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Celebrating International Women’s Day 2025
Photo © 2025 Edmund Blok www.edmundblok.com Hertford College marked International Women’s Day, and 50 years of female undergraduates, with a fantastic programme of events celebrating the achievements of Hertfor...
Congratulations to Lord Hague of Richmond!
We are thrilled to congratulate Lord Hague of Richmond, Hertford’s visitor, on his official installation as the 160th Chancellor of the University of Oxford. In the Sheldonian Theatre yesterday, Lord Hague was formally...
Prof Anette Mikes Awarded Honorary Doctorate
On the last day of January 2025, Uppsala University in Sweden conferred honorary doctorates on 18 distinguished academics, continuing a tradition that has been upheld since 1600. Among the honourees was Anette Mikes, Her...
Hertford Alumna’s Hamlet Triumphs at the British Independent Film Awards
Congratulations to Hertford alumna Pinny Grylls and fellow Oxford alumnus Sam Crane on their remarkable success at this year’s British Independent Film Awards. Their bold and innovative documentary, Grand Theft Hamlet,...
Alumnus becomes Foreign Office’s most Senior Civil Servant
It has been announced that Hertford alumnus Oliver Robbins (PPE, 1993) will succeed Sir Philip Barton as the Permanent Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs, based in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Offic...
Louise Slater’s Project Awarded £2 Million
A new initiative, led by Professor Louise Slater, an expert in Hydroclimatology at the School of Geography and the Environment and a Hertford Fellow, seeks to revolutionize the optimization of hydropower systems in Vietn...
Two Exciting Fellow Announcements
Congratulations to Hertford Fellows Dawid Kielak and Michael Wooldridge for these exciting announcements. Hertford Mathematics Fellow Dawid Kielak selected for European Research Council Consolidator Grants. These grants,...
New intake of Honorary and Visiting Fellows announced
Hertford College’s Governing Body has elected a new intake of Honorary and Visiting Fellows. We are delighted to welcome them! Honorary Fellows Marian Bell CBE, PPE 1977 Marian is a British consultant economist, and se...
Professor Patrick Roche elected interim Principal
Governing Body has elected Professor Patrick Roche as Hertford College’s interim Principal, following Tom Fletcher’s recent appointment as the UN’s next Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergenc...
Professor Martin Maiden Elected as Biology Department Head
We are thrilled to announce that another of our fellows has been appointed to a prestigious role within the university. Dr. Martin Maiden, our Tutorial Fellow in Biology and Professor of Molecular Epidemiology, will assu...