Wolfson College Oxford

On Thursday, don't miss our annual Haldane Lecture, this year delivered by Professor Dame Kay Davies of @oxforddpag.bsky.social as she discusses 'Genomics and rare diseases: from gene to clinic'.
6pm, in the LWA.

Are you a DPhil student or research staff @ox.ac.uk thinking beyond academia?

Don't miss the Careers Beyond Academia: Options and Pathways for Researchers conference from 23-26 March 2026.

Explore the programme and register for free: www.careers.ox.ac.uk/beyond-academia

Art at Wolfson - Wolfson College Wolfson Painting competition 2026 Since its foundation in the 1960s, Wolfson College has built one of the city’s most important collections of modern and contemporary art. The collections and loan dis...

We have officially launched the Wolfson Painting Competition 2026!
To be in with a chance of winning £6,000 and seeing your painting hang in Wolfson's modern and contemporary collection, visit our website to read more: www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/art-at-wolfs...

#ScientistSpotlight 🧪
This week we’re featuring David Fawkner-Corbett, NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer in Paediatric Surgery.

@ndm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social #AcademicSky

Wolfson RF analyses how medieval women used falconry to subvert gender norms - Wolfson College Wolfson Research Fellow Rachel Delman argues in a recent article published in The Conversation UK that medieval women used falconry to negotiate and sometimes subvert gender norms.

Thank you @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social for the lovely feature on my latest @uk.theconversation.com article.

www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/news/wolfson...

The age-old cycle of flooding in the @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social water meadows.

Congratulations to GBF @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social on the launch of her new novel ICE SHOCK.

Wolfson is delighted to announce the establishment of the Bongani Mayosi Scholarship, named in memory of Professor Bongani Mayosi, a Wolfson graduate, and one of the world’s leading cardiologists and most revered doctors in Africa.
www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/news/wolfson...

Today: join Saeed Taji Farouky for a timely talk on life-writing as a battleground for survival and cultural endurance amid genocide. Register by 14:30. 📅 Feb 3 | 17:30 📍 @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social + Zoom🔗 buff.ly/Jr1gDyr@torc...

Wolfson member authors new study on the link between coastline orientation and extinction risk of shallow marine animals - Wolfson College Wolfson member Dr Cooper Malanoski, a Post-Doctoral Research Assistant in the Department of Earth Sciences is the lead author in a recently published paper highlighting new scientific findings into ma...

Congratulations to Wolfson member Dr Cooper Malanoski, who has co-authored a study on the link between coastline geometry and orientation, and marine extinction patterns, recently published in the 'Science' journal. www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/news/wolfson...

Join Jeanette Winterson and Professor Jane Shaw for a discussion of the craft of life-writing across memoir, fiction, and criticism. @engfac.bsky.social @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social @sfu.ca
📅 24 January | ⏰ 18:00
💻 Online via Zoom
Free and open to all 🎟️🔗 rb.gy/yldc3e

...and for the eagle-eyed, this stunning image of
@oxfordpsychiatry.bsky.social 's Professor Rachel Upthegrove by @alystomlinson.bsky.social was taken on the banks of the River Cherwell in Wolfson's gardens.

The new permanent exhibition also includes a portrait of Wolfson alumna and Founding Member of @africaoxford.bsky.social Dr Anne Makena, alongside AfOx Director Professor Kevin Marsh.

Wolfson GBF Professor Alain George is one of 19
@ox.ac.uk researchers featured in a new series of portraits commissioned by @bodleian.ox.ac.uk and the British Journal of Photography, celebrating leading researchers across the University.

Ri Wrapped 2025: our most-watched science talks From artificial intelligence to the origins of the Universe, these are the Ri science talks that captivated millions in 2

Fantastic to see 2 Wolfson Fellows - Vlatko Vedral and Bob Coecke - included in the Royal Institution's 'Wrapped 2025' - a roundup of the most watched science talks of the year.
www.rigb.org/explore-scie...

Wolfson President Sir Tim Hitchens and Dr Mike Rands, Master of Darwin College, Cambridge, at The Oxford and Cambridge Club, December 2025.

Earlier in Dec, we hosted our Alumni Christmas Drinks in London. It was fantastic to see so many of our alumni community connecting and reminiscing. We also discovered that our sister College @darwincollegecam.bsky.social was hosting drinks in the room next door!

Testing the river water @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social in collaboration with @thames21.bsky.social to ensure we have the evidence if the illegal rubbish dumped at Kidlington leaches into our river water.

Wolfson GBF elected to Australian Academy of the Humanities - Wolfson College The Australian Academy of the Humanities announced that Wolfson GBF Professor Elleke Boehmer was elected a Corresponding Fellow.

The Australian Academy of the Humanities has announced the election of 30 new Fellows. Wolfson was thrilled to learn that GBF @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social was elected a Corresponding (non-resident) Fellow in recognition of her outstanding contribution in a humanities discipline.

Elleke Boehmer ICE SHOCK with Lara Feigel Join us for a discussion chaired by Lara Feigel with Elleke Boehmer, author of the new book 'Ice Shock'

Tomorrow, @blackwells.bsky.social Broad Street, join @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social as she discusses her new book, 'Ice Shock'.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/elleke-boe...

How does life-writing shape novels, criticism & non-fiction? Olivia Laing (The Lonely City, The Garden Against Time) explores such questions with Charlie Lee-Potter.
1830 on 10 December at Goldsmiths.
An OCLW & @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social collaboration.
All welcome. Register: buff.ly/RhA95P4

An old colour picture postcard showing modern concrete buildings by a lake with trees and reeds

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social

Wolfson was founded in 1965. Named for Sir Isaac Wolfson, mail order baron, it is one of two pairs of colleges in Oxbridge named for the same person

If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

Wolfson GBF receives prestigious international Emerging Talent Award for work in decarbonisation - Wolfson College The SRUK/CERU Emerging Talent Award recognises outstanding contributions to energy efficiency and the decarbonisation of buildings.

Congratulations to Wolfson GBF Jesús Lizana who has been awarded the prestigious Emerging Talent Award by SRUK/CERU in recognition of his outstanding contributions to energy efficiency and decarbonisation of buildings.

www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/news/wolfson...

Wolfson RF Appointed Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Paediatrics - Wolfson College Wolfson is delighted to announce that RF, Dr Young Chan Kim, has been appointed Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Paediatrics

Congratulations to Wolfson RF, Dr Young Chan Kim, who has been appointed Director of Graduate Studies at the Department of Paediatrics. Dr Kim has been part of the department’s academic leadership since 2024.
www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/news/wolfson...

...and beforehand, a fireside chat with George in the Buttery - your chance to discuss important topics in a private space with one of the world’s leading climate activists and environmentalists.
Booking required.
www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/event/firesi...

Thursday 20th, in the LWA: come and hear @georgemonbiot.bsky.social on mitigating the impacts of global crises in politics, climate and inequality. With @moudhy.bsky.social
www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/event/the-po...

Wolfson Mentor Connect - Wolfson College The Mentor Connect programme offers early-career researchers an opportunity to speak openly about challenges, solutions and next steps.

Transitioning from PhD to your next professional role? Wolfson has launched Mentor Connect - a new programme connecting JRFs, RFs, and other postdoctoral affiliates with experienced mentors in a relaxed, non-hierarchical College setting. Learn more: www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/study-and-re...

'Slow TV' is the next trend in streaming! Thank you @petercnstewart.bsky.social - we're hooked!

“The biography of the biography.” Zachary Leader reveals how Ellmann shaped Joyce, and how Leader shaped Ellmann.
In conversation with Hermione Lee.
📅 11 Nov | 🕠 17:30 | 📍 Wolfson
🔗 buff.ly/Jbwslll
@engfac.bsky.social

Tomorrow! Don’t miss Harvard's Susan Kahn on their brilliant biography, 'Canine Pioneer: The Extraordinary Life of Rudolphina Menzel'.
🗓️ 11 Nov | 🕑 14:00 | 📍 Wolfson College (in person & online)
Register: buff.ly/TKB59bD
@oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social #JewishWomensVoices #LifeWriting #Biography

Wolfson GBF @mmosleh.bsky.social shares his research examining partisan news sharing on social media platforms...