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Dr Elif Çetin

Research Associate

Dr Elif Çetin

Research Associate

Dr. Elif Çetin is an Associate Professor of International Relations and a Faculty member at the Department of International Relations, Yaşar University (Izmir, Turkey). Additionally, she is a Research Associate at the Von Hügel Institute, St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge. Since September 2023, she has been the Head of the UNESCO Chair on International Migration at Yaşar University, which is the first and only UNESCO Chair in Turkey that specifically focuses on migration.

Dr. Çetin holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge. She was a visiting scholar at the EUI (Florence) and the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) (Oxford). Her research interests include politicisation of immigration, political discourse formation, and development of immigration control policies in Europe and beyond. Her publications focus on different dimensions of migration management and control policies.

Dr Elizabeth Bright

Bye-Fellow

Dr Elizabeth Bright

Bye-Fellow

Consultant Anaesthetist, West Suffolk Hospital and Clinical Tutor, Cambridge Graduate Course in Medicine

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Dr Elizabeth Phillips

Research Associate

Dr Elizabeth Phillips

Research Associate

I lecture and publish in the areas of Christian moral and political theologies, interfaith relations, and conflict transformation. I have oversight of the Woolf Institute's teaching in the Cambridge Theological Federation as well as the Institute's public engagement programmes.

Dr Phillips has been at the Woolf Institute since 2022. Previously she was Lecturer in Christian Ethics and Director of Studies at Westcott House, as well as Research Fellow with the Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology. She was a Visiting Scholar with the Institute for Criminology 2018-2019 and from 2016-2019 she co-convened and ethnographically researched a course on 'The Good Life and the Good Society' inside a high security prison. At Margaret Beaufort she completed Flourishing Inside, a project researching the intersections of Catholic social thought and prison chaplaincy. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Academic Profile

Publications

  • Elizabeth Phillips, Apocalyptic Theopolitics: Essays and Sermons on Eschatology, Ethics, and Politics (Cascade, 2022).
  • Elizabeth Phillips, Anna Rowlands and Amy Daughton (eds), T&T Clark Reader in Political Theology ( T&T Clark, 2021).
  • Craig Hovey and Elizabeth Phillips (eds), The Cambridge Companion to Political Theology (Cambridge University Press, 2015).
  • Elizabeth Phillips, Political Theology: A Guide for the Perplexed (Continuum, 2012).
  • Elizabeth Phillips and Ferdia Stone-Davis (eds), Catholic Social Thought and Prison Ministry (2024).
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Dr Emanuela Davey

Director of Studies

Dr Emanuela Davey

Director of Studies

Emanuela is Director of Studies for Modern and Medieval Languages

Dr Emma Poole

Bye-Fellow

Dr Emma Poole

Bye-Fellow

Emma obtained her PhD from Cambridge University, Department of Pathology, where she studied the protein-protein interactions of Influenza A virus polymerase. After a period of time at St George’s Hospital Medical School studying immune evasion mechanism of paramyxoviruses, she returned to Cambridge University. Emma then worked in the Department of Medicine at Cambridge University where she worked on Human Cytomegalovirus. In the Department of Medicine she worked as a Senior Research Associate researching the molecular mechanisms of Human Cytomegalovirus latency. In 2023 she was appointed an Associate Professor at the University of Cambridge, Department of Pathology, where she continues to study Human Cytomegalovirus latency with a view to the development of novel therapeutics.

Dr Esther-Miriam Wagner

Fellow, PDRA Convenor

Dr Esther-Miriam Wagner

Fellow, PDRA Convenor
Executive Director, Woolf Institute

Dr Esther-Miriam Wagner is the Executive Director of the Woolf Institute and Fellow of St Edmund's College, Cambridge. Miriam joined the Woolf Institute in 2013 having been Research Associate at the Cambridge University Library and was appointed Director of Research in 2017. She is an Affiliate Lecturer at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, and teaches on the MPhil in Middle Eastern Studies: Muslim-Jewish Relations at the University of Cambridge.

She completed her doctorate at the University of Cambridge on Judaeo-Arabic in the Cairo Genizah and has written and edited numerous books and articles on sociolinguistics, historical linguistics of Judaeo-Arabic and Yiddish, scribal practice, and Jewish-Muslim relations in Egypt and Muslim Spain as reflected in the Genizah sources. These include Scribes as Agents of Language Change (2013), Merchants of Innovations. The Languages of Traders (2016) and A Handbook and Reader of Ottoman Arabic (2021). Her work has been featured on TV and Radio programmes, such as on BBC3 The Essay, in History Magazine and in documentaries on the Cairo Genizah.

In recent years, Miriam has become a popular speaker, invited to deliver academic keynote lectures and lectures to the wider public, including at the Hay on Wye Festival. She chairs Woolf Institute panels and webinars, including the Institute's How to talk about … series, which among other topics, has considered Religious rights and Freedom of Speech and Humour and Religion.

Miriam is also the Vice-President of the Society for the Medieval Mediterranean, and the Editor-in-chief of the prestigious journal Al-Masāq.

Dr Facundo Romani

Fellow

Dr Facundo Romani

Fellow
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Dr Fernando Constantino-Casas

Fellow

Dr Fernando Constantino-Casas

Fellow

My research includes Veterinary Pathology, Oncology, hepatitis and pancreatitis in dogs and cats, infectious diseases in animals, and syringomyelia in Cavalier King Charles Spaniels. I have supervised 15 undergraduate theses, 8 master theses, and 5 doctorate theses.

Fernando Constantino-Casas graduated with a Bachelor degree in Veterinary Medicine from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 1985. He was awarded a PhD degree from the University of Cambridge, UK in 1991. Fernando was head of the Department of Pathology at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (FMVZ) in Mexico City from 2001 to 2006. He was appointed Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Pathology, University of Cambridge, UK in 2007 and as University Pathologist in the same institution in March 2014. Fernando is a member of the Mexican Society of Veterinary Pathologists and the Royal College of Pathologists (FRCPath), Specialist in Veterinary Pathology (small species) – Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS). Fernando is a Fellow Class A and tutor at St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge, UK.

Publications

  • Rad R, Strong A, Varela I, Kriegl L, Fraga MF, Calvanese V, Saur D, Price S, McDermott U, Eser S, Constantin-Casas F, Kirchner T, Yusa K, Grove C, Seidler B, Schmid RM. A genetic progression model of BrafV600E-induced intestinal tumourigenesis reveals targets for therapeutic intervention. Cancer Cell. 2013; 24, 1-15, July 8.
  • Rad R, Rad L, Wang W, Strong A, Ponstingl H, Bronner IF, Mayho M, Steiger K, Weber J, Hieber M, Veltkamp C, Eser S, Geumann U, Ollinger R, Zukowska M, Barenboim M, Maresch R, Caldinanos J, Friedrich M, Varela I, Constantino-Casas F, Sarver A, Hoeve JT, Prosser H, et al. A conditional PiggyBac transposition system for genetic screening in mice identifies oncogenic networks in pancreatic cancer. Nature Genetics. 2015; 47:1; 47-56.
  • Prevalence of pancreatic, hepatic and renal microscopic lesions in post-mortem samples from cavalier King Charles spaniels. J Small Anim Pract. 2016;57(4):188-193.
  • Coddou MF, Constantino-Casas F, Scase T, Day MJ, Blacklaws, Watson PJ. Chronic inflammatory disease in the pancreas, kidney and salivary glands of English cocker spaniels and dogs of other breeds shows similar histological features to human IgG4-related disease. J Comp Pathol. 2020; 177:18-33.
  • Nivy, Constantino-Casas et al. Copper-associated hepatitis in CKCS. Veterinary Record. 2023:e3651.

Awards & Recognitions

  • Specialist in Veterinary Pathology (Small Domestic Animal), Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS).
  • Associate Fellow (Associate Fellowship Higher Education Academy - AFHEA).

Dr Fiona Costello

Director of Studies, Tutor and Fellow

Dr Fiona Costello

Director of Studies, Tutor and Fellow

I am interested in the global movement of persons, Brexit and the legacy of EU free movement to the UK, wider UK Immigration law & policy and access to justice pathways available to vulnerable and minoritised communities living in the UK & EU.

Fiona is a Fellow, Tutor and Director of Studies (LLM) at St. Edmund's College, Cambridge. Fiona works on various research matters at the Faculty of Law, Cambridge examining immigration issues in the UK post Brexit (particularly for EU citizens in the UK) and access to justice pathways for marginalised communities. Her work is part of a programme called ‘The UK in a Changing Europe’ (http://ukandeu.ac.uk), which is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.

Alongside her academic work, Fiona also works with a charity in Norfolk called GYROS (www.gyros.org.uk) supporting refugee, asylum seekers and other migrant communities. Fiona has written extensively on the topic of migration to the UK. Her work has been featured in The Independent, The Times, The Conversation and BBC News among others. She has given evidence to both the House of Lords, EU Affairs Committee, and the Equality and Social Justice Committee in the Senedd, as well as to Parliamentary Staff in the House of Commons and to the APPG on citizen’s rights. Her work has been cited in reports by both the UK House of Lords and the Welsh Parliament.  She also blogs on Brexit matters, mainly for the http://ukandeu.ac.uk/. Her 2024 co-authored monograph ‘Low-Paid EU Migrant workers, The House, The Street, The Town’ was shortlisted for the SLSA Hart Book Prize 2025.

Fiona’s full list of academic publications can be found here: https://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/f-costello/78811

Dr Flavio Comim

Research Associate

Dr Flavio Comim

Research Associate

I am a human development economist, working on topics relating to poverty, inequality, aporophobia, education and indicators of human development. I have been working on the operationalisation of the capability approach and on the development of new methods of partial rankings for evaluating well-being and sustainability. I carry out a long-term (unpublished) research on moral sentiments, focusing on the links between love and human development. I am currently Professor of Business Ethics and Economics, and Dean of the IQS School of Management/Ramon Llull University in Barcelona. I have been a senior economist for the United Nations Development Programme in Brazil. I have also worked as a consultant for several UN agencies such as UNEP, ILO, UNESCO, FAO, among others. Prior to that I was a GB fellow, CTO and Director of Studies of Economics & Land Economy for St Edmund’s College for several years. I have been associated with the Von Hügel Institute since my PhD years at St Edmund’s, back in 1994. I have also lectured for Land Economy on ‘human development and ecosystem services’ for 18 years.

Flavio Comim is the Dean of the IQS School of Management, University Ramon Llull in Barcelona. He is a Professor in Business Ethics and Economics. He was senior economist for UNDP Brazil during 2008/2010 when he coordinated Brazil’s Human Development Report on ‘Human Values’. After that he coordinated Panama’s 2014 Human Development Report on ‘Childhood and the Youth’. He has also been a consultant for many international organisations such as UNEP, UNESCO, FAO, WHO, UNDP and ILO, carrying out fieldwork in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and Latin America. He has also been a consultant for CSR projects of big corporations such as Natura & Co, Philips, Siemens, Petrobras, Vale, TIM, among others. He lectured for Land Economy for 18 years. In Cambridge, he is also a research associate of the Von Hügel Institute at St Edmund’s College. He has been a Coordinating Leading Author of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and has contributed to the Global Environmental Outlook 4. He has published widely in areas such as history of economic thought, economic methodology, development ethics, ecological economics and the capability approach. Among his publications, it could be mentioned the co-edited books Children and the Capability Approach (2011) with Mario Biggeri and Jerome Ballet, Capabilities, Gender, Equality with Martha Nussbaum (2014) and New Frontiers of the Capability Approach (2018) with Shailaja Fennell and PB Anand. He has published in journals such as the Cambridge Journal of Economics, Ecological Economics, Ecological Indicators, China Economic Review, Social Indicators Research, Review of Social Economy, Journal of International Development, Journal of Economic Methodology, History of Political Economy and Structural Change, and Economic Dynamics and Development among others.

Dr Gianmarco Contino

Bye-Fellow

Dr Gianmarco Contino

Bye-Fellow

Gianmarco Contino is an Associate Professor of Cancer Genomic Medicine and Group Leader in the Department of Cancer and Genetic Sciences at the University of Birmingham Medical School. He also serves as an Upper GI Consultant at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, part of the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust, and as the Translational Lead for Precision Health Technologies at the University of Birmingham. Additionally, he is the Director of the MSc in Clinical Oncology at the University of Birmingham and the Network Chair of the EORTC Pathobiology Group. Gianmarco is a Research Fellow at the Von Hügel Institute, University of Cambridge, where he explores topics in the epistemology of medicine and the implications of artificial intelligence.

Previously, Gianmarco was a Clinical Lecturer at the University of Cambridge and Addenbrooke’s Hospital. His training in surgical oncology and translational science included positions at the European Institute of Oncology (Milan), Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston), the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Imperial College London. He consulted for AI-driven biotech companies, including Cambridge Cancer Genomics (now part of Nvidia) and EpistemicAI.

Gianmarco's research focuses on functional genomics of aneuploidy and upper gastrointestinal cancers. As part of the International Cancer Genome Consortium, he worked on identifying structural variations driving oesophageal adenocarcinoma. His current research leverages functional genomics approaches to understand the molecular mechanisms behind chromosomal instability in oesophageal adenocarcinoma, with active studies involving Genomics England and UK Biobank.

Clinically, Gianmarco specializes in advanced endoscopy and endoscopic treatment for upper gastrointestinal cancers. He has published extensively on the genomics and molecular therapeutics of pancreatic and oesophageal adenocarcinoma, with contributions appearing in leading journals such as Science and Nature.

Gianmarco is passionate about training the next generation of clinician-scientists and volunteers with organizations that support students from disadvantaged backgrounds to enter STEM fields.

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