Content by Subject 2023/24

Council & its committees

All changes to legislation made by Council and its committees and published in the Gazette during the 2023/24 academic year.

  • Council

    • Council, nomination of external members (Wendy Becker, Sir Chris Deverell, Charles Harman), p120
    • Convocation elections, p352
    • College Contributions Fund, p353
    • Committees (corrigendum), p236
    • Dates of term, p292
    • Divisional Boards, p173
    • Financial Regulations (corrigendum), p1
    • Kellogg College, p344
    • Medical Sciences Divisional Board, p344
    • Panels convened under Statute XII Parts B, D and H, p173
    • Committee to Review the Salaries of Senior University Officers, p172
    • Security Subcommittee of the General Purposes Committee (corrigendum), p1
    • Statute VI, concerning Council, and Statute XIV, concerning the Employment of Academic and Support Staff by the University (corrigendum), p1
    • Voting on Resolutions and Legislative Proposals (corrigendum), p26 

  • General Purposes Committee of Council

    • Alexander Mosley Professor of Biophysics Fund, p132
    • Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, p357
    • Brost Lecturer in German and European Community Law, p98
    • Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, p96 
    • Corcoran Memorial Fund, p193
    • Oxford University Cricket Club, p192
    • Khalid bin Abdullah Al Saud Professor for the Study of the Contemporary Arab World, p96 
    • Professorship of Inorganic Chemistry, p97
    • Sarah J. Clackson Coptic Fund, p357
    • Savilian Professorship of Geometry, p97
    • St Cross Scholarships in European Medieval Archaeology Fund, p354
    • St Cross Uehiro Scholarships for Future Generations Fund, p355
    • Palgrave Brown Bursary Fund, p355
    • Professor of Translational Cognitive Neuroscience, p97
    • Unwin Fund for Bodleian Library Publishing, p193
    • Vivien Leigh Fund, p356

Congregation

All resolutions, legislative proposals, changes to regulations and other business submitted to Congregation and published in the Gazette during the 2023/24 academic year.

  • Resolutions

    • Conferment of Honorary Degrees: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Sir Michael Palin, Warren East, Sir Mo Farah, Demis Hassabis, Salim Yusuf, Anoushka Shankar (announced 29 Feb: p297) (carried 14 Mar: p346) (approved 21 Mar: p358)
    • Space allocations:
      • 1–6 Winchester Road to Reuben (announced 15 Feb: p272) (carried 14 Mar: p346) (approved 21 Mar: p358)
      • 2, 4 and 6 Bradmore Road to Kellogg (announced 15 Feb: p273) (carried 14 Mar: p346) (approved 21 Mar: p358)
      • 8 Bradmore Road to Kellogg (announced 15 Feb: p273) (carried 14 Mar: p346) (approved 21 Mar: p358)
      • 9/10 and 11 Bradmore Road to Kellogg (announced 15 Feb: p274) (carried 14 Mar: p346) (approved 21 Mar: p358)
      • 49 and 55 Banbury Road, to Kellogg (announced 15 Feb: p273) (carried 14 Mar: p346) (approved 21 Mar: p358)
      • 58/58a Banbury Road to Kellogg (announced 15 Feb: p274) (carried 14 Mar: p346) (approved 21 Mar: p358)
      • Le Gros Clark Building to School of Geography and the Environment (announced 21 Sep: p3) (carried 12 Oct: p58) (approved 19 Oct: p80)
      • Sherrington Building to the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (announced 18 Apr: p364)
      • Swindon Book Storage Facility site to the Gardens, Libraries and Museums Division (announced 21 Sep: p4) (carried 12 Oct: p58) (approved 19 Oct: p80)
      • Swindon Book Storage Facility site to the Gardens, Libraries and Museums Division (chamber 5 extension) (announced 21 Sep: p4) (carried 12 Oct: p58) (approved 19 Oct: p80)

  • Legislative Proposals

    • Statute V: Colleges, Societies, and Permanent Private Halls (announced 21 Sep: p4) (carried 12 Oct: p58) (approved 19 Oct: p80)
    • Statute VI: Council and Statute XIV concerning the Employment of Academic and Support Staff by the University (announced 21 Sep: p4) (carried 12 Oct: p58) (approved 19 Oct: p80)
    • Sackler Keeper of Antiquities Endowment Fund (announced 20 Jul 2023: p484) (carried 12 Oct: p58) (approved 19 Oct: p80)
    • Statute IX: Officers of the University (announced 21 Mar: p359) (carried 18 Apr: p364) (approved 25 Apr: p396)

  • Other Congregation business

    • Clerks of the Market, admission (announced 28 Sep: p11) (admitted 5 Oct: p27)
    • Pro-Vice-Chancellors, admission (announced 28 Sep: p10) (admitted 5 Oct: p26)
    • Proctors and Assessor, admission (announced 11 Jan: p195) (admitted 14 Mar: p345) (oration by the demitting published as supplement: p363) 
    • Vice-Chancellor's Oration 2023 (announced 21 Sep: p3) (reported 5 Oct: p26) (published as supplement: p69)

Register of Congregation

The following is a list of all of the Gazette notices of staff added to the Register of Congregation during the 2023/24 academic year. They are listed in order of the issue in which their name appears. A full listing of the whole Register of Congregation (as it stands at a particular date) is published in Hilary term each year.

Degree by Resolution

The following is a list of all of the Gazette notices of staff awarded an MA by resolution during the 2023/24 academic year. They are listed by the date of the Gazette issue in which the resolution was announced. Single sign-on login is required to read these notices*:

Elections

The following is a list of elections held during the 2023/24 academic year as published in the Gazette. They are listed by category and then by notices of vacancies, nominations published and results. Further information about elections within the University of Oxford can be found on the Elections website.

  • Elections by Congregation

    • Council 
      • non-divisional (vacancy announced: p371)
      • Humanities/Social Sciences (vacancy announced: p371)
      • MPLS/Medical Sciences (vacancy announced: p371)
    • Buildings and Estates Subcommittee (vacancy announced: p371)
    • Curators of the Sheldonian Theatre
      • HT (vacancy announced: p186) (uncontested election result: p277)
      • TT (vacancy announced: p371)
    • Curators of the University Libraries (vacancy announced: p371)
    • Pool for Constituting Panels under Statute XII
      • MT (vacancies announced: p31) (uncontested election results: p114)
      • HT (vacancies announced: p186, p201) (uncontested election results: p278) (vacancies lapsed: p279)
      • TT (vacancy announced: p372)

  • Divisional Board Elections

    • Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Board
      • HT (vacancy announced: p186) (uncontested election result: p279)
      • TT (vacancy announced: p372)
    • Medical Sciences Board (vacancy announced: p32) (nominations received: p113) (candidate statements: p127) (contested election result: p163)
    • Social Sciences Board (vacancies announced: p372)

  • Faculty Board Elections

    • Board of the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (vacancies announced: p373)
    • Board of the Faculty of English Language and Literature (vacancies announced: p373)
    • Board of the Faculty of History (vacancies announced: p373)
    • Board of the Faculty of Law (vacancy announced: p373)
    • Board of the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics (vacancies announced: p373)
    • Board of the Faculty of Music (vacancy announced: p33) (vacancy lapsed: p115) 
    • Board of the Faculty of Philosophy (vacancies announced: p374)
    • Board of the Faculty of Theology and Religion (vacancies announced: p374)

Notices

Consultative and general notices published in the Gazette during the 2023/24 academic year

  • Consultative notices

    • Ashmolean Museum: request from the High Commission of India for the return of 2 Indian Bronzes, p237
    • Honorary Degrees/Degrees by Diploma: call for nominations, p225
    • Oxford University Museum of Natural History: request from the Hopi Tribe Cultural Preservation Office for return of 1 Hopi Tribe cranium, p196
    • Permanent Private Hall Supervisory Committee: review of Regent’s Park, p306
    • Pitt Rivers Museum:
      • request from Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre for return of 5 Aboriginal Tasmanian hair samples, p165
      • request from Sarawak Kenyah Badeng Association for the return of a sunhat, p165
    • Social Sciences Division/Education Committee:
      • Review of School of Global and Area Studies, p82
      • Review of Department of Social Policy and Intervention, p81
      • Review of Department of Sociology, p83

  • General notices

    • Gazette publication arrangements, p12, p181, p362
    • Industrial action (UCU strike action dates and payroll deduction forms), p6
    • MSc in Clinical Embryology, p13
    • Oxford Literary Festival (discounted tickets), p307
    • Oxford Martin School, p182
    • Pay & Conditions Town Hall event, p12
    • Rhodes Professor of Race Relations, renaming (statute approved by His Majesty in Council), p196
    • Sackler naming recognition removal (statute approved by His Majesty in Council), p397
    • Staff Communications Feedback Group (members sought), p181
    • Staff Communications Survey Group (members sought), p226 
    • University Calendar published, p122, p250
    • University of Oxford Staff Pension Scheme (OSPS), p397
    • Van Houten Fund (applications for grants sought), p262
    • Vice-Chancellor's Awards:

Appointment-related notices

All notices relating to the appointment and recognition of distinction of staff and visiting professors at the University published in the Gazette during the 2023/24 academic year

  • Appointments and reappointments

    • Statutory Professorships and other senior positions

      • Professorship of Biophysics (Nynke Dekker), p250 
      • Professorship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (Mina Fazel), p366
      • Valerie Beral Professorship of Epidemiology (Gillian Reeves), p197
      • Dame Louise Richardson Professorship in Global Security (Janina Dill), p14
      • Professorship of Indian History and Culture (Nandini Chatterjee), p250
      • Professorship of Linguistics (Colin Phillips), p13
      • Professorship of Numerical Analysis (Michael Giles), p175
      • Nuffield Professorship of Primary Care Health Sciences (Sir Aziz Sheikh), p14
      • Chichele Professorship of Public International Law (Dapo Akande), p14
      • Professorship of Social Anthropology (Alpa Shah), p366
      • Khalid bin Abdullah al Saud Professorship for the Study of the Contemporary Arab World (Pascal Menoret), p366

    • Other Appointments and Reappointments

  • Visiting Professorships

    • Statutory Professorships

      • George Eastman Visiting Professorship
        • MT: Anna Deavere Smith, p14
        • HT: Mark Jordan, p197
      • Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Visiting Professorship of American History (Lisa McGirr, Eliga Gould, Laurie Maffly-Kipp), p366
      • John G Winant Visiting Professorship of American Government (Kimberley Johnson, Emily Zackin, Fredrick Harris), p15

    • Other visiting professorships

      • Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences
      • Medical Sciences

  • Recognition of Distinction

    • 2024 exercise, p175
    • Successful candidates 2023, p16 (corrigendum: p60)

    • Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences awards (12 Oct, p59)

  • Electoral Boards and Advisory Committees

    • Electoral Boards

      • Nuffield Professor of Anaesthetic Science, p182
      • Camden Professorship of Ancient History, p17
      • Professorship of Inorganic Chemistry, p17
      • Professorship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, p84
      • Professorship of Comparative Law, p367
      • Professorship of Competition Law, p134
      • Hooke Professorship of Experimental Physics, p367
      • Savilian Professorship of Geometry, p238
      • Peter Moores Professorship of Management Studies, p18
      • Professorship of Materials Engineering, p198
      • Sekyra and White’s Professorship of Moral Philosophy, p367
      • Nuffield Professorship of Population Health, p29
      • Khalid bin Abdullah Al Saud Professor for the Study of the Contemporary Arab World, p100
      • Professorship of Translational Cognitive Neuroscience, p175
      • Hillary Rodham Clinton Professorship of Women’s History, p250

    • Advisory Committees

      • Regius Professorship of Divinity, p307
      • Regius Professorship of Moral and Pastoral Theology, p307

Lectures

All lecture notices published in the Gazette during the 2023/24 academic year

Events & exhibitions

All notices relating to musical and other events and exhibitions published in the Gazette during the 2023/24 academic year

  • University Preachers

    • Michaelmas term, p12
    • Hilary term, p196
    • Trinity term, p365

  • Musical and other events

    • Sir Roger Bannister 70th anniversary celebration (18 Apr, p368)
    • Ertegun House (12 Oct, p62)
    • Exeter (19 Oct, p85) (1 Feb, p250)
    • Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages (20 Feb, p275)
    • Keble (2 Nov, p109) (25 Jan, p238) (1 Feb, p251)
    • Merton (19 Oct, p85) (7 Mar, p308)
    • New College (12 Oct, p61)
    • Queen's (12 Oct, p61)
    • St Cross (12 Oct, p62)
    • Trinity (2 Nov, p109) (11 Jan, p198)
    • Wytham Woods (22 Feb, p286)

  • Exhibitions

    • Christ Church Picture Gallery (28 Sep, p18) (9 Nov, p123) (18 Jan, p227)
    • History of Science Museum (28 Sep, p18) (15 Feb, p275)
    • Maison Française (18 Apr, p368)
    • St John's (9 Nov, p123) (11 Jan, p198) (29 Feb, p299)

Student-related notices

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  • Supplications for higher degrees

  • Viva voce examinations

  • Prizes awarded to graduate students

    • Gilbert Ryle Prize (Faculty of Philosophy), p17
    • Jane Willis Kirkaldy Senior Prize (Faculty of History), p368
    • MSc in Economic and Social History (Faculty of History), p197
    • MSc in History of Science, Medicine and Technology (Faculty of History), p197
    • MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (Department of International Development), p17
    • MSc in Migration Studies (Department of International Development/School of Anthropology & Museum Ethnography), p17
    • MPhil in Economic and Social History (Faculty of History), p197
    • MPhil in History of Science, Medicine and Technology (Faculty of History), p197
    • MPhil/MSt in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies (Faculty of History), p197
    • MSt in Global and Imperial History (Faculty of History), p197
    • MSt in History of Art and Visual Culture (Faculty of History), p197
    • MSt/MPhil in Early Modern History (Faculty of History), p197
    • MSt/MPhil in Greek/Roman History (Faculty of Classics), p227
    • MSt/MPhil in History (Faculty of History), p197
    • MSt/MPhil in History – British and European History 1700–1850 (Faculty of History), p197
    • MSt/MPhil in History – Intellectual History (Faculty of History), p197
    • MSt/MPhil in History – Medieval History (Faculty of History), p198
    • MSt/MPhil in History – Modern British History (Faculty of History), p198
    • MSt/MPhil in History – Modern European History (Faculty of History), p198
    • MSt/MPhil in History – US History (Faculty of History), p198
    • MSt/MPhil in History – Women’s, Gender and Queer History (Faculty of History), p198
    • MSt/MPhil in History of War (Faculty of History), p198

  • Prizes, grants and funding offered

    • Astor Travel Fund: Astor Visiting Scholarships, p205
    • Christ Church: Tower Poetry Competition, p69
    • Faculty of English Language and Literature:
      • Jon Stallworthy Poetry Prize, p117
      • Matthew Arnold Memorial Prize, p117
      • Sir Roger Newdigate Prize, p117
      • Chancellor’s English Essay Prize, p117
      • Shelley–Mills Prize, p117
      • Lord Alfred Douglas Prize, p117 
      • Sir John Rhŷs Prize, p117
    • Gladstone Memorial Trust: 2024 Travel Awards, p233
    • Gotch Memorial Prize, p36
    • History of Art Committee: Laurence Binyon Prize, p289
    • Faculty of Law: Eldon Law Scholarship, p275
    • Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics: Anton Soldatić and Antonija Soldatić (née Skalir) Memorial Prize, p178
    • School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences: Jill and Herbert Hunt Travelling Scholarships, p269
    • University of Oxford: International scholarship exchanges, p141
    • Peterhouse, Cambridge: Graduate Studentships, p189
    • Peterhouse, Cambridge: Professors CH Lee & M Perutz Studentship, p189
    • Philippe Wiener–Maurice Anspach Foundation: postdoctoral fellowships, p269
    • Faculty of Philosophy: Conington Prize, p377
    • St Catherine’s: Graduate Scholarships, p289
    • St John's College, Cambridge:
      • Harper-Wood Creative Writing & Travel Award for English Poetry & Literature, p301
      • Louis Cha Scholarship, p69
      • Benefactors’ Scholarships, p69

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College notices

All notices relating to memorial services, obituary notices and the election of staff in colleges, halls and societies published in the Gazette during the 2023/24 academic year

  • Obituaries

  • College elections

    • Election of Assessor (notice of meeting: p267) (election result: p348)
    • Election of Proctors (notice of meetings: p267) (election result: p348)
    • Jesus, p104
    • Nuffield, p232

Memorial services

  • Merton

    • Dr Dominic Welsh, 18 Apr, p375

  • Somerville

    • Adrianne Tooke, 5 Oct, p34

  • St Catherine's

    • Professor Peter Dickson, 28 Sep, p21
    • Professor Sir (Eric) Brian Smith 22 Feb, p287