Council, Committees & Congregation
Congregation 8 March
Voting on Resolutions approving the conferment of Honorary Degrees:
- Sir Lenny Henry (Doctor of Letters)
- Professor William Chester Jordan (Doctor of Letters)
- Professor Theda Skocpol (Doctor of Letters)
- Wim Wenders (Doctor of Letters)
- Baron Darzi of Denham (Doctor of Science)
- Dr Mo Ibrahim (Doctor of Science)
If the resolutions are approved, the honorary degrees will be conferred at the Encaenia on 22 June 2022; degrees will also be conferred upon those honorands who were unable to attend Encaenia 2021.
Register of Congregation
- New members of Congregation (Bell, J R; Breuillard, E F J; Lamb, W R S; Minhas, H; Sarkar, B; Wheatley, R)
Degree by Resolution
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Notices
Gazette online archive
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People-related notices
Electoral Boards
- Professorship of Surgical Sciences (composition)
College elections
- Nuffield (meeting to elect a Proctor)
- Oriel (meeting to elect a Proctor)
- New College (meeting to elect the Assessor)
College obituaries
Exams & Boards
Supplication for the Degree of Doctor of Science
DPhil viva voce examinations
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Lectures
Voltaire Foundation
Professor Robert Darnton, Harvard, will deliver a lecture to celebrate the completion of the Œuvres complètes de Voltaire at 5pm on 17 March, in the Sheldonian Theatre: ‘Theatricality and violence in Paris, 1788’
Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics
- Jenkinson Developmental and Cell Biology Symposium: 9am–5.30pm on 8 April at the Medical Sciences Teaching Centre
Faculty of Law
Professor Ben McFarlane, Professor of English Law, will give his inaugural lecture at 5pm on 31 March in the Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre, Faculty of Law: ‘The persistence of equity: lessons from the trust’
Professor Reuben Jonathan Miller, Astor Visiting Lecturer at the Centre for Criminology, will lecture at 3pm on 3 March: ‘Halfway home: race, punishment and the afterlife of mass incarceration’
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Nelson Mandela Fellow and 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations, will lecture at 5pm on 11 March at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies: ‘How to overcome global crises: climate change and pandemics’
Oxford Martin School
- Dr Tara Garnett, Dan Blaustein-Rejto, Dr Pablo Monzan and Dr Helena Wright, 5pm on 24 February online: ‘Fleshing out a future COP’
Blackfriars: Las Casas Institute
Baroness Nuala O’Loan will give the 2022 Las Casas Annual Lecture at 5pm on 24 February online: ‘The road to reconciliation and restoration: a journey of courage and compassion’
Elections
Uncontested election
- Board of the Faculty of History (Professor George Garnett)
Lapsed vacancies
Any eligible member of Congregation who wishes to be considered for appointment to one of these vacancies is asked to contact the Elections Office by 3 March.
- Pool for Constituting Panels under Statute XII (GLAM)
- Pool for Constituting Panels under Statute XII (any division)
Job vacancies
University vacancies
- The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities; Events Manager: Ethics in AI and Humanities Cultural Programme; £33,309–£40,927; noon, 7 March
- Public Affairs Directorate; Senior Events Manager; £42,149–£50,296; noon, 21 February
- Public Affairs Directorate; Campaigns Project Manager; £42,149–£50,296; noon, 21 February
- Public Affairs Directorate; Internal Communications Manager; £33,309–£40,927; noon, 21 February
College vacancies
- Lady Margaret Hall and St Anne’s; fixed-term French Lecteur/Lectrice; £22,847–£26,341 (pro rata); noon, 14 March
- Merton; 12-hr fixed-term stipendiary Lectureship in Economics (1 April–30 September); £10,468 for duration of appointment; noon, 23 February
- New College; W. W. Spooner JRF in Engineering; 3 March
- New College; fixed-term stipendiary Lectureship in History; 24 February
- Pembroke; part-time GSP Communications and Events Officer (up to 12 weeks); 21 February
- Pembroke; Dr Nigel James Junior Research Fellowship in Education (Data Science and Statistical Methods ); noon, 4 March; £30,000
- Pembroke; Deputy Café Supervisor
- Pembroke; part-time Editorial Assistant with the Quill Project (4 hr pw until cJune); 21 February
- St Anne’s; Bursary Administrator, £23,543; noon, 28 February
- St Anne’s; Conference and Events Administrator; £21,623; noon, 28 February
- St Hilda’s; College Gardener; up to £26,341; 18 February
- St Hilda’s; Library Assistant; up to £26,341; noon, 17 February
- Trinity; fixed-term Career Development Fellowship in Ancient History (Classics); £37,467; noon, 9 March
Other vacancies
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