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nuffield college annual report 2014–15 n u f f i e l d c o l l e g e a n n u a l r e p o r t 2 0 1 4 – 1 5 Nuffield College, New Road, Oxford ox1 1nf t: +44(0)1865 288691 e: [email protected] www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk general enquiries: Porters’ Lodge +44 (0)1865 278500 [email protected] academic/student enquiries: Academic Administration +44 (0)1865 278516 [email protected] alumni enquiries: Development Office +44 (0)1865 288691 [email protected] conference enquiries: Catering and Conferences +44 (0)1865 278527 [email protected] finance enquiries: Accounts +44 (0)1865 278696 [email protected] library enquiries: Nuffield Library +44 (0)1865 278550 [email protected] College website: www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk NuffieldCollege Nuffield College Nuffield College Society We would like to thank Maxine Collett for collating content for this report and Emma Shires for editing and proofreading. Design and Project Management: H2 Associates (Cambridge) Limited nuffield college annual report 2014–15 contents 5 1 – 4 1 0 2 t r o p e r 01 The Year in Brief al u WAcaarddeemn’sic L Reettpeor r t 68 entsld ann JCR Report 10 te nfi Development and Alumni Relations Report 14 ouf cn Library and Data Librarian’s Report 16 02 Academic Overview New Elections in 2015 22 Appointment of Leaving Fellows 26 New Students in 2014 27 Graduating Students 29 03 Research Overview Centre for Experimental Social Sciences Report 32 Centre for Social Investigation Report 34 Gwilym Gibbon Unit for Public Policy Report 36 Individual Fellows’ Academic Reports 38 Student Research Activities and Publications 121 04 Activities, Events, and Donations Art in College 124 Equality and Diversity in College 125 The Nuffield Society 126 College Conferences and Seminars 128 Alumni Events List 132 Donor List 133 05 The College Record Governing Body Fellows 136 Research Fellows and Research Officers 137 Emeritus, Honorary, and Visiting Fellows 140 Visitors 144 College Committees 146 College Officers 147 College Staff 148 Balance Sheet 151 3 01 the year in brief 6 Warden’s Letter 8 Academic Report 10 JCR Report 14 Development and Alumni Relations Report 16 Library and Data Librarian’s Report 5 5 warden’s letter 1 – 4 1 0 2 t riefrepor bl n ua Social, economic, and political problems were to be the focus when the College r inn was set up, and there is no shortage of them now. There are descriptions yeaeld a elsewhere in this report of a small fraction of the hundreds of seminars, e fi meetings, conferences, papers, books, conversations, theses, and blogs thnuf produced here in the last year, all trying in one way or another to take forward 01 our core objective of developing social scientific ideas. The privilege of working in such a centre of social scientific endeavour is enormous, and creates something of a sense of duty. From the most abstract of theoretical enquiries to the most applied analysis, Nuffield members are working on questions of significance not just to the UK but to the world. This work is indeed important and often difficult, but it is also great fun, and frequently seems to me rather beautiful. Nuffield aspires to be excellent in every way; to have outstanding students, staff, and fellows, doing work of the highest possible quality, supported by first class facilities and administration. One new way in which we are seeking to achieve our goals is by moving to guaranteeing funding for all students we admit. This is a bold ambition, which will rely on collaboration with departments across the University, and raising significant new funds for graduate scholarships. We are very grateful indeed to those who have already donated funds to help make this possible. We began this year with a celebration of David Butler’s 90th birthday, marked by a lecture from David Dimbleby about the development of the political interview over David Butler’s professional life. This was wonderfully illustrated by clips from a whole series of interviews, and several of a rather younger David Butler in election night programmes from the 1950s and 1960s. Michael Crick is now working on a biography of David Butler. Late in the academic year, the College acquired from Christ Church the land and buildings between Hythe Bridge Street and Park End Street, as well as that opposite the Said Business School. These sites form a natural whole with the Worcester Street car park, and offer the possibility of the creation of a social 6 5 1 – 4 1 0 2 t riefrepor bl n ua in r n yeaeld a e fi huf tn 01 science quarter through collaboration with the University and the city in years to come. As we look back on the last year, the final major event to note is the death, aged 91, of Chelly Halsey. Chelly was a massive figure in the College’s and the University’s life, and indeed that of sociology across the world. He loved the College, and in the last year of his life was working on G. D. H. Cole’s papers, and still exhorting us to take seriously the founding aim of being a place for co-operation between ‘academic and non-academic persons’ as a way of addressing the problems of social science. His is a great example to follow. Andrew Dilnot Warden 7 55 academic report 11 –– 44 11 00 22 tt riefriefreporrepor bbl l n n uaua Reflecting on the College’s academic achievements in 2014/15, for the r ir innnn purposes of this academic report, is exciting and daunting in equal measure. yeayeaeld aeld a Exciting, because of all the wonderfully innovative social science produced by e e fifi the College’s academic community; daunting, because it is incredibly hard ththnufnuf to select any highlights to showcase in a publication like the Annual Report. 0011 In keeping with College tradition, we let the academic work speak for itself through the individual reports in the section entitled ‘Research Overview’. It is, nonetheless, especially pleasing to mention here, truly in brief, some of the College’s new initiatives and arrivals in the course of 2014/15. Two new research centres have joined the Nuffield family: the Centre for Social Investigation (headed by Anthony Heath); and the Gwilym Gibbon Unit for Public Policy (headed by Iain McLean). Professors Richard Breen (Professor of Sociology), Stephen Broadberry (Professor of Economic History), and David Kirk (Associate Professor in Sociology) were elected to Professorial Fellowships in the course of the past academic year and took up their posts during the long vacation. And no fewer than nineteen Research Fellows and Research Officers (including Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellows and Non-Stipendiary Research Fellows – details given in the ‘Academic Overview’ section) were elected in the course of the year and have just joined the College. They have come to add to the intellectual diversity and vibrancy of Nuffield’s renowned postdoctoral community, which currently numbers 52 postdoctoral researchers. The past academic year also saw the arrival of a diverse and particularly strong group of new students. Out of a total of 200 applications considered, 56 offers were made and 29 students were eventually enrolled. The cohort that started in October 2014 included six students in Economics (all MPhil), thirteen in Politics (nine DPhil students and four on masters courses), and ten in Sociology (six DPhil students and four on masters courses). It has been particularly gratifying to see that the 2014 intake achieved near perfect gender balance, with female students actually outnumbering by one the male students (fifteen female, fourteen male). The College’s student body continues to be overwhelmingly international, with the 2014 cohort predictably following the same pattern: three students came from the UK, fifteen from the EU, and eleven from overseas (five from North America). Overall, in 2014/15 there 88

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