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28 April 2021

Spotlight on Graduate Research
Congratulations to everyone who took part in our online event to show case some of the incredible research being undertaken by our DPhil students. Middle Common Room (MCR) President Ricardo De Luca E Tuma opened the event by talking about graduate life during the pandemic. MCR Academic Representative, Chenying Liu, then introduced four of our graduate students who each gave a presentation about their research: Jacinto Mathe (Anthropology, 2020): ‘Bones and ecology in the southern African...
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26 April 2021
The Norman Conquest in English History. Volume I A Broken Chain?
Congratulations to Professor George Garnett, Tutorial Fellow in History, on the publication of his book “The Norman Conquest in English History. Vol...
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19 March 2021
2021 Telethon 15–29 March
The 2021 St Hugh’s Telephone Campaign is now underway and running from 15–29 March. Our student callers are busy getting in touch with as many...
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18 March 2021
An Evening with Rebecca Front (English, 1982)
To mark International Women’s Day, 8 March 2021, St Hugh’s held a virtual evening with celebrated actress and writer, and Honorary Fellow of St Hu...
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26 February 2021
Avril Bruten Creative Writing Award 2021
The College is delighted to announce that Kitty Blain (2nd year undergraduate studying Philosophy and Modern Languages) has won this year’s Avril Br...
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25 February 2021
Dr Iain Morley, Paleoanthropologist and Fellow of St Hugh’s College, has died
It is with the deepest sorrow that the College has learnt of the death of Dr Iain Morley, our wonderful colleague and friend. Iain was a paleoanthr...
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18 February 2021
Professor Horst Eidenmüeller elected as Senior Research Fellow of Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation
Congratulations to Professor Horst Eidenmüeller, who has been elected to a Senior Research Fellowship of the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital ...
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11 February 2021
Tutor The Nation founder Jacky Lambert: “We have to act”
Jacky Lambert, an Honorary Fellow of St Hugh’s College, has been lauded in an article in the Daily Mail for her
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11 February 2021
St Hugh’s at heart of Oxford Intellectual History
Dr Jon Parkin, Tutorial Fellow in History, has been appointed as Director of the recently launched Oxford Centre for Intellectual History. Oxford i...
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5 February 2021
Understanding Authenticity in China’s Cultural Heritage
Dr Anke Hein, the Peter Moores Associate Professor in Chinese Archaeology, and Fellow of St Hugh's College, is organising an online conference entitle...
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4 February 2021
The Reverend Jane Sinclair (Modern History, 1975), 1956-2021
The College is deeply saddened to learn of the death of the Reverend Jane Sinclair (Modern History, 1975), former Canon of Westminster and Rector of S...
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1 February 2021
Warmest congratulations to the new Head of the UK Mission to the European Union, Lindsay Croisdale-Appleby CMG (Modern History, 1992)
The College is delighted to see our alumnus, Lindsay Croisdale-Appleby CMG, appointed as the Head of the United Kingdom Mission to the European Union,...
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27 January 2021
St Hugh’s French Lecturer, Genevieve Adams, to be an Honorary Fellow
We are delighted to announce the Governing Body of St Hugh's College have voted to elect Genevieve Adams to an Honorary Fellowship. Genevieve was e...
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19 January 2021
Former ambassador and St Hugh’s alumnus, Fergus Cochrane-Dyet, elected Honorary Fellow
We are delighted to announce that Fergus Cochrane-Dyet OBE (MSc African Studies, 2019) has been elected to an Honorary Fellowship of St Hugh's College...
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13 January 2021
St Hugh’s Stipendiary lecturer awarded research funding
Christopher Pull, PhD, Departmental Lecturer in Animal Behaviour, Department of Zoology and Stipendiary Lecturer at St Hugh's, has been awarded a John...
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11 January 2021
Catherine Ennis, 1955-2020
With great sadness the College has learned of the death of Catherine Ennis, of cancer, on Christmas Eve 2020. Catherine Ennis had been Organist and...
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4 January 2021
Congratulations to distinguished conductor, Professor Dame Jane Glover, CBE who has been recognised in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours
We are delighted to offer our congratulations to St Hugh's alumna and Honorary Fellow, Professor Dame Jane Glover, CBE (Music, 1968), who has been mad...
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17 December 2020
Colonial and Postcolonial Cyprus: Transportal Literatures of Empire, Nationalism, and Sectarianism
Congratulations to our alumnus Dr Daniele Nunziata (World Literatures in English, 2013) on the publication of his book Colonial and Postcolonial C...
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16 December 2020
Renowned actress, Rebecca Front, elected Honorary Fellow
St Hugh's Governing Body recently voted to elect Rebecca Front to an Honorary Fellowship. This was in recognition of her contribution to the British e...
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14 December 2020
St Hugh’s professor and senior researcher in Kenya awarded for their collaboration
St Hugh's Professor Susana Carvalho and fellow African senior researcher, Frederick Manthi, have been presented with one of only eight AfOx ReDA award...
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8 December 2020
St Hugh’s professor appears on Radio 4 show, ‘Start the Week’
Associate Professor, Fellow in Palaeonathropology, Professor Susana Carvalho, appeared as one of the special guests on the BBC Radio 4 show 'Start the...
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4 December 2020
Professor Adrian Moore on life as a philosopher
Professor Adrian Moore gave a wide-ranging interview last month, well worth read...
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3 December 2020
Professor Anthony Harnden discusses vaccine rollout on BBC Newsnight
St Hugh's Fellow Professor Anthony Harden appeared on BBC Newsnight on 2 December to discuss the logistics of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine rollout. ...
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1 December 2020
St Hugh’s Virtual Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols
Our annual Advent Carol service took place on Sunday 29 November, with around 300 people from all parts of the St Hugh's community joining us virtuall...
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30 November 2020
Professor Erin Saupe delivers fascinating insight into mass extinction on Earth
On Tuesday 23 November, Professor Erin Saupe's virtual lecture, "‘The end of the world as we know it: mass extinctions in the past, the present and ...
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19 November 2020
Dr Jane Glover CBE (Music, 1968) given Gamechanger Award by Royal Philharmonic Society
Many congratulations to St Hugh’s alumna and Honorary Fellow Dr Jane Glover CBE, who has been recognised by the Royal Philharmonic Society with a pr...
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17 November 2020
Virtual Diwali 2020 Celebrations
Screens across St Hugh's lit up with "Happy Diwali" messages delivered virtually by College Principal, The Rt Hon. Dame Elish Angiolini DBE QC FRSE, P...
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17 November 2020
Black History Month: Virtual Film Screening
On Sunday 8 November, St Hugh's students were treated to a virtual screening of "Queen and Slim", a 2019 American road crime drama centred on a young ...
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6 November 2020
“Snapshot 2020” Exhibition
Each term, we put on a display of items from the library and archive collections in our library exhibition cases. Inspired by the nationwide projec...
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26 October 2020
Black History Month profile: Patrice Wellesley-Cole (Law, 1971)
In the early 1970s Patrice Wellesley-Cole (Law, 1971) was the only black undergraduate at the College, and she describes her time at Oxford as "one of...
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21 October 2020
Black History Month profile: Melvin Mezue (Neuroscience, 2010)
As part of our programme for Black History Month 2020 we are taking the opportunity to recognise and share the outstanding contributions alumni of Afr...
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