“If you want to understand the mess we’re in today, you need to know some history.”
Eugene Rogan, a historian of the Middle East and fellow of St. Anthony’s College is a tutor I feel slightly in awe of: charismatic...
Academic pressure and the overachiever mentality
When everyone strives to be exceptional, some inevitably end up becoming merely ‘mediocre’. This gives rise to the central problem surrounding academic pressure and the ‘overachiever’ mentality — that while we are fully aware of its harms, everyone still strives to ‘overachieve’, for fear of being left behind, of being ‘mediocre’.
Straight-Laced and Spirited: Do Oxford Students Really Have Less Fun?
"There is no single Oxford experience."
Too old?: Claims of age discrimination relaunched against University of Oxford
"The current campaign aims to get rid of the university’s ‘Employer Justified Retirement Age’ policy that states that all academic staff have to retire the September before their sixty-ninth birthday. "
The academia video game: the gap year
"I don’t think I would be where I am without my accidental gap year.
The Radcliffe Department of Medicine: Four Year PhD Scholars Programme
The Radcliffe Department of Medicine at the University of Oxford is a large, multi-disciplinary department, which aims to tackle some of the world’s biggest health challenges by integrating...
A guide to academic life
"Nobody expects you to turn up knowing everything - otherwise there would be no point in you being here!"
In conversation with Elaine Hsieh Chou
Sonya Ribner interviews author Elaine Hsieh Chou.
Money Talk: An Oxford DPhil student
It’s that time of the year again when final year students who have an appetite for research begin applying to PhD programs. This is...
Six Oxford academics awarded Philip Leverhulme Prizes
"Six early-career academics from Oxford University have been awarded £100,000 each in prize money from the Leverhulme Trust after being named amongst the recipients of the 2021 Philip Leverhulme Prizes."
Pick up a Book! Rekindling a Love Affair
I will rekindle the love affair with reading that I left behind when I came to Oxford.
On Reading Lists
Reading lists are springboards, not prescriptions
Oxford throws freshers in at the deep end without teaching them how to swim
Oxford provides a 'baptism of fire' for freshers, writes Emily Patterson
Richardson’s comments are not just offensive – they’re dangerous
The vice chancellor's remarks about LGBT+ students make a mockery of pastoral care
