Mansfield People

Professor Alison Salvesen

Supernumerary Fellow in Oriental Studies

Contact

alison.salvesen@orinst.ox.ac.uk

Professor Alison Salvesen

Supernumerary Fellow in Oriental Studies

Alison Salvesen studied Classics and then Hebrew at Oxford as an undergraduate. Her doctoral work focused on early Jewish bible translations. She is Professor of Early Judaism and Christianity at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and Polonsky Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, and is responsible for students in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies in Mansfield College.

Research interests

Articles & book chapters

Co-editor with David Lincicum and Katherine Dell, New Oxford Bible Commentary (publication date 2025).

Co-editor with T. Michael Law of The Oxford Handbook of the Septuagint (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021).

Co-editor with Sarah Pearce and Miriam Frenkel of Israel in Egypt. The Land of Egypt as Concept and Reality for Jews in Antiquity and the Early Medieval Period. AJEC 110 (Leiden: Brill, 2020).

‘Symmachus in the Psalter’ in Editing the Greek Psalter, eds. F. Albrecht and R. G. Kratz. DSI 18 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2024) 383–97.
‘Symmachus at Caesarea’ in The Forerunners and Heirs of Origen’s Hexapla. The Proceedings of the Inaugural Colloquium of the Text & Canon Institute, ed. J. D. Meade. DSI 19 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2024) 129–52.
‘Jerome, Jews, and “Hebrews”’ in Looking In, Looking Out: Jews and Non-Jews in Mutual Contemplation, Essays for Martin Goodman on His 70th Birthday, eds. K. Czajkowski and D. Friedman. SJSJ 212. (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2023) 320–34.
‘“Hebrew, Beloved of God”: The Adamic Language in the Thought of Jacob, Bishop of Edessa (c. 633–708 CE)’ in Hebrew between Jews and Christians, ed. D.Stein Kokin. Studia Judaica 77 (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2023) 49–66.
‘Fear and Loathing in Alexandria? Abominable Words in the Septuagint Pentateuch and Disgust Theory’, XVII Congress of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies: Aberdeen, 2019, eds. G. Kotzé, M. Van Der Meer, and M. Rösel. SCS 75. (Atlanta, GA: SBL Press, 2022) 357–73.
‘Textual Criticism, Translation Studies, and Symmachus’s Version in Job’, Textus 29 (2021) 43–63.
‘LXX Isaiah as Prophecy? Supposed Historical Allusions in LXX Isaiah’ in ed. J. Schaper and R. Kratz, Imperial Visions. The Prophet and the Book of Isaiah in an Age of Empires. FRLANT 277 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2020) 185–202.
‘Imitating the Watchers: Restoring the Angelic Life of Adam’ Colloque international S. Éphrem le Syrien, ed. B. Outtier. Parole de l’Orient 46 (2020) 1–25.
Article βδέλυγμα, βδελύσσω, βδελυγμός, βδελυκτός, in The Historical and Theological Lexicon of the Septuagint, Vol. 1, Alpha-Gamma, ed. E. Bons (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2020) 1266–81.

Professor Jason Smith

Professorial Fellow in Materials Science

Emma Steane

HR Assistant (Operations)

Professor Jennifer Strawbridge

Associate Professor in New Testament Studies

Contact

jennifer.strawbridge@theology.ox.ac.uk

Professor Jennifer Strawbridge

Associate Professor in New Testament Studies

Research interests

Articles & book chapters

2022. “Trinity in the Making” in Bruce Longenecker and David Wilhite (ed), Cambridge History of Ancient Christianity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
2022. “Reconsidering Pauline Influence in Tatian” in David Wilhite (ed), Paul and the Apologists (London: Bloomsbury).
2021. “‘Resolve me of all ambiguities’: a review of Thomas McGlothlin’s Resurrection as Salvation” as part of a Syndicate Online
Forum: https://syndicate.network/symposia/theology/resurrection-as-salvation/
2021. “A new methodology? Writing a collaborative commentary” in The Expository Times 132.1.
2020. “Farrer on St Paul” in Stephen Platten and Richard Harries (ed), Austin Farrer for Today (London: SCM).
2020. The First Letter of Peter: A Global Commentary, Jennifer Strawbridge (ed), (London: SCM Press).
2019. “Taking up Armour: The challenges of early Christian exegesis of Ephesians” in Studia Patristica 100; 19-38.
2019. “Making Christians and lifelong Catechesis” in Steven Croft (ed.) Rooted and Grounded: Faith formation and the Christian tradition. (London: SCM Press).
2019. Love Makes No Sense: An Introduction to Christian Theology, Jennifer Strawbridge, Peter Groves, Jarred Mercer (eds.) (London: SCM).
2018. Paul and Patristics Digital Database, https://paulandpatristics.web.ox.ac.uk.
2018. ‘Knowing and Loving the Triune God in the Pauline Epistles’ in George Westhaver (ed.) Knowing and Loving the Triune God (London: Canterbury Press).
2018. ‘The Image and Unity of God: The role of Colossians 1 in theological controversy’ in Christopher A. Beeley and Mark Weedman (eds.) The Bible and Early Trinitarian
Theology (Washington D.C.: Catholic University of America Press).
2017. ‘How the Body of Lazarus Helps to Solve a Pauline Problem’ in New Testament Studies, Vol 63 (4), 588-603.
2017. ‘Early Christian Epigraphy, Evil, and the Apotropaic Function of Romans 8.31’ in Vigiliae Christianae, Vol 71, 315-329.
2016. ‘A School of Paul? Pauline Texts in Early Christian Schooltext Papyri.’ in Matthew Hauge and Andrew Pitts (eds.) Ancient Education and Early Christianity (LNTS; New York: T&T Clark).
2015. The Pauline Effect: The use of the Pauline Epistles by early Christian Writers (Berlin: De Gruyter).
2015. ‘The Songs we used to Sing: Hymn “Traditions” and Reception in Pauline Letters’ with Benjamin Edsall in Journal for the Study of the New Testament, Vol 37 (3), 290-311.

Dr Candadi Sukumar

Stipendiary Lecturer in Physics

Sarah Terry

Academic Officer (admissions and student administration)

Dr Arhat Virdi

Non-stipendiary Lecturer in Economics

Contact

arhat.virdi@sbs.ox.ac.uk

Dr Arhat Virdi

Non-stipendiary Lecturer in Economics

Arhat is a lecturer in Microeconomics and Statistics. Arhat is also a Fellow in Finance & Economics at the Saïd Business School and Tutorial Fellow at Oriel College.

Before returning to Oxford in 2014, Arhat was a member of the senior management team at the Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA), working as a Director of Policy, Research and Risk; the BMA is the integrated regulator of Bermuda’s financial services industry. Previous to that, he was an LSE Fellow in Economics, a Research Fellow in the Philosophy of Economics at the University of Bielefeld and a Visiting Lecturer in Economics at City University in London.

Arhat read PPE at The Queen’s College, University of Oxford, and went on to do a Masters and Doctorate at the LSE.

Research interests

Articles & book chapters

(in progress) “Is it in the Nature of Economics to Make a Leap?”
(in progress) “Defending Objectivist Representationalism in Financial Reporting”
(in progress) “What is Truth?”, monograph based on my doctoral research; Ph.D. thesis available here: http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/252/1/Virdi_What%20is%20truth.pdf
(in progress) “On the (Homomorphic) Correspondence Theory of Truth”
2013, “The IS/LM Model applied to Bermuda”: macroeconomic modelling commissioned by the Spending and Government Efficiency (SAGE) Commission, Ministry of Finance, Government of Bermuda
2009, “The Slingshot argument, Gödel’s hesitation and Tarskian semantics”, Prolegomena, 8, pp. 233-241: http://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=clanak&id_clanak_jezik=68307
2007, “Review of ‘Ernest Sosa and His Critics’ ed. John Greco”, Philosophy Today, 19, pp. 11-12
2006, “On why the Slingshot against the Correspondence Theory of Truth misfires”, Minerva, 10, pp. 28-34: http://www.minerva.mic.ul.ie/vol10/Slingshot.html
2005, “The Substantiality of Truth”, Philosophical Enquiry Discussion Paper, Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Sciences, LSE

Jane Waghorn

Head of Communications

Professor Robert Weatherup

Lecturer in Materials

Yilong Yang

Stipendiary Lecturer in Engineering

Professor Tingting Zhu

Stipendiary Lecturer in Engineering

Contact

tingting.zhu@eng.ox.ac.uk

Professor Tingting Zhu

Stipendiary Lecturer in Engineering

Professor Tingting Zhu graduated with the DPhil degree in information and biomedical engineering at Oxford University in 2016. This followed her MSc in Biomedical Engineering at University College London and BEng (Hons) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Malta.

After DPhil, Tingting was awarded a Stipendiary Junior Research Fellowship at St. Hilda's College, Oxford. In 2018, Tingting was appointed as the first Associate Member of Faculty at the Department of Engineering Science; in 2019, following the award of her Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship, she was appointed to full Member of Faculty at the Department of Engineering Science.

Tingting is a Non-Tutorial Fellow at Kellogg College and a Stipendiary College Lecturer at Mansfield College.

Research interests

Tingting’s research interests lie in machine learning for healthcare applications and she has developed probabilistic techniques for reasoning about time-series medical data. Her work involves the development of machine learning for understanding complex patient data, with an emphasis on Bayesian inference, deep learning, and applications involving the developing world.

Research Groups

Biomedical Signal Processing and Instrumentation Computational Health Informatics

Current Projects

Machine learning for improving decision-making with telemedicine
Prognosis and diagnosis of adversarial events in multimorbid population
Dynamic modelling for understanding the impact of interventions on the hospital system
Phenotyping patients with complex diseases via electronic patient information
Machine learning for early cancer detection as well as treatment response
Digital twin and its application in healthcare
Modelling of treatment effect and treatment recommendation