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22 August 2017

Hertford360 Success!

We are delighted to announce the success of hertford360: from January to July, 71 dedicated Hertfordians (alumni, students, friends, and staff) virtually circumnavigated the globe, clocking up a massive 40,238km through ...

18 August 2017

Mongolian Adventure

Once again, the rugby club was honoured to be invited to Mongolia to partake in a rugby and academic outreach tour. The tour began with a five day training camp out in the mountains to the North-East of Ulaanbaatar, wher...

17 August 2017

RSC honour for Claire Vallance

Claire Vallance FRSC, Hertford’s professorial fellow and tutor in Physical Chemistry, has been declared President Elect of the Faraday Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Claire studied in New Zealand and h...

17 August 2017

Charity Cross-Channel Swim

Naomi Vides (Maths, 2002) successfully completed a cross-channel swim on 15 August to raise money for Reverse Rett, a charity whose work is dedicated to accelerating treatment and researching cures for Rett Syndrome. To ...

10 August 2017

Hertford playwright recognised

Congratulations to Hertfordian Titas Halder (English 2005) who has been nominated in the ‘Best Writer’ category of The Stage‘s Debut Awards 2017. Titas’s play Run the Beast Down was performed a...

7 August 2017

Helen Alexander 1957-2017

“It is with huge sadness that we report the death of Dame Helen Alexander, Honorary Fellow of Hertford, former chair of our Remuneration Committee, and great friend of the College (Geography, 1975). A former Chief ...

20 July 2017

Hertfordian for Balliol

We’re delighted that alumna Dame Helen Ghosh has been appointed the next Master of Balliol College, following in the footsteps of Professor Sir Dummond Bone. Dame Helen read Modern History as an undergraduate at S...

29 June 2017

Open days 2017

Thanks to everyone who came to our open days on 28 and 29 June, and to the great team of students in bright pink ‘Ask me’ t-shirts for all their hard work making everyone welcome. Our final open day of the ye...

15 June 2017

Teaching award for Claire Vallance

Congratulations to chemist Professor Claire Vallance, who has been recognised for her redesign of the undergraduate curriculum with a divisional teaching award.

14 June 2017

Ed Balls Day

A matter of days after the British General Election, Hertford welcomed Ed Balls to the college (former Labour MP and Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2011 until 2015) for a ‘Hertford Conversation’ with the P...