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)
Ghila	Amati	Balliol	Lebensphilosophie in Rabbi Avraham Itzhak HaCohen Kook’s Thought
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?
Robert	Brown	Blackfriars	Brevard Childs' canonical approach: an evaluation of its main elements
Dallas	Callaway	Magdalen	Kierkegaardian Selfhood as Pursuit of the Greatest Commandment
Lyndon	Drake	Worcester	The Hermeneutics of Economic Writing in Jeremiah 32
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
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
Elizabeth	Li	Mansfield	Kierkegaard, Martensen, and the Problem of Theology and Philosophy
Frazer	MacDiarmid	Christ Church	The Collective Memory of Ignatius of Antioch: The Martyr as a Locus of Christian Identity, Remembering and Remembered
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
Andrew	Shamel	Linacre	Telling Stories to See With: Mythopoeisis and Mythopoeic Fiction
Szilvia	Szanyi	St John’s	Perception and Illusion in Early Yogācāra: 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
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