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1 May 2025

The Colin Matthew Fund 2025 is open to applications
This fund offers travel awards for historical research to all undergraduate and graduate members of the University of Oxford. Professor Colin Matthew was a Fellow and Tutor at St Hugh’s between 1974 and 1999. His research focused on British history in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and he was internationally respected as an editor both of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and of the diaries of William Ewart Gladstone, British Prime Minister four times between 1...
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30 April 2025
St Hugh’s hosts art exhibition as part of Oxfordshire Art Weeks entitled “Hue, Colour and Form”
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24 April 2025
St Hugh’s presents Avril Bruten Award 2025 for creative writing
This year’s Avril Gilchrist Bruten Award for Creative Writing again revealed the range and invention of our students’ writing. Among the shortlist...
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22 April 2025
Seth Insua in conversation with Han Smith at St Hugh’s College
Please join us at St Hugh's College on Tuesday 6 May 2205, 5.30pm-6.30pm when St Hugh's alumni Han Smith (Modern Languages, 2008) and Seth Insua (Engl...
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21 April 2025
St Hugh’s students travel to Chilean Patagonia to study pumas
St Hugh's undergraduate students, Montague Pierce Jones (Archaeology and Anthropology, 2021) and Sebastian Rumfitt (Biology, 2021) travelled to Chilea...
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10 April 2025
St Hugh’s students win two awards at All-Innovate competition
Congratulations to St Hugh's undergraduate student, Shangyu Cao (Economics and Management, 2023), and graduate student, Qing Han...
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4 April 2025
St Hugh’s Tutorial Fellow in Music discusses the history of medieval love songs
Spring is the season of love, and St Hugh's Tutorial Fellow in Music, Professor Elizabeth Eva Leach, discusses her research into the way people used t...
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31 March 2025
St Hugh’s Fellow awarded Senior Investigator award by National Institute for Health and Care Research
Congratulations to
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27 March 2025
St Hugh’s Tutorial Fellow elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Congratulations to St Hugh's Tutorial Fellow in Experimental Psychology and Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of Oxford,
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24 March 2025
St Hugh’s Principal to make history by becoming first Catholic to hold role of Lord High Commissioner
St Hugh's Principal, Lady Elish Angiolini will make history by becoming the first Catholic to hold the position of Lord High Commissioner to the 2025 ...
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24 March 2025
News of the Passing of St Hugh’s Staff Member and Friend, Damien Turner
It is with great sadness that we have to announce that our Lodge Porter, Damien Turner, died in hospital on the evening of Friday 14 March after a sho...
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26 February 2025
St Hugh’s College elects Michele Acton as next Principal
St Hugh’s College, Oxford, is delighted to announce that Michele Acton will be its next Principal. She will take up the position in September 2025, ...
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7 February 2025
St Hugh’s Honorary Fellow and alumna appointed visiting Professor of Practice at The Blavatnik School of Government
Congratulations to St Hugh's Honorary Fellow and alumna, Amal Clooney (Law, 1996) who has b...
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6 February 2025
St Hugh’s Graduate student is lead author of paper identifying method to discover fake vaccines
Yohan Arman, a DPhil student in Biochemistry at St Hugh’s College, U...
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5 February 2025
St Hugh’s Fellow publishes monograph showing how museum practices shed new light on literary form.
Emma Bond, Tutorial Fellow in Italian at St Hugh’s, and Professor of Italian and Comparative Studies in the
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4 February 2025
News of the passing of St Hugh’s Fellow and friend, Glen Loutzenhiser
Our colleague Glen Loutzenhiser passed away on Sunday evening at the age of 55, after a two-year struggle with cancer. He was one of the leading tax l...
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29 January 2025
St Hugh’s Alumnus appointed Director at Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
Congratulations to St Hugh's alumnus Dr Patrick Roberts (Archaeology & An...
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24 January 2025
The Avril Bruten Award for Creative Writing 2025
Applications for the Avril Bruten Award 2025 are now open! This award, supported by the Avril Bruten Fund, is  intended to foster and reward creative...
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21 January 2025
St Hugh’s welcomes new Director of Music
St Hugh's is delighted to announce the appointment of Jacob Collins as the new College Director of Chapel Music. Jacob is an organist, conductor and c...
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13 January 2025
St Hugh’s College launches new Student Support Fund
At St Hugh's College, we believe that exceptional academic potential should never be constrained by financial circumstances. Today, we are proud to an...
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10 December 2024
St Hugh’s Engineering undergraduate student awarded Fellowship to study at Havard
Congratulations to St Hugh's fourth year Engineering undergraduate Tracey Saber who has been awarded the prestigious Michael von Clemm Fellowship by C...
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10 December 2024
St Hugh’s Principal appointed Lord High Commissioner of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
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9 December 2024
St Hugh’s Fellow in conversation with Amit Chaudhuri
St Hugh's Fellow, Peter D McDonald, Professor of English and Related Lite...
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28 November 2024
St Hugh’s Principal offers her congratulations to the new Chancellor of Oxford University
Warmest congratulations to Lord Hague on his election as Chancellor of the University of Oxford. We look forward to welcoming him warmly to St Hug...
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27 November 2024
St Hugh’s Distinguished Friend and alumna, Dorothy Livingston, has died
We are deeply saddened to learn of the sudden and unexpected death of our Distinguished Friend and alumna Dorothy Livingston (Law, 1966). We send our ...
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21 November 2024
St Hugh’s Honorary Fellow appointed chair of the Medicine and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
Congratulations to St Hugh's Honorary Fellow, Professor Anthony Harnden,...
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21 November 2024
St Hugh’s Engineering students involved in key development projects
Congratulations to St Hugh's third year Engineering students, Daniel Costache and Huirui Dai whose experiments during their summer internships have si...
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12 November 2024
St Hugh’s College appoints Lady Simler as its Visitor
St Hugh's is delighted to announce the appointment of Lady Ingrid Simler as the College's Visitor. This role is given to an external figure of authori...
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6 November 2024
St Hugh’s student part of Oxford Computer Science team to take second place in United Kingdom and Ireland Programming Contest
St Hugh's student, Masahito Shinokawa (Maths and Computer Sciences, 2020) was part of a team of Oxford students who took second place in the United Ki...
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31 October 2024
St Hugh’s celebrates10th anniversary of Dickson Poon University of Oxford China Centre Building
On Friday 25 October 2024, St Hugh's celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Dickson Poon University of Oxford China Centre Building which was opened i...
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31 October 2024
St Hugh’s hosts inaugural annual AI lecture
St Hugh’s College hosted the inaugural annual lecture on AI entit...
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