 Following his early retirement from Christ Church in 2001, he was re-engaged as a lecturer by the History Faculty at Oxford and entered Wolfson College.He was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2003, and that year also delivered the Brixworth Lecture.In 2009, a collection of essays written by leading scholars in Wormald's honour was published under the title "Early Medieval Studies in Memory of Patrick Wormald", edited by Stephen Baxter et al.