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'Outreach has entered its busiest time of the year, with nearly 500 prospective students taking part in eight Try Before You Buy Days at Balliol, where participants experience tutorial teaching led by graduate students. One attendee described the programme as "challenging in the best possible way", adding: "I came away with something I genuinely could not have got any other way."
We are now preparing for seven subject-specific Taster Days involving a further 450 students, alongside upcoming Open Days and residential programmes including Floreat, Frontier, and Fibonacci. Through these wide range of in-person and online activities, we aim to encourage engagement with higher education at a time when financial concerns are discouraging many prospective students, particularly those from groups currently underrepresented at Oxford.
Balliol's outreach programmes are made possible through the generosity of Old Members and friends - thank you.'
Pravahi Osman, Outreach Officer |
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Dame Helen Ghosh (Master of Balliol) has been appointed Chair of the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP). |
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Three Balliol physicists were among a team of researchers at the University of Oxford to demonstrate a new type of quantum interaction for the first time, in findings published in Nature Physics. |
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Professor Ken Suslick (George Eastman Visiting Professor 2018–2019) has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. |
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Nicholas Thain (2025, EMBA) has been named Non-Executive Director (NED) of the Year in the Private/Private Equity category of the NED Awards. |
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Balliol College Boat Club has sent four crews to the river for this year’s Summer Eights, which began on Wednesday 27 May. We have been sharing updates on how the crews have performed over the past few days. |
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Team Balliol turned out in impressive numbers for this year’s Oxford Town and Gown Fun Run, making Balliol the joint second-largest team in the event. |
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The Balliol Chapel Choir marked May Morning once again with a performance of madrigals from the Library Tower. Recordings of select pieces are now available and can be accessed on this page. |
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Stephen Bergman (1966) has received an inaugural award named in his honour from Primary Care for All Americans (PC4AA), a grassroots movement advocating for equitable access to healthcare. |
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Tobias Schillings (2016), who completed his DPhil in International Development in 2025, has been awarded the Political Studies Association (PSA) Dissertation Prize for Comparative Politics for his thesis. |
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PUBLICATIONS |
- Thomas Henman (1989), Good practice guide for managing climate change and extreme weather in land development: effective management of geo-based risks (CIRIA, 2026)
- Professor Charles Burroughs (1964), An Other Raphael: The Artist and Authority
(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2026)
- Professor Ronald Beiner (1975) and Harrison Fluss, Moses and Political Philosophy (University of Toronto, 2025); Radical Right Ideologues in the Age of Trump: Heralds of Nihilism (Routledge, 2025)
- David Jones (1970) and Anne de Villars, Principles of Administrative Law, Eighth Edition (Thomson Reuters, 2026)
- Ricardo Gonzales (2020) (co-author), 'ROADMAP: An Ontology of Medical AI Models and Datasets'; 'Metrics for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: A Reference Resource', both in Radiology: Artificial Intelligence (2026)
If you would like us to mention any significant work published this year or last, please send details to Yingying Jiang. Previously submitted publications are listed on the alumni publications page. |
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