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9 January 2020

Congratulations to Hilary Cottam and Juliet Pleydell-Bouverie, named in New Year Honours list
St Hugh's is delighted to see two of our alumnae named in the New Year Honours list. Both were awarded OBEs. Hilary Cottam (Modern History, 1984), a social entrepreneur, was honoured for "services to the British Welfare State". In 2019 her book Radical Help: How We Can Remake the Relationships Between Us and Revolutionise the Welfare State was published by Virago. Juliet Pleydell-Bouverie (Modern Languages, 1986), Chief Executive of the Stroke Association, was given an OBE for her...
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9 January 2020
2020 Julia Wood and Mary Renault essay competitions now open
St Hugh’s is very pleased to announce that both the Julia Wood and Mary Renault 2020 essay competitions are now open for submissions. The deadline ...
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8 January 2020
Dr David Taylor appears on BBC’s ‘Antiques Road Trip’
Dr David Taylor, Tutorial Fellow in English at St Hugh's, has appeared on BBC One's 'Antiques Road Trip'. In the episode, broadcast on 7th January 20...
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8 January 2020
Alumna Claire Roberts releases debut album entitled ‘Cheating Hearts’
Huge congratulations to Claire Victoria Roberts (Music, 2011), whose debut album, Cheating Hearts, will be released in February 2020. Claire has perf...
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12 December 2019
Dr Tom Kuhn’s Brecht collection nominated in Times Literary Supplement as book of the year
Congratulations to Dr Tom Kuhn, Tutorial Fellow in German at St Hugh’s, on the ...
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29 November 2019
Alumna Hannah Foxton publishes dissertation in leading journal
Many congratulations to Hannah Foxton (English, 2014), who graduated in 2017 with an outstanding first-class degree, on the publication of her undergr...
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29 November 2019
Reunion Dinner: 2002-2005
On Saturday 23 November 2019 we were delighted to welcome over 70 guests to our reunion dinner for alumni who matriculated at St Hugh’s between 2002...
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11 November 2019
Principal chairs Action against Stalking conference
On Wednesday 6th November the Principal, the Rt Hon Dame Elish Angiolini DBE QC FRSE, chaired a conference in Glasgow on cyber-stalking, or...
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23 October 2019
Congratulations to father and son who matriculated at the same ceremony
While congratulations are due to all of our students who matriculated on Saturday 19th October, the College would like to make a special me...
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23 October 2019
Professor Eidenmüller appointed to advise European Law Institute
Horst Eidenmüller, Freshfields Professor of Commercial Law and Fellow of St Hugh's, has been invited to join a High Level Expert Group, advising the ...
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15 October 2019
The Primate Models for Behavioural Evolution Lab, in collaboration with St Hugh’s College, launches new Primate Conversations series for 2019/20
The research group based at the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology (School of Anthropology & Museum Ethnography), which includes...
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9 October 2019
St Hugh’s celebrates 200 years since the birth of Clara Schumann, renowned pianist and composer
Last Saturday, 5 October, we were pleased to welcome over 100 alumni, students, Fellows and guests for a fabulous evening of words and music to celebr...
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9 October 2019
Professor Ian Thompson awarded £2.55m for research into impact of UK school exclusions
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) has awarded a grant of £2,550,850 to conduct first-time multi-disciplinary research on the consequenc...
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8 October 2019
St Hugh’s alumna Rose Alterman takes on 3000 mile Atlantic Challenge
St Hugh's alumna Rose Alterman (Medicine, 2009), now working as an Emergency Medicine Registrar in Exeter, Devon, is switching her scrubs for the sea,...
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27 September 2019
September 2019 alumni weekend
Last weekend we were delighted to be able to welcome back alumni for two very special reunion events in College. A selection of photos taken by David ...
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19 September 2019
Professor Morisi talks to the BBC World Service about Albert Camus
Ève Morisi, Associate Professor of French, has been featured on the BBC World Service programme "The Forum". She was offering her expertise on the F...
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12 September 2019
Dr Mimi Zou named in ‘40 under 40 Most Influential Asian-Australian’ awards
Dr Mimi Zou, the Fangda Partners Career Development Fellow in Chinese Commercial Law at St Hugh...
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10 September 2019
Lady Justice Heather Hallett (Law, 1968) appointed to the House of Lords
The College would like to publicly offer its congratulations to our alumna, the Rt Hon Dame Heather Hallett QC, on her appointment to the peerage. ...
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6 September 2019
Professor Cristian Capelli’s population study reveals southern European ancestry patterns
An international team lead by Prof Cristian Capelli, Tutorial Fellow for Human Sciences, has characterised the genetic variation present in the Italia...
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5 September 2019
St Hugh’s researchers use AI to recognise and track primate faces
Scientists affiliated with St Hugh's College have contributed to the development of AI-driven software that is capable of tracking the faces of primat...
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20 August 2019
Mary Renault Prize Competition, 2019
We received our largest number of submissions this year for the Mary Renault Prize. The judges awarded first prize to Alicja Sobiepańska, in the fin...
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20 August 2019
Julia Wood Prize Competition, 2019
This year the number of entries to the Julia Wood Prize was 221. The intensity of the competition meant that the judges again felt compelled to divid...
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8 August 2019
Bursar Vicki Stott appointed as Executive Director of Operations at the QAA
Warmest congratulations to our Bursar, Vicki Stott, on her appointment as Executive Director of Operations (Deputy CEO) of the Quality Assurance Agenc...
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7 August 2019
Many congratulations to Professor Alison Noble
We are extremely proud of St Hugh’s alumna and Honorary Fellow, Professor Alison Noble (Engineering Science, 1983), for being the recipient of the 2...
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31 July 2019
Synthetic biology research shows potential for improved crop yields
Interdisciplinary research by a team including Professor Stuart Conway, the E. P. Abraham Cephalosporin Fellow, has produced a new synthetic plant-mic...
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26 July 2019
Dr Chuor de Garang Alier crowned winner of 2019 Rare Rising Star Awards
Dr Chuor de Garang Alier has the warmest congratulations of all at St Hugh's on being named as the winner of the Rare Rising Star awards, which celebr...
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26 July 2019
‘Urban Microcosms (1789–1940)’
Congratulations to Dr Margit Dirscherl on the publication of Urban Microcosms (1789–1949), co edited with Professor Astrid Köhler. Urban ...
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25 July 2019
Professor Andrew Burrows QC appointed to Supreme Court
The College offers its warmest congratulations to Professor Andrew Burrows QC on his appointment to the Supreme Court. Professor Burrows is an Honora...
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17 July 2019
The St Hugh’s Coast Run tally!
Outreach Officer Lena Sorochina has completed the first St Hugh's Coast Run! The run was a massive outreach project in which she... visite...
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12 July 2019
Professor Stuart Conway becomes President of the RSC Organic Division
Professor Stuart Conway began his presidency of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Organic Division on July 10th.  The RSC’s Organic Div...
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10 July 2019
Law finalist Antonia Kendrick wins prize for student journal publication
Finalist Antonia Kendrick (Law with German Law, 2015) has won a prize for the Best Private Law Submission to the Oxford University Undergraduate Law J...
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