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Thank you to all the Wadham elves who have worked hard to Christmas-up the College. Happy Oxmas!
December 5, 2025 at 10:02 AM
It wouldn't be Oxmas without the Wadham panto! Congratulations to @wadhamdrama on another amazing production. We think Beauty and the Beast 2000s just might be the best one yet.

#Wadham #Wadhamdramasociety #Oxmas #panto
December 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Among Wadham Library's Christmas treasures is a Book of Hours from the mid-15th century. Its large illuminations from c.1425 depict events from the early life of Christ, including this Nativity scene.
December 1, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The Routledge Handbook of Arts and Health publishes today. The contents of this comprehensive handbook include a chapter co-authored by our Senior Research Fellow, Kam Bhui, 'Arts in Psychiatry and Mental Health Research: Complex Identities and Interdisciplinary Praxis'. https://bit.ly/4hBIzlE
November 28, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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All welcome at this free public lecture hosted by the Koch History Centre, followed by a drinks reception.

Wed, 26 Nov 17:00
Room 00.063
Stephen A Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities

Please register via our website. www.history.ox.ac.uk/koch-history...
November 19, 2025 at 9:58 AM
We look forward to the DANSOX event, 'Beyond the Ballet Russes' on 26 November, 5.30-7pm at St Hilda's College, with lectures from our Fellow and Tutor in Russian, Prof Philip Bullock, and Dr Gabriela Minden. 
Eventbrite:
Beyond the Ballet Russes
Lectures by Professor Philip Bullock and Dr. Gabriela Minden, sharing new research on Serge Diaghilev's groundbreaking company.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 12:03 PM
We've enjoyed reading the University's Student Story from Seun Sowunmin (History, 2022), SU President for Undergraduates and our recent alumna:
www.ox.ac.uk
November 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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🌎COP30 Week One: Signals of progress and what must come next ⬇️
Read our reflections on climate, nature & justice at COP30: www.naturebasedsolutionsinitiative.org/news/reflect...

#PeoplesSummit #COP30 #ClimateJustice
📷: The Peoples' March, COP30 Belém, 15th November.
Photo Credit: Aline Soterroni
November 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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“There is no net zero in Brazil without nature” -Dr Aline Soterroni at our #COP30 side event yesterday in Belém

A collaboration for biodiversity-climate synergies with @greenpeace.org @wwfbrasil.bsky.social @sosmataatlantica.bsky.social

Read the summary by @iisd.org ⬇️
enb.iisd.org/climate-biod...
From Trade-offs to Synergies: Aligning Climate and Biodiversity Policies
What would it take to unite climate and biodiversity agendas? Speakers from science and policy stress that neither can succeed alone, urging collaboration, better data, and funding to bridge divides a...
enb.iisd.org
November 12, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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A decade after the Paris Agreement, Brazil’s COP30 Presidency calls for a #GlobalMutirão - a major collective effort uniting governments, Indigenous and local leaders, scientists, investors and citizens to work side by side.
November 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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#COP30Belém - the first Climate COP held in the Amazon - offers a pivotal opportunity to spotlight the critical role of tropical ecosystems and the Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities who care for them.
November 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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COP30 kicks off in Belém! 🌎
From pledges to practice: why COP30 could mark a turning point towards justice, reciprocity and regeneration

Our team is on the ground working to connect research with policy and practice

Our hopes for COP30➡️ www.naturebasedsolutionsinitiative.org/news/belem-c...
November 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Read our Warden, Robert Hannigan's Expert Interview in The Cipher Brief: Cybersecurity, AI, and the New Age of Multilateral Defense:
Former GCHQ Chief: Cybersecurity, AI, and the New Age of Multilateral Defense
EXPERT INTERVIEW — The last few months have seen a series of major cyber incidents which have frozen airports, crippled companies, compromised government systems, and stolen millions from unwitting victims. Cyber leaders are warning that the threat is being worsened as hackers leverage new technolog...
www.thecipherbrief.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
We look forward to hearing our alumnus, Professor Robert McGill (MPhil English Studies, 1999), discussing his book 'Simple Creatures' in conversation with Professor Siobhan Phillips on 25 November. 
Find out more and register here: https://events.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/scholars-library-Robert-McGill
November 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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@wadhamcollege.bsky.social (University of Oxford) is recruiting a Junior Research Fellow in Economic History (beginning from 1 September 2026). Open to all subfields and time periods. Join us! www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/about/the-da...
The David Richards Junior Research Fellowship in Economic History
Wadham College invites applications for a fixed-term Junior Research Fellowship in Economic History, named the David Richards Fellowship, September 2026 – August 2029.
www.wadham.ox.ac.uk
October 29, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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We're pleased to announce a new doctoral scholarship, enabled by the generosity of Dr Nigel Nettheim. Proposed doctoral projects should be concerned with the analysis of the compositions of Franz Schubert. @wadhamcollege.bsky.social
👇Find out more www.music.ox.ac.uk/article/new-...
New DPhil scholarship in Schubert studies (2026/27 entry)
www.music.ox.ac.uk
November 3, 2025 at 3:42 PM
We've enjoyed reading about our PPE student Jaydon Coombs-Goodfellow and his role as this year's Football Sabbatical Officer. Find out more from Jaydon about what the sport means to him and how to get involved:
Student story: Football Sabbatical Officer | University of Oxford
Meet Jaydon Coombs-Goodfellow, a PPE student at Wadham College and this year’s Football Sabbatical Officer. From his early football days in West London to his time on Oxford’s pitches, Jaydon shares
www.ox.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Many congratulations to our Tutor and Lecturer in Anatomy, Dr Autumn Rowan-Hull, who has been awarded Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).
November 4, 2025 at 10:31 AM
#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
October 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Congratulations to all, including our Senior Research Fellow, Prof Kam Bhui.
📢 We're delighted to co-lead the @nihr.bsky.social Thames Valley Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) with @astonuniversity.bsky.social & @oxfordhealthnhs.bsky.social to improve people's health in Thames Valley & beyond, through prevention & innovations in health & social care.

More: bit.ly/4qceCfZ
October 20, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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/
October 20, 2025 at 11:30 AM
'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
October 14, 2025 at 9:02 AM
We hope all our new and returning students are settling in to 1st week at Wadham and Oxford!

#wadhamcollege #oxforduniversity
October 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
'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
October 13, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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
October 9, 2025 at 1:30 PM