February 2024
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‘We’ve been celebrating the fact that our portfolio of outreach activities has resulted in over 90 Oxford offers this year, 15 of them from Balliol. Having established a range of experiences for sixth-formers, we’ve renewed our focus on activities to raise aspirations for younger learners, with the expansion of our Discovery programme for Year 10 students (aged 14-15) in state schools. And our science Insight Talks have enjoyed audiences of up to 500 students; anyone who missed them can enjoy the recordings - including my favourite, on animal sleep and hibernation, with a sleeping hippo bobbing up to breathe - on Balliol’s YouTube channel. We’re grateful that your generosity has allowed us to develop a wide range of support for schools and young people, and as ever there is much more that we can and should do.’
Pravahi Osman, David Freeman Outreach Officer
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Balliol’s work with schools to raise aspirations, encourage informed choices regarding university admissions, and support students and schools in applying to Oxford is making an impact, and the busy programme continues to develop.
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Announcing his retirement, the Chancellor of Oxford University, Christopher Patten, Lord Patten of Barnes (1962 and Honorary Fellow), expressed how the University of Oxford and Balliol have been a hugely important part of his life.
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Second-year English undergraduate Chenrui Zhang has launched a new student publication: a monthly collection of essays called Erasmus.
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Balliol’s Climate and Biodiversity Committee sponsored two initiatives for Oxford Green Action Week: Beef-free February and another round of the Jowett Energy Competition.
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Aimee Clesi (2022, MPhil Criminology and Criminal Justice) has been selected as a John Robert Lewis Fellow by the Faith and Politics Institute (FPI).
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Jan Eijking (2019) is the host and producer of Global Shocks, a new podcast series launched by the Changing Global Orders programme at the Oxford Martin School.
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Matilda Glynn-Henley (2019) has been chosen as one of ten scholarship holders to join the EXIST-Women programme at the Technical University of Berlin.
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How best to seat guests at the dining table? Andrei Constantinescu (2017) came up with the answer in a paper that won Best Paper Award at the Web and Internet Economics 19th International Conference, WINE 2023, in Shanghai.
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PUBLICATIONS
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- Professor Richard Portes (1962), co-author, ‘When will they ever learn? The US banking crisis of 2023’, CEPR, 2023; co-author, ‘Credit Suisse: Too big to manage, too big to resolve, or simply too big?’ CEPR, 2023; lead author, ‘Crypto assets and decentralised finance’, ESRB Task Force report, May 2023
- Alex Grant (1993), Sex, Spies and Scandal: The John Vassall Affair (Biteback, 2024)
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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