Philip West
Fellow & Tutor in Early Modern English Literature; Associate Professor of EnglishAt Somerville I teach Renaissance English literature and Shakespeare to second and third year students, and the paper ‘An Introduction to Literary Studies’ to first years. I also greatly enjoy supervising finalists working on dissertations about early seventeenth-century poets such as John Donne, Ben Jonson, and George Herbert.
For the English Faculty at Oxford I give undergraduate lectures on a variety of seventeenth-century poets and writers. For graduates I teach a course in Renaissance palaeography and manuscript culture designed to assist MSt and DPhil students learning how to interpret early modern handwriting and to find & work with manuscripts in the Bodleian Library. I regularly supervise MSt dissertations, and welcome inquiries from DPhil applicants interested in early seventeenth-century poetry, manuscripts, devotional poets, and writing of the 1630s.
My research focuses on literature of the early seventeenth century, particularly the Caroline poets and the work of John Donne. I am currently completing a critical edition of James Shirley’s poems, and have published several articles and chapters about how Shirley’s writing was composed and circulated in the period. My edition will appear as a volume in The Complete Works of James Shirley, gen. eds. Eugene Giddens, Teresa Grant, and Barbara Ravelhofer, 10 vols (Oxford University Press). My previous work has focussed on the poetry of Henry Vaughan (1622-95) and on the work of poets he admired, including Ben Jonson and George Herbert. Alongside my Shirley edition I am also editing a volume of The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, gen. ed. Peter McCullough, 13 vols (Oxford University Press, 2013- ) containing the sermons Donne preached to select audiences at private houses.
‘The Drama of Shirley’s Poems’, in James Shirley and Early Modern Theatre, ed. by Barbara Ravelhofer (London: Routledge, 2016)
‘Epigrams and The Forest’, in The Oxford Handbook of Ben Jonson, ed. by Eugene Giddens (Oxford: OUP, forthcoming)
‘John Chatwin’s Translations of Henry Vaughan’, Scintilla: The Journal of the Vaughan Association, 18 (2015), 138-145
‘Editing James Shirley’s Poems’, Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, 52.1 (2012), 101-116
‘Little Gidding Religious Community’, in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2009 supplement)
‘Nathaniel Wanley and George Herbert: The Dis-Engaged and The Temple, Review of English Studies, 57 (2006), 337-58
Henry Vaughan’s ‘Silex Scintillans’: Scripture Uses (Oxford: OUP, 2001)
Sam Wetmore
AV TechnicianSam (or, in Outlook’s global address list, Samuel) Wetmore is the person to whom you can turn for anything AV-related.
Based in the AV Office in Maitland, Sam provides a range of services to support the audio and visual needs of meetings, conferences and events, and manages the technical aspects of the meeting rooms. Sam is also happy to collaborate on any projects which involve photography or filming, and to provide support and advice with composition and editing. If you have an AV query, contact the AV desk by emailing av.desk@some.ox.ac.uk.
Ursula White
JCR Arts OfficerHi! I’m Ursula, a third year English Student, and one of the JCR Arts Officers
I am responsible for overseeing the JCR Arts Fund (where students can access funding for Arts Projects such as – but not limited to- bands, plays, art exhibitions and magazines), and reviewing peoples bids. I am also responsible for organising the JCR Arts Week, and bi-weekly JCR Arts Socials. Please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions about the Arts at Somerville, or would like to arrange a chat to discuss the arts funding available at Somerville! (Ursula.White@some.ox.ac.uk)
Professor Clair Wills
Honorary FellowProfessor Clair Wills writes about the social, cultural and literary history of Britain and Ireland in the twentieth century.
Professor Wills works across the disciplines of literature, history, and cultural theory and is keen to explore new genres of academic writing. Her research focuses upon: migration in post-war Europe and the ways in which it gets represented by migrants and others; literature and culture in Northern Ireland; contemporary British fiction; feminism and women’s writing; and the history and experiences of coercive confinement in institutions (including psychiatric institutions) in Britain and Ireland in the twentieth century.
Clair is the King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge and a Professorial Fellow of Murray Edward College. She previously taught at Queen Mary University of London, at Princeton, and via numerous visiting fellowships. She has been a research associate at the Centre for Contemporary Irish History, Trinity College Dublin since 2007, and was elected an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2016.
In 2017, she was the recipient of the Irish Times International Non-Fiction Book of the Year for her book Lovers and Strangers. She also received the International PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History and the American Conference for Irish Studies Michael J. Durkan Prize for her 2008 book That Neutral Island. A keen jazz dancer, Professor Wills set up an interdisciplinary workshop with colleagues in Cambridge to explore the question, ‘What do we write about when we write about dance?’
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).
Rowan Wilson
Retaining Fee LecturerMy thesis explores failures of feeling in relation to the tradition of highly emotive, Passion-centred medieval devotion known as ‘affective piety’.
While late medieval devotional texts often work to stimulate the devotee’s compassion through affective meditation and emotive rhetoric, we also find references to devotees failing to feel as they ought, responding to divine suffering not with tears, but with apathy, frigidity or even callousness. I focus on these ‘stony-hearted’ devotees to ask: what are the challenges of feeling according to the affective logic of medieval devotional texts? What are the consequences of feeling isolated from your emotional community’s dominant affective paradigms? Where might resistance to those affective paradigms ultimately lead? My research breaks new ground in reading for strains in medieval affective piety traditions. It represents a significant contribution not only to medieval studies, but to wider histories of marginal, difficult, and disruptive (un)feeling
Victoria Wilson
Scholarships and Funding OfficerVictoria manages the processes for awarding scholarships and funding to students.
This includes administering grants for travel, personal development, sport and music, as well as academic prizes and scholarships. She co-ordinates the selection process for graduate and undergraduate scholarships, including the Thatcher Scholarships and Oxford India Centre Scholarships. Victoria is also Secretary to the MTST Committee, the OICSD Management Committee and the Travel and Special Project Grants Committee.
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.
Matthew Wood
Senior Research Fellow; Professor of NeuroscienceMatthew Wood is Professor of Neuroscience and Associate Head of the Medical Sciences Division (http://www.medsci.ox.ac.uk/support-services/matthew-wood) in the University of Oxford. His laboratory is based in the Department of Paediatrics.
Matthew graduated in Medicine from the University of Cape Town in 1987, working in clinical Neuroscience before gaining a doctorate in Physiological Sciences from the University of Oxford in 1993. His research team works on developing gene therapies for degenerative disorders of the brain and muscles – so-called neuromuscular diseases. This is exemplified by landmark work using small DNA patches called oligonucleotides to correct the genetic abnormalities underlying the fatal childhood muscle disease Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Further information is available at Professor Wood’s page with the Oxford Neuroscience and Department of Paediatrics.
Delivery of siRNA to the mouse brain by systemic injection of targeted exosomes.
Journal article
Alvarez-Erviti L. et al, (2011), Nat Biotechnol, 29, 341 – 345
Targeting the 5′ untranslated region of SMN2 as a therapeutic strategy for spinal muscular atrophy.
Journal article
Winkelsas AM. et al, (2021), Mol Ther Nucleic Acids, 23, 731 – 742
Immortalized Canine Dystrophic Myoblast Cell Lines for Development of Peptide-Conjugated Splice-
Switching Oligonucleotides.
Journal article
Tone Y. et al, (2021), Nucleic Acid Ther
Molecular correction of Duchenne muscular dystrophy by splice modulation and gene editing.
Journal article
Hanson B. et al, (2021), RNA Biol, 1 – 15
Molecular and electrophysiological features of spinocerebellar ataxia type seven in induced pluripotent stem cells.
Journal article
Burman RJ. et al, (2021), PLoS One, 16
Mesyl phosphoramidate backbone modified antisense oligonucleotides targeting miR-21 with enhanced in vivo therapeutic potency.
Journal article
Patutina OA. et al, (2020), Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 117, 32370 – 32379
Ian Wooldridge
Senior Treasury Assistant (Battels and Cashbook)Farhana Yamin
Honorary FellowFarhana Yamin grew up in London and came to Somerville in 1983 to study PPE (Philosophy, Politics and Economics). After graduation, Yamin qualified as a solicitor and worked as an environmental lawyer, becoming a climate change and development policy expert. In 2001, she helped to deliver the Marrakech Accords, the international rules needed to complete the Kyoto Protocol and she has been advising leaders and countries on climate change and development policy for 30 years.
Yamin has taught in UK universities since 1995, including as a Visiting Professor at University College London. She stepped back from the world of academia and UN negotiations in 2018 to focus on non-violent civil disobedience and social justice movements challenging capitalism. As a Political Coordinator of Extinction Rebellion for a year, Yamin played a key role in the XR April 2019 protests, gluing herself to the Shell HQ offices in London, alongside thousands of other activists. She is a champion of community-based action and co-founded Camden Think & Do, where she is experimenting with radical inclusion & concepts of spatial justice by supporting communities create pop-up action hubs in high streets and public spaces. She also sits as an expert on various Commissions including Camden Renewal Commission and IPPR’s Commission on Environmental Justice.
Farhana serves as trustee or adviser to a number of organisations working on the intersection of social, racial and ecological justice, including Greenpeace UK, WWF-UK and Julie’s Bicycle, an organisation working to support artists and the cultural sector in tackling climate and sustainability. Yamin is currently a Senior Associate at the UK think thank company Systemiq and an Associate Fellow at Chatham House. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) and was made an Honorary Fellow of Somerville College in 2022.
Did you know? Farhana first broke the law in the name of climate justice in 2019, when she glued herself to the ground outside the Shell headquarters in London. Her protest formed a central part of the 2021 film Rebellion, which relates the inside story of XR from grassroots activism to international impact.
Professor Julia Yeomans
Honorary FellowProfessor Julia Yeomans (1973, Physics) is a British theoretical physicist active in the fields of soft condensed matter and biological physics.
After her completing her undergraduate degree at Somerville, Professor Yeomans conducted doctoral research on critical phenomena in spin models at Wolfson College. She spent two years as a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell University with Michael E. Fisher, before returning to the UK as lecturer in Physics at the University of Southampton. In 1983, she moved to the University of Oxford where she became a professor in 2002.
Yeomans is a professor at the Rudolf Peierls centre for theoretical physics. Her research investigates theoretical modelling of processes in complex fluids including liquid crystals, drops on hydrophobic surfaces, microchannels, as well as bacteria. In 2012, Professor Yeomans was awarded a European Research Council advanced research grant for her research proposal Microflow in complex environments.
Professor Yeomans was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2013, and in 2021 she received the Sam Edwards Medal and Prize from the Institute of Physics, for her contributions to soft and active matter, statistical physics and biophysics.
She was made an Honorary Fellow of Somerville in College in April 2022.
Jackie Yip
Regular Giving and Alumni Relations ExecutiveJackie is Somerville’s Regular Giving and Alumni Relations Executive. She joined Somerville in 2023 from Cardiff University, where she worked in development and alumni relations following a year as President of the Student’s Union.
As Regular Giving and Alumni Relations Executive, Jackie organises the Somerville College telethon and other exciting fundraising campaigns within the alumni community. She is also responsible for the Cedar Circle, Somerville’s new initiative to recognise those who make a regular gift to the College.
In her Alumni Relations role, Jackie leads our young alumni events, helping recent graduates and leavers stay connected to their College community.
Lucy Young
Academic RegistrarLucy is Somerville’s Academic Registrar.
She runs the day to day operations of the Academic Office, including the coordination of undergraduate admissions.
You can find her in the Academic Office in House between 8am and 4PM, Monday-Friday.
Grace Yu
JCR IT and Communications OfficerHi everyone! I’m Grace (she/they), a second-year Maths & Stats student here at Somerville and your IT & Communications Officer this year!
My main responsibilities include running the JCR website (the one you’re reading right now!) and social media (follow us on Instagram @somervillecollegejcr!) to make sure you can easily find all the information you need. So if you’ve ever used the college website’s JCR section to learn more about Somerville or come across any of the freshers’ week event promotions on Instagram, that’s me:) We’re actually trying to expand the information/functionalities of this website a bit this year, so if you have any ideas about what more could be included or just otherwise would like to contribute, please let me know! Feel free to reach out to me via Messenger or email (Yongqing Grace Yu / Yongqing Yu) should you have any comms/IT-related questions or concerns 🙂
Faridah Zaman
Fellow & Tutor in History; Associate Professor of the History of Britain and the WorldFaridah Zaman is Associate Professor of the History of Britain and the World at the University of Oxford, and Tutor of Modern History at Somerville College.
After completing her PhD at the University of Cambridge, she held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Chicago from 2015-2018.
Dr Zaman is a historian of the modern British Empire, South Asia and global intellectual history.
Currently, she has two main areas of research. The first is a study of Muslim political activists, religious scholars, journalists and poets in early twentieth century British India. She situates developments in the thought of these figures within a history of worldwide war, political revolution and imperial decline.
The second research area concerns history as an academic discipline in Britain from the late eighteenth century, and its relationship to the expansion and legitimisation of empire. To date, she has also written on memory and nostalgia, heritage and imperial visual culture and political visions of the future in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Academic Biography:
2015-2018 Dorothy and Gaylord Donnelley Postdoctoral Research Scholar, University of Chicago
2010-2014 PhD in History, University of Cambridge
2009-2010 MPhil in Historical Studies, University of Cambridge
2006-2009 BA in History, University of Cambridge
The Young Muhammadans: Indian Muslims in a global age [MS in preparation]
‘The Future of Islam, 1672-1924,’ Modern Intellectual History [forthcoming]
‘Beyond Nostalgia: time and place in Indian Muslim politics,’ Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 27, 4 (2017), pp. 627-647.
‘Revolutionary History and the Postcolonial Muslim: Re-writing the “Silk Letter Conspiracy” of 1916’, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 39, 3 (2016), pp. 626-643.
‘Colonizing the Sacred: Allahabad and the Company State, 1797–1857,’ Journal of Asian Studies, 74, 2 (2015), pp. 347–367.
Silvia Zanoli
Fulford Junior Research FellowI am a postdoctoral research assistant at the theoretical physics department of the University of Oxford. I work in the field of theoretical particle physics, the aim of which is understanding the final fundamental law of nature. In particular, my research is focussed on precision phenomenology for the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva.
You can view Silvia’s publications at https://inspirehep.net/authors/2029008
Amina Zarzi
Stipendiary Lecturer in FrenchI am an Associate Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (AFHEA). At Somerville College, I teach French Language, Translation, Orals and Essay.
I have been teaching French ‘language cafés’ and French ‘research-based language tutorials’ at the University of Birmingham since 2020. I have also been an English academic language tutor at AWAS (Academic Writing Advisory Service) for the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham since 2021.
Research
My research interests revolve around colonial and postcolonial encounters between France and North Africa and the literary productions that emanate from these encounters. My PhD in French and Francophone Studies reads Algerian identity from the prism of the Sahara. It posits the Sahara Desert as an accurate analytical prism through which we can understand complex paradigms related to cultural identities in Algeria, and North Africa in general. I am interested in researching how colonial encounters in spaces like the Sahara shape and make visible, but also invisible different memories, histories and identities. More broadly, I am interested in 20th and 21st-century French and Algerian literatures, and I am currently researching the imprint of imperial legacies on postcolonial societies and how the latter resist but also perpetuate the colonial tropes in literary writing.
- ‘Showcasing Emptiness? Voicing Redemption Through ‘Saharomania’ in the French Literary Imaginary.’ Showcasing Empire, Then and Now: Material Culture, Propaganda and the Imperial Project. Cahiers Victoriens et Édouadiens 93 (2021). https://journals.openedition.org/cve/8859
- « Un métier souvent oublié dans les régions sahariennes : l’écrivain, trait d’union entre le Sahara et l’identité Algérienne » An edited volume with the University of Tamanrasset (due December 2022).
- ‘On the traces of the roumia: the nostalgic remembering of Isabelle Eberhardt in Malika Mokeddem’s Le Siècle des Sauterelles (1992).’ Brill (forthcoming 2022).
- ‘Remembering the French Colonial Past in the Postcolonial Present: Algerian Literature as a Case Study’ Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (forthcoming 2023).
Roxanne Zhang
Retaining Fee LecturerYifan Zhang
Stipendiary LecturerTianyi Zhang
MCR Social SecretaryHi, I am Tianyi Zhang, DPhil candidate in Experimental Psychology. My research is centred around cross-modal cognition (vision, taste, smell, etc.) and consumer behavioural sciences. (Departmental webpage: https://www.psy.ox.ac.uk/people/tianyi-zhang)
Having experienced the wonderful sense of community fostered by MCR social events at Somerville, I’m excited to work on events where every member of our community feels welcomed, valued, and get connected.
Noa Zilberman
Fellow & Tutor in Engineering; Associate Professor of Engineering ScienceProfessor Noa Zilberman is a network-hardware researcher, focusing on the integration of micro-level architectures and macro level, large scale networked-systems.
Before joining Oxford, she was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow and an Affiliated Lecturer at the University of Cambridge. Prior to that, she spent close to 15 years in industry, last as a Chip Architect and Engineering Manager at Broadcom.
Prof Noa Zilberman leads the Computing Infrastructure Group at the Department of Engineering Science.
Her research focuses on the integration of micro-level architectures and macro level, large scale networked-systems. Such research requires a breadth of knowledge and expertise, building upon Zilberman’s rich experience. Her research interests range from computer architecture, programmable hardware and networking to data science, with a specific interest in the combination of multiple disciplines (and a touch of measurements). Current research buzzwords include sustainable computing infrastructure, data systems, networked-systems architectures, rackscale computing, in-network computing and in-network machine learning, converged interconnects, memories architecture and performance, performance measurements, and others.
Before joining Oxford, Prof Zilberman was a Fellow and an Affiliated Lecturer at the University of Cambridge’ Department of Computer Science and Technology, where she was the PI on multiple projects and the Chief Architect of the NetFPGA project.
Prof Zilberman has over 15 years of industrial experience. In her last role before moving to academia, she was a Senior Principal chip architect in Broadcom’s Network Switching group.
Finding Hard-to-Find Data Plane Bugs with a PTA
Bressana P, Zilberman N & Soule R (2020)
An artifact evaluation of NDP
Zilberman N (2020), Computer Communication Review, 50(2)
Thoughts about artifact badging
Zilberman N & Moore AW (2020), Computer Communication Review, 50(2), 60-63
P4xos: consensus as a network service
Dang HT et al. (2020), IEEE ACM Transactions on Networking
Toward Trustworthy AI Development: Mechanisms for Supporting Verifiable Claims
Krueger G et al. (2020), arXiv
Rocco Zizzamia
Fulford Junior Research FellowRocco is a post-doctoral researcher at the Center for the Study of African Economies in the Department of Economics and at the Oxford Martin School.
He completed his DPhil at the Oxford Department of International Development. His research focuses on social protection and labour markets. In his current work, he is using experimental and quasi-experimental methods to study the potential to leverage innovations in the design and delivery of social protection systems to increase household resilience to poverty in the context of extreme climate events such as floods and droughts. In the past, he has researched labour markets, inequality, poverty alleviation, poverty dynamics, and social stratification, using a variety of methods, including longitudinal surveys, field experiments, qualitative studies, and behavioural lab experiments.
Journal Publications
This is a selection of Dr Zizzamia’s recent publications. View the complete list here.
The labor market and poverty impacts of covid-19 in South Africa South African Journal of Economics, (2023)
(joint with Ihsaan Bassier, Joshua Budlender, and Ronak Jain)
A poverty dynamics approach to social stratification: The South African Case World Development, Volume 110 (2018)
(joint with Simone Schotte and Murray Leibbrandt)
The livelihood impacts of COVID-19 in urban South Africa: A view from below. Social Indicators Research, Volume 165, 1–30 (2023)
(joint with Simone Schotte)
Snakes and Ladders and Loaded Dice: Poverty Dynamics and Inequality in South Africa South African Journal of Economics, Volume 90, Issue 2, 2022
(joint with Simone Schotte and Murray Leibbrandt)
Locked down and locked out: Repurposing social assistance as emergency relief to informal workers World Development, Volume 139, 2021
(joint with Ihsaan Bassier, Joshua Budlender, Murray Leibbrandt and Vimal Ranchhod)
Are We Really Painting the Devil on the Walls? Polarization and its Drivers in Sub-Saharan Africa in the Past Two DecadesJournal of African Economies, Volume 31, Issue 2, 2022
(joint with Vasco Molini, Michele Fabiani and Fabio Clementi)
Is employment a panacea for poverty: A mixed-methods investigation into employment decisions in South Africa World Development, Volume 130, 2020
Book Chapters
Tackling persistent poverty and inequality: A dynamic perspective In Confronting Inequality: The South African Crisis, 2019, edited by M.S. Smith. Jacana Media
(joint with Simone Schotte and Murray Leibbrandt)
Selected Working Papers
Earnings inequality over the life-course in South Africa. AFD Research Paper 160
(joint with Vimal Ranchhod)
Sana Zuberi
MCR Social SecretaryHi! I’m Sana, one of the MCR social secretaries. I’m doing a DPhil in Clinical Neurosciences, and outside of that I enjoy going to the gym, yoga and the occasional run. I’ve been social sec since MT 2024, and am looking forward to organising more events for the MCR to enjoy!