Oxford and Brazil
The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Andrew Hamilton, travelled to Brazil in August 2012 to highlight the importance of the relationship between Oxford and Brazil and to establish and strengthen links with partners. He visited the University of São Paulo and gave a presentation about graduate study at Oxford to prospective students.
There are more than 30 Brazilian graduate students currently studying at Oxford. Particularly popular programmes with Brazilian graduate students are in the areas of Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Sciences:
Popular Programmes
Business and Finance
Humanities
Social Sciences
- MSt International Human Rights Law
- MSc Public Policy in Latin America
- MSc Sustainable Urban Development
Sciences
Brazil-focused research
The study of Brazil is a major research interest for academics and students throughout the University of Oxford. Oxford has a strong profile in Brazilian Studies, a programme within the Latin American Centre which co-ordinates postgraduate teaching and advanced research on Brazil across the Social Sciences and Humanities. It brings scholars, intellectuals, and policymakers from Brazil and elsewhere to Oxford to study Brazil and international issues with a Brazilian dimension and promotes a greater understanding of Brazil’s history, society, culture, politics, economy, ecology, and international relations through lectures, seminars, workshops and conferences, research projects, and publications.
The Brazilian Studies programme has strong ties and collaboration with the University of São Paulo, the University of Brasília, the Fundação Getúlio Vargas (Rio), and the State University of Rio de Janeiro and contributes to the teaching programmes of the degrees of the MPhil and MSc in Latin American Studies and the MSc in Public Policy in Latin America, run by the Latin American Centre.
The Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests has research sites in the Amazon and the Andes and studies the impact of deforestation and climate change.
The Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology studies indigenous people and landscapes in the Amazon Basin and Central Brazil.
The Blavatnik School of Government provides academic depth and international profile to the study of Brazil. The School will put Brazil at the forefront of practical research through the Emerging Economies Fellowship Programme and the Master's in Public Policy.
The following academics are currently working on Brazilian and Latin American research:
- Dr Timothy J Power, Director of the Latin American Centre and Brazilian Studies Programme
- Professor Leigh Payne, Professor of Sociology (Latin American Societies)
- Professor Andrew Hurrell, Montague Burton Professor of International Relations
- Professor Joe Foweraker, Director of the Latin American Centre and Professor of Latin American Politics
- Professor Ngaire Woods, Professor of International Political Economy, Director of the Global Economic Governance Programme and Dean of the Blavatnik School of Government
- Mr Laurence Whitehead, Official Fellow in Politics at Nuffield and Director of the Mexican Studies Programme
- Professor Yadvinder Malhi, Leader, ECI Ecosystems Research Programme and Professor of Ecosystems Science at the Oxford University Centre for the Environment’s Environmental Change Institute
- Dr Claire Williams, University Lecturer in Brazilian Literature and Culture
- Dr Elizabeth Ewart, University Lecturer in the Anthropology of Lowland South America
- Dr Laura Rival’s research includes Amazonian anthropology
Graduate students can study a range of Brazilian cultural topics at the University of Oxford, from the great novels of the late nineteenth century to Afro-Brazilian poetry; from modernist literature and art to contemporary Brazilian Cinema. Studies reflect Brazil’s multicultural heritage.
Main photograph by Joseph Caruana, DPhil Astrophysics (Christ Church College)