Andrea Kusec
Fulford Junior Research FellowMy research focuses on developing accessible mental health interventions for adults with different types of brain injuries, such as a stroke, traumatic brain injury, or brain tumours.
Specifically, my research aims to: 1) identify risk factors for poor mental health unique to brain injury populations; and, 2) develop and experimentally test novel mental health interventions that are accessible to brain injury survivors in light of cognitive impairments. My ultimate aim is to improve treatment options for mental health in neuropsychological populations. To achieve these goals, I use a mixture of advanced quantitative (mixed-effects models, structural equation models, risk prediction modelling) and qualitative (thematic analysis, interpretive description) methods.
After completing my Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Canada, I completed my PhD training at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at the University of Cambridge with Dr Tom Manly. For my PhD, I developed and evaluated an intervention for depression and low mood in adults with acquired brain injury in a randomised controlled trial.
In the Translational Neuropsychology Group, I work with Prof Nele Demeyere on developing an improved cognitive care pathway for stroke survivors. In this role, I aim to elucidate the relationship between cognitive impairments and emotional outcomes following stroke, with an eye toward leveraging cognitive strategies as a means of improving mood and vice versa.
Kusec, A., Murphy, F.C., Peers, P.V., Bennett, R., Carmona, E., Korbacz, A., Lawrence, C., Cameron, E., Bateman, A., Watson, P., Allanson, J., & Manly, T. (in revision). Mood, Activity Participation, and Leisure Engagement Satisfaction: Results from a randomised controlled pilot feasibility trial for low mood in acquired brain injury. Submitted to BMC Medicine.
Kusec, A., Milosevich, E., Williams, O.A., Chiu, E.G., Watson, P., Carrick, C., Drozdowska, B.A., Dillon, A., Jennings, T., Anderson, B., Dawes, H., Thomas, S., Kuppuswamy, A., Pendlebury, S.T., Quinn, T.J., & Demeyere, N. (in revision). Long-term psychological outcomes following stroke: The OX-CHRONIC study. Submitted to BMC Neurology.
Webb, S., Carrick, C., Kusec, A., & Demeyere, N. (in revision). Introducing the Tele- OCS: A validated remotely administered version of The Oxford Cognitive Screen. Submitted to Health Open Research.
Milosevich, E., Kusec, A., Pendlebury, S., & Demeyere, N. (in revision). Domain-specific cognitive impairments, mood and quality of life 6 months after stroke. Submitted to Disability and Rehabilitation.
Kusec, A., Methley, A., Murphy, F.C., Peers, P.V. Carmona, E., & Manly, T. (2023). Developing Behavioural Activation for people with acquired brain injury: A qualitative interpretive description study on barriers and facilitators to activity engagement. BMC Psychology, 11, 207.
Kusec, A., Murphy, F.C., Peers, P.V., & Manly, T. (2023). Measuring intolerance of uncertainty after acquired brain injury: Psychometric properties of the Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale-Short Form. Assessment.
Kusec, A., Murphy, F.C., Peers, P.V., Lawrence, C., Cameron, E., Morton, C., Bateman, A., Watson, P., & Manly, T. (2020). Mood, Activity Participation, and Leisure Engagement Satisfaction: A randomised controlled pilot feasibility trial for low mood in acquired brain injury. BMC Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 6, 135.
Kusec, A., Panday, J., Froese, A., Albright, H., & Harris, J.E. (2020). Getting motivated: Long-term perspectives on engaging in community-based programs after acquired brain injury. Brain Injury, 34, 1331 – 1338.
Malivoire, B., Marcos, M., Pawluk, E.J., Tallon, K., Kusec, A., & Koerner, N. (2019). Look before you leap: The role of negative urgency in appraisals of ambiguous and unambiguous scenarios in individuals high in generalized anxiety symptoms. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, 48, 217 – 240.
Kusec, A., Velikonja, D., DeMatteo, C., & Harris, J.E. (2019). Motivation in rehabilitation and acquired brain injury: Can theory help us understand it? Disability and Rehabilitation, 41, 2343 – 2349.
Kusec, A., DeMatteo, C., Velikonja, D., & Harris, J.E. (2018). Psychometric properties of measures of motivation and engagement after acquired brain injury. Rehabilitation Psychology, 63, 92 – 103.
Safar, K., Kusec, A., & Moulson, M. (2017). Face experience and the attentional bias for fearful expressions in 6- and 9-month old infants. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 1575.
Vickers, K., Ein, N., Koerner, N., Kusec, A., McCabe, R.E., Rowa, K., & Antony, M.M. (2017). Self-reported hygiene-related behaviors among individuals with contamination-related obsessive-compulsive disorder, individuals with anxiety disorders, and nonpsychiatric controls. Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 14, 71 – 83.
Koerner, N., Mejia, T., & Kusec, A. (2017). What’s in a name? Intolerance of uncertainty, other uncertainty-relevant constructs, and their differential relations to worry and generalized anxiety disorder. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, 46(2), 141 – 161.
Kusec, A., Tallon, K., & Koerner, N. (2016). Intolerance of uncertainty, causal uncertainty, causal importance, self-concept clarity and their relations to generalised anxiety disorder. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, 44(6), 441 – 455.
Afua Kyei
Honorary FellowAfua was appointed Chief Financial Officer, Executive Director of the Bank of England aged 36 in 2019, making her the first black senior executive in the Bank’s 329 year history. Her tenure so far has seen the Bank handle unprecedented challenges, including Brexit, the Covid-19 pandemic, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the September 2022 mini-budget, and the ongoing inflation and cost of living crises. Her current responsibilities include developing the Bank’s strategy and the financial governance of the Bank’s c. £1 trillion balance sheet.
Afua also serves as the Bank of England’s co-executive sponsor for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, and co-executive sponsor for Climate Change disclosure. In 2021, she won CFO of the Year at the Women in Finance Awards UK, and in October 2022 she was named in the Powerlist, which profiles 100 of Britain’s most influential Britons of African heritage. She was a 2022 listee in the Kindness & Leadership, 50 Leading Lights UK campaign. Afua is a key note speaker and represents the Bank in the Community, with Businesses and at international fora e.g. International Monetary Fund, G20, World Finance Forum & COP.
Afua joined the Bank from Barclays Bank (2012-2019) where she was the Chief Financial Officer Mortgages and played a key role in Barclays’ strategic cost transformation program, TRANSFORM, whilst in the Investment Bank and in Group COO. Previously, during the Global Financial Crisis, she was an Investment Banker at UBS (2007-2012) in the Financial Institutions Group and in Mergers and Acquisitions, Group Strategic Advisory. After university, Afua qualified as a Chartered Accountant (ICAS) with Ernst & Young, London.
Afua matriculated at Oxford University one year early, gaining an undergraduate Master’s in Chemistry (2000-2004). She was awarded a Junior Research Fellowship in Organic Chemistry by Princeton University.
Of her Honorary Fellowship, Afua said, “To be invited to be an Honorary Fellow of Somerville is the greatest honour and took me completely by surprise!”
“I loved my time at Somerville. It played such an instrumental role in my career and I made lifelong friends.”
Lovers and Strangers: An Immigrant History of Post-War Britain (London: Allen Lane/Penguin Random House, 2017).
The Best Are Leaving: Emigration and Post-War Irish Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015).
Dublin 1916: The Siege of the GPO (London: Profile, 2009; Harvard: Harvard University Press, 2009).
That Neutral Island: A History of Ireland during the Second World War (London, Faber and Faber, 2007; Boston, Harvard University Press, 2007).
General Editor, with Bourke, Kilfeather, Luddy, MacCurtain, Meaney, Ní Dhonnchadha, O’Dowd., The Field Day Anthology of Irish Women’s Writing and Traditions, Vols. 4 & 5. (Cork: Cork University Press in association with Field Day, 2002).
Reading Paul Muldoon (Newcastle-Upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe Books, 1998).
Improprieties: Politics and Sexuality in Northern Irish Poetry (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993).
Simon Kyle
Senior Research Fellow; Professor of Experimental and Clinical Sleep Research; Programme Director of The Oxford Online Programme in Sleep Medicine; NIHR Oxford BRC Senior Research Fellow
Simon Kyle
Senior Research Fellow; Professor of Experimental and Clinical Sleep Research; Programme Director of The Oxford Online Programme in Sleep Medicine; NIHR Oxford BRC Senior Research Fellow
I have specific research interests in the etiology and management of sleep disturbance and the interaction between sleep disturbance and mental health.
This is a selection of Professor Kyle’s Key Publications. You can review a complete bibliography here.
‘Clinical and cost-effectiveness of nurse-delivered sleep restriction therapy for insomnia in primary care (HABIT): a pragmatic, superiority, open-label, randomised controlled trial’. Kyle SD. et al, (2023), The Lancet
‘The effect of sleep restriction therapy for insomnia on sleep pressure and arousal: a randomized controlled mechanistic trial’. Maurer LF. et al, (2021), Sleep
‘Amygdala responses to negative faces are not associated with depressive symptoms: cross-sectional data from 28,638 individuals in the UK Biobank cohort’. Tamm S. et al, (2022), American Journal of Psychiatry
‘Isolating the role of time in bed restriction in the treatment of insomnia: a randomized, controlled, dismantling trial comparing sleep restriction therapy with time in bed regularization’. Maurer LF. et al, (2020), Sleep, 43
‘The effects of digital cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia on cognitive function: a randomized controlled trial’. Kyle SD. et al, (2020), Sleep, 43
‘Biological and clinical insights from genetics of insomnia symptoms’. Lane JM. et al, (2019), Nature Genetics, 51, 387 – 393
‘The effect of sleep continuity disruption on multimodal emotion processing and regulation: a laboratory-based, randomized, controlled experiment in good sleepers.’ Reid M. et al, (2022), Journal of Sleep Research
‘The acute effects of sleep restriction therapy for insomnia on circadian timing and vigilance’. Maurer LF. et al, (2020), Journal of Sleep Research
‘Associations Between Sleep Health and Amygdala Reactivity to Negative Facial Expressions in the UK Biobank Cohort (N = 25,758)’. Schiel J. et al, (2022), Biological Psychiatry
‘Associations between insomnia symptoms and functional connectivity in the UK Biobank cohort (n = 29,423)’. Holub F. et al, (2023), J Sleep Res, 32
‘A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial of Online Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Chronic Insomnia Disorder Delivered via an Automated Media-Rich Web Application’. Espie CA. et al, (2012), Sleep, 35, 769 – 781
Aditi Lahiri CBE
Senior Research Fellow; Professor of Linguistics
Aditi Lahiri CBE
Senior Research Fellow; Professor of Linguistics
Professor Lahiri’s interests are in phonology, phonetics, historical and comparative linguistics, psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics. She is also the Director of the University’s pioneering Language and Brain Lab.
Her work combines theoretical and experimental approaches to answer questions such as why sound alternations exist between different forms of one and the same word and how such words are represented in the mental lexicon, how words change over time, and how they are processed in the brain.
Recent advances from her team include the development of a cutting-edge flexible speech recognition system, Flex-SR. The technology was used to create a mobile phone app to help second language learners improve their pronunciation by analysing words and sentences spoken into the app and giving specific personal feedback. Her leadership on the project was recognised by the University with a Vice-Chancellor’s Innovation Award in 2018.
The first Indian woman to hold a professorial chair at Oxford, she helped to found Oxford University’s Faculty of Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics. She served as its inaugural Chair in 2008, and returned to the role for a second term in 2019. In the 2020 Queen’s Birthday Honours, she was made a CBE in recognition of her services to the study of Linguistics.
In 2010, she was eleted a fellow of the British Academy, and currently serves as Vice President (Humanities) for the body. She has also been elected a member of the Academia Europaea and an Honorary Life Member of the Linguistic Society of America. She is Principal Investigator on European Research Council grants, as well as two Arts and Humanities Research Council grants, including one for a project involving Somerville Senior Research Fellow Professor Frans Plank.
Werkmann Hovart, Anna, Mariana Bolognesi & Aditi Lahiri (2021). Processing of literal and metaphorical meanings in polysemous verbs: An experiment and its methodological implications. Journal of Pragmatics 171, 131–146. DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2020.10.007.
Wynne, Hilary S. Z., Sandra Kotzor, Beinan Zhou & Aditi Lahiri (2020). The effect of phonological and morphological overlap on the processing of Bengali words. Journal of South Asian Linguistics 11, 25–51. [pdf]
Kotzor, Sandra, Beinan Zhou & Aditi Lahiri (2020). (A)symmetry in vowel features in verbs and pseudoverbs: ERP evidence. Neuropsychologia 143, 107474. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107474.
Wynne, Hilary S. Z., Linda Wheeldon & Aditi Lahiri (2020). Planning complex structures in a second language: compounds and phrases in non-native speech production. In M. Schlechtweg (ed.) The Learnability of Complex Constructions: A Cross-linguistic Perspective. Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs (TiLSM) 345, 91–126. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. DOI: 10.1515/9783110695113.
Kennard, Holly & Aditi Lahiri (2020). Nonesuch phonemes in loanwords. Linguistics 58, 83–108. DOI: 10.1515/ling-2019-0033.
Lahiri, Aditi & Holly Kennard (2019). Pertinacity in loanwords: Same underlying systems, different outputs. In M. Cennamo (ed.) Historical Linguistics 2015: Selected Papers from the 22nd International Congress of Historical Linguistics, Naples 27–31 July, 58–74. DOI: 10.1075/cilt.348.03lah.
Schuster, Swetlana, & Aditi Lahiri (2018). Lexical gaps and morphological decomposition: Evidence from German. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 46, 166–182. DOI: 10.1037/xlm0000560.
Lahiri, Aditi (2018). Predicting universal phonological features. In L. Hyman & F. Plank (eds.) Phonological Typology, 229–272. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. DOI: 10.1515/9783110451931-007.
Renaud Lambiotte
Fellow & Tutor in Mathematics; Professor of Networks and Nonlinear Systems
Renaud Lambiotte
Fellow & Tutor in Mathematics; Professor of Networks and Nonlinear Systems
Renaud Lambiotte is a Professor of Networks and Nonlinear Systems.
His main research interests are the modelling and analysis of large networks, with a particular focus on clustering and temporal networks, and applications in social and neuronal systems. He is Associate Editor for Science Advances and a Turing Fellow. See more here.
Renaud Lambiotte has a PhD in Physics from the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Following postdocs at ENS Lyon, Université de Liège, UCLouvain and Imperial College London, and a Professorship in Mathematics at the University of Namur, he is currently Professor of Networks and Nonlinear Systems at the Mathematical Institute of Oxford University.
Selected Publications
Cabral, J., Castaldo, F., Vohryzek, J., Litvak, V., Bick, C., Lambiotte, R., … & Deco, G. (2022). Metastable oscillatory modes emerge from synchronization in the brain spacetime connectome. Communications Physics, 5(1), 184.
Devriendt, K., & Lambiotte, R. (2022). Discrete curvature on graphs from the effective resistance. Journal of Physics: Complexity, 3(2), 025008.
Bovet, A., Delvenne, J. C., & Lambiotte, R. (2022). Flow stability for dynamic community detection. Science advances, 8(19), eabj3063.
Devriendt, K., Martin-Gutierrez, S., & Lambiotte, R. (2022). Variance and covariance of distributions on graphs. SIAM Review, 64(2), 343-359.
Oliver, N., Lepri, B., Sterly, H., Lambiotte, R., Deletaille, S., De Nadai, M., … & Vinck, P. (2020). Mobile phone data for informing public health actions across the COVID-19 pandemic life cycle. Science advances, 6(23), eabc0764.
Hannie Lawlor
College Lecturer
Hannie Lawlor
College Lecturer
Hannie Lawlor holds a BA and MSt in Spanish and French from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford and completed her DPhil on twenty-first-century Spanish and French women’s writing at Wolfson College, Oxford, under the supervision of Dr Daniela Omlor and Professor Marie-Chantal Killeen. Prior to taking up her current post at LMH and Somerville, she held stipendiary and departmental lecturer posts in Spanish at Oxford and was Lecturer in Spanish at University College Dublin.
Research Interests
Hannie’s research focuses primarily on women’s autobiographical practices in the twentieth- and twenty-first century. She is particularly interested in comparative approaches, whether it be considering works across languages and cultures or across media. Her first monograph, Relational Responses to Trauma in Twenty-First-Century French and Spanish Women’s Writing, analysed intergenerational responses to traumatic loss and her current project builds on these findings to explore what she defines as the impossible conversation as a crucial mode of narrative transmission.
Teaching
Hannie teaches the full Prelims course for students in Spanish at LMH and Somerville College and convenes Introduction to Spanish Film (XI) for students of Spanish Sole. For FHS, she teaches peninsular options in literature and film for the modern period paper (VIII) and special authors including Ramón del Valle-Inclán, Federico García Lorca, and Benito Pérez Galdós for Paper XI. She co-teaches Paper XII ‘Women Writers in Modern Spain’ and supervises extended essays (XIV), bridge essays, and master’s theses on twentieth- and twenty-first-century women’s writing, life writing, film, memory, and trauma. She welcomes expressions of interest from prospective PhD candidates working on related modern peninsular topics.
As a former first-generation student from a non-selective state school, Hannie is keenly committed to access and outreach initiatives. She is Schools Liaison representative for the Spanish Sub-Faculty and eager to receive applications from students from schools who do not have a history of sending students to Oxbridge.
Selected Publications
Relational Responses to Trauma in Twenty-First-Century French and Spanish Women’s Writing (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024)
The Autofictional: Approaches, Affordances, Forms, ed. by Alexandra Effe and Hannie Lawlor (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Effe, Alexandra and Lawlor, Hannie, ‘Rethinking Autofiction as a Global Practice: Trajectories of Anglophone Criticism from 2000 to 2020’, a/b Auto/biography Studies (2024), 1–33
‘Conflicting Relations in Christine Angot’s Un amour impossible [‘An Impossible Love’]’, Journal of Romance Studies, 22.3 (2022), 311–30
Forthcoming
‘Resisting Imposed Identities in Postwar Fictions of the Self: Carmen Laforet’s Nada (1945) and Rosa Chacel’s Memorias de Leticia Valle (1945)’, in Del franquismo a la democracia: género y autoridad en las auto/representaciones de las escritoras españolas de posguerra, ed. by Raquel Fernández Menéndez and Aina Pérez Fontdevila (forthcoming 2025 in Hispanic Research Journal)
‘Post-Traumatic Transitions: Writing Women’s Lives in Dulce Chacón’s La voz dormida [The Sleeping Voice]’, in Feminine Plural: Women in Transition in the Luso-Hispanic World, ed. by María-José Blanco and Claire Williams (forthcoming 2025 with Peter Lang)
‘Montage and Narrative Mode: Hybrid Stories and Storytelling by Contemporary Women Writers’, in Montage in Spanish and Portuguese Literature, ed. by Daniela Omlor and Luisa Coelho (forthcoming 2025 in Bulletin of Contemporary Hispanic Studies)
‘Agnostic Memory and Impossible Conversations in Life Writing’, in Memory Studies in Spain and Portugal: A Handbook, ed. by Alison Ribeiro de Menezes and Ellen W. Sapega (forthcoming with Brill)
Milton Lee and Poppy Shaw
JCR Keeper of the Slinky
Milton Lee and Poppy Shaw
JCR Keeper of the Slinky
Keeper of our college pet!
Sir Geoffrey Leigh
Foundation FellowProfessor Anna Laura Lepschy
Honorary FellowAnna Laura Lepschy is Emeritus Professor in Italian at University College London.
After studying at Somerville, she began a career in academia. In 1977 she co-published The Italian Language Today with her husband Giulio Lepschy, a reference book of the structure and grammar of contemporary Italian. She later co-edited a collection of essays titled Book Production and Letters in the Western European Renaissance: Essays in Honour of Conor Fahy.
In 1984, Lepschy was appointed a Head of the Italian Department at the University College London and founded the Centre for Italian Studies. While teaching, Lepschy co-edited a book with Verina R. Jones titled With a Pen in Her Hand: Women and Writing in Italy in the Nineteenth Century and beyond. The book was a collection of essays delivered at the Conference on Women and Writing in Nineteenth-Century Italy in February 1997. In 2002, Lepschy co-edited another book titled Multilingualism in Italy, Past and Present with Arturo Tosi.
Lepshy was awarded the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, the Order of the Star of the Italian Solidarity and, in 2011, the British Academy’s Serena Medal for in recognition of her work.
Ben, Francesca and Hannah
JCR Freshers Committee
Ben, Francesca and Hannah
JCR Freshers Committee
Freshers president is Ben Liow (benjamin.liow@some.ox.ac.uk) and freshers committee include Francesca Bahadur (francesca.bahadur@some.ox.ac.uk) and Hannah Ruck (hannah.ruck@some.ox.ac.uk)
Shiwei Liu
Fulford Junior Research Fellow
Shiwei Liu
Fulford Junior Research Fellow
Dr. Shiwei Liu is Junior Research Fellow (JRF) at Somerville College. He is also a Royal Society Newton International Fellow at the University of Oxford. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. He obtained his Ph.D. with the Cum Laude from the Eindhoven University of Technology in 2022. His research goal is to leverage, understand, and expand the role of low-dimensionality in neural networks, whose impacts span many important topics, such as efficient training/inference/transfer of large-foundation models, robustness and trustworthiness, and generative AI. His current main research interest focuses on improving the efficiency and accessibility of LLMs, making them accessible tooling to everyone. Dr. Liu has received two Rising Star Awards from KAUST and the Conference on Parsimony and Learning (CPAL). His Ph.D. thesis received the 2023 Best Dissertation Award from Informatics Europe. Personal Website: https://shiweiliuiiiiiii.github.io/
E-shen Low
JCR Suspended Students Officer
E-shen Low
JCR Suspended Students Officer
Huiqi (Yvonne) Lu
Fulford Junior Research Fellow; Daphne Jackson Research Fellow
Huiqi (Yvonne) Lu
Fulford Junior Research Fellow; Daphne Jackson Research Fellow
Huiqi obtained her DPhil at the Industrial Informatics and Signal Processing Group, in the Department of Engineering at the University of Sussex in 2008.
During her doctoral study, she developed a commercial iris-identification system for use on mobile phones, which led to a patent and her work being presented at the House of Commons in 2007. Huiqi then worked on breast cancer research at the University of Sussex and the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, followed by research into diabetic retinopathy at the University of Liverpool and the Royal Liverpool Hospital.
Huiqi joined the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Oxford in 2018. Her current research is focussed on the development of machine learning methods for robustly tracking patient condition using home-monitoring systems for chronic disease. In 2019, she was awarded a Daphne Jackson Trust / Royal Academy of Engineering Fellowship, which supports her as an independent investigator focused on technology for maternal and child health.
Assessment of Hypertension Using Clinical Electrocardiogram Features: A First-Ever Review.
Bird K, Chan G, Lu H, et al.
Front Med (Lausanne). 2020
Mapping Hypoxia in Renal Carcinoma with Oxygen-enhanced MRI: Comparison with Intrinsic Susceptibility MRI and Pathology
Ross A. Little, Yann Jamin, Jessica K. R. Boult, Josephine H. Naish, Yvonne Watson, Susan Cheung, Katherine F. Holliday, Huiqi Lu, Damien J. McHugh, Joely Irlam, Catharine M. L. West, Guy N. Betts, Garry Ashton, Andrew R. Reynolds, Satish Maddineni, Noel W. Clarke, Geoff J. M. Parker, John C. Waterton, Simon P. Robinson, and James P. B. O’Connor
Radiology 2018 288:3, 739-747
Standardization of choroidal thickness measurements using enhanced depth imaging optical coherence tomography.
Boonarpha N, Zheng Y, Stangos AN, et al.
International Journal of Ophthalmology 2015;8(3): 484-491 2015 doi:10.3980/j.issn.2222-3959.2015.03.09
Elizabeth MacGregor
Joanna Randall-MacIver Junior Research Fellow
Elizabeth MacGregor
Joanna Randall-MacIver Junior Research Fellow
Elizabeth is the Joanna Randall-MacIver Junior Research Fellow at Somerville College, University of Oxford.
She previously studied at the Universities of Cambridge and Sheffield, and, following the completion of her doctorate in 2022, she held positions with the Sheffield Performer and Audience Research Centre and the Birmingham Music Education Research Group. At present she is also an external member of the Group for Research in Music Education at Cardiff Metropolitan University, and sits on the advisory panel for the national evaluation of Arts Council England’s Creativity Collaboratives. Elizabeth is the Assistant Editor for the international peer-reviewed journal, Research Studies in Music Education, and the recipient of an Early Career Researcher Career Development Fellowship from the British Educational Research Association.
Elizabeth’s current research focusses on the notion of ‘musical vulnerability’ – our inherent and situational openness to being affected (both positively and negatively) by the properties of music-making. She is working closely alongside music teachers at three secondary schools to understand how musical vulnerability is realised in classroom teaching and learning, and how it can be accounted for through ‘pedagogies of vulnerability’. She is also in the process of developing new resources for equipping pre-service music teachers to respond to experiences of musical vulnerability in diverse settings. Her research intersects with broader issues of inclusion, access, and care in music education, and has led to related projects in areas ranging from community singing to neurodiverse concert audiences.
Monograph
MacGregor, E. H. (forthcoming). Musical vulnerability: Receptivity, susceptibility & care in the music classroom. Routledge.
Edited Collections
Anderson, A., Cooke, C., Kinsella, V., & MacGregor, E. H. (Eds.) (forthcoming). Learning to teach music in the secondary school (4th ed.). Routledge.
Book Chapters
MacGregor, E. H. (forthcoming). Reframing music education through the lens of musical vulnerability. In C. Philpott & G. Spruce (Eds.), Debates in music teaching (2nd ed.). Routledge.
MacGregor, E. H. (2022). Exploring performing. In C. Cooke & C. Philpott (Eds.), A practical guide to teaching music in the secondary school(2nd ed.). Routledge.
MacGregor, E. H. (2021). Repeats & refrains; Musical revisionism. In J. Finney, C. Philpott, & G. Spruce (Eds.), Creative & critical projects in classroom music: Fifty years of Sound & Silence (pp. 203–208; 217–221). Routledge.
Finney, J. & MacGregor, E. H. (2021). Propaganda, protest & politics. In J. Finney, C. Philpott, & G. Spruce (Eds.), Creative & critical projects in classroom music: Fifty years of Sound & Silence (pp. 163–168). Routledge.
Journal Articles
Axtell, I., Anderson, A., Fautley, M., MacGregor, E. H., & Nenadic, E. (forthcoming). Beowulf Opera Scenes: Classroom music pedagogy & knowledge when composing an opera with primary-school children. Research Studies in Music Education.
Kinsella, V., MacGregor, E. H., & Nenadic, E. (forthcoming). Characterising affective and situational dimensions of creativity in the primary classroom through a posthuman lens. Education 3–13.
MacGregor, E. H. & Pitts, S. E. (forthcoming). ‘I don’t care who joins my choir’: Investigating attitudes to diversity & inclusion in lower- & upper-voice choirs in the United Kingdom. International Journal of Community Music.
Abbott, E. H. R., Critten, A., & MacGregor, E. H. (forthcoming). Relaxed Performances: Supporting aural diversity & neurodiversity among concert audiences in the United Kingdom. Sound Studies.
MacGregor, E. H. (2024). Please mind the gap: Reflecting on gender inequality in music higher education, one year on from Slow Train Coming. Music Education Research, 26(1), 88–95.
MacGregor, E. H. (2024). Characterizing musical vulnerability: Toward a typology of receptivity & susceptibility in the secondary music classroom. Research Studies in Music Education, 46(1), 28–47.
MacGregor, E. H. (2022). Conceptualizing musical vulnerability. Philosophy of Music Education Review, 30(1), 24–43.
MacGregor, E. H. (2020). Participatory performance in the secondary music classroom & the paradox of belonging. Music Education Research, 22(2), 229–241.
Bate, E. H. (2020). Justifying music in the National Curriculum: The habit concept & the question of social justice & academic rigour. British Journal of Music Education, 37(1), 3–15.
Catherine Mary MacRobert
Senior Research Fellow
Catherine Mary MacRobert
Senior Research Fellow
Starting from my doctoral dissertation on the history of Bulgarian syntax, my research has focused primarily on the delimitation and interaction of various Slavonic vernaculars and the medieval literary language, Church Slavonic.
My primary data are drawn from the various translations of the Psalter produced up to the fifteenth century, and my investigations touch on the origins of Old Church Slavonic, medieval translation technique, evidence for prosodic and morphosyntactic developments (e.g. in clitic use, word division, tense distinctions, mood and verbal aspect), the principles and practice of textual criticism in application to Church Slavonic material, the palaeography of Cyrillic and Glagolitic manuscripts, and Church Slavonic hymnographical traditions.
‘The multiple-author catena on the Psalms translated into Church Slavonic by Maximus Triboles’, in: Research on Psalter Catenae: Current Trends and Recent Developments, ed. C. Bandt, R. Ceulemans (Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur, 197) (Berlin – Boston: De Gruyter, 2024), 119-135.
‘A reappraisal of the Radomir Psalter’, in: Radomirov psaltir. Paleografski i tekstologičen analiz. Naborno izdanie, ed. Ieromonax Atanasij, trans. E. Dikova (Zographou Monastery, 2022), 54-127.
‘The Church Slavonic translation of the calendrical stichera and kanon by Christopher of Mitylene in MS Zographou 115 (1392): Edition of the Text’, in: Byzantinoslavica, lxxix:1-2 (2021), 196-237.
Psalterium Demetrii Sinaitici Bd. 2: monasterii sanctae Catharinae codex slav. 3/N, adiectis foliis medicinalibus, ed. H. Miklas, C. M. MacRobert, A. N. Sobolev et al. (Vienna: Holzhausen, 2021).
The Greek Source of Maksim Grek’s Church Slavonic catena on the Psalms’, in: Trudy Instituta russkogo jazyka im. V. V. Vinogradova, No.1, Lingvističeskoe istočnikovedenie i istorija russkogo jazyka, 2021, 223-232.
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Shivani Malik
Matric Year: 2015 – Subject: DPhil Plant Sciences – Scholarship: Indira Gandhi Scholar
Shivani Malik
Matric Year: 2015 – Subject: DPhil Plant Sciences – Scholarship: Indira Gandhi Scholar
My DPhil in Plant Sciences, under the guidance of Professor (Dr.) Renier van der Hoorn, aims to understand the evolution of mechanism of extracellular perception of pathogens in the Solanaceae plant family, including important crops such as, tomato and potato.
Subsequent to perception, plants actively resist infection by most pathogens via deployment of multiple defense pathways. Since plant pathogens pose a huge challenge to crop production, enhanced understanding of how plant disease resistance is achieved will open novel avenues for plant protection methods. This eventually holds the potential of simultaneously addressing the many crises related to agriculture, including, global food security.
I am truly grateful to have received an IGS award, and I hope that OICSD, through inter-disciplinary collaborations, will provide necessary support to translate my research findings into effective solutions to crop losses.
Prior to Oxford, I attended the University of Delhi for my B.Sc. degree in life sciences and M.Sc. in Botany. During my post-graduation, I spent a summer at the Institute of Life Sciences, Odisha, as an Indian Academy of Sciences’ Research Fellow. Over the last few years, I have worked with various Non-governmental organizations in India, working on education and agriculture-related concerns.
Alastair Mallick
Head GardenerAlastair Mallick joined Somerville College as our new Head Gardener in 2022. With 15 years of horticultural experience behind him, across everything from organic farming to his most recent post as Head Gardener at Queen’s College (2017-22), Alastair is keen to build on Somerville’s legacy of sustainability, biodiversity and beauty.
Building on a life-long love for plants and the natural world, Alastair progressed into gardening through a passion for growing his own food. After volunteering on many organic farming projects around the world and spending many hours tending to his allotment, he realised that he loved the process of working with plants. A professional pathway soon followed: Alastair ran his own successful gardening business before, in 2017, taking the jump into the the world of the university as Head Gardener at Queen’s in 2017. Here, he found that he loved the Oxford college environment, and was therefore thrilled when our former Head Gardener Sophie Walwin suggested he consider taking on the excellent work she began during her time at Somerville.
Alastair has big plans for the Somerville gardens. Refeshing the borders, bringing in lots of beautiful and unusual plants to lift Sophie’s great existing planting, adding new structure to the rest of the garden through shrubs and trees – the list goes on. Alastair is also deeply involved in the conversations to create a new pond as a source of additional biodiversity (and potential research for our plant scientists!). Some other plans being considered are a new perennial meadow for the empty bed in front of the Maitland building and an alpine rock garden in front of Park. However, Alastair also has a continued focus on developing garden spaces that are resilient to the pressures of climate change and that work for local fauna as well as for us. This will be achieved through measures such as the pond, but also bird boxes, bee hotels and drought-resistant, locally-sourced planting.
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