OUR TUTORS
Economics English Literature History Law Maths & Physics
Medicine Politics International Relations Philosophy
ECONOMICS
Michael O’Keeffe
Mícheál is currently pursuing a PhD at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) focusing on European Political Economy, analysing the political economy of financial integration in the EU. He has a B.A. Economics and Politics from University College Dublin. He graduated with distinction from LSE with an MSc. Politics and Government in the European Union. He also has an MPhil Management from the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge. He has undertaken research at the Centre for Financial Analysis and Policy (CFAP) at the University of Cambridge on the political economy of macroprudential regulation of systemic risk in the EU.
Doug Cochran
Douglas Cochran holds an MA from the University of St Andrews in Economics and International Relations. His research interests include the economics of inequality and the history of economic thought. He also holds a BA in Law from Cambridge University and is currently undertaking an LLM in Law, also at Cambridge.
Kartik Jhanji
Kartik is currently pursuing MSc in Management and Strategy at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He holds a B.A (Hons) Economics degree from Hans raj College, Delhi University (India) from which he graduated with a first. He has also worked as an analyst with Hewitt associates, where he focused mainly on the total compensation measurements in the Thailand and Singapore markets. His research interests include looking at market power and the structure of the firms in an industry and possible reasons for the undervaluation of the firms in that market
English Literature
Megan Murray-Pepper
Megan has a BA in English Language and Literature from Balliol College, Oxford, and has just completed her MA in Shakespearean Studies at King’s College London, where she is currently embarking on doctoral research on global adaptations of Shakespeare and early modern travel narratives. Megan’s other research interests include sensation novels, cultural theory, and the dynamics of film adaptation.
Hannah Field
Hannah Field is currently undertaking her DPhil in English at Somerville College, Oxford, on a Clarendon Fund Scholarship. Hannah completed her undergraduate study in her home country of New Zealand; her research interests include children’s literature, book history and bibliography, nineteenth-century fiction, illustration, and the study of material culture. She is also convenor of the Oxford Children’s Literature and Youth Culture Colloquium.
Eleanor McCausland
Elly graduated last year with a BA in English Literature from Merton College, University of Oxford, and has just completed an MSt in Medieval English, also at the University Oxford. Her research interests include children’s literature, the Arthurian legend, Victorian novels, and later Middle English literature. She hopes to pursue a DPhil focussing on adaptations of the Arthurian legend for children from the nineteenth century to the present day.
Anna Cairns
Anna is currently pursuing her DPhil in English at Magdalen College, University of Oxford, where she also completed her M.St in English and French literature. Anna has a BA in Combined Arts (English and French literature, and History of Art) from Durham University. Her research interests lie in the field of theatre, particularly women’s theatre and comedy, and modernist thought.
History
Katherine Wall
Kat holds a degree from Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, in Modern History and Politics. She has a wide range of interests from political theory to the art, culture and politics of the Renaissance period. Kat is also an experienced speaker and activist on issues from the pursuit of gender equality to the defence of civil liberties.
David Kennerley
David holds a BA and an MSt (Master of Studies) in History from Worcester College, Oxford, and enjoyed it so much that he’s still there studying for a DPhil. His doctoral research revolves around song and singing in London in the ‘long’ eighteenth century (c. 1660-1830). From opera to street songs, the project seeks to understand what people’s musical activities can tell us about their attitudes to gender, sexuality, social status, politics and their economic lives.
Tom Cutterham
Tom is a postgraduate fellow of the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, and a member of St Hugh’s College. He is writing a DPhil thesis on the political culture of the United States in the 1780s, which will analyse the impact of post-revolutionary thought on the emergence of modern liberal society. Tom gained his BA in Ancient and Modern history from Oxford in 2009, and a Master of Studies in US History in 2010.
Jonathan Leader Maynard
Jonathan graduated from King’s Colle4ge London in 2008 with the top first in War Studies and a first in History, and is now studying his two year DPhil in Political Theory at University College, Oxford. A European Debating Champion and Best Speaker, and twice World Debating Championship Grand Finalist, he is also a former Chair of the English National Universities Debating Council. His interests include the place of moral theory in political ideologies, the history of modern political thought, and ethics in international relations.
Law
Bethan Lloyd
Bethan is currently studying the Bar Vocational Course at College of Law London having graduated with an LLB in law from Manchester University in 2008. She intends to commence a civil pupillage in October 2011, specialising in personal injury, clinical negligence and employment law.
Frederick Cowell
Fred is currently the London Officer and Head of Office for the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, an international NGO that promotes Human Rights in Commonwealth countries. He is currently in charge of projects designed to promote Freedom of Information Law in small states, build Human Rights capacity in the UK’s Overseas Territories and develop freedom of speech legislation in Africa. Alongside this he is currently studying for a PhD in International Human Rights Law and his research interests include African Human Rights law, the International Criminal Court and theories of Administrative law. Whilst studying for the Bar he won the BPP Human Rights Prize and was a scholar of the Middle Temple. He has previously worked as researcher for Constitution Unit, specialising in UK human rights law and freedom of information, and as legal representative in the Social Security and Employment tribunals. Fred’s first degree and academic interest was in History, which he also tutors for Debate Chamber.
Tom Davies
Tom graduated with an LLB in Law from the University of Sussex in 2009 where he specialised in Family Law and Human Rights having a keen interest in the legislative controls of Assisted Reproduction, Civil Partnerships and Sexual-orientation based refugee claims. He also worked for the Cambodian Centre for Human Rights as a foreign coordinator of LGBT rights.
Maths & Physics
Dominic Rowland
Dominic recently graudated with an MMath from Trinity College, Cambridge where he obtained a double first as a Maths undergraduate. His interests are in Analysis and Combinatorics; particularly in the generalization of classical colouring problems in Ramsey theory to settings with an infinite number of colours. He represented the UK at the Balkan Mathematical Olympiad in Cyprus in 2006 and his teaching is focused on preparing prospective Maths students for STEP exams.
Douglas Brumley
Douglas is currently reading for a PhD in Mathematics at the University of Cambridge. He has a background in Mathematics and Physics, having completed his undergraduate and Honours degrees at The University of Melbourne. In Melbourne, his research examined the fluid mechanics of nanoscale mechanical devices. Currently, Douglas is a Gates Cambridge scholar and scholar of Trinity College. His PhD project focuses on the fluid dynamics of swimming microorganisms. Douglas is also a physics tutor for Debate Chamber.
Julio Brau
Julio completed his undergraduate degree at the Universidad de Sonora in Mexico. He then studied Mathematics in France and the Netherlands before coming to Cambridge, where he is currently reading for a PhD in Mathematics at Emmanuel College. His interests include number theory and algebraic geometry.
Radin Dardashti
Radin is currently undertaking a Masters degree in the Philosophy of Science at the London School of Economics, having previously studied undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at Aachen University and Heinrich-Heine Universities in Germany. Radin has taught Mathematics and Physics in Secondary School and has worked as a University Teaching Assistant in Physics at the University of Aachen. His academic interests include theoretical and particle physics, the history of science and his current research areas of the philosophy of Mathematics and the philosophy of Physics.
Medicine
Beverley Yu
Beverley is a clinical medical student at Brasenose College, Oxford. She graduated with a BA specialising in pathology from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Her main areas of study have been in immunology and infectious diseases. She also has an interest in the development of novel cancer therapies.
Tom Cufflin
Tom graduated from Queens’ College, Cambridge in 2009 with a BA in Medical Sciences specialising in Clinical Pathology and Parasitology. He now studies Clinical Medicine at Addenbrooke’s hospital in Cambridge. His interests include Infectious Disease and Haematology.
Aswin Chari
Aswin is a fifth year medical student at New College, Oxford. He completed his undergraduate degree at Downing College, Cambridge and specialised in Pathology. His current interests include gastrointestinal and liver pathology and he also has a passion for the study of Neurology.
Tom Gibson
Tom graduated from Magdalen College, University of Cambridge with a BA in Medical Sciences, specialising in Physiology, Development, and Neuroscience. Currently, Tom is undertaking his clinical studies at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge. His particular interests within Medicine include Neurology, Haematology and Haemato-oncology (the study of blood cancers such as leukemia).
Michelle Willmott
Michelle is currently a fifth year clinical medical student at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, having obtained a first class honours degree in pre-clinical medicine from the University of St Andrews. She has conducted a variety of research in the field of neurology, focusing on the genetics of psychiatric disorders and memory testing in dementia patients.
Ankush Sachdev
Ankush is a third-year medical student at Imperial College London, where he is in the first year of his clinical studies. He is currently based at St. Peter’s Hospital, Surrey, where he forms a part of the Colorectal Surgery team, learning the fundamentals of clinical examination and practice. His main interests lie in Respiratory Physiology, Haematology and Rheumatology, in addition to learning about the history of medicine and how it has evolved over time.
Rakesh Sharma
Rakesh Sharma is currently pursuing a DPhil in Clinical Neurosciences at Oriel College, Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship. He obtained a first class degree in medicine from St. John’s Medical College, Bangalore, India. He has previously taught Neuropsychology on the Oxbridge Academic Programmes. His interests include cognitive neurosciences, neurodegenerative disorders and neuroimaging, with his DPhil focussing on extramotor involvement in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Politics
Lucy Geoghegan
Lucy recently graduated from Edinburgh University with a First Class Political Honours degree, winning the DP Heatley Prize. Her principal academic interests include environmental politics and US Government and she wrote her undergraduate dissertation on business lobbying around US climate change legislation. She is also interested in international relations and international security, particularly the rise of new security issues. Lucy has worked in a Scottish think tank, political monitoring firm and a national carbon cutting initiative.
Jeffrey Howard
Jeff is a doctoral candidate in political theory at Nuffield College, Oxford University. He received his MPhil from Oxford in 2010, writing a thesis, with distinction, on the significance of moral disagreement in politics. His current dissertation project develops an account of the proper standards of treatment towards citizens who act wrongly; his wider interests concern contemporary liberalism, deliberative democracy, philosophy of criminal law and the history of English political thought. He holds an undergraduate degree from Harvard University, and has guest-taught politics in Boston and Cambridge schools through the Harvard CIVICS program, and has worked as an A-Level Government and Politics teacher in England.
International Relations
Jonathan Leader Maynard
Jonathan graduated from King’s College London in 2008 with the top first in War Studies and a first in History, and is now studying his two year DPhil in Political Theory at University College, Oxford. A European Debating Champion and Best Speaker, and twice World Debating Championship Grand Finalist, he is also a former Chair of the English National Universities Debating Council. His interests include the place of moral theory in political ideologies, the history of modern political thought, and ethics in international relations.
Lucy Geoghagen
Lucy recently graduated from Edinburgh University with a First Class Political Honours degree, winning the DP Heatley Prize. Her principal academic interests include environmental politics and US Government and she wrote her undergraduate dissertation on business lobbying around US climate change legislation. She is also interested in international relations and international security, particularly the rise of new security issues. Lucy has worked in a Scottish think tank, political monitoring firm and a national carbon cutting initiative.
Philosophy
Julienne Vipond
Julienne recently graduated from the London School of Economics with an MSc. degree in Political Theory. Her research focuses on the relationship between political freedom, social justice and the coercive nature of the law. Julienne is particularly interested in Immanuel Kant’s understanding of this relationship. Julienne will be pursuing a joint JD/PhD (Philosophy) through which she will focus on issues of jurisprudence – the philosophy of law. Her other interests include epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind and philosophical issues surrounding identity.
Bob Hargrave
Bob has been teaching Philosophy in Oxford since 1977. Since then he has worked at many Oxford colleges, and is currently Lecturer in Philosophy at Balliol. He has acquired a wide range of philosophical interests over the years, and is currently working on the interface between Grammar and Logic. You can see some of the relevant ideas made accessible at: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~ball0888/