WARDEN'S LETTER

In the Trinity term issue of Oxford Today it was Nuffield's turn to be treated to a 'College Profile'. The first sentence asked 'Is Nuffield College really a college?' After talking to the Acting Warden, Byron Shafer, to the Senior Tutor, Clive Payne, to the JCR President, Johannes Lindner, and to other members of College, the author of the article concluded that 'Nuffield combines many images: monastery, professional school and adjunct to the corridors of power. It's a return to a very old recipe for an Oxford college'. Readers of this Report can form their own judgments. It contains a wealth of information about the College's activities and I am most grateful to Carol Phillips for assembling all this material and instilling a sense of order.

Nuffield's Annual Report has always remained resolutely 'non-glossy', but this year we are including three photographs. A facile description would be 'past', 'present', and 'future'. In 2000 the Political Studies Association celebrated its 50th Anniversary (among the founding members in 1950 were Sir Norman Chester and G D H Cole of Nuffield) and to mark the occasion announced several 'Lifetime Achievement Awards'. The recipients included Lord Jenkins, Chancellor of Oxford University, Sir Edward Heath (Honorary Fellow of the College), and, shown in the photograph receiving their awards for Lifetime Achievement in Political Studies, Brian Barry (Official Fellow 1966-9 and 1971-5), Richard Rose (Student of the College 1958-60), and David Butler, who on 19 September 2001 celebrated 50 years as a Fellow of the College.

The second photograph shows the ESRC Summer Reception with the Chancellor of the Exchequer accompanied by Gordon Marshall, Official Fellow in Sociology, on leave as Chief Executive of the ESRC, and Frances Cairncross, Visiting Fellow of the College, who has recently become Chair of the ESRC. The College is much involved with the Research Councils. Geoff Evans is a member of the ESRC Postgraduate Training Board. Ray Fitzpatrick is a member of the Council of the Medical Research Council and Chair of its Public Health Research Board. John Darwin is a member of the History Panel of the Arts and Humanities Research Board.
The third photograph shows the participants in the Royal Economic Society's First Easter School in Econometrics. This was organized by David Hendry, Bent Nielsen and Neil Shephard. Its location in College reflects the international standing of the College in econometrics and the College's keenness to invest in the future. We are acutely aware of the need to train the next generation of social scientists. The 15 completed doctoral theses by Nuffield students, and the 10 master's degrees, are among the most important items in this Report. Our capacity to fund our students, by providing scholarships worth around £¼ million a year, has been significantly helped by the Studentship Appeal Fund. A second major investment is the College support of Postdoctoral (Prize) Research Fellows. In this Report you will find accounts of the research of some 20 Postdoctoral Fellows, covering an impressive range of subjects.

Now that the University is divided into Divisions, it is important to stress that Nuffield's interests extend beyond the Social Sciences. We are represented in, among others, History, Psychiatry, Public Health, and Statistics. To illustrate this diversity, my predecessor, Sir David Cox, is a member of the Independent Scientific Group advising the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on bovine TB, and his predecessor, Michael Brock, published in December 2000 Volume Seven of The History of the University of Oxford, an edited volume described in the TLS as a 'truly fitting conclusion . . . to a major intellectual project'.
I am delighted to report that John Goldthorpe has been elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. When Oxford Today asked whether the College is still meeting the Founder's aim of bringing academics and non-academics together to solve social, economic and political problems, one of the examples given by the Acting Warden was John Goldthorpe's work on social class categorization, used by the Office for National Statistics. Other examples in this Annual Report are Paul Klemperer's appointment as a Member of the UK Competition Commission, David Firth's membership of the National Statistics Methodology Advisory Committee, Bill McCarthy's membership of the Arbitration Panel of ACAS, Adrian Pagan's membership of the Board of the Reserve Bank of Australia, Anthony Heath's work for the Cabinet Office on ethnic minority disadvantage, Karma Nabulsi's work for the UK Parliamentary Commission of Enquiry into Palestinian Refugees, and Gwilym Hughes' work for Guided Transit Express for Oxfordshire.

I congratulate John Flemming (Emeritus Fellow), who was awarded a CBE in the Birthday Honours, June 2001. Roderick Floud (Student 1964-6, Provost of London Guildhall University) was elected President of Universities UK (formerly the Committee of Vice-Chancellors), by a one-vote margin over Ivor Crewe (Research Fellow 1969-71, Vice-Chancellor of Essex University). Among our Visiting Fellows, Charles Pollard was knighted in the New Year's Honours, 2001, and Sheila McKechnie became a Dame in the Birthday Honours, June 2001. Tessa Jowell became a member of the Cabinet, as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport after the June General Election. The new Cabinet also contained two recent Nuffield Visiting Fellows: Jack Straw as Foreign Secretary and Patricia Hewitt as Secretary of State for Trade and Industry. Together with the Cabinet Secretary, Sir Richard Wilson, current Visiting Fellow, this brings to four the number sitting round the Cabinet Table, which may be a record for the College.

Byron Shafer left the College at the end of June 2001, after 16 years as Andrew W Mellon Professor of American Government. The College and University owe him a great deal for his contribution to building up the study of American politics in Oxford. He has been a lively and stimulating colleague, and I thank him warmly for acting as Warden for the past year. I am most grateful to Clive Payne for his service as Senior Tutor, a position that he has fulfilled with quiet efficiency and thoughtfulness. Our thanks are due to John Goldthorpe for his service since 1996 as Fellow Librarian; under his guidance the Library has gone from strength to strength. David Mayhew was a most welcome visitor to Nuffield as the last in a highly distinguished line of John M Olin Professors in American Government ('last' as the visiting chair has, despite our expressed willingness to continue supporting it, been re-assigned to Balliol by the University).

The effectiveness of the College in fulfilling its role - however defined - depends crucially on its staff, and I would like to thank them most warmly for their important contribution. The major building works that have already begun in the Kitchen and Hall will impose additional burdens, and the understanding of all who work in College is much appreciated. The rebuilding means that we have had to postpone certain College activities, such as the Gaudy in 2002, but we look forward to welcoming former members of the College when the works are completed.

The College is grateful to the Political Studies Association for permission to reproduce the photograph of the presentation of the Lifetime Achievement in Political Studies awards and to the ESRC for permission to reproduce the photograph of the ESRC Summer Reception.

THE COLLEGE IN 2000-2001

Visitor

The Rt Hon The Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, Master of the Rolls

Warden

Sir Tony Atkinson FBA

Acting Warden

Byron Shafer, for 2000/2001

THE FELLOWSHIP

At the start of the academic year, there were in total 83 Fellows of the College (excluding Honorary and Emeritus Fellows), 35 being 'permanent' and 48 on fixed-term appointments.

Fellows

Laurence Whitehead, Official Fellow
John Goldthorpe FBA, Official Fellow
Kenneth Macdonald, Faculty Fellow and Chair of Sociology Group
Richard Mayou, Professorial Fellow
Christopher Bliss FBA, Professorial Fellow
Clive Payne, Faculty Fellow and Senior Tutor
David Miller, Official Fellow and Chair of Politics Group
John Muellbauer FBA, Official Fellow and Investment Bursar
David Hendry FBA, Professorial Fellow
John Darwin, Faculty Fellow
Duncan Gallie FBA, Official Fellow and Fellow Librarian
Byron Shafer, Professorial Fellow
Raymond Fitzpatrick, Faculty Fellow and Dean
Megan Vaughan, Faculty Fellow
Anthony Heath FBA, Official Fellow
Margaret Meyer, Official Fellow, Chair of Economics Group and Adviser to Women Students
Andrew Hurrell, Faculty Fellow
Geoffrey Evans, Official Fellow
Neil Shephard, Official Fellow
Lucy Carpenter, Faculty Fellow, Chair of Senior Common Room
Gordon Marshall FBA, Official Fellow
Iain McLean, Official Fellow
David Firth, Faculty Fellow
Yuen Khong, Faculty Fellow
Paul Klemperer FBA, Professorial Fellow
Bronwyn Hall, Professorial Fellow
Gwilym Hughes, Supernumerary Fellow and Bursar
Mark Armstrong, Official Fellow
Alec Stone Sweet, Official Fellow
Jeremy Richardson, Professorial Fellow
Kevin Roberts, Professorial Fellow and Investment Bursar
David Mayhew, John M Olin Professor in American Government
Adrian Pagan, Visiting Professor in Economics, Professorial Fellow
Richard Breen FBA, Official Fellow
Ian Jewitt, Official Fellow
Robert Allen, Reader in Recent Social and Economic History

Visiting Fellows

Lord Howell, House of Lords Opposition Spokesman on Foreign Affairs
Sir Charles Pollard, Chief Constable, Thames Valley Police
Martin Lamaison, Group Finance Director, Oxford Instruments plc
David Bradley, Director of Development, King's College School, Wimbledon
Cedric Scroggs, Chairman, Y J Lovell plc
Tessa Jowell, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, MP for Dulwich
Will Hutton, Chief Executive, the Industrial Society
Tim Holt, Professor of Social Statistics, University of Southampton
Dame Sheila McKechnie, Director, Consumers' Association
Angela Coulter, Chief Executive, Picker Institute
Dame Brenda Hale, Judge of the Court of Appeal
Sir Richard Wilson, Secretary of the Cabinet and Head of the Home Civil Service
David Potter, Founder Chairman and Chief Executive, Psion plc
David Willetts, MP for Havant
Martin Wolf, Associate Editor, Financial Times
Bill Callaghan, Chairman of the Health and Safety Executive
Moira Wallace, Head of Social Exclusion Unit, Cabinet Office
Sir Christopher Bland, Chairman BT
Vince Cable, MP for Twickenham
Frances Cairncross, Management Editor, The Economist
Frank Vandenbroucke, Minister of Social Affairs and Pensions, Belgian Federal Government
Len Cook, National Statistician and Registrar General
Gus O'Donnell, Director of Macroeconomic Policy and International Finance, HM Treasury, and Head of the Government Economic Service
Ian Blair, Deputy Commissioner, Metropolitan Police

Emeritus Fellows

Ian Little FBA
Uwe Kitzinger
John Flemming FBA
Max Hartwell
David Fieldhouse FBA
Freddie Madden
Francis Seton
James Sharpe
Terence Gorman FBA
A H Halsey FBA
David Butler FBA
Maurice Scott FBA
Lord McCarthy
Sir James Mirrlees FBA
Nevil Johnson
Noel Gale, Dean of Degrees

Honorary Fellows

Sir Donald MacDougall FBA
Rt Hon Lord Callaghan
Rt Hon Sir Edward Heath
Jean Floud
Kenneth Robinson
Michael Brock
Manmohan Singh
Sir David Cox, FRS FBA
The Rt Hon Lord Bingham of Cornhill
Martin Feldstein FBA
Lord Hurd of Westwell
Sudhir Mulji
Lord Runciman FBA
Amartya Sen FBA
Sir Adrian Swire

Research Fellows

Richard Spady, Senior Research Fellow in Economics
Hyun Shin, Senior Research Fellow
Stephen Bond, Research Fellow in Public Economics
Jurgen Doornik, Research Fellow
Bent Nielsen, University Lecturer in Economics
Margaret Stevens, Research Fellow
Tarani Chandola, Open Prize Research Fellow
Karma Nabulsi, Open Prize Research Fellow
Alasdair Crockett, Open Prize Research Fellow
Patrick Schmidt, Research Fellow
Lucy White, Open Prize Research Fellow
Meir Yaish, Open Prize Research Fellow
Ola Elerian, Open Prize Research Fellow
Volker Nocke, Open Prize Research Fellow
Ran Spiegler, Open Prize Research Fellow
Steve Fisher, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Stuart Soroka, Gwilym Gibbon Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Herman van de Werfhorst, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
James Engle-Warnick, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Erik Eyster, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Hans-Martin Krolzig, Research Fellow
Adam Swift, British Academy Research Fellow
Rosalind Yarde, Guardian Research Fellow
Michael Biggs, Research Fellow
Alice Sullivan, British Academy Research Fellow
Robert Taylor, ESRC Research Fellow

Associate Members

Nan Dirk De Graaf
James Piscatori
Sarah Harper
Geoffrey Dudley
Sonia Mazey
Alain Jeunemaître
Brian Henry
Robert Andersen
Dionyssis Dimitrakopoulos
David Levi-Faur
Joni Lovenduski
Siem Jan Koopman
Avner Offer
Jean-Claude Sergeant
Andrew Chesher
Gavin Cameron
Nanny Wermuth
Andreas Busch
Vered Kraus

NEW ELECTIONS 2001-2002

FACULTY FELLOWSHIPS

Christopher Wlezien, Institute for the Study of Political Economy, University of British Columbia

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS

The Postdoctoral Research Fellowship elections in January attracted a field of 230 candidates. The following were elected to PRFs:

Javier Garcia-de-Polavieja (Labour Market Segmentation and Trade Union Involvement in Spain), student of the College.

Oliver Grant (Economic History of the Internal Migration in Germany), St John's College, Oxford.

Christian List (Deliberation, Aggregation, and Collective Decision Making), student of the College.

Elaine Tan (The New Institutional Economic History), St John's College, Cambridge.

EMERITUS FELLOWSHIPS

Byron Shafer

COLLEGE OFFICERS 2000-2001

STUDENTS

At the start of the academic year 2000-2001, there were 74 students in College. There were 42 men and 32 women. 28 were from the UK, 19 from other EU countries, and 27 from elsewhere. Their distribution by group and status was as shown below:

Groups

For the academic year 2001-02, 35 studentships were offered including three deferred from 2000-01 and three deferred to 2002-03. In the event, 24 studentships were taken up, 7 by men and 17 by women. 9 of the new students are from the UK, 3 from other EU countries, and 12 from elsewhere. The distribution by Group is Economics 6, Politics 8, Sociology 9 and Interdisciplinary 1. 8 current students completed either a MSc or M Phil and will stay on to pursue a D Phil.

GRADUATING STUDENTS

During the course of the year, the following students or former students were given leave to supplicate.

(E = Economics; P = Politics; S = Sociology; ID = Interdisciplinary)

In the University examinations the following were successful:

Tom Norman was winner of the 2001 George Webb Medley Prize for the best thesis. Rebecca Stone was runner-up to the winner of the 2001 George Webb Medley Prize for the best performance in written papers.

APPOINTMENTS OF LEAVING/GRADUATING STUDENTS

Amy Berrington was appointed Statistical Epidemiologist at the ICRF Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Radcliffe Hospital.

Gavan Conlon was appointed Research Officer at the Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics, and Centre Coordinator for the Centre for the Economics of Education.

Jennifer De Voe was appointed Family Medicine Resident Physician at Oregon Health Sciences University.

Giulio Federico was elected to an ODI Fellowship.

Fran McGinnity was appointed to a post-doctoral fellowship at the Max Planck Institute, Berlin

Javier Garcia de Polavieja was elected to a Nuffield College Postdoctoral Research Fellowship.

Chandrika Kaul was appointed Lecturer in Modern British History in the University of Cardiff.

Christian List was elected to a Nuffield College Postdoctoral Research Fellowship.

Paul Martin was appointed Fellow and Tutor in Politics at Wadham
College, Oxford, and titular CUF Lecturer in the Department of Politics.

Rachel Reeves was appointed Research Officer at the Picker Institute Europe in Oxford.

Magnus Saxegaard was elected to an ODI Fellowship.

Paul Segal is now a Consultant to the United Nations Development Programme, New York.

Alistair McMillan was appointed to a Research Officership at Nuffield College.

Daniel Sgroi was appointed AEA Technology Junior Research Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge, October 2000 and Research Associate, Department of Applied Economics, Cambridge, July 2001.

David Stead was appointed to a Lectureship in Economic History at the Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York.

John Thanassoulis is working at Strategic Pricing, Hutchison.

VISITORS

Andrew Abbott, University of Chicago. Sponsor: Kenneth Macdonald.
Rune Åberg, Umeå University. Sponsor: Duncan Gallie.
Silvia Ruiz Velasco Acosta, IIMAS, Mexico. Sponsor: David Firth.
Bharat Anand, Harvard Business School. Sponsors: Paul Klemperer and Volker Nocke.
Michael Baye, Indiana University. Sponsor: Meg Meyer.
Erica Benner, London School of Economics. Sponsor: David Miller.
Norman Birnbaum, Georgetown University Law Center. Sponsor: Duncan Gallie.
Daniele Caramani, European University Institute, Florence. Sponsor: Geoff Evans. (Jemolo Fellow)
Jimmy Chan, Johns Hopkins University. Sponsors: Paul Klemperer and Erik Eyster.
Kalyan Chatterjee, Pennsylvania State University. Sponsor: Paul Klemperer.
Raymond Cohen, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Sponsor: Andrew Hurrell.
Martina Conticelli, University of Rome 'La Sapienza'. Sponsor: Alec Stone Sweet. (Jemolo Fellow)
Vincent Della Sala, Carleton University, Ottawa. Sponsor: Alec Stone Sweet. (Jemolo Fellow)
Robert Evans, University of Cambridge. Sponsor: Meg Meyer.
John Fox, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. Sponsor: Anthony Heath.
Massimo Giannini, University of Rome Tor Vergata. Sponsor: Tony Atkinson. (Jemolo Fellow).
Kenneth Hoover, Western Washington University. Sponsor: Alec Stone Sweet.
David Huang, Institute of European and American Studies, Taipei. Sponsor: Clive Payne.
Richard Johnston, University of British Columbia. Sponsor: Byron Shafer.
Arend Lijphart, University of California, San Diego. Sponsor: Iain McLean.
Stefano Mannoni, University of Florence. Sponsor: Iain McLean. (Jemolo Fellow).
Miguel Martinez Panero, Valladolid University. Sponsor: Iain McLean.
Zorica Mladenovic, University of Belgrade. Sponsor: Bent Nielsen.
John Morgan, Princeton University. Sponsor: Meg Meyer.
Elisa Nicolato, University of Aarhus. Sponsor: Neil Shephard.
Karl-Dieter Opp, University of Leipzig. Sponsor: John Goldthorpe.
John Owen, University of Virginia. Sponsor: Iain McLean.
Serge Paugam, CREST-INSEE. Sponsor: Duncan Gallie.
Karen Phalet, Utrecht University. Sponsor: Duncan Gallie.
Anders Rahbek, University of Copenhagen. Sponsors: David Hendry and Bent Nielsen.
Roni Schachar, Tel Aviv University. Sponsors: Paul Klemperer and Volker Nocke.
Roger Scott, Queensland University of Technology. Sponsor: Iain McLean.
Martin Shapiro, University of California, Berkeley. Sponsor: Alec Stone Sweet.
Richard Sinnott, University College Dublin. Sponsor: Anthony Heath.
Ezra Suleiman, Princeton University. Sponsor: Alec Stone Sweet.
Peter Temin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sponsor: Tony Atkinson.
Mark Thomas, University of Virginia. Sponsors: Avner Offer and Meg Meyer.

CONFERENCES IN COLLEGE

Michaelmas Term

Workshops on Palestinian Refugees
(K Nabulsi)

Employability and the Quality of Working Life
(T Atkinson, D Gallie and T Jowell)

Festschrift for Jim Mirrlees
(K Roberts)

West European Politics special issue 'Redesigning the West European State'
(A Stone Sweet and M Thatcher)

New Information Technologies
(A Jeunemaître)

The New Historians in Israel: What Price Truth?
(M Yaish and A Offer)

Postgraduate Sociology Conference
(A Heath, C Di Gennaro and K Heffernan)

Hilary Term

Harvard-Oxford-Stockholm Graduate Conference
(P Gonzalez Alvarez and M Jackson)

Royal Economic Society Easter School for PhD Students
(D Hendry, B Nielsen and N Shephard)

Trinity Term

Politics Workshop
(J Richardson)

Order and Justice in International Relations
(A Hurrell)

Annual Graduate Workshop in Economics
(R Allen and A Offer)

Conference on Ageing
(T Atkinson, A Heath and S Harper)

Electoral Commission
(D Butler)

SEMINARS IN COLLEGE

Stated Meeting Seminars

November: 'The Reform of the Civil Service'
(Sir Richard Wilson)

March: 'The Future of the University'
(David Holmes, Richard Mayou, David Potter)

June: 'The British Election of 2001'
(B Shafer, D Butler, A Heath, I McLean and C Payne)

Seminars in College

Senior Research Seminar in American Politics
(B Shafer and D Mayhew) Michaelmas, Hilary and Trinity Terms

Economic Theory Workshop
(P Klemperer) Michaelmas, Hilary and Trinity Terms

Oxford Industrial Economics Workshop
(P Klemperer, V Nocke and L White) Michaelmas, Hilary and Trinity Terms

Interdepartmental Finance Seminars
(A Guembel, N Shephard and S Howison) Michaelmas, Hilary and Trinity Terms

Graduate Workshop in Political Science
(C Needham) Michaelmas, Hilary and Trinity Terms

Political Economy Seminar
(I McLean and S Wood) Michaelmas and Hilary Terms

Econometrics Workshop
(D Hendry and N Shephard) Michaelmas and Trinity Terms

International Economics and Macroeconomics Seminar
(J Muellbauer, A Pagan and D Vines) Michaelmas Term

Economic Theory and Econometrics
(K Roberts and N Shephard) Michaelmas Term

The American Election of 2000
(B Shafer) Michaelmas Term

Media and Politics Seminar
(D Butler and G Hodgson) Michaelmas Term

Sociology Seminar
K Macdonald Michaelmas Term

Economic and Social History Graduate Workshop
(A Parkinson) Michaelmas Term

The State of American Politics: Where are we in 2001?
(B Shafer and D Mayhew) Hilary and Trinity Terms

Seminar in Economic Theory and Econometrics
(M Armstrong and D Hendry) Hilary Term

New Research in Comparative Political Science
(G Evans and S Whitefield) Hilary Term

Social Challenges and Sociological Puzzles
(D Gallie and A Heath) Hilary Term

Econometric Seminars
(D Hendry and N Shephard) Trinity Term

Seminar in Economic Theory and Econometrics
(M Meyer and J Muellbauer) Trinity Term

Nuffield Political Science Seminar
(G Evans and I McLean) Trinity Term

Sociology Seminar
(P Gonzalez Alvarez and S Guzzo) Trinity Term

The web version of the annual report was created by Lisa Richards, from the published version which was compiled and edited by Carol Philips. An Adobe PDF version can be found here.

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