‘Every time I write, I doubt myself’: Michael Rosen at 80 on deep grief, self-belief and chocolate cake The children’s author answers questions from readers, friends and writers on losing his son Eddie, surviving Covid, who he’d invite to his perfect birthday dinner and where he goes for inspiration

We enjoyed reading today's Guardian's interview with our alumnus, Michael Rosen, in which he answers questions from readers, friends and writers about a range of topics:

CHRIS MITCHELL Chris talks about receiving, with his wife Denise, a richly merited British Citizen Award

It was great to read this article in alumni magzaine, Quad, in which our alumnus, Chris Mitchell, talks about receiving, with his wife Denise, a richly merited British Citizen Award: https://www.alumni.ox.ac.uk/article/chris-mitchell

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Good luck to the Oxford crews racing in this year's Boat Race! We'll be cheering you all on, expecially the Women’s Lightweights and their Cox and our graduate student, James Rumsey. 
https://www.theboatrace.org/lightweight-crews

Blurring the frame: Youth-defined photographic expression in participatory research on adverse childhood experiences - Syeda Sana Batool, Anna Mankee-Williams, Kamaldeep Bhui, Syed Ali Jafar Naqvi, Jack Hanrahan, Grace Bennett, 2026 Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) contribute to 75% of mental illness cases in the UK before age 24, yet their emotional impacts are rarely explored through ...

'Blurring the frame: Youth-defined photographic expression in participatory research on adverse childhood experiences', co-authored by our Senior Research Fellow, Prof Kam Bhui, is published in Media International Australia:

'The risks and opportunities of adopting digital technologies as part of unpaid care', co-authored by Dr Ekaterina Hertog, Associate Professor of AI and Society, is published in Oxford Review of Economic Policy:

Technological folie à deux: feedback loops between AI chatbots and mental health - Nature Mental Health In this Perspective, the authors discuss chatbot interactions, highlighting potential risks of emotional dependence and mental health impacts, necessitating coordinated public health responses.

'Technological folie à deux: feedback loops between AI chatbots and mental health', co-authored by our Fellow by Special Election, Christopher Summerfield, is published in Nature Mental Health:

Improving land cover classification in drylands with MSAVI: Evidence from the South Aral Seabed The South Aral Seabed is an extreme dryland ecosystem undergoing rapid transformation yet remains misrepresented or absent in global land cover datase…

'Improving land cover classification in drylands with MSAVI: Evidence from the South Aral Seabed', co-authored by our Tutorial Fellow in Biology, Joe Bull, is published in the Journal of Arid Land:

German - Goethe-Institut Award - The Society of Authors The Society of Authors’ and the Goethe-Institut Londons’ biennial Goethe-Institut Award for New Translation. The Goethe-Institut Award for New Translation was founded in 2010 and is presented by the Society of Authors and the...

Our alumnus, Nick Browne (Philosophy and Modern Languages, 2021), has won the prestigious Society of Authors’ and Goethe-Institut Londons’ biennial Goethe-Institut Award for New Translation.
Many congratulations!

Our plant pot painting sessions were a great success this Green Action Week. Many thanks to our Library team for organising this and to the Gardens team for donating the second-hand pots.

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Thank you to Wadham's Feminist Society for their Textiles and Mending Workshop. This was a great opportunity for students to learn how to fix and mend clothes, to give them a new lease of life. 

#OxfordGreenActionWeek

Thanks to Wadham's gardeners for another great session with our volunteers. This week, the team and helpers were planting carrots and parsnips in our new raised beds, which volunteers helped to make in previous weeks. 

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The Koch History Centre Lecture by David d'Avray on "Church, State and Hierarchy" is on 4 March, 5pm, at the Stephen A Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. 
Find out more and book on our website: www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/events/koch-history-cent...

Tonight! Our students will be playing 'Ecologies', a strategic and educational card game where players build and maintain healthy food webs in 7 diverse biomes, aiming to create a balanced ecosystem whilst competing against other players. We look forward to seeing who wins!
#OxfordGreenActionWeek

We’re hiring! Exciting opportunity for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join @katyahe.bsky.social working on ‘The Digital Parenting and Youth Online Behaviour’ @oii.ox.ac.uk project. 1/2

Come work with me and Prof Vicki Nash @oii.ox.ac.uk on this 2-year quantitative project.

How AI Can Influence What We See, Choose & Trust | Raising Expectations YouTube video by CNA Insider

New! Watch @channelnewsasia.bsky.social's new documentary series, AI & Me, featuring expert comment from @katyahe.bsky.social @oii.ox.ac.uk @wadhamcollege.bsky.social. Interview at the start of the programme: www.youtube.com/watch?v=svGz...

Come along to our swap shop to bring and take! Revamp your wardrobe, find some new books, or give a second life to lots of other useful things. Thank you to Isabelle and all our student and staff volunteers. We're here all #OxfordGreenActionWeek!

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We're all ready for Green Action Week, 23 - 27 February. We'll be holding a College Swap Shop all week, so bring and take, starting from Monday!

Thank you to our Chaplain, Jane, for our wonderful Chinese New Year celebrations. Happy New Year to everyone celebrating!

The skies are blue and the flowers are emerging on this fine spring day at Wadham!

Thank you to Sophia, our Lodge Receptionist, who has brightened Wadham's Lodge this Valentine's Day with her supply of cards! Our pidges are full of Valentine's, Galentine's, and Palentine's messages.

#valentinesday #wadhlove

At our first volunteer gardening session, students and staff worked with our gardeners to make raised beds and fill them with compost and top soil ready for planting. Thank you to to everyone involved.
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The project kicks off in June 2026, with findings shared over the next two years. With thanks to the @nuffieldfoundation.org for funding the project.  
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The project will explore how care‑experienced young people gain - or struggle to gain -digital literacy, and whether current policies help them acquire digital skills necessary to navigate modern adulthood. 2/3

New project! Introducing The Digital Lives of Care‑experienced Children, led by our Associate Professor of AI and Society,Dr Ekaterina Hertog, @oiioxford, @EthicsinAI @WadhamCollege in collaboration with Dr Vicki Nash, @oiioxford.  1/3

The Koch History Centre Lecture by Bethany Moreton on "Theocracy Now!" is on 4 February, 5pm, at the Stephen A Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. 
Find out more and book on our website: www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/events/koch-history-cent...

Preventive Global Mental Health This Viewpoint describes a global research, policy, and practice shift away from individual disease models of mental health toward culturally competent, ecosocial, and syndemic preventive approaches that take account of complex systems.

Preventive Global Mental Health—A Balance of Policies and Practices by our Senior Research Fellow, Kam Bhui, and Roisin Mooney is published in JAMA Psychiatry:

We're enjoying a wonderful #BurnsNight at Wadham. Thank you to everyone involved in making it happen!

'Unconventional Magnetism, Sliding Ferroelectricity, and Magneto-Optical Kerr Effect in Multiferroic Bilayers', co-authored by our Professorial Fellow in Physics, Paolo Radaelli, is published in Applied Materials & Interfaces journal:

'The evolving role of WPA Collaborating Centres: new perspectives and future directions', co-authored by our Senior Research Fellow, Kam Bhui, is published in World Psychiatry, the official journal of the World Psychiatric Association: