Psychology & joint degrees

Dr Azzopardi’s research field is the neural basis of visual perception and conscious awareness, and his interests include cortical magnification factors, face perception, motion perception, the neural basis of blindsight, mechanisms underlying perceptual decisions, and disorders of conscious awareness such as found in patients with blindsight and visual neglect.

I have spent all my working life in Oxford within the collegiate University. For the majority of the time I was based in the University Computing Services (now IT Services), where I ran a statistical consultancy and was responsible for delivering training to University staff and students in the use of a variety of statistical software.

I am a Chartered Statistician and Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, and have served on the Society’s Working Party on Statistical Computing and on the Committee of its General Applications Section. I have also been the Algorithm Editor of its Applied Statistics journal, and co-edited the book Applied Statistics Algorithms. I am the Statistical Advisor to the Oxford Institute of Clinical Psychology Training, a member of the Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) and an Associate of Ashridge Management College.

My main responsibility in College is teaching the first-year course in Probability and Statistics to Experimental Psychology and PPL students. I also provide tutorials for second-year Psychology students for their paper in Experimental Design and Methods.

My research interests lie in the fields of Applied Statistics and Statistical Computing, particularly the design and construction of algorithms.

I have published on topics as diverse as intubation of new-born babies, back pain in nurses, depression in the elderly, and the European meat trade. I have also served as the Algorithm Editor of the ‘Applied Statistics’ journal, and co-edited the book ‘Applied Statistics Algorithms’.

I studied Philosophy and Computer Science at the Humboldt University in Berlin and then moved to Scotland to pursue a PhD in Philosophy at the University of St Andrews. My doctoral studies were supported by PETAF (Perspectival Thoughts and Facts), as part of the FP7 Marie Curie Initial Training Network (European Commission Funding). I graduated with a thesis on Aristotle’s Philosophy of Mathematics under the supervision of Sarah Broadie and Katherine Hawley. In 2015, I moved to Oxford to start as a stipendiary lecturer in philosophy at Wadham and St Hilda’s Colleges while also maintaining a part-time position as “Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin” (≅ fixed-term lecturer) at Bonn University, Germany. My research focuses on the nature of mathematical objects in Aristotle and Plato, with a particular interest in how their views tie in with their more general views in epistemology and ontology.

Since 2016, I have been a stipendiary lecturer in philosophy at Worcester College, Oxford, while also teaching casually for several Oxford Colleges and visiting student programmes. I teach a wide range of philosophy papers including General Philosophy, Plato’s Meno and Euthyphro (Greek), Early Greek Philosophy (Greek), Frege’s Foundations of Arithmetic, Aristotle on Nature, Life and Mind (Greek/translation), Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics (Greek/trans), Plato’s Republic (Greek/trans), Plato’s Theaetetus and Sophist (Greek/trans), Knowledge & Reality, Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophy of Mind, Early Modern Philosophy, Kant, Ethics and Feminist Philosophy.

I am a post-doctoral researcher in the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics at the University of Oxford, and Linguistics Organising Tutor at Worcester College.

My research interests include language documentation and description; Austronesian linguistics; syntactic typology and information structure. I am currently working on the AHRC-funded project ‘Enggano in the Austronesian family: Historical and typological perspectives’. The project aims to document and describe the Enggano language, spoken by roughly 1,500 speakers on Enggano Island off the South Coast of Sumatra. It will result in a collection of audio & video recordings of Enggano, a descriptive grammar of the language, historical and typological comparison with other Austronesian languages, and literacy materials for the Enggano community.

My previous research focused on the languages of Northern Sarawak in Malaysian Borneo. From 2016-2019, I held a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the University of Oxford, researching ‘Information Structure in the Languages of Northern Sarawak’. The project combined documentation of three languages, Kelabit, Lun Bawang and Sa’ban, with analysis of the role that information structure plays in determining syntactic choices. This built on PhD research into the Kelabit language, which sought to establish parameters of variation within Western Austronesian and the implications that these have for ongoing theoretical and historical debates.

Dr Peramatzis’ specialities are ancient philosophy, especially Aristotle’s metaphysics, logic and epistemology and Plato’s metaphysics and epistemology.

My work falls mainly within contemporary philosophy of language, epistemology and philosophy of action. Most of my research relates either to linguistic (especially semantic) knowledge or to practical knowledge and skill, and sometimes to connections between these. More broadly, my work engages with theories of normativity in relation to skill, factual knowledge, thought and reasoning, and linguistic communication. I also have a general interest in the work of Gilbert Ryle, especially his relatively neglected work on thinking and improvisation.

I teach the undergraduate finals papers in Knowledge and Reality, Philosophy of Logic and Language, Wittgenstein, Philosophy of Mind, and Ethics. I will also be teaching first-year General Philosophy and Introduction to Logic. In Michaelmas 2019, I will be teaching a graduate (BPhil) class on Knowledge, Reason and Action, with Prof. John Hyman.