My current research is in the philosophy of language. I want to reconsider the general relationship between truth and meaning, a central theme of philosophy from the 1960s until the 1980s, but one which has fallen into abeyance since. My approach is to explicate meaning in terms of its connections with belief and action and then to explain truth in terms of meaning (thereby reversing the predominant order of explanation). This approach casts new light on such diverse topics as the semantic paradoxes and the special characteristics of mathematical discourse.

My main research interests lie in the application of contemporary sociolinguistics to the ancient world and the integration of epigraphy, linguistics and archaeology to write socio-cultural history. My ERC-funded project LatinNow on life and languages of Roman western Europe was completed in 2023 https://latinnow.eu/, the data can be found here https://gis.latinnow.eu/ and the trilogy of Open Access books downloaded via the OUP website: Latinization, Local Languages and Literacies in the Roman West (ed. with Anna Willi), Languages and Communities in the Late-Roman and Post-Imperial Western Provinces (ed. with George Woudhuysen), Social Factors in the Latinization of the Roman West. I currently work on projects on Gaulish inscriptions (ANR), technology for reading ancient texts (SSHRC), writing tablets from Britannia (British Academy), and Roman Inscriptions of Britain in Schools (UKRI) https://romaninscriptionsofbritain.org/. I have published the following books with Cambridge University Press: The Language of Letters: Bilingual Roman Epistolography from Cicero to Fronto (with Olivia Elder), Southern Gaul and the Mediterranean: Multilingualism and Multiple Identities in the Iron Age and Roman Periods and (co-edited with Patrick James) Multilingualism in the Graeco-Roman Worlds. I have also published a born digital, open access eBook, Manual of Roman Everyday Writing Vol. 1 Scripts and Texts (with Alan Bowman, Oxford) http://bit.ly/MREW1, and introductions to Gaulish in three languages (with Coline Ruiz Darasse, Bordeaux). I collaborate in several international projects, including on Gaulish inscriptions (ANR), technology for reading ancient texts (SSHRC), writing tablets from Britannia (British Academy), and Roman Inscriptions of Britain in Schools (UKRI) https://romaninscriptionsofbritain.org/. At Oxford I lectured on Imperial and Late Latin, Roman Britain and Latin Epigraphy for the Classics Faculty.

Paul-James White has been conducting research into automorphic forms. He wrote two mathematical papers, and continued working on a book with Tasho Kaletha (Princeton), Alberto Minguez (Paris VI), and Sug Woo Shin (MIT). He also gave a graduate course on modular forms.

I am a philosopher of biology. My work explores the metaphysics and epistemology of biological science, especially the ontology of the living world. In particular, I have written about levels of selection and the problem of defining biological individuals. I am especially interested in social evolution and in evolved relations between parts and wholes, from bacteria to plants to people. My current activities include an investigation of microbial ontology; a project that brings together philosophers and zoologists to think about the relation between inheritance systems and cooperation; and some musings on political philosophy from the perspective of the evolution of cooperation literature.

Andreas Mogensen has continued his doctoral research. In addition, he has convened a seminar on recent notable papers in moral philosophy running throughout the year and authored a paper commissioned by the Disease Control Priorities Project on age-weighting of DALYs.

My research is predominately concerned with the history of mutualism. My current research focuses on the history and economics of cooperative sickness and health insurance in the late 19th and early 20th centuries – known as ‘friendly societies’ and ‘fraternal associations’ at the time. Looking at a number of regions I am interested in the effectiveness of these institutions, their role in facilitating migration, and how they were affected by the emergence of the welfare state.

During academic year 2012/2013, Jeremy Waldron continued work on human dignity, institutional political theory, and jurisprudence, publishing twelve articles, most notably How Law Protects Dignity (Cambridge Law Journal), Separation of Powers (Boston College Law Review), and Stare Decisis and the Rule of Law (Michigan Law Review). He also delivered a number of public lectures, including; Jurisprudence for Hedgehogs (on the last phase of the late Ronald Dworkin’s philosophy of law) at Queen’s University Law School, in Kingston, Ontario; and Dirtying One's Hands by Working with Others, at Office and Responsibility: A Symposium in Honor of Dennis Thompson, at Harvard University.

Nicola Lacey has continued her research on ideas of responsibility for crime and on the comparative political economy of criminalisation and punishment. She published several papers and a co-authored paper with David Soskice on American Exceptionalism in Crime and Punishment. She is working on two papers with Hanna Pickard on the theory and practice of punishment. She delivered lectures at Harvard, Duke, Cornell, Boston University and Boston College, and the annual lecture of Jurisprudence, now published. In April she held a visiting professorship at Harvard Law School. She is a co-author of the British Academy’s forthcoming report on Prisons.

Andrew Burrows was a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls before taking up his appointment as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom in June 2020. He is the first person to have been appointed direct from academia to the highest court in the UK. His major projects at college included the novel idea of restating areas of English law in which he was assisted by an advisory group of academics, judges and practitioners. This led to the publication by OUP of A Restatement of the English Law of Unjust Enrichment and A Restatement of the English Law of Contract. In addition to producing new editions of his works on English private law (including a fourth edition of Remedies for Torts, Breach of Contract and Equitable Wrongs) and publishing many articles on contract, tort and unjust enrichment, in his years as SRF he wrote extensively on statute law, culminating in his Hamlyn Lectures in 2017 entitled Thinking about Statutes: Interpretation, Interaction, Improvement (CUP, 2018). He also led the Oxford-Burma/Myanmar law programme and taught an intensive course at Yangon University. He was President of the Society of Legal Scholars (2015-16), was awarded a DCL in 2014, and in 2015 was made an Honorary Fellow of Brasenose College.