Summer School
Oxford LLMs Summer School
An annual five-day intensive at Nuffield College combining lectures, coding sessions, collaborative research, and guest talks. Now entering its fourth year.
Upcoming
Oxford LLMs Summer School 2026
July 13-17, 2026 at Nuffield College, Oxford. A five-day intensive in lectures, coding, and collaborative research. Programme and speakers to be announced.
Programme & details →Past Summer Schools
2025
Third annual workshop with 30 participants, a Kaggle-style prediction competition, and a cohort of LLM lecturers and social-science speakers collaborating on a joint research project.
Highlights →2024
30 participants from ~200 applications, applied tutorials on RAG and evaluation, and a cross-discipline line-up of NLP engineers and social scientists.
Highlights →2023
The inaugural Oxford LLMs school, convened by Elena Voita and Ilya Boytsov for a cohort of ~30 early-career researchers exploring transformers and text-as-data.
Highlights →From Participants to Co-Authors
The summer school is designed around a participant-to-co-author pipeline. Each cohort collaborates on a research project during the week, and the strongest contributions continue towards publication. This model has already produced real papers.