December 2023
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‘As 2023 draws to a close, I have been thinking about how enthusiastically Balliol staff and students have introduced our newest members to that “Spirit of Place” which I described in this year’s Annual Record. It has been wonderful to see them welcome our Freshers and engage them so supportively in our academic and extra-curricular activities. New staff members – including a new Domestic Bursar – have been welcomed with the same warmth. The Balliol experience has been shaped by generations of staff, tutors, students and Old Members, making the College the unique community we know and value so highly. The swift and generous response to the recently launched Balliol Sanctuary Fund has again reminded us of just how important that community is and how powerful it can be when it joins together.
‘Balliol could not be the place it is without the incredibly generous support that donors and friends like you extend to the College each year. Thank you for all you do for Balliol. I wish you all a peaceful and restful holiday season and a joyful celebration of whatever festivals you may be celebrating.’
Dame Helen Ghosh DCB (Master)
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Professor Neta Crawford (Montague Burton Professor of International Relations and Professorial Fellow) has won the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order for the arguments in her book The Pentagon, Climate Change and War.
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Balliol Outreach will be running a series of online talks aimed at post-16 students with a keen interest in science, mostly on subjects relating to biology, medicine, neuroscience and psychology.
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Balliol’s Visitor, Lord Reed (1978), has been awarded the honorary degree of LLD by Edinburgh University, his alma mater.
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This Ghost of Slavery by actress, playwright, teacher and author Professor Anna Deavere Smith (George Eastman Visiting Professor) is the centrepiece of a special issue of The Atlantic magazine on the theme of Reconstruction.
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The Master’s Field Development is a 2024 Civic Trust Awards Regional Finalist for ‘contributing to the quality and appearance of the built environment, whilst being sustainable, accessible, and providing a positive civic contribution’.
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Balliol invites applications from established scholars to visiting research Fellowships or Lecturerships in the name of Nobel Prize winner Professor Oliver Smithies (1943 and Honorary Fellow 2004–2017).
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If it’s Christmas, it’s time for Balliol Library’s traditional quiz. Test your wits with some of this year’s festive or topical questions.
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Calling all Balliol alumni: if you have news to share in the next edition of News and Notes, do please send us your news by email before 31 January 2024. Max. 250 words; send a photo too if you wish.
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Yusuf Ben-Tarifite (2018) received a 2023 Diana Award for founding The Aspiring Medics to help students from diverse backgrounds pursue careers in medicine.
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ON THE WEB
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Obituaries:
· James Robertson (1946): Guardian
· James Douglas-Hamilton, Lord Selkirk of Douglas (1961): The Times, Telegraph, Guardian and Scotsman
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Professor John Tasioulas (Senior Research Fellow, and Director of the Institute for Ethics in AI): ‘The EU’s AI Act at a Crossroads for Rights’, Institute for Ethics in AI blogpost
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Gwyneth Lewis (1985 and Honorary Fellow): Cherwell interview
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Daniel Susskind (2006, Career Development Fellow in Economics 2018-2020): ‘AI’s Transformation of Labor’, podcast
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Professor Nick Eyre (1974): ‘A career surrounded by great people, with great intellect, doing great research’, Environmental Change Institute blog
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Alison Roberts (1984): From Our Own Correspondent (from 16.30), BBC Radio 4
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Professor Charles Spence (1988): ‘How to Have the Perfect (Multisensory) Christmas Meal’, video
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Matthew Parker (1989): book review by Dominic Sandbrook (1993), The Times
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Lily Rodel (2022, DPhil Information, Communication and Social Sciences), ‘Making flexible working work for women’, University of Oxford interview
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‘Oxford University is the world’s top university for a record eighth year’, University of Oxford website
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Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile (1974): interview with his widow, The Spy Uganda
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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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