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.

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...