Mansfield People

Anna has responsibility for operations with the development team, including data, revenue and systems. She also assists in fundraising for specific funding needs and is always pleased to hear from Mansfield alumni and supporters.

Anna works three days a week.

Daphne manages the execution of the HR Strategy and core areas of the HR department including recruitment, employee relations, workforce administration, employee engagement, payroll, reward and recognition, as well as maintaining and improving HR systems and management of the HR budget.

Konstantina is a Lecturer in EU and Constitutional Law at Mansfield College, a DPhil in Law candidate at the Faculty of Law and an Editor of the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal.

Konstantina holds an LL.B. (Distinction; Scholarship for academic excellence by the University of Athens A. Papadakis Trust), an LL.M. in Public Law (Distinction) and an LL.M. in Civil Law (Distinction) from the University of Athens. She has also obtained an LL.M. in Commercial Law from the University of Cambridge (supported by the A.S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation) and an M.St. in Legal Research from the University of Oxford (as a scholar of the University of Athens A. Gazis Trust). In the context of her studies on DPhil level, Konstantina is a scholar of the A.G. Leventis Foundation.

Konstantina is a qualified lawyer and a member of the Athens Bar Association. Prior to her DPhil studies, she practiced public law, project finance and public procurement in top-tier law firms in Athens, Greece. She has worked as a research assistant at the School of Management and Business of King’s College London, conducting research on the prospects of a new employment relations and labour market model for Greece. In 2017, she was a scientific collaborator of the European Public Law Organisation, responsible for the codification of all existing legislation falling within the regulatory competence of the Hellenic Ministry of Tourism. In 2019, Konstantina completed a traineeship at the European Commission (DG FISMA), focusing on transaction involving capital movements and intra-EU investment.

Also Professor of Ethno-ornithology, holding a joint position between the Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology (Zoology Dept.) and the Institute of Human Sciences (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography). Director of Studies for Human Sciences at Mansfield College. Main research interests in Ornithology and Ethno-ornithology including evolutionary ecology of woodland birds focusing on ecological adaptation, and what bird folk-names teach us about human perceptions of nature and how these change over time. Co-editor of the book Ethno-ornithology: Birds, Indigenous Peoples, Cultures, and Society, (2010) London: Earthscan (Routledge), and Research Director of EWA: the Ethno-ornithology World Atlas, a project in partnership with Birdlife International. Also a minister in the Church of England.

Ian Griffiths’ interests lie in a broad range of fluid dynamical challenges, from water purification strategies to the manufacture of glass for computer tablet screens to the modelling of Covid-19 transmission. His approach is to use a blend of modelling, asymptotic, and numerical techniques to enable predictions to be made for the behaviour of such physical systems, and in particular, to give insight into their optimal operating strategies. Ian collaborates with a range of scientists from many disciplines as well as industries, including: global domestic appliance brand Beko; leading vacuum-cleaner company Dyson; fabric and performance solutions company W.L. Gore and Associates; chemical and pharmaceutical company Merck; food and beverage industry Nestlé; specialist glass company Schott AG; filtration company Smart Separations; and Government organizations including Defra and the Welsh Government.

Amy provides administrative support to the Bursar, including managing his diary and incoming correspondence. She works on several College committees, including the Finance and Resources Committee, and manages various projects and processes in the Bursar’s Office. Please contact Amy if you wish to make an appointment to see the Bursar. Amy previously worked in the Academic Office at Christ Church, and before that for Pearson UK.

Grace is a historian of modern Britain, with a particular interest in gender, religion, and activism during the twentieth century. She recently completed her doctoral thesis, entitled ‘Smashing the Stained Glass Ceiling’: An Exploration of the Campaign for Women’s Ordination in Church of England, 1968-1994. Within her thesis she argues that faith and spirituality must be integrated into explorations of the ‘personal as political’. Her thesis draws on an array of oral history interviews which she conducted throughout her doctorate, and she is particularly interested in the ways that individuals remember and narrate their life stories.

As a Stipendiary Lecturer at Mansfield, she teaches a range of papers and supervises undergraduate dissertations on topics relating to gender in twentieth-century Britain.

Andrew is the Associate Professor in Civil Procedure at the Law Faculty and a Fellow in Law of Mansfield College. He has taught civil procedure on Oxford’s BCL/MJUR course since 2008 and has taught contract and tort for University College and New College respectively. From 2015 Andrew will take on the General Editorship of Civil Justice Quarterly. Andrew completed a BA/LLB (hons) at the University of Melbourne in 2001 and the BCL in 2005. He completed a DPhil at Oxford on legal professional privilege in 2011, and published a book on ‘Legal Professional Privilege for Corporations: A Guide to Four Major Common Law Jurisdictions’ with Oxford University Press in 2014. He has been a visiting scholar with NYU's Hauser Global Law School Program and an occasional guest lecturer in civil procedure at Melbourne Law School. Andrew worked as a solicitor at the Australian law firm Slater & Gordon until 2007, and has been a practising barrister at the Victorian Bar since 2011. His main area of practice is mass tort litigation and has worked on asbestos, thalidomide and tobacco litigation amongst others. He has advised the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission on whether the use of light and mild descriptors for cigarettes constituted misleading advertising, assisted the US Department of Justice on its RICO claim against the US tobacco industry: US v Philip Morris et al and advised the Australian Government on the defence of its tobacco plain packaging laws against constitutional and international legal challenges. He has received awards for his work exposing British American Tobacco’s “document retention policies” in McCabe v British American Tobacco including from a coalition of public health NGOs. Andrew’s main research interests are civil procedure, tort and causation.

Benjamin Huddart is a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in muon spectroscopy in condensed matter physics and a Stipendiary Lecturer in Physics at Mansfield College. He obtained his PhD at Durham University in 2020, where he also spent three years working as a Postdoctoral Research Associate before arriving in Oxford. His research concerns the use of the muon-spin spectroscopy technique to study the magnetic properties of materials. This technique relies on subatomic particles, called muons, that are implanted in a sample. Much of his work involves determining the location of the stopped muon in the system under study, a problem that can be addressed using a computational modelling technique called density functional theory.

Mark joined the Library in April 2022. Previously, he had worked in the Bodleian Library, the English Faculty Library, and Leopold Muller Memorial Library.

Mark’s day-to-day responsibilities include: processing new books, addressing self-issue problems, returning books, and helping with ongoing projects around the Library. He is also very happy to help with any enquiries in the Library Office.

Mark works on the following days:

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