- ‘Debt and Doorways in Renaissance Comedy’
January 2021
Chapter
Early Modern Debts 1550–1700 - On the knees of the body politic’
October 2020
Journal article
Oliver Harmson
Retaining Fee 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.
Jim Harris
Research FellowJim Harris is the Teaching Curator at the Ashmolean Museum, and an art historian specialising in late-medieval and early-Renaissance sculpture.
At the Ashmolean, he is responsible for exploring the use of the Museum’s collections in the university curriculum, devising and delivering classes and courses across a wide range of disciplines and training faculty and early-career researchers to deploy objects and images in developing their own teaching practice.
He has been an Academic Visitor at Somerville since 2017 and a member of the Somerville Medieval Research Group, building a number of long-standing teaching partnerships with members of the college. He has taught the college’s English undergraduates alongside Dr Annie Sutherland every year since 2012.
Jim trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and later, after over a decade in theatre and television, as an art historian at the Courtauld Institute. He wrote his PhD thesis on the polychrome sculpture of Donatello, and held the Courtauld’s Andrew W Mellon Research Forum Postdoctoral Fellowship and the Caroline Villers Research Fellowship in Conservation before coming to Oxford.
“My research has been focused on the materials and techniques of sculpture, and especially in the question of how three-dimensional surfaces are transformed by polychromy, the addition of paint, gold and inlays, and by the subsequent, successive alterations, deliberate or by chance, that they undergo during their lifetimes.
“However, since arriving at the Ashmolean, working with museum collections as tools in university teaching, I have begun to explore the ways that the object-focused classroom offers a democratic, inclusive and equitable alternative to more traditionally hierarchical, text-centred spaces for teaching and learning. It’s a grand claim; but in the face of the basic question, ‘What do you see?’, no member of a group carries more privilege than another: experiencing an object collectively and building a shared understanding of it is a work of knowledge creation in which the contribution of every student is valued. In a culturally and socially diverse student body, therefore, the Museum represents an equally and uniquely diverse resource for enabling otherwise disregarded or less-audible voices to speak and be heard.”
2023 ‘Donatello and the Making of a Florentine Annunciation’, in I. Assimakopoulou and E. Mavromichalis (eds.) Thomas Puttfarken Workshops I and II: Proceedings (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens/University Studio Press, Thessaloniki), pp.133-166
2022 ‘Why Didn’t Sculptors Draw?’ in M Cole, A Debenedetti and P Motture (eds.), Creating Sculpture: Renaissance Drawings and Models (V&A Publishing: London), pp.50-61
2021 Building a House for Repentance: the monochrome Passion cycle of San Nicolò del Boschetto in A Suerbaum and A Sutherland (eds.), Medieval Temporalities: the Experience of Time in Medieval Europe (DS Brewer: Cambridge), pp.203-227
2018 ‘A Comparison of Change Blindness and the Visual Perception of Museum Artefacts in Real-World and On-Screen Scenarios’, with Jonathan Attwood, Christopher Kennard and Chrystalina Antoniades, in Zoi Kapoula et. al. (eds), Exploring Transdisciplinarity in Art and Sciences, (Springer: Cham), pp.213-233; previously published in Frontiers in Psychology, 2018, 00151
2017 ‘Agile Objects’, with Senta German, Journal of Museum Education, vol.42, no.3, pp.248-257
2017 ‘Lorenzo Ghiberti and the Language of Praise’, Sculpture Journal, vol.26, no.1, pp.107-118
2016 ‘Exploring Psychiatry through Images and Objects’, with Charlotte Allan, Maria Turri, Kate Stein and Felipe da Silva, Medical Humanities, vol.42, pp.205-6
As Editor
2011 ‘Una insalata di più erbe…’: A Festschrift for Patricia Rubin, with S. Nethersole and P. Rumberg, (London)
2009 immediations Conference Papers 1: Art and Nature – Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture, with L. Cleaver and K. Gerry, (London)
Anna Hart
Second GardenerAnna’s first career was in infrastructure and security, where she acted as a freelance project manager for multiple government bodies and FTSE 500 companies. Thirteen years ago, she decided to turn her lifelong passion for gardening into a second career, retraining at Jesus College, Oxford.
Anna has since worked in several large estate gardens, including Dorney Court and Denham Place, as well as offering freelance garden design and consultancy. At Somerville, she looks forward to supporting Head Gardener Alistair Malick in bringing the Somerville gardens into the 21st century, whilst delivering a beautiful and sustainable garden (featuring as many alpine plants and clipped shrubs as possible in order to fulfil her passion for niwaki/bonsai and mountain plants).
Vikranth Harthikote Nagaraja
Associate, Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development; University Fellow, School of Health and Society, Salford UniversityVikranth completed his DPhil in Biomedical Engineering at St Hilda’s College; his thesis focused on better characterising compensatory movements adopted during upper-limb prosthesis usage, which have been linked to poor outcomes. Following a postdoctoral stint at Oxford, he joined as a University Fellow with the Centre for Human Movement and Rehabilitation at Salford University in August 2023. During his Fellowship, Vikranth aims to work at the intersection of rehabilitation technologies and global health.
Vikranth’s research primarily focuses on developing affordable/personalised prosthetic arms for low-resource settings and biomechanical modelling. His research interests include Human Movement Analysis, Upper Extremity Biomechanics, Prosthetic limbs, Musculoskeletal Modelling, Telehealth, Medical Device Design, and Affordable Healthcare.
He is also working on collaborative projects tackling emerging topics – (i) AI/Machine Learning applications in motion analysis and musculoskeletal modelling for real-world biomechanical assessments; (ii) the potential role of telehealth and virtual care as sustainable development solutions in achieving Universal Health Coverage in India; and (iii) structured need-led design methodology for developing prosthetic devices.
- Nagaraja, V.H., Ghosh Dastidar, B., Suri, S., and Jani, A., 2022. Perspectives and use of telemedicine by doctors in India: A cross-sectional study. medRxiv.
- Ghosh Dastidar, B., Suri, S., Nagaraja, V.H., and Jani, A., 2022. A virtual bridge to Universal Healthcare in India. Communications Medicine. 2, 145.
- Nagaraja, V.H., Ghosh Moulic, S., D’souza J.V., Limesh, M., Walters, P., and Bergmann J.H., 2022. A novel respiratory control and actuation system for upper-limb prosthesis users: Clinical evaluation study. TechArxiv. 1–18.
- Nagaraja, V.H., Bergmann, J.H., Andersen, M.S., and Thompson, M.S., 2022. Comparison of a Scaled Cadaver-based Musculoskeletal Model with a Clinical Upper Extremity Model. ASME Journal of Biomechanical Engineering. 1–14.
- Dasgupta, A., Sharma, R., Mishra, C., and Nagaraja, V.H., 2022. Machine Learning for Optical Motion Capture-driven Musculoskeletal Modeling from Inertial Motion Capture Data. arXiv.
- Sharma, R., Dasgupta, A., Cheng, R., Mishra, C., and Nagaraja, V.H., 2022. Machine Learning for Musculoskeletal Modeling of Upper Extremity. IEEE Sensors Journal. 22(9), pp.18684–18697.
- Nagaraja, V.H., da Ponte Lopes, J., and Bergmann, J.H., 2022. Reimagining Prosthetic Control: A Novel Body-Powered Prosthetic System for Simultaneous Control and Actuation. Prosthesis, 4(3), pp.394–413.
- Russell, J., Bergmann, J.H., and Nagaraja, V.H., 2022. Towards Dynamic Multi-Modal Intent Sensing Using Probabilistic Sensor Networks. Sensors, 22(7), p.2603.
- Nagaraja, V.H., Cheng, R., Slater, D.H., Thompson, M.S., and Bergmann, J.H., 2022. Upper limb prosthetic maintenance data–A retrospective analysis study. JPO: Journal of Prosthetics and Orthotics. 34(4):223–232
- Nagaraja, V.H., Bergmann, J.H., Sen, D. and Thompson, M.S., 2016. Examining the needs of affordable upper limb prosthetic users in India: A questionnaire-based survey. Technology and Disability, 28(3), pp.101-110.
Barbara Fitzgerald Harvey CBE
Emeritus FellowBarbara Fitzgerald Harvey CBE FBA FRHistS is a British medieval historian.
She was the joint winner of the Wolfson History Prize in 1993 for her book Living and Dying in England 1100–1540: The Monastic Experience, which examines the lives of monks at Westminster Abbey, one of England’s greatest medieval monasteries. In 1982 she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.
Aaron Henry
Retaining Fee Lecturer‘Safety and efficacy of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine (AZD1222) against SARS-CoV-2: an interim analysis of four randomised controlled trials in Brazil, South Africa, and the UK’
Voysey M et al.,
The Lancet,
Volume 397, Issue 10269,
2021,
Pages 99-111,
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32661-1
Koutoukidis DA, Astbury NM, Tudor KE, et al. ‘Association of Weight Loss Interventions With Changes in Biomarkers of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis’
JAMA Intern Med. 2019; 179(9):1262–1271
Kerstin N. Timm, Jack J. Miller, John A. Henry, Damian J. Tyler,
‘Cardiac applications of hyperpolarised magnetic resonance’ in
Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy,
Volumes 106–107,
2018,
Pages 66-87,
ISSN 0079-6565,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pnmrs.2018.05.002
Henry J A, Black S, Gowell M, Morris E, . ‘Covid-19: how to use your time when clinical placements are postponed’, BMJ 2020; 369 :m1489
Judith Heyer
Emeritus FellowProfessor Dame Julia Higgins
Honorary FellowDame Julia Stretton Higgins, DBE, FRS, FREng is Professor of Polymer Science in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemical Technology at Imperial College London.
Higgins was the former chair (1998–2003) of the Athena Project, which aims for the advancement of women in science, engineering and technology (SET) in Higher Education. She is now the Patron of the Athena Swan Awards Scheme. Between 2003 and 2007, she was chair of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. Higgins was president of the Institution of Chemical Engineers 2002–3, and president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 2003–4. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1995 and was its Foreign Secretary 2001–6. She was Chair of the Royal Society’s State of the Nation Report Steering Group. Most recently she chaired Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education (ACME). (2008-2012) She currently Chairs the Royal Society project (funded by BIS) on increasing diversity in the scientific workforce
She is a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, Royal Society of Chemistry, the Royal Academy of Engineering, and the City and Guilds of London Institute, of which she is also Vice-President. She is also an honorary Fellow of the Institute of Physics and Somerville College, Oxford. She was awarded a CBE in 1996 before being named a dame in the 2001 Queen’s Birthday Honours list.She holds honorary degrees from a number of UK Universities ans also from the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Her scientific work has concentrated on the investigation of polymers with neutron scattering. She co-authored a monograph on that field (Higgins & Benoit 1997). In 1999, she was elected as Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. She is a foreign member of the National Academy of Engineering of the United States. She was named Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 2001. She is a Chevalier de la Legion D’Honneur
Professor Carole Hillenbrand
Honorary FellowCarole Hillenbrand was educated at the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford and Edinburgh. She was appointed Professor of Islamic History in 2000 and served as Head of the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, from 1997-2002 and from 2006-2008.
She has been Professor Emerita of Islamic History at Edinburgh since 2008. She was awarded an OBE for services to Higher Education in 2009. She was Visiting Professor at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA in 1994 and 2005, at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands in 2002, and Visiting Professor at the University of St Louis, USA, 2011 and 2013.
In 2005 she was awarded the King Faisal Prize for Islamic Studies, 2005 (the first non-Muslim to be awarded this prize). In 2015, she was given the British Society for Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Award for Services to Middle Eastern Studies. In 2016 she was awarded the British Academy/ Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Transcultural Understanding.
She has been Islamic Advisory Editor at Edinburgh University Press since 1983 and Editor of the series entitled “Studies in Persian and Turkish History”, published by Routledge since 1999.
Her research interests include the Crusades, the Seljuqs of Iran and Turkey, and medieval Muslim political thought, especially the work of al-Ghazali.
Ole Hinz
German LektorI completed my PhD in German Studies at Yale University in 2019. Prior to that, I received an MA in German Literature from the University of Hamburg (2013) and a BA in German Studies and Political Science from the University of Münster (2009).
I have taught undergraduate courses on German-speaking literature, philosophy, and culture at Yale, Hamburg, and Goethe University Frankfurt. Currently I teach at several colleges across the university, including Somerville.
My research is situated at the intersection of literature, philosophy, and intellectual history, with an emphasis on 20th-century German literature and critical theory. I’m currently working on my first book, a genealogy of the idea of contemporaneity (“Zeitgenossenschaft”) in modern thought, literature, and the arts from the early 19th century to the present day. Other areas of interest include philosophical theories of literature, Marxism, aesthetics, contemporary literature and visual culture.
Cameron Hodgkinson
JCR Disabilities OfficerMatthew Hosty
Retaining Fee LecturerI studied at St John’s college here in Oxford for my undergraduate degree in Literae Humaniores, and also for my MSt and DPhil in Classics (although my supervisor for the DPhil was Dr Adrian Kelly of Balliol College). I spent three years as a Lecturer, at Jesus College from 2013-15 and at Wadham College from 2015-16, before being elected to a Junior Research Fellowship at Merton College from 2016-19.
What inspired me to pursue this subject?
The heartwarming answer, which has the advantage of being partially true, is that my interest in Classics came from a picture-book retelling of the Odyssey I was given as a small child. More practically, though, it was starting Latin at secondary school that really made me think of Classics as an academic field I might enjoy pursuing, rather than just a general area of history I had an interest in; I enjoyed the way that Latin forced me to combine literary study, thinking about poems and stories and how they work, with the formal and technical rigour of verb tables and sentence structure. Twenty years later, I still value Classics for its alliance of precision to imagination. Studying Classics means studying people – how they thought, who they loved, what they ate and wore and wrote – but the vast gulf of time separating us from those people, and the paucity and fragility of the evidence they left behind, can only be bridged via careful, detailed, and empathetic analysis.
Research Interests
I specialise in the study of ancient literary parody, thinking about what ‘parody’ as a concept meant to the Greeks and Romans and how it manifested in their works as an artistic technique. Modern parody is a broad church, encompassing everything from very specific comic reworkings of popular texts (e.g. Weird Al Yankovic) to literary-theoretical attitudes of subversion and rejuvenation (e.g. Mikhail Bakhtin and the ‘carnivalesque’), and the roots of these ideas reach back into the Classical corpus – for example, did the Greeks and Romans think that parody needed to be funny? My doctoral thesis (since expanded into a monograph) was an edition with commentary of the Batrachomyomachia, one of the only surviving ancient texts to be labelled ‘parodic’ by modern scholars, and I am particularly interested in authors who employ parody as a strategy – e.g. Aristophanes, Lucian, Petronius. I also work on Greek hexameter epic, Hellenistic poetry (especially epigram), and textual criticism.
Teaching
At St John’s I primarily teach the Greek and Latin languages – translation, grammar, and prose composition. In previous jobs I have taught a wide range of literature papers, including Mods Iliad and Aeneid, Texts & Contexts, Greek and Latin Core, EGHP, Hellenistic Poetry, and Tragedy, and I still teach bits and pieces of these where needed. At the Classics Faculty, where I spend half of my time, I teach language classes for beginners.
I believe teaching is the most important responsibility of the academic, and it is also the one I find most satisfying: I love to teach at all levels, and get a real kick out of watching students develop their understanding of a tricky topic, or have a lightbulb moment where two different bits of knowledge suddenly combine to give them a much bigger insight. And, of course, the ideas that my students come up with often end up suggesting new possibilities or sending me down new avenues in my own research!
Batrachomyomachia (Battle of the Frogs and Mice): Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary (Oxford, forthcoming March 2020) https://global.oup.com/academic/product/batrachomyomachia-battle-of-the-frogs-and-mice-9780198849902?cc=gb&lang=en&
‘“But who art thou?”: Callimachus and the Unsatisfactory Epitaph’, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 59 (2019), https://grbs.library.duke.edu/article/view/16202/7213
‘Schrödinger’s Mouse: liminality and the λίμνη in the Batrachomyomachia’, Journal of Hellenic Studies 137 (2017), https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-hellenic-studies/article/schrodingers-mouse-liminality-and-the-in-the-batrachomyomachia/D38BB1AA5BE7E32A84F8834A2BB10948#
‘Anonymous: The Battle of the Frogs and Mice’, The Literary Encyclopedia (first published Aug. 2016) https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=35729
‘The Mice of Ithaca: Homeric Models in the Batrachomyomachia’ (Mnemosyne 67, 2014)
Professor Judith Howard CBE FRS
Honorary FellowJudith Howard is a practically minded structural chemist who characterises compounds using pioneering techniques. Judith has built instruments that allow scientists to apply techniques to experimentally prove theories and advance the field of X-ray crystallography.
X-ray crystallography analyses the three-dimensional atomic structure of molecules by firing X-rays at them and examining the diffraction pattern that results. Judith developed low temperature and neutron diffraction methods to more precisely determine electron density, chemical bonding and magnetic properties in molecules.
Prolific in her contributions to science, with over 1,500 publications to her name, Judith actively participates in committees and conferences worldwide. She was the first woman to head a five-star chemistry department (at the University of Durham), and was the President of the British Crystallographic Association. Judith was made a CBE in 1996 and won the Royal Society of Chemistry Structural Chemistry Award in 1999.
Kenneth Hughes
Stipendiary Lecturer, Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Atomic InterferometrySalome Hughes
Human Resources Manager
Salome manages all aspects of HR for academic and support staff including policies, reporting, recruitment, appointments and compliance. Any HR queries can be directed to human.resources@some.ox.ac.uk
HR hours are Monday – Friday 8.00 a.m. – 4.00 p.m. and either Salome or her colleague, Sarah, will be happy to help with any HR questions you have.
Tin Hang (Henry) Hung
Fulford Junior Research Fellow; Lecturer in Biology (Magdalen and St Hilda's)Henry Hung joined Somerville in October 2023 as a Fulford Junior Research Fellow. He is also a Lecturer in Biology at Magdalen and St Hilda’s.
His main research concerns the adaptation and genomics of forest trees. He started his research in tropical forests in Southeast Asia. He is now shifting his focus to temperate forests in Europe and North America. He also conducts research in Wytham and Blenheim in Oxford.
He currently co-chairs the Ecological Genetics Group and serve in the Events Committee of the British Ecological Society. He is named a National Geographic Explorer in 2022 for his research on critically endangered rosewood trees. His research on rosewoods is featured in the University News: https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/features/race-save-world-s-most-trafficked-wild-species
He graduated from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, majoring in Biology, triple-minoring in Environmental Science, German, and Music. He then read his doctorate at the University of Oxford.
Tin Hang Hung (洪天恒) is a Cantonese name. First name is ‘Tin Hang’ altogether, surname is ‘Hung’. There is no middle name. ‘Henry’ is the preferred alternative name.
For a complete list of publications, please see https://www.hung.bio/publications.
Hung, T. H., So, T., Thammavong, B., Chamchumroon, V., Theilade, I., Phourin, C., Bouamanivong, S., Hartvig, I., Gaisberger, H., Jalonen, R., Boshier, D. H. & MacKay, J. J. (2023). Range-wide differential adaptation and genomic offset in critically endangered Asian rosewoods. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(33), e2301603120.
Dun, H. F., Hung, T. H., Green, S. & MacKay, J. J. (2022). Comparative transcriptomic responses of European and Japanese larches to infection by Phytophthora ramorum. BMC Plant Biology, 22, 480.
Barstow, M., Boshier, D., Bountithiponh, C., Changtragoon, S., Gaisberger, H., Hartvig, I., Hung, T. H. … Zheng, Y. (2022). Dalbergia cochinchinensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022, e.T215342548A2822125.
Barstow, M., Boshier, D., Bountithiponh, C., Changtragoon, S., Gaisberger, H., Hartvig, I., Hung, T. H. … Zheng, Y. (2022). Dalbergia oliveri. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022, e.T215341339A2813403.
Gaisberger, H., So, T., Thammavong, B., Bounithiphonh, C., Hoa, T. T., Zheng, Y. … Hung, T. H. … Jalonen, R. (2022). Range-wide priority setting for the conservation and restoration of Asian rosewoods accounting for multiple threats and ecogeographic diversity. Biological Conservation, 270, 109560.
Hung, T. H., So, T., Sreng, S., Thammavong, B., Boounithiphonh, C., Boshier, D. H. & MacKay, J. J. (2020). Reference transcriptomes and comparative analyses of six species in the threatened rosewood genus Dalbergia. Scientific Reports, 10, 17749.
Hung, T. H., Gooda, R., Rizzuto, G., So, T., Thammavong, B., Tran, H. T., Jalonen, R., Boshier, D. H. & MacKay, J. J. (2020). Physiological responses of rosewoods Dalbergia cochinchinensis and D. oliveri under drought and heat stresses. Ecology and Evolution, 10(19), 10872–10885.
Lorna Hutson
Merton Professor of English Literature; Director of the Centre for Early Modern Studies; Honorary FellowProfessor Lorna Hutson (1976, DPhil English) is Merton Professor of English.
Professor Hutson’s work focuses on the interrelations between early modern Enlish literary form and other forms of cultural practice, including economics, law, and national conception. Her monograph The Invention of Suspicion won the Roland Bainton Prize in 2008, and The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700 won the Bainton Reference Prize in 2018. Her current project – England’s Insular Imagining – studies how early modern literature spanning multiple genres contributed to the conception of England as the whole island of Britain. In 2016, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.
- Circumstantial Shakespeare
February 2018
- ‘Rhetoric and Law’
November 2017
ChapterOxford Handbook of Rhetorical Studies
- ‘Introduction’
August 2017
Chapter
The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature
John Ingram
Senior Research Fellow; Leader of the Environmental Change Institute Food Programme; Associate ProfessorTrained in soil science, Associate Professor John Ingram gained extensive experience in the 1980s working in Africa and Asia in agriculture and forestry research projects.
In 1991 he was recruited by UK’s Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) to help organise, coordinate and synthesise research on global change and agroecology, part of IGBP’s international global change research programme. In 2001 he was appointed the Executive Officer for the international research project “Global Environmental Change and Food Systems” (GECAFS). On the close of GECAFS in 2011 he was appointed NERC Food Security Leader until assuming his current role of Food Systems Programme Leader at the University of Oxford’s Environmental Change Institute in May 2013.
John’s interests are in the conceptual framing of food systems; the interactions among the many actors involved and their varied activities, and the outcomes of their activities for food security, livelihoods and environment; and food system resilience. He has designed and led regional food system research projects in Europe, south Asia, southern Africa and the Caribbean and has conceived, developed and/or led a range of major international research initiatives. He has had substantial interaction with FAO, UNEP and CGIAR and many other international organisations, with national departments and agencies, with NGOs, and with businesses in the food sector, helping to establish research on the links between food security and environment through the analysis of food systems. In addition to leading the food systems research group within ECI, he also leads the multi-university post-graduate Interdisciplinary Food Systems Teaching and Learning programme (IFSTAL), and coordinated the UK Global Food Security programme ‘Resilience of the UK Food System‘. He is an Associate Professor in Oxford’s School of Geography and the Environment, and Senior Research Fellow at Somerville College.
2020
Hasnain, S., Ingram, J. and Zurek, M. (2020) Mapping the UK Food System – a report for the UKRI Transforming UK Food Systems Programme. Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford.
Ingram, J. (2020) Nutrition security is more than food security. Nature Food, 1(2).
Zurek, M., Garbutt, G., Lieb, T., Hess, T. and Ingram, J. (2020) Increasing the resilience of the UK fresh fruit and vegetable system to water-related risks. Sustainability, 12(18). 7519.
2019
Ingram, J., Ajates, R., Arnall, A., Blake, L., Borrelli, R., Collier, R., de Frece, A., Häsler, B., Lang, T., Pope, H., Reed, K., Sykes, R., Wells, R. and White, R. (2019) A future workforce of food-system analysts. Nature Food.
2018
Ingram, J. and Zurek, M. (2018) Food Systems Approaches for the Future. Chapter 16 in, Serraj, R. and Pingali, P. (eds.) Agriculture and Food Systems to 2050: Global Trends, Challenges and Opportunities. . ISBN: 978-981-3278-34-9.
Termeer, C., Drimie, S., Ingram, J., Pereira, L. and Whittingham, M.J. (2018) A diagnostic framework for food system governance arrangements: The case of South Africa. NJAS – Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences, 84: 85-93.
Zurek, M., Hebinck, A., Leip, A., Vervoort, J., Kuiper, M., Garrone, M., Havlik, P., Heckelei, T., Hornborg, S., Ingram, J., Kuijsten, A., Shutes, L., Geleijnse, J.M., Terluin, I., Veer, P., Wijnands, J., Zimmermann, A. and Achterbosch, T. (2018) Assessing Sustainable Food and Nutrition Security of the EU Food System—An Integrated Approach. Sustainability, 10(11 (4271)).
2017
Benton, T., Crawford, J., Doherty, B., Fastoso, F., Jimenez, H.G., Ingram, J., Lang, T., Smith, P., Tiffin, R. (2017) British Food: What role should UK producers have in feeding the UK? Morrisons Supermarket.
Bringezu, S., Clarke, C., Fischer-Kowalski, M., Graedel, T., Hajer, M., Hashimoto, S., Hatfield-Dodds, S., Havlik, P., Hertwich, E., Ingram, J., Kruit, K., Milligan, B., Moriguchi, Y., Nasr, N., Newth, D., Obersteiner, M., Ramaswami, A., Schandl, H., Suh, S., Swilling, M., van der Voe, E., West, J. and Henk, W. (2017) Resource Efficiency: Potential and Economic implications. A report of the International Resource Panel, UNEP, Nairobi.. 1-167.
Campbell, B.M., Beare, D.J., Bennett, E.M., Hall-Sencer, J.M., Ingram, J.S.I., Jaramillo, F., Ortiz, R., Ramankutty, N., Sayer, J.A. and Shindell, D. (2017) Agriculture production as a major driver of the Earth system exceeding planetary boundaries. Ecology and Society, 22(4:8).
Ingram, J. (2017) Food system resilience. Food Science and Technology, 31: 21-23.
Ingram, J. (2017) Interdisciplinary food systems training to address global food challenges. Agriculture for Development, 31.
Ingram, J. (2017) Perspective: Look Beyond Production. Nature, 544(17).
Guillermo Íñiguez Martinez
Retaining Fee LecturerJoanna Innes
Senior Research Fellow; Professor Emeritus of Modern HistoryI grew up in Britain and in the US. I studied at Cambridge, and was a tutorial fellow at Somerville for 36 years, 1982-2018. I hold the title of Professor of Modern History from the university, and continue to supervise graduate students.
I am interested in government, society and ideas, in Britain, Europe and the larger European world, between the later seventeenth and mid nineteenth centuries. More specifically, my research and writing has two main strands. One concerns developments in British, especially English social policy during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: my monograph Inferior Politics pulls together some of writings on that topic. In addition, for about fifteen years I have been running an international collaborative project about changing attitudes to and practices associated with democracy in Europe and both Americas in the same period. We have published two books arising from that project, and are now at work on a third, which focusses on Latin America and the Caribbean.
I see the academic study of history as a collaborative exercise, and have been involved in collaborative projects throughout my career.
Between 1990 and 2000 I was co-editor of Past and Present; I am now chair of that journals editorial board. I’m also on the boards of several other English and French-language history journals. I have spent several periods teaching or researching abroad: in Australia, Germany, Japan and France.
Epilogue 1: Early modern ottomans
March 2020
Journal article
Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association
Polite and Commercial’s Twin: Public Life and the Propertied Englishman 1689-1789
January 2019
Chapter
Revisiting The Polite and Commercial People Essays in Georgian Politics, Society, and Culture in Honour of Professor Paul Langford
Re-imagining democracy in the mediterranean, 1780-1860
November 2018
c-book
Democracy from book to life: the emergence of the term in active political debate, to 1848
June 2018
Chapter
Democracy in Modern Europe: A Conceptual History
Christopher Ferguson. An Artisan Intellectual: James Carter and the Rise of Modern Britain, 1792–1853.
April 2018
Journal article
The American Historical Review
Popular consent and the european order
January 2018
Chapter
Re-Imagining Democracy in the Mediterranean, 1780-1860
Re-imagining the social order
January 2018
Chapter
Re-Imagining Democracy in the Mediterranean, 1780-1860
Happiness Contested: Happiness and Politics in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth centuries
August 2017
Chapter
Suffering and Happiness in England, 1550-1850 Narratives and Representations
Suffering and Happiness in England, 1550-1850 Narratives and Representations
August 2017
c-book
Consensus and the Majoritarian Principle in English Parliamentary Politics during the 18th and 19th Centuries
May 2017
Chapter
Consensus and Representation
Vanshaj Jain
Matric Year: 2019 – Subject: DPhil Law – Scholarship: Indira Gandhi ScholarMy research interests pertain to public international law and climate change. I seek to study the impact of rising sea levels on international maritime boundaries and maritime entitlements, to better understand how the law on this subject may be developed to accommodate such change.
My attraction to the law stems from the pivotal role it plays in shaping society. It is for this reason that I have nurtured a deep interest in public international law. I believe it possesses tremendous potential to change the lives of the most vulnerable, and mold society for the better.
During my undergraduate studies at the National Law School I pursued every opportunity to further my passion for international law. I was fortunate to argue the finals of the ICC moot before sitting judges of the International Criminal Court, at The Hague. I worked extensively on the law of statehood whilst competing at the Jessup Moot. Through my internship with Mr. Soli Sorabjee, I worked on a major international maritime dispute, the Enrica Lexie case.
The Rhodes Scholarship enabled me to read for the Bachelor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford, where I engaged more deeply with the subject through courses such as International Law and Armed Conflict as well as International Law of the Sea. I added breadth to this engagement in my second year at Oxford where I read for an MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, gaining a better understanding of the real-world hurdles that reside in the practice of international law.
I hope to nurture this passion further, as an Indira Gandhi Scholar at the Oxford India Centre, whilst reading for my DPhil in Law at Somerville.
Awards and Previous Qualifications
- Oxford – MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (Distinction)
- Oxford – Bachelor of Civil Law (Distinction)
- NLSIU – B.A., LL.B. (H)
- Rhodes Scholar (India & Exeter, 2017)
- Oxford Department of International Development Faculty Prize for Best Thesis in the MSc (RFMS) [2019]
- Volterra Fietta Prize for International Law of the Sea (BCL) [2018]
- Gold Medal for Best Student Advocate [2017]