For International Women's Day 2026, Nuffield College is delighted to host a talk from Professor Melinda Mills: How to Be Brilliant Without Being Behaved. The talk will take place on Monday 16th March from 17:30 at Nuffield College.
Drawing on personal experience and institutional memory, this candid and interactive conversation explores a frank and humorous reflection on forging an academic life at Oxford and Nuffield College. What is it like to be the first (or the last) in various roles? How do we build research cultures where difference is an asset rather than a liability? How can Melinda say something new that Paul Klemperer has not heard before from the last decade of her previous talks? What does it really take to build a career without sanding down the edges that make you distinctive? What does it cost to be unconventional? From hiring, firing to leading research groups, from rock bottom to victory and hard-won confidence, this talk offers an unvarnished account of power, persistence, humour, and intellectual joy.
Sign up: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/international-womens-day-event-2026-tickets-1983872685607
