As with students, Canada punches above its demographic weight in terms of academic staff at Oxford: with nearly 80 Canadian citizens on faculty, Canada is the ninth largest source of international academics.
Professor Sir John Bell
Professor Bell is Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford University and has made major contributions to the development of UK clinical and medical science. He founded the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics in Oxford, the first to focus on the genetics of common diseases, and then led the creation of four other clinical research institutes in Oxford. His own research on the immunogenetics of HLA, T cell receptors and autoimmune diseases has been sustained and ground breaking.
Professor Bell is a past President of the Academy of Medical Sciences, has been elected a fellow of the Royal Society and was made a Knight Bachelor for services to medicine in the 2008 New Year’s Honours.
Professor Bell was educated at the University of Alberta, Canada, before taking his medical training at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar at Magdalen College. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1992. His academic posts include a Clinical Fellowship at Stanford University, where he stayed from 1982 until his return to Oxford in 1987, where he became Nuffield Professor and Head of Clinical Medicine in 1992.
Professor Jennifer Welsh
Professor Welsh is Professor in International Relations; Co-Director of the Oxford Institute of Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC) at the Oxford Martin School; and a Fellow of Somerville College. She is the author, co-author, and editor of several books and articles on international relations. Her current research projects include the evolution of the notion of the ‘responsibility to protect’ in international society, the ethics of post-conflict reconstruction, the authority of the UN Security Council, and Canadian foreign policy.
Professor Welsh was the Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Massey College (University of Toronto) in 2005, and is a recent recipient of a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship and a Trudeau Fellowship. Jennifer has served as a consultant to the Government of Canada on international policy, and acts as a frequent commentator in Canadian media on foreign policy and international relations.
Professor Welsh received her BA from the University of Saskatchewan in Politics, and a Masters and Doctorate in International Relations from the University of Oxford, where she held a Rhodes Scholarship.
In
addition to scholarships open to all international students, Canadians
can also apply to Oxford’s prestigious Rhodes Scholarships which are
awarded to students of outstanding intellect, character, leadership, and
commitment to service from selected countries. As an illustration of
the strong links between Canadian alumni at Oxford and their alma mater,
the Canadian Rhodes Scholars’ Foundation has been set up to offer a
reciprocal award for Oxford graduates to study in Canada. They are the
only Rhodes organisation in the world to have done this. Up to three
scholarships for two years of graduate study are offered each year,
funded by former Canadian Rhodes Scholars. At the doctoral level,
Canadian researchers can apply to the Pierre Ellliott Trudeau Foundation
scholarship. Once students arrive at Oxford, there are a range of
societies and sports groups available to them including the Oxford
University Canadian Society and the Oxford University Ice Hockey Club.