NUFFIELD - Key Persons
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- Catering / Chef De Partie
- Chef De Partie
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- Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Laussane Thesis Awarded Dissertation of the Year 2023 by the European Consortium for Sociological Research )
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- Catering
- Front of House Senior Assistant
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- Honorary Fellow and Former Warden
Andrew Dilnot was Warden of Nuffield College Oxford from 2012 to 2024. He was Chairman of the UK Statistics Authority from 2012 to 2017, and was the Chairman of the Commission on the Funding of Care and Support, which reported in 2011. He was Principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford, from 2002 to 2012 and a Pro Vice Chancellor of Oxford University from 2005 to 2012. He was Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies from 1991 to 2002. He was the founding presenter of BBC Radio 4's series on the beauty of numbers, ‘More or Less' and also presented Radio 4's ‘A History of Britain in Numbers'.
He has served on the Social Security Advisory Committee, the National Consumer Council, the Councils of the Royal Economic Society and Queen Mary and Westfield College, as a trustee of the Nuffield Foundation, and as chairman of the Statistics Users Forum of the Royal Statistical Society.
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- Associate Professor, University of Birmingham
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- Non - Stipendiary Research Fellow
- Research Fellow
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- Lodge Receptionist / Porter
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- Emeritus Fellow
- Emeritus Fellow / Director of the Centre for Social Investigation at Nuffield College
- Founding Director of the Centre for Social Investigation
Research Interests: Political sociology. Research on the determinants of electoral behaviour; on class and educational opportunity; and on social mobility.
Anthony Heath is the Founding Director of the Centre for Social Investigation at Nuffield College, Oxford. He is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Oxford and Professor of Sociology at Manchester University.
Ariel Rubinstein (Hebrew: אריאל רובינשטיין) (born April 13, 1951) is an Israeli economist who works in game theory.
Ariel Rubinstein studied mathematics and economics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1972-1979. He is a professor of economics at the School of Economics at Tel Aviv University and the Department of Economics at New York University.
In 1982, he published "Perfect equilibrium in a bargaining model", an important contribution to the theory of bargaining. The model is known also as a Rubinstein bargaining model. It describes two-person bargaining as an extensive game with perfect information in which the players alternate offers. A key assumption is that the players are impatient. The main result gives conditions under which the game has a unique subgame perfect equilibrium and characterizes this equilibrium. He also co-wrote A Course in Game Theory (1994) with Martin J. Osborne, a book that has been cited in excess of 4,000 times as of November 2011.
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- Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions
- Professorial Fellow
- Professorial Fellow / Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions
Research interests: Democratization, inequality, education, housing, comparative political economy
Ben Ansell is Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions in the Department of Politics and International Relations. He received his PhD in Government from Harvard University in 2006 and conducts research in a wide area of comparative politics and political economy. Before joining Nuffield College he was an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2018.
His initial research focus was the politics of education, with his book From the Ballot to the Blackboard: The Redistributive Politics of Education, published by Cambridge University Press in 2010 and winning the William H. Riker prize for best book in political economy. His second book, coauthored with David Samuels, Inequality and Democratization: An Elite Competition Approach, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2014, and received the William H. Riker prize for best book in political economy and the APSA Woodrow Wilson Prize for the best book on politics and international affairs.
His third book, Inward Conquest: The Modern State and the Revolution in the Art of Government that Shook the World, with Johannes Lindvall was published in 2021.
Ben is finishing a project the politics of wealth inequality, supported by an ERC Consolidator Award, for his project WEALTHPOL: The Politics of Wealth Inequality and Mobility in the Twenty-first Century.
He is the author of Why Politics Fails published by Penguin (UK / worldwide) and PublicAffairs (North America) in 2023.
Ben was selected to give the 2023 Reith Lectures by the BBC.
His work has been published in International Organization, World Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Politics, and the American Political Science Review.
From September 2013, together with David Samuels at the University of Minnesota, he has been co-editor of Comparative Political Studies.
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- Professorial Fellow
- Professorial Fellow / Professor of Econometrics
My research focuses on the theory of econometric modelling and forecasting. Currently I have two focus areas which I am currently investigating:
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- Professorial Fellow
- Professorial Fellow / Associate Professor of Quantitative Social Policy
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- Senior Research Fellow
- Fellow of the British Academy
- Retired from Oxford University in 2013. He Is Now Global Distinguished Professor of Economic History at New York University, Abu Dhabi
Research Interests: History of economic growth and inequality, environmental history, technological change, public policy.
He has written extensively on English agricultural history, international competition in the steel industry, the extinction of whales, and the global history of wages and prices and their implications for pre-industrial living standards around the world. Currently, he is studying the economic and political structure of Arabia, as well as the origins of agriculture and the rise of the first states.
His articles have won the Cole Prize, the Redlich Prize, and the Explorations Prize. His books include Enclosure and the Yeoman: The Agricultural Development of the South Midlands, 1450-1850, and Farm to Factory: A Re-interpretation of the Soviet Industrial Revolution, both of which won the Ranki Prize of the Economic History Association. He has also written The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective, Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction, and The Industrial Revolution: A Very Short Introduction.
Professor Allen is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Canada.
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- Postdoctoral Researcher, Max - Planck - Institute for Demographic Research Thesis Final Nominee for Netspar Thesis Award 2024 )
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- Director of Development and Alumni Relations
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- Communications Manager
- Alumni Relations and Communications Manager
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- Assistant Professor, Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management
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- Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow
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- Fellow at the Department of Sociology
- Non - Stipendiary Research Fellow
- Research Fellow
Chloe Bracegirdle is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Sociology and Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow at Nuffield College. Her main research interests include social networks, intergroup relations, and wellbeing.
Chloe studies how social networks shape individuals and societies. Her past research has, for example, shed light on how friendship networks influence ethnic prejudice, perceptions of discrimination, and mental wellbeing. Chloe's current British Academy project investigates the socio-psychological drivers of ethnic segregation in UK schools.
From 2020 to 2023, Chloe was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Nuffield College. As part of the IntegrateYouth project team, she investigated the social integration of immigrant youth in Europe. Chloe received her DPhil in Experimental Psychology from the University of Oxford in 2020. She has also received an MSc in Psychological Research from the University of Oxford in 2016 and a BSc Hons in Psychology and Language Sciences from University College London (UCL) in 2015.
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- Catering / Catering and Events Administrator
- Catering and Events Administrator
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- Director of the German Council of Experts on Protection Against Sexual Abuse and Experiences of Violence )
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- Professorial Fellow
- Professorial Fellow / Professor of Sociology and Demography
I work on sociological and demographic questions around family, health & mortality, and social inequality. In the most general sense, I am interested in how societies differ in who lives with whom, who gets how much of the good and bad things in life, and how (mis)fortune in life is related to family background.
My research agenda has evolved around several major projects. In FamSizeMatters, an ERC-funded project of which I was the PI, we study various questions about the link between family size and composition and (the reproduction of) social inequalities. Work is still ongoing on several papers from this project and on new spin-off projects.
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- Emeritus Fellow
- Emeritus Fellow / Nuffield Professor of International Economics, University of Oxford
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- PA to the Warden and Bursar
Research Interests: Statistical modelling of survey and aggregate data in sociology and politics, statistical software, methods for the evaluation of social policies, forecasting and analysis of election results, election observation, election malpractice.
Clive Payne was Director of the Social Studies Faculty Computing and Research Support Unit and a University Research Lecturer in the University of Oxford. He is an Emeritus Fellow of Nuffield College.
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- Professorial Fellow
- Professorial Fellow / Associate Professor of Sociology
Research Interests: Social inequality, workplace employment relations, social survey methodology, quantitative social research.
I'm interested in supervising talented doctoral candidates who want to do serious quantitative work in the the following areas: social stratification; social demography; sociology of employment. Serious means an intention to do something a bit more than run a few crosstabs and stick a logit with 25 predictor variables on the end (unless you have a very good reason for doing that). It also means having a point, ie I have no interest in quantitative pyrotechnics for their own sake. I'm not a methodologist and don't do methodological research. Nothing against methodologists - I use their work all the time - but it is just not what I do and you won't get good value from me as a supervisor if your interests are purely in the development of technique. Likewise you won't get good value from me if a large component of what you want to do is 'qualitative'. Again this is not a judgement about scientific value but a statement of where my interests lie. I don't want to waste my time (or your time) on things I have no interest in so if your project is qualitative you would be better off with somebody else. There is a lot of rhetoric about 'mixed methods' but in reality most of the stuff on the integration of quantitative and qualitative methodologies - note I did not say all - doesn't get much beyond the rhetorical and is largely either bogus or well meaning wishful thinking.
My empirical interests are largely UK centred though I can be persuaded to supervise theses about other societies - especially ones where I have some - albeit tenuous - grasp of the language and some knowledge of the institutions - which means in essence the Anglo world plus Germany, France and Sweden. I'm not keen on supervising theses on socieites where I have no access to primary materials in the original language and I have to rely on what you tell me.
If you have read all this, are not put off, and have an original idea for an exciting thesis please get in touch. It's best if you send me an outline (ie a maximum of 5 A4 pages) before you formally apply so that I can give you an indication as to whether I would be willing to supervise you. Please don't send me BA/BSc, MA/MSc theses and other long documents. I don't have time to read them. If you can't catch my attention in 5 pages then you can't catch it at all.
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- Chairman
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- Professorial Fellow
Before she joined Oxford in January 2017, she was a Professor of Political Theory at University College London. After studying political science in France, Cécile Laborde obtained a DPhil from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar, in 1996. She has held permanent posts in political theory at the University of Exeter and King's College, London. In 2007, she was Associate Professor to the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She spent the 2010-11 academic year in Princeton, as a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study. She was the director of UCL's Religion and Political Theory Centre, which was funded by a European Research Council (ERC) personal grant.
She has published extensively in the areas of republicanism, liberalism and religion, theories of law and the state, and global justice. She is the author of 5 monographs and has written articles in major journals of political science and political theory. She is notably the author of Pluralist Thought and the State in Britain and France (2000), Critical Republicanism. The Hijab Controversy in Political Philosophy (2008), and Liberalism's Religion, which was published by Harvard University Press in 2017 and was awarded the 2019 Spitz Prize.
Cécile's last book, Philosophie libérale de la religion, was published in Paris (Hermann/Raison Publique) in April 2023. In December 2022, she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Belgium.
Cécile Laborde is the convenor of the Nuffield political theory workshop.
Cécile Laborde holds the Nuffield Chair of Political Theory and is a Fellow of the British Academy.
Dame Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond DBE PC FBA served as President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom from 2017 until 2020, the first woman to serve in that role. She currently serves as a member of the House of Lords as a Life Peer.
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- Works and Maintenance Technician
David John Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville, FRS (born 24 October 1940), is a British businessman and politician. From 1992 to 1997, he served as the Chairman of Sainsbury's (a supermarket chain established by his great-grandfather John James Sainsbury in 1869). He was made a life peer in 1997, and currently sits in the House of Lords as a member of the Labour Party. He served in the government as the Minister for Science and Innovation from 1998 and 2006.
On 16 October 2011, he was elected the Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.
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- Assistant Professor of Sociology, Utrecht University )
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- Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow, Department of Economics
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- Associate Professor in Quantitative Social Policy
Erzsébet Bukodi is an Associate Professor in Quantitative Social Policy and Professorial Fellow of Nuffield College. She is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking, The Oxford Martin School.
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- Jemolo Fellow / Find Out More
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- Senior Data Scientist, Boston Consulting Group X )
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- Buildings and Facilities Manager
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- Senior Lodge Receptionist / Porter
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- Director of Library Services
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- Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Sociology
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- Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Wisconsin - Madison Thesis Awarded Otto Hahn Medal 2024 by the Max Planck Society )
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- Non - Stipendiary Research Fellow
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- Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Sociology
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- Lodge Receptionist / Porter
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- Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Sociology
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- Lodge Receptionist / Porter
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- Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Oxford )
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- Lecturer in Social Demography & Global Health, University of Southampton )
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- Lecturer in Social Statistics, University of Manchester )
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- Non - Stipendiary Research Fellow
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- Non - Stipendiary Research Fellow
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- Administrative Officer ( Fellows )
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- Official Fellow in Economics
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- Fellow of Balliol College
- Professor of International Relations at Oxford University
Andrew Hurrell is Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at Oxford University and a Fellow of Balliol College. He was elected to the British Academy in 2011 and to the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars in 2010. He is a Delegate of Oxford University Press and a member of the Finance Committee (the board of the company).
His research interests cover theories of international relations; theories of global governance; the history of thought on international relations; comparative regionalism; and the international relations of the Americas, with particular reference to Brazil. His current work focuses on emerging powers and on the history of the globalization of international society. He is completing a short introduction to global governance.
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- Assistant Professor, Trinity College Dublin )
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- Director of Catering and Events
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- Non - Stipendiary Research Fellow
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- Associate Professor of Sociology, CREST / ENSAE
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- Lecturer in Anthropology, University of Oxford )
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- Senior Economist, Amazon )
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- Works and Maintenance Operative
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- Director of the Centre for Experimental Social Sciences
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- Assistant Professor, Pompeu Fabra University / University of Southern Denmark )
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- Senior Research Officer, Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative / UNDP Malaysia )
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- Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Politics
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- Associate Professor of Sociology, Sciences Po