17 November 2021

St Hugh’s lights up as students and staff enjoy fireworks display

St Hugh's Principal, Dame Elish, welcomed students and staff to a wonderful evening of food and fireworks last week - the first all College event this year. College catering provided delicious chilli and baked potatoes which everyone devoured while listening to music played by two bands from the JCR. As the photographs below illustrate the fireworks display lit up the sky above College and was spectacular! Thank you to everyone involved in organising this event for all their hard work and spe...

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17 November 2021

Congratulations to Professor Elizabeth Eva Leach FBA on receiving the Roland Jackson Award

We are delighted to announce that a Music Analysis publication, “Do Trouvère Melodies Mean Anything?” by St Hugh's Tutorial Fellow in Mus...

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17 November 2021

JCR students welcome some four-legged friends to St Hughs!

St Hugh's JCR organised and funded a packed Welfare Week programme during 5th week of Michaelmas Term which included a visit by a group of alpacas. ...

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25 October 2021

Prize winning book co-edited by St Hugh’s Fellow Professor Peter Mitchell

Congratulations to Professor Peter Mitchell, Tutorial Fellow in Archaeology, for being co-editor of The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Historiogra...

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21 October 2021

Black History Month Profile

Sir Lesley McCarthy: A Pioneer of Africanisation of the Senior Civil Service in the Gold Coast by Margaret Esiri, Emeritus Fellow ...

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18 October 2021

Congratulations to Professor Erin Saupe on being awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize 2021

We are delighted to announce that College Fellow, Professor Erin Saupe has been awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize 2021 in recognition of her excepti...

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14 October 2021

St Hugh’s Fellows named Turing Fellows for the 2021/22 academic year

Congratulations to St Hugh's Fellows, Professor Alessandro Abate, Tutorial Fellow in Computer Science, and Professor Rafael Perera, Fellow in Medical ...

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14 October 2021

Black History Month Profile

Samuel Edward Krune Loliwe Ngxekengxeke Mqhayi: A great twentieth century writer by Professor Peter D. McDonald, Tutorial Fellow in English

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13 October 2021

St Hugh’s hosts exhibition featuring the photography of Nancy Sheung (1914-1979)

St Hugh's is delighted to be hosting an exhibition featuring the photography of Nancy Sheung in the College's Hamlin Gallery from Friday 15 October un...

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12 October 2021

St Hugh’s Honorary Fellow and friend, Geneviève Adams, has died

It is with the deepest sorrow that the College has learnt of the death of our treasured former colleague and friend, Geneviève Adams, who had been ...

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12 October 2021

St Hugh’s announces the winners of the Julia Wood Prize, 2021

This year there was again a record number of entries: 387. The prize was awarded to Kitty Dallas, in the Lower Sixth at St Paul’s Girls’ School, f...

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12 October 2021

St Hugh’s announces the winners of the Mary Renault Prize 2021

This year we again had an excellent selection of essays on many different aspects of classical reception, with a strong international field. The first...

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7 October 2021

Black History Month Profile

Septimius Severus: African Roman Emperor, legislator and judge By Professor Joshua Getzler and Professor Mike Macnair, Tutors in Law

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6 October 2021

St Hugh’s Alumni Association celebrates the life and legacy of Barbara Castle

On 18 September 2021, the St Hugh’s Alumni Association was delighted to host a virtual symposium celebrating the life and legacy of St Hugh’s alum...

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30 September 2021

Black History Month Profile

Phillis Wheatley: A Pioneering African-American Poet by David Taylor, Fellow in English Literature Phillis Wheatley (175...

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27 September 2021

St Hugh’s DPhil student wins prestigious Vice Chancellor’s Social Impact Award

Congratulations to Carla V. Fuenteslópez who has been awarded the accolade for her outstanding commitment to soci...

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10 September 2021

St Hugh’s open its doors

St Hugh's will open to the public as part of Oxford Open Doors which celebrates Oxford’s heritage and culture by giving people the chance to get beh...

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3 September 2021

St Hugh’s Vice Principal visits statue of Emily Wilding Davison

College Vice-Principal Professor George Garnett together with his dog Lily recently visited the 2018 statue of Emily Wilding Davison, in Carlisle Park...

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3 September 2021

Virtual Information Afternoon for state school sixth formers with Back, Asian, or Minority Ethnic heritage

As part of our commitment to supporting applicants from all backgrounds, and in conjunction with the Oxford University Virtual Open Day on Friday 17 ...

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26 July 2021

St Hugh’s appoints Professor Robert Vilain as Senior Tutor

Professor Robert Vilain joins St Hugh’s from the University of Bristol, where he has been Professor of German and Comparative Literature since 2010 ...

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8 July 2021

Oxford golf team retain Fox-Powell Trophy

Congratulations to the team from the University of Oxford for winning the Fox-Powell Trophy in a closely contested match against the University of Cam...

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7 July 2021

St Hugh’s student wins 2021 Henfrey Prize for Composition

Jonty Lefroy Watt (Music, 2018) has been awarded the Henfrey Prize for Composition 2021. Jonty set to music the words of fellow St Hugh's student Anni...

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1 July 2021

St Hugh’s appoints Gareth Prior as Bursar

Gareth Prior joins St Hugh’s from Worcester College, where he has been Finance & Estates Bursar since 2018. Gareth spent over a decade as a s...

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22 June 2021

St Hugh’s Men’s First Boat creates history at Summer Torpids

Congratulations to St Hugh's Men's First Boat who not only won blades but also made history by reaching the highest position ever reached on the river...

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21 June 2021

Professor Loretta J Ross delivers inspirational talk at inaugural ‘Lady Ademola Lecture’

We were delighted to welcome so many guests to our inaugural 'Lady Ademola Lecture' which is part of the College's series celebrating the life and wor...

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21 June 2021

Congratulations to St Hugh’s alumna, Professor Rebecca Shipley, recognised in Queen’s Birthday Honours list

We are delighted to announce that Professor Rebecca Shipley, who matriculated in 2001 and completed both her MMath and her DPhil at St Hugh’s, has b...

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15 June 2021

New statue of St Hugh’s alumna, Emily Wilding Davison unveiled

To mark the anniversary of the fateful day in June 1913 when alumna Emily Wilding Davison ran out in front of King George V's horse at the Epsom Derby...

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15 June 2021

St Hugh’s Alumna, The Rt Hon Baroness Heather Hallett DBE PC chooses her Desert Island Discs

Honorary Fellow and St Hugh's alumna, The Rt Hon Baroness Heather Hallett DBE PC (Jurisprudence, 1968), appeared on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Disc...

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1 June 2021

STEP inTO OxMed Outreach Event

We are delighted to announce that STEP inTO OxMed is to host Clinical Skills Workshop on 2nd and 3rd June. STEP inTO OxMed, an outreach initiative ...

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27 May 2021

In conversation with Professor Dame Jane Glover DBE FRCM HonRAM (Music, 1968)

On Tuesday 18 May 2021 we were honoured and delighted to welcome celebrated conductor and musicologist Professor Dame Jane Glover DBE FRCM HonRAM (Mus...

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20 May 2021

The Gift of Narrative in Medieval England

Congratulations to St Hugh's Tutorial Fellow Nicholas Perkins, whose book, The Gift of Narrative Medieval England, was recently published by ...

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St Hugh’s lights up as students and staff enjoy fireworks display