News - Nuffield College Oxford University

21 Oct 25

Professorial Fellow awarded the Philip Leverhulme prize

Ludvig Sinander has been awarded the Philip Leverhulme Economics prize for his work on economic theory.

14 Oct 25

Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to former Nuffield Fellow

Former Official Fellow Philippe Aghion was part of a team that has won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

13 Oct 25

Nuffield associate highly commended for work on conflict-sensitive recovery in Sudan

Associate Member awarded at the 2025 Social Sciences Impact Awards

01 Oct 25

Nuffield Fellow wins David N Kershaw Award for public policy contributions

Professorial Fellow Zachary Parolin won the annual prize for his work reducing poverty and expanding economic opportunity.

08 Sept 25

Nuffield Fellows receive ECSR Prizes for best DPhil theses

Two fellows were awarded first and second ECSR Prize for best PhD thesis, respectively.

05 Sept 25

Professorial Fellow receives prestigious ERC Starting Grant

Rachel Bernhard among 11 University of Oxford recipients of prestigious award

25 Aug 25

Nuffield Fellow Wins 2025 Alexander George Best Article Award

Professorial Fellow awarded for article ‘Aligning Interviewing with Process Tracing’

19 Aug 25

New study reveals religion declines across generations in three steps

Research by Nuffield Fellow reveals three steps of religious decline across faith traditions

22 Jul 25

Sociology Visitorships 2026-27

Applications open for academic visitors to the Sociology group

04 Jul 25

Accolades for Nuffield alumni’s DPhil theses

18 Jun 25

Professorial Fellow awarded Honorary Doctorate from the European University Institute

16 Jun 25

Nuffield Warden and Fellow awarded in King’s Birthday Honours

Warden Julia Black and Professorial Fellow Lucie Cluver recognised in King’s Birthday Honours list 2025.

21 May 25

Nuffield student wins ADB-IEA research award

Nan Sandi’s work on reducing crop residue burning was awarded the 2025 Innovative Policy Research Award

07 May 25

Celebrating the preservation of Nuffield Place

A commemorative plaque was unveiled at this year's Bluebell Day

06 May 25

Nuffield Fellow elected to prestigious US National Academy of Sciences

Desmond King has been recognised for his distinguished and continuing achievements

01 May 25

'Taking Up Space As Yourself' for International Women's Day 2025

Professorial Jane Green gave her advice on navigating academia to College and university members for International Women’s Day 2025

17 Apr 25

Political Studies Association prize awarded to Nuffield Fellow

08 Apr 25

Nuffield members moving the dial on modern slavery

Nuffield scholarship is at the forefront of new efforts to move the dial on humanitarian responses to modern slavery and human trafficking

14 Mar 25

Honorary Fellow and Alumnus becomes prime minister of Canada

28 Feb 25

2025 LGBTQ+ History Month talk

Psychologist, researcher and broadcaster Julia Shaw talked to Nuffield members about bisexuality.

12 Feb 25

UN Executive Director Ghada Waly speaks on human trafficking

Members of the College were joined by external guests – including former Prime Minister Theresa May – to hear about the challenges of modern slavery

29 Jan 25

Jemolo Fellowships 2025-26

Expressions of interest and applications open for the visiting fellowship scheme, which allows scholars from and/or studying Italy to visit Nuffield

24 Jan 25

Desmond King on 'American Political Violence'

The Nuffield Professorial Fellow has published the timely text of his Leonard Schapiro Public Lecture

07 Jan 25

Dr Manmohan Singh, 1932-2024

05 Dec 24

5 Years of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science

Members and collaborators celebrated the anniversary with the Demographic Science Summit in October and captured on video.

25 Nov 24

Nuffield Fellows join European Economic Association leadership

Offical Fellow Meg Meyer is elected to Vice-President of the EEA for 2025, and Professorial Fellow Abi Adams will join the Council.

06 Nov 24

Fellow wins public engagement award from European Research Council

Professorial Fellow Lucie Cluver received the 2024 award for successfully engaging audiences beyond the scientific community.

20 Sept 24

Nuffield welcomes new Warden

02 Aug 24

Nuffield Alumna named new President of the British Academy

Susan J Smith (DPhil Geography 1979) will take up the post in 2025

30 Jul 24

Shorter Life Expectancies in India During COVID-19

Research by Nuffield Fellows finds that women and marginalised social groups had the greatest declines in life expectancy in 2020

19 Jul 24

Getting UK Net Zero back on track

The Climate Econometrics team outline a strategy to get the UK back on track to meet its 2050 deadline

01 Jul 24

'What's Wrong with Democracy?'

New podcast from Professorial Fellow Ben Ansell

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