May 2023
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‘Balliol’s very own Michael Pilch Studio, which was freshly painted and renovated this Easter, has become a melting pot – a bastion – for drama across Oxford. This Trinity alone, we welcome students’ productions of Macbeth, Chekhov’s Seagull, Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, and Berkoff’s adaptation of the Metamorphosis. The “Pilch” (as it has come to be known with fondness) remains entirely student-run, much like the Balliol Musical Society. Our goal is to showcase excellent student productions, making them accessible for fellow students and the wider public to enjoy. It’s an exciting time to be at Balliol!’
Charles West (2021, Modern Languages - French), Drama President
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We are greatly saddened by the death of Vicky Neale, Whitehead Lecturer in Mathematics and Supernumerary Fellow, who died on 3 May 2023 after a long illness.
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Co-founded by Philip Howard (Professorial Fellow), a global science organisation committed to providing actionable scientific knowledge about threats to the world’s information environment has been launched at the Nobel Prize Summit.
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A video of the memorial event for Professor Jasper Griffin (1937−2019) held at the Sheldonian Theatre on 18 March 2023 is now available, together with a booklet containing the speeches.
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Yosuke Matsumiya (2022, DPhil in Women’s and Reproductive Health) has won the Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology (JSOG) Congress Award.
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For his study on artificial intelligence in journalism, Felix Simon (2016, DPhil in Information, Communication & Social Sciences) has won the Hans Bausch Media Prize 2023.
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Second-year undergraduate David Dunn (2020, Literae Humaniores) is the 25th Balliol person to win Oxford University’s historic Gaisford Prize for Greek Verse, first awarded in 1857.
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Sean Wyer (2010 and Stipendiary Lecturer in Italian) has been awarded a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship by the Institute for Citizens and Scholars.
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Rebecca Syed Sheriff (1994) has won an NIHR programme grant worth £2.61m as the principal investigator on a research project looking at using arts and culture to benefit mental health in young people.
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Professor James Maynard (2009), a pure mathematician, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in acknowledgement of his ‘many spectacular works in analytic number theory’.
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When Polly Harrison (1994) brought some of her Year 12 pupils from Ursuline High School to visit Balliol, their minds were opened to ‘what a future at Oxford might hold’.
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Bruno Atkinson (2018) has directed and produced a short film that tells the story of the construction of the first desalination plant in Lanzarote in parallel with that of The Tempest.
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BALLIOL ON THE WEB
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PUBLICATIONS
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- Ian Watson (1960), The Chinese Time Machine (NewCon Press, 2023)
- Keith Fisher (1985), A Pipeline Runs Through It: The Story of Oil from Ancient Times to the First World War (Allen Lane, 2022)
- Jeremy Burchardt (1988), Lifescapes: The Experience of Landscape in Britain, 1870-1960 (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
- Marie Guillot (2000) and Manuel García-Carpintero (eds), Self-Experience: Essays on Inner Awareness (Oxford University Press, 2023)
- Georgina Sturge (2008), Bad Data: How Governments, Politicians and the Rest of Us Get Misled by Numbers (The Bridge Street Press, 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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