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Art History
Dr Rixt Woudstra
BA, MA, PhD (MIT)
Assistant Professor in Art History
Dr Rixt Woudstra is an Assistant Professor in Art History. At New College of Humanities, she teaches a variety of undergraduate courses on architectural and urban history, material culture and cultural heritage. Dr Rixt ...
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Dr Niamh Bhalla
BA, MA, PhD
Course Leader & Assistant Professor in Art History
Dr Niamh Bhalla is Course Leader & Assistant Professor in Art History at New College of the Humanities. Niamh came to NCH in 2018, having previously lectured and worked on research projects at The Courtauld Institute...
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Dr Susan Green
BA (Wales), GradDip, MA, PhD (Courtauld)
Associate Professor in Art History
Dr Green joined NCH in 2016 as a Lecturer in Art History and in 2019 became Head of Faculty. From August 2021, Susie will be stepping down as Head of Faculty, but will continue working at the college as an Associate Prof...
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Dr Kate Grandjouan
BA, MA, PhD
Course Leader and Lecturer in Art History
Dr Kate Grandjouan is a Lecturer in Art History at the New College of Humanities where she teaches European and North American painting post-1700. She joined NCH in 2019 from the Courtauld. Since September 2020, she has ...
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Dr Amita Murray
BA, MA, PhD
Assistant Professor in Creative Writing
Amita Murray is a novelist and short story writer. Her novel The Trouble with Rose came out with Harper Collins in 2019. In 2016, she won the SI Leeds Literary Prize for her short story collection Marmite and Mango Chutn...
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Dr Marianna Koli
BSc (UMIST), MSc (Manc), PhD (Manc)
Dean for Education in Business & Economics, Head of Faculty and Senior Lecturer for Economics
Dr Marianna Koli joined New College of the Humanities for its first teaching year, and has held a number of responsibilities at the College. In her current role, she is responsible for overseeing the College’s LAUNCH p...
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Sabina Crowe
MA (Nantes), PhD (SOAS)
Assistant Professor in Economics
Sabina Crowe is a Assistant Professor in Economics at New College of the Humanities where she teaches first-year courses in International Business, Microeconomics and Macroeconomics. Over the last eight years she has wor...
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Dr. Andrea Gatto
PhD, MSc, MA, BSc
Lecturer and Course Leader in Economics
Dr. Andrea Gatto is Lecturer and Course Leader at NCH, where he teaches Economic Development, International Development, and Research Design & Data Collection. An economic and business consultant, Andrea is President...
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Dr Ahmad Seyf
BA (Tehran), PDip (Glas), MA (Manc), PhD (Rdg)
Course Leader and Lecturer in Political Economy
Dr Ahmad Seyf is Course Leader and Lecturer in Political Economy at New College of the Humanities. Qualifications PhD, University of Reading (1982) MA Econ, University of Manchester (1975) Postgrad Dip, University of Gla...
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Dr Tom Sander
Diplom (Europa Fachhochschule Fresenius), MBA (Europäische Fernhochschule Hamburg), Dr.sc.admin (University of Latvia)
Course Leader and Lecturer in Communication and Public Understanding of Economics
Dr Tom Sander is Course Leader and Lecturer in Communication and Public Understanding of Economics at New College of the Humanities. Qualifications Dr.sc.admin, University of Latvia (2016) MBA, Europäische Fernhochschul...
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Dr Mike Peacey
BSc, MA, PhD (Bris), DipFA, FHEA
Associate Professor in Economics
Dr Mike Peacey is a Associate Professor in Economics at New College of the Humanities. He has a Doctorate in Economics (PhD) from the University of Bristol for his thesis entitled Essays in Applied Microeconomics. He als...
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Dr George Zouros
BSc (QMUL), MSc (Imp Lond), PhD (LSE), PGCE (KCL)
Assistant Professor in Economics
Dr Zouros has worked as a Assistant Professor and Senior Tutor in Economics at NCH since its foundation, teaching Mathematics, Statistics and Further Mathematics. He received his PhD in Philosophy of Science in 2007 from...
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Dr Yaprak Tavman
BSc (METU), MSc (York), PhD (York)
Assistant Professor in Economics
Dr Tavman is an Assistant Professor in Economics teaching 3rd, 2nd and 1st year undergraduates at NCH. After the completion of her PhD in Economics at the University of York, Yaprak started working as a Lecturer in Econo...
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Dr Sebastian Ille
MSc (HU), PhD (UNISI)
Associate Professor in Economics
Sebastian is an Associate Professor in Economics at New College of the Humanities (NCH). He completed his Master’s degree in Economics and Management Science at Humboldt University. He holds a PhD in Economics from the...
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Dr Mahmoud Shahin
PhD (Exeter)
Lecturer in Economics
Dr Mahmoud Shahin is a Lecturer in Economics at New College of the Humanities. He is teaching on Principles of Microeconomics for Northeastern University (The N.U.in Program). He graduated from Faculty of Economics, Univ...
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Professor Monojit Chatterji
BA (MU), BA, MA, PhD (Cantab)
Professor of Economics
Monojit is a Professor of the Economics Faculty. He has previously held academic appointments at several British, US, Indian and Australian Universities. He has acted as an External Examiner in leading Universities aroun...
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Dr Catherine Brown
BA (Cantab), MSc (LSE), MA (UCL), Dip (Cantab), PhD (Cantab)
Head of Faculty & Associate Professor in English
Dr Catherine Brown is Head of Faculty and an Associate Professor in English at New College of the Humanities. She studied English at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. She then moved out into academic and practical p...
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Dr Charlotte Grant
BA (Cantab), MA (Courtauld Institute), PhD (Cantab)
Associate Professor in English
Dr Charlotte Grant is a Associate Professor in English. She studied English at Trinity Hall Cambridge, where she also did her PhD on Eighteenth-Century literature and visual culture following a Masters in Art History at ...
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Dr Peter Maber
BA, MA, MPhil, PhD (Cantab)
Associate Professor in English & Lead on Academic Engagement
Dr Peter Maber is a Associate Professor in English and Lead on Academic Engagement at New College of the Humanities (NCH). He has degrees from the University of Cambridge in English and American Literature and completed ...
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Dr Daniel Swift
BA (Oxon), PhD (CU)
Associate Professor in English
Dr Daniel Swift is a Associate Professor in English. He has a BA from Oxford University and a PhD from Columbia University in New York. He has written books about William Shakespeare, Ezra Pound, and the poetry of the Se...
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Riyukta Raghunath
BA, MA, PhD
Assistant Professor in English and Education
Dr Riyukta Raghunath is an Assistant Professor in English and Education at the New College of the Humanities. She teaches on and is also the course leader for First-Year Writing Studio, a course that applies key principl...
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Dr Chiara Alfano
BA (Oxon), MA, PhD (Sussex)
Assistant Professor in English and Education
Dr Chiara Alfano is an Assistant Professor in English and Education. She has a BA from the University of Oxford University, and a MA and PhD from the University of Sussex. She was an IASH postdoctoral fellow at the Unive...
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Dr Estelle Paranque
BA, MA (Aix), PhD (UCL), FHEA, FRHistS
Assistant Professor in Early Modern History
Dr Paranque is Assistant Professor in Early Modern and Public History. She joined NCH in September 2017 having previously taught at King’s College London, University of Winchester and UCL. She is a co-convenor of the...
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Dr Michael Peplar
BA, MA (Ebor) PhD (Greenw) FRHistS
Lecturer in History
Dr Michael Peplar joined NCH in 2020 as Academic Director of Student Mobility Programmes and Lecturer in History. Before this, he was for many years Academic Director of Boston University’s London campus, where he also...
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Dr Olly Ayers
BA (Manc), PhD (Kent)
Associate Professor in History; Director of Graduate Studies
Dr Olly Ayers is a Associate Professor in History. He received a first-class honours degree in History from the University of Manchester before completing a PhD in history at the University of Kent in 2013, where he was ...
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Dr Lars Kjaer
BA (AU), MPhil, PhD (Cantab)
Head of Faculty & Associate Professor in Medieval History and temporary Head of Art History
Dr. Lars Kjaer works on elite life and culture in medieval Europe, especially the period from c. 1000 to c. 1300. He has a background in social anthropology and is interested in the opportunities and challenges of interd...
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Dr Edmund Neill
MA, DPhil (Oxon), MSc (LSE), FRHistS
Assistant Professor in Modern History
Dr Neill is a Assistant Professor in Modern History at New College of the Humanities. He gained a BA in Modern History at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, where he was a college scholar. Subsequently, he gained an MSc ...
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Rebecca Maccabe
BA (Northumbria), PGCE (Warwick), MA (Warwick)
Assistant Professor of Professional Education
Rebecca joined NCH as a Lecturer in Professional Education in 2019. Qualifications PhD, Educational Research – Higher Education, Lancaster University (2023) MA, Educational Innovation with Specialism in Busi...
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Ursula Smartt
JP, PGDipjur, MA, MPhil
Assistant Professor in Law
Ursula Smartt is a Assistant Professor for the Law LLB at NCH and the Careers Counsellor (Law) at NCH. She holds a BA in English and German from the University of Hull, a PGCE from the University of Hull, a MA in German ...
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Dr Alice Schneider
BA (Cambridge), LLB (King's College)
Head of Faculty and Assistant Professor for Law
Alice Schneider is Head of the Law Faculty and and Assistant Professor in Law at New College of the Humanities. She is currently a doctoral candidate in Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford and holds qualifyin...
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Dr Dimitrios Kyriazis
LLB (Athens), MPhil, MJur (Oxford)
Honorary Research Fellow in Law
Dr Dimitrios Kyriazis is an Honorary Research Fellow in Law. He previously served as Head of the Law Faculty and Senior Lecturer in Law (2017-2020). He joined NCH in 2017, having taught for several years at Oxford Univer...
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Philip Hunter
Solicitor (non practising) LLB (Hull) PGDip (MMU)
Lecturer in Law
Philip Hunter joined NCH in 2017 as a Lecturer in Law. Philip started his legal training in 1980 at Hull University, completing a law degree in 1983. He completed his Law society finals at Nottingham Trent University i...
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Professor Elizabeth Mytton
Emeritus Professor, Doctor of Education (S'ton), Master of Laws (S'ton), BA (Hons) (CNAA)
Course Leader and Lecturer in Criminal Law
Professor Elizabeth Mytton is Course Leader and Lecturer in Criminal Law at New College of the Humanities. Qualifications Doctor of Education, University of Southampton (2001) Master of Laws, University of Southampton (1...
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Murilo Lubambo de Melo
LLM, PHD (UCL)
Lecturer in International Business Law
Murilo Lubambo de Melo joined NCH in 2018 as a lecturer in Public International Law. From August 2019, Murilo has taught the International Business Law course for the N.U.in program. Qualifications LLM (Master of Laws) &...
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Stephen Dnes
MA (Cantab), LLM (UVA Law)
Assistant Professor in Law
Stephen Dnes is a Assistant Professor in Law at NCH. Following legal education at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, and the University of Virginia School of Law, Stephen was admitted to the New York Bar and devel...
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Professor A C Grayling
BA (SUS), BA (Lond), MA (SUS), DPhil (Oxon), FRSL, FRSA
Master of New College of the Humanities
A C Grayling CBE, MA, DPhil (Oxon) FRSL, FRSA is Master of New College of the Humanities, and a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne’s College, Oxford. Until 2011 he was Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, Universi...
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Dr David Mitchell
BA, MA, DPhil (Oxon), MSc (LSE)
Associate Professor in Philosophy
Dr David Mitchell has been a faculty member of Philosophy at New College of the Humanities since September 2012. He currently leads courses in the first, second and third year undergraduate curriculum and in the MA in Ph...
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Dr Paula Boddington
BA, BPhil, LLM, DPhil
Associate Professor in Philosophy
Dr Boddington has held academic positions at the University of Bristol, the Australian National University, Cardiff University, and Oxford University. She has received research awards from the Future of Life Institute, t...
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Dr Naomi Goulder
BA (Hons), MA (Cantab), PhD (Lond)
Dean for Academic Development & Innovation and Senior Lecturer in Philosophy
Naomi is Dean for Academic Development & Innovation and Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at New College of the Humanities. As a founding member of the college, she has played a significant role in the institution’s de...
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Dr. Gulzaar Barn
BA, MA, DPhil (Oxon)
Assistant Professor in Philosophy
Dr. Gulzaar Barn is a Assistant Professor in philosophy at the New College of the Humanities. Gulzaar convenes and teaches on the Applied Ethics course as part of the NCH Diploma. This involves teaching an overview of ap...
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Dr Brian Ball
BA (McGill), BPhil, DPhil (Oxon)
Head of Faculty and Associate Professor in Philosophy
Dr Brian Ball is the Head of Faculty and Associate Professor in Philosophy at New College of the Humanities. He received a Bachelor of Arts from McGill University with Honours in Philosophy and a Minor Concentration in L...
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Dr Jade Fletcher
BA (Hons), MA, PhD (Leeds)
Lecturer in Philosophy
Dr. Jade Fletcher is a Lecturer in Philosophy at New College of the Humanities. She completed her degrees (BA, MA, and PhD) at the University of Leeds. In the final year of her PhD she was awarded the Analysis Trust Stud...
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Dr Dimitris Mylonas
MSc (UAL), PhD (UCL)
Assistant Professor in Computer Science
Dimitris is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Director of the Data Science minor and BA Philosophy & Cognitive Science at New College of the Humanities at Northeastern. He holds a PhD from the Department...
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Dr Bianca Serwinski
BSc (Kent), MSc, PhD (UCL)
Course Leader and Assistant Professor in Psychology
Dr Bianca Serwinski is Course Leader and Assistant Professor in Psychology at NCH in the Psychology minor and in the NU.in programmes, having joined in 2018. She further lectures in Psychology, health-science and social ...
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Dr Alexandros Koliousis
MSc, PhD
Associate Professor in Computer Science
Alexandros Koliousis is a Associate Professor in Computer Science. He joined NCH in 2020. Previously, he held research positions in industry (Graphcore, 2019-2020) and academia (Imperial College London, 2012-2019; Univer...
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Dr Christoph Schuringa
Qualifications BA (Cantab), MA, PhD (Lond)
Assistant Professor in Philosophy
Dr Christoph Schuringa holds a BA in philosophy from the University of Cambridge (King’s College) and a PhD from the University of London (Birkbeck College). Qualifications PhD in Philosophy, Birkbeck, Universi...
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Dr Mark Windsor
MA (Sussex), BA (Hons), PhD (Kent)
Assistant Professor and Course Leader in Philosophy
Dr Mark Windsor is a Assistant Professor and Course Leader in Philosophy at New College of the Humanities. Before coming to NCH in 2019, he was an Associate Lecturer at the University of Kent and a Teaching Fellow in Phi...
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Dr Ioannis Votsis
BA (UC Berkeley), PhD (LSE)
Associate Professor in Philosophy
Ioannis Votsis holds degrees from the University of California, Berkeley (BA 1998) and the London School of Economics (PhD 2004). He is a Associate Professor in Philosophy at the New College of the Humanities and a Fello...
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Dr Diana Bozhilova
BA (Hons), PhD (KCL)
Head of Faculty and Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations
Diana completed her PhD at King’s College London where she was jointly an ORC UK and an Open Society New York Scholar. Diana then held posts at LSE and KCL, before joining New College of the Humanities as Head of Facul...
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Xuechen Chen
BA (Beijing), MSc (LSE), PhD (KCL)
Assistant Professor in Politics and International Relations
Xuechen Chen is Assistant Professor in Politics and International Relations at the New College of the Humanities. She is leader of the course “Comparative Politics”. She also convenes the courses “the European Unio...
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Dr John Wolfe Ackerman
BA, MA, PhD
Lecturer in Political Theory
Dr John Wolfe Ackerman is a Lecturer in Politics & International Relations at New College of the Humanities. John teaches Political Theory. Qualifications MA, PhD (Political Science) Northwestern University (2...
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Dr Pablo Calderon Martinez
BA, MSc, PhD
Assistant Professor in Politics and International Relations
Pablo is a Assistant Professor in Politics & International Relations at the New College of the Humanities. Prior to joining NCH, Pablo was a Lecturer in Spanish at Aston University, a Visiting Assistant Professor (Re...
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Dr Callum Barrell
BA, MPhil (Cantab), PhD (QMUL)
Associate Professor of Political Thought
Dr Barrell joined New College of the Humanities in September 2016 as Assistant Professor in Politics and International Relations, having taught here as Visiting Lecturer. He is now Associate Professor of Political Though...
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Dr Sara Raimondi
BA (Milan), MSc (Milan), MA (Westminster), PhD (Westminster)
Lecturer in Politics & International Relations
Dr Sara Raimondi joined New College of the Humanities in July 2019 and she is currently an Assistant Professor in Politics & International Relations. She is currently course leader for several Level 5 courses in ...
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Howard Jacobson
BA (Cantab)
Visiting Professor of Creative Writing
Mr Jacobson lists Samuel Johnson, Jane Austen and Dickens among his foremost inspirations, and has written variously about comedy, Australia, Jewishness and love. His novel, The Finkler Question (2010), won the Man Booke...
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Sir Trevor Nunn
MA (Cantab)
Visiting Professor of Drama
Trevor Nunn is one of Britain’s most well-respected and influential theatre directors. After studying English under F R Leavis at Downing College, Cambridge, he became Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) at...
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Professor Sir Christopher Ricks
BA, MA, BLitt (Oxon), FBA
Visiting Professor of English
Sir Christopher Ricks delivers lectures for the English BA at New College of the Humanities. He is Warren Professor of the Humanities at Boston University, having formerly been professor of English at the University of B...
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Professor Simon Blackburn
BA, MA, PhD (Cantab)
Visiting Professor of Philosophy
Well known for his efforts to make philosophy accessible to a wider public, Simon is one of the country’s leading philosophers. He is well regarded as a proponent of a distinctive approach to ethics and a defender ...
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Professor Daniel Dennett
BA (Harvard), DPhil (Oxon)
Visiting Professor of Philosophy
Professor Daniel Dennett is a University Professor and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, and Co-Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. He has held visiting positions at Harvard Unive...
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Professor Rebecca Goldstein
BA (Columbia), PhD (Princeton)
Visiting Professor of Philosophy & Literature
Professor Rebecca Goldstein is both a philosopher and a novelist. She received her PhD in Philosophy from Princeton University and has taught philosophy at Barnard College, Rutgers, and Trinity College in Hartford, Conn...
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Professor Steven Pinker
BA (McGill), DPhil (Harvard)
Visiting Professor
Professor Pinker was born in Canada and took his BA in Psychology at McGill University before moving to the US to study for a PhD in Experimental Psychology at Harvard. He has subsequently taught at MIT, Harvard and Sta...
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Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta
BSc (Delhi), BA, MA, PhD (Cantab), FBA, FAAAS
Visiting Professor of Economics
Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta was named a Knight Bachelor in the Queen’s 2002 Birthday Honours List for services to economics. He has the rare distinction of being a Fellow of both the British Academy and the Roy...
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Professor Peter Singer
BA, MA (Melbourne), BPhil (Oxon)
Visiting Professor of Philosophy
Professor Peter Singer was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1946, and educated at the University of Melbourne and the University of Oxford. He has taught at the University of Oxford, La Trobe University and Monash Univer...
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Professor Dibyesh Anand
MA (Hull), PhD (Bristol)
Visiting Professor of Politics and International Relations
I am often considered as a curious scholar, a lifelong student, a passionate lecturer, or a public intellectual. I did my PhD (1998-2002) from the Department of Politics at University of Bristol and the topic was related...
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Professor Adrian Zuckerman
LLM (Jerusalem), MA (Oxon)
Visiting Professor of Law
Professor Adrian A S Zuckerman, Emeritus Professor of Civil Procedure at Oxford University and Emeritus Fellow of University College, Oxford, is a prominent civil litigation scholar and a notable commentator on the admin...
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Professor Gregg D. Caruso
AAS, BA, MPhil, PhD (City University of New York)
Visiting Fellow
Gregg D. Caruso is Professor of Philosophy at SUNY Corning, Visiting Fellow at New College of the Humanities (NCH London), and Honorary Professor of Philosophy at Macquarie University. He is also Co-Director of the ...
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Dr Suzanna Mason
BSc, MRes, PhD
Visiting Lecturer of Science Literacy
Dr Suzanna Mason is a Visiting Lecturer teaching on the Science Literacy Programme at the New College of the Humanities. She teaches second-year undergraduates about ecology, the impacts of climate change, the importance...
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