February 2023
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‘The month has finished in such a flurry. I’m convinced Balliol has had the most eventful Green Action Week in Oxford, with something happening every single day. On Friday, we ended with a multi-college Clothing Swap at Keble and an Earth Night in the Lindsay Bar. At the same time, I’ve had to manage a logic problem sheet, a statistics problem sheet, and a Rousseau essay - as well as preparing for a weekend trip and a friend coming from home (Canada) right after. Life as a Balliol student is as full and vibrant as I imagined when I decided to attend.’
Andy Wei (2022, PPE), JCR Environment and Ethics Officer
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Professor John Tasioulas (1989, Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Institute for Ethics in AI) has been awarded an AI2050 Senior Fellowship by Schmidt Futures, allowing him to pursue a three-year research project.
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Edith Elkind (Professor of Computing Science and Research Fellow in Computational Game Theory) has won the 2023 ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Award for excellence in research.
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Diana Berruezo-Sánchez (Career Development Fellow in Spanish 2018–2021) has been awarded a €1.77 million European Research Council Consolidator Grant.
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A competition between two towers at Jowett Walk to see who could use the least energy was one of two events Balliol held for Oxford Green Action Week.
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A video of the celebration of the life of legal philosopher Joseph Raz (Emeritus Fellow 2006-2022), held in Balliol Hall, is now available.
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Balliol has awarded the fifth Dawkins Prize for Conservation and Animal Welfare to Dr Amanda Vincent for her work in ocean conservation, including the study of seahorses.
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Actress Soha Khan (1996) and lawyer Arghya Sengupta (2008) have received UK India Achievers Awards - celebrating the 75th anniversary of Indian Independence -for achieving excellence in their field.
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Samuel Myers (2018), who recently graduated with a BA in French, is the 2022 winner of the Society for French Studies’ Gapper Undergraduate Essay Prize.
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BALLIOL ON THE WEB
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- Obituaries:
· Professor John Stewart (1949), Guardian
· Diarmaid Douglas-Hamilton (1958), Scotsman
- Simon Skinner (Keen Fellow and Tutor in History), Professor Simon Lee (1976) and others, ‘Re-Envisioning the British State in a Time of Crisis: A Critical Revisiting of the Balliol Connection of Temple, Tawney and Beveridge for the 21st Century’, William Temple Foundation podcast
- Danielle Clode (1990), ‘The Endangered, Adaptable Koala’, Wall Street Journal
- Yvette Cooper (1997): Telegraph interview
- Carmen Bugan (2000), book review, Manhattan Review
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PUBLICATIONS
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Robin Wilson (1962), John J. Watkins & David J. Parks, Graph Theory in America (Princeton University Press, 2023)
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Victoria White (1999) and Farzad Sabetzadeh, ‘NextGen Higher Education: Preparing Students for the Jobs of Tomorrow that Do Not Yet Exist’, in Disentangled Vision on Higher Education: Preparing the Generation Next, edited by Francisco José Leandro, Roopinder Oberoi (Peter Lang, 2023)
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Asang Wankhede (2020), Affirmative Action for Economically Weaker Sections and Upper-Castes in Indian Constitutional Law (Routledge India, 2022)
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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