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26 June 2020

Professor Alemany wins recognition for case study on social enterprise helping women and girls in rural Uganda
Congratulations to Professor Luisa Alemany, Fellow by Resolution in Management at St Hugh’s, who has won in the European Foundation for Management Development Case Writing awards, under the category of ‘Inclusive Business Models’, for her case study on BanaPads, a hybrid social enterprise that provides cost effective sanitary pads manufactured from the processed stems of banana plants, to women and girls in rural Uganda. The enterprise was founded ...
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15 June 2020
St Hugh’s Fellow elected as Vice President at The International Primatological Society
Congratulations to Susana Carvahlo, Associate Professor, Fellow in Palaeoanthropology at St Hugh's College, who has been elected as Vice President for...
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9 June 2020
Black Lives Matter
The Principal and Junior Common Room (JCR)  of the College have made the following statements: "The Black Lives Matter protests that have followed...
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2 June 2020
St Hugh’s announces new Director of Development
We are delighted Bruce Lawrence has been appointed as the College's Director of Development, responsible for philanthropy and alumni engagement across...
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20 May 2020
Alumnus’ passion for engineering provides much needed PPE for NHS
St Hugh's alumnus, Adam Gibbons (Engineering Science, 2013) has used his passion for engineering to produce face shields for the NHS using 3D printing...
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19 May 2020
St Hugh’s students step up to join battle against COVID-19
As the NHS continues to fight the pressures brought on by COVID-19, St Hugh's could not be more proud of its students who are using their skills by wo...
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4 May 2020
St Hugh’s music student hits the right note
Congratulations to second-year music student Jonty Watt whose latest composition called “Apogee” for full orchestra, was chosen as the winner of t...
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29 April 2020
St Hugh’s College Chapel introduces virtual services
Throughout Trinity term College Chapel services will be broadcast on a dedicated Facebook page each Sunday evening at 6.15pm. Anyone can watch, wheth...
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25 March 2020
Coronavirus (COVID-19): Advice and Update
In line with Government COVID-19 directions, St Hugh’s College is no longer accessible to visitors. We are supporting a small number of students an...
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23 March 2020
St Hugh’s celebrates the life and work of alumna, Kofoworola Ademola
We were delighted to welcome the Vice-Chancellor of the University, Professor Louise Richardson to St Hugh's College, to unveil a photograph of Kofowo...
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23 March 2020
Women Codebreakers: From Station X to Generation Z
On Saturday 7 March 2020 we were delighted to welcome over 150 guests to the College for the symposium ‘Women Codebreakers: From Station X to Genera...
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16 March 2020
Dr Mimi Zou named in the ‘Young Women to Watch in International Affairs’ award
Congratulations to Dr Mimi Zou, Fangda Partners Career Development Fellow in Chinese Commercial Law at St Hugh's, who has been announced as one of the...
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6 March 2020
Former ambassador and current MSc student gives public lecture
Fergus Cochrane-Dyet OBE spoke to a large audience this week about his diplomatic career in Africa. Formerly British ambassador to Liberia, Seychelle...
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6 March 2020
College hosts exhibition on the history of the DPhil
St Hugh's is very pleased to be hosting an exhibition on the history of the DPhil at Oxford. One of our alumna, Dr Evelyn Simpson, was the first woma...
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4 March 2020
Alumna Joanna Trollope speaks to the ‘Guardian’ about families, fiction and feminism
Our alumna Joanna Trollope CBE (English Language and Literature, 1962) has been interviewed by the Guardian. The novelist spoke to Claire ...
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20 February 2020
Celebrating the Avril Bruten Award for Creative Writing
The College will be celebrating the Avril Bruten Award for Creative Writing, at an event hosted by award-winning writer Kirsty Gunn, this year's compe...
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7 February 2020
‘Anachronism and Antiquity’
Congratulations to Professor Tim Rood, former St Hugh's Junior Research Fellow Dr Carol Atack and alumnus Dr Tom Phillips (Classics, 2003) on the publ...
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27 January 2020
Congratulations to Lindsay Croisdale-Appleby who was named in the New Year’s Honours list
We are delighted to offer our congratulations to St Hugh’s alumnus Lindsay Croisdale-Appleby (Modern History, 1992), who was appointed Companion of ...
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14 January 2020
Professor Morisi speaks to French national radio on Albert Camus
Professor Ève Morisi, Tutorial Fellow in French at St Hugh's, was invited to participate in France's national radio show "La marche de l'histoire" on...
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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), ...
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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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