This week I was back at the Schwarzman Centre, but this time in a work capacity. The Vice-Chancellor’s Awards is an annual celebration of some of the amazing work being done by people all around Oxford University. My team was nominated for a project we delivered last autumn, which meant we got to take part in the showcase event on Tuesday and attend the awards ceremony itself on Thursday. The latter was fun to be part of, but it’s more than a little out of my comfort zone. Far more enjoyable was attending the showcase, wandering between the various stalls set out by other shortlisted teams and chatting with them about their amazing work. I went to last year’s showcase—at the Weston Library—as a visitor, and found it to be quite a bewildering experience. Where else could one possibly work, I thought to myself, where all of the activities being celebrated could fit under one umbrella? I had the same feeling this year all over again. Oxford University is such a complex, sprawling and…
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