Jim Kennedy joined Wolfson as an ordinary Fellow in 1970, and served at various times as Wine Steward, Vicegerent and Acting President before moving to Kellogg College in 2003. At this time, he also migrated from the Department of Earth Sciences to the Directorship of the University Museum of Natural History, from which he retired in October 2010.

Kennedy's research interests lie in the geology and palaeontology of the Cretaceous Period, and range from chalk sedimentation and diagenesis to integrating stable isotope, geochemical and biostratigraphic schemes. Current projects include the description of ammonite faunas from southern England, France, Uzbekistan, Texas, Nigeria, KwaZulu Natal (South Africa), Madagascar, and Tanzania. 

David Langslow was University Lecturer in Latin Philology & Linguistics and a Governing Body Fellow of Wolfson from 1984 to 1998, and he has been an Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson since moving from Oxford in 1999 to become Professor of Classics in the University of Manchester, where he was appointed Hulme Professor of Latin in 2018, and where he is now Professor Emeritus following his retirement in 2021. In 2019, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.

His research interests lie in the history and the varieties of the Latin and Greek languages and of their closer relatives within the Indo-European family of languages. He still works on questions arising from his 1991 DPhil on technical, especially medical, language in the ancient world and the early Middle Ages, on different forms and senses of 'medical Latin', on the possibility of dating and locating on linguistic grounds texts of unknown provenance. In 2006 and 2020, he published the first two volumes of the first critical edition of a canonical text of ancient, medieval, and early modern medicine, the Latin version of Alexander of Tralles; the next two volumes are due in 2023!

David has also published on other linguistic topics including word order, and evidence of language contact and multilingualism in the ancient world, and he is generally interested in the interfaces between language and history, and language and literature, and the contributions that close study of language can make to historical reconstruction and literary appreciation. In 2009, he published an annotated translation of the masterpiece of one of his heroes, the Lectures on Syntax of the Swiss linguist-cum-classicist Jacob Wackernagel. Another retirement project is a reconstruction of Wackernagel’s unpublished lectures from the surviving manuscript material.

A passionate teacher and advocate for access to Latin and Greek in state schools, David has been since 2002 one of the directors of the JACT Greek Summer School (est. 1967), he is a Trustee of the national charity Classics for All, and he was founding Project Chair of Manchester Classics for All (est. 2015), which continues to bring classics to hundreds of state school students in the Manchester area. 

Professor Christopher Perrins is a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Queen’s Swan Warden. Before retiring in 2002, Perrins' main interests were in the breeding biology and population dynamics of birds. 

Professor Chase F. Robinson received a bachelor’s degree from Brown University and Ph.D. from Harvard University. From 1993 to 2008 he was a Fellow at Wolfson, teaching Islamic History. In addition to over thirty-five scholarly articles, he has authored and edited several monographs and collected works. He is a frequent contributor to such periodicals as the Times Literary Supplement, and he has won fellowships from the British Academy, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and the American Research Centre in Cairo. Further he has received grants in support of his research from the Leverhulme Trust, the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the British Academy.

While at Oxford, Robinson also served in a variety of administrative capacities, including as Chairman of the Faculty of Oriental Studies. He was appointed Provost and Senior Vice President of the Graduate Center, City University of New York, in September, 2008. As Provost, he is the Graduate Center’s chief academic officer and he serves as deputy to the President. 

Prof Alex Wilkie is currently the Fielden Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Manchester. His research interests are in mathematical logic, and in particular the applications of model theory to number theory and analysis.

Prior to his appointment at Manchester in 2007, he was the Reader in Mathematical Logic at the University of Oxford, and a Wolfson Governing Body Fellow, for twenty years. Before that he held positions at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Paris, and Yale University. He was elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Society in 2001. 

Brigadier Alan Gordon was educated at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1959. He served in Kenya, Germany, Malaysia, Egypt/Israel and the UK, including operational tours in Borneo, Northern Ireland and the Sinai. He attended the Staff College in 1970/71 and taught at the Royal Military College of Science in 1980/81. MyHislast post was as Defence Adviser to the British High Commission in India and he retired from the Army in 1994.

Gordon was appointed Bursar and elected a Fellow of Wolfson College in 1995 and served the College until 2004 when he was elected an Emeritus Fellow. Thereafter, he has been Chairman of the National Committee of The Royal Artillery Association, a Trustee of the RA Charitable Fund, Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Army Cadet Force Association and am Chairman RA Widows Insurance Society Ltd, a Governor of Dorset House School, a Director of Sarasin Alpha Funds, Admiral of the Royal Artillery Yacht Club.