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3 June 2016

Kay Carberry to be Honorary Fellow
The Governing Body of St Hugh's College have voted to elect to an Honorary Fellowship Kay Carberry CBE. At their meeting on 18th May 2016, St Hugh's College's Governing Body elected Kay Carberry CBE an Honorary Fellowship of the College. This was partly in recognition of her work and outstanding achievements with the Trades Union Congress.  It was also conferred in acknowledgement of her major contributions to employment and discrimination law, equal opportunities and human rights, as...
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2 June 2016
Dr Tom Kuhn at the National Theatre
St Hugh's College Tutorial Fellow in German, Dr Tom Kuhn, to discuss Brecht and Weill at the National Theatre. Dr Tom Kuhn, Fellow of St Hug...
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19 May 2016
Town & Gown Run 2016
St Hugh's College took part in the 35th annual Town and Gown 10k run on Sunday 15th May. A team of 80 students, fellows and staff signed up t...
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18 May 2016
Parents’ Formal Hall
Parents, family and friends of St Hugh's College finalists were welcomed to a special Formal Hall by the College's Principal, Dame Elish Angiol...
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17 May 2016
Pop Up Cinema in the Gardens
St Hugh's College welcomed students, alumni, staff and neighbours for a 'Pop Up Cinema' evening in the gardens on Friday 13th May. Many braved the co...
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9 May 2016
Pre-Raphaelites at Leighton House
St Hugh's Alumni were treated to an exclusive viewing of the Pre-Raphaelites on Paper exhibition at Leighton House Museum on Wednesday 4th May...
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3 May 2016
Inaugural LSE-Featherstone Moot – St Hugh’s student wins
St Hugh's College student, Clara Ludot, was part of the University of Oxford team that won the inaugural LSE-Featherstone Sexual Identity and Gender ...
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3 May 2016
Mary Renault: A Celebration
The Mordan Hall was packed on 26th April for an event to mark the launch of the Mary Renault Prize and celebrate the writings of ...
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26 April 2016
Lady Justice Hallett Addresses Law Society Dinner
St Hugh's College Honorary Fellow and Alumna, The Rt Hon. Lady Justice Hallett DBE addressed the St Hugh's Law Soc...
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18 April 2016
Professor Horst Eidenmüller elected to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
Freshfields Professor of Commercial Law, Horst Eidenmüller, has been elected to join the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, as an Ordinary Membe...
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24 March 2016
Easter 1916: Politics, Poetry and History in Revolutionary Ireland
As part of the Hilary Term Academic Lecture series, St Hugh's hosted a panel discussion with Professors Senia Paseta, Peter McDonald and David Doyl...
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24 March 2016
Sad news for St Hugh’s
It is with great sadness that we must share the news that two of St Hugh's alumnae and Honorary Fellows have passed away. Professor Doreen Massey pa...
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21 March 2016
Distinguished Friends to join St Hugh’s College
This year, the St Hugh's Governing Body has established a new honour, that of Distinguished Friend. This title is awarded in recognition of the suppo...
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21 March 2016
Professor Tim Rood awarded Leverhulme Trust funding for three year project.
Professor Tim Rood has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Project Grant for a project entitled ‘Anachronism and Antiquity,’ to be conducted in c...
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21 March 2016
Intrepid explorers launch ‘Spitsbergen Retraced,’ an expedition to the Arctic Circle
Five members of Oxford University, including St Hugh's student Jamie Gardiner, are preparing to undertake an exciting and daring journey into the Arct...
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14 March 2016
Going to the races! St Hugh’s student Laure Bonfils selected for the OUWLRC Blue Boat
We're immensely happy to announce that Laure Bonfils (DPhil, Engineering) has been selected for a seat in this year's Lightweight Blue Boat....
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7 March 2016
St Hugh’s welcomes new Honorary Fellows
The St Hugh's Governing Body is delighted to announce the recent appointment of five new Honorary Fellows to the College. Honorary Fellowships are aw...
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7 March 2016
15/05/16: St Hugh’s does the Oxford Town and Gown 10k
This year, St Hugh's is organizing a college team to enter the Oxford Town and Gown 10k and it would be fantastic to have as many people involved as p...
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3 March 2016
St Hugh’s Almunus Yashveer Singh recognised in Forbes 30 Under 30 list
Our congratulations go out to Yashveer Singh, alumnus of St Hugh's and the Said Business School, who has been included in the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia...
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3 March 2016
Blades for St Hugh’s Boat Club in Torpids 2016
St Hugh's Boat Club have been celebrating a successful week in Torpids 2016, with three crews securing 'Blades.' St Hugh's entered four crews into ...
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29 February 2016
Sporting Success: St Hugh’s students represent Oxford University at the British Universities Championships for Judo.
Last weekend, two students from St Hugh's College, Rachel Wheatley (2nd year DPhil) and James Fowler (1st year Law), represented Oxford University at ...
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24 February 2016
The Julia Wood Prize 2016
The Julia Wood Prize is a historical essay prize for Year 12 and Year 13 pupils, awarded by the Pr...
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23 February 2016
St Hugh’s students support the work of The Gatehouse charity.
In Hilary Term this year, students at St Hugh's started a voluntary sandwich club as a way to link the student community at College to the work of The...
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15 February 2016
Professor Antoine Jerusalem recipient of EPSRC Healthcare Technology Award for his work on ‘NeuroPulse’
On Friday, the EPSRC announced the recipients of its new Healthcare Technologies Challenge Awards. These Awards recognize innovative projects which...
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11 February 2016
Olga Lenczewska, a final year undergraduate at St Hugh’s celebrates a successful year abroad.
Olga Lenczewska is in the final year of her BA in Philosophy and Italian. Her academic interests include Immanuel Kant and his legacy, political ph...
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11 February 2016
Oxford Today review ‘Dare unchaperoned to gaze:’ A Woman’s view of Edwaridan Oxford.
Oxford Today recently published their review of 'Dare Unchaperoned to Gaze,' to read the full piece click
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9 February 2016
Dr Michael Holland’s Hilary Term Lecture now available online.
'Feel Your Inner Stage: Outrageous Antics in French Theatre,' now available
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4 February 2016
Professor Stuart Conway awarded 2016 RSC Lectureship
Our warmest congratulations are extended to Professor Stuart Conway who has been awarded the 2016 Lectureship by the Biological and Medicinal Chemistr...
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3 February 2016
Avril Gilchrist Bruten Award for Creative Writing
The Avril Gilchrist Bruten Award is a prize of £250 for the best piece of creative writing entered by either a curren...
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1 February 2016
Aung San Suu Kyi, St Hugh’s Alumna, ushers in new democratic era
Following an historic election victory in November 2015, Aung San Suu Kyi will today see her party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), take thei...
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17 December 2015
Nancy Sandars, 1914-2015
It is with sadness that we share the news that St Hugh's Alumna, Nancy Sandars, prehistorian and archaeologist, passed away peacefully on 20th Novem...
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