A decade after the Paris Agreement, Brazil’s COP30 Presidency calls for a #GlobalMutirão - a major collective effort uniting governments, Indigenous and local leaders, scientists, investors and citizens to work side by side.

#COP30Belém - the first Climate COP held in the Amazon - offers a pivotal opportunity to spotlight the critical role of tropical ecosystems and the Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities who care for them.

COP30 kicks off in Belém! 🌎 From pledges to practice: why COP30 could mark a turning point towards justice, reciprocity and regeneration Our team is on the ground working to connect research with policy and practice Our hopes for COP30➡️ www.naturebasedsolutionsinitiative.org/news/belem-c...

Read our Warden, Robert Hannigan's Expert Interview in The Cipher Brief: Cybersecurity, AI, and the New Age of Multilateral Defense:

We look forward to hearing our alumnus, Professor Robert McGill (MPhil English Studies, 1999), discussing his book 'Simple Creatures' in conversation with Professor Siobhan Phillips on 25 November.  Find out more and register here: https://events.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/scholars-library-Robert-McGill

@wadhamcollege.bsky.social (University of Oxford) is recruiting a Junior Research Fellow in Economic History (beginning from 1 September 2026). Open to all subfields and time periods. Join us! www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/about/the-da...

We're pleased to announce a new doctoral scholarship, enabled by the generosity of Dr Nigel Nettheim. Proposed doctoral projects should be concerned with the analysis of the compositions of Franz Schubert. @wadhamcollege.bsky.social 👇Find out more www.music.ox.ac.uk/article/new-...

We've enjoyed reading about our PPE student Jaydon Coombs-Goodfellow and his role as this year's Football Sabbatical Officer. Find out more from Jaydon about what the sport means to him and how to get involved:

Many congratulations to our Tutor and Lecturer in Anatomy, Dr Autumn Rowan-Hull, who has been awarded Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

#HappyPublicationDay to our Senior Research Fellow, Prof Kam Bhui, whose first novel, 'The Maharaja’s Bodyguard'  is a time-travelling tale for young adults set between 19th-century India and 1960s Britain. https://troubador.co.uk/bookshop/young-adult/the-maharaja-s-bodyguard

Congratulations to all, including our Senior Research Fellow, Prof Kam Bhui.

Thank you to our alumna, Verity Babbs, for a wonderful event at Blackwell's, Oxford, hosted by Amie McNee. We enjoyed learning about the 'History of Art in One Sentence', and getting our copy of the book signed.  https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/history-of-art-in-one-sentence-9781526686893/

'Synthesis of the Tetracyclic Core of the Daphlongeranines', co-authored by our Fellow and Tutor in Organic Chemistry, Darren Dixon, is published in Open Letters: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.orglett.5c03362

We hope all our new and returning students are settling in to 1st week at Wadham and Oxford! #wadhamcollege #oxforduniversity

'Photo-induced nonvolatile rewritable ferroaxial switching', co-authored by our Professorial Fellow in Physics, Paolo Radaelli, is published in Science: https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.adz5230

Today our gardening team got their new electric mower! It's part of our shift to use more sustainable energy sources across the College. 🥬 Also, from a certain angle, it looks like it has a cool robot face 🤖 #greenwadham #sustainability #gardens

#HappyPublicationDay to our Emeritus Fellow, Bernard O’Donoghue, co-editor of 'The Poems of Seamus Heaney', which includes a number of uncollected poems and a selection of poems never published before. https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571340385-the-poems-of-seamus-heaney/

#HappyPublicationDay to our alumna, Verity Babbs, on publication of 'The History of Art in One Sentence'. There still time to get tickets for the book launch at Blackwell's, Oxford, on 16 October:

Congratulations to our Lecturer in English, Douglas Clark, whose book, 'The Will in English Renaissance Drama', has been published by Cambridge University Press.  https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/will-in-english-renaissance-drama/77AACBAE585A17615E550C6409D8CC76#fndtn-information

The sun came out to welcome our Undergraduate Open Day visitors, along with our student ambassadors and Mike and April from our Academic Office. If you were not able to join us today or would like a reminder, there's lots of information on our website: https://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/why-wadham

Come along to our Undergraduate Open Day on 19 Sept to see if Wadham is right for you. There's lots to see, including the library, Chapel, gardens, Refectory, and accommodation. Our student ambassadors will be leading tours and answering all your questions. https://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/why-wadham

We look forward to welcoming you to Wadham for our last Undergraduate Open Day of the year. Come along on 19 Sept to take a tour of College, see our accommodation and facilities, meet our student ambassadors and tutors, and have all your questions answered.  https://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/why-wadham

We're #wadhamproud to announce that we are finalists for the Oxford 2025 Climate Awards! We're in contention for the ‘Sustainable Further Education/College of Year’ award. The winners will be announced in just a few weeks! 🤞 #sustainability

Nature conservation needs financing. Here's how we get it: https://f.mtr.cool/oipgffaqzl Wadham's Prof Joe Bull explains the LEON project and the role of satellites in procuring investment. #nature #sustainability #oxford

Check out this podcast featuring Wadham's Dr Ian Ellison!

As Trinity Term 2025 drew to a close, so did Ryan Bloxsom's first year as the Brookman Music Scholar. Ryan looks back on music life at Wadham over the past year: 

The Faculty of History and Wadham are delighted to announce the inaugural Koch History Centre Fellows! https://f.mtr.cool/iiignphzro These fellows are appointed for 2025-2026 on the theme: Religion and the State.  #history #humanities #oxford

We are recruiting for the Masoumeh and Fereydoon Soudavar Professorship in Persian Studies, in association with the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. Find out more and apply here:

'Rosamund Pike rules in searing legal drama from Prima Facie team'. Read the Guardian's 4* review of 'Inter Alia', Suzie Miller's follow up play, in which our alumna plays a leading role:

Congratulations to the eight Oxford academics elected Fellows of the British Academy, including Wadham Fellows, Peter Thonemann and Margaret Hillenbrand:

Many congratulations to the newly-elected Fellows of the British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social, including Peter Thonemann, our Tutorial Fellow and Professor of Ancient History, and Margaret Hillenbrand, our Fellow and Tutor in Chinese:  https://bit.ly/44C7GQB

The British Academy has elected 92 new Fellows in 2025 – a higher number than in previous years due to new Fellowship places for candidates whose research spans more than one discipline www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/agm-wel...

We love seeing this interview with from the Africa Oxford Initiative with Wadham alumna, Anuoluwatoyosi Onikos (MSc in Law and Finance, 2023). Do check it out and read about Toyosi’s work on development projects since leaving Oxford. www.afox.ox.ac.uk/blog/oxford-...

Read our Senior Research Fellow Prof Nathalie Seddon's article, 'Nature-friendly farming budget swells in UK – but cuts elsewhere make recovery fraught' in The Conversation: theconversation.com/nature-frien...

You can read 'Plants monitor the integrity of their barrier by sensing gas diffusion', an article co-authored by Francesco Licausi, our Professor of Molecular Plant Physiology, in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Come to Wadham this afternoon to join sessions with our tutors in the Holywell Music Room: 2.10 - 3pm: Demonstration Interviews.  3.10 - 3.40pm: Writing a UCAS Personal Statement: Practice and pick up useful tips. Stay for a tour with our students, who will answer all of your questions.

Our last session of the day is on Writing a Personal Statement. Join us to practice and pick up useful tips on how to write a UCAS personal statement, 3.10pm in the Holywell Music Room. College tours with our student ambassadors are running all day. #oxopendays #oxforduniversity #wadhamcollege

Student-led tours of College are running all day at Wadham. Stay for a talk on Applying to Oxford with our Tutor for Admissions at 12.45pm and our Meet the Tutors session at 1.15pm. We look forward to meeting you!  #OxOpenDays #OxfordUniversity #WadhamCollege

Come to our Undergraduate Open Days on 2 & 3 July and join the following sessions:  12.45 - 1pm: Applying to Oxford. 1.15 - 2pm: Meet the Tutors (students only). 1.15 - 2pm: Q & A for Parents, Guardians and Teachers.   2.10 - 3pm: Demonstration interviews. 3 - 3.40pm: Writing a personal statement.

Our Professorial Fellow in Microbiology, Kevin Foster's co-authored article, 'Metabolic ecology of microbiomes: Nutrient competition, host benefits, and community engineering', published in Cell Host and Microbe journal: www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

The rainbow flag is proudly on display in and over Wadham during Pride Month!

Our Professorial Fellow in Microbiology, Kevin Foster, is among seven Oxford academics awarded European Research Council Advanced Grants for cutting-edge research, each worth up to €2.5 million over a period of five years. Many congratulations to to all! bit.ly/44FAVB1

We're looking forward to our undergraduate Open Days! Come to Wadham on 2 & 3 July and meet our friendly student ambassadors, who will take you on a tour of College and answer all your questions. www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/prospective-... #OxOpenDays #wadhamcollege #UndergraduateOpenDays

At Wadham, we're lucky to have a 13th Century Bible in our collections. We're also fortunate that Prof Richard Gameson of Durham University gave time to record this video showing all the details and historical quirks found within it. @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social @torchoxford.bsky.social

In this video, Professor Nathalie Seddon dispels misconceptions about nature-based solutions, explains why caring for the environment goes beyond measuring carbon, and discusses structural problems at the financial and governance levels that hold progress back. @naturebasedsols.bsky.social

Fellowship opportunity. @wadhamcollege.bsky.social in cooperation with the @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social established the Koch History Centre, an Institute of Advanced Studies for History. The first cohort will start on 1 Oct 2025. This year's theme:"Religion and the State". Please consider applying

Wadham Law and Justice Hub and Oxford Obligations Discussion Group are hosting a book launch for 'Omissions in Tort Law' (OUP, 2024) by Sandy Steel, our Fellow and Tutor in Law on 7 February at Wadham College. All Oxford University members are welcome to attend: www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/events/book-...

Following our 'Decolonizing the Curriculum' panel event, you can listen to five experts dissect decolonization from different angles, chaired by Ato Quayson and Ankhi Mukherjee, editors of the collaborative volume, 'Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum': www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/.../decoloni....

Join us for our first 'Wadham for the World' event of 2025 tomorrow in the Holywell Music Room! 'Decolonizing the Curriculum' will include a panel discussion and Q&A chaired by Ankhi Mukherjee and Ato Quayson. Find out more and book for this free event: www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/events/wadha...

⏰ Last chance to apply for the Nature-based Solutions Foundation Course January 2025! 🌎 Explore how #NbS can address #ClimateAdaptation #ClimateMitigation #BiodiversityLoss #FoodSecurity #SustainableDevelopment & much more 👉 Apply here: www.naturebasedsolutionsinitiative.org/nature-based...