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Enjoy afternoon tea in the quad
We’re delighted to be able to welcome visitors to our first ever public café, taking up a summer residence in the quad marquee from today. You’ll be able to enjoy our delicious afternoon tea stands an...
Mike Wooldridge named Turing AI World-Leading Researcher
Professor Michael Wooldridge is one of five internationally-recognised researchers awarded a new fellowship from UK Research and Innovation. A Hertford fellow and head of Oxford’s Department of Computer Science, Mi...
Saving turtle doves with a subsidy auction
Economics fellow Professor Elizabeth Baldwin is part of an Oxford team bringing subsidy auctioning to the rescue of England’s endangered turtle doves. Despite prominent roles in literature and popular culture ̵...
Team Hertford takes on University Challenge
Tonight sees Team Hertford on BBC Two as they take on London Business School in the first round of this year’s University Challenge competition. The college will be represented by four graduate students from a rang...
Celebrating our Unsung Heroes of Science
The end of June brought with it the end of this year’s Unsung Heroes of Science video competition, in which we challenge 16-18s from around the world to make two-minute videos about a scientist they think deserves more...
The Duchess of Malfi revisited
Tune in to BBC Radio 3 to hear a new interpretation of the classic revenge tragedy The Duchess of Malfi. The radio play is introduced by Hertford’s Professor Emma Smith, who abridged and adapted John Webster’...
Alumni recognised in Queen’s Birthday Honours
This summer’s honours list saw two Hertfordians recognised for their outstanding contributions to foreign policy and humanitarian work. Michael Adamson (MPhil Economics, 1982) was awarded a CBE for services to the ...
Royal Society of Literature Fellowship for Sally Bayley
Congratulations to Sally Bayley, Lecturer in English for Visiting Students, who has today been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Sally’s fellowship recognises her work of “outstanding liter...
Introducing my new podcast: Dr Charlie Lee-Potter
Dr Charlie Lee-Potter teaches English to Hertford’s visiting students. Her research interests include nineteenth-century literature, as well as the representation of catastrophe in art and literary texts. She is cu...
Awards for outstanding outreach
Last week, we were delighted to award this year’s Tanner Prizes to six of our outstanding access and outreach ambassadors. Our student ambassador programme is integral to our outreach work with schools and colleges...