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 (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
George Speller PhD (Cantab) PGCE (Bedford) Biology
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
Activities Staff  
Head of Activities - Kevin Hennessy BA HDipEd HDip Heritage Management (Cork) MEd (Oxford Brookes)
CAS Coordinator - Sarah Klein BA BEd (Concordia University College, Alberta)
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-Le, 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
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
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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