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13 November 2017

Elephants and Hertford scholarship: get involved

Anabelle Cardoso, studing for a DPhil in the School of Geography and the recipient of Hertford’s Mortimer May Scholarship, has been continuing her work on forest elephants. Her recent blog outlines their use of cit...

8 November 2017

Project Shoebox

Project Shoebox started in 2014 and collects unused toiletries and non-perishable foods to pack into gift boxes and food hampers, which are then given out to women and their families who are in Oxfordshire domestic abuse...

8 November 2017

Recognition at last for Hertfordian

Among her many other accolades, Hertford alumna Fiona Bruce has now been recognised by sheep. An experiment to show that sheep could be trained to recognise celebrity faces for food reward included her picture alongside ...

2 November 2017

Singing lacemakers

Hertford historian David Hopkin is working on a new TORCH project ‘Tellings: Reconstructing the Repertoire of Songs used in English Lace Schools’. The project will end with a performance at the Museum of Rur...

30 October 2017

Poem of the week

Congratulations to Hertfordian Will Harris (English, 2007), whose poem ‘Bee Glue’ was chosen by Carol Rumens as The Guardian’s Poem of the Week. Will’s debut pamphlet, All This Is Implied, was pub...

24 October 2017

New prizes and awards for PPE

Thanks to a generous donation from alumnus Calvin Cheng (1995) Hertford has been able to create a new set of prizes for PPE students. The prizes will be awarded to students in the second and third years, who have demonst...

24 October 2017

Hertford, diversity, and our class of 2018

We’ve all read the recent headlines about diversity at Oxford – and we know that there’s still a long way to go on admissions to the university. Hertford has a proud history of opening up to state-educated students...

20 October 2017

Rising Star update

UPDATE: Jeremy won! Well done from all at Hertford! Congratulations to alumnus Jeremy Boon (2008) who is a finalist in the Black British Business Awards. Jeremy has been nominated in the Professional Services Rising Star...

18 October 2017

Black History Month

Great to see Hertford lawyer Tobi Rufus (2002) talking about the non-optionality of diversity at Goldman Sachs and beyond, in an article in The Lawyer for Black History Month.

10 October 2017

World Mental Health Day

Miranda Reilly (English, 2015), Chair of the Students’ Disability Community worked during the summer vacation at the Pitt Rivers museum creating a disability-friendly trail, which will shortly be available as an ap...