Our people

Image © The Sainsbury Archive, Museum of London Docklands, 2023

Paulo holds a joint appointment between the Department of Engineering Science and the Saïd Business School, and his primary fields of expertise are entrepreneurship, sustainable development, systems change, and innovation management.

He formerly served as Postdoctoral Researcher at the Skoll Centre (University of Oxford) and as an Assistant Professor at Durham University.

Outside academia, he worked as an entrepreneur and as a consultant to large companies, governments, and intergovernmental organisations. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge, as a Gates Scholar.

Paulo’s research covers the mechanics of entrepreneurship and innovation, often through a ‘systems lens’ and with a special focus on large-scale sustainability challenges (e.g. poverty, climate change, circular economy).

Paulo engages with practitioners through action research, and he is particularly interested in exploring innovative solutions in situations where information is limited, resources are scarce, and stakes are high.

Paulo’s research projects are clustered into three core research questions:

1. How can entrepreneurs catalyse changes to promptly address the SDGs?
2. How do social impact organizations conceive and pursue ‘systems change’?
3. How to best accelerate ventures of vulnerable entrepreneurs and provide an ecosystem where they can flourish?

View all publications on the Department of Engineering Science website

Robert Saxton was born in London in 1953 and started composing at the age of six. Guidance in early years from Benjamin Britten and lessons with Elisabeth Lutyens was followed by periods of study at both Cambridge (undergraduate) and Oxford (postgraduate) Universities with Robin Holloway and Robert Sherlaw Johnson respectively, and also with Luciano Berio. He won the Gaudeamus International Composers Prize in Holland at the age of twenty-one. In 1986 he was awarded the Fulbright Arts Fellowship to the USA, where he was in residence at Princeton. He became a DMus (Oxon) in 1992 and was elected an Hon Fellow of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge in 2015.

He has written works for the BBC (TV, Proms and Radio), LSO, LPO, ECO, London Sinfonietta, Nash Ensemble, Northern Sinfonia and David Blake (conductor), Antara, Arditti and Chilingirian String Quartets, St Paul Chamber Orchestra (USA), Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival/Opera North, Aldeburgh, Cheltenham, City of London, Three Choirs and Lichfield festivals, Stephen Darlington and the choir of Christ Church Cathedral Oxford, the choir of Merton College Oxford, Susan Milan, Susan Bradshaw and Richard Rodney Bennett, Simon Desbruslais, Clare Hammond. Edward Wickham and The Clerks’ Group, Teresa Cahill, Leon Fleisher, Tasmin Little, Steven Isserlis, Mstislav Rostropovich, John Wallace and the Raphael Wallfisch and John York duo.

He was Professor of Composition at Oxford University and tutorial fellow in music at Worcester College from 1999 until his retirement in 2021. He has been Composer-in Association at the Purcell School for Young Musicians since 2013 and was appointed Hon Research Fellow at the Royal Academy of Music in 2021. His music from 1972 until 1998 was published by Chester/Music Sales and, since then, by the University of York Music Press and Ricordi (Berlin). Recordings have appeared on the Sony Classical, Hyperion, Metier, EMI , NMC, Divine Art and Signum labels.

Recent works include the opera The Wandering Jew; a song cycle for baritone Roderick Williams, Time and the Seasons for the Oxford Lieder Festival in 2013; Hortus Musicae books 1 and 2, a piano cycle for pianist Clare Hammond; The Resurrection of the Soldiers, commissioned jointly by George Vass for the 2016 Presteigne Festival and the English Symphony Orchestra and Kenneth Woods; Shakespeare Scenes, commissioned by the Orchestra of the Swan and trumpeter Simon Desbruslais; his fourth string quartet, for the Kreutzer Quartet; Suite for violinist Madeleine Mitchell and pianist Clare Hammond; A Hymn to the Thames for oboist James Turnbull and the St Paul’s Sinfonia; and Fantasy Pieces for the Fidelio Trio. Jonathan Clinch premiered Tombeau for HB for organ in autumn 2022 and has commissioned a major organ cycle as part of a project with the Royal Academy of Music; the English Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kenneth Woods premiered Scenes from the Epic of Gilgamesh in Oxford in March 2023.

Recent recordings include a CD of piano music on Toccata Classics, Shakespeare Scenes on Signum; a portrait CD on Metier released in September 2022 and a CD of organ works performed by Jonathan Clinch released in October 2022.

Robert Saxton is married to the soprano Teresa Cahill.

Scott Scullion is Fellow & Tutor in Classics at Worcester. His primary specialty is Greek tragedy and he also works on Greek religion and Greek textual criticism.

View all publications on the Faculty of Classics website

Anna graduated from Oxford University in 2013 and since then has completed several years of medical training in Oxford and London, before choosing general practice. She has a long-standing interest in global health, particularly of non-communicable disease, and primary health care delivery, having completed a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, in 2015, and spent time clinically working across a range of settings in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Her interest in ageing and elderly medicine blossomed from time as a CEO Clinical Research Fellow at University College London Hospital and the MRC unit of Lifelong Health Ageing. She completed an academic clinical fellowship in general practice and projects included a qualitative interview study with primary care professionals, as to how they identify and manage frailty. She is now a DPhil student using a mixed methods to understand how to optimise cardiovascular medications in those living with frailty.

She works as a GP in Oxford and is a clinical lecturer in medicine at Worcester College.

View all publications on the Primary Care Health Sciences website

Michael Silva is a highly experienced specialist surgeon with an interest in gallbladder surgery along with surgery for bile duct, liver and pancreatic disease including pancreatitis. His practice covers all aspects of benign and malignant disease in this area

Mr Silva has been a leading Teaching Hospital General and HPB Surgical Consultant since 2009 and is the Chair for the Thames Valley Liver Cancer Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) in Oxford. He is the Training Programme Director for Higher Surgical Trainees in the Oxfordshire Thames Valley Deanery and is Clinical Lecturer at Worcester College, Oxford University.

Mr Silva is also the Director for Regional Surgical Networks in the UK for the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and a specialist advisor to NICE (National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence). He is a member of the editorial boards of the British Journal of Surgery (BJS Open) and Current Surgery Reports.

Henrietta works on a variety of tasks within the Academic Office including being secretary to the Education Committee and Tutors’ Group and administering Field Course bursaries, Travel Grants, Vacation Grants, and Language Course Reimbursements. Henrietta also assists with student academic administration, room bookings, academic employment checks, and the Tutorial Management System (TMS).

Elizabeth is responsible for providing administrative support required for the academic activities of the College. In particular, a wide range of financial and tutorial administration, managing payments and stint details using TMS and various in-house databases. She provides administrative support for Tutors, Fellows, the Senior Common Room, tutorial related aspects of the Visiting Student Programme and the Director of the Israel and Ione Massada Fellowship Programme. She also maintains and updates the University’s Visa Management System for students, conducts right to study checks for non-UK citizens, and right to work checks for those employed by the College in respect of tutorial activities, in collaboration with the Home Office.

I am an experimental physicist focusing on using ultracold atomic gases to study many-body quantum phenomena. The first five years of my research career were spent investigating magnetism, superconductivity and quantum phase transitions in a conventional condensed matter setting of the Quantum Matter group at Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Then in 2008, recognising the potential for the study of many body physics, I decided to switch fields to study cold atomic gases in the group of Zoran Hadzibabic. In 2012 I became a Royal Society University Research Fellow (URF), also based in Cambridge.

In April 2018 I moved to Oxford and continue to hold my Royal Society URF. I have started a new experimental cold atom group and we are building up an ultracold Erbium experiment to study the effects of long-range dipole-dipole interactions on both equilibrium and non-equilibrium many-body quantum phenomena.

View all publications on the Department of Physics website

I joined Worcester in 2020, after studying at Oxford and Cambridge and holding a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Leeds. I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

I teach English Literature from 1550 to 1830 and literary theory, including the following papers:

• Literature in English, 1550-1660
• Literature in English, 1660-1760
• Literature in English, 1760-1830
• Elements of Criticism
• Shakespeare
• Epic
• Tragedy

My main research area is literature from the Restoration to the Romantic period. My research interests include: nature writing; ecocriticism; georgic and pastoral poetry; the long poem; time in literature; weather, climate, and climate change in literature and culture; genre, influence, reception, and allusion. My first book, Reading Time in the Long Poem: Milton, Thomson, and Wordsworth was published in 2022 with Edinburgh University Press. I also co-edited the collection Georgic Literature and the Environment: Working Land, Reworking Genre (Routledge 2022).