We are in the process of composing our faculty by inviting members of various departments of the University of Cambridge and University of Oxford. Please find here a selection of faculty members that have been teaching with us in the past:
DR ALEXANDRA MARIA BOCSEResearcher and lecturer
Department of Politics and International Studies
University of Cambridge
Alexandra Bocse has worked and volunteered for different governmental and intergovernmental organisations. She was a Robert Schuman Fellow with the Directorate General for External Policies of the European Parliament working on EU Foreign Policy towards new and emerging democracies. She has worked in research for the United Nations University – Comparative Regional Integration Studies, Bruges and researched the role of the European Union as a regional actor with global aspirations in the field of security, as well as regional integration trends around the Atlantic and the implications of these trends for the European Union Foreign Policy. Alexandra has also worked in the past for the United Nations Development Programme and the British Embassy in Bucharest.
EMERITUS PROFESSOR JOHN DUNNProfessor in Politics
Department of Politics and International Studies
University of Cambridge
John Montfort Dunn is an emeritus Professor of Political Theory at King’s College, Cambridge and Visiting Professor in the Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Chiba University, Japan. Professor Dunn was a fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge from 1965 to 1966 and the Harkness Fellow at Harvard University; since 1966 he has been a fellow of King’s College. He has been a lecturer in political science at Cambridge University from 1972 to 1977 and a reader in politics from 1977 to 1987. In 1987 he was appointed as a professor of political theory at Cambridge University.
DR AYSE ZARAKOLUniversity Reader
Department of Politics and International Studies
University of Cambridge
Ayşe Zarakol is a Reader in International Relations in the POLIS Department and a Fellow at Emmanuel College. She holds a PhD in political science from University of Wisconsin-Madison and a BA in political science and classics from Middlebury College, USA. Before joining the University of Cambridge, she was an International Affairs Fellow with the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, DC and an assistant professor of politics at Washington and Lee University, USA.
She is currently an Associate Editor at the Journal of Global Security Studies, a Series Editor for the Palgrave Studies in International Relations, the program chair for the Historical International Relations Section of the ISA and the co-program chair for the European International Studies Association’s 12th Pan-European Conference, which was held in Prague in September 2018.
DR MONIQUE BODDINGTONProgramme Tutor & Research Associate at the Entrepreneurship Centre
Judge Business School
University of Cambridge
Dr Monique Boddington is a Research Associate at the Entrepreneurship Centre, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. She is lead project supervisor on the Postgraduate diploma in Entrepreneurship, through this role she has supported multiple ventures. Monique’s research includes the study of entrepreneurial teams, entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurship and gender, and the use of sociological approaches to broaden our understanding of entrepreneurial activity. Monique leads the EVER project which is a longitudinal qualitative study of the teams within Accelerator Cambridge. This project aims to understand the strategic decision-making of early ventures and how teams pivot over time. She is also currently working on a project exploring the impact of gender on entrepreneurship in the gaming industry. She has a PhD from the University of Cambridge (Magdalene College).
DR CHARLES RODDIEDirector of Studies in Economics
Faculty in Economics
University of Cambridge
Charles Roddie is a member of the faculty of economics at the University of Cambridge. He received his PhD from Princeton University, specialising in the fields of Microeconomics, Game Theory, and Political Economics. He completed his BA in Mathematics at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. Additionally to lecturing in Cambridge, he has also taught at Said Business School (University of Oxford, UK).
DR ROBIN BUNCEBye-Fellow and Graduate Tutor
Department of POLIS
University of Cambridge
Robin Bunce is a historian based at Homerton College, University of Cambridge. He works on British politics and the history of ideas. He has published on Black Power as an ideology and a movement in the United Kingdom, the work of Thomas Hobbes and Francis Bacon, and science fiction and utopianism. He has written on politics and contemporary culture for the Huffington Post, the New Statesman, the Independent and the Guardian. He recently published a biography of Diane Abbott MP with Samara Linton. Together with historian Paul Field, he was also a historical consultant on the Steve McQueen film Mangrove, and Rogan Production’s recent documentary on Black Power.
DR ALEXIS LITVINEDirector of Studies and College Lecturer
Gonville and Caius College
University of Cambridge (UK)
Dr Alexis Litvine got his first degrees in sociology and philosophy before specialising in history as a graduate student at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and Sciences-Po. He then came to Cambridge to do an MPhil (with Prof Peter Mandler) and, later, a PhD (with Prof Martin Daunton). He is now a research fellow at Trinity College. His work is essentially European and comparative with France at its core.
DR DAVID MICHAEL FOWLERAffiliated Lecturer
Faculty of Sociology
University of Cambridge
Dr. David Fowler is a historian of twentieth century Britain and teaches Modern British History and Politics at the University of Cambridge, where he is a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. He is also an Honorary Fellow in History at the University of York. His books have attracted wide international acclaim. His first book, The First Teenagers: The Lifestyle of Young Wage-Earners in Interwar Britain (Routledge, 1995) was a pioneering study of young wage-earners’ lifestyles in Britain between the Two World Wars. His next book, Youth Culture in Modern Britain, c.1920-c.1970: From Ivory Tower to Global Movement-A New History (Macmillan, 2008) received extensive media coverage and leading articles in The Times, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and The Observer as well as featuring on BBC Radio 4’s Programme ‘Thinking Allowed’. His new book, Britain’s Cultural Revolution: Student Power in the Global Sixties (forthcoming, 2017) is the first major archival study of Student Protest in Britain during the ‘Long Sixties’ (c.1965-c.1974). His cultural biography of Rolf Gardiner, Rolf Gardiner and English Culture, 1920-1950: the Apostle of Youth, will be published by Manchester University Press, also in 2017.
DR BERNHARD REINSBERGResearch Associate
Cambridge Judge Business School
University of Cambridge
Dr Bernhard Reinsberg is a Post-doctoral Research Associate at the University of Cambridge. His research covers political economy and international development. He seeks to understand what drives the behavior of international organizations and what implications their policies have for developing countries.
DR VLADIMIR KMECAssociate Researcher
Department of Politics and International Studies
University of Cambridge
Vladimir Kmec is a Research Associate at the European Centre at the Department of Politics and International Studies and at the Von Hügel Institute at the University of Cambridge. He is an Associate Member of St Edmund’s College. His research focuses on the intersections of security, peace and conflict issues, including United Nations and European Union peacekeeping and peacebuilding missions, peacemaking and mediation in Mali/ Sahel and the Western Balkans, and migration and identity politics. Vladimir previously worked at University College Dublin and the University of Groningen.
DR YOSUKE MATSUMIYASpecialty Registrar in Obstetrics & Gynecology, Thames Valley Deanery
John Radcliffe Hospital
University of Oxford
Dr Matsumiya is Japanese but also a British resident having studied in boarding schools in the UK from the age of 8 including Eton College where he was an academic and music scholar. He studied Medicine at the University of Cambridge and he spent part of his gap year in Africa which shaped his interest in global health and infectious diseases. He then completed his clinical years at Guy’s, King’s and Thomas’ School of Medicine in London, where he graduated with a distinction. He also completed placements in Tanzania, Paris, Tokyo and San Francisco.
Since qualifying he has been a doctor in the Thames Valley Deanery working at Oxford University Hospitals and various district general hospitals in the area, as well as doing some volunteer work in Uganda. He is a Member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, and in an active teacher for students at the University of Oxford as well as being an OSCE examiner with an interest in pedagogy.
DR JOSE SILVAPrincipal Investigators
MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute
University of Cambridge
José received his first degree in Biology from the University of Porto, in Portugal. He joined the GABBA graduate program from the University of Porto and then went on to do his PhD studies at Imperial College under the supervision of Professor Neil Brockdorff on heritable silencing mechanisms during mouse development.
In 2008 José started as a PI at the CSCI investigating the biology of induced pluripotency. His work was initially supported by a Next Generation Award (2008) and subsequently by a Wellcome-Trust Research Fellowship Award (2009). Recently, José was awarded a Wellcome-Trust Senior Research Fellowship. He started this in May 2014.
DR ALBERTO GIUBILINIResearch Fellow
The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
University of Oxford
Alberto Giubilini is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the Oxford Martin Programme on Collective Responsibility for Infectious Disease. He has a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Milan, and prior to joining the Uehiro Centre he worked in Australia at Monash University, University of Melbourne and Charles Sturt University. He has published on different topics in bioethics and philosophy, including the ethics of vaccination, procreative choices, end of life decisions, organ donations, conscientious objection in healthcare, the concept of conscience, human enhancement, and the role of intuitions and of moral disgust in ethical arguments. He has published a book on The Ethics of Vaccination (Palgrave MacMillan 2019) and one in Italian on the ethics of end of life decisions (Morals in the Time of Bioethics, Le Lettere 2011), and he co-edited a book on The Ethics of Human Enhancement (Oxford University Press 2016).
DR CLAUDIO FALCOResearch Assistant
Department of Engineering
University of Cambridge
Claudio Falco received B.Sc and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the Federico II University in Naples in 2009 and 2012 respectively. Immediately after, he won a position as Ph.D. candidate at the High Voltage Microelectronic and Sensor Group, University of Cambridge, U.K., where he worked on the development and numerical analysis of CMOS based thermal sensors. After finishing the Ph.D. in 2017, he decided to pursue the academic career with a post-doc at the same lab, on a project trying to exploit a novel process available for CMOS devices to design high accuracy gas sensors. Currently working as Academic Collaborator with the same group, acting as a bridge with the industrial world to ease the transition of developed products into the market.
