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Professor Stephen Blundell
Professorial Fellow and Tutor in Physics
Stephen has published a number of research papers this year, including ‘Information and Decoherence in a Muon-Fluorine Coupled
System’, which was selected as an editors’ highlight. He is currently working on an edited book, ‘Introduction to muon spectroscopy’, which will be published by OUP in 2021. Stephen was awarded
the 2020 Yamazaki Prize by the International Society of Muon Spectroscopy. This prize is awarded once every three years to a scientist whose work has a long-term impact on muon spectroscopy’s scientific and technical applications.
Recent publications:
‘Information and Decoherence in a Muon-Fluorine Coupled System’, JM Wilkinson and SJ Blundell, in Phys Rev Lett 125, 087201 (2020).
Dr Andrei Constantin
Stipendiary Lecturer in Physics
Andrei is one of the first nine Stephen Hawking Fellows in Theoretical Physics announced
in March 2020. The Fellowship will support Andrei’s work in String Theory, including a new
mathematical approach to the quest of connecting String Theory to the physics of elementary particles.
Kate Clanchy MBE
Writer in Residence
We hope you will join us in warmly welcoming Mansfield’s new ‘Writer in Residence’, Kate Clanchy MBE. Throughout Michaelmas term Kate has been holding weekly nonconformist
writing workshops with Mansfield staff and students.
Recent publications:
Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me (Picador, 2019). ISBN 978-1-5098-4029-8.
How to Grow Your Own Poem (Pan Macmillan, 2020). ISBN 9781529024708.
The Revd Sarah Farrow
Chaplain
This year we welcomed Mansfield’s new Chaplain, the Revd Sarah Farrow, to College.
Sarah is originally from New York and New
Jersey but has lived in London with her family for over 15 years. In 2016 she was ordained into the Lutheran Church in
Great Britain and is an Assistant Minister at St Anne’s Lutheran Church in London. Sarah is also Lutheran Chaplain at King’s College, London, and the Chaplain at the International Lutheran Student Centre.
She holds an MA in Theology (St Augustine’s) and an MSc in Theory & History of International Relations (LSE). Prior to ordination, Sarah worked for over 12 years with Boston University’s London Programs, managing its academic programmes and providing academic advice to students.
Dr Paul Flather
Supernumerary Fellow
Paul is President of The Forum for Philosophy, based at the LSE, which promotes public discussion led by philosophers. He has just completed 20
years as Chair of the Noon Educational Foundation, which has supported more than 200 leading Pakistani scholars at Oxbridge. He has also joined the board of an ecological film festival, and continues his work as Chair of the Oxford Adam von Trott Memorial Committee, based at our College.
Paul has spoken at a number of international events including Difficult Dialogues in Goa, plus talks on supporting dissidents in the former central Europe, for which he recently won a Czech Government medal. He has written for The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs and is currently co-editing a book on the law in India.
Henry (Nick) Green
Front of House Manager
Nick has written a new novel, The Nightwatchman. When John’s wife Peggy and dog Arthur are kidnapped by a mysterious Greek, John is forced to reveal his secret
past-life as a spy. John just wants to watch the cricket, but now he must come out of retirement and race against time to free his family.
The Nightwatchman is an action-packed thriller taking us from Gloucestershire to Greece, full of intrigue, murder, deception and even romance. Bashed out in six weeks during lockdown it is in honour of three big birthdays that weren’t celebrated this year due to the global pandemic.
Recent publications:
The Nightwatchman (2020). ISBN 9798664034677. Ebook: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08C1MLX7B
Professor Pavlos Eleftheriadis
Tutorial Fellow in Law
Pavlos’s latest book, A Union of Peoples, was published in April 2020, presenting an original argument about the legal and political nature of the European Union.
Recent publications:
A Union of Peoples (Oxford University Press, 2020). ISBN 9780198854173.
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