Wadham College

#HappyPublicationDay to our Senior Research Fellow, Prof Kam Bhui, whose first novel, 'The Maharaja’s Bodyguard'  is a time-travelling tale for young adults set between 19th-century India and 1960s Britain.
https://troubador.co.uk/bookshop/young-adult/the-maharaja-s-bodyguard

Congratulations to all, including our Senior Research Fellow, Prof Kam Bhui.

Thank you to our alumna, Verity Babbs, for a wonderful event at Blackwell's, Oxford, hosted by Amie McNee. We enjoyed learning about the 'History of Art in One Sentence', and getting our copy of the book signed. 
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/history-of-art-in-one-sentence-9781526686893/

'Synthesis of the Tetracyclic Core of the Daphlongeranines', co-authored by our Fellow and Tutor in Organic Chemistry, Darren Dixon, is published in Open Letters: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.orglett.5c03362

We hope all our new and returning students are settling in to 1st week at Wadham and Oxford!

#wadhamcollege #oxforduniversity

'Photo-induced nonvolatile rewritable ferroaxial switching', co-authored by our Professorial Fellow in Physics, Paolo Radaelli, is published in Science: https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.adz5230

Today our gardening team got their new electric mower! It's part of our shift to use more sustainable energy sources across the College. 🥬

Also, from a certain angle, it looks like it has a cool robot face 🤖

#greenwadham #sustainability #gardens

#HappyPublicationDay to our Emeritus Fellow, Bernard O’Donoghue, co-editor of 'The Poems of Seamus Heaney', which includes a number of uncollected poems and a selection of poems never published before.
https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571340385-the-poems-of-seamus-heaney/

Verity Babbs THE HISTORY OF ART IN ONE SENTENCE with Amie McNee Verity Babbs journeys through 50 key art movements across history, answering ten questions for each in just one sentence at a time

#HappyPublicationDay to our alumna, Verity Babbs, on publication of 'The History of Art in One Sentence'. There still time to get tickets for the book launch at Blackwell's, Oxford, on 16 October:

Congratulations to our Lecturer in English, Douglas Clark, whose book, 'The Will in English Renaissance Drama', has been published by Cambridge University Press. 
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/will-in-english-renaissance-drama/77AACBAE585A17615E550C6409D8CC76#fndtn-information

The sun came out to welcome our Undergraduate Open Day visitors, along with our student ambassadors and Mike and April from our Academic Office.
If you were not able to join us today or would like a reminder, there's lots of information on our website: https://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/why-wadham

Come along to our Undergraduate Open Day on 19 Sept to see if Wadham is right for you. There's lots to see, including the library, Chapel, gardens, Refectory, and accommodation. Our student ambassadors will be leading tours and answering all your questions.
https://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/why-wadham

We look forward to welcoming you to Wadham for our last Undergraduate Open Day of the year. Come along on 19 Sept to take a tour of College, see our accommodation and facilities, meet our student ambassadors and tutors, and have all your questions answered. 
https://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/why-wadham

Logo for the Oxford 2025 Climate Awards

We're #wadhamproud to announce that we are finalists for the Oxford 2025 Climate Awards! We're in contention for the ‘Sustainable Further Education/College of Year’ award.

The winners will be announced in just a few weeks! 🤞

#sustainability

Nature conservation needs financing. Here's how we get it:

https://f.mtr.cool/oipgffaqzl

Wadham's Prof Joe Bull explains the LEON project and the role of satellites in procuring investment.

#nature #sustainability #oxford

Check out this podcast featuring Wadham's Dr Ian Ellison!

Brookman Scholar updates on Musical Life at Wadham Ryan looks back on performances, collaborations, and behind-the-scenes magic from the 2024/25 academic year.

As Trinity Term 2025 drew to a close, so did Ryan Bloxsom's first year as the Brookman Music Scholar.

Ryan looks back on music life at Wadham over the past year: 

The Faculty of History and Wadham are delighted to announce the inaugural Koch History Centre Fellows!

https://f.mtr.cool/iiignphzro

These fellows are appointed for 2025-2026 on the theme: Religion and the State. 

#history #humanities #oxford

We are recruiting for the Masoumeh and Fereydoon Soudavar Professorship in Persian Studies, in association with the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. Find out more and apply here:

Inter Alia review – Rosamund Pike rules in searing legal drama from Prima Facie team With anarchic energy, Pike plays a judge whose world is upended in a companion drama to Suzie Miller’s hit, again directed by Justin Martin

'Rosamund Pike rules in searing legal drama from Prima Facie team'. Read the Guardian's 4* review of 'Inter Alia', Suzie Miller's follow up play, in which our alumna plays a leading role:

Eight Oxford academics elected Fellows of the British Academy | Eight researchers from the University of Oxford have been made Fellows of the British Academy in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the humanities and social sciences. Richard Ovenden,

Congratulations to the eight Oxford academics elected Fellows of the British Academy, including Wadham Fellows, Peter Thonemann and Margaret Hillenbrand:

Many congratulations to the newly-elected Fellows of the British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social, including Peter Thonemann, our Tutorial Fellow and Professor of Ancient History, and Margaret Hillenbrand, our Fellow and Tutor in Chinese:  https://bit.ly/44C7GQB

The British Academy welcomes 92 new Fellows in 2025 92 distinguished scholars have today been elected to the British Academy’s Fellowship, in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the humanities and social sciences.

The British Academy has elected 92 new Fellows in 2025 – a higher number than in previous years due to new Fellowship places for candidates whose research spans more than one discipline www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/agm-wel...

We love seeing this interview with from the Africa Oxford Initiative with Wadham alumna, Anuoluwatoyosi Onikos (MSc in Law and Finance, 2023).
Do check it out and read about Toyosi’s work on development projects since leaving Oxford.

www.afox.ox.ac.uk/blog/oxford-...

Nature-friendly farming budget swells in UK – but cuts elsewhere make recovery fraught Progress on nature-positive farming – but habitats still trail big-ticket technology

Read our Senior Research Fellow Prof Nathalie Seddon's article, 'Nature-friendly farming budget swells in UK – but cuts elsewhere make recovery fraught' in The Conversation: theconversation.com/nature-frien...

Plants monitor the integrity of their barrier by sensing gas diffusion - Nature A study using Arabidopsis shows that plants can monitor the integrity of their outer barriers by sensing gas diffusion, enabling them to initiate wound repair to prevent water loss and pathogen entry.

You can read 'Plants monitor the integrity of their barrier by sensing gas diffusion', an article co-authored by Francesco Licausi, our Professor of Molecular Plant Physiology, in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Come to Wadham this afternoon to join sessions with our tutors in the Holywell Music Room:
2.10 - 3pm: Demonstration Interviews. 
3.10 - 3.40pm: Writing a UCAS Personal Statement: Practice and pick up useful tips.
Stay for a tour with our students, who will answer all of your questions.

Our last session of the day is on Writing a Personal Statement. Join us to practice and pick up useful tips on how to write a UCAS personal statement, 3.10pm in the Holywell Music Room. College tours with our student ambassadors are running all day.

#oxopendays #oxforduniversity #wadhamcollege

Student-led tours of College are running all day at Wadham. Stay for a talk on Applying to Oxford with our Tutor for Admissions at 12.45pm and our Meet the Tutors session at 1.15pm. We look forward to meeting you! 

#OxOpenDays #OxfordUniversity #WadhamCollege

Come to our Undergraduate Open Days on 2 & 3 July and join the following sessions: 
12.45 - 1pm: Applying to Oxford.
1.15 - 2pm: Meet the Tutors (students only).
1.15 - 2pm: Q & A for Parents, Guardians and Teachers.  
2.10 - 3pm: Demonstration interviews.
3 - 3.40pm: Writing a personal statement.