Delighted to have set a Guinness World Record for ‘fastest marathon dressed as an academic’ in 2:55 at today’s London Marathon in support of Helen & Douglas House. www.justgiving.com/page/alexand...

@ox.ac.uk pro vice-chancellor @alexanderbetts.bsky.social aiming to set world record for fastest marathon completed in full academic dress www.timeshighereducation.com/news/profess...

Eight Oxford academics have been made Fellows of the British Academy in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the humanities and social sciences. Find out more ⬇️

I’m delighted to be elected a Fellow of the British Academy. Huge congratulations to all the new fellows for 2025, including my Oxford colleagues across the Social Sciences & Humanities Divisions. @britishacademy.bsky.social www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/agm-welcomes-92-new-fellows-2025/

The clearest analysis I have read of how to move towards a more functional asylum system ft the work of ‪@alexanderbetts.bsky.social‬

Just finished this. Refreshingly evenhanded and sober. Distinguishes between three kinds of inquiry, causal, interpretive, and critical, all equally important. Great to see the latter treated as legitimate part of social science, not smth necessarily veering into humanities.

In case you missed it, watch the latest video in our series exploring how the multiple crises facing the world are transforming the issues we work on. Here @alexanderbetts.bsky.social discusses the impact on refugee studies www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGsV...

Why has the EU found it so difficult to reform its common asylum policies? In our new open access article, Kathrin Bachleitner and I explore from a national identity perspective www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Delighted to say my new book ‘Social Science: A Very Short Introduction’ has just been published by Oxford University Press.