Our people

Professor Andrew Price studied medicine at the University of Cambridge (Gonville and Caius College) before completing his clinical studies at St.Thomas’ Hospital in London. For his Orthopaedic training he joined the Oxford training programme in 1997, becoming a Clinical Lecturer in NDORMS in 2001.

He was awarded a DPhil in 2003 through the University of Oxford (Worcester College), studying the Oxford partial knee replacement. He then completed a year of specialist Knee Fellowship training in Melbourne, returning to NDORMs and the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in 2004, where he was subsequently appointed Reader and Honorary Consultant in Knee Surgery.

In 2011, through the University of Oxford Recognition of Distinction exercise, he was made a Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at NDORMS. His clinical work as a Consultant Knee Surgeon is based at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, where he has recently been appointed to Clinical Director T&O. His research is based in NDORMS at the Botnar Centre, where he Leads the Knee Research Group.

Andrew is Fellow of Worcester College (Tutor for Graduate Entry Medical Studies), a member of the British Orthopaedic Association, member of the UK National Joint Registry Steering Committee and Past President of the British Association for Surgery of the Knee (BASK).

Price Group | Knee Research Group

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Professor Andrew Protheroe is an Associate Professor of Uro-Oncology within the University of Oxford Department of Oncology at the Oxford Cancer and Haematology Centre. As a consultant medical oncologist he has specialised in managing urological cancer at Oxford since 2001.  He qualified from St Thomas’s Hospital in London and after general medical training in London, trained in Oncology at St James’s University Hospital in Leeds.  His PhD was in tumour immunology and the research was based at Leeds and the National Cancer Institute in Amsterdam as an Honorary ICRF Clinical Research fellow funded by a Northern and Yorkshire research award.

Andrew has established and successfully runs a large portfolio of clinical studies in urological cancer (some Phase I mainly phase II and III) locally, with national and international collaboration, both as CI and PI. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers and is also the founding trustee of a urological cancer charity (UCARE) which is a local Oxfordshire based charity supporting and funding research and raising awareness within the Thames Valley. He was also instrumental in setting up the kidney cancer support group (FROG), and helped to develop the prostate and bladder cancer support groups and set up initiatives to support men with testicular cancer. Since 2014 he has been the co-clinical director for the NIHR Thames Valley and South Midlands Clinical Research Network which supports the infrastructure and facilitates clinical research throughout the area in all healthcare settings. He also is the national lead for the testicular 100, 000 genome project which looks to develop the understanding of the genetics involved in testicular cancer.

Renée is Worcester’s Assistant Librarian and can be contacted for enquiries about photographic requests and modern books not held in other Oxford library collections.

I completed my doctorate in Hebrew Bible at the University of Oxford, before taking up an Assistant Professorship in Religion and Judaic Studies at Princeton University in Autumn 2017. In 2019 I returned to Oxford, where I am currently Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible. I am an editor of Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies (Bloomsbury T&T Clark)

I am Director of Studies for Theology and Religion and teach undergraduate and graduate students in biblical literature of all periods, with an eye to the literatures and cultures of the wider ancient eastern Mediterranean.

My research is focussed on the Hebrew Bible against the background of ancient Near Eastern literary culture. My work seeks to recover the value concepts and aesthetic judgements of ancient Near Eastern literature through the language of the texts.

Research interests include: Hebrew Bible and its history of interpretation, the comparative method, material culture, embodiment, and women and gender in the ancient Near East. I am currently researching the concepts of beauty and aesthetics in the ancient Eastern Mediterranean.

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I work on Mediterranean history and archaeology, with particular interests in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods, the Phoenicians, and ancient North Africa. I’ve published articles on topics from Roman imperialism to Athenian sculpture to Numidian architecture to Edwardian education, and I’ve co-edited volumes of essays on ‘The Hellenistic West’ (with Jonathan Prag) and ‘The Punic Mediterranean’ (with Nicholas Vella), as well as the collected articles of the late Peter Derow (with Andrew Erskine). My book In Search of the Phoenicians was published by Princeton University Press in January 2018. My latest book, How the World Made the West, was published by Bloomsbury in February 2024.

I teach a range of ancient history and archaeology papers at the undergraduate level, and I am currently supervising doctoral students working on feigned madness, sex scandals, and ancient Bactria.

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I graduated from the University of Oxford in 2021, obtaining an MEng in Engineering Science with a focus on information and control. In my final year project I investigated distributed charging of electric vehicles with considerations for uncertainty in supply. I am currently working towards a DPhil in Engineering Science as part of the Autonomous Intelligent Machines and Systems CDT at the University of Oxford under the joint supervision of Prof. Kostas Margellos and Prof. Alessandro Abate.

DPhil project: Data-driven Robust Verification and Control

Ensuring safe operation of dynamical systems is an important challenge for the modern world. A key part of this challenge involves designing methods for the control of systems, so that they meet safety specifications without being overly conservative.
We consider tackling this challenge through data-driven techniques. These techniques allow us to design controllers which are robust to uncertainty based only on samples of that uncertainty, without assuming to know anything further about this uncertainty.

Grant Ritchie is a professor of Chemistry and Head of the Physical and Theoretical Chemistry (PTC) section in Oxford Chemistry. Prior to taking up the latter role he was Director of Graduate studies for 5 years (2015–2020). He leads a group that develops innovative techniques for trace gas detection with applications ranging from fundamental studies of gas phase chemical dynamics to plasma medicine and breath analysis. Part of his research involves translation of these methods into the real world and he works in close collaboration with scientists and engineers in both academic and industrial laboratories, and with physiologists and clinicians both internal and external to the University.

Grant was appointed to a lectureship in physical chemistry at the University of Oxford in 2006 alongside a tutorial fellowship at Worcester College. Prior to that date he had held several prestigious fellowships: a Ramsay Memorial Research Fellowship (2000–2003), a Junior Research Fellowship at St. John’s College (2000–2004), and a Royal Society University Research Fellowship (2000–2009). He obtained his BA and DPhil from Trinity College Oxford, the latter supervised by Gus Hancock in the area of chemical reaction dynamics. He is currently a member of the NERC peer review college and has authored the text books Atmospheric Chemistry – From the Surface to the Stratosphere (Wiley 2017) and Foundations of Physics for Chemists (OUP 2000).

Grant’s research concerns laser spectroscopy and its use in analytical chemistry and in studies of gas phase kinetics and dynamics. The research is characterised by novel technique and instrument development which not only allows innovative studies of chemical kinetics, dynamics and photon science, but that can also be translated into the real world. Particular areas of interest are healthcare and medicine, plasmas diagnostics and atmospheric chemistry.

Ritchie group website

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I read English Literature and Philosophy at the University of Cambridge (Double First-Class Honours, 1997) and received my PhD in the same fields from Bar Ilan University in 2006 (along with the Presidential Scholarship for Excellence). As Director of The Israel and Ione Massada Fellowships Programme, I promote academic interchange between scholars here, at the University of Oxford, and scholars of all disciplines, ethnicities, religions and persuasions in the State of Israel. I am also the mother of two wonderful adults.

I co-convene the Fiction and Other Minds research strand of the Oxford Comparative Criticism and Transition Programme (OCCT).

My research explores the intersections of literature, philosophy, and cognitive science, investigating how literature affects behaviour, beliefs, and conceptions of agency and authenticity; and how bodily forms of resonance contribute to the experience and communication of human understanding. Almost all my publications can be accessed online on academia.edu or ResearchGate.

For a full list of publications, see my profile on academia.edu

Cait’s role includes the administration of the alumni events programme. For event enquiries Cait is your contact at omevents@worc.ox.ac.uk.

Charlotte Ross has a BA (Honours) in Italian and English from Newnham College, Cambridge, an MSt. in Italian Studies from Balliol College, Oxford, and a PhD in Italian Studies from the University of Warwick. Before joining the Faculty of Modern Languages at Oxford, she was Reader in Sexuality, Gender and Cultural Studies in the Department of Modern Languages, University of Birmingham. She has held visiting professorships at the University of Palermo (2015) and the University of Toronto (Goggio Visiting Professor, 2023).

Charlotte teaches on a range of topics across 19th, 20th and 21st century Italian literature and culture. She is interested in hearing from graduate students who would like to work on questions of gender and sexuality in these periods, including those whose proposed projects are interdisciplinary in nature.

Charlotte’s research analyses cultural discourses of gender, sexuality and embodiment; the ways in which our gendered, sexed and sexual selves are constructed, narrated, represented, and de/re-constructed through counter-hegemonic discourses and practices. She has focused on LGBTQ+ individuals, communities, cultures and practices, predominantly in Italian culture, from the 19th century to the present day. Recently, she has begun to work more comparatively, tracing cross-cultural dialogues and resonances between Italian, French and British texts, for example. Her work is interdisciplinary, ranging across literary study, critical approaches to cultural discourses more broadly, including film and media, and ethnographic analysis of lived experience. She is the author of two monographs, co-editor of several edited collections of essays and her articles have been published in leading international peer-reviewed journals, such as Italian Studies, Italian Culture, Modern Language Review, Modern Italy. Her work has been funded by grants from the British Academy, the AHRC and the Leverhulme Trust. She is currently Senior Co-Editor of the journal Italian Studies.

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Ronelle Roth is Fellow & Tutor in Biology at Worcester College. The focus of Ronelle’s group is to obtain a mechanistic understanding of the cross-talk that exist between plants and beneficial arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi. Her research is important for sustainable food security as AM symbiosis enhances crop productivity while minimising the reliance on chemical inputs.

During her post-doctoral research at University of Cambridge, Ronelle discovered membrane bound nanoparticles, called extracellular vesicles, accumulate at intracellular plant and fungal symbiotic interfaces. In animals, extracellular vesicles mediate cell-cell communication, yet in plants, their function remains less well understood. Ronelle’s group uses molecular and cell biology approaches to identify cargoes of extracellular vesicles, to understand their biogenesis and spatio-temporal dynamics and to determine the role of extracellular vesicles in modulating the AM symbiosis.