Nuffield College, Oxford

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Nuffield College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. It is an all-graduate college and primarily a research establishment, specialising in the social sciences, particularly economics, politics and sociology. 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.

It is one of the most wealthy colleges with an estimated financial endowment of £107m (2003).

[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-orientated 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 - and continues to be - 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

• Martin Feldstein
• Geoffrey Gallop
• Alan Gilbert
• Leslie Green (philosopher)
• Jerry A. Hausman
• Patricia Hewitt
• Gareth Stedman Jones
• Nicholas Stern
• John Kay (economist)
• Derek Morris
• Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India (2004-current, honorary Fellow)

[edit] Teachers/academics

A more complete list is available here

• Robert Allen
• A.B. Atkinson, Kt (economist)
• Richard Breen
• David Butler (emeritus)
• Sir David R. Cox (emeritus)
• John Goldthorpe (emeritus)
• A.H. Halsey (emeritus)
• Anthony Heath
• David Hendry (economist)
• Andrew Hurrell
• Desmond King
• Paul Klemperer (economist)
• Ian Little (economist)
• David Miller (political theorist) (political philosophy)
• Stephen Nickell (economist)
• Neil Shephard

[edit] Former Fellows

• Martin Feldstein (now an honorary fellow)
• Terence Gorman (died in 2003)
• Sir John Hicks (Nobel in Economics, died in 1989)
• Sir James Mirrlees (Nobel in Economics, now emeritus)
• Ariel Rubinstein (now an honorary fellow)
• Amartya Sen (Nobel in Economics, now an honorary fellow)
• Sir John Vickers

[edit] External links

• Nuffield College, Oxford
• Virtual Tour of Nuffield College

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