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A smiling older man, Matthew Bullock, with short grey hair wearing a light-coloured blazer and blue shirt, sits outdoors surrounded by greenery and a blurred background.

Matthew Bullock

Honorary Fellow

Matthew Bullock

Honorary Fellow
Former Master of St Edmund's College

Matthew Bullock served as Master of St Edmund's College from October 2014 - September 2019.

He has a long connection with Cambridge and the University, where he read History at Peterhouse. He was a member of the University's Audit Committee from 1999–2012. He was a founding member of the Judge Business School Advisory Board and its longest serving member (1985–2002), and Chairman of the Centre for Business Research (CBR) Advisory Board from 2001-2013. He also served as a Non-Executive Director and Chairman of the Audit and Business Development Committees of the Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (Addenbrooke's). In the earlier part of his career, whilst at Barclays he was heavily involved in the Cambridge Phenomenon. Mr Bullock was a member of the UK Cabinet Advisory Committee on Applied Research and Development during the mid 1980s. His experience in the technology sector resulted in his appointment as Chairman of TAP Biosystems plc (1999–2012). Mr Bullock is a 1596 Foundation Fellow of Sidney Sussex College and he has an Honorary Degree from Anglia Ruskin University. He is currently Vice Chairman of Cambridge Ahead, a local business and academic group.

Matthew Bullock had a long and successful career in the financial sector, joining Barclays Bank in 1974, where he rose to become Regional Director in Leeds and Director of Risk Management and Group Senior Executive. Prior to leaving the Barclays Group in 1998, he was a Managing Director of BZW/Barclays Capital. From 1998–2011 he was Group Chief Executive of the Norwich & Peterborough Building Society. During this time he was Chairman of the Building Societies Association. He is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers.

Mr Bullock was previously on the Governing Body of the University of Leeds and the Council of Imperial College, London.

Matthew Bullock has close connections with the University of Oxford. His father, Lord (Alan) Bullock, the eminent historian, was Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University and Censor of St Catherine's Society and led an ambitious campaign of fundraising and development, resulting in the transformation of the Society into St Catherine's College in 1962 when he was elected as its first Master. Matthew Bullock was educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford.

Dr Matthew Psycharis, a man with short dark hair, wearing a light blue shirt and a dark blazer, is smiling whilst sitting indoors. The softly blurred background reveals other people and shelves.

Dr Matthew Psycharis

Fellow, Director of Studies

Dr Matthew Psycharis

Fellow, Director of Studies
  • Director of Studies: Law 

Matthew is a Fellow of St Edmund’s College and Director of Studies of Undergraduate Law.  He is a member of the Centre for Public Law, Cambridge.  He teaches constitutional law, and the law of trusts and equity, across a number of Cambridge colleges.  His research is in the field of constitutional law and constitutional theory.  His works on topics ranging from contemporary populism, constitutional change, referendums, and constitutional history, have been published in leading UK and Australian journals.

Matthew completed his PhD in law at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, supported by a WM Tapp Scholarship, on the topic of ‘Policy Referendums in the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia’.  In addition to his doctorate, Matthew holds a Bachelor of Arts and Juris Doctor from the University of Melbourne.  In 2015 he matriculated at St Edmund’s College, Cambridge, completing a Master of Laws.

Before Cambridge, Matthew was admitted to legal practice, and worked as an Associate at the Australian firm Allens-Linklaters, practising as a litigator.  He advised clients on a wide range of government investigations, business disputes, class actions, and cross-border disputes.  In a pro bono capacity, he instructed in constitutional proceedings concerning democratic rights, and advised peak human rights bodies on issues concerning offshore refugee detention and the drafting of anti-discrimination legislation.  Taking time out of practice, Matthew spent a year working as the Senior Judicial Assistant to a Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria (Australia).  Before coming to the law, Matthew trained as an economist and worked, in 2012, as a policy analyst at the Department of Treasury and Finance (Australia).

His Law Faculty page, including a list of publications and research projects, is available here:  https://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/mj-psycharis/78801

Rev Matthew James Gummess

VHI Postdoctoral Associate

Rev Matthew James Gummess

VHI Postdoctoral Associate

Fr Matthew Gummess is a Postdoctoral Associate of the Von Hügel Institute for Critical Catholic Inquiry and a Carmelite friar, with roots in New Mexico and Chicago. He is a science and religion scholar with a doctorate from the University of Notre Dame, where he studied history and philosophy of science and systematic theology. He also holds degrees from Yale University and Catholic Theological Union. His research focuses on the intersection between Catholic teaching on sex and gender and scientific theories of the same. During 2022 and 2023, he lived at Fisher House, the Cambridge Catholic Chaplaincy, while writing his dissertation and doing research in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Prior to his academic career, Fr Gummess worked as a parish priest in South Central Los Angeles. He has also served as an LGBTQ+ chaplain at St Mary's College in Indiana and at Cambridge.

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