16 March 2022

Fellow’s paper announced as Distinguished Paper at conference

A paper, co-authored by Professor Alessandro Abate and entitled "Sampling-Based Robust Control of Autonomous Systems with Non-Gaussian Noise" has been selected as the Distinguished Paper for AAAI-22, the flagship conference in AI organised by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. Only a handful of accepted papers every year attain this recognition, among a cohort that reached almost 10,000 submissions this year. The publication is the fruit of an international collab...

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16 March 2022

St Hugh’s alumna chosen among TIME Magazine’s “Women of the Year”

Congratulations to Amal Clooney, Lebanese-British human rights lawyer, Honorary Fellow and alumna who has been chosen among TIME Magazine's "Women Of ...

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11 March 2022

The Howard Piper Library launches online exhibition

The Library’s latest exhibition, ‘Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century printing houses: a selection from St Hugh’s rare books collection’, has re...

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11 March 2022

St Hugh’s announces the winner of the Edith McMorran Prize 2022

Congratulations to Isabel Parkinson (DPhil Medieval and Modern Languages - German, 2021) who has been awarded the Edith McMorran Verse Translation Pri...

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10 March 2022

St Hugh’s Boat Club celebrates top performances at this year’s Torpids

Congratulations to St Hugh's Boat Club (SHBC) who had a spectacular week at Torpids with both the M1 and W1 boats bumping on three of the four days. W...

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2 March 2022

The Invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation

[This statement was updated on Wednesday 9 March] The St Hugh’s community has been shocked and appalled by the Russian Federation’s in...

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24 February 2022

St Hugh’s achieves a Gold Standard in its recent Health and Safety Audit

Following an annual Health and Safety Audit undertaken by health and safety consultants, Stallard Kane, the College has been award a Gold Standard for...

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23 February 2022

LGBT+ History Month: Students celebrate with fundraiser Bake Off event

In the spirit of LGBT+ History Month, the MCR and JCR collaboratively organised a fundraiser Bake Off event last Sunday. While students showcased thei...

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22 February 2022

The Geochemical Society and The European Association of Geochemistry awards St Hugh’s Fellow

Congratulations to Professorial Fellow in Geochemistry, Chris Ballentine who has been honoured with the title of Geochemistry Fellow by The Geochemica...

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21 February 2022

The Mary Renault 2022 essay competition is now open!

The Mary Renault Prize is a Classical Reception essay prize for school or college sixth form pupils, awarded by the Principal and Fellows of St Hugh�...

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21 February 2022

The Julia Wood 2022 essay competition is now open!

Established in 1971, in memory of a St Hugh’s College historian, the Julia Wood Prize is an annual History essay competition open to Sixth Form pupi...

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21 February 2022

LGBT+ History Month Profiles: Vedika Maheshwari, MCR Equalities Representative

LGBT+ History Month is an opportunity to increase the visibility and awareness of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, their history, lives ...

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17 February 2022

Four St Hugh’s Fellows awarded Record of Distinction

Many congratulations to four St Hugh's Fellows who have been awarded the title of Professor in Oxford University’s Recognition of Distinction Scheme...

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16 February 2022

St Hugh’s announces decision to adopt the Oxford Living Wage

Following a decision made by the Governing Body on Thursday 10 February, St Hugh's College has committed to pay all of its staff at least the

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16 February 2022

LGBT+ History Month Profiles: Georgie Milner Day, Inclusion Officer for Oxford University Sports

We are delighted to announce that St Hugh's third year student, Georgie Milner Day (Human Sciences, 2019) has been appointed as this year's Inclusion ...

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10 February 2022

International Women and Girls in Science Day Profile: DPhil Engineering Science Student Chenying Liu

Chenying Liu (Engineering Science, 2019), is fascinated by origami - its origin as art, it...

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8 February 2022

Celebrating LGBT+ History Month at St Hugh’s College

The St Hugh's community will be marking LGBT+ History Month throughout February with a variety of social and welfare events. We will also be featuring...

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31 January 2022

Calling all St Hugh’s students who would like to be part of the 2022 Telephone Campaign

The College is holding it's 2022 Telephone Campaign between 28 March and 11 April 2022 and is looking for enthusiastic students who want to make a si...

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27 January 2022

St Hugh’s Fellow honoured in the annual Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists

Professor Erin Saupe, St Hugh's Tutor in Palaeobiology is one of...

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27 January 2022

St Hugh’s alumnae recognised in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours

We are delighted to offer our congratulations to St Hugh's alumnae, Rebecca Ellis CBE (Law, 1998) and Genevieve Carnell BEM (History, 2011) who have...

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26 January 2022

Avril Gilchrist Bruten Award for Creative Writing 2022

Applications for The Avril Gilchrist Bruten Award are now open, with a prize of £250 for the best piece of creative w...

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5 January 2022

St Hugh’s to co-host ‘Opening the PEN Archive, 1921-2021’ event

St Hugh's is delighted to be co-hosting 'Opening the PEN Archive, 1921-2021' with TORCH (The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities) - one of a seri...

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17 December 2021

St Hugh’s alumna, The Rt Hon Baroness Heather Hallett DBE PC has been appointed to lead the public inquiry into the Covid-19 pandemic

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has chosen Honorary Fellow and St Hugh’s alumna, The Rt Hon ...

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10 December 2021

Professor Anne Hudson (English Language & Literature, 1957), Honorary Fellow and St Hugh’s alumna, has died

It is with the deepest sorrow that the College has learnt of the death of Honorary Fellow Professor Anne Hudson (1938–2021), who studied English at ...

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6 December 2021

St Hugh’s alumna, Aung San Suu Kyi, sentenced to imprisonment

The College is deeply concerned to hear about the imprisonment for four years (subsequently reduced to two years) of our alumna, Aung San Suu Kyi, on ...

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6 December 2021

St Hugh’s Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols

We were delighted to be able to hold a Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols in person at the College this year. If you were not able to attend and woul...

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3 December 2021

St Hugh’s celebrates Hanukkah 2021

Students and staff were delighted to be able to celebrate Hanukkah last night with St Hugh's Tutor in Law; Vice Principal, Professor Joshua Getzler, w...

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29 November 2021

Professor McMahon launches 2021/22 lecture series with thought-provoking session

On 10 November 2021, we were delighted to welcome alumni, students, academics, staff and friends from across the world to our first online lecture for...

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29 November 2021

Oxmas arrives at St Hugh’s!

Oxmas arrived at College on Friday 26 November with a special event to decorate the Christmas tree. Students and staff enjoyed singing carols with St ...

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24 November 2021

St Hugh’s College welcomes pupils from the Kingsgen Foundation

St Hugh’s recently welcomed 45 school pupils aged between 14 and 17 years old from the Kent area, as part of its outreach work with the Kingsgen Fou...

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22 November 2021

Home Secretary appoints Chair to Sarah Everard inquiry

The Home Secretary has made the following statement this afternoon: "Rt Hon Dame Elish Angiolini QC will lead...

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Fellow’s paper announced as Distinguished Paper at conference