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2 May 2024

Alumna and Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow, Professor Wendy James FBA, has died
We are deeply saddened to learn of the death of alumna Professor Wendy James (Geography, 1959). Before becoming a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow at St Hugh’s (1969-71), she taught in the Universities of Khartoum and Bergen and subsequently was consulted by UN bodies, NGOs working with refugees, and the FCO during and after the Sudan’s civil war (1983–2005). Wendy actively supported and taught Human Sciences throughout her teaching career at Oxford. In 2023 the school of Anthropology a...
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18 April 2024
St Hugh’s Fellow is co-author of research which uncovers remarkable archive of ancient human brains
A new study conducted by researchers at the University of Oxford, including St Hugh's Fellow and Tutor in Palaeobiology, Professor Erin Saupe, has cha...
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15 March 2024
St Hugh’s Fellow leads new study revealing insight into which animals are most vulnerable to extinction due to climate change
A new study by a team of researchers at the University of Oxford led by St Hugh's Tutor in Palaeobiology, Professor Erin Saupe, has used the fossil re...
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13 March 2024
St Hugh’s students part of winning Oxford team in Rugby League Varsity Match
Congratulations to the Oxford University Rugby Football Club (OURFC) and our two St Hugh's team members, undergraduate Ben Hughs (Economics and Manage...
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12 March 2024
St Hugh’s announces winner of Avril Bruten Award 2024
Congratulations to first year graduate student, Sarah Marshall (DPhil, Classical Languages and Literature) who has won this year’s Avril Bruten Crea...
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7 March 2024
St Hugh’s College to host all expenses paid Admissions Workshop
In an aim to demystify Oxford and the admissions process, St Hugh's College is hosting a two-day admissions workshop on 25 and 26 March on behalf of t...
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7 March 2024
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 Jour...
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6 March 2024
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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29 February 2024
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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29 February 2024
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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27 February 2024
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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21 February 2024
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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20 February 2024
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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19 February 2024
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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15 February 2024
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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14 February 2024
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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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 rol...
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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
St Hugh's Tutorial F...
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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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