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- Catering / Chef De Partie
- Chef De Partie
Amartya Kumar Sen (born 3 November 1933), is an Indian economist and a Nobel laureate. He has made contributions to welfare economics, social choice theory, economic and social justice, economic theories of famines, and indexes of the measure of well-being of citizens of developing countries. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998 for his work in welfare economics.
He is currently the Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University. He is also a senior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, distinguished fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, where he previously served as Master from 1998 to 2004. Sen's books have been translated into more than thirty languages over a period of forty years.
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- Catering
- Front of House Assistant
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- Emeritus Fellow
- Honorary and Emeritus Fellows
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- Lecturer in Social Statistics, University of Manchester )
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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
- Honorary and Emeritus Fellows
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.
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- Honorary and Emeritus Fellows
- Honorary Fellow
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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- Professorial Fellow
- Professorial Fellow / Professor of Economics
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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 due to be published by Penguin (UK / worldwide) and PublicAffairs (North America) in March 2023.
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
- 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. He has also studied international competition in the steel industry, the extinction of whales, and contemporary policies on education.
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. Currently, he is studying the global history of wages and prices, pre-industrial living standards around the world, the economic history of the Middle East, and the causes of global inequality. Professor Allen is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Canada.
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- Emeritus Fellow
- Honorary and Emeritus Fellows
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- Director of Development and Alumni Relations
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- Communications Manager
- Alumni Relations and Communications Manager
- Development and Alumni Relations / Communications Manager
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- Research Fellow and Postdoctoral Researcher, IntegrateYouth Project
I am a Research Fellow and Postdoctoral Researcher at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. My main research interests include intergroup contact, integration, prejudice, discrimination and social influence. I use large-scale longitudinal social network and survey studies to investigate the impacts of contact between different ethnic and religious groups. My current research examines how school social networks shape prejudice, discrimination and mental wellbeing among adolescents.
I received my DPhil in Psychology from the University of Oxford in 2020. I also hold a MSc in Psychological Research from the University of Oxford, 2016, and a BSc Hons in Psychology and Language Sciences from University College London (UCL), 2015. I am now a Research Fellow and Postdoctoral Researcher on the IntegrateYouth Project, funded by Nordforsk. For more information about my current research please see our project website.
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- Catering
- Front of House Supervisor
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- Professorial Fellow
- Professorial Fellow / Professor of Sociology and Demography
I am on SABBATICAL LEAVE for the academic year 2021/22.
I have an eclectic/elastic interest in sociological and demographic questions around family, health & mortality, and social inequality. I am interested in how societies differ in who lives with whom, who gets how much of the good and bad stuff in life, and how (un)fortune in life is related to who your family are.
I am currently involved in the following projects:
In FAMSIZEMATTERS, an ERC-funded project of which I am the PI, we study various questions about the link between family size and (the reproduction of) social inequalities. Patrick Prag, Paula Sheppard, and Zachary van Winkle work on this project as post-doctoral researchers and Florianne Verkroost and Marianne Cunha write their DPhil within this project. Several other students are involved on data harmonization and review papers as Research Assistants.
CritEvents - Critical Life Events and the Dynamics of Inequality - is a Norface ERA-NET funded project, part of DIAL, with partners in Amsterdam (Leopold PI), Lausanne, Florence, and Stockholm. We study how the risk of and vulnerability to critical events - union dissolution and job loss - is socially patterned, how this has changed over time, and which social policies are relevant for these associations. In Oxford, I work with Lewis Anderson (Sociology) and Erzsebet Bukodi (Social Policy and Intervention) on this project.
The Global Family Change project, spearheaded from Penn with partners in Oxford (Nuffield), CED/Barcelona, McGill/Montreal and Bocconi/Milan, explores the complex ways in which families are changing across low and middle-income countries.
I have had the privilege to work with wonderful students and postdoctoral researchers over the years.
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- Emeritus Fellow
- Emeritus Fellow / Nuffield Professor of International Economics, University of Oxford
- Honorary and Emeritus Fellows
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- PA to the Warden and Bursar
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- Emeritus Fellow
- Honorary and Emeritus Fellows
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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- Research Officer, Centre for Social Investigation
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- Administrative and Research Support Officer
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 has published 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) and Critical Republicanism. The Hijab Controversy in Political Philosophy (2008). Her last monograph, Liberalism's Religion, was published by Harvard University Press in 2017, and was awarded the 2019 Spitz Prize.
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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- Emeritus Fellow
- Honorary and Emeritus Fellows
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- Professorial Fellow
- Professorial Fellow / Professor in Sociology
Research Interests: Life Course, Criminology, Quantitative Methods, Experimental Methods.
Dave joined the Department of Sociology and Nuffield College at the University of Oxford in 2015. At Nuffield, Dave directs the Nuffield Undergraduate Scholars Institute as well as the Centre for Social Investigation. In 2023-2024, Dave will serve as one of two Proctors of the University, elected by his Nuffield peers. Dave received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago.
Dave's research agenda is primarily organized around three inter-related themes: the causes and consequences of police misconduct, solutions to criminal recidivism, and the causes and consequences of gun violence. Dave's book, Home Free, uses Hurricane Katrina as a natural experiment for investigating why so many released prisoners are subsequently rearrested and reincarcerated. One answer is related to place. The hurricane provided a unique opportunity to investigate what happens when individuals move not just a short distance away from home, but to entirely different cities, counties, and social worlds. Another project, funded by the National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research, is designed to examine the correlates and consequences of gun violence over the life course over the past 25 years, a period of dramatic social change in the US.
Kirk, David S. 2015. "A Natural Experiment of the Consequences of Concentrating Former Prisoners in the Same Neighborhoods." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112(22): 6943-6948. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1501987112
Kirk, David S. 2012. "Residential Change as a Turning Point in the Life Course of Crime: Desistance or Temporary Cessation?" Criminology 50(2): 329-58. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-9125.2011.00262.x
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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- 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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- Non - Stipendiary Research Fellow
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- Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Economics
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- Director
- LOCAL GOVERNMENT OFFICER
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- Senior Lodge Receptionist / Porter
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- Non - Stipendiary Research Fellow in Politics
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- Director of Library Services
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- Non - Stipendiary Research Fellow
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- Senior Communications Officer, Nuffield Politics Research Centre
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- Director
- PROPERTY DEVELOPER
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- Non - Stipendiary Research Fellow
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- Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Politics
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- Research Fellow and Postdoctoral Researcher
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- Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowship in Politics
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- Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Economics
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- Administrative Officer ( Fellows )
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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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- Official Fellow in Sociology
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- Assistant CESS / Lab Director
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- Director of Catering and Events
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- Assistant Professor of Sociology, CREST / ENSAE
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- Lecturer, University of Oxford
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- Assistant Professor of Health Policy, LSE
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- Works and Maintenance Operative
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- Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Politics
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- Front of House Supervisor
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- Warden
- Warden of Nuffield College Oxford
Andrew Dilnot is Warden of Nuffield College Oxford. 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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- Finance Assistant ( Payroll )
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- Research Fellow and Postdoctoral Researcher, Climate Econometrics
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- Works and Maintenance Technician
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- Postdoctoral Researcher and Lead Programmer, CESS
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- Senior Research Officer, Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative )
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- Non - Stipendiary Research Fellow
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- Assistant Professor of Sociology, Sciences Po