Mansfield People

Sarath is also a Graduate Teaching Assistant for Intellectual Property Law and DPhil Researcher at the Faculty of Law. He completed his Bachelor's in Law, B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) from the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences; and his Master's in Law, LLM in Commercial Laws from the University of Cambridge.

Sarath graduated his LLM with the 'CMS Prize for Corporate Law' for distinction in Corporate Finance Law examination, and was the Pratibha M. Singh Cambridge Trust scholar during his LLM year.

He has served on the editorial boards of the Cambridge Law Review and the Journal of Indian Law and Society. He was the Chief Editor of the Journal of Indian Law and Society during his last 6 months with the journal. Sarath worked for one year in Ambala district in Haryana as a Chief Minister's Good Governance Associate wherein he worked with the State Government and the District Administration to improve public administration. Sarath has also served as the Administrative Head of the NUJS-HSF Bridge Project, a project that educates underprivileged kids living in the slums of Kolkata.

Carlos is a Lecturer in Moral Philosophy. He was previously deputy Professor of Ethics at the University of Bayreuth. Before that, he was a postdoc at the University of Bayreuth and the University of Vienna. He holds a PhD from Stanford University and a BA from UNAM.

Carlos’ research is mainly in Metaethics and the Philosophy of Mind and Action. Currently, he is pursuing a couple of projects, one in Moral Psychology and the other in Practical Rationality. He has taught courses on Ethics (meta, normative, and applied), Philosophy of Action (individual and social), Free Will and Moral Responsibility, Philosophy of Law, Ethics of A.I., Environmental Ethics, Practical Rationality, and others.

Rachel is a DPhil student in the English Literature – funded by the AHRC, the Clarendon Fund, and Mansfield College’s John Hodgson Theatre Research Fellowship. Prior to this, she completed a BA in English Language and Literature and an MSt in English Literature (1830-1914) also at the University of Oxford. Her doctoral research focuses on the emergence of avant-garde theatre movements in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century. She has a broad interest in Anglophone/ European Drama between the nineteenth century and the present day. Topics of particular interest include queer/feminist theatre-making, social problem dramas, verbatim drama, as well as sensation fiction/drama.

Outside her role supporting the teaching of English, she also works as the College’s Tutor for Academic Support. This role involves working with students on a 1:1 basis to help develop their general academic and study skills.

Kate O’Regan is the inaugural Director of the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights in the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford, which opened in a new building at Mansfield College in September 2017. She served as one of the first judges of the Constitutional Court of South Africa from 1994 – 2009 and as an ad hoc judge of the Supreme Court of Namibia from 2010 - 2016. From 2008 – 2012, Kate served as the inaugural chairperson of the United Nations Internal Justice Council, a body established to ensure independence, professionalism and accountability in the internal system of justice in the UN. She is an honorary bencher of Lincoln’s Inn, an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an Honorary Fellow of the British Academy and the recipient of seven honorary degrees. She has also served on the boards of many NGOs working in the fields of democracy, the rule of law, human rights and equality.

In my research I study solidification processing of advanced materials from laboratory scale through to pilot-scale processing plant. I have particular interests in controlling the grain structure of the metal, controlling the phases which form in the materials and in maintaining quality whilst re-cycling metals. My main focus is on working with aluminium alloys and intermetallics.

Dr. Talha J. Pirzada is a stipendiary lecturer in the field of materials engineering, with a research focus on aerospace materials.

Asima joined Mansfield in June 2021. She has worked in a number of University of Oxford departments providing administrative, operational, HR and finance support. She has also been involved in various social projects and creative writing projects in collaboration with writer Kate Clanchy, The Rathbones Folio Prize and The Forward Arts Foundation.

Asima supports the Principal’s Office and provides administrative support through Mansfield College.

Lynne is responsible for management and running of the College’s domestic, guest and conference services and compliance with regulations applying to these activities. She also looks after academic and student events and activities, planning these around the College calendar.

Tom Rainforth is an Associate Professor at the Department of Statistics and a Tutorial Fellow of Mansfield College. His research covers a wide range of topics in and around machine learning and experimental design, with areas of particular interest including Bayesian experimental design, deep learning, representation learning, generative models, Monte Carlo methods, active learning, and approximate inference. He currently holds a ERC Starting Grant titled Data-Driven Algorithms for Data Acquisition (Feb 2024 - Feb 2029, funded by the UKRI Horizon Guarantee Scheme). He completed his DPhil in Probabilistic Programming and Machine Learning in 2017 at the University of Oxford, and previously held positions as a Junior Research Fellow in Computer Science at Christ Church College, and then as a Senior Research Fellow in Statistical Machine Learning at the Department of Statistics.

Shukria is responsible for managing the College’s website, social media accounts and generally the internal communications.

Get in touch with her if you wish to promote an event or have news/content to share with Mansfield community.

Shukria can be found in the Development Office located in Staircase A, from Monday to Friday.

Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Education, working on the ‘Close the Gap’ project. ‘Close the Gap’ is a collaborative initiative between the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, aimed at understanding and transforming doctoral admissions cultures, systems, and practices to reduce ethnic inequalities in access. Her research focuses on the sociology of education, particularly on the dynamics of inclusion and inequality within higher education.