 He delivered the Jarrow Lecture in 1984.Following a British Academy Research Readership (1987–89), Wormald returned to Oxford in 1989 as a college lecturer at Christ Church, where he was then appointed a fellow and university lecturer from 1990, tutoring students in medieval history.He delivered the Deerhurst Lecture in 1991 and the British Academy's Raleigh Lecture in History in 1995.