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Image Description: Students receiving A-level results “You’re so smart!” Those were the words that characterised my years at school, particularly during GCSEs and A-Levels. Although these words were well-intentioned, constantly being called smart led me to internalise that label, and to define myself by that characteristic. Being academic became my identity, and something that I […]
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Oxford University was the first university to offer a doctoral degree, where its first DPhil scholars came from across the world to further their education. November 2019 marks the 100 year anniversary of the DPhil, with the DPhil being the Oxford equivalent to a PhD. When the DPhil first began, only several dozen graduate students […]
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“So, which coffee shop do you want to work in?” the presenter of Shark Tales asked an inebriated linguist, outside Park End on a cold February night which would have made Rasputin himself freeze stiff. For those too young to remember, Shark Tales was a video series Cherwell used to do, which involved someone dressed […]
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I matriculated in 2014 and graduated in 2017 with a BA in Oriental Studies (Egyptology with Coptic). Since then, I have earned an MA in Archaeological Science with German and I am now halfway through my first year of a DPhil in History (specifically, Late Antique and Byzantine Studies). That must all seem like an […]
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(Lady Ademola, second on the right, was the first black woman to graduate from the University) Ask most people what “Oxford” means to them, and you are likely to be met with a plethora of stereotypes and received ideas. Indeed, in the 923 years since the start of its development, the University has hardly wanted […]
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The ‘science’ component of the social sciences is often the subject of jokes, with the idea that disciplines included in this label are not ‘real’ or ‘hard’ sciences. Their defenders are often quick to argue, however, that the quantitative tradition is a prevalent one among disciplines such as economics, demography, or political science. In my […]
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Of course there are much bigger problems in the world for feminism than reading lists. No one’s disputing that. But a lot of people cannot see that there is really any problem with reading lists. They argue that it’s important to study the best writers, and if those writers tend to be white and male, […]
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Coffee seems to be Paul Ostwald’s preferred editorial tool when it comes to The Journal of Interrupted Studies, an Oxford-based academic journal that will publish the complete and incomplete scholarly works of academics whose work has been interrupted by forced migration. The idea for this new scholarly review was born over a cup (or more) […]
Continue ReadingLewis Coenen-Rowe It is perhaps our fear of irrelevance that leads music students to the kind of self-deprecating humour usually focussed on how ‘out of touch’ the Oxford music course is. I used to think so but now I’m not sure this is the problem it is made out to be. If by relevance we […]
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