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Welcoming New Fellows
Dr James Goudkamp
Tutorial Fellow in Law
Dr Goudkamp joins Keble from Balliol College, where he was a fixed-term Tutorial Fellow
and University Lecturer in Law. He previously held posts at Jesus College, Oxford, and the
University of Wollongong. He was also an associate to a Justice of the High Court of Australia.
James’s expertise is in tort law, having recently published
Tort Law Defences
(2013). James
also collaborates with a former fellow in Law at Keble, Jamie Edelman, with whom he edited
Torts
in Commercial Law
(2011).
Dr James Palmer
Fixed-Term Fellow in Human Geography
James Palmer joined Keble in February to assume the responsibilities of the main tutor in
Human Geography. He took his MA, MPhil and DPhil from the University of Cambridge
where he was also a researcher at the Centre for Science and Policy. His work examines
the interplay of science, evidence, knowledge and power in EU policy processes related to
the governance of sustainable energy systems and the environment. His most recently
completed research was on the debates surrounding biofuels and land use.
Dr András Juhász
Tutorial Fellow in Mathematics
Dr Juhász is an expert in differential and low-dimensional topology responsible for pioneering
work on the introduction of sutured Heegaard Floer homology theory. He comes to Oxford
University as a Royal Society Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer at Imperial College, having
previously held visiting research positions in Cambridge, Berkeley, Princeton, and Paris. His
first degree was from the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.
Dr Kazbi Soonawalla
Tutorial Fellow in Management
Dr Soonawalla arrives at the Saïd Business School as a Senior Research Fellow in
Accounting from her previous post at the London School of Economics and Political
Science. Her degrees are from Boston and Stanford Universities. Kazbi is an authority on
joint ventures, international accounting and corporate social responsibility, among other
matters. In 2012-13 she was a stipendiary lecturer at Keble, and will continue to teach
undergraduates in Economics and Management.
Professor Sarah Whatmore
Professorial Fellow in Geography
Professor Whatmore is one of the world’s leading cultural geographers, and her arrival at
Keble strengthens the College’s scholarship not just in Geography, but also in Archaeology
and Anthropology. Sarah’s work on the material and ecological fabric of social life adds to
the Creativity Cluster. Best known for her books
Hybrid Geographies
(2012) and
Political
Matter: technoscience, democracy and public life
(co-edited with Bruce Braun 2010) she is
at the forefront of theoretically-informed geographical thinking. Her most recent project, on
the expertise involved in flood risk management, experimented with the relations between
scientific modelling and public participation in Ryedale (North Yorkshire) and Uckfield (East
Sussex).
