News About Nuffield College
January 2011
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June 2010
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May 2010
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March 2010
DPhil Thesis Prize
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October 2008
| The IZA Prize in Labor Economics 2008 goes to the outstanding European labour economists Richard Layard and Stephen Nickell for their path-breaking work on the relationship between labour market institutions and unemployment. |
May 2008
| Ray Fitzpatrick, Faculty Fellow and Dean at Nuffield, has been elected as Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. |
July 2007
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Kevin Roberts and H Peyton Young, both Professors of Economics at Nuffield, have been made Fellows of the British Academy. |
April 2007
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A book looking at the global past since Tamerlane, the last of the 'world conquerors' has been released. More information about After Tamerlane: The global history of empire by John Darwin is available here. |
March 2007
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Econometric Modeling: A likelihood approach by Professor David Hendry and Dr Bent Nielsen has just been published by Princeton University Press. It is an introduction to econometrics, focusing particularly on modeling and emphasizing the coherent formulation, estimation, and evaluation of econometric models relevant for empirical research. |
January 2007
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Professor Stephen Nickell, Warden of Nuffield College and Professor of Economics, has been appointed Commander in the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in the New Year's Honour list for his services to Economics. |
October 2005
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Mukti Jain Campion, Guardian Fellow, Nuffield College, has published a report, ( Look Who’s Talking, Cultural Diversity, Public Service Broadcasting and the National Conversation ) that investigates why broadcasters are failing to reflect the cultural diversity of modern Britain in programmes and in their creative and editorial workforce. The report is based on interviews with over 100 producers, directors, writers and performers working in public service broadcasting today, the report examines the current barriers to diversity and uses the experiences of programme-makers to suggest how these may be overcome. More information of the report can be found here |
July 2005
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Dr Manmohan Singh, the 14th Prime Minister of India, was presented with an honorary degree by the University at a ceremony on Friday 8 July. The Prime Minister, who studied for a D.Phil. at Nuffield College, received the honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law in recognition of his role as statesman and as a leading economist. See here for more details. Professor Hyun Song Shin have been elected a Fellow of the British Academy. The College is sad to note the passing of Honourary Fellows Sir Edward Heath (former British Prime Minister) and Sudhir Mulji. |
June 2005
| Sir Gus O'Donnell, former Nuffield College student, has been appointed to be the next Head of the British Civil Service. Sir Gus studied Economics at Nuffield in the mid 1970s. For more details of his career see this BBC article by Nick Assinder. |
May 2005
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At 10pm on May 5th the BBC and ITV predicted that Labour would win the election with
a majority of 66. A few hours later that was exactly the result that transpired.
This accurate prediction, based on an exit poll jointly commissioned by BBC and ITV
News, was the work of a small team led by Professor John Curtice (Strathclyde University)
and Professor David Firth (University of Warwick, former Nuffield Fellow). Also closely
involved were Nuffield College's Clive
Payne and Professor Neil
Shephard, Professor Colin Rallings (University of Plymouth) and Dr Stephen Fisher
(Oxford, former Nuffield Research Fellow). More details can be found here.
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April 2005
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Professor Paul Klemperer has been elected a Foreign Honourary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Other current Nuffield Fellows who have previously received this honour are Sir Tony Atkinson (1994), Dr. David Butler (1987), Sir David Cox (1974), Professor David Hendry (1994) and Professor A.H. Halsey (1988). |
March 2005
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In the run up to this year's Reith Lectures the BBC is highlighting seven past Lecture series, one of which is Professor A.H. Halsey's 1977 lectures. You can listen to his lecture on their website. Chelly Halsey is now an Emeritus Fellow at Nuffield College. |
December 2004
Professors Neil Shephard and Hyun Song Shin have been elected Fellows of the Econometric Society.
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Professor Desmond King has been awarded a Major Research Fellowship by the UK's Leverhulme Trust to work on "The America State: an Analytical Narrative History." The awards are made to scholars so that they can "devote themselves to a single project of outstanding originality and significance appropriate for a period of concentrated research." |
October 2004
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Peyton Young is joining the College as a Professorial Fellow in Economics. He will be resident in Oxford two terms a year, continuing also to be the Scott and Barbara Black Professor of Economics at Johns Hopkins University. He has published widely on the evolution of social norms, game theory, bargaining and negotiation, taxation and cost allocation, political representation, voting procedures, and distributive justice. Professor Young is Executive Vice President of the Game Theory Society and an associate editor of Games and Economic Behavior. He is a member of the Science Steering Committee of the Santa Fe Institute and is a Fellow of the Econometric Society. |
July 2004
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We are delighted that Stephen
Nickell has agreed to be the next Warden of Nuffield College. He will join us
on 31st August 2005, when the current Warden, A.B. Atkinson, returns to full-time
research as a Senior Research Fellow in the College. Steve is currently a School Professor
at the LSE, a member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee and President
of the Royal Economic Society. Steve will serve out his current term on the Monetary
Policy Committee, finishing there on 31st May 2006.
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Professor Duncan Gallie has been elected Vice-President of the British Academy. |
May 2004
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Manmohan Singh has been appointed Prime Minister of India. Dr Singh studied for a Doctorate in Economics at Nuffield College, Oxford during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Since 1994 he has been an Honorary Fellow of the College. |
