MANSFIELD - Key Persons
Alison Salvesen studied Classics and then Hebrew at Oxford as an undergraduate. Her doctoral work focused on early Jewish bible translations. She is Professor of Early Judaism and Christianity at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and Polonsky Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, and is responsible for students in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies in Mansfield College.
Research interests
Ancient Jewish and Christian interpretations of Scripture
Jewish translations of the Bible into Greek, Aramaic, and Syriac
St. Jerome's Latin Vulgate and his knowledge of Hebrew
The life and work of the late 7th century Syriac writer Jacob of Edessa.
Amy provides administrative support to the Bursar, including managing his diary and incoming correspondence. She works on several College committees, including the Finance and Resources Committee, and manages various projects and processes in the Bursar's Office. Please contact Amy if you wish to make an appointment to see the Bursar. Amy previously worked in the Academic Office at Christ Church, and before that for Pearson UK.
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- Development Operations Manager
Anna has responsibility for operations with the development team, including data, revenue and systems. She also assists in fundraising for specific funding needs and is always pleased to hear from Mansfield alumni and supporters.
Anna works three days a week.
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- Academic Officer ( Student Progress and Events )
As an Academic Officer, Anna has responsibility for academic events such as Graduation and Matriculation ceremonies, as well as college Collections and Public Exams. She also monitors student's academic progress and student feedback.
Anna works in the Academic Office, which can be found on the ground floor of Staircase B.
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- Executive Assistant to the Principal
Asima joined Mansfield in June 2021. She has worked in a number of University of Oxford departments providing administrative, operational, HR and finance support. She has also been involved in various social projects and creative writing projects in collaboration with writer Kate Clanchy, The Rathbones Folio Prize and The Forward Arts Foundation.
Asima supports the Principal's Office and provides administrative support through Mansfield College.
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- Founder and Chair of the Board of European Implementation Network
- Head of Research at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights
- Professor
Başak Çalı is head of research at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights and Professor of International Law. She is also currently Professor of International Law and director of the Centre for Fundamental Rights at the Hertie School, Berlin. She holds a permanent visiting professorship from the I-Courts Centre for Excellence at the University of Copenhagen and is a fellow of the University of Essex Human Rights Centre. She has held visiting professorships in Ankara, Oslo, Paris, and Natolin and serves on the board of a number of journals.
Her expertise concerns international law and human rights. She has published widely in the fields of authority of international law, standards of review in international law, the relationship between international law and domestic law, European human rights law, UN human rights law and comparative international human rights law. She has pioneered the study of bad faith violations of human rights law (Wisconsin International Law Journal, 2018), and she is the author of Authority of International Law: Obedience, Respect and Rebuttal (OUP 2015), editor of International Law for International Relations (OUP, 2010), co- editor of Legalisation of Human Rights: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Human Rights and Human Rights Law (Routledge 2006), Migration and the European Convention on Human Rights (OUP, 2021) and Secondary Rules of Primary Importance: Standards of Review, Causality, Evidence and Attribution before International Courts and Tribunals (OUP, 2022).
As a legal practitioner, Başak is a founder and chair of the board of European Implementation Network, Europe's leading civil society organization that advocates for the full and effective implementation of human rights judgments. She has acted as an expert on the European Convention on Human Rights since 2002 and has trained judges, prosecutors, lawyers and police officers in the implementation of the European Convention on Human Rights across the Council of Europe. She has acted as a legal representative or advisor in cases before the European Court of Human Rights.
Chloe is responsible for the managing the office administration and logistical organisation for the Development Team, supporting across a variety of tasks from events to fundraising campaigns.
Feel free to reach out to her with general enquiries, or if you aren't sure who would be best to contact for something more specific - she will be happy to help or direct you to someone who can.
Clem is our Bursar, the senior administrative officer at Mansfield. As well as being the financial lead, Clem is responsible, under the direction of the Governing Body, for all of the non-academic functions within the College. This includes responsibility for the management of staff and other resources to ensure that day-to-day operations and finances meet the needs of the College's academic objectives.
Clem was formerly the Chief Operating Officer at the Royal Institute of British Architects and, before that, the Chief Operating Officer at the National Archives (UK).
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- Dieter Schwartz Associate Professor of AI & Work at the Oxford Internet Institute and Mansfield Fellow
- Professor
Carl-Benedikt Frey is the Dieter Schwarz Associate Professor of AI & Work at the Oxford Internet Institute and a Fellow of Mansfield College, University of Oxford. He is also Director of the Future of Work Programme and Oxford Martin Citi Fellow at the Oxford Martin School.
After studying economics, history, and management at Lund University, Carl completed his PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in 2011. He subsequently joined the Oxford Martin School where he founded the programme on the Future of Work. Between 2012 and 2014, he was teaching at the Department of Economic History at Lund University.
Research interests
Economics of AI
Future of Work
History of Technology
Innovation Policy
Urbanization and the Internet
Economic Growth
Political Economy
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- Theology Tutor and Departmental Theology Lecturer in New Testament
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- Fellow
- Tutorial Fellow in Human Geography
Murrey, A. and Jackson, N. (2019) A decolonial critique of the racialized "localwashing" of extraction in Central Africa. Annals of the Association of American Geographers.
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- International Fellow at the Sub - Department of Particle Physics
- Stipendiary Lecturer in Physics
Ana Sofia Carpinteiro Inacio is a Royal Society Newton International Fellow at the Sub-department of Particle Physics and a Stipendiary Lecturer in Physics at Mansfield College. She obtained her PhD in Physics in 2022 from the University of Lisbon, Portugal. Her research focus on understanding the fundamental properties and behaviour of neutrinos with the SNO+ experiment.
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- Career Development Fellow in Economics
Andrea is a Career Development Fellow in Economics at Mansfield College and a Stipendiary Lecturer in Economics at Trinity College. He previously taught economics at several other Oxford colleges (Lincoln College, St Edmund Hall, St Catherine's College, Jesus College, and Merton College) and conducted research for the World Bank Group, the United Nations, the Bank of England, and Goldman Sachs.
He obtained his PhD in Economics and an MPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford, and was a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Venice, the European University Institute, and Harvard University.
His research interests lie at the intersection of political economy and economic history, investigating the impact of policies on representation, enfranchisement, and social unrest.
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- Stephen Hawking Fellow
- Stipendiary Lecturer in Physics
Andrei Constantin is a Stephen Hawking Fellow in Theoretical Physics. After his doctorate at the University of Oxford he moved to Uppsala as a postdoctoral researcher and then returned back to Oxford. His research lies at the interface of string theory, algebraic geometry, and machine learning and focuses on developing mathematical and computational tools to study string theory and its implications for particle physics, cosmology and quantum gravity.
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- Lecturer
- Fellow in Finance & Economics at the Saïd Business School
Arhat is a lecturer in Microeconomics and Statistics. Arhat is also a Fellow in Finance & Economics at the Saïd Business School and Tutorial Fellow at Oriel College.
Before returning to Oxford in 2014, Arhat was a member of the senior management team at the Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA), working as a Director of Policy, Research and Risk; the BMA is the integrated regulator of Bermuda's financial services industry. Previous to that, he was an LSE Fellow in Economics, a Research Fellow in the Philosophy of Economics at the University of Bielefeld and a Visiting Lecturer in Economics at City University in London.
Arhat read PPE at The Queen's College, University of Oxford, and went on to do a Masters and Doctorate at the LSE.
Research interests
Arhat is concerned with applying the kind of analytical rigour found in philosophical analysis to social scientific research generally. His current interests are focussed on methodological issues within Economics, Financial Analysis, the possibility of objectivity in Financial Reporting, and the soundness or otherwise in thinking that Game Theory has real-world applications.
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- Stipendiary Lecturer in Mathematics
Dr Carlucci completed his DPhil in Mathematics in Oxford, working in Algebraic Geometry under the supervision of Professor Balázs Szendrői. Before coming to Oxford, he graduated from Sapienza University in Rome, spent a year at UPMC in Paris, and then several months at the University of Warwick.
Research interests
His research interests mainly concern the geometric problems arising from String Theory and High Energy Physics. In one of its flavours, String Theory predicts a 10-dimensional universe: 4 of them account for the ordinary space-time, while the remaining 6 are enveloped in a 3-dimensional complex geometric object, called a Calabi-Yau manifold.
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- Lecturer in Moral Philosophy
Carlos is a Lecturer in Moral Philosophy. He was previously deputy Professor of Ethics at the University of Bayreuth. Before that, he was a postdoc at the University of Bayreuth and the University of Vienna. He holds a PhD from Stanford University and a BA from UNAM.
Carlos' research is mainly in Metaethics and the Philosophy of Mind and Action. Currently, he is pursuing a couple of projects, one in Moral Psychology and the other in Practical Rationality. He has taught courses on Ethics (meta, normative, and applied), Philosophy of Action (individual and social), Free Will and Moral Responsibility, Philosophy of Law, Ethics of A.I., Environmental Ethics, Practical Rationality, and others.
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- Supernumerary Fellow in Mathematics
Topics of interest include the study and classification of Contextuality in Quantum Computing, the Topos theoretic approach to foundations of Quantum Physics, applications of the concept of Partial Evaluations within Categorical Probability, Higher Category Theory and Computer Science as well as the use of Local State Monads in modelling computational processes which have access to a Quantum Register. Additionally, Carmen has a keen interest in Mathematical Teaching and Outreach and has developed extensive experience, ranging from highschool to graduate level courses.
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- Professor Joel Rasmussen ( Theology and Religion )
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- Janet Dyson Fellow and Professorial Fellow in Industrial Mathematics
- Mathematics )
- Professor
Ian Griffiths' interests lie in a broad range of fluid dynamical challenges, from water purification strategies to the manufacture of glass for computer tablet screens to the modelling of Covid-19 transmission. His approach is to use a blend of modelling, asymptotic, and numerical techniques to enable predictions to be made for the behaviour of such physical systems, and in particular, to give insight into their optimal operating strategies. Ian collaborates with a range of scientists from many disciplines as well as industries, including: global domestic appliance brand Beko; leading vacuum-cleaner company Dyson; fabric and performance solutions company W.L. Gore and Associates; chemical and pharmaceutical company Merck; food and beverage industry Nestlé; specialist glass company Schott AG; filtration company Smart Separations; and Government organizations including Defra and the Welsh Government.
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- Stipendiary Lecturer in Theology
Jessica is a University Research Lecturer, teaching for the Theology and Religion Faculty on Hinduism and Theories of Religion, and for the Philosophy Faculty on Indian Philosophy. Her research explores key philosophical themes across cultures, from Indian classical theories of Being to twentieth-century phenomenology. Her books explore conceptions of reality, the self and the good across cultures, focusing on classical Indian metaphysics and German phenomenology, and her forthcoming books explore Indian approaches to Being, definitions of the material and the divine, and Gadamer's distinctive "hermeneutic" ontology. She is also the managing editor of the Journal of Hindu Studies (OUP).
Her work on Hindu ideas translates them into global terms, so that we can all think in new ways about issues that shape our society: the nature of a good life, justice and human rights, metaphysics, the goals of community. She anchors these perspectives in classic texts, and bring them into conversation with academic philosophy and existential concerns.
Research interests
Indian philosophy - with a particular focus on Vedāntic Bhedābheda metaphysics and classical ontologies
Phenomenological traditions of philosophy - with a focus on the twentieth-century German tradition culminating in Philosophical Hermeneutics, and its roots
Comparative or Global Philosophy, focusing on fundamental ontology and concepts of the Self
Theories of religion, and of religious experience
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- Professor Colin Please ( Mathematics )
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- Lecturer in Modern and Systematic Theology
John is currently serving as Departmental Lecturer in Modern and Systematic Theology. Originally from Nebraska in the United States, he received his DPhil from Oxford in 2022, working under Professor Joel Rasmussen on Martin Heidegger and the Christian doctrine of revelation. He has been teaching at Oxford since 2020, offering tutorials in Systematic Theology, Christian Ethics, Science & Religion, the Nature of Religion, and Themes in Nineteenth Century Theology & Religion. He has lectured on Systematic Theology in the past and is currently overseeing the lectures for the 19th century paper (Theology and Its Discontents from the Revolutionary Era to the First World War).
Research interests
His research interests centres on the intersection of phenomenology, embodied cognition, and theological epistemology. His first book, Taste and See: Eucharist as Revelation in Phenomenological Perspective, was released in 2023. There he argue that Christians know the person of Christ most intimately through embodied activity in the sacramental world. His current research develops these themes in a phenomenology of sin in the information age, suggesting that the modern disembodiment of truth reveals something distinctive about the human predicament which can illuminate classical theological definitions of sin.
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- Supernumerary Fellow in Philosophy and Harassment Officer
Phenomenology (particularly of the human body), Descartes, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre and Wittgenstein. DPhil thesis was on Freud and Sartre; did a mid-career MPhil in Medical Anthropology, thesis on cosmetic surgery, gender and embodiment. Publications include (with Gordon Baker) 'Descartes' Dualism'; an introductory book on Sartre and a more advanced introduction to Merleau-Ponty; introduced and edited a volume of Baker's articles under the title 'Wittgenstein's Method', and a collection entitled 'Sartre on the Body'; Co-editor of the UK edition of Sartre Studies International.
A completely revised edition of Mark's Complete Old English is available (Hodder and Stoughton, 2019) with new texts, including extracts from Beowulf and The Battle of Maldon. This book, in the Teach Yourself series, has already appealed to a wide readership: it is aimed at students without other experience of learning a language; it presents Old English passages in the context of their time, teaching vocabulary and grammar as it arises in the texts. The connections with modern English are made explicit; an audio recording of the passages eases the learning process.
Mark's book There and Back Again: J.R.R.Tolkien and the Origins of The Hobbit (London: I.B. Tauris, 2012/2014) covers the literary and linguistic interests of J.R.R. Tolkien and their influence on his fictional writings; he has also contributed a chapter ‘Tolkien and Old English' to A Tolkien Companion, ed. Stuart Lee.
Naoise's research and teaching interests are in queer and trans studies, gender and sexuality, modern and contemporary literature and postcolonial studies. They are currently working on a book for Edinburgh University Press about queerness, gender, space and time in twentieth-century Ireland, focusing on the fiction of Elizabeth Bowen, Kate O'Brien, Molly Keane and Dorothy Macardle. They have a particular interest in queer and radical histories, as well as oral history and site-specific methodologies. They have worked on collaborative and community research projects investigating queer history and colonial legacies in Cambridge, gendered experiences in higher education and radical history in London. They have received their PhD in Multi-disciplinary Gender Studies from the University of Cambridge, Centre for Gender Studies in 2023 and they have taught English at the University of Cambridge and Maynooth University.
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- Professor John Sykes ( Materials Science )
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- Lecturer
- Lecturer in Oriental Studies
Peter Bergamin is Lecturer in Oriental Studies at Mansfield College, University of Oxford, and Research Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. Peter specialises on the British Mandate for Palestine, with a particular interest in Maximalist-Revisionist Zionism.
His first monograph, The Making of the Israeli Far-Right: Abba Ahimeir and Zionist Ideology (I.B. Tauris, 2020), focused on the ideological and political genesis of one of the major leaders of pro-Fascist, Far-Right Zionism, in the 1920s and 30s. He is preparing a manuscript that focuses on the role of Jewish anti-British resistance in Britain's withdrawal from the Palestine Mandate. His current research looks at Anglo-Jewry in the first half of the Twentieth Century, using the British Zionists Paul and Romana Goodman as a case study.
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- Stipendiary Lecturer in Politics
Richard's research focuses on the politics of decolonisation, especially in British colonial Africa/Labour governments of 1960s and 1970s.
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- Associate Professor in Structural Engineering
Dr Sinan Acikgoz is an Associate Professor in Structural Engineering and a Fellow at Mansfield College at the University of Oxford. He currently holds a Brunel Fellowship from the Royal Commission of the Great Exhibition of 1851. Previously, he was a Research Associate at the Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction at the University of Cambridge. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge and a BSc from the Middle East Technical University.
Sinan's teaching and research interests are in the field of structural engineering. His research investigates monitoring, assessment and retrofit of ageing structures, which are facing unprecedented risks due to man-made and natural hazards.
Research interests
Masonry structures
Structural health monitoring
Structural dynamics
Soil-structure interaction
Risk and vulnerability
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- Stipendiary Lecturer in Materials Science
Dr. Talha J. Pirzada is a stipendiary lecturer in the field of materials engineering, with a research focus on aerospace materials.
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- Geography )
- Professorial Fellow in Geography and Harassment Officer
- Tony Lemon Fellow Professorial Fellow in Geography and Harassment Officer
Professor Derek McCormack is Tutor and Fellow in Geography. He has a PhD from the University of Bristol, an MSc from Virginia Tech, and a BA from the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Derek has been at Mansfield since September 2009, having been a Tutor and Fellow at Hertford College for three years prior to that. Before arriving in Oxford in 2006 he held a lectureship in the School of Geography at the University of Southampton.
Broadly speaking, Derek's interests lie in the area of cultural geography - i.e. he is interested in the many ways people experience and make sense of spaces. His work focuses in particular on the affective/emotional dimensions of this process. To this end he has written about the affective experience of spaces in a range of contexts including arctic exploration, to air travel, to art and performance, to cities.
At Mansfield Derek tutors across the core human geography papers, as well as supervising a range of human geography dissertations topics. He also provides tutorials for his Final Honours School Special subject, Spaces of Politics.
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- Expert
- Research Associate in the Wind and Tidal Energy Research Group at University of Oxford
- Tutor in Engineering Science
Dr Xiaosheng Chen is currently a research associate in the Wind and Tidal Energy research group at University of Oxford as a CFD specialist. He graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China with BEng in Thermal Energy and Power Engineering in July 2012. He was then awarded an MSc degree with distinction in Advanced Mechanical Engineering in Oct 2013 by University of Sussex. Later, he obtained a PhD degree in aeronautical engineering in 2018 from the National Centre for Combustion and Aerothermal Technology (former Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre) based at Loughborough University.
Following the graduation, he started a secondment job in the Combustion Aerothermal Methods Team of Rolls-Royce plc., helping them to design the next generation lean-burn jet engine combustor. In July 2019, he joined the University of Oxford as a research assistant, working with Prof. Richard Willden and Dr. Christopher Vogel in wind and tidal energy.
Dr. Xiaosheng Chen is an expert in fluid mechanics and heat transfer. His focus is on high fidelity CFD modelling techniques and their applications to help solving engineering problems, especially turbomachinery applications like jet engines, wind and tidal turbines. His current research interest lies in renewable energy devices, including but not limited to tidal stream turbines, on-shore and off-shore wind turbines. He is also an expert in developing and utilising CFD software packages, especially for RANS, LES and hybrid LES methods.
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- BCL Is a Stipendiary Lecturer in Law
- Supernumerary Fellow in Law Tutor for Women
Elizabeth Drummond MA (Oxon) BCL is a Stipendiary Lecturer in Law at Mansfield College.
Elizabeth read for her undergraduate law and Bachelor of Civil Law degrees at Worcester College, Oxford. She later qualified as a solicitor in a major London law firm before joining the Law Commission as a team lawyer in the Property, Family and Trust Law team. Highlights of her five years at the Commission include working as part of the team reviewing the law of intestacy and family provision claims on death, and supporting the enactment of the Perpetuities and Accumulations Act 2009 and the Trusts (Capital and Income) Act 2013.
Elizabeth returned to Oxford full-time in 2013, though she has been teaching Oxford undergraduates since 2008. She specialises in tutoring students in the Final Honour Schools courses in Land Law and Trusts, and the first-year Roman Law course. Her research interests lie in the fields of succession law, trusts and land law.
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- HR Assistant ( Operations )
Emma supports the head of HR in recruiting, hiring and training new and existing staff, as well as planning programmes to improve employee welfare. She also manage payroll, maintain employee records and ensure the HR department runs smoothly day to day.
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- Senior Assistant to Domestic Bursar
Felistas (Fie) supports the Domestic Bursar in her responsibilities, such as room bookings for teachings, tutorials, bed and breakfast accommodation, as well as other conferencing services. She also manages the provision of College memorabilia and stationary.
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- Registrar and Director of Admissions College Disability Coordinator
As Registrar and Director of Admissions, Helen has oversight of all on-course student administration, admissions and outreach.
Helen works in the Academic Office, which can be found on the ground floor of Staircase B.
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- Fellow
- Principal
- KC Joined Mansfield College As Principal in 2018
- Principal and Tutor for Racial Inclusion
Helen Mountfield KC joined Mansfield College as Principal in 2018.
Helen is a barrister, specialising constitutional law, human rights and equality law, with particular experience in the education sector. Helen is a founder member of Matrix Chambers, an accredited mediator, a Master of the Bench of Gray's Inn and is a past and present part-time judge in several jurisdictions including the High Court of England and Wales and the Channel Islands Courts of Appeal. She has appeared over 25 times in the Supreme Court and Privy Council, on hundreds of occasions in the Court of Appeal, European Court of Justice and European Court of Human Rights, and won many legal awards (including Legal 500 KC of the Year for Public Law in 2022). She features on the ‘First Hundred Years' website, which celebrates the history of women in law.
Helen has also written and broadcast frequently on legal topics, including contributing to all eight editions of the Blackstone Guide to the Human Rights Act. She edited the White Book on human rights for many years, and is a member of the editorial board of Public Law.
Within Oxford University, she served on the Race Equality Task Force 2020-2021, and is co-Chair of the Joint Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee. At Mansfield College, she is Tutor for Racial Inclusion alongside her role as Principal.
Helen also plays an active role in public policy. She has given evidence to Parliamentary committees on human rights, free speech and election and constitutional law issues on a number of occasions, and in 2016-2017 was co-chair, with Lord Watson, of the Independent Commission on the Future of Work in the Digital Economy, and a member of the Royal Society of Arts' Commission on Drugs Policy. She is currently at trustee of Index on Censorship and has also served as a trustee, director and advisory board member of many other NGOs and charities, in the fields of the arts, human rights and justice, and equality.
She was educated at Crown Woods School (now Stationers' Crown Woods Academy) in south-east London - by coincidence, one of Mansfield's partner schools. From there she read Modern History at Magdalen College Oxford, where she obtained a first-class degree, directed plays and was one of the first ‘Target Schools' officers. In 2023, she became an Honorary Fellow of Magdalen.
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- Stipendiary Lecturer in Physics
Jack Enright is an NUI Travelling Doctoral Scholar in Experimental Quantum Gravity and a Stipendiary Lecturer in Physics at Mansfield College. He obtained an undergraduate in Mathematics and Physics from University College Cork in 2020, followed by a Masters in Applied Mathematics (Part III) from the University of Cambridge in 2021. His research concerns the development of ultra-low vibration, cryogenic instrumentation, and techniques which may allow us to probe the quantum nature of gravity.
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- Associate Director of Development
James is responsible for facilitating philanthropic support for the College from individual major donors and legators, and connecting them with the people at Mansfield who benefit from their generous support.
He has more than 10 years' experience working in fundraising across the collegiate University and beyond. Before joining Mansfield, James was a senior fundraiser with Oxford's central Development team where he led major giving activity first for the Museum of Natural History and then for the departments of Zoology, Plant Sciences, and Experimental Psychology. He has also held fundraising roles in Oxford with the Rhodes Trust, Saïd Business School, and Merton College.
Contact James if you would like to discuss making a gift to Mansfield, or have any questions about the Campaign for Teaching.
James Brown began his formal musical training as organ scholar of Girton College, Cambridge University, before continuing his studies at the Geneva Conservatoire, Switzerland with world renowned organist Lionel Rogg.
Following two years working as an organist at the First United Methodist Church, Lubbock, Texas , USA, James returned to the UK and was organist of Dean Close School, Cheltenham.
James lives in Oxford, where he combines his work as a classical pianist and accompanist with being Organist of the historic University Church of St Mary the Virgin, a post he has held since 2007.
As a recitalist James has given solo concerts in the USA, Belgium, Switzerland and the UK, and performed on both BBC television and radio and on several recordings. For several years now James has been a classical pianist on the Swan Hellenic and Fred Olsen, Cunard,and P&O cruise lines, and has travelled to many destinations all over the world.
As an accompanist James has played for many classical musicians of note, including the singers Sarah Connolly, Rodney King, and Ed Lyon and the trumpeter Crispin Steele-Perkins. Since 2006 he has been a tenor lay clerk in the award winning choir of New College, Oxford and from 2007 conductor of the Oxford chamber choir, The Cherwell Singers. He teaches the organ at Abingdon and New College schools.
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- Communications Director, University of Oxford, Professorial Fellow
James is the University of Oxford's Public Affairs & Communications Director. He joined the University in 2019 from the Civil Service, where he worked for the Ministry of Defence. He has over 20 years' experience in Global, EMEA and U.K. communications and government relations within both the private and public sector.
At Oxford, his team has won five national and global awards for how the university communicated its COVID-19 research, including on the vaccine. This includes the Times Higher Education award for outstanding communications team for 2022, and the PRWeek global award for campaign work.
James read Geography at Sheffield University, and did a Masters in Environment and Development at SOAS. He is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
Jane is responsible for College's communications both internally and externally.
She defines, develops and implements an innovative and compelling PR and Communication plan aligned to the College's strategic plan, promoting the work of the College and upholding its brand and reputation.
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- Colleges Sustainability Officer
I am a Qualified accountant with 8.5 years of experience in the education sector covering all areas in finance. In Mansfield College I am responsible for Accounts Payable, 4 weekly payroll, petty cash, commercial income reconciliations and other balance sheet reconciliations.
Social Communication between Virtual Characters and Children with AutismAlyssa Alcorn, Helen Pain, Thusha Rajendran, Tim Smith, Oliver Lemon, Kaska Porayska-Pomsta, Mary Ellen Foster, Katerina Avramides, Chris Frauenberger, Sara BernardiniProc. of the 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED-11).
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- Director of the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights
Kate O'Regan is the inaugural Director of the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights in the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford, which opened in a new building at Mansfield College in September 2017. She served as one of the first judges of the Constitutional Court of South Africa from 1994 - 2009 and as an ad hoc judge of the Supreme Court of Namibia from 2010 - 2016. From 2008 - 2012, Kate served as the inaugural chairperson of the United Nations Internal Justice Council, a body established to ensure independence, professionalism and accountability in the internal system of justice in the UN. She is an honorary bencher of Lincoln's Inn, an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an Honorary Fellow of the British Academy and the recipient of seven honorary degrees. She has also served on the boards of many NGOs working in the fields of democracy, the rule of law, human rights and equality.
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- Stipendiary Lecturer in Law
Konstantina is a Lecturer in EU and Constitutional Law at Mansfield College, a DPhil in Law candidate at the Faculty of Law and an Editor of the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal.
Konstantina holds an LL.B. (Distinction; Scholarship for academic excellence by the University of Athens A. Papadakis Trust), an LL.M. in Public Law (Distinction) and an LL.M. in Civil Law (Distinction) from the University of Athens. She has also obtained an LL.M. in Commercial Law from the University of Cambridge (supported by the A.S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation) and an M.St. in Legal Research from the University of Oxford (as a scholar of the University of Athens A. Gazis Trust). In the context of her studies on DPhil level, Konstantina is a scholar of the A.G. Leventis Foundation.
Konstantina is a qualified lawyer and a member of the Athens Bar Association. Prior to her DPhil studies, she practiced public law, project finance and public procurement in top-tier law firms in Athens, Greece. She has worked as a research assistant at the School of Management and Business of King's College London, conducting research on the prospects of a new employment relations and labour market model for Greece. In 2017, she was a scientific collaborator of the European Public Law Organisation, responsible for the codification of all existing legislation falling within the regulatory competence of the Hellenic Ministry of Tourism. In 2019, Konstantina completed a traineeship at the European Commission (DG FISMA), focusing on transaction involving capital movements and intra-EU investment.
Lee is responsible for supervising the food prep and cooking, maintaining a fully-stocked kitchen inventory and complying with safety and cleanliness standards.
Lynne is responsible for management and running of the College's domestic, guest and conference services and compliance with regulations applying to these activities. She also looks after academic and student events and activities, planning these around the College calendar.
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- Michael Freeden Fellow in Economics
Michèle Mendelssohn is Professor of English and American Literature and Tutorial Fellow at Mansfield College, Oxford. She co-convenes the MSt in Victorian Literature. Her research ranges from late 19th century to the present day, and ranges across both sides of the Atlantic Ocean (including American, African American, British and Canadian literatures)
Research interests
Michèle Mendelssohn is Professor of English and American Literature and Tutorial Fellow at Mansfield College, Oxford. She co-convenes the MSt in Victorian Literature. Her research ranges from late 19th century to the present day, and ranges across both sides of the Atlantic Ocean (including American, African American, British and Canadian literatures). She has written, edited and introduced 7 books: Making Oscar Wilde, Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture; Late Victorian into Modern, 1880-1920; Writing Under the Influence: Essays on Alan Hollinghurst; Why Friendship Matters; No Place Like Home (forthcoming in 2022); Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince and Other Tales (forthcoming in 2022). Her recent biography of Oscar Wilde was a semi-finalist for the PEN America Biography Prize, a finalist for the Biographers' Club Slightly Foxed First Biography Prize and a finalist for the LGBTQ Polari Prize. It was selected as a Book of the Year by the Sunday Times, Times Literary Supplement and The Advocate. The audiobook is available here.
Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, The American Scholar and The Mail on Sunday as well as in peer-reviewed journals including African American Review, Victorian Literature and Culture, Nineteenth Century Literature, and the Journal of American Studies. Her next book project, The Ice Breaker, chronicles an early 20th century woman-led expedition to the Arctic. The book was inspired by a Knowledge Exchange Fellowship she held at the Pitt Rivers Museum in 2020-2021.
She has co-curated an exhibition, event series and interactive website called Making History: Christian Cole, Alain Locke and Oscar Wilde at Oxford. It showcases the shared history of Oxford's trailblazing Black and Queer undergraduates through archives and personal testimony spanning the 19th c. to the present day. In this short video, she and University College Librarian Elizabeth Adams introduce the exhibition, discuss their inspiration for it and explain why its themes are still relevant. The project was shortlisted for the Vice-Chancellor's Diversity Award.
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- Stipendiary Lecturer in Mathematics
Mick is a current DPhil student in Mathematics, researching representation theory. He has previously completed his bachelors in Maths and Physics at the University of Amsterdam.
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- Chaplain
- Chaplain / Research Interests
Nathan supports and serves the whole community at Mansfield. Whether in consideration of relationships, work or study difficulties, spiritual or vocational issues, or for casual discussion - the Chaplain is available to speak with staff and students at any time, no matter their faith or philosophy.
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- Stipendiary Lecturer in English and Academic Support Tutor
Sam manages and maintains accurate financial records for the College. She prepares financial statements, handling accounts payable and receivable, reconciling bank statements, and ensuring compliance with relevant financial regulations.
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- Professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford
Sara Bernardini is a professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford and a Tutorial Fellow at Mansfield's College. Her academic journey includes positions at Royal Holloway, King's College, and University College London in the UK, as well as stints at MIT and NASA Ames in the US. She recently served as the Principal Research Scientist in AI and Data Science at the UK National Oceanography Centre and as a Senior Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute.
Research interests
Sara's research is in Artificial Intelligence (AI), specifically decision-making for intelligent autonomous systems, such as ground robots, drones and underwater vehicles. She is a world-leading expert in automated planning, which involves equipping artificial agents with the ability to synthesise plans to reach specific goals. Sara's long-term objective is to provide the theoretical foundations for creating agents that can seamlessly support humans in undertaking sophisticated and temporally extended tasks, which, going beyond perception and pattern matching, require deliberation at the cognitive level.
At the heart of Sara's research is the desire to combine theoretical and technical advancements in AI with the demands of the real world. Over the past few years, she has led several projects on intelligent autonomous systems for extreme environments. She has worked closely with industry and stakeholders, ensuring her solutions are crucial to tackling end users' practical problems. She has worked in several domains, such as space mission operations, nuclear decommissioning, mining, underwater missions, and offshore energy, leading several projects funded by Innovate UK, EPSRC, NERC, the Turing Institute, and the Leverhulme Trust.
Complementing her technical work, Sara has assumed significant leadership roles in the AI scientific community, contributing to shaping the research landscape. She is a member of the AAAI Executive Council, where she leads the Partnership Committee, and the ICAPS Executive Council. She was the Program Chair of ICAPS 2024, the flagship international conference on automated planning and scheduling, and the Associate General Chair of AAAI-23. At AAAI-23, she initiated the Bridge Program, fostering cross-fertilisation between AI and other disciplines, a program she has continued at AAAI-24 and AAAI-25. Sara is also the managing guest editor of the Artificial Intelligence (IF:14.4) Special Issue on ‘Risk-Aware Autonomous Systems', a testament to her commitment to AI safety.
Sara's research is regularly published in top-ranked AI and robotics journals and conferences, such as AIJ, JAIR, RA-L, TOCHI, AAAI, IJCAI, IROS, and ICAPS.
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- Welfare and Wellbeing Lead
Sarah leads the welfare team, overseeing the provision of wellbeing and welfare support for students throughout their academic studies. Students can book welfare appointments with Sarah from the Welfare page of the Student Hub.
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- Academic Officer ( Admissions and Student Administration )
Sarah helps with student administration, including the organisation of the admissions processes. She also keeps student records up to date and can help with queries from prospective undergraduate, postgraduate and visiting students about the admissions process.
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- Non - Stipendiary Lecturer in Law
Sarath is also a Graduate Teaching Assistant for Intellectual Property Law and DPhil Researcher at the Faculty of Law. He completed his Bachelor's in Law, B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) from the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences; and his Master's in Law, LLM in Commercial Laws from the University of Cambridge.
Shukria is responsible for managing the College's website, social media accounts and generally the internal communications.
Get in touch with her if you wish to promote an event or have news/content to share with Mansfield community.
Shukria can be found in the Development Office located in Staircase A, from Monday to Friday.
Professor Steve is currently working with Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO), an experiment based in Canada which measures fundamental properties of neutrinos generated in the sun. A new experiment is being explored which will use neutrinos from a reactor to measure more such fundamental properties.
Steve is also investigating a new concept for ground-based, very high energy, gamma-ray observations to study some of the highest energy radiation produced by astrophysical objects.
Stephen Blundell is a Professor of Physics and a Professorial Fellow of Mansfield College. After studying physics and taking his doctorate at the University of Cambridge, he moved to Oxford as an EPSRC Fellow, and then took a Junior Research Fellowship at Merton College. His research is in the area of magnetism and superconductivity, and he is particularly known for his contributions to the technique of muon-spin rotation, in which radioactive particles called muons are implanted into samples in order to study their magnetic properties. He has authored or co-authored six books with Oxford University Press, including Magnetism in Condensed Matter Concepts in Thermal Physics and Quantum Field Theory for the Gifted Amateur.
Research interests
Stephen's research is concerned with using muon-spin rotation and other magnetic techniques to study a range of organic and inorganic materials, especially those showing interesting magnetic, superconducting, or dynamical properties. He is particularly interested in seeing how quantum properties can be realised in condensed matter systems. Recently he has been developing a technique called DFT+μ for understanding muon sites and also working on a project to upgrade Oxford's Pulsed Field system to generate very high magnetic fields.
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- Development Director
- Fellow
Tess has overall responsibility for Development, alumni relations, College communications and fundraising at Mansfield; she leads the team and oversees all of its activities.
She has 20 years' experience of fundraising, both within Oxford's collegiate University and outside it. She has held senior Development roles at the National Gallery, and then Tate in London, and was Head of Development at the University's Ashmolean Museum for 7 years, leading the fundraising for the Museum's capital redevelopment and launching its successful endowment campaign. Most recently Tess has been a fundraising consultant for varied non-profits and charities.
Professor Tingting Zhu graduated with the DPhil degree in information and biomedical engineering at Oxford University in 2016. This followed her MSc in Biomedical Engineering at University College London and BEng (Hons) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Malta.
After DPhil, Tingting was awarded a Stipendiary Junior Research Fellowship at St. Hilda's College, Oxford. In 2018, Tingting was appointed as the first Associate Member of Faculty at the Department of Engineering Science; in 2019, following the award of her Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship, she was appointed to full Member of Faculty at the Department of Engineering Science.
Tingting is a Non-Tutorial Fellow at Kellogg College and a Stipendiary College Lecturer at Mansfield College.
Research interests
Tingting's research interests lie in machine learning for healthcare applications and she has developed probabilistic techniques for reasoning about time-series medical data. Her work involves the development of machine learning for understanding complex patient data, with an emphasis on Bayesian inference, deep learning, and applications involving the developing world.
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- Associate Professor at the Department of Statistics
Tom Rainforth is an Associate Professor at the Department of Statistics and a Tutorial Fellow of Mansfield College. His research covers a wide range of topics in and around machine learning and experimental design, with areas of particular interest including Bayesian experimental design, deep learning, representation learning, generative models, Monte Carlo methods, active learning, and approximate inference. He currently holds a ERC Starting Grant titled Data-Driven Algorithms for Data Acquisition (Feb 2024 - Feb 2029, funded by the UKRI Horizon Guarantee Scheme). He completed his DPhil in Probabilistic Programming and Machine Learning in 2017 at the University of Oxford, and previously held positions as a Junior Research Fellow in Computer Science at Christ Church College, and then as a Senior Research Fellow in Statistical Machine Learning at the Department of Statistics.
Tony manages the College's buildings - from its maintenance to its daily operation and over all functionality and safety of buildings and equipment.
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- Legacy and Planned Giving Manager