hosted by Professor Nina Hall


Rosemary Foot is Professor and Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Relations. She is also an associate of the China Centre, and an Emeritus Fellow of St Antony's College. Previously she was Professor of International Relations, and the John Swire Senior Research Fellow in the International Relations of East Asia at St Antony's College, Oxford University from 1990-2014. She was Senior Tutor, 2003-2005, and Acting Warden of the College from December 2011 to September 2012.

Professor Foot studied at the University of Essex (1972), the London School of Oriental and African Studies (1973), and the London School of Economics and Political Science where she completed a PhD degree in 1977. She then took up a post as Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sussex, in the School of English and American Studies, acting as Sub Dean of the School from 1985 and 1987, and moving to Oxford in 1990.

Over the course of her academic career, she has held visiting academic appointments in a number of countries, including Australia, China, New Zealand, Oslo, Singapore, and the United States. Her research has been supported financially by the American Council of Learned Societies/Fulbright Scholar; the British Academy; the Leverhulme Trust; and the DPIR at Oxford.