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Hertford alum produces new play at Old Fire Station
Hertford alumnus Adam Goodbody (English, 2015) returns to Oxford with a brand-new play about love, grief and Physics. Playing at the Old Fire Station this week, Supernova has been written by Lizzy Mansfield, currently wr...
Rebecca Sitsapesan, 1959-2022
It is with great sadness that we report the death of Professor Rebecca Sitsapesan after a long illness. Rebecca joined Hertford as Tutorial Fellow in Medicine in 2014 when she joined the Department of Pharmacology from t...
Dawid Kielak wins London Mathematical Society Prize
Tutorial Fellow in Mathematics, Professor Dawid Kielak, has been awarded a Whitehead Prize by the London Mathematical Society in recognition of his work on group theory. The LMS awards prizes for achievements in and cont...
Civil War book award for Sebastian Page
Dr Sebastian Page has been awarded the Tom Watson Brown Book Award by the Society of Civil War Historians. Awarded annually, the prize recognises the best book published internationally on the Civil War era in American h...
Management fellows recognised with Teaching Excellence Award
Anette Mikes and Steve New are part of a team that has been awarded the Social Sciences Division Teaching Excellence Award. Working with colleagues from across the division, Hertford’s management fellows have been ...
Sensational Books at the Bodleian co-curated by Emma Smith
From sight and sound to taste and touch, the latest exhibition at the Bodleian’s Weston Library unlocks the world of sensory engagement with books. Co-curated by Hertford’s Prof. Emma Smith alongside P...
Mike Wooldridge to lead AI expansion at Alan Turing Institute
Hertford’s Professor of Computer Science, Mike Wooldridge, has been chosen to lead a key expansion in artificial intelligence research. Working to the aims of the National AI Strategy, Mike will head up a new overa...
Volcano project ignites Barton
Over the few months a team of researchers, including Hertford’s Dr Kathryn Boast, have been running Barton CoLab, a collaborative project with young people in East Oxford. The aim of the project was to bring Oxf...
Sid Parameswaran publishes on unusual new state of matter
Professor Sid Parameswaran, Tutorial Fellow in Physics, is part of a team which has this week published exciting new research on quantum materials. Writing in Nature alongside two other members of Oxford’s Rudolf ...
Emma Smith’s ‘Portable Magic’ 70,000th book added to Hertford library collection
Taking its title from a Stephen King quote describing books as “a uniquely portable magic,” Emma’s new book explores the life of the book as a material object, exploring the relationships they create between reader...