Are you coming to our Undergraduate Open Day on 1 & 2 July, 9.30am - 4.30pm? Get ready by taking a tour of around Wadham with current student, student, Kayla, who shows us around while sharing what she loves most about the College.

Prof Bernhard Staresina, our Tutorial Fellow in Psychology, has been awarded a major ERC Advanced Grant for his Ontogeny of Memory (MemOnto) project, which will address the paradox known as infantile amnesia: https://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/news/the-ontogeny-of-memory @oxexppsy.bsky.social

Our alumnus and Honorary Fellow, President of the Wadham College Law Society and a distinguished former judge, Sir Tim Holroyde (Law, 1973), kindly returned to Wadham to judge our College moot, in which four first-year Law students participate each year. https://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/news/college-moot

Charles Dickens died on this day in 1870. We've been remembering his legacy by watching these films with Professors Robert Douglas-Fairhurst and Ankhi Mukherjee discussing the Dickens' First Editions in Wadham Library:  https://youtu.be/kfLz5roOa4A?si=Mreq3dCeNe8Q6-Qb #onthisdayinhistory #wadham

Thanks to Head Gardener, David, and team for their work with our volunteer gardening groups. Students & staff have helped to make and plant out raised beds; sow seeds; divide perennials and make bug hotels. They have learned about organic gardening principles too. #WorldEnvironmentDay #GreenWadham

Research by Hannah Christensen, our Tutorial Fellow in Physics, shows GCSE and A Level students how Physics can make weather forecasts more accurate. Potential climatologists and meteorologists, find out more! https://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/news/worldwide-weather-events-cause-ripples-in-the-uk

Our researchers are advancing efforts to solve the climate crisis; conserve nature; and future-proof our agricultural system. Check out our Sustainability Research Hub to find out more: https://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/research/sustainability-research-hub #worldenvironmentday #greenwadham

We look forward to our Warden Welcomes event in the Holywell Music Room on 21 May at 1.15pm. Our alumnus and Honorary Fellow, Lord Melvyn Bragg, will be in conversation with Jane Garnett about the latest volume of his memoirs, 'Another World', covering his years at Wadham.

It's World Bee Day, so what better time to learn about the inhabitants of our hive! We heard from our beekeepers and former and current Head Gardeners, Andrew and David, that there are about 10,000 bees in the hive, all serving one queen bee.  https://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/about/green-wadham

Congratulations to Oxford Cricket Club's Men's Blues, including our student, Jai Chandra, on winning the Varsity Match at Lord's.  We wish Jai and the squad luck for the rest of the season: https://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-cricket-clubs-mens-blues-win-the-varsity-match-at-lords

At 'Un-fair Trade in Global Supply Chains; and what we can do about it', on 13 May, 7pm in the Holywell Music Room, producers, academics and UK specialists will come together to highlight unfair practices and outline practical ways citizens and businesses can help drive change.  #GreenWadham

Our Head Gardener, David, and student and staff volunteers are seeing the benefits of their hard work in Hilary term. The raised beds made by our volunteer gardeners in previous weeks are full of black chick peas, lettuces, cabbages, sweet peas, onions, sweetcorn, pumpkins and parsnips. #greenwadham

We are pleased to be among the 2026 Unlock Net Zero finalists, with Eyesea Green, for the Heritage decarbonisation at Wadham College project in the Retrofit project of the year: London and the South category.  https://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/news/wadham-is-shortlisted-for-a-2026-unlock-net-zero-award

We look forward to this year's Summer Schools, 17 - 21 August. Applications close on 1 May, so there's still time to get yours in. Find out more on our website and hear from previous participants here: 

Our Associate Professor of AI and Society, Dr Ekaterina Hertog, is among the panelists at the event, 'A Good Digital Childhood', on 6 May in Bristol. Dr Hertog will be speaking on 'What do good caring relationships between children and adults look like in a digital world?'

Our Associate Professor of AI and Society, Dr Ekaterina Hertog, is among the panelists at the event, 'A Good Digital Childhood', on 6 May in Bristol. Dr Hertog will be speaking on 'What do good caring relationships between children and adults look like in a digital world?'

At 'Un-fair Trade in Global Supply Chains; and what we can do about it', on 13 May, 7pm in the Holywell Music Room, producers, academics and UK specialists will come together to highlight unfair practices and outline practical ways citizens and businesses can help drive change.  #GreenWadham

We're enjoying our beautiful carpet of bluebells at Wadham. #GreenWadham #bluebells #worldearthday #oxforduniversity #collegegardens

We enjoyed reading today's Guardian's interview with our alumnus, Michael Rosen, in which he answers questions from readers, friends and writers about a range of topics:

It was great to read this article in alumni magzaine, Quad, in which our alumnus, Chris Mitchell, talks about receiving, with his wife Denise, a richly merited British Citizen Award: https://www.alumni.ox.ac.uk/article/chris-mitchell @ox.ac.uk

Good luck to the Oxford crews racing in this year's Boat Race! We'll be cheering you all on, expecially the Women’s Lightweights and their Cox and our graduate student, James Rumsey.  https://www.theboatrace.org/lightweight-crews

'Blurring the frame: Youth-defined photographic expression in participatory research on adverse childhood experiences', co-authored by our Senior Research Fellow, Prof Kam Bhui, is published in Media International Australia:

'The risks and opportunities of adopting digital technologies as part of unpaid care', co-authored by Dr Ekaterina Hertog, Associate Professor of AI and Society, is published in Oxford Review of Economic Policy:

'Technological folie à deux: feedback loops between AI chatbots and mental health', co-authored by our Fellow by Special Election, Christopher Summerfield, is published in Nature Mental Health:

'Improving land cover classification in drylands with MSAVI: Evidence from the South Aral Seabed', co-authored by our Tutorial Fellow in Biology, Joe Bull, is published in the Journal of Arid Land:

Our alumnus, Nick Browne (Philosophy and Modern Languages, 2021), has won the prestigious Society of Authors’ and Goethe-Institut Londons’ biennial Goethe-Institut Award for New Translation. Many congratulations!

Our plant pot painting sessions were a great success this Green Action Week. Many thanks to our Library team for organising this and to the Gardens team for donating the second-hand pots. #OxfordGreenActionWeek @wadhamlibrary

Thank you to Wadham's Feminist Society for their Textiles and Mending Workshop. This was a great opportunity for students to learn how to fix and mend clothes, to give them a new lease of life.  #OxfordGreenActionWeek

Thanks to Wadham's gardeners for another great session with our volunteers. This week, the team and helpers were planting carrots and parsnips in our new raised beds, which volunteers helped to make in previous weeks.  #wadhamcollege #oxfordgreenactionweek #greenwadham #collegegardens

The Koch History Centre Lecture by David d'Avray on "Church, State and Hierarchy" is on 4 March, 5pm, at the Stephen A Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.  Find out more and book on our website: https://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/events/koch-history-centre-lecture

Tonight! Our students will be playing 'Ecologies', a strategic and educational card game where players build and maintain healthy food webs in 7 diverse biomes, aiming to create a balanced ecosystem whilst competing against other players. We look forward to seeing who wins! #OxfordGreenActionWeek

We’re hiring! Exciting opportunity for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join @katyahe.bsky.social working on ‘The Digital Parenting and Youth Online Behaviour’ @oii.ox.ac.uk project. 1/2

Come work with me and Prof Vicki Nash @oii.ox.ac.uk on this 2-year quantitative project.

New! Watch @channelnewsasia.bsky.social's new documentary series, AI & Me, featuring expert comment from @katyahe.bsky.social @oii.ox.ac.uk @wadhamcollege.bsky.social. Interview at the start of the programme: www.youtube.com/watch?v=svGz...

Come along to our swap shop to bring and take! Revamp your wardrobe, find some new books, or give a second life to lots of other useful things. Thank you to Isabelle and all our student and staff volunteers. We're here all #OxfordGreenActionWeek! #GreenWadham

We're all ready for Green Action Week, 23 - 27 February. We'll be holding a College Swap Shop all week, so bring and take, starting from Monday!

Thank you to our Chaplain, Jane, for our wonderful Chinese New Year celebrations. Happy New Year to everyone celebrating!

The skies are blue and the flowers are emerging on this fine spring day at Wadham!

Thank you to Sophia, our Lodge Receptionist, who has brightened Wadham's Lodge this Valentine's Day with her supply of cards! Our pidges are full of Valentine's, Galentine's, and Palentine's messages. #valentinesday #wadhlove

At our first volunteer gardening session, students and staff worked with our gardeners to make raised beds and fill them with compost and top soil ready for planting. Thank you to to everyone involved. www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/about/green-wadham

The project kicks off in June 2026, with findings shared over the next two years. With thanks to the @nuffieldfoundation.org for funding the project.   3/3

The project will explore how care‑experienced young people gain - or struggle to gain -digital literacy, and whether current policies help them acquire digital skills necessary to navigate modern adulthood. 2/3

New project! Introducing The Digital Lives of Care‑experienced Children, led by our Associate Professor of AI and Society,Dr Ekaterina Hertog, @oiioxford, @EthicsinAI @WadhamCollege in collaboration with Dr Vicki Nash, @oiioxford.  1/3

The Koch History Centre Lecture by Bethany Moreton on "Theocracy Now!" is on 4 February, 5pm, at the Stephen A Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.  Find out more and book on our website: https://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/events/koch-history-centre-lecture

Preventive Global Mental Health—A Balance of Policies and Practices by our Senior Research Fellow, Kam Bhui, and Roisin Mooney is published in JAMA Psychiatry:

We're enjoying a wonderful #BurnsNight at Wadham. Thank you to everyone involved in making it happen!

'Unconventional Magnetism, Sliding Ferroelectricity, and Magneto-Optical Kerr Effect in Multiferroic Bilayers', co-authored by our Professorial Fellow in Physics, Paolo Radaelli, is published in Applied Materials & Interfaces journal:

'The evolving role of WPA Collaborating Centres: new perspectives and future directions', co-authored by our Senior Research Fellow, Kam Bhui, is published in World Psychiatry, the official journal of the World Psychiatric Association:

Congratulations to everyone who received an offer to study at Oxford! We look forward to seeing some of you at Wadham next academic year.

Our alumna and poetry legend, Michael Rosen, presents his new, not to be missed, one-person show, 'Getting Through It', at Oxford Playhouse on Friday 9 January.  You can find out more and book tickets here: