April 2023
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‘Being back at Balliol has brought on a cascade of emotions and memories. I had been prepared for changes in Oxford (it seems the crowds on Cornmarket are larger and Blackwell’s sells more coffee than books), but inside College things do not seem to have changed that much. In the SCR, academics talking of history, politics and literature are among the things I remember, but now I sense a tinge of contemporary concerns relating to the changing, challenging world around us. I am savouring all this and hope in my talks to engage on these issues.’
Dr Shashi Jayakumar (1997 and Oliver Smithies Visiting Lecturer)
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The College is greatly saddened by the death of Bill Newton-Smith (Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy 1970–2005 and Emeritus Fellow from 2005) on 8 April.
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The Rt Hon Lord Patten of Barnes KG CH PC (1962 and Honorary Fellow), the Chancellor of the University of Oxford, has been appointed a Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter.
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Professor Coralia Cartis (Professor of Numerical Optimisation and Fellow and Tutor in Mathematics) has been selected as one of the 2023 Class of SIAM Fellows.
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Professorial Fellows Richard Ovenden (Bodley’s Librarian) and Neta Crawford (Montague Burton Professor of International Relations) have been elected to the prestigious academy.
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Sophie Marnette (Professor of Medieval French Studies, Dervorguilla Fellow and Tutor in French) is a partner on a research project that has been awarded a £800K grant by the Fonds national suisse de la recherché scientifique.
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James Kwan (Associate Professor and Tutorial Fellow in Engineering Science) has been awarded the Frederic Lizzi Early Career Award for his work in the field of therapeutic ultrasound.
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Shelley’s Broken World: Fractured Materiality & Intermitted Song by Bysshe Inigo Coffey (Early Career Fellow in English) was shortlisted for the University English Book Prize 2022.
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The OpenID Foundation, a digital identity industry body that funds ECRs and PhDs to attend the biggest industry conference in the world, has given a Kim Cameron award to Charlie Smith (2019, DPhil Information, Communication and Social Sciences).
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Following a symposium at Balliol, a new book draws on the legacy of Sir William Beveridge (1897), Archbishop William Temple (1900) and R.H. Tawney (1899) in addressing the issues of the 21st century.
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Mohammed Omar (2018) is one of 14 business students to have been chosen for the 2023 Business Program of the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE).
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BALLIOL ON THE WEB
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- Obituaries:
· Professor Michael Lipton (1957): Guardian
· Peter Usborne (1958): The Times, Telegraph and Guardian
- Richard Ovenden (Bodley's Librarian and Professorial Fellow), ‘Putin’s War on Ukrainian Memory’, Atlantic
- David Clifton (Research Fellow in the Sciences and Lecturer in Engineering Science at Balliol 2014–2018), Jenny Lang (2021, DPhil Engineering Science) et al: ‘An adversarial training framework for mitigating algorithmic biases in clinical machine learning’, NPI Digital Medicine
- James Babbage (1989): Economist interview
- Justine Munro (1993): interviewed in ‘Education system not meeting needs of neurodiverse’ - Nine to Noon podcast
- Farrah Jarral (2000): ‘The big idea: should doctors be able to prescribe psychedelics?’, Guardian
- Brian Wong (2020, DPhil Politics): ‘Building a portfolio of careers with Brian’ - Network Capital video
- Angus Barry (2021, DPhil Politics): ‘What can global governance teach us about beneficial ownership policy?’ - Open Ownership blogpost
- Derek Parfit (1961): Quad review of new biography
- ‘Sweetheart Abbey: Celebrating one of Scotland's most beautiful buildings’, The National
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PUBLICATIONS
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If you would like us to mention any significant work published this year or last, please send details to Anne Askwith. Previously submitted publications are listed on the alumni publications page.
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