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International Women’s Day 2024: Poem published for the centenary of St Hugh’s Principal Eleanor Jourdain’s death

On the eve of International Women's Day, St Hugh's is celebrating the life of one of its most influential women in the College's history, Eleanor Jourdain (1863-1924) with a poem, written by St Hugh's Bursar, Gareth Prior. The poem, which explores two of the most famous episodes in St Hugh’s history, has been published in a leading journal in time for the centenary of the death of Eleanor Jourdain. Jourdain, who was Principal from 1915 until her death in office, was a scholar of French and ...
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International Women’s Day: St Hugh’s celebrates the conducting career of alumna, Alice Farnham
On the eve-eve of International Women's Day S...
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St Hugh’s postgraduate student selected to play for the Oxford Blues at The Varsity Matches
Congratulations to St Hugh's postgraduate student Michele Szegda (MSc Medical Physics with Radiobiology) who has been selected to play for the Oxford ...
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St Hugh’s Principal, Lady Elish Angiolini LT DBE PC KC FRSE, presents findings of Inquiry
On Thursday 29 February, the Home Secretary laid before Parliament the first report of the Angiolini Inquiry into the abduction, rape and murder of Sa...
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St Hugh’s hosts an evening of Cavafy with Oxford Professor of Poetry
On Tuesday 20 February, St Hugh’s College welcomed Oxford Professor of Poetry, A E Stallings (pictured on the right), to preside over an evening ded...
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St Hugh’s women footballers make it to Cuppers Final
Congratulations to five St Hugh's ladies who have made it to the Cuppers Finals as part of Summertown Women's Football team:  Carrie O’Toole (Engli...
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Time is racing towards Town & Gown 2024
The next Town and Gown will take place on Sunday 12 May 2024 and we would love members of our Col...
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St Hugh’s launches 2024 online lecture series: ‘Gifts and Books: From Early Myth to the Present’
We recently launched our 2024 online lecture series with our opening session, ‘Gifts and Books: From Early Myth to the Present’, presented by Prof...
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St Hugh’s skiers reach new heights
Congratulations to two members of St Hugh's College, Professor Horst Eidenmueller and Monty Pierce Jones (pictured on the right during racing), both o...
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St Hugh’s English undergraduate wins film award
Congratulations to St Hugh's second year undergraduate, Natalie Tiede (English, 2022) whose new short film, 'Windows'  was recently premiered at the ...
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Lady Elish Angiolini to retire as Principal in September 2025
  The Principal of St Hugh’s College, The Rt Hon Lady Elish Angiolini LT DBE KC, has advised the Governing Body that she will be ret...
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St Hugh’s Tutorial Fellow in Biology seeks to improve gender equity in Medical Sciences
This International Day Of Women and Girls In Science, we are highlighting the work of our Tutorial Fellow in Biology at St Hugh’s, Professor Rachel ...
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St Hugh’s announces The Catherine Ennis Organ Scholars for 2024
In 2021 St Hugh's launched an appeal to endow three organ scholarships at the College in honour of the late Catherine Ennis (Music, 1973), who was one...
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St Hugh’s alumna appointed CBE in The King’s New Year Honours list 2024
We are delighted to offer our congratulations to St Hugh's alumna,
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St Hugh’s alumnus appointed MBE in King’s New Year Honours List 2024
We are delighted to offer our congratulations to St Hugh's alumnus, Laurie Thraves, who has been appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (...
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Research by St Hugh’s Fellow suggests that having employees with disabilities is a source of competitive advantage for organisations
Professor Luisa Alemany, St Hugh's Fellow by Resolution in Management is the co-author of some ground-breaking research which suggests that having emp...
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St Hugh’s Tutorial Fellow receives the prestigious Elman Award for Scientific Achievement and Community Building
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Professor Horst Eidenmüller, Freshfields Chair in Commercial Law, publishes new research article
Together with Dr Kathrin Eidenmüller (Judge, Munich Court of Appeals), who was an Associate Member of St Hugh's SCR between 2021 and 2022, and Conor ...
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St Hugh’s Honorary Fellow appointed lay Commissioner of the Judicial Appointments Commission
Congratulations to Professor Anthony Harnden who has been appointed as a lay Commissioner of the Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC) by His Majesty...
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St Hugh’s MCR celebrate students’ cutting-edge research
As her tenure as MCR Academic Representative comes to an end, Caroline Taylor (third year DPhil, English) reflects on the past year's MCR activities ...
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St Hugh’s bids farewell to long-serving Fellow, Tom Kuhn
After over 30 years of service to St Hugh's College, Tutorial Fellow in German, Tom Kuhn has retired, and has been elected as an Emeritus Fellow. T...
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St Hugh’s Honorary Fellow, Professor Subra Suresh, presented with two of the highest scientific honours
Congratulations to Honorary Fellow, Professor Subra Suresh, who has been presented with two awards in recognition of his work in engineering science. ...
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St Hugh’s welcomes legators to inaugural 1886 Society Lunch
On Saturday 4 November the Principal was delighted to host the inaugural 1886 Society Lunch for those who have generously remembered St Hugh’s in th...
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St Hugh’s Masters student publishes second book
St Hugh's Masters student, Shireen Kalra (MSc Higher Education) has had her second book published: The Outfield, which is a young adult novel...
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St Hugh’s Lecturer in Medicine receives MSD Teaching Excellence Award
Congratulations to Olly Featherstone, St Hugh's Lecturer in Medicine and full-time DPhil candidate in the
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First recipient of Pamela Gradon Scholarship begins studies at St Hugh’s
Congratulations to St Hugh's Graduate student, Hanna Baker Darch (DPhil English) who has been awarded the Pamela Gradon scholarship, one of two schola...
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St Hugh’s Launches Annual Appeal
St Hugh's has launched its Annual Appeal for 2023, seeking support from its alumni community in three priority areas: academic success, student welfar...
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St Hugh’s Fellow awarded two major research grants
Professor Rachel Tanner, Tutorial Fellow in Biology, has been awarded two major research grants. The first, from the National Centre for the Replaceme...
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St Hugh’s Archaeology & Anthropology student makes important discovery during excavation in Georgia
St Hugh's second year undergraduate student, Luka Shanidze, visited Georgia this summer to take part in excavations at Grakliani Gora, an incr...
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Celebrating the Powys Roberts Postdoctoral Fellowship in Modern Languages
St Hugh’s is extremely fortunate to be able to offer one of the only Modern Languag...
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St Hugh’s graduate student leads expedition to Príncipe, off the coast of equatorial West Africa.
Earlier this year, Carla Verónica Fuenteslópez (DPhil Engineering Science) led the University of Oxford Príncipe Expedit...
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