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Julia Wdowin

Dr Julia Wdowin

VHI Affiliate Member

Dr Julia Wdowin

VHI Affiliate Member

Dr Julia Wdowin is a Research Associate at the Bennett School of Public Policy. Julia is a scholar with research interests in normative welfare economics, applied ethics, and public policy. Her work focuses on multidimensional approaches to economic development and inequality measures, and economic measurement issues. Her research to date includes theoretical and empirical work in the areas of economic welfare and well-being measurement (with a particular interest in applications of Sen’s capability approach), inequality measurement, comprehensive wealth measurement and natural capital asset valuation. Julia holds a PhD, AdvDip and BA from the University of Cambridge.

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Dr Yi Wei

Director of Studies

Dr Yi Wei

Director of Studies

Dr Yi Wei is Director of Studies for Economics.

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Professor Paul Weithman

Senior Research Associate

Professor Paul Weithman

Senior Research Associate

My research focuses on contemporary political philosophy in the analytic tradition. I have also worked on moral philosophy, the philosophy of education and medieval political theory.

Paul Weithman is the Glynn Family Honors Professor of Philosophy at Notre Dame, the university from which he received his B.A. in 1981. He earned his Ph.D. at Harvard, where he wrote his dissertation under John Rawls and Judith Shklar. He joined the Notre Dame faculty in 1991. Professor Weithman chaired the Philosophy Department between 2001 and 2007 and currently directs the interdisciplinary minor in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He serves on the editorial boards of the JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS ETHICS, THE REVIEW OF POLITICS and POLITICS, PHILOSOPHY AND ECONOMICS. He is a member of the international advisory board of PHILOSOPHY AND PUBLIC ISSUES and is an honorary member of the Brazilian Society for Legal Philosophy. Professor Weithman has won several awards for his teaching. His book RELIGION AND THE OBLIGATIONS OF CITIZENSHIP (Cambridge, 2002), won the annual book award from the North American Society for Social Philosophy. His WHY POLITICAL LIBERALISM (Oxford, 2010) won the David and Elaine Spitz Prize for the best book on liberal democratic theory published in its year. In 2015, Cambridge University Press published a collection of his papers under the title RAWLS, POLITICAL LIBERALISM AND REASONABLE FAITH.

Academic Profile

Awards & Recognitions 

  • National Humanities Center Residential Fellowship, 2000
  • Annual Book Award from the North American Society for Social Philosophy, 2003
  • David and Elaine K. Spitz Prize for the best work of liberal and democratic theory published in 2010
  • NEH Grant to host a conference, "A Theory of Justice at Fifty", 2021

Professor Robert (Bob) White, FRS

Emeritus Fellow

Professor Robert (Bob) White, FRS

Emeritus Fellow
Bob White is Emeritus Professor of Geophysics at Cambridge University and a trustee and Emeritus Director of The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion

Bob White is Emeritus Professor of Geophysics at Cambridge University and a trustee and Emeritus Director of The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, originally founded in St Edmund's College, Cambridge in 2006. He studied Geology as an undergraduate at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and stayed to do research for a PhD in marine geophysics, which he completed in 1977. Since then he has been mostly in Cambridge, though with research interests around the world. He was elected a Fellow of St. Edmund’s College in 1988. In 1989 he was elected Professor of Geophysics, in 1994 a Fellow of the Royal Society, in 2016 a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, and in 2018 was awarded a Gold Medal of The Royal Astronomical Society for his research.  His research interests include a wide variety of topics to do with how the earth works, with particular emphasis in recent years on the way in which molten rock is generated beneath the earth's major rift zones, and then stored in magma chambers in the crust before being erupted from volcanoes. Much of his current fieldwork is in Iceland.

He lectures and writes widely on science and Christian faith and believes that they are two ways of looking at the same world which give a richer and deeper view of it than either on their own. He is President of the charity Christians in Science, and Vice-President of the John Ray Initiative, a Christian environmental charity.

Dr James Whitworth

Fellow

Dr James Whitworth

Fellow

Dr James Whitworth's research and clinical activity focuses on the identification of individuals at increased risk of cancer due to a heritable genetic cause, and methods to mitigate that risk where identified.

James obtained his medical degree from the University of Leicester in 2007. He continued his clinical training in the East Midlands before taking up an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship in Clinical Genetics in Birmingham. He moved to Cambridge to undertake a PhD, which was completed in 2019 and led to his appointment as an NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer prior to his current post.

Dr Christopher Williamson

Bye-Fellow

Dr Christopher Williamson

Bye-Fellow

Chris is a Research Associate in the Centre for Photonic Devices and Sensors specialising in liquid crystal displays and scalable manufacturing processes. He completed his PhD in electronic engineering at St. Edmund’s College.

He has developed an electrically switchable window capable of reflecting heat, controlling privacy, and displaying images while using no continuous power. To commercialise this innovation, he cofounded Flexypix in 2016 and was awarded an Enterprise Fellowship from the Royal Academy of Engineering to pursue this venture.

His wider interests include playing the guitar, photography, and motorcycles.

Ms Kate Wilson

Bye-Fellow

Ms Kate Wilson

Bye-Fellow

Kate is Vice-Principal, Advancement at Queen’s University in Canada. She began her career in fund raising after graduating with a Bachelor of Arts from Queen’s in 1986. She earned her MBA from Harvard Business School in 1996 and relocated to the UK to work in telecommunications and media.

From 2012-2019, she was Chief Operating Officer, Development and Alumni Relations at the University of Cambridge. She directed the £2 billion “Dear World, Yours Cambridge” campaign. She became a fellow of St Edmund’s College in 2016 and served on Council, various college committees and as a tutor.

She was CEO of RegGenome, a research spin-out from Cambridge Judge Business School, and then Director at IMAGINE where she built community to enable positive impact among global system leaders. As a freelancer in Cambridge, she worked with leaders across the University and colleges to refine strategy and align operations to maximize funding and impact. Until mid-2025, she was CEO of Cambridge’s Centre for Better Futures.

Dr Diana Wood

Emeritus Fellow

Dr Diana Wood

Emeritus Fellow
Emeritus Clinical Dean in the University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine

Dr Diana Wood MA MD FRCP FHEA was the Vice-Master of St Edmund's College, from 1 September 2020 to 30 September 2022.

Dr Wood is Emeritus Clinical Dean at the University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine. She studied medicine at the University of Birmingham, qualifying in 1980.  Having followed postgraduate training and research posts in Birmingham, she became a Lecturer in Clinical Medicine at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School, London and later was appointed as Senior Lecturer, and then Reader, in Medicine and Honorary Consultant Physician at Barts and the London School of Medicine, University of London.  She moved to Cambridge in 2003 having been appointed as the University’s first full-time Director of Medical Education and Clinical Dean, a post which she held until the end of 2020.  She was an honorary consultant physician in the Department of Endocrinology at Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust from 2003 - 2020.

Diana was elected to the Fellowship at St Edmund’s College in October 2003.  Having retired from the substantive Clinical Dean role, she maintains an active involvement in the University’s student mental health and wellbeing programme and is a past Non-Executive Director and current University–appointed Governor of the Cambridge and Peterborough Foundation Trust.  She has served on numerous committees relating to undergraduate and postgraduate medical education locally, nationally, and internationally, with special interests in clinical education, clinical communication skills, and the development of professional skills, resilience, and wellbeing in medical students and junior doctors.

Mr Benjamin Woolf

Dr Benjamin Woolf

Associate Tutor, Bye-Fellow

Dr Benjamin Woolf

Associate Tutor, Bye-Fellow

Dr Benjamin Woolf is a genetic epidemiologist who works on casual inference from observational data. His research focuses on using the inheritance of genetic variation to emulate randomised control trials, and thereby accelerate drug development.

Having failed to become a philosopher, Benji became a genetic epidemiologist. He currently works at the Medical Research Council Biostatistics and Integrative Epidemiology Units (at the Universities of Cambridge and Bristol respectively). His research leverages the random inheritance of genes to emulate clinical trials ('Mendelian randomization'), and thereby accelerate drug development for cardiovascular and respiratory conditions. His PhD research won the 2023 Cambridge Public Health Early Carer Researcher award for developing a novel approach to assess the causal impact of intergenerational risk factors, such as familial second-hand smoke exposure.

In addition to being an Associate Tutor at St Edmunds, Benji is a tutor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and has been elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

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Ralf Wüstenberg

Professor Ralf Karolus Wüstenberg

Visiting Scholar

Professor Ralf Karolus Wüstenberg

Visiting Scholar

Professor Ralf Karolus Wüstenberg studied Protestant theology in Berlin, Cambridge and Heidelberg.

Since 2009 Chair of Protestant Theology specialising in Systematic and Historical Theology at the European University of Flensburg (EUF) and Director of the European Wasatia Graduate School for Peace and Conflict Resolution; he is an Extraordinary Professor at the University of Stellenbosch and a Visiting Scholar at St. Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge, previously Visiting Professorships at Union Theological Seminary, New York City (2002/2003) and Freie University of Berlin (2006-2009).

In addition to his international research activities, Dr Wüstenberg performs a number of voluntary tasks. Among other things, he is a project ambassador for the House of One in Berlin and, after ordination and parish ministry (2003-2005), has been a permanent guest preacher at Berlin Cathedral since 2018. Dr Wüstenberg is the author and editor of 25 titles in English and German, including introductions to theology and Christology; on current topics such as the political dimension of reconciliation or dialogue with Islam and on Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theology and ethics.

Dr Eden Yin

Fellow

Dr Eden Yin

Fellow

Dr Eden Yin is a Fellow of St Edmund's College. His research focuses on internationalisation and branding strategies of Chinese firms. I am an associate professor at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, and the co-director of the Cambridge Centre for Chinese Management.

Dr Yin received his PhD in Business Administration from the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, and currently an associate professor at the Judge Business School, and the co-director of the Cambridge Centre for Chinese Management, At Cambridge, he teaches the core marketing strategy courses for both the EMBA and GEMBA programs. He also teaches branding strategies for the MBA program. His research interests include internationalization and innovation strategies of Chinese firms, building China’s global brands, branding strategies in the digital era, and new product growth in high-tech industries. His research work has appeared in journals such as Marketing Science, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of International Marketing, Management International Review and Sloan Management Review. Besides offering classes to degree programs, Dr Yin is an active contributor for the executive education of the Judge Business School and has taught executives from the US, UK, Japan, Australia, Finland, China, Brazil, Argentina, Thailand and a few others across a large number of executive programs. Dr Yin is a member of the American Marketing Association, INFORMS, and the Academy of Marketing Science.

Mrs Angela Young

Fellow Commoner

Mrs Angela Young

Fellow Commoner

Angela is a former BBC News Editor and Journalism instructor; She has also taught crisis handling at the Institute of Development in Lausanne. Angela now drafts honours nominations and makes podcasts through her business, Cambridge Podcasts. She is a graduate of Lucy Cavendish College.

Angela also volunteers for the NSPCC Schools Service and teaches English as a foreign language to refugees. She enjoys cycling, Ceroc and qi gong.

Her husband Chris is the 16th Master of St Edmund’s College

Professor Mohamed Zaki, BSc, MSc, PhD

Bye-Fellow

Professor Mohamed Zaki, BSc, MSc, PhD

Bye-Fellow

Mohamed Zaki is the Deputy Director of Cambridge Service Alliance at the Institute for Manufacturing, a research centre that brings together the world’s leading firms and academics to address digital service transformation challenges. I serve as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Service Management. I hold visiting professorships, international academic collaborators and fellowships at several global institutions, such as the University of Queensland in Australia.

I am a high-profile academic with an extensive research portfolio in “Service Management”. My research interests lie in service experience, emphasising the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to design and manage customer experience and create new data-driven business models. I have many publications in highly-ranked service management journals. Also, my papers appeared in top conferences and practical outlets such as the Harvard Business Review. I successfully generated funds from industry and UK research councils (a total contribution of over £10 million).

I have consulted and lectured for over 50 organisations, including Manchester United, Mitsubishi Heavy Industry, CEMEX, Caterpillar, IKEA, HCL Tech, Bouygues, and others. I am the course leader for the Data-Driven Design for Customer Experience (CX) online course, offered through Cambridge Advance Online at Cambridge University Press and Assessment.

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