JESUS - Key Persons
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- Manciple 's Administrator
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- College Positions Postdoctoral Associate
Aisha is a postdoctoral researcher specialising in understanding the construction of power systems and how these are enacted, compounded, and challenged through digital technologies.
Aisha Sobey is an interdisciplinary scholar focussing on the power dynamics of digital technologies. Her PhD thesis considered the embedded control of the Singaporean Smart Nation and asked how motivations of Machine Learning ML and AI in city space shape and question what is privileged and marginalised by the systems they form.
In a second, related strand of research, she considers design justice for fat liberation by exploring the relationship between AI and anti-fat bias. This project is underpinned by queer, feminist scholarship.
Aisha is also passionate about widening participation and inclusion in higher education in Cambridge. She is the chair of the LCFI Wellbeing, Inclusion, Diversity and Equality group and acts as a mentor for the SAH Summer school.
Alastair Compston is the former Head of the Department of Clinical Neurosciences and an Emeritus Fellow of Jesus College.
Alastair Compston qualified in medicine from the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, UCL, in 1971, and subsequently trained in neurology at the National Hospital and the Institute of Neurology, Queen Square. He was previously:
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- Tutorial Administrator ( Admissions and Events )
Annemarie Künzl-Snodgrass' academic interests include:
Development of web based language teaching materials
Translation studies
Contemporary influences on the German language
German post war social history.
Annemarie Künzl-Snodgrass was a Senior Language Teaching Officer in the Department of German and Dutch. She is an Emeritus Fellow at Jesus College.
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- Baroness Hunt of Bethnal Green, Co - Director of Deeds and Words
Baroness Ruth Hunt, Baroness Hunt of Bethnal Green, Co-Director of Deeds and Words
Ruth is a cross-bench peer in the House of Lords where she carries out the normal duties of a peer and advocates for LGBT+ inclusion. Ruth is also Co-Director of Deeds and Words, which she runs with her partner Caroline. Deeds and Words exists to play a small part in helping organisations and communities build cultures that work better, to tackle the challenges faced in society.
Before joining the Lords and Deeds and Words, Ruth was the CEO of Stonewall, the UK's largest LGBT+ organisation. Ruth worked at Stonewall for 14 years, holding a range of positions and working to change attitudes to LGBT+ people.
Ruth attended Oxford University, where she was President of the Student Union and she holds honorary doctorates from Exeter and Keele University and an honorary fellowship from Cardiff University. Ruth is also a Marshall Memorial Fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the United States.
Barry Rider is a Professorial Fellow, Centre for Development Studies, University of Cambridge.
The Right Rev'd Dr Rosemarie Mallett was born in Barbados but has lived much of her life in the UK. She has worked in West and East Africa as well as back in the Caribbean as an academic and researcher. She returned to the UK to study for her PhD. After working as an academic sociologist for twelve years, she trained for ordained ministry. Since 2005, she has served in various roles in the Diocese of Southwark, based in South London and East Surrey, as Parish Priest, Diocesan Director, and Archdeacon, and she now serves as the Bishop of Croydon.
Rosemarie is a Trustee of several Diocesan and national para-church organisations, including the Southwark Diocesan Board of Education and Churches Together in Britain and Ireland (CTBI). From 2010 to 2021, Rosemarie served on the General Synod of the Church of England, as one of the Synod Chairs for 5 years, and on several Archbishop's Council committees, including the Women in the Episcopate Steering Committee and the Pastoral Advisory Group.
Rosemarie is a Fellow of the Westminster Abbey Institute.
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- Professor of Phonetics and Phonology
Brechtje Post is Professor of Phonetics and Phonology and Co-Director of the Language Sciences Interdisciplinary Research Centre. She has been a Fellow of Jesus since 2008 and Director of Studies in Linguistics since 2010
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- Professor of Mobile Systems
Cecilia Mascolo is Full Professor of Mobile Systems in the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge, UK.
Prior to joining Cambridge in 2008, she has been a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at University College, London. She holds an MSc and a PhD from the University of Bologna.
Her research interests are in mobile and wearable systems, mobile sensing data analytics and mobile health. She has published in a number of top tier conferences and journals in the area and her investigator experience spans projects funded by Research Councils and industry.
She has served as organising and programme committee member of mobile, sensor systems, and networking conferences and workshops. She sits on the editorial boards of IEEE Pervasive Computing, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, ACM Proceedings on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT).
She has taught a variety of courses related to mobile and sensing systems and data analytics.
Chris Boardman is one of Britain's most successful British racing cyclists. Between 1992 and 2000 he attended and medalled at major Games winning Britain's first gold for 72 years at Barcelona in 1992. He also wore the leaders' yellow jersey at the Tour de France on three separate occasions, took three world titles and broke several world records. He was awarded an MBE for services to sport.
Since retirement from professional cycling, Chris has served in various roles with British Cycling helping set up and lead the Research and Development branch for the British Olympic Cycling team that went on to scoop 14 medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and become the most successful of all time. The research and development group were nicknamed the "Secret Squirrel Club" and they played a significant part in creating that unprecedented sporting prosperity.
Chris has also worked as a cycling commentator and launched his own range of cycles and accessories, Boardman Bikes.
More recently he has worked in walking and cycling advocacy roles, becoming Greater Manchester's walking and cycling commissioner in 2017, Greater Manchester's Transport Commissioner in 2021 and is now Commissioner of Active Travel England which aims to ensure 50 per cent of journeys in towns and cities are walked or cycled by 2030.
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- Screenwriter and Film Director
After receiving a degree in French literature, Sciamma studied screenwriting at the national film school in Paris. There she wrote Naissance des pieuvres that would turn into her feature directorial debut, Water Lilies, in 2007, selected for the Cannes Film Festival (Un Certain Regard). Sciamma's 2011 film Tomboy won numerous accolades, including the Teddy Jury Award at the Berlinale. In 2014, her film Bande de filles (Girlhood) premiered at Cannes' Directors' Fortnight. Two years later, she scripted Quand on a 17 ans (Being 17) by André Téchiné and Ma vie de Courgette (My Life as a Courgette), an animated film by Claude Barras that attracted considerable audience and critical acclaim, won numerous awards and received an Oscar nomination. Sciamma returned to directing in 2019 with Portrait de la jeune fille en feu (Portrait of a Lady on Fire), earning her Best Screenplay at Cannes. In 2021, she directed Petite maman, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival. In 2023 she directed her first documentary short film - "This is how a child becomes a poet" - about poet Patrizia Cavalli's house.
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- China Forum Administrator
Akhil Vohra specialises in applied Microeconomic Theory, with a focus in Market Design, Networks, and Political Economy. He is interested in developing theoretical models that provide insights into real world problems.
Akhil Vohra completed his BS in mathematics at Stanford University. After, he worked for a year at an investment bank before returning to Stanford to earn a PhD in economics in 2021. He is a fellow at the University of Cambridge and the Janeway Institute for the current 2021-22 academic year. He will then join the department of economics at the University of Georgia (Terry College of Business) as an assistant professor.
Albert's academic interests include:
Evolution of birds
Phylogenetics
Vertebrate palaeontology
Comparative anatomy.
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- Associate
- HFSP Fellow and Research Associate
- Materials Scientist and Biomedical Engineer
Alexander Boys is an HFSP Fellow and Research Associate in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology. He is a materials scientist and biomedical engineer working at the intersection of tissue engineering and bioelectronics.
Alexander Cowan is a musicologist specialising in the intellectual and political history of music in the late-19th and early-20th centuries.
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- College Positions Postdoctoral Associate
Andrea is a multidisciplinary public health scientist researching health behaviours of young people, focusing on the interplay of diet and physical activity, and relationships with mental and physical health across adolescence. She is also interested in the development of innovative digital family-centred health behaviour change interventions.
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- Director
- Fellow
- University Associate Professor
Andrew Grant is a University Associate Professor in the Department of Veterinary Medicine and a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge.
Andrew is a Jesuan and a former Senior Research Associate at the College. As an undergraduate he read history, and was President of the Cambridge Union in 1978.
Andrew first entered Parliament in 1987, serving first as a Government Whip and then as Minister in the Department of Social Security from 1995-7. He also served as Vice Chairman of the Conservative Party 1992-93. He lost his seat in the 1997 election, but returned to Parliament as the MP for Sutton Coldfield in 2001.
Andrew served as Secretary of State for International Development between 2010 and 2012, and he has continued to argue for international aid ever since.
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- College Positions Postdoctoral Associate
Anna Wenger is a Wenner-Gren fellow at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. Her postdoctoral research focuses on cancer in children.
Anna Wenger received her BSc in Bioengineering and her MSc in Biotechnology from Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden). She then pursued a PhD at the University of Gothenburg, focussing on brain tumours in children. She was awarded a grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundations, which funds her postdoc at the Wellcome Sanger Institute under the supervision of Professor Sam Behjati. Anna's postdoctoral research uses novel DNA sequencing technologies to unravel the origin and development of childhood cancer.
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- College Positions Postdoctoral Associate
Anna-Luna Post's main research interest is the culture of scholarship in early modern Europe. She has focused on the role of fame in academic careers through a case study of Galileo Galilei, and is currently working on a project regarding the entanglement between scholarship, commerce and politics in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic.
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- College Positions Emeritus Fellow
Anthony Bowen is the former Orator of the University and an Emeritus Fellow in Classics at Jesus College.
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- Fellow
- Assistant Professor in Design Computation
Antiopi is an Assistant Professor in Design Computation and Fabrication in the Department of Architecture at the University of Cambridge.
Debnath, R., Koronaki, A., Marino, D., Meng, Y., Shah, D.U., Smith, S., Haggart, K., Ramage, M.H., 2022. Environmental performance of timber schools for climate action: a data-driven and simulation approach, in World Congress on Timber Engineering 2023. (Accepted)
Koronaki, A., Jalia, A., Bukauskas, Aurimas, Shah, Darshil U, Ramage, Michael H, 2020. Emerging trends in the applications of engineered timber in UK school buildings, in: Proceedings of WCTE2020. Presented at the World Conference on Timber Engineering, Santiago, Chile.
Koronaki, A., Papalexopoulos, D., Kourkoulas, A. (2014). The apartment block is dead? Long-live the apartment block!, ek-magazine, Vol. 180, March 2014, p.30-35.
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- College Positions Postdoctoral Associate
Ben is a clinical academic community nurse. He leads a programme of interdisciplinary research focused on improving last-days-of-life symptom control. Ben was recently announced as one of the 75 nurses and midwives whose work has had an especially significant impact on the NHS since its creation.
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- Archaeologist
- College Positions Postdoctoral Associate
Bolaji Owoseni is a West African archaeologist researching the Yorubaland region prior to the 19th century.
Bolaji Owoseni is an archaeologist of the pre-19th century Yoruba region of Nigeria, West Africa. She has written papers on settlement development in the Ilorin Yoruba area between the 6th and the 12th centuries, on community/public engagements, and on archaeological perspectives in Nigeria.
Bolaji has also taught classes and presented papers on archaeological studies in Nigeria and the UK and at various international conferences and workshops at Cambridge and beyond.
Her research connects the archaeology of social interactions, complex society, ethnoarchaeology, ethnohistory, material culture, ancient landscape architecture and environment. Her proposed project will include a range of archaeological approaches to material culture analysis within critical comparative and theoretical concepts.
She is a member of the Society for Africanist Archaeology (SAFA) and the World Archaeology Congress (WAC).
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- Fellow
- University of Oxford As a Postdoctoral Researcher
Dr Brian Sheil studied Civil Engineering for his undergraduate degree at the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG). He studied the behaviour of deep foundation systems for his PhD (also at NUIG) which involved a period as a Visiting Scholar at University of California, Berkeley.
In 2014, Brian joined the University of Oxford as a postdoctoral researcher in experimental geotechnics focused on industry-funded research projects and was subsequently promoted to departmental lecturer in geotechnical engineering in January 2017. In 2018, he was awarded both a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow at Oxford and a Junior Research Fellowship at St Catherine's College (Oxford). In January 2021, Brian was appointed to the position of Honorary Research Senior Lecturer at NUIG and in 2022, he was awarded the title of Associate Professor at University of Oxford. He took up his current position as the Laing O'Rourke Associate Professor in Construction Engineering in September 2022.
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- Associate
- Materials Scientist from Calgary
- Researcher at the Cavendish Laboratory
Casey Platnich is a Herchel Smith Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cavendish Laboratory. Specialising in the use of DNA as a nanoscale construction material, Casey is currently developing methods to encode digital data into DNA with readout at the single-particle level for high density information storage.
Casey Platnich is a materials scientist from Calgary, Canada. She received her PhD in Chemistry from McGill University, where she developed single-molecule fluorescence methodologies to probe the self-assembly pathways of DNA nanomaterials. These materials can then be used as nanoscale drug delivery vehicles or in biosensing devices.
Catherine O'Brien has taught on a wide range of social and developmental psychology topics as well as developmental psychopathology, including school bullying and autistic spectrum conditions.
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- Director, Westminster Abbey Institute
Claire has worked extensively in public ethics, specialising in medical ethics and environmental ethics. A theologian by background, she emphasises the spiritual dimension of ethics in her writing and lecturing.
Claire was Research Fellow at the Centre of Medical Law and Ethics, King's College, London, then National Policy Adviser to the Church of England on medical ethics and environmental ethics. She founded a charity, the Ethics Academy, and was a lay canon of St Paul's Cathedral where she co-founded St Paul's Institute for ethics in finance and business. She is founding Director of Westminster Abbey Institute, which nurtures and revitalises moral and spiritual values in public life and service in the institutions of government that are Westminster Abbey's neighbours.
Claire's doctorate is on Julian of Norwich and ecological consciousness. She has published extensively, including The Ethics of Medical Research on Humans ; Sharing God's Planet; Integrity in Public Life; and more personally of her cancer diagnosis and treatment Miles to Go Before I Sleep. She is working on a book on Julian of Norwich.
Fermín Moscoso del Prado's teaching and research expertise span a variety of areas including computational linguistics, mathematical linguistics, artificial intelligence, psycholinguistics, cognitive neuroscience, and information theory and statistics. He is particularly interested in the computational structure of human language from all possible perspectives, as well as in more general topics in artificial intelligence, such as explainable AI.
Fermín Moscoso del Prado is a computational linguist and cognitive scientist. He is an Associate Professor of Computational Linguistics in the Department of Computer Science and Technology. He has previously held academic appointments at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, the Medical Research Council, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and at Radboud University. He has also directed AI and NLP labs in industry.
Dr Gus Casely-Hayford is a British museum curator, broadcaster, author, and cultural historian. He is from a noted Ghanaian family - his grandfather was a prominent pan-African politician in the then Gold Coast, his brother was a well-known fashion designer, and his sister is a high-profile lawyer and businessperson.
He did a doctorate in African History at King's College, London, and has worked in a very wide range of cultural institutions. Until recently, he was the Director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art in Washington DC. He has now returned to the UK as Director of the new V&A East.
He has presented an award-winning South Bank show on African art, a documentary on Chris Ofili for Channel 4 and presented several series on African culture for BBC World Service as well as Brit Art: Where to Now? for BBC Four.
He is a Clore Fellow and a Trustee of the National Trust, having previously been a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery and a Council member of Tate Britain. He was made OBE in 2018 for services to arts and culture.
Jason Mellad is an enthusiastic and experienced entrepreneur. Originally from Louisiana, he won a Marshall Scholarship to the University of Cambridge, securing a PhD in Medicine in 2009. After a period in bioscience research and business development, he became CEO of Cambridge Epigenetix, a world-leading company extracting information from DNA sequences. He then established Start Codon, the Cambridge-based life sciences venture builder, which invests in and nurtures a wide range of biotech companies.
He is also co-owner of the LAB cocktail bar, a bioscience-themed venue in Regent Street, which plays a surprisingly important role in the Cambridge biotech scene. He is a Business Board Member of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority.
Lizzie is a former Research Fellow between 1998 and 2001, during which time she published her first book, Imperial Bodies: The Physical Experience of the Raj, c.1800-1947, which explored how themes of imperialism, race and class found physical expression and the use of the body as an instrument of rule during the Raj.
Since leaving Jesus she has established her credentials as an independent author, columnist and media commentator. Her publications, which show her mastery of the sweep of global history and her eye for the telling detail, have been highly rated by reviewers and greatly enjoyed by readers. Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors traced the story of the dish from Mughal rule to the modern day, revealing the at times unexpected history of Britain's relationship with India along the way.
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- College Positions Postdoctoral Associate
Xilin Jiang is a statistical geneticist working on understanding the molecular architecture (DNA, RNA, proteomics, metabolomics) of health outcomes (disease, treatment response, comorbidity).
Jiang, X., Holmes, C., & McVean, G. (2021). The impact of age on genetic risk for common diseases. PLOS Genetics, 17(8), e1009723.
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- College Positions Postdoctoral Associate
- Learning Researcher
- Research Associate at the Mobile Systems Research Laboratory
Georgios Rizos is a machine learning researcher focusing on uncertainty-aware deep learning. He has worked on applications related to healthcare, bioacoustics, and online social network analysis.
Georgios Rizos is a research associate at the Mobile Systems Research Laboratory, headed by Dr. Cecilia Mascolo. He is working on robust learning of audio representations aimed at digital healthcare and diagnostics.
Previously, he was a doctoral candidate at Imperial College London, UK, working on deep uncertainty quantification of multimodal data as a member of the Group on Language, Audio, and Music (GLAM). His PhD work was supervised by Dr Björn Schuller and funded by the prestigious President's Scholarship of Imperial College London (EPSRC Grant No. 2021037).
Between 2013 and 2017, he was a research assistant at the Information Technologies Institute of the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH-ITI), working on machine learning for online social network data as part of the Multimedia Knowledge and Social Media Analytics Lab (MKLab), and supervised by Dr Symeon Papadopoulos and Dr Ioannis Kompatsiaris.
Georgios holds a diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (2012), and an MSc with distinction in Biomedical Engineering from Imperial College London (2013).
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- Maintenance Administrative Coordinator
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- Communications and Marketing Manager
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- Communications and Marketing Manager
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- Fellow at the Cavendish Laboratory
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Postdoctoral Research Fellowship ( 2021 )
- Professor of Molecular Biology, the Gurdon Institute and Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, 2007 to Present
- Senior Investigator at the Gurdon Institute
Andrea Brand is Herchel Smith Professor of Molecular Biology and Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator at the Gurdon Institute.
Herchel Smith Professor of Molecular Biology, The Gurdon Institute and Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, 2007 to present.
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- Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School
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- Author and Broadcaster
- Chancellor of University of Manchester
Lemn is Chancellor of University of Manchester, trustee of The Foundling Museum and trustee of The Christmas Dinners - an annual project to provide an amazing Christmas Day for care leavers aged between 18 and 25 - which he started in Manchester in 2013. It has spread across the country to 19 cities and towns on Christmas Day in 2020. Lemn is ambassador for Place2B, a children's mental health charity with over 25 years' experience working with pupils, families and staff in UK schools. He is patron of The National Association for the Teaching of English.
His most recent book, My Name is Why is a number one Sunday Times bestseller. In 2021, My Name Is Why won The Indie Book Awards non-fiction prize. He co-curated Hold Still: A Portrait of Our Nation in 2020 by the Duchess of Cambridge - also a Sunday Times bestseller. Lemn has judged many literary competitions including The Booker Prize 2020, The Gold Man Booker awards and The National Poetry Competition.
Lemn was also writer in residence from 2006-2012 at The Southbank Centre. He was the first poet commissioned to write for The Olympics in 2012. The Lemn Sissay PhD scholarship for Care Leavers has been running since 2013 at the University of Huddersfield. Lemn is artistic adviser to The Manchester International Festival and was Guest Director of Brighton Festival 2020 and 2021. In 2014, Lemn was named MBE for services to literature and in 2021 named OBE for services to Literature and Charity.
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- Global Issues Dialogue Centre Deputy Director
Most Fellows divide their time between University teaching (mostly lectures), College teaching duties (supervisions) and their own research. Directors of Studies are generally responsible for academic coursework and for arranging supervisions. The College also has several Postdoctoral Associates, who are usually academics just starting out on their careers.
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- Director of Music
- Fellow
- Artist
Benjamin Sheen is the College's Director of Music. An established concert organist and conductor on both sides of the Atlantic, he has held organist posts at Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue in New York City and at Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford. He maintains a busy schedule of recitals and masterclasses worldwide.
Benjamin Sheen, Director of Music at Jesus College, Cambridge, is an established concert artist on both sides of the Atlantic.
Hailed as a "brilliant organist" by the New York Times, he is the 2013 winner of the Pierre S. du Pont First Prize in the inaugural Longwood Gardens Organ Competition, and that same year received Second Prize and the Jon Laukvik prize at the St. Alban's International Organ Competition. Benjamin holds degrees from the University of Oxford and the Juilliard School, is a prize-winning Fellow of the Royal College of Organists, and the 2011 recipient of the Worshipful Company of Musicians' Silver Medal. Before moving to Cambridge, he spent three years as Sub-Organist at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford and served as organ tutor at the University of Oxford.
As a concert organist, Benjamin has performed throughout Europe, the USA, Canada, Singapore, and South Africa. He has also made concerto appearances with the Auckland Philharmonic and Orchestra of St. Luke's in New York City. Before returning to the UK in 2020, he spent eight years at the famed Saint Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue in New York City as Associate Organist and as Acting Director of Music after the death of John Scott in 2015. Benjamin has recently released his first solo album, ‘In London Town', featuring music and transcriptions from Great Britain, recorded on the Dobson organ at Saint Thomas Fifth Avenue.
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- Director
- Fellow
- London & Quadrant Housing Trust
- University Associate Professor
Amy Goymour is a University Associate Professor in Land Law. She teaches across a variety of private law subjects within the Cambridge Law Faculty, including Civil (Roman) I, Land Law, Aspects of Obligations, and the Law of Restitution. Her primary research interest lies in property law, especially the law of land registration.
Amy Goymour graduated with a degree in Law from Downing College, Cambridge. She then worked as a research assistant in property law at the Law Commission for England and Wales. Subsequently, she studied for the BCL masters degree in law at Jesus College, Oxford. She has been a fellow of Fitzwilliam College (2004-06) and Downing College (2006-2020) in Cambridge, and was appointed to a University Lectureship in Law in 2012.
Amy has published on a range of issues within land and property Law - most extensively on the difficulties associated with land registration, and its interaction with the underlying pre-existing rules of property. Ongoing projects include writing an exploratory introductory book on land law - ‘Key Ideas in Land Law' (commissioned by Hart Publishing/Bloomsbury).
Amy is passionate about teaching; she is also committed to promoting student access to Cambridge. She was Access Officer for the Law Faculty 2012-15, and maintains a strong involvement with Faculty of Law and University access initiatives.
A Goymour, ‘Bruton v London & Quadrant Housing Trust: Relativity of Title and the Regulation of the ‘Proprietary Underworld'", ch 7 in S Douglas, R Hickey and E Waring (eds), Landmark Cases in Property Law (Hart, 2015).
A Goymour, ‘Property and Housing', ch 12 in D Hoffman (ed), The Impact of the UK Human Rights Act on Private Law (CUP, 2011).
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- Professor P.J.a. Frankopan MA
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- Fellow at the University of Southern California
Anna-Luna Post received her PhD in 2020 from Utrecht University. Her dissertation on Galileo Galilei's fame and credibility was rewarded the Van Woudenberg dissertation prize for the best dissertation in the field of Italian studies between 2020-2022. During her PhD she worked as manuscript assistant for Isis: Journal of the History of Science Society (2017-2018) and co-edited the first English translation of Caspar Barlaeus' oration Mercator Sapiens, published by Amsterdam University Press, in 2019.
Before coming to Cambridge, she was a Niels Stensen fellow at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles (2021-2022) and held a lectureship in History at the University of Amsterdam (2020-2021). Since 2017 she has regularly appeared on various podcasts to discuss her research and/or pop culture.
In Cambridge she intends to work on two projects. The first is turning her dissertation into a monograph for publication. The second is her Rubicon project, which explores the commercial exploitation of knowledge in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic.
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- CEO of the Five Foundation
Nimco Ali is a survivor of female genital mutilation (FGM), a strategist and an author. Born in Somaliland, she grew up in the UK. In 2019, she co-founded The Five Foundation, The Global Partnership To End FGM. She also co-founded Daughters of Eve in 2010, a non-profit organisation that works to protect girls and young women who are at risk from FGM. Nimco's work has helped to position FGM as a central issue in ending violence against women and girls. Since late 2020 she is also the independent advisor on violence against women and girls for the UK Home Office.
Nimco's professional experience has included working for counter-terrorism within the civil service, supporting the rights of girls in the UK as part of Girlguiding UK, and as a current board member for Inspiring Girls. She is also a leading commentator in international media on the rights of girls and women - particularly surrounding FGM and related issues.
During 2019, Nimco was awarded an OBE for her groundbreaking activism. This adds to her long list of achievements to date. In 2014, Nimco was awarded Red Magazine's Woman of the Year award, and placed at number six on the Woman's Hour Power List. Most recently she was named by The Sunday Times as one of Debrett's 500 most influential people in Britain, as well as one of the Evening Standard's 1,000 Most Powerful and BBC's 100 Women.
Nimco's book, What We're Told Not To Talk About (But We're Going To Anyway), was published by Penguin in June 2019.
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- Interdisciplinary Artist and Writer
Osman Yousefzada is a British-Pakistani interdisciplinary artist and writer, engaging with the representation, rupture and reimagining of the migration experience. He works across moving image, installation, sculpture, textile, and performance, referring to the socio-political issues of today. Osman's practice is led by modes of storytelling, merging autobiography with fiction and ritual.
Osman is a research practitioner at the Royal College of Art, London. His work has been shown at notable international institutions including: Whitechapel Gallery, London; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Wapping Project, London; Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio; Ringling Museum, Florida; Lahore Museum, Pakistan; Design Museum, London; Lahore Biennale, Pakistan; and Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh.
Osman's practice has been described as "defiant", where the participating bodies throughout his work are presented as part objects that refuse to identify or conform. Most recently, his series of solo interventions titled ‘What Is Seen & What Is Not' was shown at the Victoria & Albert Museum in South Kensington, London. Across three site-specific works, this presentation responded to the 75th anniversary of Pakistan and explored themes of displacement, movement, migration, and climate change.
In his memoir, The Go-Between (2022), set in Birmingham in the 1980s and 1990s, alternative masculinities compete with strict gender roles while female erasure and honour-based violence are committed, even as empowering female friendships prevail. This first book was long listed for the Polari Prize and reviewed by Stephen Fry as "one of the greatest childhood memoirs of our time".
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- Carpentry and Buildings Supervisor
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- Maintenance Buildings Services Supervisor
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- President of English PEN
- Professor of Law at University College London and Samuel and Judith Pisar Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School
Philippe Sands KC is Professor of Law at University College London and Samuel and Judith Pisar Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He is a practising barrister and appears as counsel before the International Court of Justice and other international courts and tribunals. He sits as an arbitrator in international investment disputes and the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
He is author of Lawless World (2005) and Torture Team (2008) and numerous academic books on international law, and has contributed to the New York Review of Books, Vanity Fair, the Financial Times, the Guardian, and The New York Times.
His most recent books are East West Street: On the Origins of Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide (2016) (awarded the 2016 Baillie Gifford Prize, the 2017 British Book Awards Non-Fiction Book of the Year, and the 2018 Prix Montaigne) and The Ratline: Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive (2020), also available as BBC and France Culture podcasts. His latest book is The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy (2022).
Philippe is President of English PEN and a member of the Board of the Hay Festival of Arts and Literature.
Sharon Dodua Otoo will be Schroeder Writer-in-Residence at Cambridge University for the academic year 2021/2022. Born in London, Sharon studied German and Management at Royal Holloway, University of London, spending two years abroad in Berlin as an exchange student. This experience led her to move permanently to Berlin in 2006. She has published widely, writing essays, short stories and novellas in both English and German. She edits the series Witnessed, an English language book series written by Black authors who have lived in Germany. Sharon's non-fiction publications cover a wide range of topics concerning culture, diversity, race equality and feminism.
Sharon's short story Herr Gröttrup sits down won the prestigious Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 2016. She has also won awards from the Guntram und Irene Rinke Foundation and Deutscher Literaturfonds.
As an activist, Sharon has been involved with the Initiative for Black People in Germany, serving on its Board of Directors between 2010 and 2013 as well as a number of other groups. Between 2014 and 2017 she worked for RAA Berlin (Regional Centre for Education, Integration and Democracy), a registered non-profit organisation which coordinates and supports participation projects in educational settings as well as providing independent youth welfare services.
Stephen Gilmore is a University Professor of Family Law and a Fellow of Jesus College. He is Director of the Cambridge Family Law Centre in the Faculty of Law.
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- Information Compliance Officer
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- Prize, Jointly With Professor Robin Irvine