WARDEN'S LETTER

In September 2002, The Times carried a story that the BBC is spending £5 million on its 'Fame Academy' for twelve would-be popstars. This figure stuck in my mind, since it is broadly what Nuffield College spends each year on education and research. At the same time, newspapers were quoting figures of £100 million or more being spent by rival syndicates attempting to win the America's Cup yacht races. This is the total value of the College's endowment, the income from which provides a large part of our funding of students and fellows.

Readers of the College's Annual Report can form their own view of the relative value society today attaches to different activities. The report contains accounts of the achievements of Fellows and students over the past year. The College had 72 students at the beginning of the year. The first point to note is that there has been a shift in the gender balance: 40 women and 32 men in 2001-2, compared with 32 women and 42 men in the previous year. The second point to note is the academic success of Nuffield students. As you can see from later pages, 14 students completed their doctorates and 12 completed master's degrees. Michael Grubb won the George Webb Medley Prize for the best performance in written papers in the M Phil in Economics, and shared with Cameron Hepburn (now a student of the College) the Prize for the best M Phil thesis. Later in the Report are photographs of the new students in October 2002 and of JCR activities. I should note here the successes of the cricket team in their new shirts and of the Nuffield Intercollegiate Quiz Team, which reached the semi-finals of the University competition, which was a remarkable achievement for a team with no natural scientists, literature students or classicists.

Turning to the Fellowship, the reader can see that reports on their research extend for more than 60 pages. Even leaving aside our Emeritus Fellows, many of whom are actively publishing, and Visiting and Honorary Fellows, the College is supporting some 60 Fellows engaged in graduate teaching and research. The subjects on which they have written include, to mention just a few, the extinction of whales, the 2001 General Election, waiting times for hip replacements, social mobility in India, understanding economic forecasts, international order after September 11, auction design, reform of the House of Lords, mortgage credit, and deliberative democracy. Their reports also draw attention to the contributions made by Fellows to the running of the University. The Heads of both the Economics Department and the Sociology Department are at Nuffield. Ray Fitzpatrick is Director of the Institute of Health Sciences. Laurence Whitehead is Chairman of the Area and Development Studies Committee. Also of note is the hosting by the College of the bi-annual meeting of Research Committee 28 of the International Sociological Association in April 2002. This was organized by Geoff Evans, Anthony Heath and Meir Yaish, with considerable help from Sociology students and research fellows.

In July 2002, David Miller and Megan Vaughan were elected Fellows of the British Academy, which brings to 24 the total of Fellows in Nuffield (and the current President of the Academy is an Honorary Fellow). David Hendry was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In the University's Distinction Exercise, the title of Professor of Economic History was awarded to Bob Allen, the title of Reader in Statistical Epidemiology was awarded to Lucy Carpenter, the title of Professor of the Sociology of Politics to Geoff Evans, the title of Professor of Political Theory to David Miller, and the title of Reader in Comparative Government to Chris Wlezien. Michael Brock was awarded a D. Litt. by the University. The September 2002 issue of the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History contained an article celebrating the work of Freddie Madden.

This year saw the retirement of two long-serving members of the Fellowship. John Goldthorpe has been an Official Fellow in Sociology since 1969, and I take this opportunity of thanking him for his great and much-valued contribution to the College. He has had a lasting influence on sociology in Nuffield, in Europe and world-wide. His work is much appreciated by other social scientists, as is evidenced by the fact that he was invited this year, with Robert Erikson, to contribute a paper on 'Intergenerational Inequality' to the Journal of Economic Perspectives, one of the most read of all US economics journals. Clive Payne has been a Fellow of the College since 1978, having been first Chief Programmer on the Social Mobility Project, and in recent years Director of the Computing and Research Support Unit in the Social Studies Faculty Centre. In College, he has contributed a great deal to the painless achievement of a technological revolution, as well as serving as a most conscientious Senior Tutor. Gordon Marshall, on leave for the past 3 years as Chief Executive of the ESRC, has resigned his Official Fellowship in Sociology on being appointed Vice-Chancellor of the University of Reading. His administrative skills were already apparent at Nuffield, where he narrowly escaped being Acting Warden, and we wish him well in his new post. Adrian Pagan, Professorial Fellow in Economics, has been a most welcome visiting professor. I would also like to thank the Investment Bursars for the past two years. John Muellbauer had, as he notes in his report, to deal with one of the most difficult periods for equity markets. Kevin Roberts, on the property side, secured for the College a long lease on property in George Street that will allow the College a range of options in the future.

Last year we introduced the innovation of photographs, and these give a flavour of the academic and non-academic lives of Fellows, Students and Staff. I would like to draw attention first to the photograph of Professor Ken Shepsle of Harvard after the first Vincent Wright Memorial Seminar. Vincent would, I hope, have appreciated the distinction of the speaker and have liked to see that students surround him in the photograph. The collection of essays in memory of Vincent, The Jacobin Legacy in Modern France, has just been published by Oxford University Press, edited by Sudhir Hazareesingh. The second photograph was taken at the Symposium in honour of Sir Charles Pollard, who has recently retired as Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police and who served as a Visiting Fellow from 1992 to 2000. The fact that Nick Ross from Crimewatch was one of the participants shows that we do not ignore the BBC entirely.

The third and fourth photographs show the new Buttery and Serving Area that have been radically transformed in a way that adds to the College's amenities. I am most grateful to Gwilym Hughes, the Bursar, for over-seeing the operation, the staff of the Kitchen and Buttery, who worked for many months under difficult conditions, and the members of the College for their patience. As in previous years, I would like to take this opportunity of thanking all College staff for their great contribution to the work and life of the College.

Sadly, this year we lost Francis Seton, a much loved Emeritus Fellow. Francis became a Research Fellow of the College in 1950, and Official Fellow in Economics in 1953. He served as Senior Fellow from 1971 until he retired in 1987, and in that capacity presided over the election of two Wardens. He died on 7 January 2002, and on 2 March 2002 the College held a Memorial Meeting, at which we celebrated his many contributions to economics and to the life of the College, and his children and grandchildren played music that he would much have appreciated.

THE COLLEGE IN 2001-2002

Visitor

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

 Warden

Sir Tony Atkinson FBA

THE FELLOWSHIP

At the start of the academic year, there were in total 76 Fellows of the College (excluding Honorary and Emeritus Fellows), 34 being 'permanent' and 43 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
David Miller, FBA, Official Fellow
John Muellbauer FBA, Official Fellow and Investment Bursar
David Hendry FBA, Professorial Fellow
John Darwin, Faculty Fellow and Chair of Politics Group
Duncan Gallie FBA, Official Fellow and Fellow Librarian
Raymond Fitzpatrick, Faculty Fellow and Dean
Megan Vaughan, FBA, Faculty Fellow
Anthony Heath FBA, Professorial Fellow
Margaret Meyer, Official Fellow, Chair of Economics Group
Andrew Hurrell, Faculty Fellow
Geoffrey Evans, Official Fellow
Neil Shephard, Official Fellow
Lucy Carpenter, Faculty Fellow, Chair of Senior Common Room and Adviser to Women Students
Gordon Marshall FBA, Official Fellow
Iain McLean, Official Fellow
David Firth, Faculty Fellow
Yuen Khong, Faculty Fellow
Paul Klemperer FBA, Professorial Fellow
Gwilym Hughes, Supernumerary Fellow and Bursar
Mark Armstrong, Official Fellow
Alec Stone Sweet, Official Fellow
Jeremy Richardson, Supernumerary Fellow and Senior Tutor
Kevin Roberts, Professorial Fellow and Investment Bursar
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
Christopher Wlezien, Faculty Fellow

Visiting Fellows

Tim Holt, Professor of Social Statistics, University of Southampton
Tessa Jowell, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, MP for Dulwich
Angela Coulter, Executive Director, 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, Shadow Secretary of State for Social Security
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
Byron Shafer

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
Karma Nabulsi, 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
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
Michael Biggs, Research Fellow
Alice Sullivan, British Academy Research Fellow
Robert Taylor, ESRC Research Fellow
Javier Garcia de Polavieja, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Christian List, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Oliver Grant, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Elaine Tan, Postdoctoral 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 2002-2003

Professorial Fellowship

Desmond King, Professor of Politics, St John's College, Oxford

Visiting Fellowships

Norman Glass, Director, National Centre for Social Research

Mervyn King, Director and Deputy Governor, Bank of England

Sir Howard Newby, Chief Executive of the Higher Education Funding Council

Andrew Nairne, Director, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford

Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships

The Postdoctoral Research Fellowship elections in January attracted a field of 240 candidates. The following were elected to PPRFs:

James Tilley, (Political Knowledge and Heterogeneous Electorates), student of the College

Michelle Jackson, (How Far Merit Selection? Occupational Attainment in Comparative Perspective), student of the College

Natalia Letki, (Social Capital: Political Context and Individual Behaviour in a Comparative Perspective), student of the College

Mark Kayser, (Opportunistic Election Calling, Economic Interdependence, and Electoral Politics), University of Chicago

Thomas Kittsteiner, (Favourable Mechanisms to Dissolve Partnerships), University of Mannheim

Guardian Research Fellowship

Andy Webb, Freelance Documentary Producer/Director

Emeritus Fellowships

John Goldthorpe

Clive Payne

Non-stipendiary Research Fellwowships

Sean Carey, Harvard University

Karma Nabulsi, Prize Research Fellow

Associate Members

Richard Johnson, Professor of Political Science, University of British Columbia

Christopher Smallwood, Consultant, Brunswick Group

Lauren McLaren, Lecturer, Department of Politics and International Relations

Paul David, Professor of Economics, Stanford University

Nancy Cartwright, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE

Sophie Duchesne, CNRS Fellow, Maison Française

COLLEGE OFFICERS 2001-2002

STUDENTS

At the start of the academic year 2001-2002, there were 72 students in College. There were 32 men and 40 women. 26 were from the UK, 15 from other EU countries, and 31 from elsewhere. Their distribution by group and status was as shown below:

Groups

For the academic year 2002-03, 43 studentships were offered including one deferred from 2001-02. In the event, 27 studentships were taken up, 10 by men and 17 by women. 7 of the new students are from the UK, 8 from other EU countries, and 12 from elsewhere. The distribution by Group is Economics 8, Politics 6, Sociology 10 and Interdisciplinary 3. 12 current students completed either an MSc or M Phil and 7 will stay on to pursue a D Phil.

NEW STUDENTS 2001/2002

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:

Michael Grubb was winner of the 2002 George Webb Medley Prize for the Best Performance in Written Papers and shared the George Webb Medley Thesis Prize.

APPOINTMENTS OF LEAVING/GRADUATING STUDENTS

Clare Chambers was appointed temporary Lecturer in Political Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Rui Fernandes was appointed to a post at Lehman Brothers, London.

Evelyn Goh was appointed Assistant Professor at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Singapore.

Ben Jackson was appointed Politics Lecturer at University College, Oxford and Junior Dean at Somerville College.

Michelle Jackson was elected to a Nuffield College Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowship.

Natalia Letki was elected to a Nuffield College Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowship.

Margaret McCown was elected to a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Max Planck Project Group in Bonn.

Daniel McDermott was elected to a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University.

Alison Parkinson was appointed Research Fellow in Management Education and Learning, Harrow Business School, University of Westminster.

Berthold Rittberger was appointed Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Public Administration, University of Leiden.

James Tilley was elected to a Nuffield College Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowship.

Elizabeth Waters is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne and Director of the Research and Public Health Unit.

Jo Webb was accepted by Saffery Champness, London, as a trainee chartered accountant.

VISITORS

Andrew Abbott, University of Chicago. Sponsor: Kenneth Macdonald.

Robert Andersen, Senior Research Fellow at CREST. Sponsor: Anthony Heath.

Tom Brooking, University of Otago. Sponsor: John Darwin.

Paula Casal, Kennedy School of Government. Sponsor: David Miller.

Stephen Cecchetti, Ohio State University. Sponsor: Adrian Pagan.

Martina Conticelli, University La Sapienza, Rome. Sponsor: Alec Stone Sweet. (Jemolo Fellow).

Alessia Doná, Universities of Siena and Trento. Sponsor: Alec Stone Sweet. (Jemolo Fellow).

Natalia Fabra, European University Institute. Sponsor: Meg Meyer.

Johannes Fedderke, University of the Witwatersrand. Sponsor: David Hendry.

Hans Grüner, University of Mannheim. Sponsor: Meg Meyer.

Peter Haas, University of Massachusetts. Sponsor: Jeremy Richardson.

Giorgio La Malfa, Catania University, (Member of Italian Parliament). Sponsor: Tony Atkinson. (Jemolo Fellow)

Christine Lipsmeyer, Belmont University, Nashville. Sponsor: Geoff Evans.

Judah Matras, University of Haifa, Israel. Sponsor: Meir Yaish.

Michael Peters, University of Toronto. Sponsor: Mark Armstrong.

Maria Celi Scalon, Research Graduate Institute of Rio de Janeiro. Sponsor: John Goldthorpe.

Vivien Schmidt, Boston University. Sponsor: Jeremy Richardson..

Cristina Solera, European University Institute. Sponsor: Richard Breen. (Jemolo Fellow).

Patty Solomon, University of Adelaide. Sponsor: Duncan Gallie.

Peter Temin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sponsor: Tony Atkinson.

Louis-André Vallet, LAMAS-Institut, University of Caen. Sponsor: John Goldthorpe.

Oksana Zabko, Riga Stradins University. Sponsor: David Firth. (East European Visitor).

CONFERENCES IN COLLEGE

Michaelmas Term

OneCityOxford
(The Warden)

Conference on Levy Processes
(N Shephard and O Barndorff-Nielsen)

Hilary Term

Vincent Wright Graduate Workshop
(J Richardson)

Rational Choice Approaches
(K Shepsle)

Republicanism
(K Nabulsi)

Modelling Budgetary Policy Change
(S Soroka and C Wlezien)

Trinity Term

Graduate Workshop on International Normative Theory
(V Collingwood, P Lenard and T Macdonald)

Royal Economics Society Easter School in Econometrics
(B Nielsen, N Shephard and D Hendry)

RC28 Sociology Conference
(M Yaish, G Evans and A Heath)

Conference on Conceptualising Trust – Interdisciplinary Approaches
(D Miller, S Soroka and P Lenard)

Conference for Economic and Social History Students
(B Allen)

Theories of Regulation
(D Levi Faur)

Conference on The Great Divergence
(J Darwin and B Allen)

Randomised Controlled Trials in the Social Sciences: Symposium in Honour of Sir Charles Pollard
(R Fitzpatrick)

The Usual Channels’ (Hansard Society)
(D Butler)

Workshop on The Experience of Expulsion
(K Nabulsi)

Royal Statistical Society Summer School for PhD students
(N Shephard and D Firth)

SEMINARS IN COLLEGE

Stated Meeting Seminars

November: ‘Reforming Social Security’
(David Willetts)

March: ‘The Politics of Risk’
(Vince Cable)

June: ‘The Future of EU Social Policy’
(Frank Vandenbroucke)

Seminars in College

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
(S McAndrew, R Schapiro and S Mahone) Michaelmas, Hilary and Trinity Terms

Workshop in Economics, Philosophy and Cognition
(C List and E Tan) Michaelmas, Hilary and Trinity Terms

Econometric Seminars
(D Hendry and N Shephard) Michaelmas, Hilary and Trinity Terms

Macro and Trade Seminars
(C Bliss and J Muellbauer) Michaelmas and Hilary Terms

Graduate Workshop in Political Science
(E Lim and B O’Loughlin) Michaelmas and Hilary Terms

Media and Politics Seminars
(D Butler and P Coulter) Michaelmas and Trinity Terms

Seminars in Economic Theory and Econometrics
(N Shephard and I Jewitt) Michaelmas Term

September 11: Implications for World Politics
(A Hurrell and Y F Khong) Michaelmas Term

American Politics Seminar Series
(C Wlezien) Michaelmas Term

Sociology Seminars
(R Breen and H van de Werfhorst) Michaelmas Term

Social Mobility and Meritocracy: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Current Issues
(J Goldthorpe and A Swift) Hilary Term

Seminars in Economic Theory and Econometrics
(M Armstrong and J Muellbauer) Hilary Term

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

Comparative Democratisation Seminar
(L Whitehead and G Williams) Hilary Term

Political Science Seminar Series
(G Evans, I McLean and C Wlezien) Trinity Term

Graduate Workshop in International Normative Theory
(V Collingwood, P Lenard and T MacDonald) Trinity Term

The Function of Law in the International Community
(A Hurrell and G Goodwin-Gill) Trinity Term

Sociology Seminars
(E Harrison, M Dieckhoff and V Gash) Trinity Term

Seminars in Economic Theory and Econometrics
(M Meyer and D Hendry) Trinity Term

International Economics and Macroeconomics Seminars
(C Bliss and J Muellbauer) Trinity Term

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

© Nuffield College.  Email comments.  Disclaimer. 

Last modified

Maintained by Nuffield College Computing