Elizabeth Morris
Retaining Fee Lecturer; Wellcome Trust Doctoral Research Fellow; Clinical Non-Stipendiary Lecturer
Elizabeth Morris
Retaining Fee Lecturer; Wellcome Trust Doctoral Research Fellow; Clinical Non-Stipendiary Lecturer
I 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
Boris Motik
Senior Research Fellow in Computer Science; Professor of Computer Science
Boris Motik
Senior Research Fellow in Computer Science; Professor of Computer Science
Before 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:
https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/boris.motik/pubs/
Louise Mycock
Fellow & Tutor in Linguistics; Associate Professor in Linguistics
Louise Mycock
Fellow & Tutor in Linguistics; Associate Professor in Linguistics
My research focuses on syntax and how it interfaces with other aspects of linguistic structure, in particular with intonation and information structure.
I have worked with spoken and written data from languages including Hungarian, Japanese, and Slovenian, as well from different dialects of British English. In my research, I work within the theoretical framework of Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG).
At the undergraduate level, I teach grammar and syntax to Prelims and FHS students in lectures, classes, and tutorials. I am proud to have been shortlisted three times in the category Most Acclaimed Lecturer (Humanities) at the OUSU Teaching Awards, and to have won the award in 2014 when I was a Departmental Lecturer in the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics.
Further information is available on my website.
A full list is available here: https://users.ox.ac.uk/~cpgl0023/publications.html
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- Funny that isn’t it: ProTags in combination at the right periphery
Mycock, L & Pang, C L
“Pragmatic marker combinations””, Journal of Pragmatics 182 (2021) 92
eds C Koops & A Lohmann
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2021.06.008 - Lone pronoun tags in Early Modern English: ProTag constructions in the dramas of Jonson, Marlowe and Shakespeare
Mycock, L & Misson, J
English Language & Linguistics 25 (2021) 379
DOI: 10.1017/S1360674317000399
Somerville College News - The intonation of the Q-marking construction: A comparison of Hungarian and Slovenian
Mycock, L
Journal of Linguistics 56 (2020) 359
DOI: 10.1017/S0022226719000148 - Right-dislocated pronouns in British English: the form and functions of ProTag constructions
Mycock, L
English Language & Linguistics 23 (2019) 253
DOI: 10.1017/S1360674317000399 - Analysing ‘Wh’ echo questions: a typological perspective with special reference to Hungarian
Mycock, L
Argumentum 15 (2019) 575
Oxford University Research Archive: ORA - Prominence in Hungarian: alignment and the syntax-prosody interface
Mycock, L
Transactions of the Philological Society 108 (2010) 265
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-968X.2010.01241.x - Multiple-clause constituent questions: intonation and variation in Hungarian
Mycock, L
Acta Linguistica Hungarica 57 (2010) 268
DOI: 10.1556/aling.57.2010.2-3.5 - Constituent Question Formation and Focus: a new typological perspective
Mycock, L
Transactions of the Philological Society 105 (2007) 192
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-968X.2007.00188.x - The Role of Prosody in Constituent Question Formation: a comparison of Hungarian and Japanese
Mycock, L
Phonetician 95 (2007) 7
Oxford University Research Archive: ORA
Books, Chapters, Edited Volumes
- ‘Wh’-question intonation in Standard Colloquial Bengali: A Lexical-Functional Grammar analysis
Mycock, L, Xu, C & Lahiri, A
Chapter contribution to “Modular Design of Grammar: Linguistics on the Edge”
Oxford University Press (2021)
eds Arka, I W, Asudeh, A & King T H
Oxford University Press (2021)
DOI: tbc - The Oxford Reference Guide to Lexical Functional Grammar
Darymple, M, Lowe, JJ & Mycock, L
Oxford University Press (2019)
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198733300.001.000 - Syntax and its interfaces: an overview
Mycock, L
Chapter contribution to “Syntax-Theory and Analysis. An International Handbook.”
Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science. 42.1-42.3
Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter (2015)
eds T Kiss, A & Alexiadou, A
DOI: 10.1515/9783110377408.24 - Special Issue: The prosody-syntax connection
eds Vincent, N & Mycock, L
Transactions of the Philological Society 108 (2010) 265
Table of Contents
Reviewed Conference Proceedings
- Discourse functions of question words
Mycock, L
CSLI Publications 419 (2013)
Proceedings of the LFG13 Conference, University of Debrecen
eds M Butt & TH King - The prosodic encoding of discourse functions
Mycock, L & Lowe, J
CSLI Publications 440 (2013)
Proceedings of the LFG13 Conference, University of Debrecen
eds M Butt & TH King - The prosody-semantics interface
Dalrymple, M & Mycock, L
CSLI Publications 173 (2011)
Proceedings of the LFG11 Conference, University of Hong Kong
eds M Butt & TH King - ‘Wh’-in-situ in constituent questions
Mycock, L
CSLI Publications 313 (2005)
Proceedings of the LFG05 Conference, University of Bergen, Norway
eds M Butt & TH King - The ‘wh’-expletive construction
Mycock, L
CSLI Publications 370 (2004)
Proceedings of the LFG04 Conference, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
eds M Butt & TH King
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.
Karen Margrethe Nielsen
Fellow & Tutor in Philosophy; Associate Professor in Philosophy
Karen Margrethe Nielsen
Fellow & Tutor in Philosophy; Associate Professor in Philosophy
I work on ancient philosophy, with special emphasis on Aristotle’s ethics and moral psychology. My current research is funded by a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (2022-24), which enable ‘well-established, distinguished researchers in the humanities and social sciences to complete a major piece of research’. My leave will result in a monograph titled Prohairesis: Aristotle’s Theory of Decision and its Legacy. At the time of award, I was the first philosopher in Oxford to receive the fellowship since John Hyman (2009) and Timothy Williamson (2008), and one of only three recipients (out of thirty) who was not yet a full professor.
I have recently published a book in the Cambridge Elements series titled Vice in Ancient Philosophy: Plato and Aristotle on Moral Ignorance and Corruption of Character (CUP, 2023) and was the editor (with Devin Henry) of Bridging the Gap between Aristotle’s Science and Ethics (CUP, 2015). My articles have appeared in specialist and generalist journals, including Phronêsis, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Philosophical Review, Classical Quarterly and Philosophical Perspectives, as well as in edited volumes. My doctoral students include Bradford Kim (Van Leer Institute) and Katharine O’Reilly (Toronto Metropolitan University). My academic career spans four countries and five universities: Oxford, Western University, Canada, Cambridge (very briefly), Cornell, and The Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
I like to explore first-order philosophical questions in the course of analysing ancient Greek and Roman texts, covering topics ranging from deliberation and its preconditions, compulsion and voluntariness, coincidence and necessity, developmental biology, virtue and vice. In the more distant future, I hope to explore ancient theories of compelled and coerced action in a project I have dubbed ‘Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Coercion and Compulsion in Ancient Greek Thought’. I am also thinking about voluntaria mors in antiquity. But unless Oxford increases academic pay and reduces our workloads, you may instead find me working 8-3:30 as a mid-level bureaucrat somewhere in Norway, much like the last soul to choose a life in Plato’s Republic.
Career & Education
- 2022-24: Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship, for the project Prohairesis: Aristotle’s Theory of Decision and its Legacy
- 2013 – present: Associate Professor, Faculty of Philosophy and Tutorial Fellow, Somerville College, University of Oxford. Member of the Faculty of Classics 2022-
- 2012: Visiting Scholar by Election, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, Michaelmas
- 2012-13: Member of the Center for the Study of Greek and Roman Antiquity, Corpus Christi College
- 2005-12: Associate and Assistant Professor (TT), Department of Philosophy, Western University, Canada
- PhD, Sage School of Philosophy, Cornell University (2006); Fulbright Fellowship 2000-1. M.A. and B.A., Department of Philosophy, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Teaching
Recent graduate seminars
- Aristotle’s Defence of Natural Slavery and its Legacy (TT 2022)
- Vice in Ancient Philosophy (HT 2020)
- Aristotle on Intellect and Virtue, with Dhananjay Jagannathan (Columbia) and Terry Irwin (TT 2019)
- Aristotle’s Three Ethics, with Terry Irwin (HT 2014)
- Latin Philosophy (TT 2014)
Lectures
- Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, Latin Philosophy
Tutorials
- Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics (Greek and translation)
- Plato’s Republic (Greek and translation)
- Latin Philosophy: Cicero and Seneca (Latin and Translation)
- Aristotle on Nature, Life, and Mind (Greek and Translation)
- Plato on Knowledge, Language and Reality in Theaetetus and Sophist (Greek and Translation)
- Ethics
- Moral Philosophy
- General Philosophy
- Early Modern Philosophy
- Plato’s Meno & Euthyphro (Greek and translation)
- Early Greek Philosophy (Greek)
BOOKS
1. Vice in Ancient Philosophy: Plato and Aristotle on Moral Ignorance and Corruption of Character, Cambridge Element (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
2. Bridging the Gap Between Aristotle’s Science and Ethics, D. Henry and K. M. Nielsen (eds.) (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
IN PROGRESS
3. Prohairesis: Aristotle’s Theory of Decision and its Legacy. Funded by a Leverhulme Major Research Grant
JOURNAL ARTICLES; ARTICLES IN BOOKS
30. “Moral Theory in the Rhetoric” paper commissioned for Pierre Destrée and Laura Viidebaum (eds.), the Cambridge Critical Guide to Aristotle’s Rhetoric (CUP, est. submission 2024)
29. “Aristotle’s Ethics”, paper commissioned for Sophia Connell (ed.), New Cambridge Companion to Aristotle (CUP, est. submission 2024)
28. “The Magna Moralia on Prohairesis” to appear in Christopher Bobonich, Corinne Gartner and Martha Jimenez (eds.), Aristotle’s Other Ethics (OUP, 2023)
27. “Deliberation and Decision in the Eudemian Ethics”, in Giulio di Basilio (ed.), Essays on Aristotle’s Eudemian Ethics (Routledge, 2021)
26. “Guided Practice Makes Perfect: Habituation into Full Virtue in Aristotle’s Ethics”, in Komarine Romdenh-Romluc and Jeremy Dunham (eds.), Habit in the History of Philosophy (Routledge, 2021)
25. “Aristotle: Justice”, in K. Albrecht (gen. ed.), and J. Tasioulas (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (Springer Press, 2021)
24. “The Definitions of Phronêsis and Euboulia in Nicomachean Ethics VI”, in Carlo Natali and Pierre-Marie Morel (eds.), ‘Aristote. Les definitions en philosophie pratique’, special issue of Revue de Philosophie Ancienne, tome 38, no 2 (2020), pp 291-318
23. “Why Self-Knowledge Matters for Virtue”, in Fiona Leigh (ed.), Self-Knowledge in Ancient Philosophy (OUP, 2020), pp. 45-70
22. “The Tyrant’s Vice: Pleonexia and Lawlessness in Plato’s Republic”, Philosophical Perspectives (supplement to Nous), special issue on Ethics no 33 (2019), pp 146-69
21. “Deliberation and Decision in the Magna Moralia and Eudemian Ethics”, in Brink, Sauvé-Meyer & Shields (eds.), Virtue, Happiness and Knowledge: Essays for Gail Fine and Terence Irwin (OUP, 2018), pp. 197-215
20. “Spicy Food as Cause of Death: Coincidence and Necessity in Metaphysics E 2-3”, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy vol. 52 (2017), pp. 303-42
19. “Vice in the Nicomachean Ethics”, Phronesis vol. 62, 1 (2017), pp. 1-25
18. “Aristotle”, in Timpe, Griffith and Levy (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Free Will (Routledge, 2016), pp. 227-235
17. “The Constitution of the Soul – Aristotle on Lack of Deliberative Authority”, Classical Quarterly, 65.2 (2015), pp. 572-86
16. “Introduction”, with Devin Henry, in D. Henry and K. M. Nielsen (eds.), Bridging the Gap Between Aristotle’s Science and Ethics (CUP, 2015), pp. 1-25
15. “Aristotle on Principles in Ethics”, in D. Henry and K. M. Nielsen (eds.), Bridging the Gap Between Aristotle’s Science and Ethics(CUP, 2015), pp. 29-48
14. “Aristotle on Economy and Private Property”, in Marguerite Deslauriers and Pierre Destrée (eds.), A Companion to Aristotle’s Politics (CUP, 2013), pp. 67-91
13. “The Will – Origin of the Notion in Aristotle’s Thought”, Antiquorum Philosophia 6 (2012), pp. 47-68
12. “The Nicomachean Ethics in Hellenistic Philosophy”, in Jon Miller (ed.), The Reception of Aristotle’s Ethics (CUP, 2012), pp. 3-30
11. “Ancient Ethics”, in H. LaFollette, S. Stroud and J. Deigh (eds.), The International Encyclopedia of Ethics (Wiley Blackwell, 2012)
10. “Deliberation as Inquiry: Aristotle’s Alternative to the Presumption of Open Alternatives”, The Philosophical Review, vol. 120, no 3 (2011), pp. 383-421
9. “The Good Will: Aristotle, Kant and the Stoics on What is Good without Qualification”, in S.Carson, J. Knowles and B. Myskja (eds.), Kant: Time, Space, and Ethics (Paderborn: Mentis Verlag, 2011), pp. 193-205
8. “The Private Parts of Animals: Aristotle on the Teleology of Sexual Difference”, Phronesis no 4-5, 2008, pp. 373-405
7. “Did Plato Articulate the Achilles Argument?” in Tom Lennon and Robert Stainton (eds.), The Achilles of Rationalist Psychology (Springer Press, 2008), pp. 19-42
6. “Dirtying Aristotle’s Hands? The Analysis of ‘Mixed Acts’ in Nicomachean Ethics, III, 1”, Phronesis no. 3, 2007, pp. 270-300
5. “Against Better Judgment? Davidson and Aristotle on Weakness of Will” in I et filosofisk terreng, Festskrift til Sverre Sløgedal, M. Dybvig, B. Molander, A. Øfsti (eds.) (Trondheim: NTNU, 2000), pp. 179-197
4. “Hvorfor begår mennesker onde handlinger?”, Interview with Prof. David Luban on Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem – A Report on the Banality of Evil, Parabel, vol. III, no 1 (Trondheim: Tapir Publishers, 1999), pp. 77-86
3. “Hva er sannhet?”, Parabel, Journal for Philosophy and Theory of Science, vol. II, no 1 (Trondheim: Tapir Publishers, 1998), pp. 75-88
2. Hva er sannhet? — en studie i Martin Heidegger’s Sein und Zeit, Department of Philosophy Publication Series, no. 27 (Trondheim: NTNU, 1997)
1. “Tradisjon, sannhet og forståelse – en studie i Hans-Georg Gadamers hermeneutikk”, Agora, Journal for metafysisk spekulasjon, no 3 (1996), pp. 89-123
REVIEWS AND REVIEW ESSAYS
9. M. Deslauriers, Aristotle on Sexual Difference. Metaphysics, Biology, Politics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022), in preparation for Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie (2024)
8. C. Olfert, Aristotle on Practical Truth (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (2), pp. 219-224
7. A. Kenny, The Aristotelian Ethics, revised ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), Classical Review 68.2 (2018)
6. D. Scott, Levels of Argument (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), review essay, Mind (2016), pp. 289-99
5. H. J. Curtzer, Aristotle and the Virtues (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), review essay, Mind (2014), 1180-4
4. J. Miller, Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics: A Critical Guide (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), Journal of Hellenic Studies, 2013, pp. 290-91
3. S. Goetz and C. Taliaferro, A Brief History of the Soul (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), review essay, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, April 16, 2012. (with Angela Mendelovici)
2. G. Pearson and M. Pakaluk (eds.), Moral Psychology and Human Action in Aristotle (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), Polis, The Journal of the Society for Greek Political Thought, vol. 29, no 1 (2012), pp. 199-205
1. H. Lorenz, The Brute Within: Appetitive Desire in Plato and Aristotle (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), Journal of the History of Philosophy (2008), pp.477-8
Natalia Nowakowska
Fellow & Tutor in History; Professor in Early Modern History
Natalia Nowakowska
Fellow & Tutor in History; Professor in Early Modern History
Natalia Nowakowska is a historian of late medieval and early modern Europe, with a focus on the history of Poland in its European context.
She is a University Lecturer in History, and a Tutor & Fellow in History at Somerville College.
Brought up in the Polish post-WW2 diaspora community in London, Natalia read History at Lincoln College, Oxford (1995-8). After a spell working in social policy research, she returned to Oxford to complete a doctorate on a Polish Renaissance cardinal, and subsequently held postdoctoral research positions at King’s College London and at University College, Oxford. She joined the Oxford History Faculty in 2007.
Natalia has published on religious change in Renaissance Europe, and on the role which the Polish monarchy and its Jagiellonian dynasty played in those processes. Her first book Church, State and Dynasty in Renaissance Poland (co-winner of the Kulczycki Prize in the USA, 2008) explored the career of the allegedly syphilitic Polish cardinal-prince Fryderyk Jagiellon (d.1503). Her current book, Elusive Church: Luther, Poland and the Early Reformation, is the first major research project in over a century on the early Reformation in this sizeable sixteenth-century monarchy, and asks how the Polish story can inform our understanding of the European Reformations as a whole. Natalia has been awarded a British Academy Mid Career Fellowship for 2012-13 for this project.
Natalia teaches a range of late medieval and early modern papers at Oxford, encompassing European, British and South American history. She gives a lecture course on Jagiellonian Central Europe in the Renaissance period.
Natalia has a regular blog, Somerville Historian, about teaching and writing History at Oxford. While on British Academy leave in 2012-13, she has a new blog about the ups and downs of writing a historical monograph, History Monograph.
Zielinska, Agata. (2019). Nowakowska (ed.), Remembering the Jagiellonians (Routledge, 2019). Royal Studies Journal. 6. 126.
Nowakowska, N.. (2018). King Sigismund of Poland and Martin Luther: The reformation before confessionalization.
Maryks, Robert. (2008). Church, State and Dynasty in Renaissance Poland: The Career of Cardinal Fryderyk Jagiellon (1468–1503) (review). Renaissance Quarterly. 61. 583-584.
Tracz, Szymon. (2012). Natalia Nowakowska, Królewski kardynał. Studium kariery Fryderyka Jagiellończyka (1468–1503). Tłum. Tomasz Gromelski. Towarzystwo Naukowe SOCIETAS VISTULANA. Kraków 2011, 251 ss.. Folia Historica Cracoviensia.
Nowakowska, N. ‘What’s in a word? The etymology and historiography of dynasty – Renaissance Europe and beyond’.
Journal of Global Intellectual History, 2020
Nowakowska, N. “Rioting Blacksmiths & Jewish Women: Pillarized Reformation Memory in Early Modern Poland” In ‘Remembering the Reformation’, ed. B. Cummings, C. Law, K. Riley and A. Walsham, 2020
Patricia Owens
Fellow & Tutor in International Relations; Professor of International Relations
Patricia Owens
Fellow & Tutor in International Relations; Professor of International Relations
Patricia went to a comprehensive school in London and, as the first in her family to go to university, did not even think to apply to Oxbridge… She particularly welcomes applications to study PPE from students at non-selective state schools.
Her research interests include twentieth-century international history and theory, disciplinary history and the history of international and political thought, and historical and contemporary practices of Anglo-American counterinsurgency and military intervention. She was Principal Investigator of the multi-award winning Leverhulme Research Project on Women and the History of International Thought.
Patricia’s current book project is a revisionist history of the practices, genres and audiences of international relations expertise in early to long mid-twentieth century Britain. The book takes up a set of figures largely unknown to IR to shed new light on the field’s racial and gendered history and the attendant consequences on its range and intellectual quality. It is thematically organized around professional contexts, kinship and intimate relations, fields and disciplines, and race/nation.
Monographs
“A History of International Thought Without Men” (working title, monograph under review)
Economy of Force: Counterinsurgency and the Historical Rise of the Social (Cambridge University Press, 2015) – Winner, BISA’s 2016 Susan Strange Best Book Prize; Winner, International Studies Association Theory Section Best Book Award; Runner up, Francesco Guicciardini Prize for Best Book in Historical IR; Special section, Security Dialogue
Between War and Politics: International Relations and the Thought of Hannah Arendt (Oxford University Press, 2007) – subject of special section in International Politics; Japanese translation; nominated for PSA W.J.M. Mackenzie Book Prize
Edited Volumes
Women’s International Thought: Towards A New Canon co-editor with S. Dunstan, K. Hutchings, K. Rietzler (Cambridge, forthcoming) – winner of the Susan Strange Prize for Best Book in International Studies and the International Studies Association Theory Section Best Edited Volume Award – subject of forthcoming fora or special sections in International Theory, International Politics Review, Journal of Contemporary Political Theory, H-Diplo, The Journal of the History of Ideas blog, and review essay in International Relations
Women’s International Thought: A New History, co-editor with Katharina Rietzler (Cambridge, 2021) – subject of forthcoming fora or special section in International Theory, International Politics Review, Journal of Contemporary Political Theory, and H-Diplo, and a review essay in International Relations
The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations, 8th edition (Oxford, 2020) co-editor with J. Baylis and S. Smith and previous editions in 2008, 2011, 2014, and 2017 – translated into Arabic, French, Korean, Polish, Greek, Turkish, Slovene, Macedonian, Kazakh, and Hungarian
Articles (select)
‘Women Thinkers and the Canon of International Thought: Recovery, Rejection, and Reconstitution’ in American Political Science Review, 2021 first view (with K. Hutchings) – OOIR’s ‘top trending’ of all political science articles in the week following publication; winner of the American Political Science Association Okin-Young Award in Feminist Political Theory for Best Article in English Language in 2021
‘Claudia Jones, International Thinker’ in Modern Intellectual History, 2021 firstview (with S. Dunstan)
‘Women and the History of International Thought’ in International Studies Quarterly, 62(3) 2018: 467-481
‘Decolonizing Civil War’ in CAL: International & Interdisciplinary Law Review, 4(2) 2017: 160-169
‘Racism in the Theory Canon: Hannah Arendt and “the one Great Crime in which America was Never Involved”‘ in Millennium, 45(33) 2017: 403-424
‘The International Origins of Hannah Arendt’s Historical Method’ in Political Power and Social Theory (32) 2017: 37-62
‘The Limits of Military Sociology’ in International Affairs, 96(3) 2017: 460-1462
‘International Historical What?’in International Theory, 8(3) 2016: 448-457
‘On the Conduct of Sociological Warfare: a reply to special section on Economy of Force’ in Security Dialogue, 47(3) 2016: 215-222
‘Introduction to the Forum: Historicizing the Social in International Thought’ in Review of International Studies, 41(4) 2015: 652-653
‘Method or Madness: Sociolatry in International Thought’ in Review of International Studies, 41(4) 2015: 655-674
‘From Bismarck to Petraeus: The Question of the Social and the Social Question in Counterinsurgency’ in ‘, 19(1) 2013: 135-157
Human Security and the Rise of the Social’ in Review of International Studies, 38(3) 2012: 547-567. Highly commended by the Article Prize Committee. Subject of a panel at 2018 ISA
‘Not Life but the World is at Stake: Hannah Arendt on Citizenship in the Age of the Social’ in Citizenship Studies, 16(2) 2012: 295-305
‘The Supreme Social Concept: The Un-worldliness of Modern Security’ in New Formations, 71: 2011: 14-29
‘Torture, Sex and Military Orientalism’ in Third World Quarterly, 31(7) 2010: 1147-1162
‘Reclaiming “Bare Life”? Against Agamben on Refugees’ in International Relations, 23(4) 2009: 567-82; reprinted in Betts and Loescher (eds.) Refugees in International Relations (Oxford)
‘Distinctions, Distinctions: “Public” and “Private” Force?’ in International Affairs, 84(5) 2008: 977-90; reprinted in Colás and Mabee (eds.) Mercenaries, Pirates, Bandits and Empires (Columbia)
‘Humanity, Sovereignty and the Camps’ in International Politics, 45(4) 2008: 522-530
‘Beyond Strauss, Lies, and the War in Iraq: Hannah Arendt’s Critique of Neoconservatism’ in Review of International Studies, 33(2) 2007: 265-83; among top ten most cited articles during 2013-15
‘Xenophilia, Gender and Sentimental Humanitarianism’ in Alternatives, 29(3) 2004: 285-304
‘Theorising Military Intervention’ in International Affairs, 80(2) 2004: 355-365
‘Accidents Don’t Just Happen: The Liberal Politics of High-Tech Humanitarian War’ in Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 32(3) 2003: 595-616
Book chapters (select)
‘Introduction: Toward a History of Women’s International Thought’ with Rietzler in Owens and Rietzler (eds.) Women’s International Thought: A New History (Cambridge, 2020)
‘Introduction: From International Politics to World Politics’, with Baylis and Smith in Baylis, Smith and Owens (eds.) The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations (Oxford, 8ed.)
‘How Dangerous it can be to be Innocent’ in M. Goldoni and C. McCorkindale (eds.) Hannah Arendt and the Law (Hart, 2012): 251-270
‘The Return of Realism? War and Changing Concepts of the Political’ in S. Scheipers and H. Strachan (eds.) The Changing Character of War (Oxford, 2011): 484-502
‘The Ethics of War: Critical Alternatives’ in D. Bell (ed.) Ethics and World Politics (Oxford, 2010): 309-323
‘Walking Corpses: Arendt on the Limits and the Possibilities of Cosmopolitan Politics’, in C. Moore and C. Farrands (eds.) International Relations Theory and Philosophy: Interpretive Dialogues (Routledge, 2010): 72-82
‘Hannah Arendt’, in J. Edkins and N. Vaughan-Williams (eds.) Critical Theorists and International Relations (Routledge, 2009): 31-41
‘The Ethic of Reality in Hannah Arendt’, in D. Bell (ed.) Political Thought and International Relations (Oxford, 2008), pp.105-121
‘Hannah Arendt, Violence, and the Inescapable Fact of Humanity’ in A.F. Lang and J. Williams (eds.) Hannah Arendt and International Relations (Palgrave, 2005): 41-65
Other (select)
Women’s Anticolonial International Thought, Blog for Leverhulme Project Website (with S. Dunstan)
Women Thinkers of the World Economy, Blog for Leverhulme Project Website
Sex, Gender and Canon, Blog for Leverhulme Project Website
On the Heirs to Agnes Headlam-Morley, Blog for Leverhulme Project Website
What Happened to Women’s International Thought, Blog for Leverhulme Project Website
A Political Economy of the “Exception”?, Security Dialogue/PRIO blog
Lucy Philip Mair, Early International Relations scholar, LSE History Blog
Susan Strange, Never Meant to be an Academic, LSE History Blog
Critical Dialogue between Jessica A. Stanton, author of Violence and Restraint in Civil War and Patricia Owens, author of Economy of Force, Perspectives on Politics, 15(4) 2017: 1102-1107
Economy of Force: a symposium, The Disorder of Things, opening post and reply to special section on Economy of Force (Cambridge, 2015)
Interview/Profile’, E-International Relations, January 2015
Antony Palmer
Clinical Non-Stipendiary Lecturer; NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer
Antony Palmer
Clinical Non-Stipendiary Lecturer; NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer
Antony 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
Andrew Parker
Treasurer and Domestic Bursar
Andrew Parker
Treasurer and Domestic Bursar
As Treasurer and Domestic Bursar, Andrew Parker is responsible for the College’s finances and investments including legacies, building projects and maintenance, and commercial property, as well as Human Resources, health and safety, the College gardens, and the Bursary.
Andrew, who is a qualified accountant, has had an extensive career in Finance and Administration. From 1988-2002 he was Finance Director of Oxford University Press, as well as Group Financial Controller and Interim Managing Director of OUP’s International Division. From 2003 to 2013 he was Director of Finance and Administration at the Royal Shakespeare Company, with responsibility for Finance, HR, IT, Estates and Health & Safety, as part of the senior executive team.
Jay Patel
Fulford Junior Research Fellow; David Clarke EPSRC FellowMy research interests are in hybrid inorganic-organic semiconductors, with a particular focus on photovoltaics.
I am currently the principal investigator of a research project to develop multi-junction perovskite solar cells with a high power-to-weight ratio at the National Thin Film Cluster Facility for Advanced Functional Materials, which is hosted by Oxford Physics. I am also a Teaching Volunteer at the International Rescue Committee where I give weekly science, maths and English classes to educate refugee children during the academic year.
In the past I have worked at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and University of Colorado Boulder, looking at the behaviour of perovskite photovoltaics in terrestrial and non-terrestrial environments. I obtained my DPhil in Physics from the University of Oxford after gaining a Masters in Chemistry from the University of Warwick.
Selected Publications
- Temperature Coefficients of Perovskite Photovoltaics for Energy Yield Calculations.T
Moot†, JB Patel†, G McAndrews, D. Morales, EJ Wolf, IE Gould, BA Rosales, CC Boyd, LM Wheeler, P Parilla, S Johnston, LT Schelhas, MD McGehee, JM Luther
(†Equal Contribution)
ACS Energy Letters 6, 5, 2038–2047, 2021 - Light Absorption and Recycling in Hybrid Metal Halide Perovskites Photovoltaic Devices
JB Patel, AD Wright, K Lohmann, K Peng, CQ Xia, JM Ball, NK Noel, TW Crothers, HJ Snaith, LM Herz, MB Johnston
Advanced Energy Materials 10, 1903653, 2020 - Photocurrent Spectroscopy of Perovskite Solar Cells over a Wide Temperature Range from 15 to 350 K
JB Patel, Q Lin, O Zadvorna, CL Davies, LM Herz, MB Johnston
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 9, 1, 263-268, 2018 - Influence of Interface Morphology on Hysteresis in Vapor‐Deposited Perovskite Solar Cells
JB Patel, J Wong‐Leung, S Van Reenen, N Sakai, JTW Wang, ES Parrott, M Liu, HJ Snaith, LM Herz, MB Johnston
Advanced Electronic Materials 3, 2, 1600470, 2017 - Formation Dynamics of CH3NH3PbI3 Perovskite Following Two-Step Layer Deposition
JB Patel, RL Milot, AD Wright, LM Herz, MB Johnston
The journal of physical chemistry letters 7, 96-102, 2016
Naomi Petela
Stipendiary Lecturer
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
Felix Pflücke
Retaining Fee Lecturer
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