Plans & Prospects 2023

College News
Above: Hallucinations by Amaia Salazar Rodriguez
Wolfson’s first Arts Prize winners announced
Congratulations to the top three winners
of Wolfson’s first Arts Prize, whose
artwork will now be displayed around
college. The competition opened in
April and invited visual art entries from
members of the Wolfson community
in the form of painting, drawing,
photography, textiles, sculpture and even
experimental film. The entries were
judged by a panel of experts from our
artistic community.
New & reinstated research clusters
Law in Societies
A new permanent interdisciplinary
Research Cluster, ‘Law in Societies’, was
established at Wolfson in 2022 with the
aim of bringing together scholars with
an interest in the rules, both formal
and informal, by which social order
has been organised in different times
and in different cultures. Reflecting
on the most pressing contemporary
issues, the cluster will facilitate the
exchange of legal and social science
expertise to tackle questions of human
rights and international law in military
engagements, regulation and governance
of environmental resources, access to
justice and informal means of problem
solving, the emerging culture of
transnational laws and the regulation of
the digital domain, and other aspects of
the law.
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The first prize was given to Hallucinations
by Amaia Salazar Rodriguez, second to
Barbara Harriss-White for Ypres-Reims-
Raqqa-fascist-Toledo and third to Jean
Kearney for Exploring the borders.
Among those highly commended were
Harram Khurram, Kathrin Fischer,
Catherine Hauk, Rebecca Gowers,
Clara Tuffrey and Martino Bardelli. The
youngest artist, Demara Skach Groiser
(age 6), received a special mention.
Mind, Brain and Behaviour
Reinstated in January 2023, the Mind,
Brain and Behaviour Cluster will once
again provide a platform for members
of the college community interested in
the mind and brain and their interactions
with the body and environment, drawing
on the expertise of scholars across
neuroscience, neurology, psychology,
ethology, zoology, pharmacology, and
psychiatry.
Its work will mainly centre on ‘mutual
tutorials’, where two experts from
different backgrounds explain their
research to each other in front of other
cluster members. The goal is for each
expert to communicate the interest
of their research to the other, so
cluster members can forge connections
between the various strands of research
conducted by members of the college.
New Fellowships in
2022/23
Professor Nobuko Yoshida
Governing Body Fellow
Christopher Strachey Chair of Computer
Science at the University of Oxford,
Nobuko is an EPSRC Established Career
Fellow and an Honorary Fellow at
Glasgow University. Her main research
interests are theories and applications of
protocols, specifications and verifications.
Professor Rachel Wood
Governing Body Fellow
Associate Professor in Radiocarbon
Science in the School of Archaeology,
Rachel’s research centres on radiocarbon
dating. Having investigated the timing of
Neanderthal disappearance in Spain and
the spread of farming into South East
Asia, she is now exploring applications in
ecology and wildlife forensics.
Professor Pablo Mukerhjee
Governing Body Fellow
Professor of Anglophone World-
Literature, Pablo teaches and researches
on imperialism and colonialism,
postcolonial theory and literatures,
environmental humanities and world
literatures.
Zero Carbon project wins
Preservation Trust Award
We are delighted to announce that
Wolfson is now a two-time winner of an
Oxford Preservation Trust Award.
Every year, the Oxford Preservation
Trust awards prizes to buildings and
environmental projects which make
an outstanding contribution to the
character of Oxford. This year, Wolfson
won a plaque for the trust’s Green
category for our newly decarbonised
estate, having received an award in 2021
for our Buttery redevelopment.
The award once again recognises
Wolfson’s world-leading efforts on
sustainability. The President, Sir Tim
Hitchens said, “thanks to the support of
the government grant, the College’s own
input, and the expertise of architectural
and engineering consultants, we’ve
turned a 1960s building into a place fit
for the 21 st century. We’ve shown that
one of Oxford’s biggest emitters can
become net zero.”