nuFFIELD COLLEGE AnnuAL REPORT 2014–15 nuFFIELD COLLEGE AnnuAL REPORT 2014–15

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annual report 2014–15

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01 The Year in Brief al
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JCR Report 10 te
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Development and Alumni Relations Report 14 ouf
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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