Wadham College

25/08/2026

The Schwarzman Centre Cultural Programme presents a performance of MAN WOMAN: A Butoh Fairy Tale by Vangeline on September 16 at 7pm. MAN WOMAN is a visually striking new dance performance by New York-based choreographer and performer and our new Associate Fellow, Vangeline. Inspired by Eikoh Hosoe's famous Man and Woman photo series featuring Butoh pioneers Tatsumi Hijikata and Motofuji, the performance reimagines these celebrated images through a contemporary feminist lens.
Butoh is a Japanese avant-garde dance form known for its highly expressive movement exploring transformation, identity and the body's ability to cross boundaries. Drawing on Hosoe's photographs as inspiration, MAN WOMAN combines Vangeline's distinctive movement language with costumes by visionary q***r artist Machine Dazzle and a richly textured electro-acoustic score by Ray Barragan-Sweeten.
Find out more and book tickets here:

A bold reimagining of Butoh dance for today. MAN WOMAN is a visually striking new dance performance by New York-based choreographer and performer Vangeline. Inspired by Eikoh Hosoe's famous Man and Wo…

21/08/2026

We were thrilled to host an incredible cohort of sharp, curious, and eager minds over the last week for our Summer School!

Across three separate subject tracks - Modern Languages, Classics, and Climate Change - this free residential provided a taste of what studying at Wadham/Oxford is like.

We wish all our participants the best for their next steps!

17/08/2026

Our next Undergraduate Open Day is coming up next month. We hope to meet lots of you on 18 September! Open days give you the chance to meet our current students and college tutors, explore our grounds, and see whether Wadham and Oxford feel right for you. Our admissions team will be on hand to answer your questions throughout the day, as well as running sessions to help explain and demystify the Oxford admissions process. No pre-booking is required for any of our events. We hope to see you there. In the meantime, hear more about Wadham from our student, Dylan.
https://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/prospective-students/open-days

13/08/2026

Congratulations to everyone receiving A Level results today. Well done on your hard work! We are thinking of you and hope to see some of you at Wadham next term.
https://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/

12/08/2026

Do check out the video of our choral scholars end-of-term concert! Such a great showcase of Wadham talent, and set in our beautiful chapel to boot.

It's up on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/fpg5Uo20ap0?si=3xOABayWu_DwDZe0

12/08/2026

We look forward to welcoming our 2026 Summer School cohort this August! Each year, Wadham runs five-day residential summer schools for Year 12 pupils in UK state schools or sixth-form colleges. We'll be introducing this year's Classics, Modern Languages, and Climate Change groups to Oxford and Wadham, where they will take part in academic programmes, live in College, meet student ambassadors studying at Oxford, and receive information, advice and guidance on applying to university.
https://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/schools-and-outreach/summer-schools

10/08/2026

'Human neuron activity during an 83-minute movie from 2,286 neurons and 29 patients', co-authored by Bernhard Staresina, our Tutorial Fellow in Psychology, is published in Scientific Data:

Despite a growing trend towards more naturalistic experiments, few single-unit datasets collected during dynamic and naturalistic stimuli have been released, and none using a full-length movie. Here, we present SUMMER (Single Unit activity during a Movie in the human Medial temporal lobe via Electro...

10/08/2026

'Polo/PLK1 phosphorylation relieves Centrosomin/Cnn autoinhibition to promote centrosome scaffold assembly', co-authored by Isaac Wong, our Junior Research Fellow in Medical Sciences, is published in the EMBO journal:

Mitotic centrosome maturation requires Polo/PLK1-dependent expansion of the pericentriolar material (PCM). In Drosophila, Centrosomin (Cnn) assembles a scaffold around mitotic centrioles through interactions between its PReM and CM2 domains. Here, we show that PReM adopts an autoinhibited helical ha...

10/08/2026

'A clinically validated framework for auditing AI chatbot behavior in mental health interactions', coauthored by Christopher Summerfield, our Fellow by Special Election, is published in Nature Medicine:

Across 810 conversations, an evaluation framework finds that AI chatbots often amplify simulated users’ psychological vulnerabilities, revealing persistent safety risks in mental health contexts.

07/08/2026

Congratulations to Helen, our Head of Housekeeping, who received a Community Ambassador award from our sustainability partner, Hearty Earth. After each end-of-term clear out, Saman from Hearty Earth, Helen, and Wadham colleagues organise a collection of surplus food and goods for distribution to local communities. Helen's award was presented by Saman and Councillor Lois Muddiman at West Oxford Community Centre.