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4 July 2022

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...

4 July 2022

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...

4 July 2022

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...

9 June 2022

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...

8 June 2022

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 ...

27 May 2022

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...

20 May 2022

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...

6 May 2022

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...

5 May 2022

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 ...

3 May 2022

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...