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12 February 2024

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 retiring from her role as Head of the College in September 2025. Lady Elish has led St Hugh’s since September 2012, and oversaw the fundraising and opening of the new Dickson Poon University of Oxford China Centre Building in 2014, as well as the significant increase in the College’s endowment. She has been a tireless ambassado...
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11 February 2024
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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7 February 2024
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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7 February 2024
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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7 February 2024
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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6 February 2024
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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31 January 2024
St Hugh’s Tutorial Fellow receives the prestigious Elman Award for Scientific Achievement and Community Building
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30 January 2024
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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13 December 2023
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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6 December 2023
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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30 November 2023
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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29 November 2023
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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29 November 2023
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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28 November 2023
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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27 November 2023
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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17 November 2023
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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16 November 2023
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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13 November 2023
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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9 November 2023
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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8 November 2023
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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7 November 2023
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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6 November 2023
The Avril Gilchrist Bruten Award for Creative Writing 2024
Applications for the Avril Bruten Award for Creative Writing 2024 are now open! The competition is open to all current undergraduate and postgradua...
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27 October 2023
St Hugh’s Principal becomes first female to be sworn in as Lord Clerk Register of Scotland
Congratulations to our Principal, Lady Elish Angiolini, who was yesterday sworn in as the new Lord Clerk Register of Scotland by the Lord Pre...
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25 October 2023
St Hugh’s Fellow provides expert comment for BBC on the use of tidal power
St Hugh's Career Development Fellow in Oxford University's Department of Engineering Science, Dr Amanda Smyth has featured on BBC TV News and
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20 October 2023
Alumni Weekend 2023
This year we were delighted to put on a bumper weekend of alumni reunions at St Hugh’s to coincide with Meeting Minds in Oxford, 22-24 September. It...
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16 October 2023
Brecht at the Sheldonian by Dr Tom Kuhn
In the early 1940s, the German poet and playwright, Bertolt Brecht, embarked on a new scrapbook project. Struck by the way the war was represented in ...
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10 October 2023
St Hugh’s Fellow appointed Simons Foundation Investigator
Congratulations to St Hugh's Tutorial Fellow in Mathematical Biology, Professor Ruth Baker, who has been appointed Simons Foundation Investigator. ...
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4 October 2023
St Hugh’s Alumni Association celebrates women in politics
By Dr Gianetta Corley (Modern Languages, 1958), Alumni Association Committee As part of the Oxford University Meeting Minds Alumni...
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4 October 2023
St Hugh’s Fellows receive Recognition of Distinction Award
Congratulations to five St Hugh's Fellows who have received the title of full Professor in the Recognition of Distinction Awards at Oxford University:...
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22 August 2023
St Hugh’s Graduate student nominated ‘Best and Brightest in the World’
Congratulations to St Hugh's Graduate student, Eleanor Hevey (EMBA, 2020), who is one of two students representing
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1 August 2023
The sun shines for St Hugh’s Annual Garden Party
In June,  350 alumni, families and friends joined us for St Hugh’s annual St Hugh’s Garden Party. Guests enjoyed a sunny afternoon with tea an...
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