, a quarterly journal published by Springer, and a member of the Global Business and Human Rights Scholars Association.
Dr Pascal is the Academic Director of Student Programmes at SCIO and Associate Tutor at Wycliffe Hall. She has over twenty-year experience of teaching and research at universities in Europe, the USA, and the UK. She specializes in post-Kantian philosophy, metaphysics, hermeneutics, ethics, and the Patristic tradition.
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- Associate Professor in Applied Ethnobiology
- Lecturer in Biological Sciences
Dr Gosler is Associate Professor in Applied Ethnobiology and Conservation and Fellow in Human Sciences, Mansfield College. His research falls at the intersection between ornithology and ethno-ornithology, i.e. the study of birds, and the study of human engagement with birds, especially within the broad context of nature conservation. Recently ordained priest in the Church of England, he is curate at St Nicholas Church, Marston, in the north of the city, and a professed member of the Third Order of the Society of Saint Francis.
Job Titles:
- Senior Research Fellow and Director of Studies in Geography and Music
Dr Baigent is the University Reader in the History of Geography. She was educated at the universities of Oxford and Münster. She has held research fellowships at the universities of Oxford and Stockholm and a visiting professorship at Johns Hopkins University, with funding from bodies such as the British Academy and the Fulbright Commission. From 1993 to 2003 she was Research Director of the Oxford dictionary of national biography, and Research Lecturer in the history faculty. She has 550 scholarly publications including a (co-authored) book which won an international prize. She is fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, the Royal Historical Society, the Royal Geographical Society, and the Higher Education Academy.
Elizabeth Baigent SCIO Senior Research Fellow and Director of Studies in Geography and Music MA, DPhil, PGDipLATHE (Oxon), FSA, FRHistS, FRGS, FHEA Dr Baigent is the University Reader in the History of Geography. Her research lies in the history of travel, geography, and cartography. READ MORE elizabeth.baigent@wycliffe.ox.ac.uk
Job Titles:
- Lecturer in English Language and Literature
- Specialist
Dr Plaskitt is a graduate of McGill University, Montréal, and Merton College, Oxford, where she wrote her doctoral thesis on eighteenth-century novelists Eliza Haywood, Samuel Richardson, and Frances Burney. Since 1994 she has taught children's literature and English literature 1640-1901 for several Oxford colleges, including Brasenose, Worcester, Somerville, and St Hugh's. She has also taught for a variety of American programmes. Having worked for the Oxford dictionary of national biography, where she was responsible for writing many articles on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century women writers, she now focuses on teaching for SCIO and for Stanford University, for whom she is an Overseas Lecturer. Though a specialist on the literature of the Restoration and eighteenth century, her research interests include the Victorian novel - particularly the gothic novel and novel of sensation - and children's literature.
Dr Plaskitt is a specialist on the literature of the Restoration and eighteenth century, but her research interests also include the Victorian novel - particularly the gothic novel and novel of sensation - and children's literature.
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- Lecturer and Director of Studies in Classics and the History of Art
- Principal Lecturer and Director of Studies in Classics and the History of Art
Dr Kirkpatrick graduated BA in classics, MSt in Oriental Studies, and DPhil in classics from Oxford, and his research interests currently centre on pagan religious cults in Roman Palestine.
From 2004 to 2006 he was Departmental Lecturer in Jewish Studies at the University.
He is writing a book on C.S. Lewis's connection with the classics, and is part of the planning team for the Logos conference.
Jonathan Kirkpatrick Principal Lecturer and Director of Studies in Classics and the History of Art BA, MSt, DPhil (Oxon) Dr Kirkpatrick's research interests currently centre on pagan religious cults in Roman Palestine. He is writing a book on C.S. Lewis's connection with the classics. READ MORE jonathan.kirkpatrick@scio-uk.org
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- Director of Studies in Modern Languages
Dr Patterson joined Oxford in 2013. He is a Departmental Lecturer in the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, and a Tutor in French at St Edmund Hall. He has fifteen years of teaching experience in universities in the UK and in France. His research currently focuses on early modern French literature and its intersection with law and bureaucracy. He is the author of Villainy in France (1463-1610): A Transcultural Study of Law and Literature (OUP, 2021), and Representing Avarice in Late Renaissance France (OUP, 2015).
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- Lecturer in Philosophy and the Philosophy of Mathematics
Dr Bell studied mathematics and philosophy at St Hugh's College, Oxford. He stayed at Oxford University to read for his BPhil (1996) and DPhil (1999) in philosophy. He is currently a lecturer in philosophy at St Hugh's College, Oxford, and Regent's Park College, Oxford. His research interests focus on the philosophy of Kant and the Enlightenment and the problem of free will. With Professor Pamela Sue Anderson he published Kant and theology (2010).
Dr McClinton graduated with a BA in classics and ancient history from the University of Texas at Austin, an MA in art history from Indiana University, and a PhD in informatics from the Indiana University. Her thesis explored computational modelling methods applied to the study of Roman domestic space. Her DPhil here at Oxford expands this work and focuses on early Christian basilicas in Rome, AD 200-600. Various sources of evidence are digitally reconstructed and approached as part of the larger image of transformation in cities during the late antique and early medieval period.
Job Titles:
- Consultant
- Director of Studies in Life Sciences
Dr Gaitskell is a Consultant Histopathologist and an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in the Radcliffe Department of Medicine at the University of Oxford. She studied medicine at Somerville College, Oxford, and later returned to complete a DPhil at Green Templeton College, Oxford. Her research is at the interface between histopathology and epidemiology, investigating the population-level risk factors for specific histological types of cancer. In additional to her clinical work and research, she also teaches for several departments and colleges in the University.
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- Lecturer and Director of Studies in Philosophy and Theology
- Wycliffe Hall Tutor for Visiting Students and SCIO Lecturer and Director of Studies in Theology and Religion
Before starting at Wycliffe Hall, Matthew studied theology and then ethics at the University of Oxford, before completing a D.Phil. analysing the thought of Søren Kierkegaard and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. He teaches a wide range of subjects across ethics, Christian doctrine, and philosophy, and teaches at graduate level for the University in both ethics and doctrine. Amongst his wide interests includes particular attention to the interplay of existentialism and Christianity, sexual ethics in relation to the identity of children, and the wider thought of Kierkegaard and Bonhoeffer. He is the author of Attacks on Christendom in a world come of age: Kierkegaard, Bonhoeffer, and the question of ‘religionless Christianity' (2011), Bonhoeffer's ethics: between pacifism and assassination (2011), and Søren Kierkegaard (2013). He welcomes applications for those wishing to be supervised at graduate level. Matthew is married to Kate, who is herself an expert in philosophy of religion, existentialism, and the thought of Jean-Paul Sartre. They live in Marston with their two children.
Dr Kirkpatrick is the Lecturer in Ethics and Doctrine, and Tutor for Graduates, at Wycliffe Hall and liaises between the SCIO programme and the wider staff at Wycliffe. His research interests include existential philosophy, ethics, and systematic theology.
Job Titles:
- Lecturer in Philosophy, and Theology and Religion Academic Standards Officer
- Lecturer in Theology, and Religion and Philosophy Academic Standards Officer
Dr Patrick studied philosophy and theology at St Hilda's College, Oxford. Her research interests stretch from philosophy of mind through metaphysics and philosophy of religion to Christian doctrine. Some of her more recent work has focused on the theology of C.S. Lewis, with articles appearing in The Journal of Inklings Studies and C.S. Lewis's Perelandra (2013, eds. J. Wolfe and B. Wolfe). She has taught philosophy and theology for a number of colleges of the University of Oxford and for various study abroad programmes. She has also previously worked as a Research Assistant for the Oxford English Dictionary and as Religion and Theology Metadata Editor for Intute: Arts and Humanities, and is currently part of the Research Support Team at the University of Oxford's IT Services.
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- Lecturer and Director of Studies in Psychology
Dr Farias is Departmental Lecturer and Deputy Course Director of the MSc in psychological research at the Department of Experimental Psychology, at the University of Oxford, having previous held a lecturership at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and several postdoctoral research fellowships at the University of Oxford. He has published extenstively and held substantial research grants particularly focused on how beliefs in general - whether in God, spiritual forces, or humanity - work and affect our experience and interpretation of events, and on the motivational and cognitive origins of these beliefs, i.e. how they arise and are strengthened by environmental situations such as anxiety and stress.
Mitch Mallary completed his undergraduate studies at Judson University, earning a BA in both Christian Theology and Biblical Studies, before pursuing a PhD in Theology at the University of St Andrews. Under the tutelage of Professors Andrew Torrance and Tom Wright, his doctoral research brought Karl Barth's doctrine of revelation into dialogue with Wright's historical scholarship about Jesus, bringing clarity to ongoing debates about the relationship between these two thinkers. Prior to joining SCIO, Mitch worked as a research assistant for both of his doctoral supervisors. In addition to his academic pursuits, Mitch is a dog enthusiast and the proud owner of Bernie, a lively Springer Spaniel.
Job Titles:
- Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of the International Society for Science
- Research Consultant and Research Fellow
Pete is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of the International Society for Science and Religion.
Pete Jordan Grant and Research Consultant and Research Fellow BEng (QUT), PhD (Cornell), MDiv (Duke), PhD (Queensland) Pete holds a PhD in physiology, biophysics, and systems biology from Cornell University, and a PhD in religious studies from the University of Queensland. His research focuses on how Christians make sense of and relate to cultural practices and pursuits like science, from the early modern period to the present. READ MORE pete.jordan@scio-uk.org
Job Titles:
- Grant and Research Consultant and Research Fellow
- Lecturer and Director of Studies in English Language and Literature
Dr Lawes has taught English in the English faculty of the University of Oxford and a number of colleges for several years, and is lecturer in English at Regent's Park College, teaching literature of the Renaissance period and literary theory. Richard's interests include spiritual autobiography, poetry of the seventeenth century, psychological literary theory, and C.S. Lewis. He is also a qualified medical doctor and psychiatrist, currently working at the University's counselling service.
Job Titles:
- Executive Director
- Executive Director, SCIO Vice President for Research and Scholarship, CCCU
Stan Rosenberg founded and directs Scholarship and Christianity in Oxford (SCIO). He is an academic member of Wycliffe Hall and a member of the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford, teaching early Christian history and doctrine and science and religion. He is a Fellow of the International Society for Science & Religion. His research and teaching interests focus on Augustine's works, early Christian cosmology and its relationship to Greco-Roman science, culture and philosophy, and the interplay between intellectual and popular thought in this period. Recent research has led to articles on early Christianity and Greco-Roman science, and the intersection of preaching, popular religion, and the development of doctrine in late antiquity. His most work has included creating and directing SCIO's grant funded project, Bridging the Two Cultures of Science and the Humanities, and organizing a set of consultations around a grant funded project on Darwin and Christian theology which led to the book, Finding Ourselves after Darwin: Conversations on the Image of God, Original Sin, and the Problem of Evil. Rosenberg is on the editorial board of the journal, Religions. Since 2002 he has directed and co-directed multiple science and religion projects in Oxford funded by the John Templeton Foundation, the Templeton Religion Trust, The Templeton World Charity Foundation, The Blankemeyer Foundation, and the BioLogos Foundation. He also directs the Logos programme offered by SCIO for postgraduates working in ANE, OT, NT and Biblical reception history. He is on the advisory council of the BioLogos Foundation and was on the International Advisory Board of the Museum of the Bible, advising the latter on science and the Bible, and patristics.
Stan Rosenberg Executive Director BA (Colorado State University), MA, PhD (Catholic University of America) Dr Rosenberg founded and directs Scholarship and Christianity in Oxford (SCIO). He is an academic member of Wycliffe Hall and a member of the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford, teaching early Christian history and doctrine. His research and teaching interests focus on Augustine's works, early Christian cosmology and its relationship to Greco-Roman science, culture and philosophy, and the interplay between intellectual and popular thought in this period. READ MORE 01865355621 stan.rosenberg@scio-uk.org
Job Titles:
- Director of Membership, Grants, and Research
- Research and Scholarship Administrator and Institutional Researcher
Jeff earned a Th.B., Mmin., and M.A. from Piedmont International University (now Carolina University) and a PhD in Higher Education from Azusa Pacific University. In the past two decades, he has worked in Christian ministries and higher education in Virginian and North Carolina serving as a pastor, a university trustee, and in administrative roles in student affairs, including Dean of Students. His current work includes research in STEM programs in U.S. Christian Universities.
Job Titles:
- Director of Administration and Student Affairs
Jordan earned a BA in International Studies from Houghton University and an MA in International Training and Education at American University. His master's research focused on intercultural competency in study abroad. Throughout his career, Jordan has worked with non-profit organizations in Thailand, Vietnam, and Washington, DC. Prior to joining SCIO, he worked for the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities in Washington, DC as the Director for Educational Programs.
Jordan earned a BA in International Studies from Houghton College and an MA in International Training and Education at American University. His master's research focused on intercultural competency in study abroad.
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- Grants Coordinator and Supporting Structures Doctoral Fellow
Dr Wallace graduated with a Bachelor's in Classical Philology and French from the University of Dallas and an MSt and DPhil in Science and Religion under the supervision of Professor Alister McGrath. Her doctoral thesis examined the implications of embodied cognition theory for theological anthropology and doctrines of the soul. She has published in Zygon (2022) and the Body and Religion Journal (2022) as well as for the Theological Puzzles project out of St. Andrew's University (2022).
Dr Wallace graduated with a Bachelor's in Classical Philology and French from the University of Dallas and an MSt in Science and Religion at the University of Oxford where she continues to pursue her PhD under the supervision of Professor Alister McGrath.
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- Marketing and Admissions Manager
Sarah earned a BA in Women's History and Marketing from Taylor University. She is a SCIO alum herself, spending a year in Oxford focusing on studies of Egyptology and history. Sarah is originally from Scotland, where she remains a dual-citizen. Prior to joining SCIO, Sarah's previous experience was predominantly in the museum and cultural sector, with employment at the Detroit Institute of Arts and Detroit Historical Society.
Sarah Campbell Marketing and Admissions Manager BA (Taylor University) Sarah earned a BA in Women's History and Marketing from Taylor University. She is a SCIO alum herself, spending a year in Oxford focusing on studies of Egyptology and history. READ MORE sarah.campbell@scio-uk.org