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Boat Burning and Naming
Celebrate Wadham Women's First Eight Head of the River victory with a boat burning and naming .
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Women's Sports Dinner
Join us on Saturday 28 October (3rd week Michaelmas) to celebrate women’s sport at Wadham with a dinner for alumni and current students.
Candidate information
Important information for candidates applying to Wadham for entry in October 2018 (or deferred entry in 2019)
Venue hire and accommodation
Wadham College's historic buildings, magnificent gardens and comfortable accommodation combined with its central location, up to the minute facilities and excellent catering, provide the perfect location for your conference, summer school, reception, dinner, overnight stay or meeting. Explore Wadham's conference facilities.
Wadham Fellow lights up TORCH
Wadham Fellow and Tutor in Russian, Philip Ross Bullock, has been appointed as the new Director of TORCH (The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities).
Matriculation in pictures
Wadham's graduate and undergraduate Freshers officially join the University of Oxford at the Matriculation ceremony, held in the Sheldonian Building.
Wadham Foundation Fellow receives University’s highest award
Wadham alumnus and benefactor John McCall MacBain O.C. (Law, 1980) has been presented with the Sheldon Medal for his visionary support for the University of Oxford.
New faces
Wadham welcomes six new Fellows and one Visiting Fellow who join the Senior Common Room in 2017.
Meet our graduate Lawyers
Generous alumni support has enabled Wadham to award a record number of graduate scholarships this year, six for students of Law.
Cecil Day-Lewis - the creative process
A selection of prose by Wadham alumnus C. Day-Lewis is published in a new book co-edited by Emeritus Fellow Bernard O’Donoghue.
Welcoming Sarah Lawrence Programme students
Twenty-six students from universities in the United States have embarked on their rigorous year-long academic programme at Wadham College.
Telephone Campaign Thanks!
Current Wadham students have just finished phoning over 300 alumni all over the world and the College would like to extend a huge thank you to everyone who participated!
Gaudy gathering
More than fifty years since matriculation, some eighty alumni returned to Wadham to celebrate their Gaudy reunion.
Teach First
Supporting our former students into their careers and raising the aspirations of school students from disadvantaged backgrounds are vital strands of Wadham’s Access to Excellence strategy.
Hong Kong celebrations
The Warden, Emeritus Fellow Jeffrey Hackney, Law Fellow Dr Sandy Steel and the Development Director Julie Hage were delighted to meet alumni and friends during the annual trip to Hong Kong in early September.
James Morwood, 1943 – 2017
It is with great sadness that we announce the sudden death of Emeritus Fellow and Classicist James Morwood. James died while on holiday in Greece on 10 September 2017, at the age of 73. Details of the memorial will be coming soon.
Building progress
Latest news on the Dorothy Wadham Building student accommodation project on Iffley Road where demolition work is now underway.
Library
Wadham's collection of rare books includes a Shakespeare first folio and a 1543 publication by Nicolaus Copernicus...
Access to Excellence
Wadham's ambitious programme to achieve fair access to university.
Visiting Wadham
Wadham welcomes visitors during opening times and prospective students at any time (when occasional restricted events are taking place you may be asked to return). Please note the College will be closed on 21 and 22 October for private events.
- Term time
- 13.00 - 16.15
- Out of term
- 10.30 - 11.45
13.00 - 16.15
Emma McKinlay 1993 - 2017
It is with enormous sadness that we report the death on 3 September of Emma McKinlay, who matriculated in the History of Art in 2011. She died peacefully after a long illness, which she had borne with extraordinary courage and dignity, supported by her family and friends. She will be greatly missed. We hope to organise a memorial service in Wadham in due course.
