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Dr Stuart Eves

Director of Studies

Dr Stuart Eves

Director of Studies

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

Dr William Farr, a man with short, light brown hair, is smiling at the camera. He is wearing a light blue collared shirt and standing in front of a neutral, mottled background.

Dr William Farr

Fellow

Dr William Farr

Fellow

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, with short, straight blonde hair, smiles at the camera. She is wearing a black polo neck and a patterned blazer against a plain, light grey background.

Professor Eilís Ferran

Fellow

Professor Eilís Ferran

Fellow

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.

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Dr David Friedman

Bye-Fellow, Director of Studies

Dr David Friedman

Bye-Fellow, Director of Studies
Dr David Friedman is Director of Studies in Classics at St Edmund's and an Affiliated Researcher in the Faculty of Classics.

Dr Friedman studies Judaism in the Greco-Roman world, with a particular focus on Josephus and ancient historiography. After receiving a BA in Mathematics (Yale) and working first at a physics lab and for many years in derivatives trading, he returned to university to earn an MA (UCL), MPhil (Oxford), and DPhil (Oxford), which explored how Josephus presented the origins of the Jews to his Roman audience. David is a Bye Fellow of Darwin College, a Bye Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics at St  Edmund's and an affiliated researcher in the Faculty of Classics.

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Dr Anna Gannon, MA, PhD Cantab, FSA

Emerita Fellow, Director of Studies

Dr Anna Gannon, MA, PhD Cantab, FSA

Emerita Fellow, Director of Studies

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.

Dr Anna Gannon, MA, PhD Cantab, FSA, FHEA gained her first degree in Italy, where she studied Modern Languages and specialised in German Philology. She read History of Art at Cambridge, and her PhD was published as The Iconography of Early Anglo-Saxon Coinage (Oxford University Press, 2003; paperback reprint, 2010; Kindle edn. 2012). Dr Gannon worked for some years at the British Museum in the Money and Metal Department and in the Department of Britain, Europe and Prehistory, reporting on Treasure. She published the 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, 2013.

As Academic Consultant for the University, she was in charge of the professional development of newly-appointed probationary lecturers across the University. As Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of History of Art she taught her own Part II paper on Anglo-Saxon Art, as well as directing studies for five colleges. At St Edmund’s she was also a Tutor and contributed to a number of major Committees.

Her principal research interests and publications are in Anglo-Saxon coinage, Germanic and Insular art and culture, Late Antiquity and the artistic reworking of the heritage of Rome, the advent and spread of of Christianity. Her work spans archaeological and interdisciplinary methodological questions. Since her retirement she has pursued her interest in Theology, and has contributed entries to the Visual Commentary of Scripture on line, a project directed by Prof. Ben Quash, King’s College London.

Publications 

  • The Iconography of Early Anglo-Saxon Coinage (6th-8th centuries), 2003, Oxford University Press .
  • Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles, 63, c.600-760, 2013 B.M.P
  • The Coins of the Irish Free State, 1928, 2025, in Le Molte Facce di una Moneta, Milano UP, 109-26
  • Guarding the Sacred: early Anglo-Saxon cylindrical containers’ 2021, in Custodire il Sacro, Temporis Signa, XVI, 213-233
  • Insular numismatics 2020, Barbaric Splendor, Archeopress 121-139.
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Dr Philip Gardner

Life Fellow

Dr Philip Gardner

Life Fellow
Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education

Dr Philip Gardner was elected to the Fellowship of St Edmund’s in 1993.  Following a ten-year teaching career in West Country comprehensive schools, he was appointed to a Lectureship at the Faculty of Education in 1990 and latterly to a Senior Lectureship, specialising in the History of Education. He took his first and second degrees at the University of East Anglia, followed by a doctorate at the University of Sussex. His early research work focused on currents of informal working-class education in the nineteenth century and was the foundation for his prize-winning first book, The Lost Elementary Schools of Victorian England. His subsequent research interests, on which he has written extensively, include the history of the teaching profession, education and the British Empire in the early twentieth century, oral history, history and memory, and hermeneutical aspects of historical methodology. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2010.

Within College Philip has undertaken a number of roles over the years, successively serving as Tutor, Director of Studies in History, Director of Studies in Education and, from 2008 to 2015, Secretary of the Governing Body. Between 1994 and 2018 he also served as College Archivist and latterly Fellow Archivist.

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Dr Yves Gaspar

Visiting Scholar

Dr Yves Gaspar

Visiting Scholar

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
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Professor Hill Gaston

Emeritus Fellow

Professor Hill Gaston

Emeritus Fellow

My research interests have been in the field of immunology as applied to an understanding of autoimmune and inflammatory diseases which I also managed as a clinical rheumatologist. My principal interest was in T lymphocyte responses to a variety of pathogens associated with some forms of arthritis.

Prof. Gaston read medicine at Oxford, trained in general medicine in London and Bristol, and started research in Bristol, as a CRC Fellow, on T cell responses to Epstein-Barr virus. He continued postdoctoral training at Stanford as an MRC travelling fellow, working on total lymph node irradiation as a treatment for RA, and began studies on synovial biopsies and cloning of lesional T lymphocytes. In 1985 he was invited to Birmingham by Paul Bacon, where he became a Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Fellow and honorary consultant, continuing work on synovial T cell clones, particularly those recognizing bacterial antigens in reactive arthritis. He moved to Cambridge in 1995 as foundation professor of rheumatology, and has continued interests in immunological mechanisms in rheumatic disease, particularly spondyloarthritis and the role of HLA-B27, and interactions between infection and the immune system. Recent research in his lab has investigated the IL-23-IL-17 axis in inflammatory arthritis, and the transcriptional control of IL-23 secretion, having recently reported the influence of intracellular stress responses on IL-23 production. Such responses can be initiated by protein mis-folding (as seen with HLA-B27) or intracellular infection (e.g. by chlamydia).

He established a spondyloarthritis clinic, and was involved in clinical research as clinical director of the West Anglia comprehensive local research network. cHe haired the Arthritis Research UK’s clinical studies group in spondyloarthritis.

Prof Gaston is married to a G.P, has two grown-up children and a grandson; interests include music, science and faith issues (through Cambridge Faraday Institute), reading and travel.

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Rev Dr Luigi Gioia

Visiting Scholar

Rev Dr Luigi Gioia

Visiting Scholar

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.

 

Academic Profile

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.

 

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Dr Effrossyni Gkrania-Klotsas

Bye-Fellow, Director of Studies

Dr Effrossyni Gkrania-Klotsas

Bye-Fellow, Director of Studies

My 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.

Academic Profile

Awards & 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
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Miss Anastasia Glover

Bye-Fellow, Director of Studies

Miss Anastasia Glover

Bye-Fellow, Director of Studies

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 reinhabitations 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.

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Professor Neil T Gorman DL

Honorary Fellow

Professor Neil T Gorman DL

Honorary Fellow
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Sr Gill Goulding, CJ

Visiting Scholar

Sr Gill Goulding, CJ

Visiting Scholar

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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Dr Thomas Graff

Dr Thomas Graff

Bye-Fellow, Director of Studies

Dr Thomas Graff

Bye-Fellow, Director of Studies

Dr Thomas Graff's research explores how form and content interdepend in reflecting upon, authoring, and participating in the mystery of God. He focuses on Dante Alighieri’s theology and its Christological and Augustinian dimensions, expanding recently to developing a theology of (mass) incarceration in / beyond Dante.

Following study in philosophy, theology, and Italian literature, Thomas Graff pursued graduate research in theology at Trinity College, Cambridge. His doctoral thesis, ‘Dante, Augustine, and the Body of Christ in the Commedia’, investigates the ways in which Dante utilises Augustine to articulate a Christology of solidarity, or a vision of salvation in Christ as radically communal and interdependent, and what it might mean to read Dante's 'Inferno' in the light of such a Christological vision. Graff's research interests more broadly include Christian systematic theology, its relation to literary form, and the role of the humanities in the age of mass incarceration and 'organized abandonment' (Ruth Wilson Gilmore).

At St Edmund's, Graff is a Bye-Fellow, and Director of Studies in Theology, Religion, and Philosophy of Religion. He also serves as Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame in England, and has taught in multiple prisons, including HMP Whitemoor (March, UK) and Westville Correctional Facility (Indiana, US).

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Prof Patrick Griffin

Professor Patrick Griffin

Bye-Fellow

Professor Patrick Griffin

Bye-Fellow

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
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Dr Renan Gross

Post Doctoral Research Associate

Dr Renan Gross

Post Doctoral Research Associate

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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Revd Dr Kevin Grove

Visiting Scholar

Revd Dr Kevin Grove

Visiting Scholar

Revd Dr Kevin Grove is an Associate Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame.

Born and raised in Montana, USA, Kevin Grove was ordained a Holy Cross priest at Notre Dame in 2010. After doctoral studies at the University of Cambridge (Trinity College) and before joining the faculty at Notre Dame, Grove was a post-doctoral researcher at L’Institut Catholique in Paris, France and a fellow at the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study. In addition to his research and teaching, Grove serves at Notre Dame as an assistant faculty chaplain, Director of the Master of Divinity program, and as a pastoral resident for undergraduates in Dunne Hall.

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Dr Siddharth Gumber

Post Doctoral Research Associate

Dr Siddharth Gumber

Post Doctoral Research Associate

Dr Gumber is presently working on the ‘The Big Thaw: gauging the past, present, and future of our mountain water resources’ project, which is an ambitious project assessing past, present and future changes in global mountain water resources from snow and ice. He is currently undertaking high-resolution atmospheric modelling work using the MetUM regional climate model (RCM) to address the question: How much snow accumulates in selected key mountain catchments, and how will it change? The crucial task involves optimizing the current state-of-the-art Met Office’s Unified Model to get snowfall right over High Mountain regions, including the Alps and the Himalayas.

Earlier during his PhD, he also looked at the chemical conversion of soot and black carbon particles from anthropogenic sources into cloud condensation nuclei over congested urban cities in India.

Apart from his interests in addressing questions related to the impacts and threats about Climate Change, he also believe in communicating Science effectively. He is acutely aware of how literature as a medium impacted and bettered society. He believes that the concept of 'Terraforming' introduced by Amitav Ghosh's two books- The Great Derangement- Climate Change and Unthinkable and 'The Nutmeg's Curse- Parables for a Planet' has a great deal of relevance within the Indian subcontinent.

His hobbies, therefore, include taking a lot of interest in English and Hindi literature.

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Professor Peter Guthrie OBE

Emeritus Fellow

Professor Peter Guthrie OBE

Emeritus Fellow

My research is focused on resilience of infrastructure, the assessment of large scale projects for sustainability, and energy efficiency and infection control in buildings.

Peter Guthrie was the first Professor in Engineering for Sustainable Development in the UK, taking up this post at the University of Cambridge in 2000. Prior to that he was in engineering consultancy for over 25 years. His research is focused on resilience of infrastructure, the assessment of large scale projects for sustainability, and energy efficiency and infection control in buildings. A civil engineer, Peter has worked in countries such as Nigeria, Malaysia, Lesotho, Sudan, Philippines, Ethiopia, and Botswana, and on major infrastructure projects such as London 2012, Channel Tunnel Rail Link (HS1), Conwy Tunnel, major airports, and building projects. He has recently led research consultancy for Lloyd’s Register Foundation (LRF). Peter was a Vice-President of the Royal Academy of Engineering (2020-2024), and is currently leading work on Pandemic Preparedness and on Infection Resilient Environments. Peter is founder and Vice-President of the charity RedR Engineers for Disaster Relief.

Academic Profile

Publications

  • MacAskill, Kristen, O’Hanlon, Francesca, Guthrie, Peter, Mian, Juliet, (2020). Fostering resilience-oriented thinking in engineering practice Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering Sustainability Volume 173 Issue 7, October pp. 356- 364 DOI: 10.1680/jensu.19.00049
  • George, Jennifer; Guthrie, Peter; Orr, John, (2022). "Re-Defining Shelter: Humanitarian Sheltering". July. Disasters Journal doi: 10.1111/disa.12555
  • Short, CA, Forman, T, MacAskill, KA, Soulti, E, Mutschler, R, Mohareb, E, Solanki, J, Britnell, J, Georgiadou, MC, Brady-Patel, B, Guthrie, P, (2020). NHS Estate: Energy Efficiency and Practice. Journal of Building Engineering. Submitted for review, May.
  • Zhou, W., Reiner, D., Moncaster, A., Guthrie, P., (2022) Modelling future trends of annual embodied energy of urban residential building stock in China. Energy Policy Vol 165, June doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2022.112932
  • Blom CM and Guthrie PM, 2019. Strategic intent .... Proc ICE – Engg Sustainability 172(4): 167–183

Awards & Recognitions

  • CBE 2024
  • FREng 1997
  • OBE1993

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