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My research focuses on all aspects of Intellectual Property.

Qualifying in Pharmacology at Kings College London, called to the Bar in 1989, St. Edmunds College Camb, Research Associate, Intellectual Prop. 2015 - 2025, Notre Dame University – Prof. of IP, 2018 – 2020-advocacy and IP for New York State JDs, Hon. Soc. of Gray’s Inn Advocacy Trainer – 2010-current, Visiting Professor – Trade Mark for Practitioners Course - Brunel University & Oxford University. Appointed Bencher (Master) of Hon Soc. of Gray’s Inn – 1999- current ; Chair-elect – Bar Association for Commerce Finance and Industry; Elected Member of the Bar Council (twice); Member of the IP Commission Panel of the Federation Barreaux D’Europe (The European Bar).

Directorships: Autumnpaper Ltd – Alexander McQueen’s company – 2005-2006; The Globe Theatre – Development Council – twice-present.

Published Engelman's IP Updates - Bloomsbury; published over 40 IP papers; notable cases: Intel Corp v CPM (UK) Ltd cited daily in courts & tribunals ojn Trade Mark Dilution across the UK & all Member States of the EU.

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Stuart is Director of Studies in Veterinary Medicine (pre-clinical)

I am a UTO Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education. 

William initially worked as a primary school teacher after a degree from Sussex and UC Berkeley. Additionally, William works on the Primary PGCE and teaches on the UG Education Tripos, and has Masters and PhD students. In research, he collaborates across the University, Education and Healthcare sectors in various Chief Investigator or Co-applicant roles, mainly on the topic of assessment and diagnostic pathways for children with possible autism, or other neurodivergent conditions.

Professor Eilís Ferran is a Fellow at St Edmund's College and a Professor of Company and Securities Law at the University of Cambridge.

She is also the Provost of the Gates-Cambridge Trust, which provides scholarships for postgraduate study at Cambridge funded by a major donation from the Gates Foundation. She has written extensively on UK, EU and international financial regulation, company law and corporate finance law.  Her publications include Principles of Corporate Finance Law (OUP, 3rd edn, 2023, co-authored), Brexit and Financial Services (Hart Publishing, 2017 co-authored), The Oxford Handbook of Financial Regulation (OUP, 2015, co-edited) and The Regulatory Aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis (CUP 2012, co-authored).  She is a Fellow of the British Academy and an Honorary Bencher of Middle Temple.  She is an independent director of a number of profit and not-for-profit companies, and of a charitable foundation.

Dr Anna Gannon is an Emerita Fellow of St Edmund's College.

She specialises in early medieval Insular Art. She is part of an international group working on early Irish reliquaries found in Italy, and co-edits a Medieval studies Festschrift. Current research focuses on the exegesis of evoked sacred landscapes, religious approaches to nature in the Insular world.

Her first degree was in Italy: she studied Modern Languages and specialised in German Philology at the Catholic University of Milan, where she was teaching as an ‘Assistente Ministeriale’ for four years. She subsequently read History of Art at the University of Cambridge, with a PhD on the iconography of Early Anglo-Saxon coinage, published as a monograph by Oxford University Press in 2003. She worked on coin-related projects at the Fitzwilliam Museum and then at the British Museum as a Curator in the Department of Coins and Medals and supporting the Portable Antiquities Scheme, identifying and recording ‘treasure’.

Dr Gannon began attending St Edmund’s Chapel as a student, c. 1995, but her academic connection with the College began in 2001, first as a Director of Studies, then as a Senior Member, and eventually she was elected Fellow in 2006. Her roles at St Edmund’s (as DoS (for 25 years), Tutor, Keeper of Art and serving on several other committees) were combined with and complementary to her other activities for the University. In addition to research and publications on Anglo-Saxon numismatics and art, and an academic role as affiliated lecturer in Early Medieval Art at my Department, she was single-handedly in charge of the professional development of all newly-appointed lecturers on probation across the University – something that could be described as a 'pastoral role’, but which made a huge difference orienteering many new-comers. She retired in 2019.

Her current research interests and publications deal with Insular art and culture, particularly in responses to Christianity. She is part of the international Research Project ‘Insular reliquaries in Italy: in the footsteps of Columbanus’ and is editing a collection of early medieval papers. Her interests have moved towards Theology and ecotheology: she is a regular contributor to the Visual Commentary on Scripture and is exploring the exegesis of imagined sacred landscapes through the sense of smell.

She is a committed Benedictine Oblate and attends Mass at St Edmund’s Chapel regularly. She is happy to report that she was the one behind the project of the new entrance to the Chapel, with the access ramp and the bench for St Edmund’s.

Selected publications:

• The Iconography of Early Anglo-Saxon Coinage (6th-8th centuries), Oxford University Press 2003.
• Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles, 63. British Museum.  Anglo-Saxon Coins. Part i. Early Anglo-Saxon Coins and Continental Silver Coins of the North Sea, c.600-760, British Museum Publications, 2013.
• ‘The Coins of the Irish Free State, 1928: are animals good to think with?’ in Le Molte Facce di una Moneta: Saggi in Onore di Lucia Travaini, M. Baldasssari, B. Cook and S. Locatelli eds, Milano University Press, 2025, 109-26.
• ‘Insular numismatics: the relationship between ancient British and early Anglo-Saxon coins ‘, in Barbaric Splendor: the use of image in Europe before and after Rome, T.F. Martin and W.A. Morrison eds. Archeopress Publishing 2020, 121-139.
• ‘Guarding the Sacred: early Anglo-Saxon cylindrical containers’ Atti del convegno ’Custodire il Sacro’, Vercelli, 11-12 Gennaio 2021, "Temporis Signa. Archeologia della tarda antichità e del medioevo", Fondazione Centro italiano di Studi sull'Alto Medioevo di Spoleto, number XVI 2021, 213-233.
• ‘Art in the round: tradition and creativity in early Anglo-Saxon coinage’, in Money and Coinage in the Middle Ages, R. Naismith ed., Brill, 2019, 289-321

Contributions to the Visual Commentary on Scripture (VCS), Ben Quash ed., King’s College, London:

• ‘Benedictus’ – Luke 1:67–80
• ‘The Prophet Anna’ – Luke 2:36-38
• ‘Salt and Light’ – Matthew 5:13–16
• ‘A Song of Thanksgiving: Psalm 147’
• 'Blessed is the Mother’ – Luke11:27-8’
• ‘The Altar of Incense’ – Exodus 30’

Dr Yves Gaspar obtained in 2002 his PhD at the University of Cambridge (UK) with a thesis in the field of mathematical cosmology (supervisor Prof John D. Barrow) on the late-time behaviour of general solutions to the Einstein Field Equations.

He has been lecturer in cosmology and astrophysics at the Department of Mathematics and Physics of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Brescia (Italy), where he also lectures on the complexity of natural systems for the Master courses of the Postgraduate School for Environmental Studies.

He is currently Visiting Scholar at St Edmund’s College of the University of Cambridge where he carries out research on randomness, uncomputability/philosophy and theology.

Publications

• “The laws of nature and the problems of modern cosmology”, Foundations of Science, Springer Nature, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-023-09904-1, arxiv.org/abs/2308.02338, co-authored with Prof. Pawel Tambor, 2023
• "The problems of modern cosmology, the fine tuning of constants and parameters, and the notion of time”, book chapter in Cosmology Research – addressing current problems with astrophysics, Intechopen, Eds. M. Smith and A. Oztas, 2025

The Rev Dr Luigi Gioia is the Theologian in Residence at Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue in New York City and a Visiting Scholar at the Von Hügel Institute at the University of Cambridge (UK).

A scholar of systematic theology, he focuses particularly on the Trinity, ecclesiology, and the relationship between theology and spirituality. Working at the crossroads of academy and church, he speaks and writes for both academic and general audiences, seeking to make rigorous theological reflection accessible and pastorally grounded. He is the author of The Theological Epistemology of Augustine’s De Trinitate (OUP, 2016, with a foreword by Rowan Williams), Say It to God: In Search of Prayer, the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lent Book 2018 (Bloomsbury, 2017), and Saint Benedict's Wisdom: Monastic Spirituality and the Life of the Church (Liturgical Press, 2020). His award-winning books have been translated into six languages.

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Publications 

• Luigi Gioia, The Theological Epistemology of Augustine’s De Trinitate, 2016, OUP: Oxford. Paperback edition with a foreword by Rowan Williams.
• Luigi Gioia, “The Threat of Death As a Test for Theological Authenticity”, 2017, in The Practice of the Presence of God: Theology As a Way of Life, Ed. Martin Laird and Sheelah Treflé Hidden, Routledge: New York, 120-9.
• Luigi Gioia, St Benedict’s Wisdom. Monastic Spirituality and the Life of the Church, 2020, Liturgical Press: Collegeville (MN, USA), and Canterbury Press (UK)
• Luigi Gioia, “St Benedict’s Rule as the Antidote to Regulatory Inflation”, 2021, Reviews in Religion & Theology, 28:1, 4-9.
• Luigi Gioia, “Prayer in the Secular City”, 2024, Concilium 4, 41-50

Awards and recognitions 

• The book Say It To God. In Search of Prayer (Bloomsbury, 2017) was chosen as the Archbishop of Canterbury Lent Book 2018.
• The book St Benedict’s Wisdom. Monastic Spirituality and the Life of the Church (Liturgical Press, 2020) received the First Place in the category of Spirituality Award by the CMA (Catholic Media Association) in 2021.

• Director of Studies: Medicine: Standard and Affiliated Programme (Pre-clinical)

Dr Gkrania-Klotsas' research focuses on the genetic causes of susceptibility to infections and the adult presentations of immune deficiency as well as the determinants of vaccine responses.

Effrossyni Gkrania-Klotsas is a Consultant in infectious diseases with an interest in primary and secondary immunodeficiencies and transplantation. She leads the Mendelian susceptibility to mycobacterial disease (MSMD) and other rare unexplained intracellular infections collaborative network. Effrossyni is also a Visiting Professor of University of Athens and University of Crete Medical Schools, Greece.

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Awards and recognitions

• RCP London NIHR Consultant Research Award (shared with Prof A Comninos)/ RCP & NIHR, 2024
• Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists, UK, 2023
• The Winston Churchill Memorial Foundation Award, 2019
• Excellent Teaching Award, University of Cambridge Clinical School Students Society, 2016 & 2018

• Director of Studies: Architecture

Anastasia is a British-Greek architect, tutor, soprano and linguist. She is a Design Fellow in the Architecture Faculty, teaching third year undergraduate students.

She is the director of Glover Architects, a London based studio that focuses on remodelling unusual historic properties for private clients, as well as new builds and commercial projects that embrace the elemental.  They work with local and salvaged materials, vernacular techniques, high attention to detail, layering of spaces and time’s inevitable patina. Completed projects include the remodelling of various London townhouses, a ruined 15th century castle, a rural meditation retreat in Ireland, and re-inhabitations of island ruins in Greece.

She also sings with Musarc, an avant-garde choir collective who perform all over Europe. She speaks five languages and previously worked as a Japanese and Chinese interpreter for the BBC, having lived in Tokyo, Beijing, Florida, Athens as well as a Zen Buddhist Monastery in France.

Sr Gill Goulding CJ is Professor Ordinaria of Systematic Theology at Regis College, the Jesuit Graduate School of Theology at the University of Toronto. She is currently a Bye-Fellow at St Edmund’s College and was appointed in 2021 as a member of the Theological Commission of the Secretariat of the Synod in Rome.

In Canada she was appointed by the Canadian Conference of Bishops to the Faith and Witness (Theological Commission) Commission of the Canadian Council of Churches. She is also the first theologian to have been appointed by the Bishops' Conference to the standing committee on Responsible Ministry.

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Prof Garth Green research and teach the histories of European philosophy and Christian theology, and the systematic relations within and between these histories. He focuses on medieval neo-Platonic theology, modern and 19th-century philosophies of religion, and the reconfigurations of this medieval-theological and modern-philosophical inheritance in contemporary French phenomenology. He seeks to comprehend fundamental philosophical and theological problems by attending to the process of their unfolding, in order to come to a contemporary understanding of ourselves as inheritors of these open, unfinished philosophical and theological histories.

Professor Patrick Griffin is Bye-Fellow at St Edmund's College and a Madden-Hennebry Professor at the University of Notre Dame. He is an historian, trained as an early Americanist and specialising in the Atlantic world. His work ranges from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. It brings together American, British, and Irish history.

Patrick Griffin's work explores the intersection of colonial and early national American and early modern Irish and British history. As such, it focuses on Atlantic-wide themes and dynamics. He has published work on the movement of peoples and cultures across the Atlantic Ocean, as well as the process of adaptation. He also examines the ways in which Ireland, Britain, and America were linked—and differed—during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He has looked at revolution and rebellion, movement and migration, and colonization and violence in each society in comparative perspective. Much of what he does explores these themes in the context of empire. In his most recent books, he studied how empire gave way to revolution, both in America and the wider Atlantic. His latest work on the period just after the Age of Revolution has taken a global turn, charting the plight of common men and women in a modernizing world.

Publications

• The Age of Atlantic Revolution: The Fall and Rise of a Connected World (Yale, 2023).
• The Townshend Moment: The Making of Empire and Revolution in the Eighteenth Century (Yale, 2017).
• America’s Revolution (Oxford, 2012).
• American Leviathan: Empire, Nation, and Revolutionary Frontier (Hill & Wang, 2007).
• The People with No Name: Ireland’s Ulster Scots, America’s Scots Irish (Princeton, 2001).

Awards & Recognitions

• Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History, University of Oxford, 2021-22.
• Honorary Professor, School of History, Classics, and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, 2018-21.
• Distinguished Fellow, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford
• Honorary Member, Royal Irish Academy
• Member, American Antiquarian Society

I study probability theory and geometry. My work often entails following random walks around and seeing what can be learned from their trajectories. I also study interactions between discrete and analytic problems, i.e. how discrete results carry over to and influence the continuous, and vice-versa.

Renan's research focuses on the intersection of probability, functional analysis, and discrete mathematics. In particular, he is interested in stochastic processes and their capacity to sample, distinguish between geometric structures, and prove and isoperimetric concentration inequalities. He is also interested in random geometric and combinatorial structures.

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