Congratulations to Nuffield Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellows Said Hassan and Kasimir Dederichs who have been awarded first and second ECSR Prize for best PhD thesis, respectively, for their Nuffield College DPhil theses! Read more: www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...

Congratulations to Rachel Bernhard, Professorial Fellow, on receiving a prestigious European Research Council Starting Grant! Her project, ‘Walls and Wicked Problems: The Role of Complexity in Politics,’ will investigate how complexity shapes political discourse. 🔗 Read more: shorturl.at/5bYBw

⬇️📖👀 Expert comment from Nuffield Senior Research Fellow John Muellbauer, who writes about the political feasibility of a fairer property wealth tax in the UK.

Congratulations to Ezequiel González Ocantos on winning the 2025 Alexander George Best Article Award from the American Political Science Association’s Qualitative and Multi-Methods Research section! Read more: www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...

Congratulations to Sarah Marshall, MPhil Economics, and her teammates on a phenomenal performance at the FISU World University Games, winning gold in both the Women’s Four and Women’s Eight rowing events! 👏 Incredible teamwork, grit, and speed on the water! #FISU2025 #Rowing

A groundbreaking international study published in Nature Communications, co-authored by Nuffield Fellow Nan Dirk de Graaf, reveals a global pattern in how religious commitment declines across generations. 📖 Read more at www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...

Many congratulations to the six Nuffield students graduating today! Well done for all your hard work to get here, and here’s to the #nextbigadventure #graduation #nuffsky

📢Calling all sociology scholars, including social policy and demography: applications for the 2026-27 Sociology Visitorships at Nuffield College are now open. 🗓️Deadline: 29 Sep 2025 ℹ️More info & applications: www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/our-research...

Congratulations to Nuffield alumni Simeon Goldstraw, Kofi Gunu, Natasja Rupesinghe on the accolades they received in recognition of their excellent DPhil theses! Read more: tinyurl.com/3jtd74wn

Nuffield Fellow @melindacmills.bsky.social‬ (Director of @oxforddemsci.bsky.social‬) was recognised by @eui-eu.bsky.social‬ in Florence for her pioneering interdisciplinary work bridging genetics and the social sciences. #nuffsky

Nuffield College Warden Julia Black and Professorial Fellow Lucie Cluver have been recognised in the 2025 King’s Birthday Honours list for their outstanding contributions to research and public service. Read more about their awards: shorturl.at/9iIaV

This week we welcomed back four Nuffield Alumni to discuss their books at a special hybrid event: Oisín Tansey, Sarah von Billerbeck, Bronwen Everill, and Robert Falkner. Thank you to our speakers and to all who attended! #nuffsky

A Nuffield College shaped cake! 🎂 Made by the College's catering team in 1994, for the Senior Clerk of Works' 80th birthday. From Nuffield College Archives, NCP A11. #isitcake #cakesky @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social

The sun is out and we're starting to enjoy the fruits of all the building work going on in College over the last couple of years! After a period of settling in, the lawn chairs are now back out on the lawn, and students, Fellows and staff are enjoying the space again. #nuffsky #summerinOxford

Congratulations to DPhil student Nan Sandi on winning the 2025 ADB–IEA Innovative Policy Research Award for her paper on crop residue burning! Her research offers a market-based solution to this pressing environmental issue. Read more: www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/news-events/... #nuffsky

Thank you to all our supporters who came to this year's donors' event! Current scholarship recipients Sarah and Guru enjoyed sharing their experience with some of our very first students, including Sir Francis Jacobs. What a wonderful way for Warden Julia Black to meet our donors! #nuffsky

This year’s Bluebell Day was a special one! On 27 April we gathered at Nuffield Place to unveil a commemorative plaque to mark the dedication of all those involved in caretaking and volunteering at Lord Nuffield’s former home over many years. Read more: www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/news-events/... #nuffsky

Nuffield Fellow Desmond King has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, in recognition of his ‘distinguished and continuing achievements’ – one of the most prestigious honours a social scientist can receive. Congratulations, Des! Read more: www.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/dpirs-d... #nuffsky

We are delighted that Alumnus Mark Carney remains prime minister of Canada following this week’s election. Mark won a landslide victory in the Liberal Party’s leadership race in March, following Justin Trudeau’s resignation. Read more on our website: www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/people/profi... #nuffsky

Nuffield Senior Research Fellow Iain McLean has been awarded the Political Studies Association’s W J M Mackenzie Prize for his recent book 'The Way the Money Goes', written with Barbara Piotrowska, Maia King, and the late Christopher Hood. Read more: www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/news-events/... #nuffsky

We're very excited to have two Nuffield students in the Boat Race 2025 – Sarah Marshall (MPhil Economics) and Simon van Teutem (DPhil Politics). We wish them both the best of luck - we'll be cheering them on this weekend! Sunday's races will be broadcast globally so we hope you’ll join us. #nuffsky

Huge thanks to our host Philip Bobbitt (DPhil Modern History, 1981)! What a wonderful way of introducing our New York Alumni to Warden Julia Black, as well as Fellow Andrew Thompson, who was in NYC to present his report on modern slavery to the UN: www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/news-events/... #nuffsky

Nuffield College Professorial Fellow Andrew Thompson and colleagues took part in the launch of the Global Commission on Modern Slavery's report at the UN yesterday. #nuffsky Find out more about Nuffield members' contributions at www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...

Emeritus Fellow Duncan Gallie’s study on ‘participation at work’ has been published as part of the long-running Skills and Employment Survey. Read about workplace abuse, AI, trade unions, the productivity crisis, the gender gap and more at wiserd.ac.uk/project/ses/... #nuffsky

We were delighted to host @drjuliashaw.bsky.social for the annual Nuffield LGBT+ History Month talk on 13 February. Dr Shaw spoke about her book, 'Bi: The Hidden Culture, History and Science of Bisexuality' More about the event: www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...

✍ Submissions are open for the 2nd International Conference on Hard-to-Reach Populations here at Nuffield College (21-22 Aug 2025), in partnership with @unicef.org #nuffsky Submit your abstract by 30th March More info at: hard2reachresearch.org/conference/

Congratulations to Nuffield DPhil in Economics Eszter Kabos, who has been named this month as one of Forbes Hungary's 30 under 30. #NuffSky t.co/ehTPhDkFut

It’s official! Nuffield Honorary Fellow and Alumnus Mark Carney (DPhil Economics, 1993) has just been sworn in as prime minister of Canada – many congratulations to him! Read more on our website: www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...

We played host to some special guests at the end of January when UN Executive Director & Director General of the UN in Vienna Ghada Waly spoke about human trafficking and modern slavery.

This Thursday is @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social's #InternationalWomensDay event! Nuffield Fellow @profjanegreen.bsky.social will give a talk "Taking up space as yourself" at 14:30 in the SCR (check your Nuffield email for an invitation)

Many congratulations to Honorary Fellow Mark Carney (DPhil Economics, 1993) on winning the race to become Canada’s next prime minister, having previously served as Governor of both the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England. We wish Mark well! Read more: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We're looking for a distinguished scholar to join @dspi-oxford.bsky.social and @inetoxford.bsky.social as Associate Professor of Social Policy and Director of the Economics, Inequality & Opportunity programme #NuffSky Role includes a Fellowship at Nuffield Deadline 19 March, link in comments

Excited to be visiting Oxford @ox.ac.uk and @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social for the rest of term, with the amazing support of @fgenovese.bsky.social and @profjanegreen.bsky.social. Do reach out if you're interested in climate politics, public opinion, policy attitudes or place. Would love to meet up!

Nuffield Fellow @benansell.bsky.social will be on a panel tonight for @britishacademy.bsky.social's 'The Age of Mistrust' series. 📽️Join the live stream at 6.30pm GMT www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/the-a... 🖊️Before you tune in reread Ben's blog post about 'Why politics fails' at t.co/XQH5EF7f04

Nice view to work on my draft paper on climate crimes. Today I begin my academic visit at @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social, (@ox.ac.uk). I am very excited about this opportunity.

Happy Lunar New Year to all who celebrate! We’re having a themed spread for lunch in College to celebrate the Chinese Year of the Snake🐍

📢Calling all social science scholars from and/or researching Italy: applications for the 2025-26 Jemolo Fellowships are now open. 🗓️Deadline: 21 Feb 2025 ℹ️More info & applications: www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/our-research...

Nuffield Fellow Des King is quoted extensively in this New York Times article @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social So Much for Not Taking Trump Literally www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/o...

Nuffield Fellow and @politicsoxford.bsky.social Professor Desmond King has made available the text of his 2023 Leonard Schapiro Lecture on 'American Political Violence'. For more information, including a link to the Open Access🔓text, see www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...

Yesterday was a transformational day in College, from a grey beginning to sunshine and blue skies! Our building project has meant there's been no lawn for a while - how uplifting to have it restored! #NuffSky

Last Thursday we celebrated the beginning of 2025 with our first alumni event of the year, hosted by our new Warden Julia Black in London. Thank you to all our alumni and other members for making the evening so enjoyable!

Congratulations to @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social student Hugo Till!

We were saddened to learn of the death of Alumnus and Honorary Fellow Dr Manmohan Singh (DPhil Economics, 1960), former Prime Minister of India. Known for his contributions to India’s economic development, Dr Singh will be greatly missed. Read more: www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...

We had a little bit of snow over the weekend ❄️ 📷 | OxfordStory (Instagram), Jmthalmann (X) & ObservingOxford (Instagram)

New year, new adventure? The closing date for our postdoctoral research position with our economic insecurity project @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social is 13 January…. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

Workshop announcement: for the third year running @uclspp.bsky.social and @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social are teaming up to bring together some of the most exciting early career researchers in Law and Courts, this year also joined by @dnaurin.bsky.social. Apply by 31 March with @icuervo.bsky.social!

Hello Blue Sky, and a Happy New Year! 👋 We can’t wait to meet the Nuffield College and wider social science community on here. If you know of anyone we should be following (or who should follow us), please tag them on this post. #NuffSky