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Landmark partnership announced with the John Porter Charitable Foundation
Hertford College recently announced our aspirations for the next decade: Hertford 2030. Alongside excellent teaching and research, we aim to be an academy that prepares students for life, work and citizenship, and a fron...
Graduate Accommodation Plans Approved
Hertford College is very pleased that Oxford City Council has approved a planning application to develop a plot of land between the Winchester and Banbury Roads in north Oxford. The application is a joint application w...
Hertford Launches New Graduate Scholarships for International Students
Hertford College has a proud tradition of being at the vanguard of broadening access to Oxford. Our pioneering approach to admissions in the 1960s levelled the playing field in making an Oxford education available to the...
International Women’s Day 2023
The Hertford community came together yesterday to celebrate International Women’s Day. We enjoyed cake and tea in the Hall, followed by a panel discussion featuring college fellows Anette Mikes, Aruna Nair, Beth Mo...
Seeing Hertford in a New Light
Tutorial Fellow in Physics Pat Roche has been part of a college-wide survey looking at how we can best reduce our energy-based carbon footprint. Pat has been using a thermal imager to detect heat escape, and in the proce...
Ciaran Martin appointed Senior Research Fellow
Hertford College is pleased to announce that last term Ciaran Martin CB was elected a Senior Research Fellow by Governing Body. Ciaran joined the University of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government as Professor of Pr...
Hertford football team honours Kenny Lewis in first match of term
Earlier this week, Hertford College’s men’s football team played its first fixture of the year against St Anne’s. The team wore black arm bands in memory of Kenny Lewis, SCR Butler and long-standing cen...
Science competition winners uncover Christmas Lectures secrets
The winners of the 2022 ‘Unsung Heroes of Science’ competition have gone behind-the-scenes of the Royal Institution’s famous Christmas Lectures, as part of their prize for creating the top-scoring video in this yea...
Visiting student Ashira Biswas receives Nobel Essay Prize recognition
Visiting student Ashira Biswas has come second in the Nobel Peace Prize Challenge 2022, with her essay highlighting the plight of sewage cleaners in India. Ashira, who is studying Economics at Hertford on a year abroad f...
Jonathan Black appointed as new Heywood Fellow
Yesterday the Heywood Foundation announced the appointment of Jonathan Black as the new Heywood Fellow. Until December 2022, Jonathan was the Prime Minister’s G7 & G20 Sherpa and Deputy National Security Adviser. D...
The Passing of Kenny Lewis
It is with our deepest sorrow that we announce the death of Kenny Lewis. Kenny was, for several decades, a central part of Hertford life. He joined the college in July 1978, aged 15, and was at the heart of the colleg...