Content by Subject 2024/25

Council & its committees

All changes to legislation made by Council and its committees and published in the Gazette during the 2024/25 academic year.

  • Council

    • Conflict of Interests Committee, p211
    • Continuing Education Strategic Management Board, p211
    • Curators of the University Parks, p270
    • Education Committee, p158
    • Estate Investment Subgroup, p2
    • Finance Committee, p212
    • Holding of outside appointments and the conduct of outside work, p212
    • Nomination of two external members of Council, p210
    • Oxford Green Estate Stewards Subgroup, p158
    • People Committee, p210
    • Planning and Resource Allocation Committee, p2
    • Property Management Subcommittee, p3
    • Sports Strategic Subcommittee, p270
    • Student Life Subcommittee, p158

  • General Purposes Committee of Council

    • Allen and Overy Professor of Corporate Law, p234
    • Brettschneider Bursary Fund, p185
    • Cancer Research UK Professor of Medical Oncology, p106
    • Professorship of Civil Engineering, p186
    • Department of Education Graduate Support Fund, p109
    • Professor of Environment and Public Policy, p282
    • Eleanor Rathbone Chair in Contemporary European History Fund, p184
    • Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, p282
    • Professorship of Informatics, p106
    • Little Princess Trust Professor of Paediatric Oncology, p174
    • McCord Professor of Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence Fund, p108
    • Rhodes Professor of Experimental Therapeutics and Clinical Pharmacology, p107
    • Subak (Heberden Coin Room) Fund, p182
    • Chair in the Teaching and Learning of Chinese, p183
    • Regulations concerning trusts, p234
    • Uehiro Oxford Institute Fund, p183

Congregation/Convocation

All resolutions, legislative proposals, changes to regulations and other business submitted to Congregation and Convocation and published in the Gazette during the 2024/25 academic year.

  • Resolutions

    • Conferment of a Degree by Diploma (the Rt Hon William Jefferson Hague, Baron Hague of Richmond) (announced 23 Jan: p270)
    • Graduate Application Fee Reinstatement (result of postal vote 26 Sep: p3) (corrigendum: p2)
    • Redundancy Panels under Statute XII:
      • St Cross (result of postal vote 26 Sep: p3)
      • UAS (announced 30 Jan: p284)
    • Space allocations:
      • Alden Press Annexe to Gardens, Libraries and Museums (announced 30 Jan: p283)
      • Innovation Building to the Medical Sciences Divisional Office (announced 12 Dec: p223)
      • New Radcliffe House to the Department of Experimental Psychology (announced 21 Nov: p187) (corrigendum: p199) (carried 12 Dec: p222) (approved 16 Jan: p235)
    • Statute XI: University Discipline and consequential amendments (announced 26 Sep: p5) (amended 3 Oct: p15) (meeting arrangements 10 Oct: p35) (approved 17 Oct: p66) (transcript of meeting 24 Oct: p90)

  • Legislative Proposals

    • content to be added as it is published 

  • Other Congregation business

    • Admission of the Chancellor (announced 12 Dec: p233) (registration 23 Jan: p271)
    • Admission of Clerks of the Market (announced 3 Oct: p2) (admitted 10 Oct:  p34)
    • Admission of Pro-Vice-Chancellors (announced 3 Oct: p2) (admitted 10 Oct: p34)
    • Admission of the Proctors and Assessor (announced 23 Jan: p271)
    • Vice-Chancellor's Oration 2024 (announced 26 Sep: p5) (reported 10 Oct: p34) (published as supplement: p77)

Register of Congregation

The following is a list of all of the Gazette notices of staff added to the Register of Congregation during the 2024/25 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.

  • Revised Register of Congregation 2025

    • content to be added as it is published 

  • Michaelmas term

  • Hilary term

Degree by Resolution

The following is a list of all of the Gazette notices of staff awarded an MA by resolution during the 2024/25 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 2024/25 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 Convocation

  • Elections by Congregation

    • Audit & Scrutiny Committee (vacancies announced: p39) (lapsed vacancies: p169)
    • Delegacy for the Nomination of Candidates for Ecclesiastical Benefices (vacancies announced: p39) (lapsed vacancies: p169)
    • Committee for the Nomination of Select Preachers (vacancies announced: p40) (uncontested election result: p167) (lapsed vacancy: p169)
    • Statute XII Pool for Constituting Panels (vacancies announced: p40) (uncontested election results: p166) (lapsed vacancies: p169)

  • Divisional Board Elections

    • Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Board (vacancies announced: p40) (uncontested election result: p168) (lapsed vacancies: p169)

  • Faculty Board Elections

    • Classics (vacancies announced: p41) (uncontested election results: p168)
    • History:
      • MT (vacancy announced: p41) (lapsed vacancies: p170)
      • HT (vacancy announced: p244)

Notices

Consultative and general notices published in the Gazette during the 2024/25 academic year

  • Consultative notices

    • 25 Wellington Square redevelopment, p188
    • Ethical Investment Review: 
      • announced, p160
      • closing date confirmed, p285
    • Honorary Degrees and for Degrees by Diploma, call for nominations, p111 
    • Medical Sciences Division/Education Committee:
      • Review of the Nuffield Department of Medicine, p237
      • Review of the Radcliffe Department of Medicine, p9
    • Permanent Private Hall Supervisory Committee:
      • Review of Wycliffe Hall, p37
    • Statute XI (University Discipline), responses invited to proposed changes, p236

  • General notices

    • Gazette publication arrangements, p214
    • MSc in Clinical Embryology, p18
    • Professorial Merit Pay 2025, p214
    • Internal Communications: Demystifying the University, p18
    • Staff Employment and University Appeal Panels, p238
    • University Calendar 2024–25, p188
    • Vice-Chancellor's Awards, p224 

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 2024/25 academic year

  • Appointments and reappointments

    • Statutory Professorships and other senior positions

      • Camden Professorship of Ancient History (Valentina Arena), p18
      • Hooke Professorship of Experimental Physics (David Lucas), p238
      • Interim Head of Department of Social Policy and Intervention (Kenneth Nelson), p272
      • Savilian Professorship of Geometry (Dominic Joyce), p162
      • Professorship of Materials Engineering (Clive Siviour), p18
      • Sekyra and White’s Professorship of Moral Philosophy (David Owens), p162
      • Heather Professorship of Music (Laura Tunbridge), p224
      • Nuffield Professorship of Population Health (Prabhat Jha), p19
      • Professorship of Translational Cognitive Neuroscience (Ole Jensen), p19 

    • Other appointments, reappointments and conferments of title

      • Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences
      • Social Sciences

  • Visiting Professorships

    • Statutory Professorships

      content to be added as it is published  

    • Other visiting professorships

      • Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences
      • Medical Sciences

  • Recognition of Distinction

    • Successful candidates 2024, p20
    • Call for applications 2025, p188

  • Electoral Boards and Advisory Committees

    • Electoral Boards

      • Professorship of African Studies, p22
      • Stavros Niarchos Foundation – Bywater and Sotheby Professorship of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature, p273
      • Lincoln Professorship of Classical Archaeology and Art, p273
      • Professorship of Computer Science, p273
      • George Eastman Visiting Professorship, p22
      • Beit Professorship of Global and Imperial History, p273
      • Professorship of Language and Communication, endowed by News UK, p273
      • Heather Professorship of Music, p22
      • Professorship of Transplantation, p22
      • Directorship of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, p273
      • Little Princess Trust Professorship of Paediatric Oncology, p189 (revised, p286)
      • Alfred Landecker Professor of Values and Public Policy, p22

    • Advisory Committees

      • content to be added as it is published 

Lectures

All lecture notices published in the Gazette during the 2024/25 academic year

Events & exhibitions

All notices relating to musical and other events and exhibitions published in the Gazette during the 2024/25 academic year

  • University Preachers

    • Michaelmas term, p37 
    • Hilary term, p236

  • Musical and other events

    • Exeter (16 Jan, p240)
    • Merton (10 Oct, p37)
    • New College (10 Oct, p37)
    • St Hilda's (10 Oct, p38) (31 Oct, p112) (14 Nov, p175) (16 Jan, p240) (30 Jan, p287)
    • Trinity (3 Oct, p23) (16 Jan, p240)

  • Exhibitions

    • Balliol (3 Oct, p23)
    • Maison Française d’Oxford (3 Oct, p23) (16 Jan, p241)
    • St John's (21 Nov, p189)

Student-related notices

All notices relating to students published in the Gazette during the 2024/25 academic year

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  • Supplications for higher degrees*

    • BMus (10 Oct, p38)
    • DSc (16 Jan, p241)

  • Viva voce examinations*

  • Prizes awarded to graduate students*

    • Ancient History Prize (Faculty of Classics), p21
    • British and European History 1700–1850, MSt (Faculty of History), p239
    • Best Dissertation Prize, MSc in Migration Studies (Department of International Development/School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography), p21
    • Best Thesis Prize, MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (Department of International Development), p21
    • Conington Prize (Faculty of Philosophy), p67
    • Early Modern History 1500–1700, MSt (Faculty of History), p239
    • Eugene Havas Memorial Prize (Department of International Development), p21
    • Examiner’s Prize, MSc in Migration Studies (Department of International Development), p21
    • Gaisford Graduate Dissertation Prize (Faculty of Classics), p21
    • Gilbert Ryle Prize (Faculty of Philosophy), p21
    • Gil Loescher Prize (Department of International Development), p21
    • History of War, MSt (Faculty of History), p239
    • Intellectual History, MSt (Faculty of History), p239
    • Jane Willis Kirkaldy Senior Prize (Faculty of History), p286
    • Medieval History, MSt (Faculty of History), p239
    • Modern British History, MSt (Faculty of History), p240
    • Modern European History, MPhil (Faculty of History), p240
    • Papiya Ghosh Thesis Prize (Department of International Development), p21
    • Women’s, Gender and Queer History, MSt (Faculty of History), p240

  • Prizes, grants and funding offered

    • Astor Travel Fund: Astor Visiting Scholarships, p30
    • Christ Church: Tower Poetry Competition, p195 
    • Gladstone Memorial Trust: Travel awards, p291
    • Gotch Memorial Prize, p30
    • Faculty of English Language and Literature:
      • Chancellor’s English Essay Prize, p30
      • English Poem on a Sacred Subject Prize, p30
      • Lord Alfred Douglas Prize, p30
      • Matthew Arnold Memorial Prize, p30
      • Shelley–Mills Prize, p30
      • Sir Roger Newdigate Prize, p30
      • Sir John Rhŷs Prize, p30, p247
    • Faculty of English Language and Literature/Wolfson: Jon Stallworthy Poetry Prize, p30
    • International opportunities:
      • Wiener–Anspach Doctoral Fellowship in Belgium, p195
      • Charterhouse European Bursary, p195
      • Scatcherd European Scholarship, p195
      • German Scholarships, p195
      • Australian National University (ANU) Exchange, p195
      • Queen Elizabeth Scholarship (Exchange with the University of Pennsylvania, USA), p195
    • Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics: Anton Soldatić and Antonija Soldatić (née Skalir) Memorial Prize, p247
    • Oxford Martin School: funding 2024/25, p203
    • Peterhouse, Cambridge
      • Graduate Studentships, p219
      • Professors C H Lee & M Perutz Studentship, p219
      • Hayes Allen Studentship, p219
    • St John’s College, Cambridge
      • Louis Cha Scholarship, p43
      • Benefactors’ Scholarships, p44
    • University of Cambridge: Ernest Oppenheimer Studentship, p203

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 2024/25 academic year

  • Obituaries

    • Christ Church (3 Oct, p26) (21 Nov, p193) (16 Jan, p245)
    • Exeter (23 Jan, p277)
    • Magdalen (24 Oct, p102)
    • Merton (3 Oct, p26) (10 Oct, p42) (24 Oct, p102) (21 Nov, p193) (5 Dec, p216) (16 Jan, p245) (30 Jan, p290)
    • Oriel (16 Jan, p245)
    • St Cross (3 Oct, p26)
    • St Hilda's (24 Oct, p102) (5 Dec, p216) (23 Jan, p277)
    • St Hugh's (3 Oct, p26)
    • Trinity (24 Oct, p102)
    • Worcester (21 Nov, p193)

  • College elections

    • Jesus (7 Nov, p170)

  • Memorial services

    • Magdalen

      • Dr Bojan Bujic, 24 Oct, p102

    • Merton

      • Professor Sir George Karoly Radda, 10 Oct, p42

    • Oriel

      • Lauchlan Glenn, 3 Oct, p26

    • St Catherine's

      • Professor Jose Harris, 10 Oct, p42

    • St Edmund Hall

      • Professor John Knight, 3 Oct, p26