Nuffield College, Oxford
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| College name | Nuffield College | |||||||||||||
| Named after | Lord Nuffield | |||||||||||||
| Established | 1937 | |||||||||||||
| Sister college | None | |||||||||||||
| Warden | Stephen Nickell | |||||||||||||
| Undergraduates | None | |||||||||||||
| Graduates | 74 | |||||||||||||
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Nuffield College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. It is an all-graduate college and primarily a research establishment, specialising in the social sciences, particularly economics, politics and sociology. It is one of the world’s leading research centers in the social sciences. Despite being one of the newest and smallest of the colleges, its architecture is designed to conform to the traditional college layout, and its modernistic spire is a landmark for those approaching Oxford from the west.
As of 2006 the college had an estimated financial endowment of £146m[citation needed].
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[edit] History and purpose today
Nuffield is a graduate college of the University of Oxford specialising in the Social Sciences, particularly Economics, Politics, and Sociology. It aims to provide a stimulating research-oriented environment for postgraduate students (about 75 in number) and faculty (approximately 60 academic fellows of the College). Nuffield College, which was founded in 1937, is located in the centre of Oxford. It is housed on a site on the western side of the city centre, donated by William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield (Lord Nuffield).
Around a third of Nuffield's fellows hold appointments at the University of Oxford as lecturers, readers or professors. In addition the College fully funds around a dozen Official Fellowships, which the College views as tenured research professorships (although most also teach on the University's graduate programme), and about a dozen three year post-doctoral research fellows. The College also houses a number of young scholars who hold distinguished awards, such as British Academy post-doctoral fellowships, some senior research fellows and a group of research active emeritus & honorary fellows.
The College has been the source of some of the major research developments in social science. These include the British Election Studies and the major programme of research on Social Mobility in Britain. It was the birthplace of the "Oxford School" of Industrial Relations; it pioneered the development of cost benefit analysis for developing countries; and it has made a major contribution to the methodology of econometrics.
[edit] Notable former students
- Dr.Manmohan Singh, current Prime Minister of India (2004 - Incumbent ); Honorary Fellow
- Richard Bruton, Teachta Dála (Member of Irish Parliament), Deputy Leader of Fine Gael
- Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of Canada
- Barun De, historian, presently Chairman, West Bengal Heritage Commission
- Martin Feldstein
- Geoffrey Gallop
- Norman Geras
- Alan Gilbert
- Leslie Green (philosopher)
- Jerry A. Hausman
- Patricia Hewitt
- Dr. Kamal Hossain, former Foreign and Law Minister of Bangladesh
- Gareth Stedman Jones
- John Kay (economist)
- Derek Morris
- Richard Smethurst - Provost of Worcester College, Oxford
- Nicholas Stern
[edit] Teachers/academics
A more complete list is available here
- Robert Allen
- A.B. Atkinson, Kt (economist)
- David Bensusan-Butt (economist)
- Richard Breen
- Martin Browning
- David Butler (emeritus)
- Sir David R. Cox (emeritus)
- John Goldthorpe (emeritus)
- David Forbes Hendry (economist)
- Andrew Hurrell
- David Miller (political theorist) (political philosophy)
- Stephen Nickell (economist)
- Neil Shephard
- Tom Snijders (statistics)
- Swapan Dasgupta Journalist and Political Analyst
[edit] Former Fellows
- Martin Feldstein (now an honorary fellow)
- Sir John Hicks (Nobel in Economics, died in 1989)
- Ariel Rubinstein (now an honorary fellow)
- Amartya Sen (Nobel in Economics, now an honorary fellow)
- Sir John Vickers
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