Research Students

The students listed below are those who have transferred from Probationer Research Student (PRS) to DPhil status, and who have opted-in to have a profile page. For details of the key milestones for DPhil students please see here. This page is currently being updated.

First Name	Surname	College/PPH	DPhil Title (click to go to student profile page)
Payvand	Agahi	Harris Manchester	Conceptualising virtue: an examination of the relationship between religious approaches and the VIA of positive psychology
Ghila	Amati	Balliol	Lebensphilosophie in Rabbi Avraham Itzhak HaCohen Kook’s Thought
Yaseen Christian	Andrewsen	Pembroke	Principles and Practice of Knowledge: al-Mukhtār al-Kuntī’s (d. 1226/1811) Contribution to the Islamic Intellectual Tradition in West Africa
David	Bennett	Wycliffe Hall	Queering the Queer: In what ways can the witness of homosexual celibate ascesis (HCA) renew and inform the role of desire in Anglican moral and pastoral theology?
Michael	Bester	St Cross	‘Episcopacy and Parochialism in Robert Gray’s Diocese of Cape Town 1848–1871: Disputes and Resolutions in the Reception of the Oxford Movement in South Africa’
Dallas	Callaway	Magdalen	Kierkegaardian Selfhood as Pursuit of the Greatest Commandment
Natasha	Chawla	St Cross	A Tagorian Eco-philosophy: An Indian Perspective on Humanity, Nature, and Modernity
Lyndon	Drake	Worcester	The Hermeneutics of Economic Writing in Jeremiah 32
Salim	Farrar	Wolfson	Practical Sufism and Living Sharīʿah: A Case Study of Three Contemporary Ṣūfī Networks
Buki	Fatona	Wolfson	The Role of Concepts in the Execution of Actions
Steven	Firmin	Pembroke	[Tentative] Can the concept of love in Augustinian political theology help ground a common state for Muslims and Christians?
Herald	Gandi	Worcester	Jonah’s Psalm as a Pastiche of Righteous Sufferer Psalms
Alberto	Garzoni	Keble	Raising Christ's Voice. Augustine's Pastoral Understanding of Voice and Public Life
Eduardo F.	Gutiérrez González	Blackfriars Hall	Vanquishing the Wars Within. Religious Imagination & the Pursuit of Human Consilience
James	Hooks	Lincoln	Pierre Bayle’s Theology of Toleration and Its Reception in Early Eighteenth-Century England
Yasmin	Jaffri	Wolfson	Religion and Politics in South Asia
Joseph	Justiss	Blackfriars	Large-Scale Transpositions in G and M Proverbs: An Analysis of the Interpretive Effect and Editorial Motivations of Variant Juxtapositions
Un Sung	Kwak	St John	Rhetoric in 1 Esdras 3–4 (The Story of the Three Bodyguards)
James A.	Lawrence	St Antony's	Technosticism: The Definition and Defence of a Transhumanist Soteriology with Philosophical Analysis and Theological Response
Tim	Middleton	Lincoln	The Wounded Body of God: Deep Incarnation and the Crisis of Ecological Trauma
Harry	Moore	Brasenose	The Critique of Kantian Epistemology in S. L. Frank’s Early Religious Philosophy
Lauren	Morry	Lady Margaret Hall	Liturgies of Encounter: The Character of Shared Spaces and Interactions Between Anglicans and Muslims in the Church of England’s Diocese of Birmingham
Mirjam	Schilling	Exeter	Is there a line between good and evil? A virological exploration of theological doctrines
Szilvia	Szanyi	St John’s	The Yogācāra Adaptation and Critique of the Abhidharmic Theory of Perception in the Late Works of Vasubandhu and their Indian Commentaries
Julian	Thompson	Worcester	Old Testament: 'Orality, Meaning, and the Rhetorical Persistence of Traditional Forms in Ancient Hebrew Poetry'
Blake	Trimble	Mansfield	Le mystique de la vie quotidienne: An Approach to the Theology and Cultural Analysis of Michel de Certeau
Tyler	Tully	Exeter	Religious Eco-Materialisms: Affect, Animality, and the Antihuman
Imran	Visram	St Antony's	The Preservation and Migration of Indo-Ismaili Gināns
Rebekah	Wallace	Keble / Oriel	Embodied Cognition and Christian Theological Conceptions of the Human Person
David M.	Williams	Keble	Reimagining the University: Schleiermacher, Newman, and Kuyper on Theology and the End of Higher Education
Andrew	Wong	St Stephen's House	The Impetus of Love: Towards a Theology of the Affections in Augustine
Güzin A.	Yener	Lady Margaret Hall	Kurukullā: The Scarlet Enchantress of Love, Power and Magic in Tibetan Buddhism