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Academic excellence within a welcoming, inclusive and progressive community.
We are missing our students already! We rounded off a very musical Michaelmas at Wadham with the Choir's Christmas Recital.
December 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The @oxmusicfaculty.bsky.social has announced a new DPhil scholarship for academic year 2026/27. The scholar will be resident at Wadham, a fitting home for a music student. Find out more: 
https://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/news/the-faculty-of-music-announces-new-dphil-scholarship.
December 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
'The levers of political persuasion with conversational artificial intelligence', co-authored by our Fellow by Special Election, Christopher Summerfield, is published in Science: https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.aea3884
December 12, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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
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
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
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
#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/
October 9, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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<a href="/hashtag/fndtn-information" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#fndtn-information
September 23, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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
September 19, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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
September 16, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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
September 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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
September 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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
September 2, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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
August 28, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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
July 18, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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.
July 3, 2025 at 12:55 PM