June 2023
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‘The end of term has been distinctly bittersweet for the MCR. As is tradition, we celebrated the culmination of the year with a lovely garden party in the Holywell Manor garden last Saturday. Submitting final work, sentimental goodbyes, and end-of-year events have all served as a reminder of how lucky I am to be in such a rich academic and social community as Balliol. As I start my term as President, it is my primary goal to continue to foster this close-knit environment for the incoming MCR.’
Mara Kelly (2022, MPhil History), MCR President elect
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Professor Paul Newman (1991), BP Professor of Information Engineering at the University of Oxford, is among the Balliol people in the King's first Birthday Honours list.
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Katrina Davis (Fellow and Tutor in Zoology) has received a Darwin Initiative Award to fund a marine conservation project, which aims to help threatened ‘marine megafauna’ such as sharks and rays.
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Balliol’s Gregson Teacher Scholarship award, designed to increase attainment in schools with large numbers of disadvantaged students or without a history of successful application to Oxford, has had a positive impact at a Hertfordshire school.
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Professor Frances Kirwan (1981 and Emeritus Fellow) is one of five 2023 laureates of the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science International Awards.
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The latest editions of Floreat Domus and its supplement, News and Notes, are in:
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An arrangement of a composition by Carol Jones (2018, DPhil Music Composition) is to be premiered at the High Barnet Chamber Musical Festival on 30 June 2023.
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There were a number of successes for Balliol’s rowers at Summer Eights this year, especially for the Women’s 1st Eight - as Balliol College Boat Club’s Sian Dennett reports.
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BALLIOL ON THE WEB
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- Professor Neta Crawford (Montague Burton Professor of International Relations and Professorial Fellow): speaks on Climate Change - America and the World - podcast
- Professor Philip Howard (Professor of Internet Studies and Professorial Fellow) and colleagues: subject of ‘With Climate Change as a Beacon, Global Group Takes on Misinformation’, New York Times
- Professor Simon Lee (1976): ‘The 30th Anniversary of a Grassroots Dialogue in Northern Ireland’, Journal of Dialogue Studies
- Nick Bryant (1990): ‘The prime minister factory: How a UK uni is shaping Australian life’, Sydney Morning Herald
- Kate Raworth (1990): ‘The planet’s economist: has Kate Raworth found a model for sustainable living?' - Guardian profile
- Professor Timothy Snyder (1991): ‘Putin, Trump, Ukraine: how Timothy Snyder became the leading interpreter of our dark times’ - Guardian profile
- Ben Tuppen (1998): ‘Connecting with others is a great way to have a bigger impact than you can alone’, Quad
- Carmen Bugan (2000), ‘Poetry, Translation and Oppression’, talk at Trinity College Dublin - video
- Professor James Maynard (2009), ‘The Magic of the Primes’, Oxford Mathematic Institute public lecture - video
- Laurence Warner (2013): presentation to OxCAN 2023 about his climate-themed musical inspired by his Fulbright scholarship on technology - video
- Felix Simon (2016, MSc Social Science of the Internet), 'AI in News Organisations: Exploring Applications, Challenges and Future Implications' and ‘No Technology Is Going To Take Over All Of Society’, Medium
- Sahani De Silva (2021, Medicine), ‘Antibiotics as a double-edged sword: Beyond antimicrobial resistance’, The Oxford Scientist
- Will Reilly (2022, Medicine), ‘Rethinking death and ageing in the age of modern medicine’, The Oxford Scientist
- Adam Smith (1740): ‘Five reasons Adam Smith remains Britain’s most important economist 300 years on’, The Conversation
- Robert Oakeshott (1953): Kevin Shillington, Robert Oakeshott: The Quintessential English Eccentric (Brown Dog Books, 2023) - new biography
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PUBLICATIONS
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- Martin Conway (Professor of Contemporary European History, MacLellan-Warburg Fellow and Tutor in History), ‘Making Trump History’ in Jervis et al (ed), Chaos Reconsidered: The Liberal Order and the Future of International Politics (Columbia University Press, 2023)
- William H. Dutton (Professorial Fellow and Director of the Oxford Internet Institute 2002–2014), The Fifth Estate: The Power Shift of the Digital Age (Oxford University Press, 2023)
- Maxine Berg (Sir Lewis Namier Junior Research Fellow 1974-1978 and Honorary Fellow) and Pat Hudson, Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution (Polity Press, 2023)
- John Davie (1972) and Harry Mount, ‘Et Tu, Brute? The Best Latin Lines Ever (Bloomsbury, 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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