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Introduction

I am a historian of race, faith and culture in Modern Britain. I am also a Fellow of the Institute of Historical Research and the Royal Historical Society, and an Associate Member of the Faculty of History at the University of Oxford. From 2020-2025, I worked as a Lecturer in Black British History and Modern British History at Goldsmiths, University of London, where I was part of the team of two that created, launched and delivered the UK’s first MA in Black British History. I also work as Advocacy and Engagement Officer at the Royal Historical Society, where I advocate for and promote the advancement of historical research and the humanities. I am also Chair of the Equity Working Group at the Institute of Historical Research. 

Research

My academic research interests include: histories of religion, race and anti-racism in the twentieth century; questions of identity, belonging and multiculturalism; media and propaganda; and the scope and limitations of England’s national school curriculum. I was the Principal Investigator of an AHRC-funded project dedicated to understanding innovative methods for diversifying, decolonising and de-centring British history education across the four nations of the UK (2021-24). I am currently working on completing an academic monograph entitled Race, Religion and Anti-Racism: A History of Britain, 1960-1995.

Introduction

I went to school at Marling School in Stroud, Gloucestershire, then, starting in 2015 studied for both my undergraduate and doctoral degrees in materials science at at Mansfield then Oriel College, Oxford. Having gained a DPhil in 2023, I spent three years as a postdoctoral researcher within Mauro Pasta’s research group, working on lithium alloy electrodes for solid state batteries, and led a work package of the Faraday Institution’s SOLBAT consortium. I was recently awarded a Research Fellowship, where I am now building a research group currently focused on lightweight magnesium alloy development for robotics, aerospace and automotive applications.

Teaching

I teach mechanical properties courses materials science to first, second- and third-year undergraduates at Queen’s. I also lecture thermodynamics to first year undergraduates, and supervise Part II (fourth year), DPhil and post-doctoral researchers

Research

My research is centered on metallurgy. Particularly, lightweight structural materials. The research combines mechanical testing and electrochemistry with high-throughput materials development, aiming at greater strength, ductility and corrosion resistance. Current projects are focused on the development of magnesium alloys for robotics, aerospace and automotive applications.

Publications

You can find a full list of my publications here

Introduction

I completed my BA, MSt, and DPhil in History at Oxford, the latter while working in an administrative role. Most recently, I have held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Manchester.

Teaching

I teach British and European History c. 300–1100, and contribute to the teaching of historiography and historical methods. I have taught at undergraduate and postgraduate level at the Department for Continuing Education (Oxford Lifelong Learning).

Research

My work centres on the social and legal history of Anglo-Saxon England. I am particularly interested in the ways in which government, social structure, and political identity shaped one another in the formative period of the English kingdom. I am currently working on a monograph that examines how control was established in new territories (specifically East Anglia) at a local level during the tenth and eleventh centuries. My other research interests include landscape history and historical geography, particularly in relation to borders and frontiers.

Publications

My publications are listed on my ORCiD profile.

Introduction

I went to school in East Sussex (Ringmer Community College and then South Downs Sixth Form College) before studying for a BA in English Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London, where I studied medieval English literature for the first time. I then studied for a MPhil in Medieval Literature at Sidney Sussex College at the University of Cambridge, and a DPhil at St John’s College, University of Oxford (funded by an AHRC DTP and Lamb & Flag scholarship). My doctorate examined how medieval people reflected on the materiality of their books in their devotional writings.

Teaching

I teach the first year course Prelims 2, which spans Old and Middle English literature 650-1350, and the second year FHS Paper 2, which spans the later medieval period (1350-1550). I am also the English Subject Lead for the Astrophoria Foundation Year Programme at the University of Oxford.

Research

I am predominantly interested in three areas of research: perceptions of late medieval material texts, medievalism and craft, and medieval folk horror. Along with Dr Laura Varnam and Dr Kristen Haas Curtis, I founded the Guild of Medievalist Makers, which supports and connects creative-critical medievalists. 

Publications

Trade Press Books

  • Tales of Horror from Medieval England (Oxford: Bodleian Publishing, forthcoming)
  • Book Curses (Oxford: Bodleian Library Publishing, 2024)

Select Articles and Book Chapters 

  • ‘Cut, Pasted, and Pocketed: J. L. Carr’s Chaucer Pocketbook’, Inscription: The Journal of Material Text, 6 (2026) 92-103. 
  • ‘Late Medieval Book-Craft Recipes and Perceptions of the Book’, in Recipes and Book Culture in England 1350-1600, ed. by Carrie Griffin and Hannah Ryley (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2024), pp. 135-154. 
  • Marion Turner et al., ‘‘Chaucer’s World’ Study Days in Oxford for Post-16 Students: Enhancing Learning and Encouraging Wonder’, New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession, 3 (2023) 70-78
  • ‘Metaphors of Textual Materiality in Late Medieval Middle English Sermons’, Studies in Philology, 118 (2021) 631-665

Introduction

My specialism is literature of the long eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

I grew up and went to comprehensive school in London.  I read for an Undergraduate Masters in English and Philosophy at the University of St Andrews, and went to Durham University for my graduate Master’s in Romantic and Victorian Literary Studies.  I came to Oxford to write my DPhil on Alexander Pope’s literary legacy in the century after his death.  I have taught at many Oxford colleges, in the English Faculty, and at the Department for Continuing Education. 

Teaching

I teach literature of the long eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as approaches to literature and literary studies. At Queen’s, I teach FHS Paper 4 (1660-1760) and FHS Paper 5 (1760-1830). I also supervise undergraduate and graduate dissertations.

Research

My research interests include: literary influence, inheritance, and legacy; literary self-consciousness; intertextuality, metatextuality, and paratextuality; canonicity and counter-canonicity; genre; and women’s writing.

My forthcoming first monograph, Alexander Pope and Romantic Poetics, examines the influence of Pope’s poetry on Romanticism.  My second project, Jane Austen and Genre, analyses ways in which Austen destabilises established conventions in novel genres.

Publications

I have published various peer-reviewed chapters, articles, and book reviews.  Please see the English Faculty website for a full list.

Introduction

After attending a state grammar school in East Kent, I completed a BA in Classics and French, as well as an MSt in Modern Languages, at St Anne’s College, Oxford. I then spent a year teaching English language and literature as a lectrice at the Université de Lorraine and SciencesPo Nancy in France. In 2022, as the inaugural recipient of the Cyril Vysove Scholarship, I began my DPhil at Queen’s under the supervision of Professor Daron Burrows. In March 2026, I was a visiting researcher at the Université de Lausanne in Switzerland. 

Teaching

At Queen’s, I teach first- and second-year unseen translation classes (French to English), as well as seminars on literary and critical theory.

I have been awarded Associate Fellowship of Advance HE (February 2026) in recognition of my effective teaching practice in French at college and faculty level at Oxford.

Research

My DPhil investigates the understudied manuscript transmission and reception of the thirteenth-century Roman de Dolopathos, an Old French adaptation of the pan-continental narrative tradition known as the Seven Sages of Rome. Drawing on the history of the book, religious studies and gender studies, I argue that the Dolopathos’ circulation alongside a range of genres, including courtly romances, hagiographies and mirrors for princes, fundamentally shapes and unsettles the text’s own misogynistic and proselytising frameworks, from both medieval and modern perspectives. More broadly, I am interested in medieval French literature in its cross-cultural and transhistorical contexts, as well as the interrelations between materiality, metapoetics and questions of community formation.

Publications

An up-to-date list of my publications can be found at this link

Introduction

I joined Queen’s college as an undergraduate mathematics student in 2021 and graduated from the integrated master’s degree in 2025, at which point I commenced postgraduate studies under the supervision of Professor Jose Antonio Carrillo and Dr Jakub Skrzeczkowski. Before coming to Oxford, I grew up in southeast London when I attended Colfe’s school for GCSE and A-Level.

Teaching

I teach the applied mathematics courses to first- and second-year undergraduate students at Queen’s, as well as being a teaching assistant to third-year courses at the Mathematical Institute. Having been on both sides of the Oxford tutorial system, my aim as tutor is to facilitate a discussion around the problem sets, which is primarily directed by the students towards areas of the course in which they feel uncertain.

Research

My area of research is in partial differential equations, which provide a mathematical framework under which to model a variety of physical systems in natural and physical sciences. Many such systems are fundamentally comprised of large numbers of interacting “particles”. These could be literal atoms, say in a gas, but also cells in a biological tissue, animals or people in a population, stock prices in a market, or many other applications. If we have a clearly defined interaction at the microscopic level of the individual, an interesting question is then to ask what emergent behaviors we expect at the macroscopic level of the population.

Introduction

I was born in 西安Xi’an, China and raised in East Tennessee, USA. Having trained as a classical pianist in my childhood, I competed and performed across the world, eventually receiving generous scholarships from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation to attend Choate Rosemary Hall, Princeton University (A.B., Music), and Duke Divinity School (M.Div.). Currently I am completing my PhD Candidacy in Music Theory at the University of Michigan, and I’ve lived in Oxford since 2023 with my wife and children.

Teaching

I teach all three years of music analysis for Queen’s alongside students from other colleges. Besides covering various schools of formenlehre, Schenkerian, and Neo-Riemannian analysis for Western repertory from the 18th-20th century, my specific pedagogical approach emphasizes a detailed close reading of each piece that never loses sight of a student’s own unique, intuitive perception of a piece.

Research

My current research focuses on early Chinese 古琴 guqin (seven-stringed zither) music, with the aim of recovering the “native” music theory embedded in adjacent historical texts in order to better analyze the surviving notated pieces. I am also part of an international research team that recently won a major grant supporting the use of AI in the study of such a large musical corpus. Here my immediate work involves both close textual study as well as the development of analog and predictive analytical tools, with an eye toward understanding the idiomatic styles and cosmological worldview placed upon such music by its dynastic literati creators. My larger research aim involves distilling the sacred or theological notions expressed through music in general, having also presented studies on Messiaen, Pärt, and Mompou at American and European academic conferences.

Publications

Forthcoming articles:

  • The Multiple Pentatonic Systems of the Wusheng Qinpu (Asian Musicology, 36)
  • Translation and Commentary of two Chinese music theoretical texts (Thinking Music, University of Chicago, OPS)
  • The Aural Logos of Maximus Confessor and Arvo Pärt (Special Volume on Theology, Music and Time, INMT)

Introduction

I grew up in Hertfordshire and attended St Edmund’s College, Ware, before reading medicine at Oxford, where I studied at The Queen’s College and Green Templeton College. I completed my Academic Foundation Programme in Yorkshire, attaining a PGCert in Health Research and Statistics from the University of York, before taking a year out of clinical training to complete a fully-funded MSc in Health Data Analytics and Machine Learning at Imperial College London. I am now an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in Vascular Surgery at the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford, conducting research alongside my surgical training.

Teaching

I teach the entire breadth of the surgical curriculum to clinical students at Queen’s, conducting bedside tutorials, case-based teaching sessions, and practical surgical skills courses. Nationally, I hold a committee position on the Royal College of Surgeon’s of Edinburgh (RCSEd) Core Trainee Forum, where I organise leadership training to early-career surgeons.

Research

My research experience spans laboratory, computational, and clinical domains. Previous vascular surgery research projects I have led include work on surgical site infection, venous disease, and the external validity of vascular trials. My work at the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences focuses on abdominal aortic aneurysm disease, where I am an investigator on the Metformin Aneurysm Trial, the largest medicines trial in aneurysm disease to date. I am also applying computational and machine learning techniques to Oxford aneurysm data, to provide data-driven insights into how we can improve aneurysm care.

Publications

A list of my publications can be found at the following sources:

Introduction

I grew up in an Italian-German household in Frankfurt, Germany, before studying law at King’s College London. I came to Oxford to read for the BCL at Mansfield College as the Marchand Legacy-Helena Kennedy Scholar. I then moved to Balliol College, Oxford, where I am completing my DPhil in Law, which is generously supported by the McDougall Scholarship.

Teaching

My teaching at Queen’s spans almost the entire range of private law subjects on the undergraduate syllabus. I teach the entire Land Law paper, and cover parts of Contract Law and Trusts. I also assist in the delivery of the Jurisprudence paper.

Research

My doctoral research investigates the problem of ‘concurrency’ in private law – that is, the situation in which a single set of facts gives rise to two or more, possibly conflicting, legal responses. Because this problem cuts across private law, the relevant cases have resisted systemisation. My thesis aims to remedy this deficiency and to articulate what rules do, and should, govern the interaction between concurrent legal responses. In my spare time, I also co-convene the Obligations Discussion Group at the Faculty of Law.

Publications

  • “Unfree Acceptance” (2026) Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly (forthcoming)
  • “The Consistency Equation” [with Beltrán Flores] (2026) 42(3) Professional Negligence 120-125
  • Book Reviews Review of Understanding Private Law: Essays in Honour of Stephen Smith (2025) 89(4) Conveyancer and Property Lawyer 403-405
  • “When is an Enforceable Agreement Not a Contract? Answer: When it is an Unjust Enrichment” (2025) 141 Law Quarterly Review 530-536

Introduction

I grew up in Lisbon, Portugal, and completed my undergraduate degree in Law at Kent Law School, UK. In 2022, I began my D.Phil, titled ‘In Praise of Gradience in the Law’, under the supervision of Professor Timothy Endicott. Prior to joining the teaching team at The Queen’s College, I taught Jurisprudence at St. Hilda’s College (2024-2026), Hertford College (for Visiting Students, 2024-2026) and Jesus College (2024-2025). I also have experience working in campaigns and in the tech/cybersecurity industry.

I am a founding and executive member of The Collective of Women in Legal Philosophy, a group created to promote and support women in legal philosophy and legal theory, and co-convened the Oxford Jurisprudence Discussion Group from April 2023 until April 2026.

Teaching

Within the College, I teach Constitutional Law and Jurisprudence. I also teach the introductory Legal Reasoning course for 1st year students.

Research

My research explains the role of bivalence and gradience in law in order to propose that there be more gradience in the law. My thesis questions the widely held view that liability determinations ought generally to be bivalent (e.g., criminal verdicts or holdings as to liability for a loss) and sets forth strategies for dealing with gradience in law. Could a legal system instead hold people guilty or liable to a certain degree? In answering ‘Yes’ to this, I respond to the worries the proposal I make may prompt, focusing particularly on how more gradience in the law impacts the scope of discretion, indeterminacy and arbitrariness in legal reasoning. At a practical level, I introduce and defend strategies to make use of more gradient operations in law through legal drafting and to approach the interpretation of gradient standards, whilst responding to concerns that may arise in each of these contexts. 

My wider research interests fall within legal drafting, legal interpretation, the rule of law, analytic jurisprudence, philosophy of language, and tech ethics. 

Publications

  • F. Paes, ‘Juridical Bivalence and The Rule of Law’ (2026) 23 Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy 677-697
  • F. Paes, ‘Collectivity and Cultural Heritage’ in S. Barclay, J. Hasnas, and V. Rodriguez-Blanco (eds.) Collective Agency and Legal Responsibility: Essays on Group Action, Personhood, and Moral Accountability (CUP, forthcoming 2027)

Introduction

I went to school at Rugby School as an Arnold Scholar and then studied for both my undergraduate and masters degrees in physics at Imperial College London. I then proceeded to my DPhil in condensed matter physics at New College Oxford, as a Greenwood Scholar.

Teaching

I teach quantum, further quantum and condensed matter physics. I have also taught at Oriel college as a GTRS.

Research

My research is focused on perovskite solar cells. I primary assess the use of alternative crystalisation pathways for advancing the stability of materials.

Publications

A list of my publications can be found here.

Introduction

I went to school in South London, before going to Christ’s College to read Natural Sciences, specializing in chemistry for the final two years. I then studied a PhD at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, focusing on software development of the programs that other scientists use to solve their protein X-ray crystallography structures. I then moved to Oxford to do graduate entry medicine, before doing an Academic Foundation Programme in Thames Valley. I am now an Academic Clinical Fellow in Emergency Medicine, doing both research and clinical work, and training to become an A&E consultant.

Teaching

I have been teaching at the higher education level for over a decade, in the subjects of chemistry, physiology and medicine. Within Queen’s, I primarily give tutorials to first year medical and biomedical students about molecular biology. I also teach final year students for an FHS specialist option. With regards to my broader teaching, I teach at the clinical medical students across the university in the clinical skills lab (practical skills) and in the sim suite (scenarios that they will encounter as a medical doctor). I also still provide supervisions within the Chemistry Department at the University of Cambridge. 

Research

My main research interest is in taking data collected at emergency departments across the country and elucidating meaning to it, and seeing how we can use that information to change practice. I also analyse data that is collected in the pre-hospital environment as well.

Publications

A list of my publications can be found here

Introduction

I received my undergraduate degree in Psychology from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece. I continued my studies as a Fulbright scholar in the US where I obtained a MSc degree in Neuroscience and Education from Columbia University. I completed my PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour in the Netherlands funded by a Max Planck Society IMPRS fellowship. Before moving to Oxford, I worked on an NIH funded project in the Department of Neurology at the University of California, Irvine in the US. In 2019 I joined the Department of Experimental Psychology at Oxford.

Teaching

I teach EP, PPL, and BMS students across a variety of topics in the first two years of their undergraduate degree.

Research

I am interested in individual variation in language learning abilities and how it relates to variation in brain structure and function. Thus far, I have had the opportunity to explore this variation in monolingual and bilingual young adults, in typically developing children and in children with perinatal brain lesions and developmental language disorder.

Publications

A list of my publication can be found here, or on Google Scholar

Introduction

I grew up in the North East of England before moving to Oxford to study medicine at Keble and Green Templeton College. After completing my medical degree, I undertook an Academic Foundation Programme in the Thames Valley Deanery, during which I was awarded a Medical Sciences Division Teaching Excellence Award. I am now an Internal Medicine Trainee at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, with clinical and academic interests in peri-operative medicine and cardiology. Alongside this, I am a Joan and Richard Doll Fellow at Green Templeton College and an Assistant Clinical Tutor at Queen’s.

Teaching

I teach across all topics of the clinical school curriculum, providing bedside, clinical skills and small-group tutorial teaching. I particularly enjoy supporting students to build confidence in applying their knowledge in clinical settings and encouraging curiosity about academic medicine.

Research

My research has focused on home blood pressure monitoring, virtual emergency department triage tools and intentional weight loss in heart failure, including work on the SLENDER clinical trial at the Oxford Centre for Clinical Magnetic Resonance Research. I am also the Resident Doctor Representative on the British Cardiovascular Society Women in Cardiology Committee, where I support widening participation and early-career doctors interested in academic cardiology.

Teaching

I am the Tutor in Pathology at Queen’s. Henceforth, I provide teaching and supervision for medical students in their pre-clinical clinical years (years 1 to 3). This includes tutorial teaching, supervision, career-advice, and welfare support.

Research

I am a Career Development Fellow at the China Oxford Institute where I lead the laboratory of Pleural Translational Research. My research interest and focus has been to phenotype and study patient derived specimens with the aim to understand pleural pathology and disease. In the Pleural Translational Lab functional genomics, transcriptomics and proteomics methods are applied to elucidate pathogenesis pathways and associate these molecular patterns with clinical outcomes. My focus is to advance and expand precision medicine for pleural disease.

Publications

My publications can be found at: https://www.expmedndm.ox.ac.uk/team/nikolaos-kanellakis