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 & Senior Management
- International Baccalaureate Diploma
- Liberal Arts Programme
- English Language courses
- University Foundation Course
- International Baccalaureate Diploma Activities staff
| Governors |
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| 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 (Leeds) PGCE MEd (Bristol) | |
| 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 |
| Suso Blanco Licenciado CAP Postgrado Literatura Comparada (Santiago de Compostela) | Spanish |
| Olga Borymchuk DPhil (Oxon) PGCE (Open University) | Ukranian |
| Vicky Bullard MA PGCE (Oxon) | English Language |
| Zuzana Wilson | Czech |
| Mettte Bundvad | Danish |
| Alice Caldock BA (Strathclyde) PGCE (Strathclyde) QTS | English B |
| David Chaplin BA (Carmarthen) | TOK |
| Ludmilla Checkley Diplom Mod Lang (Pyatigorsk) | Russian |
| Clifford Culbert BSc (Kingston) PGCE (Oxford Brookes) | Physics |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Matthew Dolan BSc (Bath) PGCE (Bath) | Chemistry and TOK |
| Kicki Lurcock BA (Abo Akademi) MA (Oxford Brookes) | English / Swedish |
| Stephen Marshall BSc PGCE (Newcastle) | Geography; Environmental Systems & Societies |
| Alina Nachescu BA (University Timisoara) Romania | Romanian |
| Carola Percival BA PGCE (Reading) | German |
| Teodora Petranova MA (Sofia) | Bulgarian |
| John Rolfe MA PGCE (London) | Visual Art |
| 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 |
| Susan Tawse BSc (Edinburgh) PGCE | Mathematics |
| Jennifer Taylor Italian Doctorate | Italian |
| Nang Mo Hom Tun BA (Taunggyi) | Burmese |
| 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 |
| Zuzana Wilson | Czech |
| Jennifer Wirth MA (Phoenix) BA (Minnesota) | Mathematics |
| Andrew Young BA PGCE (London) | History |
| Suzette Youngs BA (London) DTEFLA PGCE (Strathclyde) | EFL Teacher |
| Activities Staff | |
| Head of Activities - Kevin Hennessy BA HDipEd HDip Heritage Management (Cork) MEd (Oxford Brookes) | |
| CAS Coordinator - Rebecca Pyrah 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 |
| Kay Alty, BA (École Supérieur de Commerce, Reims) | Marketing, Business Management | |
| Julian Armitstead, MA (Cambridge) | Playwriting | |
| Jolanta Babiuch-Luxmoore, PhD (University of Warsaw) | Sociology | Oxford Brookes University |
| Julie Bolitho-Lee, MA (King's College London) | English Literature, Creative Writing | |
| Anna Bruce, MA (Edinburgh) | Photography | |
| Anna Castriota, MA (Oxford Brookes), Laurea in Filosofia (Bari) |
Politics, International Relations | |
| David Chaplin BA (Camarthen) | History of Photography, History of Art |
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| Edward Clarke, PhD (Trinity College Dublin) | English Literature | University of Oxford, St. Catherine's College |
| Peter Claus, MA, PhD (Open University) | History | University of Oxford, Pembroke College |
| Marzieh Fatemian, DPhil (Oxford) | Mathematics | Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Genetics, University of Oxford |
| Karen Heath, MPhil (Cambridge) | History | DPhil Candidate, Faculty of History, University of Oxford, St. Anne's College |
| Keith Hopper, MA (Galway) MSt (Oxford) | Film Studies, Literature | Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford, Kellogg College |
| Maria Ioannou, MSc (Oxford) | Psychology | DPhil candidate, Department of Experimental Social Psychology, University of Oxford |
| Daniel Jordan PhD, (University College Dublin) | History | |
| Katherine Kirkpatrick, MA, MSt (Oxford) | Theology, Philosophy of Religion | DPhil Candidate, Faculty of Theology, University of Oxford |
| Nancy Langham, MA (University of Southern California) | PhD Candidate, Oxford Brookes University | |
| Melville Leedham, MBA (Herriot-Watt), MA (Oxford Brookes) | Management Studies, Economics | |
| Alison Lutton, MA (Edinburgh), MA (Liverpool) |
English Literature | DPhil candidate, Faculty of English, University of Oxford, St Hugh's College |
| Tamara Moellenberg, MSt (Oxford) | English Literature | DPhil Candidate, Faculty of English, University of Oxford, Brasenose College |
| Coral Milburn-Curtis, MSc (Oxford) | Education | DPhil candidate, Department of Education, University of Oxford, Green Templeton College |
| Magnus Moar, PhD (Sussex) | Philosophy | |
| William Powlett Smith BSc (Bristol), CA (ICA Scotland) | Finance, Accounting | |
| Bhaveet Radia | DPhil candidate, Department of Education, University of Oxford | |
| Prabhat Rai, MA (University of Allahabad, India), MPhil (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India) |
Education | DPhil candidate, Department of Education, University of Oxford, St. Hilda's College |
| Tatiana Rodriguez Leal, EdM (Harvard University) | Global Issues | DPhil candidate, Department of Education, University of Oxford |
| Anna Scarnà DPhil (York) | Psychology | Department of Psychology, University of Oxford |
| Francesca Shakespeare, BA (Exeter) | Fine Arts | |
| Patricia Simon | Spanish | |
| Paul Sinclair, MA (St. Andrews), MA (University of 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 |
| Jacob Stoil, MA (King's College, London) | War Studies, History | DPhil candidate, History Department, University of Oxford |
| Jadwiga Wanelik Magister Filologii (Jagiellonian University, Krakow) | French | St. Clare's, Oxford |
English Language courses
| Course Management |
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| 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) |
University Foundation Course
| 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 | ||
| Anna Castriota, MA (Oxford Brookes), Laurea in Filosofia (Bari) |
Politics, International Relations | |
| Marzieh Fatemian, DPhil (Oxford) | Mathematics | Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Genetics, University of Oxford |
| Kay Alty, BA (École Supérieur de Commerce, Reims) | Marketing, Business Management | |
| Karen Heath, MPhil (Cambridge) | History | DPhil Candidate, Faculty of History, University of Oxford, St. Anne's College |
| Magnus Moar, PhD (Sussex) | Philosophy | |
| Tatiana Rodriguez Leal, EdM (Harvard University) | Global Issues | DPhil candidate, Department of Education, University of Oxford |
| Vandana Singh, BA (Punjab), MBA (Manipal University, India) | Economics | |
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