Graduate research students
| First name | Surname | College | DPhil title |
| Kristian | Akselberg | Pembroke | Ecclesiology in the Catechetical Lectures of St. Cyril, Archbishop of Jerusalem |
| Mark | Aloysius | Campion Hall | Desire and its transformations in Hannah Arendt and Augustine |
| Matthew | Anderson | Oriel | In Defence of Children: Pro- and Anti-Natalist Arguments in Moral Philosophy and Karl Barth |
| Saquab | Ashraf | St Cross | The linguistic and thematic response of the Qurbn to events during the Meccan period |
| Hadley | Bennet | Regent's Park |
"A Theology of Leadership" to address the significant persistent bias towards Christomonism in ecclesial leadership paradigms & underpin future reform |
| James | Bergida | Blackfriars | Towards Interfaith Finance? Islamic Banking and the Christian Prohibition of Usury |
| Simon | Berry | Wycliffe Hall | The role of responses to heterodoxy in shaping the evolution of orthodoxy in the late medieval church |
| Ingrid | Betancourt | Harris Manchester | Hermeneutics and Method in Latin American Liberation Theology |
| Yashua | Bhatti | Mansfield | The tentative title is F.W.J von Schelling's Paul: Pauline Thought in German Idealism |
| Sean | Biggins | Blackfriars | The Second-Person Relation, Technology, and Theology |
| Daniel | Borvan | Keble | Fighting for the Faith: Pierre du Moulin's Polemical Quest for the Reunion of Christendom |
| Susan | Bridge | New | Field: Modern Theology (systematic theology) Title: Glory, without the Kingdom and the Power: new theologies of glory |
| Patrick | Brittenden | Regent's Park |
What is the role of BMBs (Believers from a Muslim Background) in the development of the Church in North Africa? A critical evaluation with special reference to Algeria and Tunisia |
| Edward | Brooks | Oriel | The Rationality of Hope |
| Robert | Brown | Blackfriars | Is it Feasible to Affirm the Doctrine of Divine Inspiration in Light of Certain Problematic Insights from Biblical Studies? |
| Alex | Bruce | St Stephen's House | Desert Fathers and Mountain Monks: Revisioning Buddhist-Christian Dual Belonging |
| Anthony | Buck | Wolfson | Field: Theology/Hermeneutics Title: Stories the Church Lives By: A Cognitive Approach to Ecclesial Theology and Praxis |
| - | Carlos | Balliol | Sramana ascetic movements towards a theory of religions change. |
| Keith | Chappell | Blackfriars | Ecclesial and World View Characteristics of Catholic Charismatic Renewal Groups in the United Kingdom |
| Nicole | Chen | Christ Church | Christian Doctrine: to what extent did Marcion influence the formation of the New Testament canon? |
| Anna | Chrysostomides | St Antony's | Between the Lines: Religious Identity and the Social Dynamics of Conversion in Eastern Christianity and Islam, 8th-10th centuries CE |
| Judith | Clark | Oriel | Reach for the Sky. A Typology of Angelic Discourse and its Liturgical Impact Within the Community at Qumran |
| Keith | Collins | Keble |
Divine Wisdom and Human Wisdom: The Interplay between Revelation and Rationality in the Composition of Christian Theology, against the Backdrop of 1 Corinthians 1.17-2.16: A Survey from the Fathers, ca. 100-215 |
| Peter | Collins | Christ Church | Atheism, Theism and Public Morality in Contemporary Liberal Democracies |
| John | Comstock | Lady Margaret Hall | The Historical Context and Authorial Intention(s) of Augustine's Confessions |
| William | Cooper | Magdalen | "As You See the Day Approaching": An Investigation of the Epistle to the Hebrews and its Ritual Setting |
| Rachel | Cresswell | Blackfriars | The use of Scripture in the writings of Anselm of Canterbury |
| Simon | Cross | St Stephen's House |
Perspectives on Divine Action: Reflections on the Theological Legitimacy of Approaches to Divine Action in the VO / C.T.N.S. Series "Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action" |
| Emerson | Csorba | Brasenose | The employer-employee social contract in an age of uncertainty: its ingredients, evolution and future |
| Edward | David | Blackfriars | Corporate religious liberty: assets, organisations and free exercise in American law |
| Victoria | Davies | St John's | Thinking beyond metaphysics: redressing the question of Kierkegaard's influence on Heidegger |
| Rebecca | Dean | Pembroke | "What if a Spirit or an Angel has Spoken?" Narrative Modelling of the Treatment of Religious Experience in the Acts of the Apostles |
| Hans | Decker | Oriel | Making Books Without End: Anthology and Generative Rereading in the Wisdom Tradition |
| Nikolaas | Deketelaere | Balliol |
'The Hermeuticity of Truth: A Theological Appropriation and Contextualisation of the Thought of Jean-Luc Nancy' (theology and modern European thought) |
| Dritero | Demjaha | St John's | Historical and Systematic Theology: 'On the thinkability of paradox and the paradoxicality of thought' |
| Lyndon | Drake | Worcester | Old Testament/Hebrew Bible: a biblical theology of capital from the Hebrew Bible, and its versions and ancient interpreters |
| Mark | Earngey | Wycliffe Hall | The Life and Theology of Bishop John Ponet (1516-1556) |
| Tristan | Elby | St Cross | The Cult and Theology of the Vratyas Related to the 'Proto-Tantric' Ascetic Groups of India |
| Justine | Ellis | Oriel | Sacred Texts, Secular Space: Towards Religious Literacy for a Secular Age |
| Timothy | Farrant | Pembroke | The Mental and Material Laboratory of 13th C. Science |
| Steven | Firmin | Pembroke | Christian Ethics: Can common civic virtues be derived from common objects of love in Islam and Christianity? |
| Elaine | Flowers | Kellogg | The Life Journey of the Soul in Late Anglo-Saxon England |
| Jamie | Franklin | St Antony's | - |
| Peter | Gent | Oriel | The Performativity of Scripture |
| Martin | Gliniecki | St Stephen's House | Discrimination in Modern Asymmetric Conflict: a Christian Moral Analysis |
| Jonathan | Griffiths | Corpus Christi | Ecclesiastical History: the changing nature of ecclesiastical supremacy in England in the sixteenth century |
| Emily | Gum | Oriel | Christian Ethics: What are the goals of education? A Dialogue between Philosophical Theologian Nicholas Wolterstorff and Poli |
| John | Haglund | St John's | Soren Kierkegaard: Toward a Theology of Humour |
| Richard | Hain | Wycliffe Hall | Children: an inheritance from the Lord. Towards a coherent account of autonomy in childhood in end of life bioethical discourse |
| Claire | Hall | All Souls | Patristics Origen and Prophecy |
| David | Hazell | Wycliffe Hall | The Future of Emerging Church? An Eschatologically Orientated Ecclesiology of Fresh Expressions' |
| Alan | Herbert | Wolfson | The Imaginal and Shared Religious Experience in Jiva Goswami's Sri Bhakti Sandarbha |
| Daniel | Herskowitz | Wolfson | Jewish Receptions of Martin Heidegger’s Philosophy |
| Eric | Hoff | Wolfson | Augustinian Studies. "From Confession to the Controversy: The Development of Augustine's Understanding of the Law". |
| Tim | Howles | Keble | Religion as a Mode of Existence: The Political Theology of Bruno Latour |
| Brian | Hutchinson | Oriel | The Marriage of Heaven and Earth: C.S. Lewis and the Eschatological Imagination |
| Nabeelah | Jaffer | Pembroke | Blessed are the strangers: 'hijra and guraba' in jihadist thought |
| Owain | James | Trinity | Death, Demons and the Medium of the Message: Exploring the Exegesis of 1 Samuel 28:3-25 in the Early Church. |
| Katie | Javanaud | Keble | Buddhist Ethics: Metaphysical Foundations & Practical Applications. |
| Anniken | Johansen | St Cross | The Concept of Theosis in Dionysius the Areopagite between Greek and Syriac Tradition |
| Jaspreet | Kaur | Wolfson | New Age spirituality and its abject: A Case Study of '3HO' |
| Oliver | Keenan | Blackfriars | A Polanyian Re-articulation of Aquinas’s Metaphysics of Knowing |
| Emily | Kilburn | University | Pragmatic Integralism: towards an alignment of dualism within the texts if Sri Aurobindo and the intentional community Auroville |
| Simon maria | Kopf | Blackfriars | God, Nature and the Desiderium Naturale: Thomas Aquinas and Teleology |
| Evangeline | Kozitza | Keble | Field: New Testament Title: Receiving the Little Child: Devotion to the Infant Christ from the New Testament to Origen |
| Kvetoslav | Krejci | Keble | Harry Williams beyond Surroundings: finding God through self-awareness and doubt |
| Marten | Krijgsman | St Cross | Theory of myth and the formation of national identity |
| Rathieshan | Kumarasingham | Wolfson | D.Phil. in Theology (Science and Religion) Title: A theology within a critical realist framework for Christians in Buddhist cultural contexts |
| Mateusz | Kusio | Wolfson | Theology (New Testament) "Mimetic Rivalry in the Portrayal of Eschatological Opponents in Early Christian Literature". |
| Travis | La Couter | Campion Hall | Doing Theology at a Distance: The Metaphysics of Prayer in Hans Urs von Balthasar |
| Anik | Laferriere | Keble | The Late-Medieval Augustine: A Study of Fourteenth Century Hagiography and Iconography of Augustine. |
| Andrew | Langley | Regent's Park | The Vindication of Yahweh’s Holiness in Ezekiel’s Oracles against the Nations |
| Sean | Lau | Trinity | Project title: "Doctrine, Ethics and Discernment" Proposed field: Seeking joint supervision in Modern Doctrine and Christian Ethics |
| Amy | Lee | Oriel | Science and Religion, "Bilingualism of science and religion" |
| Elizabeth | Li | Mansfield | Kierkegaard, Martensen, and the Problem of Post-Kantian Theology and Philosophy |
| Harry | Lines | Kellogg | Field: 3rd century Greek patristic theology and Origen's work. Proposed title: "The Wisdom of Solomon - the Solomonic corpus in the work of Origen" |
| James | Lorenz | Worcester | Memory and Salvation: Using film to explore the power of memory and self in soteriology. |
| Victoria | Lorrimar | Oriel | Enhancing Humanity: Co-Creation and the Imagination |
| Megan | Loumagne | Christ Church | Original Sin, Evolution, and Gender |
| Mark | Macaulay | Regent's Park | Abrahamic Faiths and the Challenge of Otherness: Exploring the Mandate for Peace Prior to Encounter |
| Frazer | MacDiarmid | Christ Church | Ignatius of Antioch's understanding of martyrdom and self-sacrifice, as it relates to the formation of Christian identity and personhood. |
| Kirsten | MacKerras | St Cross | Eschatology and Political Theology in Lactantius and Eusebius |
| Nandan | Maniratnam | Christ Church | Modern Theology - "Is a secular account of human dignity viable?: A critical exploration of the Kantian tradition" |
| Luke | Martin | Keble | The Mechanics of Grace in Thomas Aquinas |
| Matthew | Martin | Pembroke | |
| Neil | Martin | Keble | Understanding the Regression Narrative in Paul’s Letter to the Galatians |
| Roy | McCoy III | Wolfson | Biblical and Quranic Studies; The Gospel Harmony of al-Biqa'i's Na'm al-durar f' tan'sub al-'y't wa |
| Ionut | Moise | Wolfson | Self and Salvation in the Vaiśeṣikasūtras of Candrānanda’s Vṛtti |
| Nina | Montgomery | Lincoln | Recalibrating brand as belief: a study of the commercial branding projects of the Arab Gulf's new cultural institutions |
| Greg | Morgan | Mansfield |
In Search of a Renewed Theo-Cultural Metaphysic for Postmodern Jurisprudence via the Historical Reclamation of Natural Law as a Theory of Divine Govt. |
| Daniel | Mullaney | Wycliffe Hall | Alexander Men and Hermeneutics: Integrating the Methods of Biblical Criticism in Russian Orthodoxy |
| Michael | Murray | Lady Margaret Hall | The Onus of Divine Simplicity in the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Framing of Trinitarian Orthodoxy |
| Emilie | Noteboom | Regent's Park |
What is the modern-day relevance of the importance of law, constitutional and divine, in Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer's conception of history and the unfolding of revolutions therein? |
| Amy | Orr-Ewing | Wycliffe Hall |
The importance of witnessing evidence, discovering dogma and persuasion with rhetoric in the writings of the apologist and lay theologian Dorothy L Sayers |
| Mari | Ovsepyan | Pembroke | Field: Theology (Science and Religion) Title: ‘The Anatomy of Unbelief: Cognitive Science of Religion and Secularisation’ |
| Dimitrios | Pallis | St Cross | The Philosophical Liturgical Synthesis of Dionysius the Areopagite |
| Sachi | Patel | Wolfson | Bhagavad-Gita in Caitanya Vaisnavism |
| Steven | Paulikas | Regent's Park | Paul Ricoeur's Biblical Hermeneutics of Evil |
| Jahdiel | Perez | St Stephen's House | Joy and Jest: Towards a Constructive Theology of Laughter Modern Theology and Literature |
| Katharine | Perry | Pembroke | "The Devil's in the Details: the Development of Hellenistic-Jewish Demonology in Light of the Septuagint" |
| Arthur | Petersen | Harris Manchester | Uncertainty and God: A Study of the Role of Uncertainty and Ignorance in Scientific and Religious Practices |
| David | Pickering | Worcester |
"Christian Theology, within that, Apologetics. The proposed title is ""Chesterton and Apologetics beyond Apologia: a study in method and imagination.""" |
| Francesca | Po | St Stephen's House | Exploring the Emerging Church: Christianity, the New Age, and Self-religion in the Sacralisation of Inclusivity |
| Trevor | Pomeroy | Wolfson | Towards a Warfare Hermeneutic: A Sociological Analysis of Hebrew Biblical War Narrative in its Ancient Near Eastern Context |
| Charles | Prempeh | St Stephen's House |
Theology and Religion. An Ethnographic Study of the Encounter Between Christianity and African Traditional Religion in Contemporary Akan Land |
| Matthew | Pritchard | Harris Manchester | Field: Science and Religion. Title: "Deeply Religious Nonbelief: The Cognitive and Affective Tapestry of Religious Naturalism" |
| Olga | Puzanova | Wolfson | The Adaptation of Orthodox Christianity to the Japanese Cultural Background |
| Jyoti | Raghu | Wolfson | Michel Henry, auto-affectivity, and religious experience |
| Guinevere | Rallens | Oriel | St. Augustine's Theology of Memory |
| Naomi | Richman | St Antony's | Sex and the Spirit: Gender and Sexuality in Born-Again Christianity |
| James | Roberts | Harris Manchester | Theological anthropology. 'Promoting the loss of the self and the mysticism of human communion: Uncovering the work of Mother Maria Skobtsova.' |
| Paul | Rowse | Blackfriars | Paul’s Understanding of Moral Co-Responsibility in the Body |
| Andris | Rudzitis | St Cross | Political theology: Radicalisation. The Role of Martyrdom in the Radicalisation of 20th century Latin American Christian Revolutionaries |
| Stefani | Ruper | Linacre |
Salvation through Science Alone: The Soteriological Potential of Science in the Case Studies of |
| Gerard | Ryan | Campion Hall | Modern Theology: Theological Dimensions Toward a Theology of Love and Mutual |
| Prabhsharandeep singh | Sandhu | Wolfson | Theorizing Religion and Literature in the Sikh Context: A Study of Bhai Vir Singh, Puran Singh, and Harinder Singh Mahboob |
| Benjamin | Savill | Wolfson | Papal Privileges in Early Medieval England, c. 680-1073 |
| Andy | Shamel | Linacre | Literature and Theology - Secular Literature, Religious Belief, and Mediation of the Divine |
| Christopher | Shaw | Regent's Park | Engaging Eckhartian Mysticism in a Secular Context: A Hermeneutical Study in Post-Kantian Thought |
| Samuel | Shearn | Worcester | The early theological and political development of Paul Tillich before and during the First World War |
| Alex | Sidhu | Linacre | Natural/human rights , Christian belief and politics: are natural/human rights compatible with Christian belief? |
| Martin | Smith | Lady Margaret Hall | "Should God take mind-dependent value properties into account when actualising worlds?" |
| Pavlo | Smytsnyuk | Campion Hall |
Religion, Culture and Politics in Modern Eastern Orthodoxy and Indian Philosophy: A comparative study with special reference to Zizioulas, Yannaras, and Aurobindo, Tagore |
| Derek | Spears | Blackfriars |
Commentary on Photius Questiones Amphilochia 151 - classical frs. in Pauline literature, light they throw on Paul and educational background etc. |
| Gregory | Stacey | Trinity | Towards a Catholic Epistemology |
| Marek | Sullivan | Balliol | Huayan, Holism, and Environmentalism: A Critical Evaluation |
| Priya | Sury | Balliol | Intentional Eating: Obesity and Spiritual Emptiness in America |
| Szilvia | Szanyi | St John's | Perception and Perceptual Illusion in Early Yogācāra Buddhism |
| Tobias | Tan | Exeter | Corporeal Theology: The Nature of Theological Understanding in Light of Embodied Cognition |
| Aaron | Taylor | Blackfriars | Common Moral Grammar? Knowledge of the Natural Law in Thomas Aquinas and John Calvin |
| Andrew | Thayer | Mansfield | Derrida and the Community of the Church: Ecclesial proclamations of the Gospel in a post-modern world |
| Holly | Thompson | Wolfson | A Reception-Historical Study of Gender Subversion in the Book of Esther |
| Julian | Thompson | Worcester | Orality, Meaning, and the Rhetorical Persistence of Traditional Forms in Ancient Hebrew Poetics |
| Stephen | Thompson | Blackfriars |
The concept Om & the four Mahavakya in the Vedanta literature as means of dispelling avidya with particular reference to Anubhuti's tippanam on the Agamaprakaranam of Mandukya -Gaudapdiya with Sankara's bhasya,to be translated by myself for the first... |
| Blake Ellison | Trimble | Mansfield |
Belief, Cultural Imagination, and Salvation: The Soteriological Implications of the Cultural Theory, Psychoanalysis, and Semiotics in Michel deCerteau |
| Tyler | Tully | Exeter | 'The Lamb that was Slain': Towards a Post-humanist Study of Deep Incarceration and 'The Other' |
| Andrew | Turnbull | Wycliffe Hall | Lesslie Newbigin and the Renewal of Evangelical Theological Epistemology |
| Jim | Van Dyke | Christ Church |
Christian Personalism and Aquinas' Natural Law: Can Their integration illumine the Mystery of Human Identity and Difference for Christian Ethics? |
| Tikhon | Vasilyev | Wolfson | Christian Angelology in Pseudo-Dionysius and Sergius Bulgakov |
| Stevan | Veljkovic | St Cross | Secular Order and the Sources of Consensus on Climate Change |
| Arabella | Volkers | St Benet's Hall | Re-thinking origins of patristic exegesis: the role of prosopological exegesis in 2C Alexandria |
| Christy | Wang | Regent's Park | Sanctifying England: Puritan Preaching on Conformity in Early Stuart London |
| Madeleine | Ward | Wolfson | The Intellectual Context for the Development of Quaker Theology, 1656-1700 |
| Daniel | Warnke | Wolfson |
Shaped for the city: How does worship in the Vineyard shape a vision of human and divine agency that motivates urban church planting? |
| John | Whitty | Pembroke | Intellectual Light - Tradition and Illumination in the Though of Basil of Caesarea |
| Lucian | Wong | Mansfield | Nineteenth Century Bengal Vaisnavism / The Tattva-Viveka of Bhakivnoda |
| Guzin | Yener | Wolfson |
Kurukullā: The Scarlet Enchantress of Love, Power, and Magic in Tibetan Buddhism |
| Edward | Youansamouth | Regent's Park | ‘Two Congenial Beings of Another Sphere’: Peter Sterry as a Theological Precursor to William Blake |
