Teaching Staff

We are proud of the depth, range and expertise of our academic staff. With such a highly regarded reputation for excellence and experience, we have no trouble attracting the best teachers to work at St. Clare's. We employ over 45 permanent staff plus a large number of specialists in languages, sport, music and cultural classes. Teachers are selected for their academic qualifications and expertise, successful teaching experience and ability to relate to our international student community. Many of our staff are IB examiners and IB Teacher Workshop leaders.
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
Rigmor Batsvik Cand. Mag. Adjunkt (Bergen) BA (Oxford Brookes) Norwegian
Nisha Bauluck BSc (Sussex) PGCE (Sussex) Mathematics
Turan Baysal BA (Selcuk) Turkish
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
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
Judith Dallosso MA (Cambridge)Cello
Gerrard Daly MSc (London) MA (London) Physics
Ismailj Dauti BSc (Kosovo) Albanian
Simon Davis BEd (Leeds) Physics
Matthew Dolan BSc PGCE (Bath)Chemistry and TOK
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
Christos Halkiopoulos MSc (London) Psychology
Roni Hameiri-Bowen BA PGCE (Tel Aviv) MBA (Open University UK) Economics; Business and 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
Kicki Lurcock BA (Abo Akademi) MA (Oxford Brookes) English / Swedish
Stephen Marshall BSc PGCE (Newcastle) Geography; Environmental Systems and Societies
Alina Nachescu BA (University Timisoara, Romania) Romanian
Jana McNab BA (Czech Republic) PGDip (Anglia Ruskin University) Czech
Carola Percival BA PGCE (Reading) German
Teodora Petranova MA (Sofia) Bulgarian
Liz Reece BA (Exeter) Dip CG (London) Careers and higher education adviser
John Rolfe MA PGCE (London) Visual Art
Fatemeh Shamsesmaeili MA (Aga Khan University) Farsi
Paul Sinclair MA (St Andrews) MA (Washington) US university education adviser
Zuzana Skalicanova Gergelova MA PhD (University of Constantine the Philosopher, Slovakia) Slovak
George Speller PhD (Cantab) PGCE (Bedford) Biology
Victoria Staveley BA (Newfoundland) TOK
Susan Tawse BSc (Edinburgh) PGCE Mathematics
Jennifer Taylor Italian Doctorate Italian
Lisbeth Asp Tickell MA (Aalborg University) Danish
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 and Management
Zuzana Wilson Cambridge ESOL Level 2 Certificate (Cambridge) Czech
Jennifer Wirth MA (Phoenix) BA (Minnesota) Mathematics
Numnual Yapparat  MA (Chammasat University) Thai 
Andrew Young BA PGCE (London) History
David Zakarian PGDip (Hellenic Republic Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) Greek
Activities Staff  
Head of Activities - Kevin Hennessy BA HDipEd HDip Heritage Management (Cork) MEd (Oxford Brookes)
CAS Coordinator - Rebecca Pyrah BA PGCE
CAS Coordinator - Sarah Klein BA BEd (Concordia University College, Alberta)
Activities Teacher - Vicky Hahn-Hennessy BA (Wales) TESOL