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19 October 2026

St Hugh’s Chefs crowned Oxford Guild of Chefs Five-a-Side champions
St Hugh’s chefs have been crowned champions of the annual City of Oxford Guild of Chefs Five-a-Side Football tournament, following an impressive unbeaten run at Iffley Road Sports Centre on Sunday 4 October. Led by Assistant Catering Manager and Team Captain Ervist Sheh, the St Hugh’s side faced strong competition from catering teams across Oxford's hospitality and culinary sector. The tournament began in emphatic fashion with a 7-0 victo...
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8 October 2026
St Hugh’s Finalist receives two awards for exceptional academic performance
Congratulations to St Hugh's Finalist, Sophie Harrison (Modern Languages, 2022) who has received not one but two prizes for her exceptional academic p...
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7 October 2026
The Lady Ademola Lecture
St Hugh's Lady Ademola Lecture will take place online during Black History Month on Thursday 22 October at 1.00pm. This is an annual event held in hon...
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25 September 2026
Celebrating generations of St Hugh’s alumni at the Jubilee Lunch
On Sunday 20 September, St Hugh’s welcomed over 60 alumni back to College for a Jubilee Lunch, celebrating the 50th, 60th and 70th-plus anniversarie...
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24 September 2026
St Hugh’s Fellow elected as Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Congratulations to Professor Martin Booth FREng, St Hugh's Professor of Ele...
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23 September 2026
St Hugh’s welcomes back alumni from around the world
St Hugh's was delighted to welcome more than 100 alumni back to College on Saturday 19 September for a special dinner during Oxford's Meeting Minds we...
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23 September 2026
St Hugh’s Fellow publishes book which explores human relationships with dogs
St Hugh's Tutorial Fellow in Archaeology & Vice Principal, Professor Peter Mitchell has published a new book called First Dogs in which h...
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22 September 2026
New research by St Hugh’s Fellow explores why some chimpanzee mothers carry their dead infants for months
Research by Professor Thomas A. Püschel, St Hugh's Tutorial Fellow in
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11 September 2026
St Hugh’s Fellow receives two awards for teaching excellence
Congratulations to St Hugh's Lecturer in Management and Senior Fellow in Management Practice at Saïd Business Sch...
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10 September 2026
St Hugh’s Fellow recognised for innovative quality of teaching
Congratulations to St Hugh's Professorial Fellow in Commercial Law and Statutory Chair for Commercial Law in the F...
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9 September 2026
Explore St Hugh’s tree collection with its new interactive tree portal
St Hugh's Head Gardener, Ed Reid, has launched a new
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4 September 2026
St Hugh’s Fellow elected to the Fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences
Congratulations to Professor Eric Zhao, St Hugh's Tutor in Management and Professor of Strategy and Associate Dean for Research at
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6 August 2026
St Hugh’s Fellow discusses Proust’s phenomena on BBC Radio 4’s “PM”
St Hugh's Tutorial Fellow in Experimental Psychology, Professor Asifa Majid FBA...
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28 July 2026
Dr Johanna Stark appointed as Professor of Taxation Law at St Hugh’s
We are delighted to announce that Dr Johanna Stark has been appointed as Professor of Taxation Law at St Hugh's and the
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24 July 2026
St Hugh’s Fellow elected to the Professorship of Control Engineering at Cambridge University
Professor Alessandro Abate, St Hugh's Tutorial Fellow in Computer Science and ...
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22 July 2026
St Hugh’s announces winners of its annual Arts & Photography Competition
Congratulations to the winners of St Hugh's Art and Photography Competition which was open to all College staff and students. This year an additional ...
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20 July 2026
St Hugh’s graduate medical student recognised by Royal College of Physicians for work advancing AI cancer vaccines
Congratulations to Jedrzej Jaworski, a final-year medical student at St Hugh’s College, Oxford University and AI Cancer Vaccine Manufacturing Lead f...
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14 July 2026
St Hugh’s Fellow provides expert comment on acquisition of the archive of French writer Albert Camus
St Hugh's Tutorial Fellow in French and Professor of Literatures in
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13 July 2026
St Hugh’s Fellow appointed Pro-Vice-Chancellor for People and Culture
Congratulations to St Hugh's Tutorial Fellow in the Politics of Latin America, P...
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8 July 2026
St Hugh’s staff part of winning Oxford University golf team
Congratulations to St Hugh's Senior Research Fellow and Professor of Economics, Professor Michael McMahon and Lodge Manager, Sam Henry (pictured here ...
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3 July 2026
Study co-authored by St Hugh’s Fellow challenges evolution of human body size theory
New research published in the journal PNAS on 22 June 2026, co-authored by ...
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2 July 2026
Alumni Garden Party brings St Hugh’s community together
St Hugh's was delighted to welcome over 400 guests including alumni, family members and friends to this year's Alumni Garden Party for a wonderful aft...
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1 July 2026
St Hugh’s Senior Fellow Retires
After 38 years at St Hugh’s, our Friend, Senior Fellow and Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy,
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25 June 2026
St Hugh’s Principal appointed Honorary Fellow of Trinity College
Congratulations to St Hugh's Principal, Michele Acton, who has been appointed an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, University of Oxford, where she r...
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15 June 2026
Former St Hugh’s Chaplain has died at the age of 94
We are deeply saddened to learn of the death of our former Chaplain, The Reverend Canon Ron Lloyd. Ron passed away on 29 May 2026 aged 94. He was Chap...
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12 June 2026
St Hugh’s Fellow discusses the science behind the language of smell
St Hugh's Tutorial Fellow in Experimental Psychology and Professor of Cognitive Science at Oxford University,
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9 June 2026
St Hugh’s Fellow leads team awarded ARIA funding to develop an ‘Internet of Birds’
Congratulations to St Hugh's Tutorial Fellow in Engineering, Professor Chris S...
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28 May 2026
St Hugh’s students part of winning team at Football Plate Final
Congratulations to the St Hugh's football players who won the 2026 Hassan's Plate Final at Ox...
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26 May 2026
St Hugh’s College holds daily staff events for Mental Health Awareness Week
As one of the best collegiate employers in the University of Oxford, the welfare of St Hugh's College's staff is its priority, and during
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18 May 2026
A paper published by St Hugh’s Tutorial Fellow in Human Sciences explains human handedness
In a paper entitled 'Bipedalism and brain expansion explain human handedness' recently published in PLOS...
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18 May 2026
St Hugh’s Boat Club Summer Eights Dinner
Join us for a special evening celebrating the rich history of St Hugh’s rowing, as we welcome our rowers, alumni and students for a lively and celeb...
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