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
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
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
Nisha Bauluck BSc (Sussex) PGCE (Sussex) Mathematics
Kanishka Bhattacharya MSt (Oxon) Mathematics
Sigrun Bjarnadottir BSc (Iceland) Icelandic
Suso Blanco Spanish
Olga Borymchuk DPhil (Oxon) PGCE (Open University) Ukranian
Vicky Bullard MA PGCE (Oxon) English Language
Mettte Bundvad Danish
Alice Caldock BA (Strathclyde) PGCE (Strathclyde) QTS English B
David Chaplin BA (Carmarthen) TOK
Ludmilla Checkley Diplom Mod Lang (Pyatigorsk) Russian
Ricardo Da Silva Esteves PGCE (Cambridge) Maitrise LEA Spanish and French
Gerrard Daly MSc (London) MA (London) Physics
Ismailj Dauti BSc (Kosovo) Albanian Literature
Simon Davis BEd (Leeds) Physics
Jing Ping Fan MSc (Leeds Metropolitan) BA (Central China Normal University) PGCE (London) Chinese
Victoria Folkyte BA (Vilnius) Lithuanian
Zuzana Gergelova Slovak
Ian Gill BSc (Bristol) PGCE (Lancaster) Chemistry
David Gomm BSc (Durham) PGCE (London) Environmental Systems & Societies
Catherine Gospel BA MA PGCE (London) French and German
Christos Halkiopoulos MSc (London) Psychology
Roni Hameiri-Bowen 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
Simone Irmscher Diploma (Leipzig) German
Sarah Jinks BSc (Warwick) PGCE (Oxon) Biology; Chemistry
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) Director of English Language
Julia Koch-Cullum MA (Frankfurt am Main) PGCE (Oxon) German
Marina Kujic BA(Sarajevo) PGCE (Strathclyde) MSc (Paisley) Serbian
Kicki Lurcock BA (Abo Akademi) MA (Oxford Brookes) English / Swedish
Stephen Marshall BSc PGCE (Newcastle) Geography; Environmental Systems & Societies
Pushpa Pandey MA (Iowa) BA (Earlham) Chemistry
Carola Percival BA PGCE (Reading) German
Teodora Petranova MA (Sofia) Bulgarian
Jesus-Antonio Rodriguez-Blanco Licenciado CAP Postgrado Literatura Comparada (Santiago de Compostela) Spanish
John Rolfe MA PGCE (London) Visual Art
Rok Sekirnik MSc (Oxon) Slovak Literature
Zuzana Skalicanova Gergelova Slovak
Philomena Solomon PGCE GRNCM ARCM LTCL AMus TCL CertEd Music
George Speller PhD (Cantab) PGCE (Bedford) Biology
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
Benedict Tucker BSc (Bristol) PGCE (London) Mathematics
Nang Mo Hom Tun BA (Taunggyi) Burmese
Kadir Unutulmaz MPhil (Oxon) MA (Istanbul) Turkish
Ulf-Wedig van der Osten MA (Hohenheim) PGCE (London) Economics and Business
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
Jennifer Wirth MA (Phoenix) BA (Minnesota) Mathematics
Andrew Young BA PGCE (London) History
Suzette Youngs BA (London) DTEFLA PGCE (Strathclyde) EFL Teacher
David Zakarian MA (Greece) Greek
Henny Ziai Persian
Activities Staff  
Head of Activities - Kevin Hennessy BA HDipEd HDip Heritage Management (Cork) MEd (Oxford Brookes)
CAS Coordinator - Rebecca Winfield BA PGCE
Activities Teacher - Vicky Hahn-Hennessy BA (Wales) TESOL
A full and detailed list of the activities offered as part of the IB Diploma and the associated member of staff is given here.

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
Edwards Adkins History  
Kay Alty BA (École Supérieur de Commerce, Reims) Marketing and Business Management  
Charles Armistead    
Frank Armstrong MA (SOAS) PGDE (University College Dublin) History  
Kresimir Buntic MBA (Oxford Brookes) Business Studies Oxford Brookes University
Jolanta Babiuch-Luxmoore    
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 Politics  
David Chaplin BA (Camarthen) History of Photography  
Edward Clarke Literature  
Peter Claus History  
Victoria Condie Art History  
Phillip Cooke PhD (Cardiff) Music Faculty of Music, University of Oxford - Queen's 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
Ian Freeth Economics  
Stephen Goddard French  
Katherine Kirkpatrick Theology  
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  
Coral Milburn-Curtis    
Magnus Moar PhD (Sussex) Philosophy  
Tamara Moellenberg    
William Powett Smith BSc (Bristol) CA (ICA Scotland) Finance  
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 - Suzette Youngs BA (Hons) (London University) PGCE (Strathclyde University) CELTA DELTA
Teaching staff
Mark Bartram BA CELTA DELTA
Carla Browne BA (Ireland) TEFL Cert ARELS 1:1 Cert
Julie Dyson BA (Oxon) RSA/UCLES Dip TEFLA ARELS 1:1 Cert
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)

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