Transitioning from PhD to a permanent position (academic or not) can be challenging. In this process, mentoring by a senior/more experienced professional can provide support in identifying problems and solutions and planning next steps. The Wolfson Mentor Connect programme aims to promote the career development of early career researchers considering both professional and personal aspirations.

Come to learn more about the Wolfson Mentor Connect Programme and hear about the extraordinary professional journeys of our panellists, and how they navigated both professional and personal milestones, particularly in the early stages of their careers. The panellists are: Sir Tim Hitchens, Dr Caroline Wanjiku Kihato, and Professor Annina Schmid, who will share their extraordinary professional journeys, and how they navigated both professional and personal milestones, particularly in the early stages of their careers. Each speaker will have 5-10 minutes to reflect on their careers thus far, and this will be followed by a Q&A session. To conclude, there will be an opportunity for networking over cake, tea, and coffee.

If you are interested in attending, please contact presidents.office@wolfson.ox.ac.uk

Every term, Wolfson College's President Sir Tim Hitchens hosts a Seminar in which three members of the College of different academic levels (a Governing Body Fellow, a Junior Research Fellow, and a Graduate Student) present on a general theme from the point of view of their own research or field of study.



The theme for Trinity Term 2024 is "Sports Medicine".

The Seminar will be hosted in the Haldane Room in Wolfson College on Monday the 23rd of October 2023 at 18:00 (GMT). Everyone is welcome to join.



Speakers:

Nicole Votruba: "Stronger, smarter, happier: How Exercise can boost your Body, Brain & Mental Health"

Paul Leeson: "Personalised exercise plans for heart health: do they work?"

Tom Brennan: "Spectacle and virtuosity in live performance - A theatre maker's perspective"



The President’s Seminar presents a unique opportunity to bring Wolfson members from different areas and expertise to discuss topics that can be broad and approached diversely by different disciplines. This format, though more informal in nature, provides an auspicious environment for friendly and innovative discussions that may otherwise not occur in more specialised academic environments, seasoning the experience with rich and new ideas, a sense of discovery, as well as an opportunity for different perspectives to collide and conspire together to broaden horizons and provide views that may be different from what one is accustomed to.



In this manner, the President’s Seminar is a space that is both fun and safe that emulates a more informal conversation while also providing the experience, specially to young researchers, of presenting their research and fields of study to a group of peers in a more formal academic setting whilst removing the pressure that a more formal event might entail, and creating an accessible circumstancer for personal development that can contribute to their own professional growth.On this spirit, at the end of the Seminar all presenters and attendees are cordially encouraged to join in the College Hall for informal supper in a reserved table that anyone can join where ideas can be further discussed by everyone over dinner.



The Seminar, originally created by former president Dame Hermione Lee, has been a staple of the Wolfson academic life for several years and has already become a welcomed tradition that follows in style and spirit the egalitarian culture and ethos of Wolfson College.

The Law in Societies Cluster and the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies will be holding a discussion as part of the joint event with the 2024 Annual Socio-Legal Lecture, which will be delivered by Professor Annelise Riles.



A key theme of Prof. Annelise Riles’ multi-faceted work is to explore law as a set of knowledge tools. This workshop builds on this theme and explores how the knowledge resources that law draws on are shifting in the age of surveillance capitalism, which harnesses data as a tradeable commodity. The governments seek access to big data for solving public policy challenges, such as the climate crisis. But do potentially enhanced ways of representing social worlds also enhance state law’s capacity of socio-legal ordering? What are the risks of climate smart technologies?



Three presenters will share their ideas with us in short presentations, leaving plenty of time for a broader discussion with the audience.



CHRIS DECKER

A changing role for state law in the age of surveillance capitalism?



LISA VOELZMANN

Harnessing big data for tackling climate change?



BETTINA LANGE

Surveillance capitalism and environmental regulation – changing techniques of law?

Wolfson Arts Society invites you to a Life Drawing Class with Artist Stacey Gledhill (& life model)



Tuesday 30 April 2024 | 6.30PM-8.30PM



Haldane Room, Wolfson College



Please bring your own materials with you, including, paper, pencils, and charcoals.



The class is restricted to members of Wolfson College and there is no cost to attend.



Please register with the Event Manager, on the door of the event.

Places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis

Wolfson Arts Society invites you to a Life Drawing Class with Artist Stacey Gledhill (& life model)



Tuesday 28 May 2024 | 6.30PM-8.30PM



Haldane Room, Wolfson College



Please bring your own materials with you, including, paper, pencils, and charcoals.



The class is restricted to members of Wolfson College and there is no cost to attend.



Please register with the Event Manager, on the door of the event.

Places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis

The Tibetan and Himalayan Studies Centre welcomes you to celebrate the Tibetan Year of the Wood Dragon 2151 at Wolfson with music, poetry, and momos. Featuring Buddhist prayers by Lelung Rinpoche, Tibetan dunglen (guitar) songs by Dr Tsering Samdrup, and various performances by Oxonian Tibetans and Tibetanists.

Wolfson Arts Society invites you to a Life Drawing Class with Artist Ingrid Berry (& life model)



Tuesday 5 March 2024 | 6.30PM-8.30PM

Haldane Room, Wolfson College



Please bring your own materials with you, including, paper, pencils, and charcoals.



The class is restricted to members of Wolfson College and there is no cost to attend. Please register with the Event Manager, on the door of the event. Places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis



For any enquiries please contact Luisa Summers, Arts & Music Manager – luisa.summers@wolfson.ox.ac.uk

Join us from 4 -7pm on Sunday, 29th October, 2023.

First there will be Trick or Treating around the College @ 4pm. Let's meet in the H/G Quad, before we head around College to visit student flats. Please fill the form to help us plan.

We will then head to the Haldane room afterwards for pizza and games.



Costumes are strongly encouraged!!

See you!