Frank Prochaska
Senior Research FellowDr Frank Prochaska is an historian of modern Britain and the author of a number of critically acclaimed books.
He was born in America but has lived much of his life in Britain and has dual nationality. He has taught at universities on both sides of the Atlantic and in recent years taught British history at Yale. He moved to Oxford in 2010, where he became a member of Somerville and Wolfson Colleges. He has been a Research Fellow at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London University, and a Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford. He lectures and reviews widely and contributes to media programs and the press in Britain on such subjects as contemporary social policy and the monarchy. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Historical Research, London University, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Senior Research Fellow at Somerville. As a scholar of Victorian social reform and ideas, he helped to establish the programme of work on the John Stuart Mill Library and its rich store of Mill annotations that is currently underway in Somerville.
See more about Frank Prochaska here.
Books
‘Eagle and the Crown: Americans and the British Monarchy’ (2016)
‘Eminent Victorians on American Democracy: The View from Albion’ (2013)
‘The Memoirs of Walter Bagehot’ (2013)
‘The Eagle and the Crown: Americans and the British Monarchy’ (2008)
‘Christianity and Social Service in Modern Britain: The Disinherited Spirit’ (2006)
‘The Republic of Britain: 1760-2000: 1760 to the Present’ (2000)
‘Philanthropy and the Hospitals of London: The King’s Fund, 1897-1990’ (1997)
‘Royal Bounty: The Making of a Welfare Monarchy’ (1995)
‘The Voluntary Impulse: Philanthropy in Modern Britain’ 1989
‘Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth Century England’ (1980)
Huiqi (Yvonne) Lu
Fulford Junior Research Fellow; Daphne Jackson Research FellowHuiqi 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
Jane Robinson
Senior AssociateJane is a social historian, writer and lifelong friend of Somerville College. Born in Edinburgh and raised on the edge of the North Yorkshire Moors, Jane has been an ardent bibliophile since the age of seven, when she was banned from the local library for using a jam-tart bookmark in their copy of Squirrel Nutkin.
Jane first came to Somerville as a student, where she took a degree in English Language and Literature before moving to London to work in the antiquarian book trade. It was during this time that Jane’s first book (Wayward Women) was commissioned. Today, Jane works as a full-time writer and lecturer, specialising in social history through women’s eyes. She is the author of over a dozen books, including social histories of women’s education and the fight for the Vote, as well biographies of pioneering figures such as Josephine Butler and Mary Seacole.
Today, Jane lives just outside Oxford but can be found once a week in the Somerville archives, cataloguing our Special Collections.
Wayward Women: a Guide to Women Travellers (1990, Oxford UP, ISBN 0192828223)
Unsuitable for Ladies: an Anthology of Women Travellers (1994, Oxford UP, ISBN 0192116819)
Angels of Albion : Women of the Indian Mutiny (1996, Viking, ISBN 0670846708)
Parrot Pie for Breakfast : an Anthology of Women Pioneers (1999, Oxford UP, ISBN 0192880209)
Pandora’s Daughters: the Secret History of Enterprising Women (2002, Constable, ISBN 0094805105)
Published in USA as Women Out of Bounds: the Secret History of Enterprising Women (2003, Carroll & Graf, ISBN 0786710519)
Mary Seacole: The Charismatic Black Nurse Who Became a Heroine of the Crimea (2005, Constable, ISBN 9781845294977)
Bluestockings : the Remarkable Story of the First Women to Fight for an Education (2009, Viking, ISBN 9780141029719)
A Force to be Reckoned With: A History of the Women’s Institute (2011, Virago, ISBN 9781844086597)
In the Family Way: Illegitimacy Between the Great War and the Swinging Sixties (2015, Viking, ISBN 978-0670922062)
Hearts And Minds: The Untold Story of the Great Pilgrimage and How Women Won the Vote (2018, Doubleday, ISBN 978-0857523914)
Ladies Can’t Climb Ladders – The Pioneering Adventures of the First Professional Women (2020, Doubleday, ISBN 9780857525871)
Anthony Bell FRS
Senior Research Fellow; Emeritus Professor in PhysicsAfter a PhD in Radio Astronomy in Cambridge, Tony Bell worked on radar signal processing with Marconi before moving to the Central Laser Facility as a laser-plasma theorist.
In 1985 he was appointed to a lectureship in the Plasma Group at Imperial College. In 2007, following two years with the Methodist Church, he moved to a joint appointment between the Clarendon Laboratory and the Central Laser Facility.
His research encompasses laboratory and astrophysical plasmas. He wrote one of four independent papers proposing the theory of cosmic ray acceleration by shocks. He showed how strong magnetic field is generated during particle acceleration and how it enables cosmic ray acceleration to high energy. He initiated the theory of non-local transport for heat flow in Inertial Confinement Fusion, explained the collimation of laser-produced energetic electrons by resistively generated magnetic field, and with John Kirk demonstrated the possibility of electron-positron pair production in ultra-high intensity laser-plasma interactions.
He has been awarded the Hoyle Prize of the Institute of Physics and the Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
After a PhD in Radio Astronomy in Cambridge, Tony Bell worked on radar signal processing with Marconi before moving to the Central Laser Facility as a laser-plasma theorist. In 1985 he was appointed to a lectureship in the Plasma Group at Imperial College. In 2007, following two years with the Methodist Church, he moved to a joint appointment between the Clarendon Laboratory and the Central Laser Facility.
His research encompasses laboratory and astrophysical plasmas. He wrote one of four independent papers proposing the theory of cosmic ray acceleration by shocks. He showed how strong magnetic field is generated during particle acceleration and how it enables cosmic ray acceleration to high energy. He initiated the theory of non-local transport for heat flow in Inertial Confinement Fusion, explained the collimation of laser-produced energetic electrons by resistively generated magnetic field, and with John Kirk demonstrated the possibility of electron-positron pair production in ultra-high intensity laser-plasma interactions.
He has been awarded the Hoyle Prize of the Institute of Physics and the Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society.
For more information, see Professor Bell’s departmental web page.
‘Fornax A, Centaurus A and other radio galaxies as sources of ultra-high energy cosmic rays’
James H Matthews, Anthony R Bell, Katherine M Blundell, AT Araudo
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters Oxford University Press 479:1 (2018) L76-L80
‘Electron acceleration by wave turbulence in a magnetized plasma’
Alexandra Rigby, F Cruz, B Albertazzi, R Bamford, A Bell, JE Cross, F Fraschetti, P Graham, Y Hara, PM Kozlowski, Y Kuramitsu, DQ Lamb, S Lebedev, F Miniati, T Morita, M Oliver, B Reville, Y Sakawa, S Sarkar, C Spindloe, R Trines, R Bingham, M Koenig, Gianluca Gregori
Nature Physics Springer Nature 14 (2018) 475-479
‘Laboratory evidence of dynamo amplification of magnetic fields in a turbulent plasma’
P Tzeferacos, Alexandra Rigby, A Bott, A Bell, R Bingham, A Casner, F Cattaneo, EM Churazov, J Emig, F Fiuza, CB Forest, J Foster, C Graziani, J Katz, M Koenig, CK Li, Jena Meinecke, R Petrasso, HS Park, BA Remington, JS Ross, D Ryu, D Ryutov, TG White, B Reville
Nature Communications Springer Nature 9 (2018) 591
‘Turbulent amplification of magnetic field and diffusive shock acceleration of cosmic rays’
AR Bell
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 353 (2), 550-558
‘The acceleration of cosmic rays in shock fronts–I’
AR Bell
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 182 (2), 147-156
Lisa Gygax
Joint Secretary of the Somerville AssociationLisa Gygax (1987, PPE) has been Liz Cooke’s ‘apprentice’ since 2014. In her role as joint Secretary to the Alumni Association she shares Liz’s keen interest in the myriad of pursuits that Somervillians get up to after leaving Oxford. Her role extends to stewarding our various alumni networks.
Charlotte Albury
Associate Professor and THIS Institute Fellow in Clinical Communication; Academic Clinical LecturerCharlotte leads a programme of research which focuses on understanding relationships between clinical communication and behaviour change.
She currently holds an EDI-Themed Fellowship, from the THIS Institute, and previously held a Mildred Blaxter Fellowship from the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness. She additionally holds research grants from the British Heart Foundation, the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), and the UK Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office.
Her research has contributed to national guidelines, and she has advised government and policy makers. She is a member of the NICE Adoption and Impact Reference Panel, and an honorary member of the University of Oxford’s Faculty of Linguistics. In 2022 she was the Society for Academic Primary Care (SAPC) Principal Investigator of the Year.
Charlotte is an experienced teacher and educator. Alongside her teaching role at Somerville she leads research methods courses within the Primary Care department and Medical Sciences division. She hold a postgraduate certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, awarded with Distinction. In 2023 she was recipient of both the Medical Sciences Division ‘Excellent Supervisor’ award (recognising her significant contribution to supervision within the division), and the Society for Academic Primary Care Education Prize.
Key papers
- Clinician–patient communication about emergency aerial medical evacuation in case of infectious disease
- Relationship Between Clinician Language and the Success of Behavioral Weight Loss Interventions
- The importance of language in engagement between health-care professionals and people living with obesity: a joint consensus statement
Talbot, Amelia & Salinas, Maria & Albury, Charlotte & Ziebland, Sue. (2021). People with weight‐related long‐term conditions want support from GPs: A qualitative interview study. Clinical Obesity. 10.1111/cob.12471.
Robinson, Charlotte & Albury, Charlotte & McCartney, David & Fletcher, Benjamin & Roberts, Nia & Jury, Imogen & Lee, Joseph. (2021). The relationship between duration and quality of sleep and upper respiratory tract infections: a systematic review. Family Practice. 10.1093/fampra/cmab033.
Albury, Charlotte & Ziebland, Sue & Webb, Helena & Stokoe, Elizabeth & Aveyard, Paul. (2020). Discussing weight loss opportunistically and effectively in family practice: a qualitative study of clinical interactions using conversation analysis in UK family practice. Family Practice. 38. 10.1093/fampra/cmaa121.
Warr, William & Aveyard, Paul & Albury, Charlotte & Nicholson, Brian & Tudor, Kate & Hobbs, Richard & Roberts, Nia & Ziebland, Sue. (2020). A systematic review and thematic synthesis of qualitative studies exploring GPs’ and nurses’ perspectives on discussing weight with patients with overweight and obesity in primary care. Obesity Reviews. 22. 10.1111/obr.13151.
Hall, Amanda & Richmond, Helen & Bursey, Krystal & Hansen, Zara & Williamson, Esther & Copsey, Bethan & Albury, Charlotte & Asghari, Shabnam & Curran, Vernon & Pike, Andrea & Etchegary, Holly & Lamb, Sarah. (2020). Evaluating the impact of a champion on implementation of the Back Skills Training (BeST) programme in Canada: a mixed methods feasibility study protocol. BMJ open. 10. e040834. 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-040834.
Dean Sheppard
Departmental LecturerI am the Departmental Lecturer in Physical & Theoretical Chemistry.
I teach Chemistry at Somerville in addition to two other colleges, Lady Margaret Hall, and St Peter’s. Previously I held Lectureships at Magdalen, Merton and New.
I studied for my MChem degree at Magdalen College (2008-2012) before moving to New College for a DPhil in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry under the supervision of Professor Stuart Mackenzie, which I completed in 2016.
My position involves teaching all aspects of the undergraduate Physical Chemistry course, from Prelims (1st Year) to Final Honours School (3rd Year). I hold tutorials for small groups of students where we discuss the lecture course material in more detail. We also meet in larger groups for problems classes to cover the more numerical aspects of each topic, and I offer thematic revision classes to prepare each group of students for their respective exams. In the Chemistry department, I provide synoptic revision lectures to all years and examine the first year Physical Chemistry Prelims paper.
My DPhil research was concerned with the photochemical spin dynamics of proteins, suggested to be the basis of the magnetic sense in some animals. It involved the development of a range of highly sensitive optical cavity-enhanced techniques to detect very small changes in reactivity caused by an external magnetic field.
Broadband Cavity-Enhanced Detection of Magnetic Field Effects in Chemical Models of a Cryptochrome Magnetoreceptor, J. Phys. Chem. B., 118, 4177, (2014)
Millitesla Magnetic Field Effects on the Photocycle of an Animal Cryptochrome, Sci. Rep., 7, (2017)
Antony Palmer
Clinical Non-Stipendiary Lecturer; NIHR Academic Clinical LecturerAntony graduated from Oxford University Medical School in 2006 and commenced Higher Surgical Training in Trauma and Orthopaedics in 2010. Having previously completed the Oxford Academic Foundation Programme and an Academic Clinical Fellowship, he is now an Academic Clinical Lecturer.
During his training he spent three years out of programme working towards a DPhil in Musculoskeletal Sciences in Oxford supervised by Professor Glyn-Jones and Professor Carr. His thesis explored how activity levels during adolescence effect hip development and the future risk of osteoarthritis.
Antony currently has three main research interests:
1) Blood Management in Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery. Blood conservation is essential for the care of surgical patients. He is working to optimise each step of the patient pathway and investigating how tranexamic acid is best delivered to reduce intra-operative blood loss. This work is a collaboration with Professor Mike Murphy from the NHS Blood and Transplant Unit.
2) Understanding how activity levels influence joint injury and osteoarthritis. This research compares the joint structure and function of elite athletes with general population cohorts. He is investigating the effect of physical activity and exploring interventions that may prevent injury and osteoarthritis. This research is in collaboration with Southampton Football Club.
3) Musculoskeletal MRI for detecting early osteoarthritis. Novel MRI sequences are able to provide information on the biochemical composition of joint structures. He is working on the clinical translation of these imaging techniques to facilitate development of new treatment strategies for joint disease. This research is in collaboration with Professor Neal Bangerter at Imperial College, London
Hip replacement.
Journal article
Ferguson RJ. et al, (2018), Lancet, 392, 1662 – 1671
Physical activity during adolescence and the development of cam morphology: a cross-sectional cohort study of 210 individuals.
Journal article
Palmer A. et al, (2018), Br j sports med, 52, 601 – 610
Arthroscopic hip surgery compared with physiotherapy and activity modification for the treatment of symptomatic femoroacetabular impingement: multicentre randomised controlled trial.
Journal article
Palmer AJR. et al, (2019), Bmj, 364
Osteoarthritis.
Journal article
Glyn-Jones S. et al, (2015), Lancet, 386, 376 – 387
Preoperative Anemia in Primary Arthroplasty Patients—Prevalence, Influence on Outcome, and the Effect of Treatment
Journal article
Bailey A. et al, (2021), The journal of arthroplasty
Measuring 3DGrowth Plate Shape: Methodology and Applicationto Cam Morphology.
Journal article
Horenstein RE. et al, (2020), J orthop res
Childhood overweight and obesity and back pain risk: a cohort study of 466 997 children.
Journal article
Palmer AJ. et al, (2020), Bmj open, 10
Peri-operative administration of tranexamic acid in lower limb arthroplasty: a multicentre, prospective cohort study.
Journal article
Lloyd TD. et al, (2020), Anaesthesia, 75, 1050 – 1058
The Response of Hip Joint Cartilage to Exercise in Children: An MRI Study Using T2-Mapping.
Journal article
Fernquest S. et al, (2020), Cartilage
Elizabeth Morris
Retaining Fee Lecturer; Wellcome Trust Doctoral Research Fellow; Clinical Non-Stipendiary LecturerI am a practising GP, and a Clinical Lecturer involved in medical student teaching at Somerville College.
My primary research interests are focussed on developing and evaluating dietary and health behaviour change interventions for patients with type 2 diabetes in primary care.
I recently led the DIAMOND study which demonstrated that it is feasible for practice nurses to deliver and support a low-calorie, low-carbohydrate dietary and behavioural intervention for patients with type 2 diabetes, with promising short-term clinical improvements.
‘Parents’ concerns and beliefs about temperature measurement in children: a qualitative study’
Journal article
Morris E. et al, (2021), BMC Family Practice, 22
‘What proportion of people have a follow-up biopsy in randomized trials of treatments for non-alcoholic steatohepatitis? A systematic review and meta-analysis’
Journal article
Koutoukidis D. et al, (2021), PLoS ONE
‘The effect of the magnitude of weight loss on non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis’
Journal article
Koutoukidis DA. et al, (2021), Metabolism: Clinical and Experimental, 115
‘Non-contact infrared thermometers compared with current approaches in primary care for children aged 5 years and under: a method comparison study’
Journal article
Van den Bruel A. et al, (2020), Health technology assessment (Winchester, England), 24, 1 – 28
‘Diabetes and COVID-19: Risks, Management, and Learnings From Other National Disasters’
Journal article
Hartmann-Boyce J. et al, (2020), Diabetes care, 43, 1695 – 1703
Eleanor Grant
Clinical Non-Stipendiary LecturerKezia Gaitskell
Clinical Non-Stipendiary Lecturer; Academic Clinical Lecturer in HistopathologyKezia Gaitskell is an Academic Clinical Lecturer in the Nuffield Division of Clinical Laboratory Sciences (NDCLS), where she combines research with clinical training as an honorary registrar in histopathology.
She graduated with distinction from Oxford University Medical School in 2008, and undertook Academic Foundation Training in London, before studying for an MSc in Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (graduating with distinction). She worked as a histopathology trainee in London, and completed a DPhil in Population Health in the Oxford University Cancer Epidemiology Unit (funded by Cancer Research UK), before taking up her current post.
Her main research interest is at the junction of epidemiology and pathology, in collaboration with the Nuffield Department of Population Health. For her DPhil, she explored risk factors for ovarian cancer, and their variation by histological type, supervised by Professor Dame Valerie Beral, and Professor Ahmed A. Ahmed. Her current work continues to investigate factors associated with cancer incidence and survival, and how these associations vary by tumour histotype.
‘Merkel cell carcinoma with divergent differentiation’
Journal article
GAITSKELL K. et al, (2019), Clinical and Experimental Dermatology
‘Merkel cell carcinoma with divergent differentiation: two case reports.’
Conference paper
Gaitskell K. and Ibrahim H., (2019), Clin Exp Dermatol
‘Hematological parameters and prevalence of anemia in white and British Indian vegetarians and nonvegetarians in the UK Biobank.’
Journal article
Tong TYN. et al, (2019), Am J Clin Nutr, 110, 461 – 472
‘Haematological parameters and anaemia in white and British Indian meat-eaters and vegetarians in UK Biobank’
Conference paper
Tong TYN. et al, (2019), PROCEEDINGS OF THE NUTRITION SOCIETY, 78, E23 – E23
‘Pre-diagnostic BMI and ovarian cancer survival in the Million Women Study’
Other
Gaitskell K. et al, (2018), BRITISH JOURNAL OF CANCER, 119, 32 – 33
John Frazer
Clinical Non-Stipendiary LecturerVanessa Ferreira
Clinical Non-Stipendiary Lecturer; British Heart Foundation Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine; Honorary Consultant Cardiologist; Fellow, Lady Margaret HallProfessor Vanessa Ferreira is a British Heart Foundation Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, and teaches Somerville students as a Clinical Non-Stipendiary Lecturer.
Professor Vanessa Ferreira has expertise in the study of heart disease using cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR). Her doctorate research in Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Oxford focused on CMR myocardial tissue characterisation, converging with MR physics technical development towards clinical translation of myocardial T1-mapping. Briefly, each tissue type in the body has a magnetic property called T1 relaxation time, which can be measured (in milliseconds) using MRI scans. The heart has a specific range of normal T1 values, deviation from which may be indicative of disease. T1-mapping generates a pixel-by-pixel T1-map of the heart, which can locate small areas of disease in a numerical manner. Thus, T1-mapping provides a quantitative way to examine the heart, does not require any injection of contrast agents or radiation, and produces coloured MRI images which give additional information compared to traditional MR images.
One of her goals is to advance CMR methods to gain more insight into heart disease in ways not previously possible, in a non-invasive way. Another is to minimise the need for injection of contrast agents for diagnostic images, allowing more patients to benefit from cardiac MRI, eliminating adverse reactions to contrast agents, and savings in time and cost.
Working with MR physicists, engineers, biomedical imaging experts and clinician-scientists from a range of specialties, Vanessa’s research at the OCMR is highly collaborative and interdisciplinary. Vanessa also delivers CMR education, and supervises DPhil, MSc and medical students in CMR research at the OCMR, based at the John Radcliffe Hospital.
Messroghli, D.R., Moon, J.C., Ferreira, V.M. et al. Clinical recommendations for cardiovascular magnetic resonance mapping of T1, T2, T2* and extracellular volume: A consensus statement by the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR) endorsed by the European Association for Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI). J Cardiovasc Magn Reson 19, 75 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12968-017-0389-8
Piechnik, S.K., Ferreira, V.M., Dall’Armellina, E. et al. Shortened Modified Look-Locker Inversion recovery (ShMOLLI) for clinical myocardial T1-mapping at 1.5 and 3 T within a 9 heartbeat breathhold. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson 12, 69 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1186/1532-429X-12-69
Theodoros D. Karamitsos, Stefan K. Piechnik, Sanjay M. Banypersad, Marianna Fontana, Ntobeko B. Ntusi, Vanessa M. Ferreira, Carol J. Whelan, Saul G. Myerson, Matthew D. Robson, Philip N. Hawkins, Stefan Neubauer, James C. Moon,
Noncontrast T1 Mapping for the Diagnosis of Cardiac Amyloidosis,
JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging,
Volume 6, Issue 4,
2013,
Pages 488-497,
ISSN 1936-878X,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcmg.2012.11.013
Vanessa M. Ferreira, Jeanette Schulz-Menger, Godtfred Holmvang, Christopher M. Kramer, Iacopo Carbone, Udo Sechtem, Ingrid Kindermann, Matthias Gutberlet, Leslie T. Cooper, Peter Liu, Matthias G. Friedrich,
Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance in Nonischemic Myocardial Inflammation: Expert Recommendations,
Journal of the American College of Cardiology,
Volume 72, Issue 24,
2018,
Pages 3158-3176,
ISSN 0735-1097,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2018.09.072.
Ferreira, V.M., Piechnik, S.K., Dall’Armellina, E. et al. Non-contrast T1-mapping detects acute myocardial edema with high diagnostic accuracy: a comparison to T2-weighted cardiovascular magnetic resonance. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson 14, 42 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1186/1532-429X-14-42
Ruth Corrigan
Clinical Non-Stipendiary LecturerGrace Barnes
Clinical Non-Stipendiary LecturerSimon 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 FellowI 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
Nisha Singh
Stipendiary LecturerNisha Singh is a senior postdoctoral researcher in psychopharmacology at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford.
Prior to this, she worked at King’s College, London where she trained in PET imaging as part of an MRC funded program. Nisha completed her DPhil in Pharmacology at the University of Oxford. Her project involved identifying and developing a repurposed drug, ebselen, for the treatment of bipolar disorder. Ebselen is currently undergoing a clinical trial in Oxford for efficacy in mania. Nisha has a keen interest in drug and biomarker development, especially in the field of psychopharmacology.
‘Gestational methylazoxymethanol acetate administration alters α5GABAA and NMDA receptor density: An integrated neuroimaging, behavioral and pharmacological study’
Journal article
Kiemes A. et al, (2021)
Ain Neuhaus
Stipendiary LecturerDr Ain Neuhaus is a Specialty Registrar (Resident) in Radiology at Oxford University Hospitals and a Stipendiary Lecturer in Medicine at Somerville College.
Ain matriculated at Somerville in 2009 and completed his medical degree in 2019. During this period, he also intercalated a DPhil in Medical Sciences at St John’s College, Oxford, under the supervision of Prof. Alastair Buchan and Prof. Daniel Anthony, investigating blood flow regulation in the brain.
Ain’s ongoing research focuses on imaging in acute stroke, in particular how to use computed tomography for optimal selection of patients for clot retrieval treatment (endovascular thrombectomy) and predicting long-term outcome after stroke. He also has an active interest in artificial intelligence and machine learning, and how these techniques can be applied to image analysis in radiology.
Neuroprotection in stroke: the importance of collaboration and reproducibility
AA Neuhaus, Y Couch, G Hadley, AM Buchan
Brain 140 (8), 2079-2092
A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials ofendovascular thrombectomy compared with best medical treatment for acuteischemic stroke
Joyce S. Balami, Brad A. Sutherland, Laurel D. Edmunds, Iris Q. Grunwald, Ain A. Neuhaus, Gina Hadley, Hasneen Karbalai, Kneale A. Metcalf, Gabriele C. DeLuca, and Alastair M. Buchan
International Journal of Stroke 10 (8), 1168-1178
2015
Submaximal angioplasty in the treatment of patients with symptomatic ICAD: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Seyedsaadat SM, Yolcu YU, Neuhaus A, et al
Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery 2020;12:380-385.
Aaron Henry
Stipendiary Lecturer in MedicineMy research interests are in cardiac metabolism and how this can be imaged using advanced cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) techniques. I am interested in understanding how the heart produces and uses energy to pump and how this becomes deranged in heart failure.
My previous work has focused on the metabolic derangement induced by the chemotherapeutic agent doxorubicin in a rodent model of cardiotoxicity, showing early derangements in myocardial energetics which precede overt systolic dysfunction. More recently I have investigated the ability of novel therapeutic agents to alter myocardial metabolism in the setting of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). I have also used advanced CMR to define the novel cardiovascular phenotype of inflammatory conditions such as IgG4 related disease and to assess changes in cardiac remodelling which occur following bariatric surgery. I am project lead on JeFF: Jersey Fighting Failure which seeks to revolutionise heart failure care on Jersey and has been selected as pilot project for the British Society of Heart Failure’s 25 in 25 initiative.
I also have experience of large-scale clinical trials through my involvement as a research assistant on the ChAdOx-1 COVID-19 vaccine trials. I also have experience working with large databases such as QResearch.
Background
I am an Academic Clinical Fellow in Cardiology at Oxford University Hospitals and an Honorary Research Fellow at Jersey General Hospital. I am also a Stipendiary Lecturer in Medicine at Somerville College, University of Oxford, where I was an undergraduate student. Outside clinical, research and teaching activities I have a keen interest in rugby union, having gained 4 Rugby Blues at Oxford and played in the Universities World Cup in Japan in 2019.
- Myocardial Metabolism in Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction.
Henry JA. et al, (2024), J Clin Med, 13
- Changes in epicardial and visceral adipose tissue depots following bariatric surgery and their effect on cardiac geometry.
Henry JA. et al, (2023), Front Endocrinol (Lausanne), 14
- The effect of bariatric surgery type on cardiac reverse remodelling.
Henry JA. et al, (2024), Int J Obes (Lond)
- Lifestyle advice for hypertension or diabetes: trend analysis from 2002 to 2017 in England.
Henry JA. et al, (2022), Br J Gen Pract, 72, e269 – e275
- Early detection of doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity in rats by its cardiac metabolic signature assessed with hyperpolarized MRI.
Timm KN. et al, (2020), Commun Biol, 3
Kassim Javaid
Senior Research Fellow; Professor of Osteoporosis and Adult Rare Bone Diseases; Lecturer in Metabolic Bone Disease, NDORMSDr Kassim Javaid studied medicine at Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, and did his house jobs in London.
He then finished a three year SHO rotation in medicine at Southampton General Hospital followed by 8 months as a registrar before starting at the MRC Environmental Epidemiology Unit in October 2000.
His research interests are in epidemiology and adult metabolic bone disease, focusing on vitamin D, osteoporosis, secondary fracture prevention and rare bone diseases. He was made a full professor of the university in the 2023 Recognition of Distinction.
Walker-Bone, Karen & Javaid, K & Arden, N & Cooper, C. (2000). Regular review – Medical management of osteoarthritis. BMJ (Clinical research ed.). 321. 936-40. 10.1136/bmj.321.7266.936.
Harvey, Nicholas & Holroyd, Christopher & Ntani, Georgia & Javaid, Kassim & Cooper, Philip & Moon, Rebecca & Cole, Zoe & Tinati, Tannaze & Godfrey, Keith & Dennison, Elaine & Bishop, Nick & Baird, Janis & Cooper, Cyrus. (2014). Vitamin D supplementation in pregnancy: A systematic review. Health technology assessment (Winchester, England). 18. 1-190. 10.3310/hta18450.
Cooper, Cyrus & Westlake, Sarah & Harvey, Nicholas & Javaid, Kassim & Dennison, Elaine & Hanson, Mark. (2006). Review: developmental origins of osteoporotic fracture. Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA. 17. 337-47. 10.1007/s00198-005-2039-5.
Kerkhof, H.J.M. & Doherty, Michael & Arden, N.K. & Abramson, S.B. & Attur, Mukundan & Bos, Steffan & Cooper, C & Dennison, Elaine & Doherty, S.A. & Evangelou, Evangelos & Hart, D.J. & Hofman, A & Javaid, K & Kerna, Irina & Kisand, Kalle & Kloppenburg, M & Krasnokutsky, Svetlana & Maciewicz, Rose & Meulenbelt, Ingrid & Valdes, Ana. (2010). Large-scale meta-analysis of interleukin-1 beta and interleukin-1 receptor antagonist polymorphisms on risk of radiographic hip and knee osteoarthritis and severity of knee osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis and cartilage / OARS, Osteoarthritis Research Society. 19. 265-71. 10.1016/j.joca.2010.12.003.
Boris Motik
Senior Research Fellow in Computer Science; Professor of Computer ScienceBefore coming to Oxford, I worked in the Information Management Group, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester.
I got my PhD from the University of Karlsruhe under supervision of Prof. Rudi Studer. While in Karlsruhe, Germany, I was employed at the Research Center for Information Technologies (FZI). I have worked with companies including EDF and Samsung.
I am interested in developing algorithms and techniques necessary for realizing advanced applications in the Semantic Web. In the past, my research is focused around the ontology language OWL. More recently, I became interested in applying ontology techniques to data management problems in databases and big data. Specifically, I am investigating ways in using variants of datalog — a language at the intersection of logic programming and databases — to represent and access data, and I am studying the related theoretical and practical problems, such as efficient evaluation of datalog programs and efficient maintenance of datalog materialisations. My research involves the development of tools that demonstrates the techniques I am working on.
You can view a complete list of my publications with downloadable papers here.
Awards
- Distinguished Paper at the 2017 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence for the paper “Foundations of Declarative Data Analysis Using Limit Datalog Programs”
- Best Applications Paper at the 2016 International Semantic Web Conference for the paper “Semantic Technologies for Data Analysis in Health Care”
- The 2013 Roger Needham award by the British Computer Society (BCS) for “a distinguished research contribution in computer science”
- Selected as one of “2008 AI’s 10 to Watch” by the IEEE Intelligent Systems magazine
- The 2007 Cor Baayen award by the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) for “a most promising young researcher in computer science and applied mathematics”
- Best Paper at the 2005 International Semantic Web Conference for the paper “On the Properties of Metamodeling in OWL”
You can view a complete list of my publications with downloadable papers here.
Oliver Harmson
Retaining Fee Lecturer; Stipendiary LecturerOliver graduated with a first-class degree in Medicine from the University of Tartu, Estonia.
During his medical studies, Oliver was involved in numerous research projects, studying the effects of neurotrophic growth factors at the University of Helsinki and the binding properties of a stimulant substance methcathinone on dopamine receptors at the University of Tartu.
In 2015 he took a year off of his medical studies to come to the University of Oxford and examine the role of D1/D2-like and 5-HT2C receptors on goal-directed actions, funded by the Archimedes Fund from Estonia.
Oliver is currently a DPhil candidate at the University of Oxford as a member of the Sharott Group and the Walton Group (Experimental Psychology). His research focuses on the role of the projection from prefrontal cortex to the dorsomedial striatum in co-ordinating motivated action, with a particular focus of elucidating the circuit disruptions leading to poverty of movement in Parkinson’s disease. He aims to use these experiments to develop closed-loop deep brain stimulation approaches for the treatment of motivational deficits.
Rachel Exley
Stipendiary LecturerI am a research scientist based at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology (University of Oxford, UK).
I currently supervise a small team and we study the interactions of different Neisseria species and the specific mechanisms by which bacteria colonise the human body. I also teach microbiology to undergraduate medical students and am involved in science outreach activities to inspire and engage local primary school children.
Alongside this, I am also a member of the Microbiology Society’s Communications Committee and a representative on the Microbiology in Schools Advisory Committee (MiSAC).
Hollingshead, S. & Jongerius, Ilse & Exley, R. & Johnson, Steven & Lea, Susan & Tang, C.. (2018). Structure-based design of chimeric antigens for multivalent protein vaccines. Nature Communications. 9. 10.1038/s41467-018-03146-7.
Wörmann, Mirka & Horien, Corey & Johnson, Errin & Liu, Guangyu & Aho, Ellen & Tang, Christoph & Exley, Rachel. (2016). Neisseria cinerea isolates can adhere to human epithelial cells by Type IV pilus-independent mechanisms. Microbiology. 162. 10.1099/mic.0.000248.
Tan, Felicia & Tang, Christoph & Exley, Rachel. (2015). Sugar coating: Bacterial protein glycosylation and host-microbe interactions. Trends in biochemical sciences. 40. 10.1016/j.tibs.2015.03.016.
Ana Sofia Cerdeira
Retaining Fee LecturerI am a clinician scientist with a particular interest in pre-eclampsia and angiogenic factors.
We recently conducted the first clinical trial on the use of sFlt-1/PlGF ratio in the management of patients with suspected pre-eclampsia (Cerdeira AS et al. Hypertension 2019). Data from our study and previous observations lead to the development of a protocol that is now used in clinical practice. My aim is to continue exploring the role of angiogenic factors in the prediction, diagnosis and treatment of pre-eclampsia, hopefully leading to meaningful changes in patient care.
News:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/new-blood-test-takes-doubt-out-of-pre-eclampsia-pp5mmv30p
‘Randomized Interventional Study on Prediction of Preeclampsia/Eclampsia in Women With Suspected Preeclampsia.’
Cerdeira AS. et al, (2019), Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979),
‘Taming preeclampsia at its source’
Cerdeira AS. and Vatish M., (2018), Nature Biotechnology, 36, 1151 – 1152
‘Performance of soluble fms-like tyrosine kinase-1–to–placental growth factor ratio of ≥85 for ruling in preeclampsia within 4 weeks’
Cerdeira AS. et al, (2021), American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 224, 322 – 323
‘In vivo evidence of significant placental growth factor release by normal pregnancy placentas’
Cerdeira AS. et al, (2020), Scientific Reports, 10
Victoria Stokes
Lecturer in Clinical MedicineOxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism (OCDEM)
Hannan, Fadil & Stevenson, Mark & Bayliss, Asha & Stokes, Victoria & Stewart, Michelle & Kooblall, Kreepa & Gorvin, Caroline & Codner, Gemma & Teboul, Lydia & Wells, Sara & Thakker, Rajesh. (2021). Ap2s1 mutation causes hypercalcaemia in mice and impairs interaction between calcium-sensing receptor and adaptor protein-2. Human molecular genetics. 30. 10.1093/hmg/ddab076.
Hannan, Fadil & Stevenson, Mark & Bayliss, Asha & Stokes, Victoria & Stewart, Michelle & Kooblall, Kreepa & Gorvin, Caroline & Codner, Gemma & Teboul, Lydia & Wells, Sara & Thakker, Rajesh. (2020). Ap2s1 mutation in mice causes familial hypocalciuric hypercalcemia type 3. 10.1101/2020.08.10.244244.
Onopiuk, Marta & Eby, Bonnie & Nesin, Vasyl & Ngo, Peter & Lerner, Megan & Gorvin, Caroline & Stokes, Victoria & Thakker, Rajesh & Brandi, Maria & Chang, Wenhan & Humphrey, Mary & Tsiokas, Leonidas & Lau, Kai. (2020). Control of PTH secretion by the TRPC1 ion channel. JCI Insight. 5. 10.1172/jci.insight.132496.
Gorvin, Caroline & Stokes, Victoria & Boon, Hannah & Cranston, Treena & Gluck, Anna & Bahl, Shailina & Homfray, Tessa & Aung, Theingi & Shine, Brian & Lines, Kate & Hannan, Fadil & Thakker, Rajesh. (2019). Activating Mutations of the G-protein Subunit α 11 Interdomain Interface Cause Autosomal Dominant Hypocalcemia Type 2. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 105. 10.1210/clinem/dgz251.
Naomi Petela
Stipendiary Lecturer‘Transport of DNA within cohesin involves clamping on top of engaged heads by Scc2 and entrapment within the ring by Scc3’
James E Collier, Byung-Gil Lee, M. B. Roig, S. Yatskevich, Naomi J. Petela, Jean Metson, Menelaos Voulgaris, Andres Gonzalez Llamazares, J. Löwe, K. Nasmyth
Chemistry, Medicine
eLife
2020
‘Scc2 counteracts a Wapl-independent mechanism that releases cohesin from chromosomes during G1’
M. Srinivasan, Naomi J. Petela, Johanna C. Scheinost, James E Collier, Menelaos Voulgaris, Maurici B Roig, Frédéric Beckouët, Bin Hu, K. Nasmyth
Chemistry, Medicine
eLife
2019
‘Multiple interactions between Scc1 and Scc2 activate cohesin’s DNA dependent ATPase and replace Pds5 during loading’
Naomi J. Petela, Thomas G. Gligoris, Jean Metson, Byung-Gil Lee, Menelaos Voulgaris, B. Hu, S. Kikuchi, Christophe Chapard, Wentao Chen, E. Rajendra, Madhusudhan Srinivisan, H. Yu, J. Löwe, K. Nasmyth
Biology
19 October 2017
Professor Baroness Wolf of Dulwich CBE
Honorary FellowProfessor Alison Wolf CBE is the Sir Roy Griffiths Professor of Public Sector Management at Kings College London, and a cross-bench peer (Baroness Wolf of Dulwich) in the House of Lords.
She specialises in the relationship between education and the labour market. She has a particular interest in training and skills policy, universities, and the medical workforce. The latter is particularly appropriate to the Chair she holds, established in memory of an influential government adviser on medical management. Alison’s publications include The XX Factor: How Working Women Are Creating A New Society (Profile Books 2013) and Remaking Tertiary Education (Resolution Foundation 2016).
Alison is highly involved in policy debate, both in this country and more widely and is currently seconded part-time to the government as an expert adviser on skills policy. In February 2018, she was appointed to the English Government’s Review of Post-18 Education and Funding, as a member of the independent expert panel. The report of the panel (‘the ‘Augar Review’) was published in 2019: the government has published an interim response, accepting some of the key recommendations. In 2019 Alison delivered the annual King’s lectures, on ‘Universities. the economy and the state’. She has been a specialist adviser to the House of Commons select committee on education and skills; writes widely for the national press and is a presenter for Analysis on BBC Radio 4; and in March 2011 completed the The Wolf Review, written by Professor Wolf, a Review of Vocational Education for the Secretary of State for Education. In 2015/16 she was a member of the independent panel on technical education, chaired by Lord David Sainsbury, whose report formed the basis of the Government’s 2016 Skills Plan.
While most of Alison’s current work focuses on the interface between education institutions and labour markets, she also has long-standing interests in assessment, and in mathematics education. She was the founding Chair of Governors of the King’s College London Mathematics School, established by King’s College London. Alison was awarded the 2008 Sam Aaronovitch memorial prize for her article in Local Economy on the Leitch Review of Skills. She has been an adviser to, among others, the OECD, the Royal College of Surgeons, the Ministries of Education of New Zealand, France and South Africa, the European Commission, the International Accounting Education Standards Board, and the Bar Council. She was educated at the universities of Oxford (MA, MPhil) and Neuchatel.
Alison spent her early career in the United States working as a policy analyst for the federal government, and spent many years at the Institute of Education, University of London, where she is a visiting professor. Alison was awarded the CBE for services to education in the Queen’s 2012 birthday honours.
Baroness Vadera of Holland Park
Honorary FellowIn 2014 Baroness Vadera was appointed as the first woman to chair a major UK bank.
Her move to Santander follows a remarkable career that has seen her at the heart of banking, business and politics in the UK and abroad. We asked her about the global financial crisis, trouble in the Eurozone, the outlook for women in the workplace and the lessons she learnt from an exceptional childhood.
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
Honorary FellowKiri Te Kanawa is a New Zealand lyric soprano best known for her repertoire of works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Richard Strauss.
After leaving school, she won various singing competitions in New Zealand and Australia, and in 1966, after a period as a popular singer and recording artist, she became a student at the London Opera Centre.
As a soprano, Te Kanawa shot to stardom in the 1970s with a series of appearances at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, and the enthusiastic support of conductors such as Colin Davis and Georg Solti. Her first big success was as the Countess in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro in 1971. That was followed by a run of Mozart operas and, among others, a production of Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème in which she sang Mimi. Her debut at New York’s Metropolitan Opera in 1974 as Desdemona in Giuseppe Verdi’s Otello was widely acclaimed. In 1981 she sang at the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer, and her rendering of George Frideric Handel’s “Let the Bright Seraphim” reached a worldwide television audience of more than 600 million. She was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 1982. She received similar honours in Australia (1990) and New Zealand (1995).
In addition to singing in a great number of opera recordings, Te Kanawa produced a number of popular recordings, including such works as Kiri Sings Gershwin (1987), Kiri Sings Porter (1994), Kiri Sings Berlin (1998), and Maori Songs (1999).
Although in 2002 she began to scale back her appearances on the opera stage, she actively continued to perform concerts and recitals in connection with the Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation (2004), whose mission it is to provide support and financial aid to struggling singers and musicians of New Zealand. In August 2009 Te Kanawa announced that she would fully retire from opera the following year. However, she continued to sing in public until 2016, when she performed her last concert. During this time she played Australian opera singer Nellie Melba in an episode (2013) of the TV series Downton Abbey.
Hilary Spurling CBE
Honorary FellowHilary Spurling is a biographer and critic.
After graduating from Somerville, she became arts editor, theatre critic and subsequently literary editor for The Spectator. She continues to write reviewsfor The Observer and the Daily Telegraph.
Her first biography took the novelist Ivy Compton-Burnett as its subject, and was published in two volumes in 1974 and 1984. Her other works include biographies of the novelist Paul Scott, Sonia Orwell (George Orwell’s wife and literary executor), Pearl Buck, and the painter Henri Matisse. She won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award in 2005 for Matisse the Master: The Conquest of Colour 1909-1954.
Ivy When Young: The Early Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett 1884–1919 (1974)
Mervyn Peake: Drawings (1974) editor
Invitation to the Dance, A Handbook to Anthony Powell’s A Dance to the Music of Time (1977)
Secrets of a Woman’s Heart: The Later Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett 1920–1969 (1984)
Elinor Fettiplace’s Receipt Book: Elizabethan Country House Cooking (1986)
Paul Scott: A Life (1990)
Paper Spirits. Collage Portraits by Vladimir Sulyagin (1992) introduction
Ivy: The Life of I. Compton-Burnett (1995; combines two volumes originally published separately in 1974 and 1984)
The Unknown Matisse: Volume 1 – A Life of Henri Matisse 1869–1908 (1998)
La Grande Thérèse: The Greatest Swindle of the Century (1999) on Thérèse Humbert
The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell (2002)
Matisse the Master: The Conquest of Colour 1909–1954 (2005)
Ann Stokes: Artists’ Potter (contributor) (2009)
Matisse: The Life (abridged version of two earlier works) (2009)
Pearl Buck in China (also published as Burying the Bones: Pearl Buck) (2010)
Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time (2017)