Steve Rayner
Senior Tutor, Tutor for Graduates and Tutor for Admissions Steve Rayner oversees the College’s academic activities, including admissions and outreach, and supports Fellows and Students in their teaching and learning.......
Senior Tutor, Tutor for Graduates and Tutor for Admissions Steve Rayner oversees the College’s academic activities, including admissions and outreach, and supports Fellows and Students in their teaching and learning.......
Fellow & Tutor in Biochemistry; Professor in Molecular Biology Elena joined the Oxford University Biochemistry Department in 2014 as an independent group leader to study the structure and function of......
(1893-1970) – Writer and campaigner 1 Vera Brittain was born in Staffordshire. She won an exhibition to read English at Somerville. In 1915, after just one year, she left the......
(1941-2021) – Psychiatrist and health policy expert, Principal of Somerville 1996-2010 1 Educated in London, Fiona Caldicott studied medicine and physiology at St Hilda’s College, Oxford before going on to......
Professorial Fellow; Professor of Theoretical and Condensed Matter Physics Professor Simon is a physicist interested in quantum effects and how they are manifested in phases of matter. He has recently......
Historian of late antiquity and Byzantium 1 Averil Cameron grew up in North Staffordshire and came to Somerville in 1958 to study Literae Humaniores (Classics). She went on to do......
Fellow & Tutor in Italian; Professor of Italian Professor Southerden’s main area of research is in medieval Italian literature, particularly the works of Dante and Petrarch and early lyric poetry.......
Fellow & Tutor in Experimental Psychology; Professor of Experimental Psychology and Head of the Crossmodal Research Laboratory Charles Spence is Somerville's Fellow and Tutor in Experimental Psychology, and the head......
Lawyer, businesswoman and prominent diversity advocate 1 Margaret Casely-Hayford grew up in London and came to Somerville in 1980 to study Law. She was called to the Bar in 1983,......
(1881-1961) – Literary scholar, Principal of Somerville 1931-1945 1 Helen Darbishire was born in Oxford and came to Somerville in 1900 to study English. She became a visiting lecturer at......