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:

You can read more about Professor Kaiser in a second Forbes article, The best doctors in the Czech Republic 2026:

Our Visiting Fellow, Professor Radek Kaiser, describes his experience as the first Czech professor of neuroscience at Oxford in this article in Forbes:

We wish everyone a wonderful festive season. See you in 2026!

'Tis the season of giving and receiving so thank you again to everyone who took part in and supported this year's Giving Day!

These seasonal cards from Wadham's Christmases past were created by our own, very talented, Tim Kirtley. You can see more of Tim's festive Oxford library scenes here: https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/libraries

Tree walks with our Chaplain, Jane, are a highlight of every term. Towards the end of Michaelmas, we enjoyed a 'Santa Special', focusing on trees and shrubs with red berries. Our New Year's resolution to join Jane on more tree walks in 2026!

We are missing our students already! We rounded off a very musical Michaelmas at Wadham with the Choir's Christmas Recital.

The @oxmusicfaculty.bsky.social has announced a new DPhil scholarship for academic year 2026/27. The scholar will be resident at Wadham, a fitting home for a music student. Find out more:  https://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/news/the-faculty-of-music-announces-new-dphil-scholarship.

'The levers of political persuasion with conversational artificial intelligence', co-authored by our Fellow by Special Election, Christopher Summerfield, is published in Science: https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.aea3884

Thank you to all the Wadham elves who have worked hard to Christmas-up the College. Happy Oxmas!

It wouldn't be Oxmas without the Wadham panto! Congratulations to @wadhamdrama on another amazing production. We think Beauty and the Beast 2000s just might be the best one yet. #Wadham #Wadhamdramasociety #Oxmas #panto

Among Wadham Library's Christmas treasures is a Book of Hours from the mid-15th century. Its large illuminations from c.1425 depict events from the early life of Christ, including this Nativity scene.

The Routledge Handbook of Arts and Health publishes today. The contents of this comprehensive handbook include a chapter co-authored by our Senior Research Fellow, Kam Bhui, 'Arts in Psychiatry and Mental Health Research: Complex Identities and Interdisciplinary Praxis'. https://bit.ly/4hBIzlE

All welcome at this free public lecture hosted by the Koch History Centre, followed by a drinks reception. Wed, 26 Nov 17:00 Room 00.063 Stephen A Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities Please register via our website. www.history.ox.ac.uk/koch-history...

We look forward to the DANSOX event, 'Beyond the Ballet Russes' on 26 November, 5.30-7pm at St Hilda's College, with lectures from our Fellow and Tutor in Russian, Prof Philip Bullock, and Dr Gabriela Minden.  Eventbrite:

We've enjoyed reading the University's Student Story from Seun Sowunmin (History, 2022), SU President for Undergraduates and our recent alumna:

🌎COP30 Week One: Signals of progress and what must come next ⬇️ Read our reflections on climate, nature & justice at COP30: www.naturebasedsolutionsinitiative.org/news/reflect... #PeoplesSummit #COP30 #ClimateJustice 📷: The Peoples' March, COP30 Belém, 15th November. Photo Credit: Aline Soterroni

“There is no net zero in Brazil without nature” -Dr Aline Soterroni at our #COP30 side event yesterday in Belém A collaboration for biodiversity-climate synergies with @greenpeace.org @wwfbrasil.bsky.social @sosmataatlantica.bsky.social Read the summary by @iisd.org ⬇️ enb.iisd.org/climate-biod...

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.