Mansfield People

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.

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

Hugs' day-to-day responsibilities include: processing new books, addressing self-issue problems, returning books, and helping with ongoing projects around the Library. They are also very happy to help with any enquiries in the Library Office.

Hugs works on the following days:

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Ellie is responsible for alumni relations at Mansfield, which involves managing and delivering a programme of alumni events and keeping our community of alumni and friends up to date with the latest news at College through communications such as the e-newsletters and the annual magazine.

Contact Ellie if you have a piece of news you would like to share, or if you have any questions about any of our events.

Sarah is responsible for the management of the College's student accommodation, including the administration of room allocation and the cleaning of bedrooms, shared facilities and public spaces.

Dr Jarick teaches across the range of the Old Testament syllabus at Oxford, including the Prelims paper on Introduction to the Study of the Bible and the Honours papers on the Narrative and Poetic Worlds of the Hebrew Bible.

His main research interests are in the Old Testament wisdom literature (especially the book of Ecclesiastes) and historical writings (especially the books of Chronicles), on both of which he has published extensively. A list of his recent publications is available on his Regent's Park College webpage.

He also serves as Book Review Editor of the Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, having previously served for many years as the Editor of that journal.

Lyndsey is a historian of women, politics and activism in nineteenth and twentieth century Britain. She is interested in the relationship between gender and class, and particularly feminism and socialism, across this period. Her recent work is on women’s activism within the Labour Party, between 1945 and 1979, and she is currently focusing on the commonalities between Labour women's activism, established women's groups, and the emerging women's liberation movement in the 1960s and 1970s. She is working in partnership with Bruce Castle Museum and Archive in Haringey, London, to showcase the life and work of the pioneering MP Joyce Butler (1910-1992). Her earlier research focused on working-class women in the suffrage movement. She has written about many different aspects of suffrage, including religious protest as a militant tactic, working-class women's activism in East London, cross-class relationships in the suffrage movement, and suffrage life-writing. Lyndsey would be happy to hear from any students who want to study at Mansfield, or who have an interest in women in British politics.

Miles Judd joined the University of Oxford in October 2021 as a DPhil candidate under the supervision of Professor Sinan Acikgoz and co-supervision of Marialuigia Sangirardi. His research is part of the project titled "Masonry In-Situ Testing and Material Identification (MINT)", funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). His doctoral work focuses on estimating the mechanical properties of existing masonry assets using vision-based techniques such as Digital Image Correlation (DIC) and the Virtual Fields Method (VFM). Before pursuing his doctoral research, Miles completed his BSc at the Technical University of Munich, conducting research on Operational Modal Analysis based on High-Speed Camera Imaging.

Clare joined the Library in July 2018 from Nuffield College, where she had been for 14 years. Her previous experience was in law firm libraries in London, having undertaken her graduate traineeship at the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn, London.

Clare job shares with Sally, ensuring students have access to the resources they need for successful study; purchasing books, dealing with enquiries, liaising with tutors about book collections and the general day to day running of the Library. Her specialist subjects are Law, History, PPE, Engineering, Mathematics and Human Science.

My research interests are in Combinatorics, which is a branch of Pure Mathematics.