Governing Body Fellow Dr Feliciano Giustino has received a Leverhulme Research Leadership Award worth around £900,000 to explore how 'biomimetic' solar cells those that mimic natural systems could be used to convert sunlight into electricity without relying on scarce, often toxic, materials.

Wolfson had cause for a double celebration this week with the opening of a state-of-the-art new kitchen and the renaming of a residential blocks after its benefactor, who until now had remained anonymous.

The Foundation for Law, Justice and Society welcomed an esteemed panel of leading judges and legal and political experts to Wolfson College last week to debate the role of judges in democratic societies and to question to what extent – if any – they should seek to represent the views of the populations they serve.