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16 January 2026

St Hugh’s Honorary Fellow and alumna awarded CBE in King’s New Years Honours 2026
Congratulations to St Hugh's Honorary Fellow and alumna Judge Patrice Wellesley-Cole CBE (Law, 1971) who has been appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the King's New Year Honours 2026 for services to Charity. The award was given in recognition of her work as the President of Graduate Women International (GWI). Previously, she served as a Tribunal Judge ...
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16 December 2025
St Hugh’s pays tribute to alumna and bestselling novelist Joanna Trollope who has died aged 82
We are deeply saddened to learn of the death of our alumna Joanna Trollope (English Language and Literature, 1962) on 11 December 2025, and send our s...
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2 December 2025
St Hugh’s hosts reunion for alumni who matriculated between 1992 and 1995
We were delighted to welcome back to St Hugh's alumni who matriculated between 1992 and 1995, on Saturday 22 November for a wonderful reunion event fu...
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10 November 2025
St Hugh’s Fellow receives Gold Medal in Academia award from IPEM
Congratulations to St Hugh's Fellow by Resolution in Physics and alumnus, Dr Jack Mil...
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26 September 2025
St Hugh’s welcomes distinguished guest, Honorary Fellow, Jane Glover (Music, 1968)
On the evening of Saturday 20 September 2025, St Hugh's alumni gathered for a memorable College dinner featuring our distinguished guest of honour,
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30 June 2025
The house that AI, robotics, and 3D printing built: alumni-led company pioneers digital house-building
Harnessing cutting-edge digital technologies and automated construction methods, Nexus Innovations is poised to transform how homes are built. Co-foun...
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22 April 2025
Seth Insua in conversation with Han Smith at St Hugh’s College
Please join us at St Hugh's College on Tuesday 6 May 2205, 5.30pm-6.30pm when St Hugh's alumni Han Smith (Modern Languages, 2008) and Seth Insua (Engl...
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7 February 2025
St Hugh’s Honorary Fellow and alumna appointed visiting Professor of Practice at The Blavatnik School of Government
Congratulations to St Hugh's Honorary Fellow and alumna, Amal Clooney (Law, 1996) who has b...
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29 January 2025
St Hugh’s Alumnus appointed Director at Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
Congratulations to St Hugh's alumnus Dr Patrick Roberts (Archaeology & An...
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21 January 2025
St Hugh’s welcomes new Director of Music
St Hugh's is delighted to announce the appointment of Jacob Collins as the new College Director of Chapel Music. Jacob is an organist, conductor and c...
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13 January 2025
St Hugh’s College launches new Student Support Fund
At St Hugh's College, we believe that exceptional academic potential should never be constrained by financial circumstances. Today, we are proud to an...
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27 November 2024
St Hugh’s Distinguished Friend and alumna, Dorothy Livingston, has died
We are deeply saddened to learn of the sudden and unexpected death of our Distinguished Friend and alumna Dorothy Livingston (Law, 1966). We send our ...
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31 October 2024
St Hugh’s celebrates10th anniversary of Dickson Poon University of Oxford China Centre Building
On Friday 25 October 2024, St Hugh's celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Dickson Poon University of Oxford China Centre Building which was opened i...
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29 October 2024
St Hugh’s Elizabeth Wordsworth Fellows appointed to the Chancellor’s Court of Benefactors
We are delighted to announce that St Hugh's College Elizabeth Wordsworth Fellows, Eddy and Emily Tang have been appointed as members of the Chancellor...
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2 July 2024
St Hugh’s Garden Party
[_es_button href='https://www.st-hughs.ox.ac.uk/event-alumni/st-hughs-garden-party/' style='blue' label='Book now for 2025']   On Saturday ...
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23 June 2024
St Hugh’s celebrates Women in Engineering Day 2024
This year's "Women in Engineering Day" is recognising the amazing work that women engineers around the world are doing to support lives and livelihood...
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13 June 2024
New edition of book written by St Hugh’s alumna, Mary Renault, to be published
We are delighted to announce that a stunning new hardback edition of The Persian Boy written by novelist and alumna Mary Renault (English Lan...
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20 May 2024
Alumni Business Breakfast: “Think like a Brand”
We were delighted to welcome our alumni to a recent Business Breakfast at the Museum of Brands in London, where our two distinguished speakers: alumna...
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7 February 2024
St Hugh’s alumna appointed CBE in The King’s New Year Honours list 2024
We are delighted to offer our congratulations to St Hugh's alumna,
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7 February 2024
St Hugh’s alumnus appointed MBE in King’s New Year Honours List 2024
We are delighted to offer our congratulations to St Hugh's alumnus, Laurie Thraves, who has been appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (...
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29 November 2023
St Hugh’s welcomes legators to inaugural 1886 Society Lunch
On Saturday 4 November the Principal was delighted to host the inaugural 1886 Society Lunch for those who have generously remembered St Hugh’s in th...
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16 November 2023
St Hugh’s Launches Annual Appeal
St Hugh's has launched its Annual Appeal for 2023, seeking support from its alumni community in three priority areas: academic success, student welfar...
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8 November 2023
Celebrating the Powys Roberts Postdoctoral Fellowship in Modern Languages
St Hugh’s is extremely fortunate to be able to offer one of the only Modern Languag...
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20 October 2023
Alumni Weekend 2023
This year we were delighted to put on a bumper weekend of alumni reunions at St Hugh’s to coincide with Meeting Minds in Oxford, 22-24 September. It...
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4 October 2023
St Hugh’s Alumni Association celebrates women in politics
By Dr Gianetta Corley (Modern Languages, 1958), Alumni Association Committee As part of the Oxford University Meeting Minds Alumni...
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4 April 2022
St Hugh’s welcomes alumnae back for Jubilee Lunch celebrations in College, 26 March 2022
On 26 March 2022 we were delighted to welcome back alumnae who matriculated in 1950, 1951, 1960, 1961, 1970 and 1971 for the St Hugh’s College Jubil...
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4 April 2022
St Hugh’s alumna is one of lead authors of paper introducing new tool for restoring and attributing Greek inscriptions using Artificial Intelligence
Congratulations to Thea Sommerschield (Greek History, 2015), Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia and Fellow in Helleni...
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22 March 2022
St Hugh’s alumna launches first season of BBC progamming as Head of Arts and Classical Music TV
Congratulations to Suzy Klein (Music, 1993) who was appointed BBC Head of Arts and Classical Music TV in October 2021 and whose first season of new pr...
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10 December 2021
Professor Anne Hudson (English Language & Literature, 1957), Honorary Fellow and St Hugh’s alumna, has died
It is with the deepest sorrow that the College has learnt of the death of Honorary Fellow Professor Anne Hudson (1938–2021), who studied English at ...
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21 June 2021
Professor Loretta J Ross delivers inspirational talk at inaugural ‘Lady Ademola Lecture’
We were delighted to welcome so many guests to our inaugural 'Lady Ademola Lecture' which is part of the College's series celebrating the life and wor...
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21 June 2021
Congratulations to St Hugh’s alumna, Professor Rebecca Shipley, recognised in Queen’s Birthday Honours list
We are delighted to announce that Professor Rebecca Shipley, who matriculated in 2001 and completed both her MMath and her DPhil at St Hugh’s, has b...
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