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Professor Emma Smith shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize
We are very excited to announce that English Fellow Professor Emma Smith, Hertford’s Fellow Librarian and Archivist, and Pro-Principal, has been shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize. Celebrating the best historica...
Professor Hagan Bayley wins prestigious Royal Society award
Chemistry Fellow Professor Hagan Bayley has been awarded the prestigious Buchanan Medal, one of 25 Royal Society medals and prizes announced today. Professor Bayley’s award recognises his role in founding the highly su...
Mike Wooldridge will tackle the big questions facing AI research and unravel the myths about how this ground-breaking technology really works.
We are delighted to announce that Hertford Fellow Professor Michael Wooldridge will give this year’s Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, to be broadcast on BBC Four and iPlayer in late December 2023. Mike’s lecture...
Vic Madden 1937 – 2023
The Hertford community is saddened to hear of the death of Vic Madden, who was the college groundsman for 48 years. One of Hertford’s longest-serving members of staff, Vic joined the college in 1956 at the age of 1...
Unsung Heroes of Science Competition Winners Celebrated at Hertford
At the end of June, 17 young people came to Hertford for the Unsung Heroes of Science Celebration Day. All were shortlisted for the annual Unsung Heroes of Science competition, which challenges teenagers aged 16-18 aroun...
Library campaign boosted by substantial gifts
We are thrilled to announce that Hertford has received two generous gifts in support of our project to transform the college library. Thanks to these gifts and that of many other alumni and friends of the college, we are...
Spin-out company wins Royal Society of Chemistry prize
A spin-out company, co-founded by Hertford Chemistry Fellow Professor Claire Vallance and alumnus Dean James, amongst others, has won a prestigious Royal Society of Chemistry Emerging Technologies Prize. Their new compan...
Hertford Fellows receive Frontiers of Science awards
Two Hertford Fellows have been recognised in the Frontiers of Science Awards. Professor Dawid Kielak, along with co-authors Marek Kaluba and Piotr Nowak, received the award for their work on property T for automorphism g...
Circular economies and ethical trade
This week, Dr Steve New hosted a workshop in college on Blockchain Solutions in Recycling and the Circular Economy, co-organised with Dr Yu (Jack) Gong from Southampton University. The workshop drew together practitioner...
Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies
Congratulations to alumnus Dr Hashem Abushama (Human Geography, 2018), who was named joint runner up for the 2023 Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize for his dissertation Articulations: Settler Colonialism, Dispossession, and A...