News - Nuffield College Oxford University

Undergraduate Scholars Institute returns for a second year

The summer programme designed to help access to postgraduate studies in the social studies will return to Nuffield in 2020.

06 Jan 20

New Year's Honours for Nuffield Fellows

Senior Research Fellow John Darwin and Visiting Fellow Sharon White are recognised in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours for 2020.

11 Dec 19

General Election 2019

Nuffield Fellows continue the College’s long history of researching British elections and topical social science research.

20 Nov 19

Homelessness in Oxford: findings from Nuffield research

Local and national stakeholders gathered at Nuffield to hear initial findings from work on pathways to homelessness in the city.

13 Nov 19

Nuffield students to call alumni and friends

The College's 2019 Giving Day will take place this Saturday, 16 November.

11 Oct 19

Economic inequality project wins major European funding

The project involving Senior Research Fellow Brian Nolan will receive €9.8 million from a European Research Council Synergy grant.

08 Oct 19

British electorate at its most volatile in modern times

The British Election Study – run by Nuffield and the University of Manchester – warns of high levels of unpredictability in any upcoming General Election.

26 Sep 19

European Impact Award for new Nuffield Fellow

The ‘Parenting for Lifelong Health’ project led by new Nuffield Professorial Fellow Lucie Cluver, is one of five to receive a Horizon Impact Award from the European Commission.

22 Jul 19

British Academy Fellowships for Nuffield Fellows

Nuffield Fellows Meg Meyer and Geoffrey Evans appointed to British Academy Fellowships.

04 Jul 19

Nuffield welcomes new Director of Library Services

Jane Rawson joins the College to head up the Library team.

21 Jun 19

Final book by Tony Atkinson published

Former Nuffield Warden Tony Atkinson’s last book – 'Measuring Poverty around the World' – was finished by John Micklewright and Andrea Brandolini.

17 Jun 19

Blue plaque recognises Nuffield’s first Official Fellow

The Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board unveiled a new plaque to commemorate Nuffield’s first Official Fellow Margery Perham.

12 Jun 19

In memory of Martin Feldstein (1939-2019)

It was with great sadness that we learnt of the death of Honorary Fellow Martin Feldstein, whose dedication to the application and dissemination of economics made him one of the most influential economists of the last 50 years.

10 Jun 19

Visiting Fellows in 2019 Queen’s Birthday Honours

Carolyn Fairbairn and Norman Lamb honoured in the 2019 list.

30 May 19

Societal Problems as Public Bads

New textbook by Nuffield Fellow Nan Dirk de Graaf and Associate Member Dingeman Wiertz addresses several of the most pressing problems facing societies today.

17 May 19

Nuffield holds inaugural BME Talk and Dinner

For its first year, the BME talk was given by entrepreneur and philanthropist Tom Ilube CBE.

29 Apr 19

Who needs secularism?

Professorial Fellow Cécile Laborde gave the James A Moffett Lecture in Ethics at Princeton University on India, liberalism and comparative secularism.

29 Mar 19

European Research Council grant for work on chronotypes

Professorial Fellow Melinda Mills is one of the recipients of the ERC 2018 Advanced Grants for her research on chronotypes, health and family.

27 Mar 19

How MPs vote on Brexit is as important as what they vote for

Nuffield Fellow Iain McLean provides comment for The Times on today’s indicative vote on Brexit in the UK Parliament.

22 Mar 19

New summer programme for undergraduates

The Nuffield Undergraduate Scholars Institute aims to expand access to advanced education in the social sciences.

08 Mar 19

British Election Study team announced

The British Election Study will continue at Nuffield and the University of Manchester for 2019 to 2024.

25 Feb 19

Nuffield responds to Science Europe's 'Plan S'

The College gives its official response to the new Open Access proposal from the coalition of research funders across Europe.

01 Feb 19

Social Mobility and Education in Britain

Nuffield Fellows Bess Bukodi and John Goldthorpe launched their new book at a seminar at the Nuffield Foundation in London.

25 Jan 19

Report finds Brexit identities stronger than party identities

The report, edited by Nuffield Associate Member Anand Menon, includes contributions by Nuffield Fellows including Geoffrey Evans and Anthony Heath.

21 Jan 19

New CSI report on ethnic minority job discrimination

A report from the Centre for Social Investigation at Nuffield College reveals that levels of discrimination have remained unchanged since the 1960s

11 Jan 19

New Leverhulme Centre on Demographic Science

The Centre will be led by Nuffield Fellow Melinda Mills and based at Nuffield College and the Department of Sociology.

07 Jan 19

New Year's Honours 2019

The Queen’s New Year’s Honours List for 2019 recognises Nuffield alumni

20 Dec 18

Growing Up in Diverse Societies

A new book co-edited by Nuffield Fellows on the integration of ethnic minority youth has been published globally.

13 Nov 18

Giving Day 2018

Nuffield students will call alumni and friends of the College on Friday 16 November.

12 Nov 18

Generating Prosperity for Working Families

Senior Research Fellow Brian Nolan’s new book focusses on the ‘squeezed middle’ and increasing inequality.

22 Oct 18

Nuffield Fellow wins 2018 Leverhulme Prize

Professorial Fellow Ezequiel Gonzalez Ocantos receives prize for research in comparative judicial politics.

15 Oct 18

Future of Climate Econometrics project joins Nuffield

Project team enters an exciting new phase thanks to a three-year grant from the Robertson Foundation.