Academic staff at St. Clare's

We are proud of the depth, range and expertise of our academic staff. With such a high regarded reputation for excellence and experience, we have no trouble attracting the best teachers to work at St. Clare's. Many of our staff are examiners in their field; many teach at the University of Oxford, Brookes University in Oxford as well as other universities in London.

Governors
Chairman - Richard Dick MA (Cantab), Managing Director
John Church MA (Cantab), Bursar, Pembroke College, Oxford
David Christie BA (University of Strathclyde), Dip. Ed. (University of Glasgow)
Dr Hu Yao-Su MA DPhil (Oxon), Consultant, UNCTAD
Irina Kirillova MBE Fellow Emerita of Newnham College, Cambridge
Ann Lewis CMG BA (Leeds) formerly Head of Cultural Relations Dept; Foreign Commonwealth Office (FCO)
Paul Mason MA (Cantab) FCA
Dermot McMeekin MBA (Harvard), Solicitor, Company Director and Management Consultant
James Offen MA FRICS FCIArb, Chartered Surveyor, formerly Fellow and Estates Bursar, Oriel College, Oxford
Peter Oppenheimer MA (Oxon) President, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and Student of Christ Church, Oxford
Jens Tholstrup BA (Oxon), Managing Director, Oxford Economics
Laurence Whitehead MA (Oxon), Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford
Senior Management
Principal - Paula Holloway BSc Hons (London) PGCE (Sussex) MSc (Oxon) DipPM (LSE) Cert TEFL Cambridge RSA
Vice Principal - Tom Walsh MA Higher DipEd (Dublin)
Bursar - Nick Paladina MA (Oxon) FCA
Director of English Language courses - Lawrie Coupland MA (Cantab) PGCE (Oxon) CTEFLA
Co-ordinator of Senior Courses & Director of the Liberal Arts Programme - Ines Molinaro BA (Concordia) MA PhD (Notre Dame)

International Baccalaureate Diploma

Course Management  
Course Director - Tom Walsh MA HDipEd (Dublin)  
Dean of Students - Susan Tawse BSc (Edinburgh) PGCE  
Director of Studies - Cormack Kirby BA (Hons) (Leeds) PGCE (Reading) MED (Bristol) Cert Tefl
Member of staff Subject
Liz Reece BA (Exeter) Dip CG (London) Careers & higher education adviser
Paul Sinclair MA (St Andrews) MA (Washington) US university education adviser
Rigmor Batsvik Cand. Mag. Adjunkt (Bergen) BA (Oxford Brookes) Norwegian
Vicky Bullard MA PGCE (Oxon) English Language
Alice Caldock BA (Strathclyde) PGCE (Strathclyde) QTS English
David Chaplin BA (Carmarthen) TOK
Ludmilla Checkley Diplom Mod Lang (Pyatigorsk) Russian
Caroline Crook BSc (Dundee) Cert Ed (Garnett College) Biology; Environmental Systems
Ricardo Da Silva Esteves PGCE (Cambridge) Maitrise LEA Spanish
Simon Davis BEd (Leeds) Physics
Daniel Denno BSc PGCE (Bristol) Mathematics
Jing Ping Fan MSc (Leeds Metropolitan) BA (Central China Normal University) Chinese
Victoria Folkyte BA (Vilnius) Lithuanian
Ian Gill BSc (Bristol) PGCE (Lancaster) Chemistry
David Gomm BSc (Durham) PGCE (London) Environmental Systems & Societies
Catherine Gospel BA MA PGCE (London) French
Christos Halkiopoulos MSc (London) Psychology
Roni Hameiri BA PGCE (Tel Aviv) MBA (Open University UK) Economics; Business & Management
Julia Hammett MA (Dundee) PGCE DTEFLA English
Keiko Harada BA MA (Osaka) MA (Kent) MA (SOAS) Japanese
David Harris BSc MEd (Bristol) PGCE (Manchester) Mathematics
Janet Hillsdon PGCE (Open University) Chartered Biologist Chemistry
Gyesang Jean Korean
Sarah Jinks BSc (Warwick) PGCE (Oxon) Biology; Chemistry
Andrea Jobbagy BSc (Oxford Brookes) Pilates
Nadia Jones MSc (Romania) Mathematics
Rory Kelly PhD (London) BA MEd PGCE (Cape Town) BEd (South Africa) MEd (ELT)(Sheffield) English
Marzena Kochanska BA (Leeds) PGCE TESOL (London) English
Marina Kujic BA(Sarajevo) PGCE (Strathclyde) MSc (Paisley) Serbian
Maureen Lake Licientiate of the Royal Academy of Music Music
Kicki Lurcock BA (Abo Akademi) MA (Oxford Brookes) English
Jana McNab BA (Czech Republic) Czech
Stephen Marshall BSc PGCE (Newcastle) Geography; Environmental Systems & Societies
Kay Millar BSc (BA) Hons (Southampton) PGCE (London) BWY Dip CAS
Rebecca Moseley-Morgan BA ARCM Singing
Thomas Nunn Instructors Certificate Capoeira
Carola Percival BA PGCE (Reading) German
Jesus-Antonio Rodriguez-Blanco Licenciado CAP Postgrado Literatura Comparada (Santiago de Compostela) Spanish
John Rolfe MA PGCE (London) Visual Art
Denise Saunderson BSc (Southampton) PGCE (Manchester) Physics; Science
Paul Severn DPhil (London) Cert Ed (Oxon) Mathematics
Francesca Shakespeare BA (Exeter) Studio Art
Philomena Solomon PGCE GRNCM ARCM LTCL AMus TCL CertEd Music
David Staton BA (Cantab) MA (Durham) History
Victoria Staveley BA (Newfoundland) TOK
Antoaneta Taneva PhD (Bucharest) Bulgarian and Romanian
Susan Tawse BSc (Edinburgh) PGCE Mathematics
Jennifer Taylor Italian Doctorate Italian
Kadir Unutulmaz MPhil (Oxon) MA (Istanbul) Turkish
Jos Vos MA (Kent) BA (Oxon) BA (Leuven) Dutch
Tom Walsh MA HDipEd (Dublin) Biology
Jadwiga Wanelik Magister Filologii (Krakow) Polish
Victoria Watson BA (London) Maitrise (Avignon) LTCL Dip TEFL/TESOL PGCE (Canterbury) English
Mark Watts BA (Liverpool) PGCE (Warwick) Economics; Business & Management
Andrew Whiting BA Photography
Andrew Young BA PGCE (London) History
Activities Staff  
Head of Activities - Kevin Hennessy BA HDipEd HDip Heritage Management (Cork) MEd (Oxford Brookes)
CAS Coordinator - Rebecca Winfield BA PGCE
Activities Tutor - Vicky Hahn-Hennessy BA (Wales) TESOL

Liberal Arts Programme

Course Management
Director of the Liberal Arts Programme - Ines Molinaro BA (Concordia) MA PhD (Notre Dame)
Assistant Director - Paul Sinclair MA (St Andrews) MA (Washington)
Teaching staff Subject Affiliation
Kay Alty BA (École Supérieur de Commerce, Reims) Marketing and Business Management  
Frank Armstrong MA (SOAS) PGDE (University College Dublin) History  
David Chaplin BA (Camarthen) History of Photography  
Phillip Cooke PhD (Cardiff) Music Faculty of Music, University of Oxford - Queen's College
Kresimir Buntic MBA (Oxford Brookes) Business Studies Oxford Brookes University
Huseyin Cakal MSc (Manchester) MA (Eylul University, Turkey) Sociology DPhil candidate, Department of Sociology and Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford - St. Cross College
Anna Castriota MA (Oxford Brookes) Politics, International Relations  
Edward Clarke BA (Oxon) PhD (Dublin) English Literature University of Oxford - St. Catherine's College
Peter Claus MA PhD (Open University) History University of Oxford - Pembroke College
Victoria Elliot MSc (Oxford) Education DPhil candidate, Department of Education, University of Oxford - Exeter College
Marta Emmitt BA (Colorado) English Literature St. Clare's, Oxford
Marzieh Fatemian DPhil (Oxon) Mathematics Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Genetics, University of Oxford
Jessica Frazier PhD (Cantab) Theology, Philosophy Managing Editor, Journal of Hindu Studies, Lecturer in Religious Studies, Regent's College, London Research Fellow, Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies
Keith Hopper MA (Galway) MSt (Oxon) Film Studies, Literature Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford - Kellogg College
Jin Lee BA (Pennsylvania) Psychology DPhil candidate, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford
Melville Leedham MBA (Herriot-Watt) MA ( Oxford Brookes) Management Studies  
William Powett Smith BSc (Bristol) CA (ICA Scotland) Finance  
Magnus Moar PhD (Sussex) Philosophy  
Anna Scarná DPhil (York) Psychology  
Francesca Shakespeare BA (Exeter) Fine Arts  
Patricia Simon Spanish  
Paul Sinclair MA (St Andrews) MA (Washington) History St. Clare's, Oxford
Vandana Singh BA (Punjab) MBA (Manipal University, India) Economics  
Barbara Spence (Escobar) MSc (LSE) LLB (Bogota) Business Ethics  
Victoria Staveley BA (Newfoundland) Literature St. Clare's, Oxford
Jadwiga Wanelik Magister Filologii (Jagiellonian University, Krakow) French St. Clare's, Oxford
Andrew Whiting BA MA (Oxford Brookes) Photography  
Marcos Young BA (North London) PDG Broadcast Journalism (Portsmouth) Communications  

English Language courses

Course Management
Director of Short Courses / Director of English Language courses - Lawrie Coupland MA (Cantab) PGCE (Oxon) CTEFLA
EFL Director of Studies - Richard Walton BA (Exeter) PGCE TES/FL (Bangor)
EFL Summer Courses Director of Studies - Stef Lewis BSc (Hons) (Open University) CELTA DELTA HND BTEC (Nottingham)
Teaching staff
Mark Bartram BA CELTA DELTA
Helen Brown BA (Newcastle) PGCE (Manchester) Cert TEFLA ARELS 1:1 Cert
Carla Browne BA (Ireland) TEFL Cert ARELS 1:1 Cert
Julie Dyson BA (Oxon) RSA/UCLES Dip TEFLA ARELS 1:1 Cert
Mark Jennings BA (Lancaster) PGCE (English / TESOL)
Mark Searle BA (Exeter) RSA/UCLES Dip TEFLA
Geoff Taylor BA (St Martin's School of Art) RSA/UCLES Dip TEFLA MEd (Manchester)
Richard Walton BA (Exeter) PGCE TES/FL (Bangor)

Student photo
Staff photo
Student photo
Staff photo